Girl Studies - Oregon State University (INSIGHTS)

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1 Sarah Dougher Curriculum vitae September 2013 Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR SW Montgomery Drive Portland, OR EDUCATION Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin. Dissertation: Women of Letters: Changes in the Field of Classics in the U.S. Between 1870 and MA, Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin BA, Classical Studies, Reed College, Portland OR. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Portland State University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2004-Present. The Evergreen State College, Adjunct Professor, Program in Culture, Text and Language, Portland Community College, Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Reed College, Visiting Professor, Department of Humanities, Linfield College, Adjunct Professor, Department of History, PUBLICATIONS Currently conducting research and writing on tween girl music cultures and rock camps with colleague Diane Pecknold (University of Louisville). Books: XXX: The Power of Sex in Graphic Design. Minneapolis: Rockport Press, Print. The 100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers. Minneapolis: Rockport Press, Print. Book Chapters: Riot Grrrl, Ladyfest and Rock Camps for Girls with Elizabeth Keenan, in Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to Modern, ed. Julia Downes. London: Supernova, Print. Lesbian Landscaping in Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, ed. Ariel Gore. Portland, OR: Micorcosm Litstar Press, Print. Real Girls Rock in Rock n Roll Camp For Girls How to Start a Band, Write Songs, Record and Album and Rock Out! ed. Marisa Anderson. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, Print. "Authorship and Authenticity, or, She Sounds So Sad, Do You Think She Really Is?" in This is Pop!: In Search of the Elusive at the Experience Music Project, ed. Eric Weisbard, Harvard University Press, Print. Journal Articles: Sex and Laughter in Women s Music Current Musicology No. 90, Fall, Print. An Epic for the Ladies: Contextualizing Samuel Butler s Theories of Odyssey Authorship Arethusa Volume 34, Number 2, Spring Print. Book Reviews: Review of Before Seattle Rocked: A City and its Music by Kurt E. Armbruster. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Winter 2012, Vol. 113, No Print. Review of Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music by Mark Baumgartner. Los Angeles Review of Books, January Web.

2 Interview with Eric Weisbard, Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt Los Angeles Review of Books, April Podcast. Other Publications: Teaching To: Song Writing Oregon Humanities Magazine, Summer Sent Out on the Tracks They Built: Sinophobia in Olympia, Illustrated by Nikki McClure. Selfpublished, Print. Contributed lifestyle articles and book & music reviews to papers and magazines including Willamette Week, Just Out, LA Times, Seattle Weekly, emp.com and Reed Magazine INVITED TALKS 2013 University of Louisville Women s and Gender Studies Department: Do (Muslim) Girls Really Need Saving? Taking the Rock Camp Model of Girls Empowerment to Bahrain Oregon Council for the Humanities Conversation Project presenter on Understanding Gender in American Popular Music. (Talk given multiple times to public audiences.) 2011 Gender and Oregon Music Oregon Historical Society, Portland OR Women who Rock: Inclusion and Innovation in History and Social Studies Classrooms. Teacher Institute at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH Interpretations of the Odyssey: O Homer Where Art Thou? Oregon Council for the Humanities Chautauqua Program feature. (Talk given multiple times to public audiences.) CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Conferences Organized 2011 Work It! Gender, Race and Sexuality in Pop Professions University of Southern California, with Karen Tongson and Daphne Carr. Panels Organized 2013 National Women s Studies Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH. Music as Feminist Intervention in Girlhood Society for American Music Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC. Children, Music and the Mainstream Experience Music Project Pop Music Studies Conference, New York University, convened Feminist Working Group Experience Music Project Pop Studies Conference/International Society for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference at New York University A Girl s Guide to the Urban Imaginary Experience Music Project Pop Music Studies Conference, UCLA, convened Feminist Working Group. 2009&10 Experience Music Project Pop Music Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, convened Feminist Working Group. Papers Presented 2013 (Accepted) National Women s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH. Pleasure, Danger and Activist Critique in Music Education at the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls 2013 International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Austin, TX. A Girl s Work is Never Done : Girls on the Edges of Rebellion National Women s Studies Association National Conference, Oakland, CA. Negotiating Girl Power: Tween Participants at the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls.

3 2012 Northwest Women s Studies Association Meeting, Portland State University. Socially Engaged Learning: Case Studies from Women and Community Organizations in Partnership with the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Society for American Music Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC. Gender, Fandom and Musicianship among Tween Girls Experience Music Project Pop Studies Conference/International Society for the Study of Popular Music Annual Conference at New York University. Making Noise in the Safe Space: How Girls Rock Camps Make Place in the City Experience Music Project Pop Studies Conference, Seattle, WA. How Girls' Rock Camps Use Music as a Tool for Empowerment, and Why Sometimes it Doesn't Work Console-ing Passions: Women and Media Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene. What Goes Around Comes Around: Teaching to the Needs and Strengths of Older Students in a Pop Culture Classroom Experience Music Project Pop Music Studies Conference, Seattle, WA. Filling up and Spilling Over: Where s the Sex in Women s Music? TEACHING EXPERIENCE Portland State University Gender, Race and the Roots of Rock n Roll Gender, Race and Rock: 1965-Present Introduction to Girls Studies University Studies Capstone: Addressing the Food Gap at Rose Haven (Fall, 2013) Introduction to Women s Studies Women and Community Organizations Women s Lyric and Lyricism University Studies Capstone: Addressing the Food Gap at p:ear Gender and Classical Mythology The Evergreen State College Women and Rock n Roll Classical Mythology Classical Mythology in 20 th Century American Arts and Letters First Year Latin Portland Community College Expository Writing Reed College Freshman Humanities (Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages) Linfield College Freshman Humanities (World Literatures and Civilizations) University of Texas, Austin Classical Mythology First Year Latin SELECTED AWARDS Maximum adjunct travel grants awarded for conference participation, every award cycle Nominated for fellowship at Civitella Ranieri Foundation (composition) Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant ($5,500) for 8 public discussion programs in Portland about girls musical practices and social change for girls in the U.S. and Bahrain Finalist for MAP grant for large-scale choral composition 2012 Rock n Roll Camp for Girls recognized with a PSU Community Engagement Award though work with my students.

