CURRICULUM VITAE
Stacey Lee Donohue
Professor of English
Central Oregon Community College
2600 NW College Way
Bend, OR 97701
phone: (541) 383-7533
email: sdonohue@cocc.edu
website: http://www.cocc.edu/sdonohue/
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EDUCATION
Graduate School and University
Center of the City University of New York,
Ph.D.,
English: 1995.
Dissertation:
“Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon and the Irish-American Literary
Tradition.”
Director: Dr. Morris Dickstein
State University of New York,
Binghamton
BA, cum laude, in English: 1985
HONORS
Community
College Humanities Association National Distinguished Humanities Educators
Award, 2007
Program for
Excellence in Assessment grant, COCC,
2003
Who’s Who in
America
Who’s
Who in the West
Program
for Excellence in Teaching grant, COCC,
1997, 1999
Adrienne A. Munich Dissertation Prize
in Women’s Studies, CUNY:
1996
Provost Teaching Fellowship, CUNY: 1993-94
Academic Year
TEACHING
Central
Oregon Community College,
Chair, Fine Arts Department, 2003-2006
Excelsior College, Adjunct Professor and Faculty Mentor, 2001-present
Oregon
State University—Cascades Campus/ Eastern Oregon
University,
Adjunct Professor 1997-2004
Borough
of Manhattan Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 1988-95
The
New School for Social Research, Graduate School of Management and
Public Policy,
Graduate Student Writing Coach, 1994-1995
Long Island University, Adjunct
Instructor, 1993-1994
St.
Francis College (Brooklyn, NY), Adjunct Instructor, 1992-1993
New York University,
Adjunct Instructor, 1990–1993
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Special Interest Delegate Representing Two Year
Colleges, MLA Delegate Assembly,
2008-2011
Member, A Novel Idea Selection Committee, Deschutes
Public Library,
2004-present
Chair, Fine Arts and Communication Department,
July 2003-2006
Editor, Community College Humanist, newsletter of the Community College Humanities
Association, 2002-2007
Editor, Accreditation
Reports, Central Oregon Community College,
1997-98,
2001-2004,
2006-2007
Member,
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Community Colleges,
2002-2005
(Chair, 2004-2005)
CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Promotions Committee (2007-present)
General
Education Strategic Team (2007-present)
Humanities
General Education Committee (2006-present)
Celebration
of Academic Excellence Committee (2001-present)
Composition
Committee (1995-present)
Accreditation Task Force (1997-2007)
Faculty
Assessment Team (2003-2007)
Faculty
Professional Improvement Resources Committee (2004-2007)
Advising
Advisory Committee (2002-2003)
Tenure
Committee (2002-2004)
Library
Advisory Committee (2001-2003)
Long Range
Planning Task Force (1997-1998)
PUBLICATIONS
Review of "Linciati:
Lynchings of Italians in America." In Film & History: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Film and Television Studies 36.2 (2006): 53-54. [Also available
at:
http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/documentary_films/american_history_miscellaneous_p2.htm]
"Dorothy
Parker"; "Native American Stereotypes"; "Whiteness." An Encyclopedia of Ethnic
American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Greenwood
Press, 2006.
"Brooklyn."
An Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Eds. Hans Ostrum and J.
David
Macey. Greenwood Press, 2006.
"Irish."
American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary
Scharnhorst.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.
"Irish."
American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary
Scharnhorst.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.
“Mary
Gordon’s Final Payments.” A Companion to Catholic Literature.
Ed. Mary R.
Reichardt. Greenwood Press,
2004.
“Italian
Americans.” The Columbia Companion to
American History on Film. Ed. Peter C.
Rollins.
“Brent
Staples.” African American Autobiographers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook.
Greenwood
Press, 2002.
“Mary
Gordon”; “Mary McCarthy”; “Louise Erdrich”; “Mary Anne Sadlier.” Catholic
Women
Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook.
Greenwood Press, 2001.
“What
a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College Teacher.” ADE
Bulletin,
Fall 2000.
Greenwood Press, 1998.
“Robin
Morgan.” Gay and Lesbian Literature, vol. 2. St. James Press, 1997.
