Discipline: Literature

Dorothy Barnhouse

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989
Dorothy Barnhouse is a fiction writer, editor, literacy consultant, and educator living and working in New York. Barnhouse received degrees from Oberlin College and Columbia University, specializing in methods of teaching, close reading for complex texts, and teaching through inquiry. She now collaborates with the public schools in New York and nationwide to elevate students reading, writing, and thinking. Barnhouse has published many works, including What Readers Really Do (in collaboration with Vicki Vinton), and Readers Front & Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Texts. Barnhouse also teaches undergraduate and graduate writing workshops, and has received several grants for her writing, including one from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Studios

Garland

Dorothy Barnhouse worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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