Who is Natalie Dorfeld?
Natalie Dorfeld has been in higher education for the last 25 years. She began as an adjunct professor in northwestern Pennsylvania, where she taught at Thiel College, to presently a full professor of English at Florida Tech. The bulk of her research focuses on contingent labor issues. It examines the growing and detrimental reliance on adjuncts in the humanities, first-year composition classes in particular.
Her latest edited collection (The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority) can be found under WAC Clearinghouse and/or the University Press of Colorado.
What is your good news?
I’ve been very lucky this semester. In 2025, I was awarded Distinguished Colleague Award from the Florida College English Association, Kerry B. Clark Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, and Strongest Female at Florida Tech’s Bench-Pressing Contest. I am most proud of the last accolade because I am a seasoned old lady.
Why did you join FCEA? How has membership in this organization had an impact on you and/or your career?
The FCEA is a wonderful and underrated chapter in Florida. Members are kind, witty, collegial, and wish to help one another in the field and beyond. I have always come away from the conferences feeling energized and full of ideas for the classroom.
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