About Me
I will be presenting a paper at this year's "Open Graves Open Minds" conference at the University of Hertfordshire. Inasmuch as I am an Adjunct Professor (teach full-time/paid part-time with no benefits to save the college money), I am soliciting donations to help me pay airfare, conference fees, lodging and such. Donations in any amount can be made through PayPal if you hit the "Donate" button.
As you will gather from reading this site, I am an academic with somewhat odd interests, although if you share the interest in vampires, I guess it's not so odd. I teach at an Oregon Community College, where my two "Vampires in Literature" classes allow students to explore the vampiric creations of many different authors.This site began as a support site for those students, and expands based upon their needs. I noted a few things happening in the classroom: Often my students simply couldn't handle the sometimes archaic language of the older vampiric works, and they -- often coming in fairly untrained in writing college level essays (and these are credit bearing classes so essay writing does happen)-- needed a bit more guidance in the expectation department as to what exactly was expected in different modal essays, and exactly how to produce the required essays. Since I have to/get to read the essays they hand in, the writing section of the site is expanding at a fairly good clip. I am lucky enough to have a department that allows me a certain latitude in my advertising and display, I occasionally get to allow my creative side to have full reign, such as in this display...
It is from this class, which is full of really good creative writers, that I am pulling from for the next few months monthly stories. I am honored to be able to teach students who are as interested in the vampires as I am. My other specialty is equally odd -- grammar (although I do teach the occasional College Composition course). so it is actually pretty funny when I screw up the typing and sentences as I do. Oh, and if you absolutely must have a name, I am Leslie Ormandy. And if you simply must reach me please use the contact form (or find me at my college via internet!).
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