Sandra Giles
Sandra Giles
Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Sandra Giles has been teaching college-level English since 1991 and has been at ABAC since 1997. She's a native of Tifton, having learned to drive in the rodeo parking lot, and graduated ABAC herself in 1987. She holds a PhD in English from Florida State University, specializing in Creative Writing and Rhetoric-Composition. Other than reading and writing, hobbies and interests include dance, tai chi, singing, herb gardening, and letting her three cats in and out from the porch.
Dr. Giles specializes in the teaching of writing, both creative and academic, both lower-division and upper-division. A recipient of teaching awards at Florida State (2003) and ABAC (2012), she publishes articles and presents at conferences on various aspects of the teaching and learning of writing, particularly the relationship between reflection and revision.
Some of her favorite classes to teach:
Freshman Composition
Narrative Nonfiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Creative Nonfiction
Rhetoric
Introduction to Writing and Communication
Professional Writing
Some of her favorite classes to teach:
Freshman Composition
Narrative Nonfiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Creative Nonfiction
Rhetoric
Introduction to Writing and Communication
Professional Writing
Current Work In Progress:
Mr. Pete and 'The Baldwin Story," a biography of George Peter Donaldson.
Some of her publications:
Co-Authored with Tom C. Hunley. “Rhetorical Pedagogy” in Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, eds. Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley.Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2015. 7-29.
“Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol 1. Eds. Charles Lowe and Pave.l Zemliansky. Parlor Press, 2010. 191-204.
“Get Real: Ethnography and Creative Writing,” Whale Road Review, March 2018.
“13, 1980” (flash nonfiction) reprinted in ABAC Guide to First-Year Composition. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2017. 58. Originally in Writer Advice, 2011.
“Diving Deep,” (Creative Nonfiction). Odradek Spring 2016: 155-160.
Some of her conference presentations:
“(Inter) Disciplinarity and Undergraduate Research: ‘That’s Not Research’” at “Research(ing) Writing Cultures: Classroom, Program, Profession, Public,” a Conference on College Composition and Communication Summer Conference, University of Denver, 20-21 July 2018.
“The Hermit Crab Essay,” Southeastern Writers Association Conference and Workshop, Epworth-By-The-Sea at St. Simons Island, 10-13 July 2018.
Co-Presented (with Bobbie Robinson and Darby Sewell) “Closing the Loop: Curricular Design in ABAC’s Rural Studies Program,” TIES Conference on Instructional Technologies, Innovations, and Educational Strategies, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, 17 February 2016.
Mr. Pete and 'The Baldwin Story," a biography of George Peter Donaldson.
Some of her publications:
Co-Authored with Tom C. Hunley. “Rhetorical Pedagogy” in Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, eds. Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley.Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2015. 7-29.
“Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol 1. Eds. Charles Lowe and Pave.l Zemliansky. Parlor Press, 2010. 191-204.
“Get Real: Ethnography and Creative Writing,” Whale Road Review, March 2018.
“13, 1980” (flash nonfiction) reprinted in ABAC Guide to First-Year Composition. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2017. 58. Originally in Writer Advice, 2011.
“Diving Deep,” (Creative Nonfiction). Odradek Spring 2016: 155-160.
Some of her conference presentations:
“(Inter) Disciplinarity and Undergraduate Research: ‘That’s Not Research’” at “Research(ing) Writing Cultures: Classroom, Program, Profession, Public,” a Conference on College Composition and Communication Summer Conference, University of Denver, 20-21 July 2018.
“The Hermit Crab Essay,” Southeastern Writers Association Conference and Workshop, Epworth-By-The-Sea at St. Simons Island, 10-13 July 2018.
Co-Presented (with Bobbie Robinson and Darby Sewell) “Closing the Loop: Curricular Design in ABAC’s Rural Studies Program,” TIES Conference on Instructional Technologies, Innovations, and Educational Strategies, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, 17 February 2016.
Dr. Giles regularly involves students in research or in work-related experiences outside of the classroom. For example, in Introduction to Writing and Communication, her students complete a mini-internship related to their career goals in order to gain work experience and begin networking. Dr. Giles assists her students and advisees in locating internship opportunities and helps them toward career and/or graduate school opportunities.
Dr. Giles has also directed Senior Capstone Projects for Writing and Communication majors, focusing on topics related to Creative Writing and Rhetoric.
Dr. Giles has also directed Senior Capstone Projects for Writing and Communication majors, focusing on topics related to Creative Writing and Rhetoric.
