Senior Lecturer
Year Started at JMU: 2001
mcdonnkm@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
M.A., English, James Madison University, 2001
B.A., English, James Madison University, 1992
Professional Focuses
Politics and the English language, democracy, civic engagement, critical reading.
Publications
McDonnell, Karen, and Kevin Jefferson. "Product as Process." Teaching with Student Texts: Essays toward an Informed Practice. Edited by Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, Charles Paine, Utah State University Press, 2010, pp. 108–117.
Schick, Kurt, Olivia Mankowski, Karen McDonnell, Tiffany Bryant, Alicia Wendt, Michael Moghtader. “The Idea of a Writing Center Course.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 34, no. 9/10, May/June 2010, pp. 1–6.