Sarah Dougher

Born in Eugene, Oregon, Dougher studied classics, comparative literature, and the history of education at Reed College and the University of Texas, Austin. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UT, and serves on the faculty at Portland State University, where she teaches interdisciplinary humanities in the University Studies program.

She has published a wide range of writing in a variety of venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Women’s Review of Books, Liber: a Feminist Review, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Journal of General Education as well as in local and regional weeklies. Her essay “Old Mom” came out in September, 2021 in Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40 (Dottir Press). It was excerpted in the NYTimes.

She has created five solo records, and been a part of numerous musical collaborations including with the Crabs and Cadallaca. She has enjoyed commissions from the Reed College Cooley Gallery, the Reed Centennial Celebration, the estate of Leslie Scalapino, the Oregon Arts Commission, and performed many times at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art‘s Time-Based Art festival. She wrote choir music based on the poetry of William Stafford. Here’s a blog from the choir she used to run called the Flash Choir.

Dougher has been granted numerous awards for research, innovation and curriculum development from Portland State University, and was recognized with a Fulbright Foundation Grant for teaching and study in Norway (2014-15). Her creative work has garnered awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. She has been honored for her work with first generation college students, and directed and taught a youth Clemente Course in East Portland.

For more information, please contact sed(at)pdx.edu.

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