Andrea McDowell

Adjunct

Lecturer, Business Communication

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Andrea McDowell

Lecturer in Business Communication and Editing, Albers School of Business and Economics. Human Research Participant Program Administrator, Western Washington University.

Biography

I teach Business Communication and Editing for the Albers School of Business and Economics. (Previous courses: Russian/Soviet Literature, English Writing/Editing/Style, University Honors Program.)I am also Western Washington University's Human Research Protections Program Administrator, where I develop processes and policies to reflect best ethical practices and provide educational outreach on human participant research/research ethics. I collaborate regularly with the Vice Provost of Research and other campus leaders to enhance a culture of research integrity. Before coming to WWU, I served as SU Institutional Review Board Administrator for 13 years.

I present regularly at national conferences on human participant research and research ethics.

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

M.S.: Higher Education & Student Affairs, May 2002
Ph.D.: Russian Language & Literature, February 2001
M.A.:, Russian Language & Literature, August 1995

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

B.J.: Magazine Writing, Editing, & Design December 1991
(Magna cum laude, School of Journalism)
B.A.: Russian Area Studies December 1991

Courses Taught

Dept. of Marketing (Lecturer, Fall 2016-Current)): Business Communication, Business Editing
University Honors (Lecturer, Fall 2019, Seattle University): Russian and Soviet Literature
Dept. of English (Visiting Assistant Professor, 2004–2013, Seattle University): 19th-century & Soviet Russian Literature, Russian and Soviet Cinema, Tolstoy & Dostoevsky, Russian/Soviet Satire, Punctuation and Grammar, Editing and Style
Dept. of Professional Studies (Adjunct Faculty, 2003–2005, Seattle University): Master’s and Doctoral course: Student Development Theory and Research
Dept of Slavic Languages & Literatures (Associate Instructor, 1994–1999, Indiana University): Elementary/Intermediate Russian

Publications

Reprint in Book Collection. “I ona byla chelovekom’ (For the Dog Was Once a Human Being): The Moral Obligation in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog.” Short Story Criticism. Ed. Rebecca Parks. Vol. 313. Prod. Layman Poupard. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2022. 57-69.
Book Review. Review of Nancy L. Segal’s Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (2021). Monash Bioethics Review. Springer, June 2022.
Peer Course Review. “Social-Behavioral Data Management Course.” Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), October 2021.
Author ~ Training Module. “Students in Research Course.” Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), December 2019.
Poster.“Establishing Institutionally Appropriate Incentive Payment Policies.” With Michelle DuBois. PRIM&R’s Advancing Ethical Research; San Diego, CA. November 2018.
Article. ‘I ona byla chelovekom’ (For the Dog was Once a Human Being): The Moral Obligation in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog.” Otherness, 5.2 (2016).
Content/Copy Editor, Typesetter. Gilbert O. Rossing, Dignity, Dogmatism, and Same-Sex Relationships. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009.
Article. “ Lev Tolstoy & the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 5.2 (2007).
Book Review. “Konstantin Barsht. Risunki v rukopisiakh Dostoevskogo (Illustrations in Dostoevsky’s manuscripts).” (St. Petersburg: Formika, 1996. 319 pp.) Canadian-American Slavic Studies/ Revue Canadienne-Américaine d’études Slaves, Spring 2000.
Technical/Content Editor—Slavica Publishers (Bloomington, IN) July 1998–August 2000
Responsible for article and book manuscript content editing, proofreading, manuscript tracking, author communication, and producing camera-ready copy.