Allan Persinger, Ph.D.

Helping students succeed within their academic and personal endeavors is a privilege and a pleasure to Allan Persinger. He has been fortunate enough to teach English in Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States. He has helped students both within and outside the classroom by advising, tutoring, and working one on one.
Persinger holds a Ph.D. in English with concentrations within American Poetry from Walt Whitman to the Present, Japanese Literature in Translation, and Literature of Travel and Isolation as the main concentration. The travel literature concentration ranges from the ancient to the modern and critiques the works of such writers as Homer, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and J.R.R. Tolkien, to name a few, through post-colonial and post-modern lenses. Furthermore, Persinger's work within translation and translation theory critiques the very act of translation from a post-colonial perspective.

Starting out as an English as a Second Language instructor, he studied second language teaching pedagogy, and have since studied composition, creative writing, and literature pedagogies along with the certification classes held by the Wisconsin Technical College System.