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
The 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
NEH Summer Workshop, Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism
and Social Reform in the 19th Century, July 2010
Faculty Achievement Award, COCC, May 2008
Sabbatical Awarded, COCC, Spring Quarter 2008
Community College Humanities Association National Distinguished Humanities
Educators Award, 2007
Program for Excellence in Assessment grant, COCC, 2003
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, Professor of English, 1995-present
Excelsior College, Masters in Liberal Studies Program, Instructional Faculty,
Thesis Reader, 2001-present
Oregon State University—Cascades Campus/ Eastern Oregon University,
Adjunct Instructor, 1997-2004
The New School for Social Research, Graduate School of Management
and Public Policy, Graduate Student Writing Coach, 1994-1995
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 1988-95
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
Member, Modern Language Association (MLA) Program Committee, 2011-2014
Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group on the Two Year College, 2013-2018
(Acting Chair, 2013-14)
Special Interest Delegate Representing Two Year Colleges, Modern Language
Association, (MLA) Delegate Assembly, 2008-2011
Member, Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Academic Freedom
and Professional Rights and Responsibilities, 2008-2011
Member, A Novel Idea Selection and Readers’ Guide Committees, Deschutes Public
Library, 2004-present
Editor, The Community College Humanist, newsletter of the Community College
Humanities Association, 2002-2007
Department Chair, Fine Arts and Communication Department, 2003-2006
Member, The Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Community
Colleges, 2002-2005 (Chair, 2004-2005)
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP/SHARED GOVERNANCE
Collective Bargaining/Negotiations Faculty Team (2012-13)
Periodic Review (In Rank) Task Force and Review Committee (2011-12)
Strategic Planning Task Force (2011-12)
Professional Improvement Resource Team (2009-2012, Chair 2010-11)
Promotions Committee (2007-2009)
Faculty Assessment Team (2004-2007)
Faculty Professional Improvement Resources Committee (2004-2007)
Tenure Committee (2002-2004)
Celebration of Academic Excellence Committee (2001-2007)
Accreditation Steering Committee and Report Editor (1997-2007)
Composition Committee (1995-present)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
"Community College Faculty and the MLA." The Community College Humanist 32.1 (Fall 2011): 1+.
Review of Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America. In Film & History: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Film and Television Studies 36.2 (2006): 53-54.
“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]
“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.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Mary Gordon." New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic University of America Press, 2012.
“Book Clubs.” The Encyclopedia of Women and American Popular Culture. Facts on File
Encyclopedias, 2012.
“Joyce Carol Oates.” The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Sage
Publications, 2011.
"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. Ed. Emmanuel
Nelson. Greenwood Press, 2002.
“Mary Gordon”; “Mary McCarthy”; “Louise Erdrich”; “Mary Anne Sadlier.” Catholic Women Writers:
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Mary R. Reichardt Greenwood Press, 2001.
“Robin Morgan.” Significant Contemporary Feminists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Ed.
Jennifer Scanlon. Greenwood Press, 1998.
“Robin Morgan.” Gay and Lesbian Literature, vol. 2. Eds. Tom Pendergast and Sara
Pendergast. St. James Press, 1997.
“Mary Lavin.” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. St. James Press, 1996.
INVITED LECTURES
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADE) Summer Seminar, Eugene, OR 2012: “What’s Driving the Curriculum? Shared Governance”
Deschutes Public Library (A Novel Idea Kick Off Event), Bend, OR, 2012: Overview of Amor Towles' The Rules of Civility
Deschutes Public Library (Biography Month Lecture Series), Bend, OR, 2010: "Kate Chopin:
A Life"
Celebration of Academic Excellence, Keynote Speaker, Bend, OR, 2009: “The Water
is Fine”Faculty Recognition Breakfast, Bend, OR, 2008: “Oprah’s Book Club: Preaching the Gospel
of Reading”
Redmond Public Library, Women's History Month Lecture Series, 2007: "Louisa May
Alcott: The Real Life of a ‘Little Woman’"
Book Discussion Facilitator, First Presbyterian Church, Bend, OR, 2006: "Marilynne
Robinson's Gilead"
Central Oregon Regional Library Conference. Redmond, OR, 2005:"The Oprah Effect:
Book Clubs and Literature High and Low"
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED
Modern Language Association, National Convention,Seattle, 2012: "Shared Governance
at Community Colleges"
Modern Language Association, National Convention, Los Angeles, 2011: "Careers in
Two-Year Colleges"
Community College Humanities Association, Pacific-Western Division Conference,
Seattle, 2010: "Louisa May Alcott and Me"
Modern Language Association, National Convention, Philadelphia 2009: “Protecting
Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty” (Moderator
Community College Humanities Association, Pacific-Western Division Conference,
Portland, OR, 2008: “Transforming Surveys of American Literature for the 21st Century” (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 Convention, 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); “Publish or Perish? Perish the Thought”
(with Michael Van Meter)
Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference, Eugene, OR, 2001: "Rhetorical Modes,
Rhetorical Commodes" (with Drs. Jon Bouknight and Eleanor Sumpter-Latham)
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