Donna Dunbar-Odom

                                                                                                    Professor of English

                                                                                                    Director of Graduate English Studies

                                                                                                    Department of Literature and Languages

                                                                                                    Texas A&M University-Commerce

Welcome to my website. I'm the person to talk to if you're interested in pursuing a graduate degree in English. I'm shamelessly proud of our program and what we have to offer.

Texas A&M-Commerce offers a Master's degree and a PhD in Written Discourse (Composition and Rhetoric) and Critical Literature (Literature). We also offer (or are preparing to offer) certificates in Teaching English as a Second Language, Children's Literature, and Creative Writing.

At this point, 100% of the people who earned PhDs with us have teaching jobs! Among the schools represented are Texas Woman's University, Texas A&M-Prairie View, Collin County Community College, Atlanta Christian College, and the University of Houston-Downtown.

My scholarly and teaching interests are Composition and Literacy Studies and Working Class Studies. Here's a copy of the cover of my book Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy (SUNY Press, 2007).

 Courses I teach:

                English 680 - Reading Theory for English Teachers

                 English 101 and 102 - First-year writing courses

                 Phil 362 - Aesthetics

                 Eng 420 - Introduction to Literary Theory

                  Eng 520 - Literary Theory

                  Eng 509 - Genre (Memoir)

In Fall 2008, I'll be teaching Phil 362 and Eng 680 (online). I'll link to syllabi as soon as I have them done.

To reach me, you can email me at Donna_Dunbar-Odom@tamu-commerce.edu or call at 903.886.5264.