about the owner
Katie King
With two decades of experience in education, Katie King brings unrivaled expertise to your child’s individualized learning journey. She holds a B.A. in English Education from California State University, Long Beach–where she also earned her California Single Subject Credentials in both English and Spanish. She taught private and public middle and high school students for several years before pursuing her M.A. in English Literature at Loyola Marymount University. There, she also served as a teaching fellow, tutor, and later as an adjunct instructor of Rhetorical Arts and the LMU Freshman Writing Seminar. Currently, she is a tenured professor of English at Fullerton College in Orange County, California, in addition to her private practice as a learning specialist, executive functioning coach, and tutor. Since education is Katie's lifelong passion, she is also a member of the Association of Educational Therapists. She is currently completing her BCET certification at The University of California at Riverside. She has published several works, nationally and internationally, for both scholarly journals and mass media publications. She spends her free time hanging out with her dog Coleslaw and volunteering for a variety of Los Angeles-based service organizations.
"The bikers’ criminality, then, becomes not a performance relating the struggle of people from their socioeconomic class,or of white male anxiety losing its dominance in an eve-increasingly pluralistic America. Rather, it merely serves to reinforce preconceptions about outlaw bikers—that they are backwards and inherently violent individuals whom we should either mock or fear accordingly. Thus, their very language—the way they communicate their frustrations to the rest of society by use of their bodies and practices as text—is appropriated, manipulated, and undermined by the show’s creators. What once existed as a direct communication concerning identity and alternative lifestyle from bikers themselves to normative culture becomes, when intercepted by outsiders within that normative culture, an interpretation—a poor translation that effectively loses the significance and meaning of the original. Bikers no longer possess the autonomy of representing themselves; people from the very group that didn’t understand them in the first place appoint themselves mediators and interpreters through such representation."
Masculinities
"We can do better for our fellow citizens. So, let’s do it."
Fembot
"Since the film’s premiere in 1988, scholarly and critical responses have centered on the degree to which Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist remains faithful to Anne Tyler’s novel. Yet, while critics of the novel often interpret Tyler’s female characters as autonomous and necessary agents of change, those responding to the film adaptation curiously lack a discussion of this prominent feature. My essay interrogates this inconsistency in order to show why and how a critical blind spot regarding female representation occurs in the film. I will consider how the omission of key literary scenes within Kasdan’s work de-emphasizes female characters’ importance so critical to the novel. Driven by theories about Kasdan’s directing, writing, and adaptation itself, I assert that such editing facilitates insight regarding the complexity of female characters as inaccessible."
Estudios de género: visiones transatlánticas/ Gender Studies: Transatlantic Visions