Instructor Profile: Bryan Fox

My ESL career started somewhat accidentally. Perusing the newspaper one day during my final semester of university, I saw an ad with the simple banner "Would you like to teach English in Japan?" "Why yes, I would," I thought suddenly. And a few months later I was on a plane to Tokyo. Seven years and four countries later, ESL is still very much a part of my life, and what once seemed like an 'accident' has now turned itself into a career I enjoy immensely.

I have worked in literally all facets of the field, from teaching a roomful of screaming two-year olds in Japan to working with professional actors as a voice coach in Krakow to lending my voice to educational CD ROMs on both ends of Europe (I chuckle to think that somewhere there may be thousands of children learning to speak by modeling my voice!). At present, I am working as an adjunct professor of College Writing and Philosophy at a junior college in Brooklyn, and next year I hope to enroll in a university in New York to get an MFA in Creative Writing (my other passion).