Remote Island Medicine
Elisabeth Lore
University Writing Program
Dr. Elisabeth Lore earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California Davis, specializing in French, Caribbean, Chicanx, and multilingual literatures. She also received a Masters degree in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University, where she pursued an additional interest in sociolinguistics. Her current research focuses on Mediating Literature, a novel genre in which the author’s implied intent is to negotiate relationships between members of conflicting cultures resulting from immigration.
She is currently working as a Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis teaching entry-level and upper-division writing courses and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Sacramento City College teaching composition courses. She has also previously taught first-year French, world literature, and the Humanities.
A Message to Students and Parents
Traveling abroad has been one of the richest blessings I have experienced in my life. With an American father in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany and a mother born and raised in France, I spent my first 10 years traveling between the U.S., Germany, and France. My maternal language was French, but I slowly lost my ability to speak it as my mother worked on learning English. However, I relearned it in college and am, thankfully, fluent again. In my 20s, I spent 3 years training and working with an international humanitarian aid organization on a repurposed cruise ship, traveling to about 25 different countries including Togo, Ghana, Mexico, Guatamala, Costa Rica, Poland, and several countries in Europe and Scandivavia. I spent one year studying abroad in France in order to regain my maternal language, and traveled to many countries by train and learned so much about each country.
My teaching experience includes working with many international students of varying ages, which has taught me to value the differences and similarities of people of diverse nations. One of my favorites was working with mid-career students in the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. Seeing that these students were willing to sacrifice one year away from their families and friends to gain knowledge to help their communities was humbling and quite educational. Now, I embrace every opportunity I can to enable students to have similar experiences to learn at a global level so they can best help their communities."