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PORTFLEET, DIANE, Adjunct Associate Professor (1988).
Education: B.A., Pennsylvania State University (1969, Summa Cum Laude); A.B.D., University of Georgia (1980); Ph.D., Columbia Pacific University (1984); Teaching Certification (K-12), Grand Valley State University (1996).
Interests: Interdisciplinary Studies; World Literature; Milton; Walter Wangerin, Jr.; Children/Adolescent Literature; Far Eastern Religions.
Selected Works: The Adventure Mining Company Since 1850 (Greenleaf-Witcop Press, 2005); Michigan's Copper (2005); Shaping Our Lives with Words of Power: A Study of the Major Works of Walt Wangerin, Jr. (1996); Articles on L'Engle and Wangerin.
Distinctions: H.O.P.E--Hope Outstanding Professor-Educator (2006); Outstanding Hope Woman Award (2003).
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Walter Wangerin, Jr.: Artist,
Poet, and Prophet (2007).
"Wangerin talks to us as his readers, and his
words 'cause to be what had not been before.' His words create.
And 'although only God performs this creative function purely,
yet dimly and in a mimic,' Wangerin as a poet 'causes to be
what had not been before. He sings and there gathers under
the heart of his hearer the pressure of his music, the swelling
of a new word, like an infant. . .' And just as this 'creating
power of language is potent,' so Wangerin's writings are powerful,
and we 'wince with wonder' as his 'language stuns us with a
name--and with being.'" ---Dianne R. Portfleet |
