Cheri Buck-Perry

English, Instructor

Cheri Buck-Perry

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Phone:
503.943.7739

Address:
Dundon-Berchtold Hall 103

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About

Cheri Buck-Perry teaches integrative courses in the core curriculum designed to explore the rich intersection between academic disciplines. Her courses include ENG 191 Thinking through Literature: Reading and Writing Cultures of Food, in which students investigate identity, hunger, and our complex relationship with food and the environment, and ENG 191 Thinking Through Literature: Thresholds of Resistance in the Modern World, a course that investigates the dynamic conversation between literature and key historical movements. (Both courses are designed as co-requisites with core Environmental Science and History requirements.) Professor Buck-Perry also teaches ENG 112 Thinking Through Literature: Ways of Knowing and ENG 107 College Writing. Her interests include pedagogy, food literature and studies, and literature of the American West. She has given presentations on pedagogy, early twentieth-century American women writers, and has facilitated numerous creative writing workshops for young scholars in the Portland area.

Education

  • Master of Arts, Portland State University
  • Bachelor of Arts, Walla Walla University