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Curriculum Vitae 10
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
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