Dr.Sandra Mayfield joined the faculty of the University of Central Oklahoma in the fall of 1985. Before that, she had taught at East Texas Baptist University and Oklahoma Baptist University, and she had worked as a consultant for five years at the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Dr. Mayfield is a magna cum laudegraduate of Oklahoma Baptist University; she completed the master's degree and Ph.D. degree in English literature at the University of Oklahoma. For her doctoral degree, she concentrated on Renaissance and seventeenth-century British literature

At OBU, she was named Outstanding Senior Woman, and shortly after her graduation from there, she was named to the national publication Outstanding Young Woman of America. At OU, she was a teaching assistant while completing work for the doctorate. Among courses taught there was an honors course for freshmen in history and literature.

At UCO, Dr. Mayfield has served as Chairperson of the English Department (1991-95), secretary of the Faculty Senate, representative to both the Academic Affairs Council and the Graduate Council, committee member on the University Committee on Assessment and the University Handbook Committee. She currently serves on a committee for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education on curriculum and transfer credit.

Dr. Mayfield has developed courses for the UCO English Department in Women in Literature, Southern Women Writers, Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry, Shakespeare's Comedies, and the Bible as Literature.

She has published articles in her area of specialty, and she has presented numerous papers at such academic conferences as the South Central Renaissance Conference, Central Renaissance Conference, South Central Modern Language Association, an International Conference on Narrative, an International Conference on Representations of Love and Hate, and state and local conferences. She has served as President of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English.

Active in civic and community organizations, Dr. Mayfield is the UCO liaison to the local chapter of the American Association of University Women; she is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma and the Cambridge Club of Edmond. She is a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, where she is a participant in the Evensong Handbell Choir.

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