Hi! I'm Bridget

Hi! My name is Bridget. I was born in Spokane, Washington a LONG time ago! There are six kids in my family. I’m the fourth. I have a really, really big extended family. I have 54 first cousins! Can you believe it?

I graduated from Gonzaga University with a B.A. in French Literature. I also have an M.A. from the University of Sheffield in International Politics. Right now I'm working on my second M.A. at Gonzaga University and sometimes I teach there.

I have lived and traveled in many different countries including Ireland, England, France, Spain, and Japan. I have been teaching English for almost 20 years! Wow! My first English teaching job was in Kumamoto, Kyushu where I worked for an ‘eikaiwa’. Do you want to know which one?

My husband, James, is also an English teacher. He teaches English as a Second Language at Gonzaga University. He’s also a musician! He plays flutes and whistles and the uillean pipes for a band called Celtic Nots. Celtic music means it comes from Ireland, England, or Brittany.

We have three great kids. Ceilan (pronounced ‘keelin’) is a senior at Lewis and Clark high school. Zeke is a sophomore at the same school, Lewis and Clark. Fionn (pronounced ‘fin’) is in the 7th grade at Sacajawea Junior High School. In 2000, I worked at MWU in Japan. That was soooooo fun! The kids went to school in Japan and they learned to speak a little bit of Japanese when we lived there for two years.

You are sure to learn a lot while you're here! Get ready to work hard and have lots of fun! And come and see me in my office hours if you have free time!