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You can reach me at SplitterRandolph@deanza.edu, 408-864-8600, or F61e (in the F6 collection of faculty offices near the turtle sculpture at the "top" of the L quad). Email is best.

Teaching Philosophy in a Nutshell

(1) the work of the class will be challenging; (2) it will be enjoyable if you’re willing to be challenged; and (3) I will do my best to support you and help you meet the challenge. I would be very happy if we didn't have grades; they just get in the way of real learning. Since we usually do have grades, I try to be as fair and objective as possible.

Education

BA English, Hamilton College, 1968

BA Computer & Information Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, 1983

PhD English, UC Berkeley, 1974

Books I've Written

literary criticism: Proust's 'Recherche': A Psychoanalytic Interpretation (Boston, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)

fiction: Body and Soul (Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1999)

Bonobo Boy (new novel)

Personal Information

If you want to know something about me personally, here it is. My parents grew up in Vienna, Austria, and escaped to this country near the beginning of World War II. They had three kids, all boys. I grew up on the East Coast but have spent my entire adult life on the West Coast, mostly in northern California. After twenty-five years of marriage, my first wife died in 1994. Our older daughter is a lawyer (and a mom); our younger daughter, with a background in art history, is now working in marketing. I remarried in 2002, and my wife is a librarian at a nearby university. I've taught English at De Anza College since 1989. Before that I was a technical writer and software developer at Hewlett-Packard. And before that, I taught English at Caltech in Pasadena, California. In my spare time, I write fiction and screenplays, make short films, play tennis and ride a bike, listen to jazz and acoustic music, check out popular culture, and exercise my social conscience.