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Julianne White received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of New Mexico in 2002. She wrote her dissertation on the poetry of the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, and her three areas of specialty were Rhetoric-Composition and Victorian and Modern British Literatures. She is now a Writing Programs Instructor at Arizona State University in the English Department, where she teaches composition, business writing, and sophomore level English survey classes. She also teaches part-time for ASU-Polytechnic during the summer, where she enjoys teaching film, literature, grammar, and writing classes at all levels. She teaches at least one class online every semester.
Originally from Houston, Texas, Dr. White taught high school there for 12 years before making the leap to the Ph.D. program in New Mexico. She graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, with a B.A. in English in 1981, and from the University of St. Thomas in Houston with a Master of Education, Secondary English, in 1993. Her family all live in the Houston area, and her parents have retired and now live in a beach house in Galveston, where she makes a pilgrimage every summer. Two weeks of warm Gulf waters, fresh crab, shrimp and Gulf redfish, and the smell of Coppertone are enough to refresh her soul and allow her to return to the desert Southwest, a climate which is more kind to her arthritic joints.
Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1993 at the tender age of 37, she has been forced to make adjustments in her life and acknowledge her physical limitations. Thank goodness, rheumatoid arthritis does not cripple the brain—although her husband would swear that it does effect her memory, which is nearly gone. Luckily, she can still type at the keyboard, operate the TV remote, and turn the pages of a book. That’s all she needs. She and her husband Shawn, a professional chef, live in Coolidge, AZ (which is about 25 miles south of Chandler) with their 7 cats: Bean, Sheba, L’il Sam, Gigi, Maximus, Tink, and Indy.