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Academics > Majors and Areas of Study > English > Faculty > Natalie Dorfeld

Dr. Natalie Dorfeld

Assistant Professor of English

First Year Seminar Photography Instructor

 

Dr. Dorfeld    Contact

   Information

 

   Office:     312 Greenville Hall      

   Mail:       Dr. Natalie Dorfeld

                 Thiel College

                 English Department

                 75 College Avenue

                 Greenville, PA 16125

                 United States of America

                                                     

   Phone:    1-724-589-2161

   Fax:        1-724-589-2021

   E-mail:    ndorfeld@thiel.edu

   Note:      In addition to teaching English

                 classes, Dr. Dorfeld is an avid

                 skydiver. 

                 Here, she teaches young Gavin,                                 a future Thiel College Tomcat,                        

                 the joys of jumping out of a  

                 perfectly good airplane. 

 

Education

Ph.D., English / Composition & TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007

M.A., English, Slippery Rock University, 2002

B.S., English / Writing, Slippery Rock University, 1998

B.A., Philosophy, Slippery Rock University, 1998

 

Spring 2010

Classes

       

Office Hours

  • 11:00-12:00 on MWF      
  • 1:00-2:00 on TR
  • I will also be in my office virtually every day before classes.

 

Useful Links

ESL

OWE I & II

Creative Writing: Drama

 

Courses Taught

Basic Writing                                                                    

Writing Tutorial  

Public Speaking     

Business Writing  

Technical Writing   

Research Writing  

Rhetoric & Composition  

Creative Writing: Poetry

Creative Writing: Drama

Creative Writing: Fiction

Advanced Business Writing  

Advanced Technical Writing                                                

Oral & Written Expression I                

Oral & Written Expression II 

Photography (First Year Seminar)  

American Literature: 1945 to Present     

Oral & Written Expression I & II (Honors)         

 

Courses Taught (Forthcoming)

ESL Reading II

ESL Composition II

    

Academic Interests

Film

Poetry

Creative Writing

The Adjunct Phenomenon

Native American Literature

 

Biography

Dr. Natalie M. Dorfeld, who often answers to Shirley, was born and raised in Greenville, Pennsylvania.

Originally a misunderstood Philosophy / Physical Education / Art major, she decided she fancied composition around 1996.  Much to the astonishment of her friends and family, she went on to obtain three degrees from Slippery Rock University and one from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  (Indiana, Pennsylvania, is the home of the Jimmy Stewart Museum.)   

In her spare time, she enjoys all the stereotypical English professor hobbies, such as reading, writing, and knitting cozies for her toilet paper rolls.  Outside of class, she enjoys anything and everything involving a blatant disregard for public safety, such as skydiving, extreme mountain biking, and snorkeling with sharks. 

She lives with her wonderful husband, a plethora of cats, and a Heinz 57 mutt in Ohio. 

 

Dogs

 


 
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