Xavier O.

I hold a PhD in English literature from Johns Hopkins University. Aside from my area of specialization (19th & 20th c. American literature--and especially African-American literature and religion), my research and teaching practice also leans heavily into interpretation theory. For all immediate practical purposes, this basically just means that as a teacher and tutor I tend to put a lot of emphasis on helping people learn various strategies for reading texts (including your own writing) very cl…