{"id":20933,"date":"2022-06-28T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/?post_type=staff-member&p=20933"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:35:20","slug":"michelle-gaffey","status":"publish","type":"staff-member","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/staff-members\/michelle-gaffey\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Gaffey"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n \r\n
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Academic Credentials Biography Before joining Marymount\u2019s faculty, she received several grants to support her development of service-learning projects (most notably, her \u201cCommunity Listening Project\u201d); an undergraduate critical reading course (Afrofuturist Coming-of-Age Stories); and an interdisciplinary action-learning course (Women Versus Sweatshops).\u00a0 She previously worked as a reading and writing specialist at an all-women\u2019s college in Northeast D.C., and she also served as the assistant director of Duquesne University\u2019s Writing Center in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/span><\/p>\n Michelle was a first-generation college student, originally from northern PA.\u00a0 Her working-class roots are at the heart of her scholarship, pedagogy, and activism.\u00a0 She currently lives in northern Virginia with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.<\/span><\/p>\n Teaching Area Research Interests Publications Editor. <\/span>Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911<\/span><\/i>, by Chris Llewellyn. 30th Anniversary ed., Skye\u2019s the Limit P, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n Author. Rev. of <\/span>When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina<\/span><\/i>, by Cynthia Hogue and Rebecca Ross. <\/span>The Collagist: Online Literature from Dzanc Books<\/span><\/i>, no. 20, March 2011, http:\/\/thecollagist.com\/the-collagist\/2011\/3\/14\/when-the-water-came-by-cynthia-hogue-and.html.<\/span><\/p>\n Author. \u201c\u2018a storm is blowing from Paradise\u2019: Historical Change and Salvation in Lola Ridge\u2019s \u2018The Ghetto.\u2019\u201d <\/span>Florida English<\/span><\/i>, vol. 7, 2009, pp. 51-67.<\/span><\/p>\n Editor. \u201cIraq Heats Up Again, April 2004,\u201d by Helen Gerhardt. <\/span>The New People<\/span><\/i> [Pittsburgh, PA], March 2007, n. pag.<\/span><\/p>\n Spotlights K. Patricia Cross Future Leader in Higher Education Award Recipient.\u00a0 Association of American Colleges and Universities: Spring 2011<\/p>\n Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipient.\u00a0 Center for Teaching Excellence, Duquesne University: Spring 2010<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"staff-member-category":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/b>Ph.D., Literature, Duquesne University
\n<\/span>Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, Duquesne University
\n<\/span>M.A., Literature, Duquesne University
\n<\/span>B.A., English, Duquesne University
\n<\/span>B.S., Secondary Education, Duquesne University<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Michelle B. Gaffey began her professional career as a high school and middle school English teacher, though she has been teaching composition and literature at the college level for two decades.\u00a0 Since 2017, she has enjoyed working with Marymount students in introductory and advanced writing classes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Composition<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Working Class Studies
\n<\/span>Twentieth Century American Literature
\n<\/span>Documentary Poetry and Poetics
\n<\/span>Science Fiction
\n<\/span>Composition<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Author. \u201cSweatshops and Resistance in the 20th and 21st Centuries.\u201d <\/span>Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 30th Anniversary ed., Skye\u2019s the Limit P, 2016, pp. 73-82.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Constance Coiner Dissertation Award Recipient.\u00a0 The Working-Class Studies Association: Summer 2021<\/span><\/p>\n