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Professor of English at Concord University
Higher Education
Delilah
O'Haynes
Athens, West Virginia
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Delilah Ferne O’Haynes is Professor of English at Concord University, where she has taught Creative Writing since 1992, along with general writing and literature classes. A native of Clintwood, Virginia, and a coal-miner’s daughter, she is also a professional writer. Learn more about this author at www.delilahohaynes.com
• Managing Editor, anthology, Appalachia’s Last Stand (a 5-state project to save Appalachia’s environment)
• Founding Member, NAM Team (Native Ministry), Holston Conference UMC
• Policy Committee Member, WV Intercollegiate Council on Sexual Violence
• Two Years’ service to Tazewell County Safe House
• Book, Rise, Woman. Rise. adopted by S.A.F.E. and Grace House
• Mission Trip, Navajo Reservation, 2002
• Minutes secretary for NAM, 5+ years
• Visionary Founder, later chair, Concord’s SART, 1st team, WV campus
• Co-wrote Sexual Harassment Policy, Concord
• Concord Victim Advocate
• Supervisor, Concord Memorial Project, 9-11 terrorism
• Relay-for-Life Team, 2001-2006
• Poetry Therapy Workshops and Survival Speaking Engagements
• Minutes secretary for NAM, 5+ years
• WindHorse Healing Arts Center, board member, 04-06
• Contributing editor, Windhorse Really Cooks Cookbook
Instructor of English
Previous Teaching Experience:
Instructor of English ’86 – ‘89
Walters State Community College, Morristown, TN
English Department
• Teaching: 9 hrs. per sem. Comp., Developmental Studies
• Attending faculty meetings
Instructor of English ’84 – ‘86
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Dept. of Developmental Studies
• Teaching: 9 hrs. per quarter Developmental Studies
• Attending division meetings
• Grading/Judging final exams for division
Instructor of English, Adjunct ’84 - 86
Southern Technical Institute, Marietta, GA
English Department
• Teaching: 9 quarter hours, Composition.
Instructor of English 1984
Rutledge College, Atlanta, GA
• Teaching: Composition and Developmental Writing
• Attending faculty meetings.
Instructor of English, adjunct Spring, 1982
Wytheville Community College, Wytheville, VA
• Teaching: 6 quarter hours, Developmental Writing and Technical Writing.
Professor
Delilah worked at Concord University as a Professor
Professor of English
Division of Languages and Literature
•Teaching: Freshmen and Sophomore classes in Composition, World Literature, Holocaust, American Indian Literature, African American Literature, Mythology, Honors, and Developmental Writing
•Teaching: English Major courses in Creative Writing, Writing About Literature, Mark Twain, Twentieth Century Women Writers, Harlem Renaissance, American Indian Literature, and Southwest Literature
•University and division committees: Composition, World Lit. (chair), Assessment (chair), Curriculum, Personnel, Search, Policies and Procedures, Grade Grievance, Student Affairs, Nominating, Catalogue Revision, McNeil Pease, Institutional Hearing
•Visionary Founder, later chair, SART, 1st team, WV campus
•Co-wrote Sexual Harassment Policy
•Concord Victim Advocate
•Developed Grading Rubric, Languages and Literature Division
•Sponsor, Concord University Dance Team, 2005-2006
•Supervisor, Concord Memorial Project, 9-11 terrorism
•Speakers’ Bureau, Concord University
•Relay-for-Life Team, 2001-2006
•Minutes’ secretary for Languages and Lit Div., 5 years
•Advising and office hours
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
English (Composition); American Literature; Education
Dissertation: The Effects of Audience on the Writing of College Freshmen, Qualitative and Quantitative
Most Outstanding Student Award
Post-Masters: Advanced Creative Writing, Georgia State Univ., 1985-86