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Joseph Mills is a Professor of Humanities and Writing in the ��������Ƶ Division of Liberal Arts.

Few teachers have a unique style; we learn from one another and adopt and modify (and avoid) techniques and elements of others. I hope to encourage my students to become curious, disciplined, intelligent, empathetic artists and people. I hope they develop a passion for life-long learning.

Credentials

• Hundreds of criticism, poetry, fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of forums
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• Seven books of poetry: "," "," "," "," "," "" and ""
• Editor, "," book of film criticism
• Co-author, two editions of "A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries"

Career Highlights

• Being approached after a reading by a woman who told him that his poem was on her fridge
• Reading from a book of poems about his children – "This Miraculous Turning" – with his children in the audience and having them come up afterwards
• Having a student come up to him years after graduating and say, “I still have all the books from your courses"
• Having a student stop as he left class and say, “I enjoyed that, actually”
• Getting hired at the School of the Arts