Biography

William Waters is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. His research and teaching interests are in poetry, writing theory and practice, the history of the English language, linguistics, and modern grammar. He is the author of Unwatered Seeds and the managing editor of La Puerta: A Doorway into the Academy. Waters earned his PhD in language and linguistics from the University of New Mexico and previously taught at Northwest Missouri State University; the University of Maine; University College in Galway, Ireland; and Cheongbuk National University in Korea. Together, William Waters and Sonja K. Foss offer writing retreats and present workshops on topics such as completing dissertations, publishing, and advising, and they coach individual scholars working on dissertations, articles, and books.
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