Bio of Erika Zemanek

Professor Erika Zemanek teaches both composition and literature classes at Saddleback. After growing up in Lake Arrowhead, she went to CSU Monterey Bay to study biology and music. She then transferred to CSU San Bernardino, where she received a B.A. in English, Creative Writing, in 2013. That same year, she was accepted to the Master’s Program at CSU Long Beach and graduated with an M.A. in English Literature in May 2016. That August, she started working at Saddleback, and the rest is history! When Professor Zemanek is not teaching, she enjoys singing a ridiculous amount of Frozen and Taylor Swift songs with her three kids, reading books with her book club, and watching British detective shows. She also believes turkey vultures are the coolest creatures on Earth, and if she lived in Middle Earth, she would hopefully be an elf. Professor Zemanek looks forward to exploring the influence of rhetoric, the power of an argument, and magic of literature with all of her students each and every semester.