Tamara Migan
Lecturer of English
B. A., University of Michigan, 1994
M.A., Ohio University, 1996
Ph.D. candidate, Michigan State University
I currently spend a lot of my time planning, teaching, and grading papers for the sections of English 111, 212, and 203 that I teach most often at SVSU. For the past 3 years I have served as the Coordinator of the Transitions Program which is a 4-S Grant funded project designed to help a select group of incoming SVSU students feel more connected to and prepared for life on campus. Within in the next year or two, I hope to finish a dissertation that has accumulated a lot of dust; the dissertation will be on a group of not-so-well-known Victorian women novelists. I'm a member of the Jane Austen Society and the Brontë Society.
I have one husband and two very energetic daughters, and together we like to ride our bikes, build forts, work jig-saw puzzles, and color. We also are seemingly obsessed with the DVD box-sets of Little House on the Prairie episodes; I love them more now than I did as a child. In my own free-time I love to read (obviously), knit, and golf. I'm not an expert knitter and I'm a terrible golfer, but I love both.
Favorite undergraduate memory: My favorite undergraduate memory is of Professor Hubert M. English reading out loud from Paradise Lost. He read aloud from the poem for about 20 minutes; most of the other students fell asleep, but I was riveted and by the end of the reading, I had tears in my eyes, and so did Professor English. I knew then that I was an English major.
Favorite moment at SVSU: My favorite moments from teaching at SVSU occur anytime that students thank me for introducing them to literature that they never would have read on their own.
Five books Tammy would want with her if marooned on a deserted island: Villette by Charlotte Brontë, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, a volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry, an anthology of the major works of William Wordsworth, and the Bible