• 37 years teaching experience, from 7th grade through adult degree completion.
• continuing efforts to remain current about composition and literary theory and practice.
• experience and expertise in incorporating technology into both composition and literature syllabi and classrooms.
• have developed extensive web site and Blackboard site, both of which I use to disseminate syllabi, lectures, discussion fora, and other class information to my students. (See http://www.greenville.edu/faculty/dosthart).
• have put all class lectures on Powerpoint, which are linked, as needed to web site and/or Blackboard.
• publications in both literature specialty and in computer composition.

Education:

PhD in English. Summa cum laude. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. October, 1992. Dissertation: The Wise Woman Counselor in Medieval Dream-Visions.

MA in English. Magna cum laude. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. August, 1974. Thesis: A Franklinian Reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne on Sin and Salvation.

BS in English Education. Magna cum laude. Greenville College, Greenville, IL. August, 1969.

Teaching Experience:

1989-2006.  Greenville College. Research and Writing, Honors R & W, Feature Writing, Brit. Lit. before 1800, Age of Shakespeare, Brit. Lit. after 1800, Hist. and Modn. Linguistics, English Novel. Also various Special Topics courses; i.e., Arthurian Legends, Irish Literature, and Metaphysical Poets. Various Interterm courses; i.e., Gender in Amer. Lit., Frontier Amer. Lit., Ethnic Lit., African Lit., Science and Lit., Writers of St. Louis, and travel courses to Ireland.

1996, 2003, 2005, 2006. Three-week travel-study course in Irish Literature in Shannon, Limerick, Cork, Glendalough, Dublin, Omagh, Derry, Sligo, and Galway.

1987-1989. SIU, Carbondale. Two classes per semester, including English 101 and 117 (research paper course).

1982-1985. Greenville College. Once class each fall semester of English Composition.

1970-1987. BCCU #2 Schools. Greenville, IL. Nine years--Brit. Lit., Amer. Lit., Composition, and Grammar. Six years--Sophomore English, Freshman Social Studies. One year--Seventh/Eighth Grade Language Arts and Social Studies.

1969-1970. Edwardsville Sr. HS, Edwardsville, IL. Freshman English.

Administrative Experience and Service:

1989-1998. Vista yearbook Advisor. 200-page publication.

1989-2006. Served on various College committees; i.e., Faculty Council, Academic Affairs, Faculty Review.

2005-2006. Moderator of the Greenville College Faculty.

Conferences and Continuing Education:

June-July, 2006. Certification courses in Adobe InDesign CS2, web publishing program. Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced. University of Missouri, St. Louis.

October, 2003. American Conference for Irish Studies, Midwest Region. Bloomington-Normal, IL. Paper: "Gendered Tropes and the Nation in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation."

Summer, 2003. Irish Studies at National University, Galway, Ireland. "Representing Ireland in Film and Fiction."

2000-2002. Ameritech/ACI Teaching with Technology Conferences. Various locations throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.

March, 2002. Conference on Christianity and Literature, Southern Region. New Orleans, LA. Paper: "The Problematics of Post-Modernism in Kirk Jones's Waking Ned Devine."

June-July, 1999. Ameritech/ACI Teaching with Technology Conferences; 1 at Greenville College, Greenville, IL, and 1 at Concordia University, River Forest, IL.

June-July, 1998. Ameritech/ACI Teaching with Technology Conferences; 2 at North Park University, Chicago, IL; 1 at Greenville College, Greenville, IL. Presented 3 instructional sessions at Greenville Conference; 1 as part of keynote address, 2 on collaborative writing with Norton Connect.Net (web discussion forums, Internet chat rooms, and email).

June-July, 1997. Ameritech/ACI Teaching with Technology Conferences; 1 at Calvin College, MI; and 1 at McKendree College, Lebanon, IL.

May, 1997. Rocky Mountain Medieval and renaissance Association. University of Alberta, Canada. Paper: "'Therefore, Since I Cannot Prove a Lover': How a Warrior-Villain Woos a Woman."

April, 1995. Christian Writers' Conference. Greenville College, Greenville, IL. Part of team that planned, organized, and implemented the conference.

March, 1995. Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Greenville College, Greenville, IL. Part of team that planned, organized, and implemented the conference. Chaired one session; respondent in one session.

September, 1992. Medieval Association of the Midwest. SIU, Carbondale, IL. Chaired one session. Paper: "Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Only Good Woman Is a Dead Woman."

September, 1992. Texas Medieval Association. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Paper: "Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies: Paradigmatic Participation and Eschewal."

September, 1991. Medieval Association of the Midwest. Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO. Paper: "Boethius' Lady Philosophy: Mother of Wise Counselors in Medieval Dream-Visions."

October, 1989. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Texas A & M University, Houston, TX. Paper: "Incest as Moral Symbol in John Gower's Confessio Amantis."

October, 1987. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK. Paper: "Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: A Pilgrim for Our Time."

Publications:

2002. "Make Paper-Grading Easier Using Macros." Atlas Online Journal. 1.1. Go to McKendree College web site: http://faculty.mckendree.edu/atlas/MacrosGrading.htm.

2000. "'Therefore, Since I Cannot Prove a Lover': How a Warrior Woos a Woman." Studies in English Literature. 40.2. Spring, 2000.

1994. "Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies: Paradigmatic Participation and Eschewal." A chapter in Feminea Medievalia 1: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Eng.: Academia Press, in cooperation with Crompton and Sons.

Currently working on the following projects for publication:

• Family history book. TheDescendants of Owen Daugherty of Ireland. Traces 10 generations of one family line from 1656 - today. I am heading up a group of 30 family members, nation-wide. I have written the first 4 chapters (3 generations) myself, incorporating massive research in primary text documents from Virginia and North Carolina State Archives. I will collate my own and other family members' information for the remaining generations, will do all the writing, and will oversee publication of the book when it is finished.
• An article on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, examining the intersections between gender, clothing, and commodity. Tentative title: "Sexual Investments: Gender, Clothing, and Commodity in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice."
• An article on Edna O'Brien's novel, House of Splendid Isolation, examining how the protagonist Josie McGreevy embodies both the "sheela na gig" and "shan van vocht" archetypes and how these female figures are used as symbols for the nation of Ireland itself.

Memberships:

Modern Language Association, Medieval Association of the Midwest, Phi Kappa Phi, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Daughters of the American Revolution, Delta Kappa Gamma, Greenville Free Methodist Church.