Dr. Julie S.

For over 25 years, Dr. Julie S. has taught English at the university level while also tutoring a wide variety of students, always with a focus on helping them excel at writing essays and understanding literature. While earning her Ph.D. in English at Penn State University, Dr. S. tutored in the PSU writing center and taught classes in freshman rhetoric and composition, junior-level business and technical writing, British literature, and an honors class in utopian and dystopian literature. She has also taught world literature, modern and contemporary drama, and Shakespeare. After Penn State, Dr. S. returned to her roots in the Bay Area to teach various classes in composition, critical thinking, and literature as a lecturer at San Jose State University for over 14 years. Her philosophy of both teaching and tutoring can be summed up in a line from the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”