(Wed) October 02, 2024, 1:00pm — 1:50pm
Reading and Writing Center
Please join First Wednesday at One when we welcome Reedley College English professors Anya Connelly-Howland and Deborah Lyons, who will be presenting their new post-graduate work as MFA and PhD candidates respectively. In addition, they will share how they navigate returning to school while balancing the demands of raising families and being full-time English professors. This will be an illuminating presentation that students, in particular, will find inspiring.
Anya Connelly-Howland is from the Central Valley and is proud to be a native Californian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in English Composition and Rhetoric from California State University, Sacramento. Previously, Anya has taught at CSUS and College of the Sequoias, and she is now a tenured faculty member in the English Department at Reedley College. Anya is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Non-Fiction at California State University, Fresno.
Deborah Lyons grew up in California, South Africa, England, and India, and is a tenured English professor at Reedley College. Previously, she taught at Fresno Pacific University and Asha Kiran in Bangalore, India. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Whitworth University and a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of London. She is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham and working on transcultural literature from Southern Africa.