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Welcome to the KILLER ENGLISH website & blog

This site is a celebration and on-line forum for the dissertation-turned-book: Killer English: Postmodern Theory and The Classroom, published in 2024.

If you haven’t read or are unfamiliar with the background of this book, please download one or both of the links here:

Dedication, Table of Contents & Foreword
Preface & Introduction

The blog below is set up as an open, unmoderated forum for anyone to post a comment or initiate a discussion on any aspect of the book.

Extra special, would be any reflections, memories or stories from former students, colleagues or acquaintances of Mary Alice Delia who found their way to this site.

The book is now available for sale, on-line, from most of the major book selling platforms.    (IngramSpark is the distributor, and bookstores can be encouraged to order copies directly through their site)

All proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that promotes, among other things, progressive education and critical pedagogy in the United States and across the globe. 

Any questions about this site or the publishing of the book can be directed to:  Joe Delia (josephbdelia@gmail.com)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Alice Delia taught English for 37 years in nine states, receiving many awards for high school teaching, including the Maryland Teacher of the Year Award in 1985 and the Distinguished Teacher Award given by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in 1989.

While in Maryland, she started teaching at Wheaton High School in 1977, then at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown and ended at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

She published articles on critical theory and pedagogy and received the Broome Award for the most outstanding publication by a county educator in Montgomery County.

She went back to school in her 50’s to earn her doctorate in English Literature, which she completed at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1991.

She was recognized for expertise in postmodern theory and was a master teacher in a training program from 1991-1995 at the University of Maryland.

She then moved to North Topsail Beach, N.C., and taught part time at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington until her death in 1997 – before this book, which is based on her dissertation, could be published.

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Contact the site owner if you would like to post a review of the book. Josephbdelia@gmail.com