Curriculum VitaeMary Lou Emery(February 2014)

Department of English Phone: (319) 335-0436 (Office)The University of Iowa (319) 335-0454 (Dept.)Iowa City, IA 52242 E-mail: mary-emery@uiowa.edu

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Higher EducationPh.D. Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1976-1981 (M.A. en passant) Concentrations in Twentieth-Century Literature, Critical and Social TheoryPost-graduate Study, San Diego State University, 1974-76 Concentrations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, Women’s Studies, Social TheoryB.A. English, The University of Oklahoma, 1968-1972

Professional and Academic PositionsProfessor of English, The University of Iowa, 2008 – International Programs (0%), 2011 – Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, 1990 – 2008Assistant Professor of English, The University of Iowa, 1983 – 1990Lecturer, Foothill Junior College, Foothill, California, 1982Instructor and Lecturer in Freshman English, Stanford University, 1977 – 1981

Honors and AwardsCareer Development Awards, Fall 2012, Spring 2006, Fall 2000, Fall 1994, Fall 1988President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008Graduate Mentor Award, 2007Center for Teaching “Thank a Teacher” Recognition, Fall 2005International Programs “Outstanding International Educator” Recognition, Fall 2003Collegiate Teaching Award, 2002Marion L. Huit Faculty Award, 1998-99John Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-99Regents’ London Program (Selected for the Program Faculty), Spring 1992Old Gold Summer Fellowships, 1986, 1985, 1984

MembershipsModern Language AssociationModernist Studies AssociationInternational Virginia Woolf SocietySociety for the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945AAUPObermann Center for Advanced Studies, Working Group: Circulating Cultures

SCHOLARSHIP

BooksModernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007) (290 pages) Paperback Edition 2009

Jean Rhys at “World’s End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile (Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1990) (219 pages) Reissued in Paperback 2011

Edited VolumeGuest Editor, Journal of Caribbean Literatures Special Issue on Jean Rhys, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2003) (220 pages)

Articles and Book Chapters“The Poetics of Labor in Jean Rhys’s Caribbean Modernism, Women: A Cultural Review, Special Issue on Reading Jean Rhys, ed. Jeannette Baxter, Anna Snaith, and Tory Young, Vol. 23, no. 4 (2012): 421-444

“Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary,” The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, ed. Mark Wollaeger with Matt Eatough (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 48-77 (Paperback edition 2013)

“The Poetics of Labor in Jean Rhys’s Global Modernism,” Philological Quarterly, SpecialIssue on the New Modernist and New Southern Studies, ed. Harilaos Stecopoulos, Vol. 90, no. 2 & 3 (Spring & Summer 2011): pp. 173-203 (Actually appeared in 2012)

“‘Robbed of Meaning’: The Work at the Center of To the Lighthouse,” Virginia Woolf: A Modern Fiction Studies Reader, ed. Maren Linett (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P, 2009): 280-299 (reprint); also in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 101 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2001): 307-318 (reprint); andModern Fiction Studies, Special Issue on Virginia Woolf, Vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 217-234

“Taking the Detour, Finding the Rebels: Crossroads of Caribbean and Modernist Studies,” Disciplining Modernism, ed. Pamela Caughie (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 71-

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“Misfit: Jean Rhys and the Visual Cultures of Colonial Modernism,” Introduction to the Jean Rhys Special Issue of Journal of Caribbean Literatures, (Guest Editor, Mary Lou Emery), Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2003): i-xxii

“Woolf Re-Visits Wembley: Pre-War Bloomsbury Aesthetics and Interwar British Empire,” Virginia Woolf: Across the Generations/ Selected Papers from the Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, An Electronic Publication (Spring 2003): 29-40 http://www.csub.edu/woolf_center/

“The Poetics of Vision in Wilson Harris’s Writing,” Theatre of the Arts: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek and Bénédicte Ledent (Amsterdam and N.Y.: Rodopi, Cross-Cultures Series, 2002): 111-123

