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DJ Kaiser was born in Agana Heights, Guam on October 10, 1973 and raised in Rockton and Belleville, Illinois. Kaiser currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his partner, Tom. Kaiser teaches English as a Second Language at Washington University and, in his free time, writes stage plays under the name DJ Sanders (http://www.djsanders.com).
DJ Kaiser attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he received two bachelor of arts, one in Linguistics and another in Spanish. During his undergraduate, he spent a year studying at the University of Barcelona. After completing his undergraduate work, he continued at the University of Illinois and pursued a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Upon completion of his degree, Kaiser was offered a visiting lecturer position at the University of Barcelona where he taught academic writing, teaching English, and British Literature. After spending a year living in downtown Barcelona and learning to speak Catalan, Kaiser moved to St. Louis, Missouri to teach for English Language Programs (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~esl) at Washington University. Since 2001, he has taught courses in Advanced Pronunciation, Scientific & Research Writing, and Oral Presentation Skills. Kaiser routinely presents at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and MIDTESOL (Midwest TESOL) conferences on topics including teaching pronunciation and assessing oral presentation skills.
DJ Sanders
DJ Sanders is a playwright and the author of nineteen stage plays. Sanders' plays vary in style and theme from ten-minute plays to full-length works and from dramas tackling controversial social issues to absurd comedy. Six of his ten-minute plays have been published by Brooklyn Publishers (http://www.brookpub.com) and are routinely performed throughout the United States by high school students for Duet Acting competitions and speech tournaments, including the National Forensic League's National Speech Tournament and the National Catholic Forensic League.
Sanders has also worked on adaptations of classic. White Horses is a prequel to Henrik Ibsen's 1886 drama Rosmersholm. The National Library of Norway (http://www.nb.no/) has acquired White Horses for their Ibsen Archive. Sanders' Damascus Trilogy is a modern adaptation of August Strindberg's Expressionistic plays To Damascus, I-III, which deal with alchemy and a Damascus-like faith journey.
Newer scripts by Sanders explore the psychology behind characters that society would normally demonize. Temptations of the Father looks at the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal and explores the psychology behind a Catholic priest who was forced to retire after allegations of molestation. CYPHER: variations on therapy, sex, and baseball analyzes the relationship between an attempted rapist suffering from mental illness and his psychiatrist. American obsessions with psychotherapy, sexual dysfunction, sexual fantasies, and baseball.
ELP 127 class
Kaisersanders is using the 'pedia to help teach English and Business Communication for International MBAs. Please see:
External links
- DJ Sanders' Writing Page (http://www.djsanders.com)
- DJ Kaiser's ESL Web Site (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~djkaiser)