Faculty

Lori Lorion
Mount Hood Community College
lorionl@mhcc.edu
Lori is a painter and faculty member at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a major in painting and drawing, and a minor in art history. In 2004 she taught a semester in London for Reedley College in California. In 1989 she was a presenter at “The Young at Arts Festival” in Brussels, Belgium. Other teaching assignments include: Fayetteville Community College, North Carolina; Zuni Pueblo Native American Reservation, New Mexico; and DODDS overseas schools in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lori has traveled to Costa Rica, Jamaica, Scotland, England, Germany, France, Austria and Hungry.

Melissa Manolas
Portland Community College
melissa.manolas@pcc.edu
Melissa earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. Having lived in New Orleans and in France, she incorporates an interest in French colonial influences on American and Caribbean cultures into her teaching and is writing a doctoral dissertation (at LSU) on “Displacement and Creolization in Writings of the American South and the French Caribbean.” In July 2005, she published a collaborative translation of the complete poetic works of the Francophone, Martinican writer Édouard Glissant. She has also taught public speaking, debate, and dramatic performance skills at educational camps at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She has traveled extensively, spending six months in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia; and two years traveling through England, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Melissa currently teaches literature and composition courses at Portland Community College, Rock Creek.