 Peter Donahue
Associate Professor, Birmingham-Southern College
PhD Oklahoma State University 1997
American Literature & Creative Writing
"Each year as I make my way through the academic profession, I realize anew what an extraordinary graduate education I received in English and Creative Writing at OSU. My professors (Leavell, Decker, Jones, Walkiewicz, Weaver) set standards in their teaching and in their writing and scholarship that I continue to strive for. A decade later, I still invoke their example in my professional life. I also remember the great and lasting friendships that I developed among my fellow grad students. They made me feel that I was a part of something important--and I was, as evidenced by how many of them have gone on to publish their work and have successful teaching careers. In all, I continue to reap the advantages afforded me by my graduate education in the English at OSU." ~Peter Donahue, Spring 2006
Recent Publications
Madison House: a Novel. Portland, Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, 2005. (Winner of the 2005 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction)
The Cornelius Arms. Seattle, Missing Spoke Press, 2000. (Book of short stories)
Reading Portland: The City Told. Co-editor. Portland, Oregon Historical Society Press, forthcoming Fall 2006.
Somewhere South and Other Destinations: Nine Stories and a Novella. Portland, Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, forthcoming Spring 2007.
"The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle." The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues , edited by Mary Rohrberger, et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 161-72.
"God, Church, and Family: Moral Give-and-Take in Andre Dubus' 'A Father's Story.'" Journal of the Short Story in English 28 (1997): 37-45.
"Collecting as Ethos and Technique in The Portrait of a Lady." Studies in American Fiction 25.1 (1997): 41-56.
More Information
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