Dr. Trisha Stubblefield

Dr. Trisha Stubblefield, assistant professor of English, received her B.A. and B.M. from Converse College, South Carolina, and her M.A. and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of South Carolina. Her graduate work focused on twentieth-century American literature, and her dissertation examined "The Brat Pack," a group of 1980s novelists of manners that includes Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and Bret Easton Ellis. In addition, Dr. Stubblefield's research interests include women writers, popular culture, and composition/rhetoric.

She teaches composition, Women and Literature, Poetry, and other literature courses. Dr. Stubblefield is the sponsor of Cottey College's Amnesty International Chapter and Feminist Majority Foundation Chapter, and she is the co-sponsor of the Cottey College English honor society.

It was Dr. Stubblefield who provided key leadership in establishing the now annual "Love Your Body Day" event held in conjunction with the National Organization for Women's educational campaign of the same name. Currently, she is the chair of the Women's Studies Interest Group and led the effort to institute an Introduction to Women's Studies course at Cottey College.

Prior to coming to Cottey, she taught English Composition at the University of South Carolina and Midlands Technical College in Columbia, S.C. She has also taught composition for Crowder College, Neosho, Mo. In the area of women's studies, Dr. Stubblefield has instructed Women in Culture and Women in Society for the University of South Carolina.

In 2000-2001, she was a professional communications center consultant for the University of South Carolina's College of Engineering. Gateway Engineering Education Coalition published her manual, Mentoring Undergraduate Engineering Students: A Manual for Teaching Assistants, in July 2002.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2002-04, 2004-06, Named Harmon Associate in English, Cottey College
  
• 2004, 2005, Named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers
  
• 2002, Voted Cottey College Teacher of the Year
  

PRESENTATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 2005, Attended the Experience Music Project Pop Conference: "Music as Masquerade: Poseurs, Playas, and Beyond," Seattle, WA
  
• 2005, Attended "Recipe for Success: A Service-Learning Workshop," Missouri Campus Compact, Cottey College
  
• 2004-05, Organized Women's Studies Lecture Series, Cottey College
  
• 2004, 2005, College Board AP Reader, English Language, Daytona Beach, FL
  
• 2003, Member of Cottey College Learning Community Team that presented "Women's Ways of Knowing and Learning" at the National Learning Communities Project Summer Institute, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
  
• 2003, Attended the University of South Carolina Women's Studies Conference: "Women's Diverse Voices and Meanings: Feminism in Culture and Society," Columbia, SC
  
• 2002, Attended the Southern Learning Communities Conference, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
  
• 2002-05, Humanities Film Festival speaker, Cottey College
  
• 2002-05, Merry Ann DeVaney Sauls Academic Writing Contest judge, Cottey College
  
• 2002-05, "Voices From Our Rural Schools" High School Writing Contest judge, Cottey College
  
• 2002-03, First Year Seminar Study Group; Athletic Program Review Committee
  
• 2002-03, Designated Scholar for Missouri Humanities Council Grant, "Brown v. Board of Education (1054): Then, Today, and Tomorrow," Cottey College.
  
• 2002, Presented a paper titled "Reading the Postmodern Novel of Manners on Screen: Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City" and chaired a panel on film adaptation, Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM
  
• 2002, Co-presented a paper with Dr. Elisabeth Alford (University of South Carolina) titled "Mentoring Engineering Graduate Students in Professional Communications: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Approach," American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec; The paper was published in Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference
  
• 2002, Monograph (Mentoring Undergraduate Engineering Students: A Manual for Teaching Assistants) published by the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
  
• 2002, Attended The Council of North Central Two Year Colleges 2002 Summer Assessment Academy, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
• 2002, On-site Coordinator of Women Writers Conference hosted by the Center for Women's Leadership, Cottey College
  

Email: tstubblefield@cottey.edu

Department of English

• Dr. Mike Emery
  
• Dr. Don Perkins
  
• Dr. Kathryn Pivak
  
• Dr. Trisha Stubblefield
  

Course Descriptions

The Merry Ann DeVaney Sauls Academic Writing Contest

Cottey College Writing Center

Sigma Kappa Delta

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