Corinne Manogue studied black holes with Denis Sciama and field theory in curved spacetime with Bryce DeWitt, obtaining her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Durham in England, and as an Indo-American Fellow of the CIES, she joined the physics faculty at Oregon State University in 1988.
From its inception in 1996 until her retirement in 2022, Professor Manogue was the driving force behind the Paradigms in Physics project at OSU, a complete redesign of the physics major. This redesign involved both a rearrangement of the content to better reflect the way professional physicists think about the field and also the use of a number of interactive pedagogies that place responsibility for learning more firmly in the hands of students. This project has been supported continuously through 12 grants from the NSF. The project website articulates the details of many of the courses, as well as more than 300 group activities. Professor Manogue remains an active member of the OSU PER group.
Professor Manogue is the recipient of a number of teaching awards, among them the 2008 David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the American Association of Physics Teachers. She was voted a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005 and named a Fellow of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 2014.
After more than three decades in her career, she continues to be amazed to find herself a physicist.