About Me
JoAnn LoVerde-Dropp
When creating Josephine Curriculum & Writing, my goal was to stay true to my vision of lifelong learning and service through writing partnerships.
I believe in dreams, and I believe in putting in the work to see those dreams to fruition. My teaching and mentoring career began in undergraduate school as a literacy volunteer and continued in the forms of private tutor, fiction and poetry editor and mentor, teaching assistant, ESL instructor, pre-GED classroom instructor, and university lecturer of English.
I know that you can do this, and I am here for your journey,
~ JoAnn
About Josephine Curriculum & Writing
A passion for teaching and writing
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A passion for teaching and writing
JoAnn LoVerde-Dropp earned her Bachelors of English in Creative Writing from the State University College at Brockport in 1991, a NYS Secondary English Teaching Certification from Roberts Wesleyan University in 2003, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in 2010.
She served as a member of the Board of Directors (2014-17) and President (2017-18) for the Georgia Writers Association and on the Executive Board of Kennesaw State University's MAPW literary journal, The Crambo (2017-18).
JoAnn's writing tends towards the surreal and the quirky. Her true loves are poetry analysis, writing, mentoring aspiring poets, and self-reflecting through the Tarot.
WHO IS JOSEPHINE?
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A passion for teaching and writing
Josephine is the middle name of my grandmother, Nellie Josephine Musoni, a woman of eternal patience and enduring love.
Hers was a home of magic - the house itself represented the sun and the moon with its front yard facing a neighborhood street full of children and clattering doors and a back yard lined with shady, wooded trails.
I returned to her house in Meadville, Pennsylvania not long ago, wondering if the enchantment would hold and half expecting to see my childhood summer family and friends appear with ribboned handlebars and skateboards. Friends, it felt exactly the same - magical.
joann loverde-dropp UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING
joann loverde-dropp UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING
joann loverde-dropp UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
-Composition 1101
-Honors Introductory Composition
-Composition 1102
-Composition 1102 – Who Will Save Us
Now? Exploring Archetypes in Science Fiction. Original course design
-Composition 1102 – Memes, Media, & Marketing. Original course design
-Composition 1102 – Exploring the Unexpected in Graphic Novels.
Original Course Design
-World Literature Survey
-World Literature 1860 – Present
-American Literature Survey
- Early American Literature
-American Literature 1860 – Present
-British Literature Survey
- Beginning Poetry Writing Workshop
-Technical Writing
GRADUATE COURSES
-Narrative Poetry Directed Study
- Careers in the Literary Arts
GRADUATE CAPSTONE COMMITTEES
-Poetry
-Biography
-Fiction
-Travel Writing