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FACULTY
Marvita Gowdy
Part-Time Lecturer
Fall 2001-Present
Office: SR3-124
Phone: 559.278.2832
FAX: 559.278.2233
Email: Mgowdy@csufresno.edu or Calivita@aol.com
Educational Background
MA in English Literature, California State University, Fresno—Spring,
2001
Awards and Special Honors
Highest Honors Award
Courses Taught
104-W Upper Division Writing with special emphasis placed on Poverty in America
Professional Service
Editor for Uhuru Na Umoja, 2000-02
Movie Critic of Allied McDonald & Associates, 1999-02
Historian for Sierra Point Ski Club, 2002
Youth Director and Teacher for Mount Mariah Baptist Church, 1989-99
Professional Organization Memberships
National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES
National Black Graduates Association (NBGA)
Golden Key Honor Society
CSUF Film Club
Black Faculty and Staff Association
English Graduate Students Association (ESGA)
Grants Awarded
NAES Conference in Kississime, Florida and Fresno, California
NBGA Conference in Lubbock, Texas
Professional and Research Interests
African American Studies
Treatment of Women in Society
20th Century African American World Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Literature with special emphasis placed on Shakespeare
Recent Publications
Early Modern Gender Ideology and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Editorial Articles in the Uhuru Na Umoja and The
California Advocate
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