“The Politics and Performance of Ecstasy in the Writings of Wilson Harris,” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 2, nos. 1, 2, & 3 (Spring 2000): 66-81

“C.L.R. James: Beyond a Boundary and Out of Sight,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 66-81

“Modernist Crosscurrents,” Norton Critical Edition of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, ed. Judith Raiskin (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co., 1999): 161-173 [Reprinted from Jean Rhys at “World’s End” Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile (University of Texas Press, 1990)]

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“Reconfiguring the Postcolonial Imagination: Tropes of Visuality in Writing by Rhys, Kincaid, and Cliff,” Tulsa Studies on Women’s Literature, Vol. 16, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 259-280

“‘Space Sounds’ in Wilson Harris’s Recent Fiction,” Review of Contemporary Fiction, Special Issue on Wilson Harris and Alan Burns, ed. Joyce Sparer Adler, Vol. 17, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 98-103

“Limbo Rock: Wilson Harris and the Arts of Memory,” Callaloo, Special Issue on Wilson Harris, ed. by Nathaniel Mackey, Vol. 18, no.1 (Winter 1995): 110-124

“Sexological Plots: Primitivism and the Modern Woman in Novels by May Sinclair and D.H. Lawrence,” Narrative and Culture, ed. by Janice Carlisle and Daniel Schwarz (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1993): 200-215

“‘Robbed of Meaning’: The Work at the Center of To the Lighthouse,” Modern Fiction Studies, Special Issue on Virginia Woolf, Vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 217-234 [reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 101 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2001): 307-318]

“Reading ‘W.H.’: Draft of an Incomplete Conversation,” Wilson Harris and the Uncompromising Imagination, ed. by Hena Maes-Jelinek (Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1991): 170-183

“Patriarchy and Capitalism,” “The Contemporary Family: Gender and Work,” “Socialization, Gender, and Changes in the Family,” Chapters contributed to Introduction to Critical Sociology by George Katsiaficas and R. George Kirkpatrick (New York: Irvington Pub. Inc., 1987): 66-129

“The Paradox of Style: Metaphor and Ritual in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 5, no. 4 (Summer 1985): 145-150

“The Politics of Form: Jean Rhys’s Social Vision in Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea,” Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter 1982): 418-430

“The Contemporary Family: Reproduction, Consumption, Production,” (first author) with R. George Kirkpatrick, Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, Vol. 10, no. 1 (May 1982): 95-100

Encyclopedia Entries, Forewords, Reviews“Foreword,” Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives, ed. Mary Wilson and Kerry Johnson (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013): xi-xii

“Derek Walcott,” The Routledge Digital Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross, 10 manuscript pages (forthcoming 2013)

Review of Jean Rhys by Sylvie Maurel, The Jean Rhys Review: An International Journal of Rhys and Related Studies, Vol. 11, no.2 (Spring 2000): 94-96

Review of Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold, ed. Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 Vol. 39, no. 1 (1996): 123-128

Review of Frontiers: Essays on Racism and Culture by M. Nourbese Philip, Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Film No. 18 (Autumn 1993): 78-79

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Work-in-Progress Empire at Home: Arts of the Interior and the Bungalow Modern– a book- length study of modernist portrayals of the bungalow, a style of housing that has circuited the globe over a period of four centuries, becoming a conflicted emblem of modernity

“On the Verandah: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism” – a critical essay for Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches, ed. by Patricia Moran and Erica Johnson (under review Edinburgh University Press)

Published Reviews of Scholarship

Reviews of Jean Rhys at “World’s End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile:

Mrinalini Sinha in Signs (Winter 1992): 475-476

Betsy Berry in The Jean Rhys Review (Fall 1992): 2-3 Ashley Stockstill in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 137- 138

S. Landon in Choice, American Library Association (May 1991): 144

Jack Byrne in Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1991): 258

Peter Nazareth in World Literature Today Vol. 65, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 538-539

Grants (Internal)Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, 2013-14 Support for continued research and writing of Empire at Home: Arts of the Interior and the Bungalow Modern

