Alexandra Franke

Background

About Alexandra Franke

Passionate and ambitious educator; in fourth year of teaching 10th grade English at Bergenfield High School. Teaches both mainstream, general education classes, as well as two sections of ICR (In-Class Resource). Skilled at differentiated instruction and making accommodations for various types of learners. Master's Thesis Title: “'I’m not like that!': Reframing Contemporary Ecopoetic Criticism and De-Metaphorizing the Nonhuman Animal."(Highlights the necessity of reframing our critical approach to contemporary ecopoetry in the interest of environmentalism. Describes the historic metaphorization of nonhuman animals in literary criticism, emphasizing the problems with a species binary and the subsequent hierarchy perpetuated by such metaphorization. Illustrates how a species hierarchy endangers the goals of environmentalism by distancing humans from other animals.) Skilled at writing academically and critically, as well as in editing and proofreading. Took a diverse range of courses in graduate school, including ones on Contemporary American poetry and fiction, British poetry and fiction, and critical theory.