Ann S. Jagoe, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of English, Speech and Foreign Language and Professor of English at North Central Texas College. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and English from Texas Woman’s University. When not teaching, researching, preparing for class, recovering from class, grading papers, or being otherwise occupied with the important matters of education, she enjoys reading murder mysteries and knitting for charities. Whenever possible, she sings back-up with her husband’s rock and roll band; however, she refuses to tour. A closeted fiction-writer, she has several projects germinating. Her motto in life, taken from Gussie Nell Davis, is “Beauty knows no pain.”