{"id":17658,"date":"2022-01-25T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=17658"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:29:34","slug":"get-to-know-claire-oberon-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2022\/01\/get-to-know-claire-oberon-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Claire Oberon Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Professor of English and Former Dean of the Faculty\/Acting Provost<\/h3>\n<h6>What do you consider your greatest achievement?<\/h6>\n<p>Raising four children who now have independent, interesting lives and who love to read and travel.<\/p>\n<h6>What do you believe CC does best?<\/h6>\n<p>Offers smart and curious students an excellent liberal arts education.<\/p>\n<h6>If there was one thing you would change about CC, what would it be?<strong>\u2028<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>More office, learning, and lab spaces!<\/p>\n<h6>What is your greatest fear?<\/h6>\n<p>Missing out.<\/p>\n<h6>Which person, living or dead, do you most admire?<\/h6>\n<p>Zora Neale Hurston.<\/p>\n<h6>Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?<\/h6>\n<p>The writers Jessie Redmon Fauset and Alexandre Dumas, the painters Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix and Jordan Casteel, and the filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Michael Powell.<\/p>\n<h6>Where do you most want to visit?<\/h6>\n<p><strong>\u2028<\/strong>India is the country that I\u2019m most curious about but haven\u2019t visited.<\/p>\n<h6>If you could hang out in one spot on campus, where would it be?<strong>\u2028<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong>Tutt Library: <\/strong>I love how the building is such a hive of activity of many different kinds. I especially love how it looks at night from afar.<\/p>\n<h6>What memory about CC really sticks in your head?<\/h6>\n<p><strong>\u2028<\/strong>The student town hall in Winter 2020 when hundreds of students announced that they were holding the college accountable for living up to our antiracist and DEI commitments.<\/p>\n<h6>What was your most memorable block break or block?<\/h6>\n<p>The first time I taught the class Black Writers in Paris, in Paris with Professor of French Ibrahima Wade, Block 4, 2005.<\/p>\n<h6>What is your motto?<\/h6>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2018Isn\u2019t life,\u2019 she stammered, \u2018isn\u2019t life\u2014\u2019 But what life was she couldn\u2019t explain. No matter. He quite understood. \u2018Isn\u2019t it, darling?\u2019\u201d <\/em>(Katherine Mansfield, \u201cThe Garden Party.\u201d)<\/p>\n<h6>What is one non-dominant and\/or non-visible identity you would like to share about yourself?<\/h6>\n<p>I\u2019m visually impaired.<\/p>\n<h6>If you didn\u2019t work in your current profession, what other job would you most like to have?<\/h6>\n<p>I\u2019d be a professional writer.<\/p>\n<h6>On what occasion do you do a \u201chappy dance?\u201d<\/h6>\n<p>When I see our granddaughters.<\/p>\n<h6>What is a talent you have that very few know about?<\/h6>\n<p>I can always beat the daily Angry Birds challenge.<\/p>\n<h6>What would be the last line in your biography?<\/h6>\n<p><em>Alleluia!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of English and former dean of the faculty and acting provost answers some insightful questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":17510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-17658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2021-22","tag-cc-questionnaire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2022\/01\/32_20211115_dean_0466n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17690,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions\/17690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}