Skip to main content Doug Dorst
- Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Speaker, Whiskey and the Wise.
November 26, 2024 - Present.
- Chair, Clark Fiction Prize committee.
February 2016 - Present.
- Member, English Department Endowment Committee.
August 2015 - Present.
- Chair, M.F.A. Committee.
May 2015 - Present.
- Member, Lindsey Literary Committee.
August 2013 - Present.
- Advisory Board Member, Austin Bat Cave: A Writing Center for Kids.
2011 - Present.
- Member, Creative Writing Committee.
August 2011 - Present.
2024
- Host / Moderator / Facilitator, Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin (Visitng Writers, Lindsey Literary Series).
November 10, 2024 - November 13, 2024.
- Member, Graduate Studies Committee.
August 2015 - May 2024.
- Member, English Department Endowment Committee.
August 2015 - May 2024.
- Member, IA/TA Hiring Committee.
January 2015 - January 2024.
- Member, Search committee - MFA Director.
July 7, 2023 - January 12, 2024.
2022
- Graduate Advisor, Acting Program Coordinator, MFA Program.
August 15, 2022 - December 31, 2022.
- Chair, Search Committee - Senior Lecturer/MFA Program Coordinator.
August 31, 2022 - December 15, 2022.
- Graduate Advisor, Proposal for MFA Creative Nonfiction track.
October 15, 2022 - November 15, 2022.
2021
- Graduate Advisor, MFA funding proposal.
April 2021 - December 31, 2021.
2019
- Prepublication blurb for novel (Trust Me, by Richard Z. Santos), Arte Público Press.
December 1, 2019 - December 28, 2019.
- Graduate Advisor, Interview for MFA Creative Writing recruiting video.
November 8, 2019.
2018
- Prepublication blurb for novel (Watershed, by Mark Barr), Hub City Press.
June 2018.
2017
- Guest Lecture (via Skype), Covenant Christian High School.
December 2017.
- Prepublication blurb for short story collection (The Surprising Place, by Malinda McCollum), University of Massachusetts Press.
November 2017.
- Chair, Hiring Committee for Assistant to the MFA Director position.
May 2017 - June 2017.
2016
- Reviewer / Referee, Prepublication blurb for novel.
December 2016.
2015
- Speaker, The New Fiction Confab, Austin Public Library Friends Foundation.
2010 - 2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Prepublication blurb for novel.
November 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Peer review of novel-in-progress.
October 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
- Recommender, Academic and professional recommendations for students and colleagues.
January 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
- Guest lecture (via Skype), First-Year Seminar (T. Beyer), Middlebury College.
November 2015.
- Guest lecture (via Skype), Literary Theory (D. Eskew), Colorado State University-Pueblo.
November 2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Prepublication blurb for novel.
September 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015.
- Member, Hiring Committee, Program Faculty position in English.
May 2015 - June 2015.
- Member, M.F.A. Committee.
August 2011 - April 2015.
- Member, Hiring Committee, Tenure-track position in Fiction Writing.
May 2014 - February 2015.
2013
- Judge, Writing Center Essay Contest (Category IV: Graduate).
March 2013.
2011
- Vice President, Austin Bat Cave: A Writing Center for Kids.
January 2007 - August 2011.
