Beth Alvarado is the author of the essay collection "Anxious Attachments," which won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and was long listed for the PEN Art of the Essay Award. Her recent story collection, "Jillian in the Borderlands," marries the social justice novel with magical realism, and her memoir, "Anthropologies," is a lyric rendering of her family's history. Her first story collection, "Not a Matter of Love," won the Many Voices Prize from New Rivers Press in 2005. In 2020, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Career Fellowship.

Kiel Fletcher, an interactive media and video artist joined OSU-Cascades in 2015. His work has been shown at the Tate Britain and Disjecta Contemporary Arts. His work is also included in the collection at Yale University Library. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary artist collective, Danger Punch.

Office Hours: Flexible and by appointment only. Please email for appointment: maeve.perle@osucascades.edu.

Following the completion of his Ph.D. Scott spent a year in New Zealand where he taught chemistry at the Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill. On returning to the United States he arrived in Central Oregon with his family where he has been teaching chemistry courses at COCC, and continues to work with students to develop their fundamental chemistry knowledge through a range of instructive styles, including student led investigative processes.

Nicholas Dahl teaches communication courses at OSU-Cascades. Nick grew up in Redmond and graduated from Central Oregon Community College before attending Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Speech Communication and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. He holds a doctoral degree from The Pennsylvania State University, where his dissertation chronicled the denigration of liberal in American political discourse during the 20th century. Nick’s research interests lie at the intersection of discourse, politics, and hospitality.

Kyle Webb is an instructor with the energy systems engineering program. Prior to joining OSU-Cascades, he was an instructor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Kyle spent eleven years as a R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies, designing hardware and analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits for a wide range of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

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Rachael Schuetz is an associate professor of practice in the Master of Arts in Teaching and undergraduate teaching programs at OSU-Cascades. As a national board certified teacher, she enjoyed teaching in the primary grades over nine years, most of that spent in the Bend-La Pine Schools. In 2012, Rachael was honored as a finalist for the Bend-La Pine Schools Teacher of the Year award. Along with teaching and advising students in the elementary education programs, she continues her research in educational technology, teacher preparation, and elementary classrooms.