International Programs Summer Research Grant, 2012Funded research and writing for one chapter of Empire at Home: Arts of the Interior and the Bungalow Modern

International Programs Summer Research Grant, 2004 Funded initial research for what has become Empire at Home, including travel to

archives in England (Victoria and Albert Archive Reading Room, Museum of Design and Architecture, University of Sussex Special Collections)

International Programs Curriculum Development Award, Fall 2003 Funded development of a new undergraduate course in “Caribbean Literature and Culture”

Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, 2002-03Funded research and writing time for Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature, including travel to the Caribbean ( University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad; and UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados)

International Programs Travel Award, Spring 2002 Funded travel to the University of Liège, Belgium, where I presented, by invitation, a paper at a conference in honor of the Caribbean writer, Wilson Harris

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International Programs Summer Research Grant, 2002 Funded research for Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature, including travel to Kingston, Jamaica (the National Gallery of Jamaica, the National Institute, the National Library, and the University of the West Indies, Mona)

International Programs Travel Award, Spring 2000 Funded travel to the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, where I presented, by invitation, a paper on “Teaching Caribbean Literature in the Midwestern U.S.” Paper included results of interviews with faculty involved in Caribbean studies across departments at the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin

International Programs Curriculum Development Award, Fall 2000 Funded development of a new undergraduate course, “Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century”

Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, 1999-2000 Funded research and writing time for Modernism, the Visual and Caribbean Literature, including travel to New York City (the C. L. R. James Institute and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) and to England (the British Library Manuscripts Collection, the British Library Periodicals Room, the Tate Gallery Library, Tate Gallery Archive, and the University of Sussex Special Collections)

International Program Travel Award, Summer 1992 Funded travel to the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where I presented a paper at the ACLALS (Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference

LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (“Invited” as indicated; otherwise, selected by conference committee) International

Invited Keynote Lecture: “The Poetics of Labor in Jean Rhys’s Caribbean Modernism,” Reading Jean Rhys Conference, King’s College, London, Summer 2010

“Plantation Modernism,” Seminar Leader and Organizer, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Montréal, Canada, Fall 2009

“Talking Back to Bloomsbury: Colonial Émigrés and Modernist Aesthetics,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, London, England, Summer 2004

Invited Speaker, “The Poetics of Vision in Wilson Harris’s Writing,” Conference on Wilson Harris, The University of Liège, Belgium, Spring 2001

Invited Chair of Session, “The Black Experience in Britain,” The Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of New Literatures in English (ASNEL), Aachen, Germany/ Liège Belgium, Spring 2000

Invited Presentation: “Teaching Caribbean Literature in the Midwestern U.S.” Seventh Annual International Conference on Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Spring 2000

Invited Chair of Session, “Gender, Identity, and Empowerment,” The 1996 International Conference on Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, Spring 1996

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“Crossing Signs: Figures of Visual Art in Novels by Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid,” The International Conference on Narrative Literature, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Spring 1994

“Limbo Rock: Exploding Sexual Difference in Caribbean Voyages of Return,” ACLALS (Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, Summer 1992

National

Invited Presentation: “Virginia Woolf’s Caribbean Connections,” International Virginia Woolf Society panel on Virginia Woolf and London’s Colonial Writers, Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Winter 2014

“Playing House: Buster Keaton and the Bungalow Modern,” Society for the Space Between, 1914-45 Conference, Chicago, Summer 2013

Invited Plenary Lecture, “Nancy Drew, the Professor, and the Bungalow Uncanny,” MUCH (Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities), Simpson College, Fall 2012

“Suburban Creep,” Architectural Modernism Seminar, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, Fall 2012

“The Bungalow Uncanny in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House,” Panel on Architecture, Conference of the Society for the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Brown University, Summer 2012

“‘Cries of the Plantation,’ ‘Cries of London,’ and the Birth of Planetary Modernism,”Modernist Studies Association, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2008

Invited Lecture, “Arts of Seeing: Transatlantic Modernism and Caribbean Literature,” Northern Illinois University, Fall 2006

