Karen Bartlett
Karen Bartlett, MA
Instructor of English
karen.bartlett@lamar.edu
Phone: 409-880-7782
Office: Maes 43
Karen was born in Memphis, TN and was raised and lives in Southeast Texas.
Courses Taught
- Dual Credit/HEH/ACP English 1301 and English 2322
- Literature 2326
- Literature 2331
- Distance Education - Freshman and Sophomore English
- English 1301
- English 1302
- DWRT 0371
Professional Experience
- Blackboard Workshops, Beaumont, TX 2009-2015
- Texas Association of Creative Writing Teacher's Conference, Houston, TX. September 2007
- Chair of session and reaching of original work, "Devil Woman."
- Texas Association of Creative Teacher's Conference, San Angelo, TX. September 2006
- Chair of session for fiction and poetry reading
- Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Conference, Oxford, MS. July 2004.
- Presented Hurricanes, Swampland and Gumbo Mud: Louisiana's Place in Southern Literature, with a focus on how place creates identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
- Dallas Goethe Center, January 2003.
- Poetry/Fiction reading of translated German texts
- Texas Association of Creative Writing Teacher's Conference, Beaumont, TX. September 2002.
- Participant in panel discussion on creative writing pedagogy, with a focus on pedagogical approaches in playwriting.
- Dallas Goethe Center, September 2002.
- Read translation of German poetic and scholarly works.
- Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. May 2002.
- Participant in panel discussion on teaching, writing, and publishing with new media technologies, with a focus on employing visual and performance elements
- SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2002
- Participant in panel discussion on humor in literature, with a focus on how humor is used to underscore the serious situations in Sam Shepard's True West.
- Performed, directed, or choreographed in over 25 university, college, and community theatre productions since 1991.
Service
- First Year Curriculum Committee - Fall 2018-present
- Hiring Committee, Instructor position - Summer 2018
- PNG Reflections Literary Contest Judge - Fall 2015
- Texas Academy of Leadership Mentor - Fall 2012-Spring 2013
- Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH British Literature - Spring 2011
- Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH English 1301 - Summer 2010
- Assessment Committee for General Studies - Spring 2010
- ACES Development Committee of Comp 1302 - Fall 2009
- Arts and Sciences Council Committee - 2008-2011
- Academic Advising Committee - Spring 2008
- Assessment Committee for SACS 2007-present
- CLEP grading committee - 20017-present
Awards/Honors
- ACUE Certification for Effective Teaching Practices - Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Cohort
- TLE Best Practices for Online Learning Experiences - Spring 2018
- Awarded a teaching grant for innovative teaching - Fall 2008
