Angeline Dvorak’s Back to the Future Academic Odyssey < it is well-known that Angeline Dvorak initiated her teaching career as a 19-year old graduate assistant at the University of Alabama (see USM website and other public sources). What is not well-known is that she actually received an M.S. in English Education from Florida State University in 1984, exactly one year before she received an M.A. in English from the University of Alabama (i.e., 1985). How might this be explained, you ask? Of course, the obvious answer is time travel. Here are some other explanations: the Dvoraks’ calendar runs 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1984, 1986, 1987 ..... etc.; or, Angeline Dvorak began her graduate studies at Alabama and got to a course like ENG 623, and when she looked it up in Alabama’s Graduate Bulletin, she saw: "Prerequisite — ENG 622 and an M.S. in English Education from Florida State University." So, she had to get the FSU degree before continuing the Alabama degree; third, she may have completed the M.S. degree from Florida State University as an 18-year old graduate research assistant, and then she began the M.A. degree at the University of Alabama as a 19-year old graduate teaching assistant; finally, it could simply be the case that her resume is inaccurate/misleading on one or more of these points, but she wouldn’t do that, would she? That would be a pump up resume strategy, wouldn’t it?