Invited Roundtable Participant: “Calling the West Indies,” Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fall 2006

“Taking the Detour, Finding the Rebels: Crossroads of Caribbean and Modernist Studies,” Seminar on “Disciplining Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL, Fall 2005

“Woolf Re-Visits Wembley: Pre-War Bloomsbury Aesthetics and Interwar British Empire,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Sonoma State University, Summer 2002

Chair and Organizer of Session: “Virginia Woolf’s Cultural Politics,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Sonoma State University, Summer 2002

“Modernist Movement: The Case of Edna Manley, Jamaica’s ‘Art Woman,’” The Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall 2002

Invited Seminar Participant, “Modernism and Caribbean Literature,” The Modernist Studies Association Conference, The University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2000

“C.L.R. James: Beyond a Boundary and Out of Sight,” The Sixth Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, Spring 1997

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“Postcolonial Times: Writing by Wilson Harris, Michelle Cliff, and Nathaniel Mackey,” The Fourth Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, Spring 1995

Panel Chair and Moderator, “Wilson Harris,” Fourth Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, Spring 1995

Invited Presentation, “Crossing Signs: Figuring Visual Art in Decolonizing Narratives,” Workshops on Indigenous Narratives funded by the Social Science Research Council at the Center for International Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Spring 1994

“Language Beyond Language: Visual Art in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven,” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.) Conference, The University of California, Berkeley, California, Spring, 1993

“Counter-Narratives: Discovery and Decision in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Caribbean Fiction,” The University of Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium, “Unsettling New Worlds: Interrogating Discovery,” Spring 1991

“Sexology’s Plots: The ‘Primitive’ and the ‘Feminine’ in Novels by May Sinclair and D.H. Lawrence,” The International Conference on Narrative, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Spring 1990

“‘Robbed of Meaning’: Displacing the Other in Western Feminist Narrative,” The International Conference on Narrative, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Spring 1989

Invited Lecture: “‘Moon and Sun’: Through the Mother/Matrix in Twentieth-Century Anglophone Caribbean Fiction,” at the symposium, “Islands in Time: Identity and Culture in the Caribbean,” The University of Iowa, Fall 1990; also invited for the symposium, “Women Writing in Postcolonial Time and Place,” The University of Minnesota, March 1992 (unable to attend due to assignment in the London Regents’ Program)

“Self, Gender, and Family in the Novel: The Politics of Literary Form,” The American Anthropological Association meeting, December, 1982 (read by a colleague)

“The Politics of Form: Jean Rhys’s Social Vision in Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea,” The Modern Language Association Convention, December 1981

“Painful Journeys: Sexuality, Illness, and Death in Voyage in the Dark and The Voyage Out,” Ninth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, February 1981

Local

Invited Lecture, “Arts of Seeing: Transatlantic Modernism and Anglophone Caribbean Literature,” Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Group, The University of Iowa, Spring 2007

Invited Presentation, “Caribbean/ Atlantic Modernism and the Politics of Vision: The Case of Jamaica’s ‘Art Woman,’” The Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Group, The University of Iowa, Fall 2002

“‘The Voice of Witlessness’: Displacing the Other / Demassifying an Idol,” Women’s Bodies / Women’s Voices: The Power of Difference Conference, The University of Iowa, Spring 1988

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“Women’s Studies” Panel at the Conference on Women in Research, The University of Iowa, September 1986 and 1984

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Teaching Assignments

Semester

Fall 2013

Spring 2013

Fall 2012

Spring2012

Fall 2011

Spring 2011

Courses Taught

8:114 Caribbean Literature and Culture8:195 Modernist Women Writers8:520 Advanced Studies in a Literary Mode8:595 PhD Thesis

8:075 Selected Transnational Authors: Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys8:520 Advanced Studies in a Literary Mode8:595 PhD Thesis

