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	Home Course Offerings Courses Scheduled in English Department English Club Faculty Forms Graduate School Information Program Requirements Secondary Education Advisement Sheet* Sigma Tau Delta The Phoenix		Academics > Majors and Areas of Study > English > Faculty > Natalie Dorfeld Assistant Professor of English First Year Seminar Photography Instructor 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 ESL Reading II -- 10:00 on MWF ESL Composition II -- 12:00 on MWF OWE II -- 1:00 on MWF Creative Writing: Drama -- 11:00 on TR 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 ESL Materials TESOL Links ESL Resources Literature Circles Proofreading Tips for ESL Students OWE I & II Writing Tips MLA Format Research Topics Jobs for English Majors Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Creative Writing: Drama Playwriting Glossary How to Format a Play Screenwriting Glossary American Beauty Script Elements of Theatre and 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.