4 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Grant for recording of Fin de Siècle Nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship 2010 LAMBDA Literary Award, Portland Queer: Tales from the Rose City Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant for the completion of Strangers Together, an original song cycle for piano and choir White House Project and Oprah Magazine Women Rule award for leadership based on work with Rock n Roll Camp for Girls Oregon Arts Commission grant for the recording of the Orestes Oregon Council for the Humanities grant for teaching Greek mythology to homeless teens Regional Arts and Culture Council project grant for the completion of a CD City of Portland Creative Capital Grant. PUBLIC SERVICE AND ACTIVISM 2013 Leader for Know Your City s Sing a Song of Portland tour, part of a public access program about local music history Invited by the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain to develop curriculum and teach music to girls, aged 12-18, using elements of the Rock Camp model Workshops for girls, aged 8-17 on Gender and Music, Los Angeles and Portland Rock Camps Workshops for 6 th grade girls, Talking Loud and Talking Back, West Sylvan Middle School, Portland, OR Consultant for the Oregon Historical Society in planning an exhibit about popular music in Oregon Strategic planning consultant with the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, the international organizing body for girls rock camps & 09 Reader for a grants panel for the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council Consulted in the planning of the Oregon Arts Summit Co-chair, Board of Directors, In Other Words Women s Books and Resources PlayWrite: Writing and music instructor with students at Portland alternative high schools Portland Literary Arts Writers in the Schools: Developed curriculum and taught critical music writing to high school students Volunteer Consultant and Teacher at Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, Portland, OR. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Researched digital resources and best practices for offerings in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, PSU Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department Curriculum Committee, PSU Adjunct representative on the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department Governing Board, PSU 2011 Collaborated with faculty colleagues and students on planning and implementation of the 5th Annual Student Colloquium for the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, PSU. MUSIC 2011 Commission to compose music for Reed College s centennial celebration 2010 Commission to put language poet Leslie Scalapino s work to music for small ensemble and voices, with debut at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art s Time Based Art Festival, September Commission from the Multnomah County Library to compose music to celebrate Paulann Petersen, Oregon s Poet Laureate.

5 2010 World premier of original choral work based on the work of William Stafford, called Strangers Together, with the Flash Choir, Portland World premier of original choral work based on the work of Robert Duncan and Jess called Caesar s Gate, with the Flash Choir, Portland Released Orestes, a recording of music written for the production by the Ancient Greek Theater of Oregon. Featured on This American Life Collaboration on Oregon, Oregon! A Sesquicentennial Fable in Four Acts with Thomas Lauderdale and Pink Martini, performed statewide in August/September Artistic director for the Flash Choir, a community-based, free choir in Portland, Oregon Present Musician and Recording Artist responsible for writing, recording and producing nine albums. SELECT DISCOGRAPHY 2012 Fin de Siècle, Cherchez La Femme 2009 Orestes, Cherchez La Femme 2005 Harper's Arrow, Cherchez La Femme 2001 The Bluff, Mr. Lady Records 2000 The Walls Ablaze, Mr. Lady Records 2000 Out West (Cadallaca), Kill Rock Stars 1999 Day One, K Records 1999 Introducing Cadallaca (Cadallaca) K Records 1999 Sand and Sea (The Crabs) K Records ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE Program Coordinator, Oregon Poetry Out Loud, Oregon Arts Commission Editor and Project Manager, Oregon Symphony Educational Program Manager, p:ear (center for homeless youth), Portland, OR Artist Coordinator and Musical Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Music Director, Classical Greek Theater of Oregon News Editor, Just Out Newspaper Program Manager, Rock n Roll Camp for Girls, Portland, OR Project Manager and Public Relations, Plazm Media, Portland, OR Lead Organizer for Ladyfest (feminist music and art festival) Program Coordinator, Oregon Chautauqua and Chautauqua in the Schools, Oregon Council for the Humanities (public humanities programming). TEACHING AREAS Gender, race and popular music in the 20 th century U.S. Girls studies (20 th & 21 st century U.S.; global girlhoods) Introduction to women s studies Feminist methodology Critical feminist theory Introduction to queer theory Topics in queer history Comparative feminist poetics Feminist principals of non-profit organization Feminist and queer art and activism Homelessness, gender, age and food security Cross-disciplinary freshman humanities

6 PROFESSIONAL MEMERSHIPS National Women s Studies Association (Girls and Their Allies Caucus Member) International Girls Studies Association International Association for the Study of Popular Music