(CDA Semester)8:525 Advanced Studies in a Literary Movement8:595 PhD Thesis

8:249 Modernist Studies: Plantation Modernity and Modernism8:195 Modernist Women Writers: Early 20th-c Experiments in Fiction8:595 PhD Thesis

8:079 Selected British Authors after 1900: Virginia Woolf8:595 PhD Thesis

8:098 Honors Proseminar: Modernist Arts in Britain 8:595 PhD Thesis8:515 Advanced Studies in a Literary Genre

Students Enrolled 13 25 1 1 23

1 1 1 2

13 27 1 22 1

15 1 1

Fall 2010 8:249 Modernist Studies: Modernist Arts in Britain8:195 Modernist Women Writers: Early 20th-c Experiments in Fiction

15 17

Spring 2010

8:114 Caribbean Literature and Culture 18

Fall 2009 8:079 Selected British Authors after 1900: Virginia Woolf8:120 Honors Thesis Workshop8:595 PhD Thesis

27 12 2

Spring 2009

8:195 Modernist Women Writers: Transcultural Experiments in Early 20th-Century Fiction8:595 PhD Thesis

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Fall 2008 8:249 Modernist Studies: Modernist Arts in Britain8:595 PhD Thesis

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Course Release for Service as DGS

Spring 2008

8:195 Modernist Women Writers: Transcultural Experiments in Early 20th-Century Fiction8:595 PhD Thesis

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Fall 2007 8:120 Honors Thesis Workshop 98:193 Transcultural Modernism: Early 20th-Century Literatures from England, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, and South Africa

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Spring 2007

8:440 Seminar 20th-Century Studies: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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8:114 Caribbean Literature and Culture 258:595 PhD Thesis 3

Fall 2006 8:120 Honors Thesis Workshop 98:193 Transcultural Modernism: Early 20th-Century Literatures from England, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa

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8:590 Special Project for Graduate Students 18:595 PhD Thesis 3

Spring 2006

Career Development Award

8:535 Advanced Studies in Literary Criticism 18:595 PhD Thesis 1

Fall 2005 8:114 Caribbean Literature and Culture 218:120 Honors Thesis Workshop 128:595 PhD Thesis 1

Spring 2005

8:095 Topics in Culture and Identity: Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century

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8:440 Seminar: Studies in the 20th Century: England between the World Wars

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8:198 Undergraduate Honors Project 18:505 Advanced Studies in a Literary Period 18:525 Advanced Studies in a Literary Movement 18:595 PhD Thesis 1

Fall 2004 8:110 Literature and Culture of 20th/21st-Century Britain: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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8:034 Introduction to the Novel 228:505 Advanced Studies in a Literary Period 28:525 Advanced Studies in a Literary Movement 18:530 Advanced Studies in a Literary Theme 18:590 Special Project for Graduate Students 1

Spring 2004

8:076 Selected Modern Authors: Virginia Woolf 28

8:095 Topics in Culture and Identity: Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century

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8:198 Undergraduate Honors Project 1Fall 2003 Course release for service as Associate Chair for Faculty Programs

(Information on Independent and Honors Projects not available for 2003 and earlier)

Spring 2003

8:235 20th-Century Literatures I: Transcultural Modernism 14

Course release for service as Associate Chair for Faculty ProgramsFall 2002 8:095 Topics in Culture and Identity: Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th

CenturyCourse release for service as Associate Chair for Faculty Programs

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Spring 2002

8:034 Reading Novels8:110 Selected Authors: Virginia Woolf

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Fall 2001 8:440 Seminar: Studies in the 20th Century: England between the World Wars

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8:034 Reading Novels 25Summer 2001

8:235 Readings in 20th-Century Literatures I: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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Spring 2001

8:098 Honors Proseminar: Transcultural Modernism 16

8:248 Caribbean Literature: Writings in Exile 10Fall 2000 Career Development Award Spring 2000

8:164 Literature and Culture of the 20th Century 28

8:235 20th-Century Literatures I: Transcultural Modernism 9Fall 1999 8:076 Selected Modern Authors: Virginia Woolf 27

