Contact Information

Office: 4032 JFSB

Phone: 422-1361

Email: Nancy_Gunn@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

ENGL 312
TTH 3:00-4:15
1121 JKB

ENGL 315
TTH 5:10-6:25
1129 JKB


Student Consultations:
TTh 2:00-3:00 or by appointment

Biography:

Nancy Gunn specializes in teaching writing classes. She teaches the advanced writing course for social science majors (315), the 200H class on argumentative writing, as well as the introductory classes for English majors (251 and 252). She received her BA in English from BYU in August, 1989 and her MA in English in August, 1992. She received the Parley A. Christensen Graduate Scholarship Award for 1989-90 and was the first place winner in the 1988 "Who Lights the Y" Homecoming Essay contest. More recently she published two popular food articles in the last two published issues of This People magazine. Like Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Nancy has had a lifelong love of BYU. She enjoys teaching writing classes at BYU because she hopes to pass a more positive feeling for the value and importance of writing to her students. She's been commuting from the Salt Lake City area and teaching as adjunct faculty since the fall of 1993. During Fall Semester 1999 when her youngest son (she has five sons and one daughter) became a freshman, she started the first of her two one-year full-time appointments. Nancy enjoys cooking/baking and writing--when she's not grading student papers. She wrote two food articles for the last two issues of This People magazine before it went into bankruptcy. She was a Pillsbury Bake-Off finalist one year and she continues to create new recipes. Her family, friends, and students are willing taste testers. In her non-existant spare time she's writing a young adult novel, revising her LDS romance novel, and pondering a book of personal essays (both humorous and spiritual) that will allow her to share her "stories that need to be told" like Tom Plummer said in the November 2000 AML Writer's Conference. In the meantime, she keeps busy grading student papers, writing her fifth missionary son who is serving in the Arizona-Tucson ASL (mainly English speaking) mission, enjoying the company of her early-retired husband, and occasionally tending the two of her six grandchildren who live in the SLC area. During semester breaks, Nancy and her husband enjoy traveling and visiting their married children.