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Email: kristinsouth@gmail.com

Commonly Taught Courses Writing 150H
Honors 201, "The Pen and the Sword"

Semester Schedule: Honors 201
Honors 295R

Biography:

Kristin Hacken South is not entirely infuriating when it comes to correcting grammar, but that's only because she has worked long and hard to bite her lip when she hears "real good" and reads "on it's own" and the like. She has never been a student at BYU, but she has high regard for the Honors program and works diligently and subversively to inculcate a desire to graduate "with Honors" in all of her students. Kristin has published academic articles on such scintillating topics as nineteenth-century Utah women and third-century Egyptian martyrs, but is secretly delighted with the 150-word essay that won her $25,000 in a writing contest. She figures that one afternoon's work was paid back at a rate of $5000/hour, which really wasn't too shabby. Do the math, though, folks: if it took her five hours to write only 150 words, what amount of drafting and revision practice is she likely to foist upon her students? With two degrees in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Kristin is far more likely to wax enthusiastic about pyramids than about Proust, pathology, or even psychology (despite being married to Mikle South, a professor of psychology here at BYU). Her three sons tolerate her eccentricities well, and have even been heard to boast that their mom "digs mummies." In Kristin's hands, the Honors 150 writing course ranges over ancient art, modern social science, and Near Eastern wisdom literature in the quest to learn how to write -- and argue -- and think -- clearly.

Degrees: MA, Yale University
BA, Yale University

Interests:

Ancient Egypt in the Roman era, archaeological textiles, burial practices of the Roman Eastern Mediterranean, symbolism