8:138 Postcolonial Studies: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures: Literatures from India, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Native America

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Spring 1999

8:235 20th-Century Literatures I: England between the World Wars 12

Course reduction for service as Director of General Education in LiteratureFall 1998 8:138 Postcolonial Studies: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures:

Literatures from India, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Native America 25

Course reduction for service as Director of General Education in LiteratureSpring 1998

8:333 Studies in Modernism/ Postmodernism: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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8:034 Reading Novels 21

Previous Semesters

Graduate Courses8:455 Seminar Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Anglophone Caribbean8:455 Seminar Postcolonial Studies: Tropes of History and Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean8:248 Caribbean Literature: Writings in Exile8:246 Modernist Crosscurrents: The Caribbean8:246 Modernist Crosscurrents: The Third World Modernism of Jean Rhys and Wilson Harris8:265 Feminist Criticism and Theory (with Professor Adalaide Morris)—2 semesters8:226 British Literature, 1914-1945

Undergraduate Courses8:179 Literature and Society: The Anglophone Caribbean8:177 Literature and Art: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group—2 semesters8:164 Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century: “Great Britain” and the Legacies of Columbus—3 semesters8:164 Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century—4 semesters, 2 syllabi8:098 Honors Proseminar: Modernist Fictions/Fictions of Sexuality8:010 Modern Fiction: London Outsiders/Insiders (Regents’ London Program)8:138 Postcolonial Studies: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures, 2 semesters8:138 Postcolonial Studies: Writing by Women of the Anglophone Caribbean, 2 semesters8:110 Selected Authors: Virginia Woolf8:110 Selected Authors: D. H. Lawrence and May Sinclair8:110 Selected Authors: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing8:076 Selected Modern Authors: Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid8:066 Selected Modern Works: Crossing Genres

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8:161 Women and Literature: Gender and Interpretation8:160 Selected Themes: Marginal Women in Literature8:136 The American Short Story—2 semesters45:197 Cultures of American Women: Women in the Margins, 1870-19358G:15 The Literary Presentation of Women—4 semesters, 2 syllabi8G:6 Narrative Literature—2 semesters8G:1 The Interpretation of Literature—2 semesters8W:10 Expository Writing—3 semesters

Students Supervised (Ph.D. Dissertations, Masters Theses, and Honors Projects Directed)

Degree Student Name Outcome__________________________________Ph.D. Lisa Kammensjo In-Progress

(Director)

Angela Watkins In-Progress (Director) Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

Jillian Walker A.B.D.

(Director) Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

Cory Hutchinson- Dissertation Defended Fall 2010 Reuss Prospectus Approved Spring 2007 (Director) Frederick F. Seely Dissertation Fellowship

Heidi LaVine Dissertation Defended Spring 2010 (Director) Prospectus Approved Fall 2007

Elizabeth Dietz Dissertation Fellowship Tenure-Track Position Westminster College, Missouri

Ania Spyra Dissertation Defended Spring 2008 (Co-director) Prospectus Approved Spring 2005

Frederick F. Seely Fellowship Graduate College Summer Dissertation Fellowship Ballard/ Seashore Dissertation Fellowship (awarded but

not accepted due to concurrent Mellon Fellowship) Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Tenure-Track Position Butler University

Joyce Kelley Dissertation Defended Spring 2007 (Director) Frederick P. W. McDowell Award for Dissertation

ResearchGraduate College Summer Dissertation Fellowship Post-doctoral Fellowship Northwestern UniversityTenured Associate Professor, Auburn University, MontgomeryBook forthcoming Ashgate

Edward Mallot Dissertation Defended Spring 2005 (Co-director) T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Award

Frederick F. Seely FellowshipTenure-Track Position Rhodes CollegeTenure-Track Position Arizona State University, Tempe AZBook published by Palgrave Macmillan

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Bidisha Banerjee Dissertation Defended Spring 2004 (Director) Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow, St. Lawrence U

