Fred White is an associate professor of English and director of Core Writing at Santa Clara University, where he has taught since 1980. He received his Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa, his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Minnesota. In 1997 he received the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence. In the summer of 1998, he taught a course in environmental writing in Trinidad through SCU's Environmental Studies Program.