Meet the Teacher
A native of Manchester, GA, Dr. Harris has served BHS in a variety of capacities for the past 16 years! This year, Dr. Harris teaches AP Literature while also serving as the English Department Chair and a Teaching and Learning Mentor. At Buford, Dr. Harris coaches the Essay and Extemporaneous Speaking events for the State Champion Literary Team. Dr. Harris also coordinates the One Act Play Competition for Region 8-AAAAA and serves as the State Literary Coordinator for the Georgia High School Association. In his free time, Mr. Harris enjoys football, traveling, and fine dining.
BSEd - English (Columbus State University)
MA - Drama (Roosevelt University)
EdD - Leadership (Capella University)
Favorite Books:
The Unvanquished (Faulkner), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), Emma (Austen), Commonwealth (Patchett), Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
Favorite Poems:
"Dover Beach" (Arnold), "The World is Too Much with Us" (Wordsworth), "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Donne), "Sonnet 91" (Shakespeare), "Those Winter Sundays" (Hayden), "Musée de Beaux Arts" (Auden), "The Fish" (Bishop), "The Leap" (Dickey)
Favorite Plays:
Hamlet (Shakespeare), A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams), Fences (Wilson)
Philosophy of Education:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
Meditation XVII, John Donne (1624)
"In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)