English Instructor Doniella Maher

Doniella Maher, currently an adjunct in our English Department, will be joining the full time ranks in the fall. Doniella has taught for the past four years as an adjunct member of the faculty at Chabot College, City College of San Francisco, and Cañada College. Now she is thrilled to be joining Cañada as a fulltime tenure track faculty member.

Doniella grew up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She completed half of her Bachelor’s degree coursework in Florence, earning an Italian Studies degree from CSU Sacramento. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature. She also earned a Certificate to

Teach Post-Secondary Reading and Learning from CSU-Fullerton. Her scholarly emphasis and specialty area is contemporary Italian literature and critical theory, but her personal interests have led to an in-depth study of immigrant literature from all over the world. This study has led to a great desire to explore the unique stories in our own diverse classrooms.

Her love of history, art and the social sciences of led her to further pursue an understanding of the social context and artistic movements out of which literature emerges.