Marilyn Corbeille Writing Center senior staff and consultant/Affiliate Faculty Current courses taught at Loyola:
WR100 Effective Writing; WR321 Audience and the Writer’s Voice Graduate Study:
MA in Composition (The Teaching of Writing, Humboldt State University)
MA in Literature (American Lit/Poetry, Women in Shakespearean Tragedy) Undergraduate Study:
BA in Creative Arts (Writing and Music emphases) Contact Info:
mcorbeille@loyola.edu
410 617-5674 Favorite author, book, or poem: I have many favorite authors, books, and poems. I find myself revisiting, from time to time, The Analects of Confucius, especially his concept of the rectification of language, which is central to his teaching. (Yes, he was a teacher.) As for poems, one I particularly like is No. 632 from Emily Dickinson:
The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
For – put them side by side –
The one the other will contain
With ease – and You beside – A favorite quote:
“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?” From Josh White, Jr. Based on the book Crazy English, by Richard Lederer, 1996. Lyrics adapted by Pete Seeger. Copyright 1998 by Richard Lederer. The best advice on writing . . . : I met short story writer Richard Cortez Day when he was teaching creative writing at Humboldt State University. I interviewed him for a project I was doing on publishing. He left me with many insights into the writer’s life; the following two remain most poignant in my mind: “A writer is someone who finishes things.” “Steal the time to write.” To me, the first is about discipline; the second is about passion. Together they get the job done. Favorite thing about the Writing Center: My favorite thing about the Writing Center is that it is here. I have worked for institutions where I have watched them falter for lack of funding, and I have worked for institutions where writing centers are central to composition programs and, as a consequence, flourish. The latter is always the better scenario—-better for the students, who benefit from the service; better for the faculty, who need the support; better for the student consultants, who learn invaluable skills that they can transfer to any profession. Everybody wins.
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