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://sdonohue.cocc.edu/
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EDUCATION
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York,
Ph.D. in 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
Faculty Achievement Award, Central Oregon Community College, May 2008
Community College Humanities Association National Distinguished Humanities Educators
Award, 2007
Program for Excellence in Assessment grant, COCC, 2003
Program for Excellence in Teaching grants, COCC, 1997, 1999
Adrienne A. Munich Dissertation Prize in Women’s Studies, CUNY: 1996
Provost Teaching Fellowship, CUNY: 1993-94
TEACHING
Central Oregon Community College, Professor of English, 1995-present
Excelsior College, Adjunct Professor, 2001-present
Eastern Oregon University, Adjunct Professor 1997-2004
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 1988-1995
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, Modern Language Association
Delegate Assembly, 2008-2011
Member, Modern Language Association Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights
and Responsibilities, 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, 2002-2007
Member, Modern Language Association Committee on Community Colleges, 2002-2005
CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Promotions Committee (2007-present)
Humanities General Education Committee (2006-present)
Honors Advisor (2005-present)
Composition Committee (1995-present)
Celebration of Academic Excellence Committee (2001-2007)
Accreditation Task Force (1997-2007)
Faculty Assessment Team (2003-2007)
Faculty Professional Improvement Resources Committee (2004-2007)
Tenure Committee (2002-2004)
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. Columbia UP, 2004.
“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.
“Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak.” PMLA 115.7 (Dec. 2000): 1986+.
“What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Becoming a Community College Teacher.” ADE
Bulletin, Fall 2000. [Also available at: http://www.ade.org/ade/bulletin/n126/126042.htm]
“Robin Morgan.” Significant Contemporary Feminists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook.
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
Faculty Recognition Breakfast, COCC, 2008: "Oprah's Book Club: Preaching the Gospel of
Reading"
Celebrating the Feminine Spirit, KPOV Radio Show, 2008: "Books That Cook!"
Redmond Public Library, Women's History Month Lecture Series, 2007: "Louisa May
Alcott: The Real Life of a "Little Woman"
Thoughtful Christian Presentation, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, 2006: "Marilynne
Robinson's Gilead"
Central Oregon Regional Library Conference. 2005:"The Oprah Effect:
Book Clubs and Literature High and Low"
Silver Sage Society (University of Oregon, Bend) Guest Speaker, 2005: "Oprah's Book Club"
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Guest Speaker, 2005: "Native American
Literature"
Lunch and Learn, Deschutes Historical Society, 2004: "Hollywood Indians"
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Community College Humanities Association, Pacific-Western Division Conference,
Portland, OR, 2008: "Transforming Surveys of American Literature" (with Annemarie Hamlin and
Jacob Agatucci).
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).
Portland State University Student Success and Retention Conference, 2007: "Multipurpose
Rubrics"
Two-Year College English Association, Pacific Northwest Regional Conference.
Yakima, WA, 2005: "The Oprah Effect": What Can Literature Instructors Learn from Oprah's
Books?"
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."
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, 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, 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