Teaching Areas:
Women Writers, British and American Survey, African American Literature, Feminist Theory, Modernism, Composition, Creative Nonfiction
Biography:
Perrin Kerns served as the Director of Writing at Marylhurst University for 15 years, before that institution closed its doors. She currently teaches literature at PSU. In addition, she teaches comics, digital storytelling and creative nonfiction at Prescott College and the lyric essay at Literary Arts, Fishtrap Writers Conference, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Her own creative work has taken her from lyric essay to digital story to making personal narrative documentaries based on her lyric essays. Her film Between Sasquatch and Superman: Living with Down Syndrome won the Director's Choice Award, San Francisco International Shorts Festival, and her short animated film on her miscarriage won the best short animation at the Oregon Independent Film Festival.
Documentaries and Digital Stories:
- What I Can Tell You (Short Animated Documentary)
- Oregon Independent Film Festival, Portland Oregon, September 2018
- Between Sasquatch and Superman: Living with Down Syndrome (Short Documentary)
- NW DocFest,Mission Theater, Portland, Oregon, December 2010
- San Francisco International Shorts Festival,Roxie Theater, San Francisco, California, September 2011.
- Sprout Film Festival, Metropolitan Art Museum, New York City, April 2012.
- Fastnet Film Festival, Ireland, April-May 2012 -- short listed for best documentary
- Oregon Public Broadcasting,Oregon Lens: Oregon Independent Filmmakers' showcase, August 2013
- Looking for Mom in Our Father's Closet (Short Documentary)
- NW DocFest, Mission Theater, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 2011
- Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregon Lens:Oregon Independent Filmmakers showcase, August 2013
- Official Selection San Francisco International Shorts Festival, Oct, 2013
- On Being Round: Five Fragments on Fat (Personal Narrative Short Film)
- NW DocFest, Mission Theater, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 2013
- Women in Film Screening, Portland Art Museum, May 2014
- Black Holes (Digital Story) and Body Count (Digital Story)
- International Digital Storytelling Conference, Anakara, Turkey, May 2013