FACULTY VITA FORM

Name of Faculty Member: Deborah Downs-Miers

Name of Institution: Gustavus Adolphus College

Title or Rank: Associate Professor Field: English

Earned Degrees: List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.

1975 Ph.D., University of Missouri

1970 M.A. Texas Christian University

1968 B.A. Texas Christian University

Professional Experience: (including pre K-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience):

List name, location, dates, and field or function for each professional experience.

1977- Gustavus Adolphus College

1990 Visiting Senior Lecturer, Exeter University

1975-1977 Assistant Professor, Blackburn College

Assignment: Fill in percentages for all that apply.

100% Full-Time in Institution _____ % Part-Time in Institution

% Assignment in Education _____% Assignment Outside Education

100% Undergraduate Assignment _____% Graduate Assignment

_____% Administration _____% Other (specify)_________________

Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments): For Academic Year 2004-2005

List course numbers, titles, and credits for each semester. Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level.

Fall Semester:

FTS-100-76: Moral Enchantment: Childhood Reading and the Creation of the Self 1.0;

ENG 114—Art of Interpretation 1.0;

ENG 115—Survey of British Literature, Beginnings to 1800 1.0 All undergraduate

Spring Semester:

ENG 107—Introduction to Shakespeare 1.0;

ENG 141—Science Fiction 1.0 ;

ENG 237—Adolescent Literature 1.0

Interim and/or Summer Sessions:

Name: Deborah Downs-Miers

Title Associate Professor of English

Appointment date: 1977

1. Non-class duties – committees, responsibilities, etc.

Currently: Information Infrastructure Academic Committee: Humanities Division Representative and Secretary (for second year). In first year of second 3-year term

2. Current Professional and Academic Associate Memberships:

Eighteenth-century Studies Society

Utopian Studies Society

Aphra Behn Society

3. Current Professional Activities

Book reviewing

Mentoring (TA’s)

4. Sample Publications:

5. Sample Papers Presented:

"Images in the Glass." Invited lecture. International Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI

6. Current Research Emphases:

Critical biography of Winifred Horner; oral history and critical essay on the experiences and pedagogy of octa-and-nonagenarian women teachers teaching with degrees from Normal Schools in Minnesota and Maine 40 to 50 years ago; ongoing work on Elizabeth Goudge and Dorothy Sayers as “lay theologians.”