Aimee Cree Dunn
English, M.A.
Wildwood Notes
"Learning comes not only from books but from the earth and our surroundings as well. Indeed, learning from the mountains, valleys, forest and meadows anteceded book knowledge. What our people know about life and living, good and evil, laws and the purposes of insects, birds, animals and fish comes from the earth, the weather, the seasons, the plants and other beings."
-- Basil Johnston
Writing Portfolio
He drove calmly, even whistling a bit. The dirt road led from his forest abode, a hunting camp he’d converted quite pleasantly into a home, past the trailer his mom and sister lived in and onto the main road, an entirely straight and graveled thoroughfare on which most vehicles roared along at speeds faster than they should. Not that there were all that many to begin with, even when you counted the four-wheelers and occasional hay balers...
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-- from "Backroads"
Teaching Portfolio
My most favorite classes have been those in which the students are comfortable with each other and with me, ones in which people share laughter, ones in which at least one students says, “It never occurred to me to think of it that way.”
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- from Aimee's Statement on Teaching Philosophy
