Instructor: Kristin Dorsey

Biography: Kristin R. Dorsey is an Assistant Professor in Humanities at Central Oregon Community College, where she teaches writing and literature courses. Outside of the college, she runs writing workshops for teens and works with a variety of Central Oregon writing groups. Kristin has been teaching for Continuing Education since 2017 and is known to be an enthusiastic writing coach, a keen reader, and a kind critic. In the very little leisure time she can scrounge up, she writes short form nonfiction and memoir and is currently playing around with a screenplay.

Classes by this instructor

ENG 221: Introduction to Children's Literature

This course surveys children's literature for all ages in genres that may include picture books, myths and folklore, poetry, nonfiction, historical fiction and fantasy, making connections to the historical, cultural, institutional and psychological contexts related to production and reception. Examines how texts represent childhood and reflect assumptions about the social and educational function of children's and young adult literature. This is a non-credit Community Education course, taken with credit students. You will not receive college credit.
January 5, 2026 to March 18, 2026 | 1:00pm-2:50pm PST | Bend