In episode three, Mason and Monica welcome colleagues Abbey Wallig and Andrew Gibbs to a discussion of what happens on a day-to-day basis during The English 101 Experiment.
Meet Abbey & Andrew
Abbey Wallig, a farm girl from Iowa, was never a traditional college student. After attending a few community colleges, she became inspired by the culture and wonderful English professors. She holds bachelor’s degrees in poetry and literature with a minor in psychology. Even though she worked in almost every sector of the service industry since she was fourteen years old, she finished her master’s degree in literature with a focus on teaching at Depaul University in Chicago. She is down to earth with high expectations. Her goal is to construct and convey how rhetorical knowledge is pertinent to students’ academic and non-academic lives. When she is not teaching, she is traveling, watching films, attending experimental art shows and music performances.
Andrew Gibbs learned to walk in the hills and hollows of Tennessee where he was born and taught by his parents to read, write, and recycle. An early appreciation for nature paired well with formative years as a scholar where the works of transcendental writers inspired longer treks in the woods and further studies in English literature. With degrees from the University of Tennessee and the University of New Orleans, today Andrew is an Assistant Professor of English at Delgado Community College. Free-spirited, open-minded, and especially adept at finding the comedy in a situation, critics could still say he’s a traditionalist where it matters most, for he loves his wife, spoils his dog, and prefers his oysters on the half shell.