Dale Flynn
- Lecturer
Office Hours: M,W 10:00-11:30 & by appt.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1984
- M.A., University of California, Riverside, 1976
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1970
Biography:
Dr. Flynn received a Bachelor's degree in Bacteriology from U.C.L.A. and worked as a bacteriologist at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She received a Master's degree from UC Riverside and a Ph.D. from UC Davis. While writing her dissertation on Edith Wharton's short stories, she co-founded the Edith Wharton Society. Dr. Flynn served as the Director of the Campus Writing Center (1993-97) and as Assistant Director of composition, Upper Division (1994-97). She has taught UWP 1 and English 3 (Freshman Composition); UWP 18 and UWP 19 (Style and Research); UWP 101 (Advanced Composition); UWP 104: Writing in the Professions (Technical Writing, Scientific Writing); UWP 102: Writing in the Disciplines (Health Sciences, Biological Sciences, Anthropology, Food Science, etc.). She has also taught a number of English literature courses, Freshman seminars, and a Humanities course on Medicine and the Humanities.
Her fields of interest include twentieth century American literature, the links between medicine and humanities, and composition. Dr. Flynn's interviews with writing physicians have been published in Hippocrates and Writing on the Edge. She has written two publications for the Campus Writing Center: "A Brief Annotated Bibliography: The Value of Writing in the Science Classroom," 1995; Improving Student Writing: A Resource Guide for Faculty Across the Disciplines, 1994. She will present a paper on Edith Wharton at the conference "Edith Wharton at Newort: 2000" in June.
- UC Davis nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992
- President, Edith Wharton Society, 1996-98
- Associate Editor, Writing on the Edge,1991-present
- Judge, Expository Prose, Bazzanella Award, CSUS, 1987-present
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