Ms. Casey Ford

BA English, Class of 2013, MA English, Class of 2015
Instructor in the Department of  English and Modern Languages
Director of the Writing Center
Interviewed by Brady Muth on 03/01/2023

‘I have been associated with the university in some form or fashion since 1994. I started at Lamar as a music major right after I graduated from high school. I changed my major to English and came back from 1999-2001 …eventually in 2012, I finally came back to Lamar, and finished my English degree. I got my B.A. in English in 2013 and got my M.A. in English in 2015 and I have been teaching at the University since I was a graduate student in 2014…Being at Lamar at these different points since the mid-90s, I have seen the university under several different presidents, all of whom had their strengths and changed the university in different ways. I have seen the university itself change. When I first started at Lamar, there were buildings on campus that no longer exist and I have watched the growth and the technology and the structure of the university change over the decades and I am really proud to be affiliated with Lamar as a student, as a staff member, and as a faculty member over, nearly 30 years now. It is a really interesting place to work and it’s a place that I feel inspired and motivated by all of the great writers around me. I do not know if everybody knows how many great writers, we have here, at Lamar University!’