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CURRICULUM VITAE

SISTER FRANCIS MARY DUNN, PBVM

 

EDUCATION

 

Notre Dame Junior College, Mitchell, SD   1950-1951

Presentation Junior College 1953-1956  (graduated 1956)

Northern State University 1956-1957

St. Louis University 1957-1958

            Bachelor of Science with major in English 1958

Catholic University of America 1958-1959; 1960-1961; 1963-1966

Master of Arts 1960 in English Literature

Master’s dissertation: The Note on “The Thorn”: The Prelude as History or Science of Feeling

Ph.D. 1966   major: English Literature; first minor: American Literature; second
            minor: Linguistics (Comparative Philology)

Doctoral dissertation: Functions and Implications of Setting in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor  

 

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

 

President of Presentation College 1967-1977

Provost of Presentation College 1986-1987; acting President April-October 1988

Chair of English Department 1981-1990

Leadership Council of Presentation Sisters 1990-1994

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

English instructor at Presentation College 1959-1960; 1961-1962; 1966-1967

English and Interdisciplinary General Education instructor 1977-1979

Coordinator of tutorial program 1978-1980

English instructor 1979-1986, 1986-1987 (half-time), 1988-1990; 1990-1994 (part-time and adjunct instructor); Assistant Professor/English instructor full-time 1994-2004; part-time  (.75 time  2004-2009; half –time 2009-2010)

Courses taught: College Composition I and II, Advanced College Composition, Junior Composition, Creative Writing, Introduction to Literature, American Literature I and II, Variable Topics-Literature of Dakota, Applied Communication Skills, College Experience, Diversity Link Composition course team-taught through picture-tel, picture-tel courses in Junior Composition and American Literature, courses in learning communities (team taught)

Advising as member of faculty for Learning Communities and Arts and Sciences department

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CONTINUING ECUATION

Credit:

Summer Institute of the Dakota Writing Project 1981; six hours graduate credit through Northern State University

Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English 1982, 1983, 1985; one hour graduate credit for each

Title III Workshop-Learning Theory and Practice 1988; two hours graduate credit through Winona State College

Title III Workshop-Adult Learners 1990; one hour graduate credit through Northern State University

Title III Workshop-Classroom Strategies for Active Teaching and Learning 1990; one hour graduate credit through Northern State University

 

Non-credit:

W. Ross Winterowd Workshop on teaching writing 1980

American Renaissance Chautauqua sponsored by the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities 1993 and Great Plains Chautauqua 1998

(also many other conferences, reading series, and other events sponsored by the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities)

C.A.R.E. program (Conversational Approach to Relational Effectiveness) summer 2000

History and the American Indian HS 313 at Presentation College (audited 1997)

Volunteer Tutor Workshop for ESL Teachers June, 2002

Attended Dr. Martin Albl’s course on The Book of Revelations June, 2010
Various lectures and in-service workshops

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Formerly member of Midwest Regional Conference on English in the Two Year College and South Dakota Council of Teachers of English

Formerly member of South Dakota State Poetry Society

Presentation College representative 1980-1984 on the South Dakota Council of Humanists

Outside evaluator for Early Women Writers Institute at Northern State University June 15-26, 1998

Wrote book review of The Catholic Imagination in American Literature by Ross Labrie 1998

Published a few poems in the early 1980’s

 

AWARDS

 

Excellence in Teaching award 1999

Teaching Excellence award for “innovative team teaching in cultural diversity” 1999

Spirit of the Mission award 2002

Nomination by student to Who’s Who among America’s Teachers 2002 and 2003

Awards recognizing service