Jim Finnegan, Associate Professor of English

Office: HUM 115
Phone: 410-777-1970
E-mail: jfinnegan@aacc.edu 
Professor Finnegan's Web page 

Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
M.A.,  Iowa State University, 1989. 
B.A.,   Eastern Illinois University, 1987. 

Fall 2012 Office Hours:

MW: 11-12; TR 12:30-2; + by appt.

Teaching Philosophy:

A humanizing education is the path through which men and women can become conscious about their presence in the world.

Paulo Freire

I believe that every human being is potentially capable, within his “limits,” of fully “realizing” his potentialities; that  his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest,  and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can accuse itself; and that the discovery and use of “consciousness,” which has also been and is our deadliest enemy and deceiver, is also the source and guide of all hope and cure, and the only one.

 James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men