Joe Essid
Welcome to a site with my teaching,
writing, and hobbies.
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My late father-in-law's John Deere M tractor, vintage 1951. I restored it; I use it to cut grass on our farm.
Thanks for stopping by this site. I am a writer, educator, and part-time farmer who lives in Goochland County, where my wife runs Beepasture Farms LLC. I've been with the University of Richmond since 1991. I serve currently as Director of Writing at The Weinstein Learning Center. I will retire in January 2025, transitioning to part-time teaching and full-time farming.
You'll find materials at this site for courses I teach, ongoing writing projects as well as past ones. My current academic interests involve generative AI and other technology in the classroom, the management of writing centers, and teaching science fiction. I publish an occasional SF or horror story, op-ed about Richmond, VA history or culture, review a scale-model kit I build, or review a text in military history.
I'm a bit of a gearhead, so you may run into me working on old cars and tractors.
That involves breaking stuff too, while learning painting and body-work. I began as an utter novice who could only change the oil but ended up a columnist for Hemmings Motor News, "The Bible of the Old-Car Hobby."
You'll get a glimpse at my other hobbies (model building, gardening, fishing, hunting, hiking, travel) and interests. There's even a bit of my Lebanese-Turkish-American family history here as I help my extended family in the States and Cananda collect and share stories.
Nancy and I enjoy travel. We made our first real trip to the West in 2022. Here we are at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon .
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