DR. DOREEN PIANO

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Bowling Green University
MA, University of Texas-Austin
BA, University of Arizona

Dr. Doreen Piano began her teaching career as an instructor of developmental writing at Austin Community College after receiving her masters’ degree in creative writing from UT-Austin. Since then, she has taught at Bowling Green State, University of Houston, and Georgia Institute of Technology. At UNO, Dr. Piano teaches graduate courses in rhetoric and composition studies and undergraduate courses in women’s studies, advanced composition, nonfiction writing, literature, and first year writing.
 
Dr. Piano's research interests focus on the intersection of feminist studies, rhetorical theory, material culture, and literacy studies. Currently she is working on a manuscript Exchanging Life Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of DIY Practices, which investigates the multi-modal literacy practices of a Third Wave feminist subculture. Additionally, in the post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans, she has been documenting and writing about the ways in which the storm has been memorialized through graffiti writing, ad hoc memorials, and local museum exhibits. Because of the work being done by instructors and students after Katrina, she and former graduate student, Celeste Del Russo, have been collecting assignments and student writing for a print- and digital-based archive The Writing After Katrina Archive Project.

Select Publications:

“Students Writing and Teachers Reflecting on Post-K New Orleans.” Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning and Community Literacy. Spring 2008. Co-authored with with S. DeBacher, C. Del Russo, E. Lewis, R. Poche.

 “Exchanging Life Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of Do-It-Yourself Practices.”The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy through the Communicative, Visual and Performing Arts. Vol. II. Lawrence Jim Flood, Diane Lapp, and Shirley Brice Heath, eds. Routledge. Fall 2007.

 “Writing the Ruins: Rhetorics of Crisis and Uplift after the Flood.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue 13. Fall 2006.

 “Resisting Subjects: The Politics of Spectacular Style in Women's Subcultural Production.” The Post-Subcultures Reader. David Muggleton, ed. Berg Press, 2003.

“Congregating Women: Reading Third Wave Feminist Practices in Subcultural Production." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue 4. Summer 2002.

Email Dr. Piano@
dpiano@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 333

Office Hours:

MWF 12:00-1:00pm;
3:00-4:00pm