Darlene Pagan

Email: dmpagan@pacificu.edu
Phone: 503-352-2748
Office Location :

Bates House #13

Education:

Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas

M.A. Illinois State University

B.A. Aurora University

Creative Nonfiction

Politics and the Novel

Latin American Writers

Harlem Renaissance

Women Writers

First Year Seminar

Island Literature, Island Lives

Native American Women Writers

Contemporary Poetry

American Literature

Essays

“The Politics of Faith in the Work of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros.”

Ethnic Studies Review  26.1 (2003): 121-134.

“In the House of Lovers.”  Personal Essay.  Literal Latté.  9.4 (July-Aug 2003): 12-15.

“Ethnicity, Feminism, and Semantic Shifts in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer.”  Post Identity

        3.1 (Summer 2001): 55-75.

“The Blue Shangri-La.”  Personal Essay.  The Nebraska Review  29.2 (Summer 2001): 21-8. 

Poetry

 “What Cannot Be Said.”  Into the Teeth of the Wind (Spring/Summer 2004): 42.

 “E(A)va Kisses and Tells.”  The Birmingham Poetry Review  24 (Spring-Summer 2001): 33.

"In the Company of Women."  Meridians: A Journal of Feminism, Race, Transnationalism  1.2

        (2001): 94.

"Eager Children" and "The Hunger."  Voices from the Outside.  Ed. Peggy Ellington and Martha

        Marinara.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Works Currently in Progress:

A collection of essays entitled A Girl Named Malo and a collection of poetry entitled Women and Children First.

Current Research Interests:

Oral Histories

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes

So Far From God by Ana Castillo

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Hagg Lake

Eagle Creek

Saddle Mountain

The Wildwood Trails

Anywhere on the coast!

Clowning around with student Crystal Millien