“Daphne Athas Is Alive and Well and Living in Carrboro, North Carolina.”
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1968 - Daphne Athas (1923-2020) Begins Teaching Creative Writing
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Daphne Athas begins a 41-year career teaching creative writing. The author of four novels and several other works, Athas was also known for her course on creativity and grammar, dubbed “Glossolalia.” The course inspired alumni to mount traveling grammar shows throughout the state and eventually led to Athas’ creating her influential textbook, Gram-O-Rama, first published in 2007.
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Daphne Athas begins a 40-year career teaching creative writing. The author of four novels, a play, travel memoir, poetry, and a collection of essays, Athas was also known for her course on creativity and grammar, dubbed “Glossolalia.” The course inspired alumni to mount traveling grammar shows throughout the state and eventually led to Athas’ creating her influential textbook, Gram-O-Rama, first published in 2007.
"The course was run like a language laboratory, culminating in a live performance—part opera, part reader’s theatre—that paid maverick homage to the eight parts of speech. . . . In the late 1970’s, alumni of the early classes formed a private non-profit corporation and mounted a traveling grammar show that traveled to public schools throughout North Carolina. Athas divined the book GRAM-O-RAMA from the course in which its philosophies and techniques were hatched and implemented. The course is still taught regularly at UNC." (Gram-O-Rama)
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Gram-O-Rama. “About the Author and Editor” and “Book History.” Gram-O-Rama, 2020,http://www.gramorama.com/about-the-authors/ and http://www.gramorama.com/book-history/.
