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Demetrice Worley
Office: 362 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-2481
E-mail: daw@bradley.edu
Artist Website: www.demetriceworley.com
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Dr. Demetrice A. Worley, associate professor, joined the Department of English in fall 1988. She holds a D.A. in English from Illinois State University. Her special fields are composition theory and pedagogy, African American literature, and creative writing.
Teaching
At the undergraduate level, Dr. Worley teaches composition, exposition, technical writing, creative writing, introduction to African American literature, 19th century African American writers, the Harlem Renaissance, 20th century African American women playwrights, contemporary black women writers, and "Reading" Black Art: African American Verbal/Visual Texts in Black and White/Color. At the graduate level, she has taught the theory and practice of English, workshop for writers (creative writing), writing theory, professional writing, Harlem Renaissance: The Novel, and theories and methods of teaching composition.
Dr. Worley has been honored for her teaching at the University level, New (Untenured) Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching (1994) and at the Department level, Outstanding English Faculty Member Award (1993), Sigma Tau Delta (English Honorary Society).
Scholarship/Creative Production
As a teacher/scholar, Dr. Worley links her teaching interests to her scholarly/creative production. She is co-editor of Language and Image in Reading-Writing Classroom: Teaching Vision (LEA, 2002); African-American Literature: An Anthology, 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, 1997); and Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . . And Other Modern Verse (ScottForesman, 1995). In addition, she has published articles and essays and has presented numerous conference papers.
Dr. Worley's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Reverie, Permafrost, The Spoon River Poetry Review (where she was a finalist for the 2002 Editor's Prize), Clackamas Literary Review, and Rambunctious Review. Also, her poetry appears in several anthologies including Women Period (Spinster Ink Press, 2008); Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked) Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait (Red Sea Press, 2008); Risk, Courage, and Women: Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry, (North Texas U P, 2007); and Spirit & Flame: Contemporary African American Poets (Syracuse University Press, 1997).
In May 2009, Dr. Worley's crown of sonnets, "Femicide/Femicidio: The Murdered and Disappeared Women of Ciudad Juarez," was the Third Place Winner in the national Split This Rock poetry Contest (www.splitthisrock.org/contest2009.html), judged by poet and National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith. In addition, Dr. Worley is a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow. Currently, she is working on a poetry manuscript, co-editing a poetry anthology focusing on women of color and depression, and a memoir..
Service
Dr. Worley is an active member of a number of professional organizations including the National Council of Teachers of English, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the Modern Language Association.
As a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (a public service organization), Dr. Worley can be found in the Peoria community working on numerous projects, such as mentoring primary and secondary students, Voter Registration/Education, and Breast Cancer Awareness.