Brian Malone

About Me

"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
-George Eliot, Middlemarch

Biography

This is my tenth year teaching at De Anza. I love working with De Anza students and I'm thrilled to be a part of the De Anza community.

My pedagogical goal is to help students build strong reading, writing, and thinking skills that will serve them both in and out of the classroom. In my writing (EWRT) classes,

• we read and discuss engaging texts, including sci-fi novels, Hamilton: An American Musical, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
• we explore in writing topics such as racism, community, social justice, LGBTQ experience, and human well-being.
• I prepare students for the writing they will need to succeed at De Anza, at transfer institutions, and in life after college.
• I encourage students to understand reading and writing in relation to communities outside of the classroom.

If this sounds like fun, then sign up for an EWRT class with me!

I also teach English literature. In my ELIT classes, the goal is for students to encounter new texts and to learn how to read analytically--without ever losing sight of the pleasures that can be found in literature.

Syllabi

Students who are enrolled in my classes can access the syllabus through the Canvas page. Anyone else who is interested in my syllabi should send me an email.

Classes I Teach

Winter 2025

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
00628	ELIT 48B	01	Major American Writers (The Advent of Realism, 1865-1914)
38674	EWRT 2	01S	Critical Reading, Writing and Thinking

Fall 2024

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
00688	ELIT 48A	01	Major American Writers (Colonial to Romantic, 1620-1865)
28352	ELIT 48AH	01	Major American Writers (Colonial to Romantic, 1620-1865) - HONORS
27841	EWRT 1A	1SQ	Composition and Reading
27842	LART 250	1SQ	Academic Reading and Writing