{"id":25261,"date":"2022-10-14T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T19:31:24","slug":"alumni-master-teacher-allen-n-swords-97-m-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/alumni-master-teacher-allen-n-swords-97-m-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Master Teacher: Allen N. Swords \u201997, M \u201902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher-705x471.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Students chose Allen N. Swords as the 2022 Alumni Master Teacher. Swords is a senior lecturer in the Department of English of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, and he teaches courses on sequential art, Holocaust literature and art, and the Vietnam War and <em>Star Wars<\/em> mythos. The award for outstanding undergraduate classroom instruction is presented each spring to a faculty member nominated by the student body and selected by the Student Alumni Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cI am speechless. Humbled. Proud. And stunned,\u201d Swords said. \u201cI had no idea I was even nominated or in the running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Sarah Gibson, who took six classes with Swords, said that he is \u201cby far the most caring and thoughtful professor out there. He comes to class with the most positive attitude and will go to great lengths to make every student feel heard and appreciated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Swords received a bachelor\u2019s degree and a master\u2019s degree in English from Clemson.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen N. Swords was selected by students as this year&#8217;s Alumni Master Teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1211,1219],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-fall-2022","tag-fall-2022-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Alumni-Master-Teacher.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}