Deborah TrousdaleInstructor in Art History “Everything amuses me.” Deborah Trousdale received her Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Art from University of California, Davis in 1969. She received her Master of Arts in Art History from University of Oregon in 1999. In the years between, Deborah studied painting, ceramics and printmaking at Clark College, Ohio State and Portland State University. She has been a theater technician, a studio potter, and a gallery-represented watercolorist. Prior to teaching art history at Chemeketa, Deborah taught at Portland State University and Clark College. She has taught Art Appreciation, Survey of Western Art, Survey of Non-Western Art, Arts of India, China and Japan, Introduction to Islamic Art, and Art and Architecture of Medieval England, Medieval France, and Islam. She has presented research papers at the 2000 Early Medieval Europe Research Group Conference; the 1997 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Phenomenology, Esthetics, and the Fine Arts, at the 1996 Northwest Conference on British Studies, and at the 1996 Conference of the Medieval and Early Modern Students of the Pacific. |