Kathy McDonald
Faculty coleader
Kathy McDonald is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the City College of New York Center for Worker Education. Her published work, including Feminism the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture (UP Mississippi 2012), focuses on class, culture, politics, and movement building in twentieth-century United States literature. McDonald serves as a mentor and writing group facilitator for family caregivers at Visible Ink at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Her current research studies the intersection of medicine, literature, and writing, particularly the relationship between personal narratives, end-of-life care, and public policy advocacy.
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Projects
Events
Conversation & Reading
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling
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Mon, Apr 30, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
News
Opportunities
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Call for Participants: The Moth Storytelling Workshop on Caregiving at CUNY
Opportunities
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Call for Participants: TheaterWorks! Performance/Playwriting Workshop on Caregiving at CUNY
Opportunities
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