{"id":4856,"date":"2020-11-09T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/staff-members\/michelle-gaffey\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:32:37","slug":"michelle-gaffey","status":"publish","type":"staff-member","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/staff-members\/michelle-gaffey\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Gaffey"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n \r\n<div class=\"staff-member\">\r\n\r\n\t<!-- Featured Image -->\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"staff-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/staff-directory-pro\/include\/..\/assets\/img\/default-person.png\" alt=\"Michelle Gaffey (no photo)\" class=\"company_directory_staff_member_photo\" width=\"150px\" height=\"150px\" \/><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t<div class=\"staff-member-right\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"staff-member-title\">Visiting Assistant Professor in Composition &amp; Literature<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"staff-member-bio\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>Academic Credentials<\/b><\/p>\n<p>B.S., Secondary Education, Duquesne University<br \/>\nB.A., English, Duquesne University<br \/>\nM.A., Literature, Duquesne University<br \/>\nPost-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, Duquesne University<br \/>\nPh.D. Candidate, Literature, Duquesne University<\/p>\n<p><b>Biography<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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 nearly two decades.&nbsp; Since 2015, she has enjoyed working with Marymount students in introductory and advanced writing classes.<\/p>\n<p>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 (<em>Afrofuturist Coming-of-Age Stories<\/em>), and an interdisciplinary action-learning course (<em>Women Versus Sweatshops<\/em>). &nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle was a first-generation college student, originally from northern PA.&nbsp; Her working-class roots are at the heart of her scholarship, pedagogy, and activism.&nbsp; She currently lives in northern Virginia with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other Information<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Teaching Area<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Composition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Research Interests<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Class Studies<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth Century American Literature<\/li>\n<li>Documentary Poetry and Poetics<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Composition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Publications<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Author. \u201cSweatshops and Resistance in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> Centuries.\u201d <em>Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911<\/em>.&nbsp; 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary ed., Skye\u2019s the Limit P, 2016, pp. 73-82.<\/p>\n<p>Editor. <em>Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911<\/em>, by Chris Llewellyn. 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary ed., Skye\u2019s the Limit P, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Author. Rev. of <em>When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina<\/em>, by Cynthia Hogue and Rebecca Ross. <em>The Collagist<em>: Online Literature from Dzanc Books,<\/em><\/em> 20, March 2011, n. pag.<\/p>\n<p>Author. \u201c\u2018a storm is blowing from Paradise\u2019: Historical Change and Salvation in Lola Ridge\u2019s \u2018The Ghetto.\u2019\u201d <em>Florida English<\/em>, 7, 2009, pp. 51-67.<\/p>\n<p>Editor. \u201cIraq Heats Up Again, April 2004,\u201d by Helen Gerhardt. <em>The New People <\/em>[Pittsburgh, PA], March 2007, n. pag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotlights<\/strong><br \/>\nK. 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