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John Woodruff is a contract linguist, irregular adjunct professor, and Alt-Ac colonialist scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages, an M.A. in Spanish/Latin-American Studies, and a distinctive B.A.U.H. in Spanish/Mathematics.
As a contract linguist, Dr. Woodruff offers expert simultaneous and consecutive oral interpretation as well as document translation for medicine, civil law, business, and non-profit. As a Latin-American colonial expert, Dr. Woodruff is available for guest lectures on Maya civilization, discovery/exploration of the Americas (1492–1524), and colonial Spanish-America (1542–1800).
Dr. Woodruff is one of the world's foremost experts—and one of only two colonialists—on the periconquest Maya narrative known as Popol Vuh. His interdisciplinary analysis draws upon critical theory of paratext, marginalia, and rhetoric to understand its oldest-surviving seventeenth-century manuscript. He is the only scholar to apply marginalia theory to Popol Vuh and his post-doctoral research focused on marginal annotations and modal shifts which collectively expose an unacknowledged authorial entity within the manuscript's first folio. Dr. Woodruff's foundational research advanced a rigorous forensic provenancing of the manuscript which subsequently received grant funding for radiocarbon and trace analysis of its archival detritus. Other areas of academic interest and study include poets and dramatists of the Generation of 1927, Cuban missile crisis, and comtemporary gender policy.
In addition to his lines of academic inquiry, Dr. Woodruff has considerable technical expertise having created various workflow utilities, most notably FormMail++.
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Wisdom
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. ◊ Never quit. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. ◊ Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Experience is something one does not have until after it was needed.
Good judgment comes from experience which mostly comes from bad judgment.
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. ◊ One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Understand as it is, believe as it can, strive as it will.