Just as a reading of many books does invariably shape the educated reader, so too do classroom experiences with different professors shape the college undergraduate. As a rough but unready undergraduate myself in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, I was influenced beyond measure by an incredible English professor at Buffalo State College.
Fraser Drew corresponded with the likes of John Masefield and Robinson Jeffers, even traveling to Cuba to speak face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway and get his signature on first editions to use as trolling bait for undergraduate more...