Pierre Laclede Honors College

Pierre Laclede Honors College: Carol M. Bourne

 

photo of bourneSally Barr Ebest recieved her PhD from Indiana University, where she majored in American Literature, 1850-the present, and specialized in composition. She is a professor of English, associate faculty member in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and TA Coordinator for the Center for Teaching & Learning. Her teaching and research interests reflect these various positions. For English, she teaches graduate courses in composition theory and pedagogy; for IWGS, she teaches Irish and Irish-American Women Writers and Teaching as a Feminist; for the CTL, she designs the annual campus-wide Professional Development Conference for Teaching Assistants and leads workshops for the graduate Certificate in University Teaching. Her publications are outgrowths of these foci. Her books include Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants (SIUP 2003), Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? (Notre Dame UP, 2005), and Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers (Notre Dame UP, forthcoming in January 2008).