Laurie Dashnau
Laurie
Dashnau, Associate Professor of English, has been at Houghton
College since 2000. She teaches courses in Principles of
Writing, Advanced Composition: Narrative and Personal Essay,
Advanced Composition: Formal Essay, and Creative Nonfiction: Writing
about Spiritual Experience. She has also twice taught a Special
Topics: Humor Writing course.
As the Director of the Writing Center, she oversees the Writing Center assistants and served as co-chair of the Eighth Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference, hosted at Houghton College in October 2007.
Her publications include “Restoration,” a narrative essay published in Stonework (Houghton College’s online literary journal); a biographical entry on Maya Angelou published in The Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography; and “One Instructor’s Dawning,” a poem published in The Utah English Journal.
Recent conference presentations include “On College Composition and the Incarnation of the Spiritual Disciplines,” delivered at the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Cedarville University; “Dialoguing with Other Selves: Patterns of Textual Ownership and Empowerment in Writing Center Work,” a paper co-written written with Houghton College student Christina Turner (’05) and delivered at the Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference, Alfred University; and “Writing the Unspeakable: Elie Wiesel’s Duty to Bear Witness,” delivered at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Edinboro University.
Professor Dashnau enjoys serving as an Imitators of Christ mentor and is the advisor of Impressions (Mime Team). In her spare time, she enjoys walking with her husband, Mark, and dog, Dante, near their house at Rushford Lake.
