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 a community college after she received her masters' degree. Since then, she has taught first year and sophomore writing, women’s studies, grammar/usage, and the humanities at Austin Community College, University of Houston, and Georgia Institute of Technology. At UNO, Dr. Piano teaches graduate courses in Composition Studies and Modern Rhetorical Theory as well as undergraduate writing courses. Since Hurricane Katrina, her undergraduate writing courses have been concerned with social, environmental, and political issues relating to New Orleans.

Dr. Piano's research focuses on the intersection of feminist studies, rhetorical and writing theory, and cultural studies. Her interest in writing communities outside the academy has led her to study the material and textual practices of contemporary subcultures through a rhetorical lens. She is currently working on a manuscript that investigates the literacy practices of a third wave feminist subculture engaged in producing alternative discourse through the use of high and low tech media. Additionally, in the post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans, she has become increasingly interested in the various manifestations of public writing and memorializing occurring in various neighborhoods around the city.

Selected Publications:

“Exchanging Life Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of Perzines.” The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy through the Communicative, Visual and Performing Arts. Vol. 2. Jim Flood, Diane Lapp, and Shirley Brice Heath, eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Forthcoming 2007.

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

“Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Site of Abjection.” Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood. Mary Brewer, ed. Sussex Academic Press, September 2002.

“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 113

Office Hours:

TTH 2:00-3:15pm
T 11:00am-12:00pm

Courses for Fall 2007:

Engl 4378-001:
Representing Our Selves/ Our Lives: Explorations of Contemporary Women's Life-Writing
TTH 3:30-4:45pm

Engl 6281-601:
Introduction to Composition Studies
TTH 5:00-6:15pm