“Mary Gordon’s Irish Catholics and Jews in Protestant America.”
Working
Papers in Irish
Studies. Nova Southeastern University, 1997.
“Reluctant
Radical: The Irish Catholic Element.” Twenty-four
Ways of Looking at Mary
McCarthy.
Eds. Eve
Stwertka and Margo Viscusi, Greenwood Press, 1996.
“Mary Lavin.” Feminist
Writers. St. James Press, 1996.
INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS PRESENTED
Community College Humanities Association National Conference, San Antonio, TX,
2007:
"Portfolios in the Literature Classroom"; "Writing in the Humanities"
(with Emily Sohmer Tai; Jacob
Agatucci and Ned Wilson).
Redmond Public Library, Women's History Month Lecture Series, 2007:
"Louisa May
Alcott: The
Real Life of a "Little Woman"
Portland State University Student Success and Retention Conference, 2007:
"Multipurpose
Rubrics"
Thoughtful Christian Book Discussion, First Presbyterian Church, Bend, OR, 2006:
"Marilynne
Robinson's
Gilead"
Two-Year College English Association, Pacific Northwest Regional Conference.
Yakima, WA, 2005:
"The Oprah Effect": What Can Literature Instructors Learn from Oprah's
Books?"
Central Oregon Regional Library Conference. Redmond, OR, 2005:"The Oprah
Effect:
Book Clubs
and Literature High and Low."
Modern
Language Association National Convention, Philadelphia,
2004: “Unexpected
Questions at
the Community College Job Interview” (with Sean Murphy and Deborah
Gibbs); Chair, “Community College Scholarship: Highlighting
Exemplary Projects”
Modern
Language Association National Convention, San Diego, 2003: "The Job
Option
at
Community Colleges: A Roundtable" (with David Berry and George Scheper)
Community College Humanities Association National Conference, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 2003. "Writing for Publication: A Roundtable" (with Drs. Emily Sohmer-Tai
and
Ned Wilson)
Community
College Humanities Association Pacific-Western Division Conference,
San
Francisco,
2002:
“’Can I Say ‘Orgasm’ On TV?’ And Other Adventures in Instructional
Technology.”
(with
Drs. Cora Agatucci and Karen Huck)
Community
College Humanities Association Pacific-Western Division Conference,
San
Francisco,
2002:
“Publish or Perish? Perish the Thought.” (with Mike Van Meter)
Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference, Eugene, OR, 2001: "Rhetorical Modes,
Rhetorical Commodes" (with Drs. Jon Bouknight and Eleanor SumpterLatham)
Modern
Language Association, Chicago,
1999:
“What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been:
Becoming a Community College
Teacher”; and “Career Opportunities at the Two-Year
College.”
Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland State University,
OR, 1999:
“Assimilation Blues: The Cultural Balancing Act as Depicted in Native American and
Immigrant
American Literatures.”
Modern
Language Association, San Francisco,
1998:
“Irish Family Values: Eugene
and Mary Doyle Curran.”
Bang,
Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: 1915-1945, University of
Nevada, Reno,
1997:
“Stealing Modernism: D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded”
Pacific
Northwest American Studies Association,
Bend, OR, 1996: “Awkward Assimilation:
Irish
Catholics
in Protestant America”
Southwest
Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM, 1996: “Irish
Catholic Heroines”
MELUS Conference,
Johnson and Wales University, Rhode
Island, 1995:
“Confessing
Culture: Mary Gordon’s Irish Catholics
in Protestant America”
Mary McCarthy Conference: Truth Telling and Its Costs, Bard College,
NY,
1993:
“Reluctant Radical:
Mary McCarthy and the Problem of Ideological Faith"
NEMLA
Conference, Bryn Mawr College,
PA,
1993: “William James, Ernest Hemingway
and Autobiography”
CUNY
Faculty Forum, CUNY Graduate
Center,
NY, 1993:
“Sisterhood Succeeds Where
Brotherhood
Fails: Ellison's Invisible
Man and Walker's Meridian”
The Thirties: Literature, Politics and Culture, Youngstown State
University,
OH, 1992:
“Mary McCarthy: A
Moralist of the Thirties”
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Community College Humanities Association
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Two Year
College Association