Dr. Stephanie Dunson to speak at Black History Month program
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Jennifer West-
Dr. Stephanie Dunson will be guest speaker at the Black History Month program on Feb. 19 at the Hillsboro Public Library. A 1980 graduate of McClain High School, Stephanie currently serves as Director of Writing Programs at Williams College in Massachusetts. Formerly a professor of English and African American Culture at the University of Rhode Island, she has also taught in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University and at the University of Massachusetts. For the past 16 years, she has also been a Faculty Associate/Consultant for the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College.
In her 25-year career as a writing specialist and scholar, Dr. Dunson has held positions as Director of the Writing Center at Mount Holyoke College, Coordinator of Tutorial Services at Smith College, and Assistant Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Rhode Island. She has served as writing consultant for schools and universities throughout the Northeast, including Phillips Academy, Middlebury College, Amherst College, and Queens College CUNY, as well as serving as an Academic Writing Coach for scholars at Yale, Columbia, and New York University. Her scholarship and writing have won funding awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Academies.
Currently under consideration at the University of Virginia Press, her book manuscript, "The Minstrel in the Parlor," is an exploration of how the early era of blackface minstrelsy in 19th-century America established patterns for marketing and mismanaging race that still shape popular culture today.
Dr. Dunson will speak on her career and how all things are possible with perseverance. She is the daughter of Barbara Sutherland and the late Sylvester Sutherland. The program begins at 1 p.m. and everyone is invited. Light refreshments will follow.[[In-content Ad]]
In her 25-year career as a writing specialist and scholar, Dr. Dunson has held positions as Director of the Writing Center at Mount Holyoke College, Coordinator of Tutorial Services at Smith College, and Assistant Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Rhode Island. She has served as writing consultant for schools and universities throughout the Northeast, including Phillips Academy, Middlebury College, Amherst College, and Queens College CUNY, as well as serving as an Academic Writing Coach for scholars at Yale, Columbia, and New York University. Her scholarship and writing have won funding awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Academies.
Currently under consideration at the University of Virginia Press, her book manuscript, "The Minstrel in the Parlor," is an exploration of how the early era of blackface minstrelsy in 19th-century America established patterns for marketing and mismanaging race that still shape popular culture today.
Dr. Dunson will speak on her career and how all things are possible with perseverance. She is the daughter of Barbara Sutherland and the late Sylvester Sutherland. The program begins at 1 p.m. and everyone is invited. Light refreshments will follow.[[In-content Ad]]