Editor Biography - Dr. Barbara Voigt
Name: Dr. Barbara Voigt
Undergraduate:
BA, Social Science
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Graduate:
MA, Intercultural Education with TESOL Specialty
Universidad de las Americas, San Andres Cholula, Mexico
Teaching and Editing Experience: 33 Years
Barbara Voigt was born in California and lived in several states during her childhood. After completing her undergraduate education, she taught English as a second language (ESL) overseas for ten years before settling in Hawaii 25 years ago.
She has 33 years of teaching experience, 29 of which are at colleges and universities. Currently, she is an associate professor of ESL at a college in Hawaii. In addition to teaching ESL, she teaches college writing, speech, linguistics, and Polynesian history, and has many years of experience instructing both undergraduate and graduate students.
She has published a textbook on English for law students and articles on linguistics. Her other areas of interest include languages, history, technology, education, anthropology, fine arts, and art history. She is a habitual traveler who has studied seven languages and speaks three in addition to English. She lives on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
Ms. Voigt enjoys reading fiction, history, and travel writing. She reads The Economist, Outside, and Smithsonian.
Favorite Novels:
- The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
- Coyote Waits, Tony Hillerman
- Feast of All Saints, Ann Rice
- The Happy Islands of Oceania, Paul Theroux
- An Island Voyage, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
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