My name is Lawrence Lennie Irvin, and the above photo is of my son and I on a fishing trip of a life time in 2016 after he graduated from Eckerd College. (We let the fish go!) I teach English at San Antonio College, and have been teaching Community College English since 1989. I've been at SAC since 1994 where I just completed 2 1/2 years serving as the Interim Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Education. This Fall, 2022, I return to the classroom. I am married and have two sons. My wife Lindsay is a Pediatrician, my son Lawrence (pictured above) is a EMT/Paramedic and Firefighter in St. Petersburg, Florida, and my youngest son Joseph is attending the University of Rochester to get his PhD in Biology, focusing on the research of Alzheimers Disease (pictured below).

I love the outdoors whether it is hiking, camping, or fishing, and I am never so happy as when I have a good house project I am working on. I became involved with the National Writing Project in 2004 and helped establish the San Antonio Writing Project in 2006 where I was a Co-Director until 2017. Another significant part of my efforts have been directed toward the San Antonio College Writing Center which I helped establish in 2009 and where I was an interim Director in 2012. I am also very involved in my church, and until recently serve on the Board of Directors for The Good Samaritan Community Services Center. From 2018-2020, I was the San Antonio College Faculty Senate President, and I have been active in shared governance activities at our college and district. This Fall I will be leading the new Writing & Thinking Institute at San Antonio College and starting my first year being part of the Ascender Learning Communities as an Ascender teacher.

I am fascinated by language, by writing, by rhetoric, by the magic of putting words together to make meaning. I am lucky to be a teacher of writing so that I get to indulge this fascination each day.

Mt. Washington, Summit 2019

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University of the South, BA English, 1984

University of Texas at Austin, MA English, 1988

Texas Tech University, PhD Technical Communication and Rhetoric, 2011