Faculty: Patsy Callaghan

Patsy Callaghan received her BA and MA in English Education from the University of Washington. After teaching junior high English in the Seattle area, she moved to Eugene, Oregon, where she directed the Writing Tutor program and entered the doctoral program in English. While at the University of Oregon, she served five years as the Assistant Director of the Council for Minority Education, worked as a field researcher for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and completed a doctorate with emphasis in rhetoric, world literature, and folklore and mythology. In 1984, after teaching at Peninsula College for two years, she joined the faculty of CWU. While at Central, Patsy served as English department chair for eight years. In 2000, she was named Distinguished Professor for Service and Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year, and in 2003, she received the College of Arts and Humanities Chair Service Award. Among her publications are two books, Literary Conversation: Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Literature, and A Meeting of Minds: Strategies for Academic Writing and Inquiry.