{"id":2,"date":"2019-06-06T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgourlay.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:21:31","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jgourlay.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the button drawer for Dr. Jonathan Gourlay, PhD in Humanities. (MA Linguistics — TESOL, MFA Creative Writing — Poetry.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Faculty Chair of Adult Education at Morton College, Cicero. Formerly: University of Illinois, Chicago, University of Saint Joseph, Georgetown College, College of Micronesia – FSM. Working in higher education as an administrator for ESL \/ international programs and an instructor of ESL, Linguistics, Poetry, Developmental Writing, and Research Writing. (LinkedIn<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please subscribe to my newsletter, Desire Paths, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author of a memoir, <\/a>Nowhere Slow<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some articles to read at The Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent pubs: Historical fiction, “The Naiad”<\/a>, in Sundial Magazine. A flash<\/a> in Idle Ink. A short<\/a> in Archetype Magazine. Flash in the Ab-Terra<\/a> series from Brain Mill Press. (Scroll down.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coalesced a dissertation<\/a> (defended circa 2019): The Slug of Modernity: Economic and Cultural Entanglement on Pohnpei, 1844-2019.<\/em> Behind a pay wall, but hit me up if you’re interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentations \/ papers: IACEA (adult educators in Illinois), TESOL (the big one and local ones), History and Technology Association, St. Magnus Conference, Interdisciplinary.net (now Progressive Connexions), and elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lives in Chicago. Married to: http:\/\/kristingourlay.com\/<\/a> (Have: kids. Own: an antique camera collection.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researching in the Shetland Islands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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