Robert Wofford is a retired teacher of AP English Literature at Las Cruces High School in New Mexico, and was also a facilitator for gifted and talented students. A College Board endorsed AP English Literature Consultant, he has presented at numerous conferences and Advanced Placement Summer Institutes in the United States and has repeatedly presented at the national Advanced Placement Annual Conference. He is a member of the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel and has participated in National Endowment for the Humanities’ summer seminars for secondary school teachers, (studying Dante in Siena, Italy, and Thoreau at Walden Pond) and he taught for one year in Canada as a Fulbright exchange teacher. Mr. Wofford has been a reader for the AP English Literature exam and he holds a BA in English education and an MA in English with a focus on rhetoric and the teaching of writing from New Mexico State University. He is a member of the Board of Education for the Las Cruces Public School District in Las Cruces, NM.