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Ayana Abdallah Dissertation Defended Spring 2001 (Co-director) Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Amy Lilly Dissertation Defended Fall 2002 (Director) Stanley Research Fellowship

Jodi Byrd Dissertation Defended Fall 2002 (Director) T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Award

Rockefeller Dissertation GrantTenure-Track Position, The U of HawaiiTenure-Track Position at the U of IL at Urbana-Champaign

Loretta Collins Dissertation Defended Summer 1999 (Director) Fulbright Award for Dissertation Research

T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation AwardFrederick F. Seely FellowshipStanley Research FellowshipInternational Council for Canadian Studies FellowshipAssociate Professor, U. of Puerto Rico

Lin Knutson Dissertation Defended Summer 1999 (Co-director) AAUW Dissertation Award

Tenure-Track Position, Southeastern Louisiana U

Janet Winston Dissertation Defended Spring 1998 (Director) Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s

StudiesAAUW Dissertation AwardBallard-Seashore dissertation AwardTenure-Track Position VA Commonwealth UTenure-Track Position Humboldt State University

Wallis Tinnie Dissertation Defended Spring 1997 (Director) Adjunct Asst. Professor Florida International U

Michelle DeRose Dissertation Defended Spring 1996 (Director) Tenure-Track Position Grand Valley State College Faculty, Aquinas College

Kerry Johnson Dissertation Defended Fall 1996 (Director) Full Professor and Associate Dean, Merrimack College

Rebecca Faery Dissertation Defended Fall 1996 Co-director) Director Undergraduate Writing Program M.I.T.

Book published by the U of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Kathleen Renk Dissertation Defended Spring 1995 (Director) Associate Professor, Northern Illinois U

Book published by the U Press of Virginia, 1999

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Nancy Reincke Dissertation Defended Summer 1992 (Director) Jane Weiss Dissertation Fellowship

Professor, Drake U

Elyce Helford Dissertation Defended Summer 1991 (Co-director) Professor, Director Women’s Studies, Middle Tennessee

State U

Masters Julie Monroe Thesis Approved 1988

Honors Ryan Beckenbaugh Thesis Approved Spring 2012 University of Iowa College of Law

Summer Star Thesis Approved Spring 2005Ph.D. Program in English, UC Santa Barbara

Michael Anderson Thesis Approved Spring 2004

Alisha McCracken Thesis Approved Spring 2002Best Honors Thesis, Department of EnglishCollegiate Scholar Award

Christine Lyon Thesis Approved Spring 1996Stanford Law School

Andrew Welken Thesis Approved Fall 1995Graduate School in Film Studies

John Hanson Thesis Approved Summer 1992

Kim Van Meter Thesis Approved Summer 1987

Jennifer Kuhn Thesis Approved Fall 1987

Lee Schott Thesis Approved Spring 1985

Kristen Yates Thesis Approved Spring 1985

Other Contributions to Instructional Programs Reader on NFW Thesis Committee

Nina Feng 2010 Reader on numerous Dissertation Committees in English, Comparative Literature, American Studies

From 1997 - 2013, 21 dissertation committees in English, 1 in French and Italian:Pauline Remy (French and Italian) In-ProgressDorothy Giannakouros In-ProgressElisabeth Shane 2012Adele Holoch 2012Laura Capp 2010Lynne Nugent 2010Lisa Angellela 2009Sucheta Mallick Choudhouri 2009Steve Almquist 2008Kate Henderson 2008Mimi Iimuro Ausdall 2007Kimberli Stafford 2006

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Young Hee Kwon 2006Dee McMahon 2004Joann Quinones-Perdomo 2003Elyse Myers 2003Jessica Walsh 2002Kristin Brandser 2001Jason Mezey 2001Lezlie Hall 2000Alfred Lopez 1997Mary Murphy 1997

Supervisor of numerous Ph.D. “Issues Papers” and Comprehensive Exam Areas in EnglishFrom 1991/02 – 2007, Supervisor of 20 “Issues Papers” or Comprehensive Exam AreasFrom 1997 – 2012, Supervisor or reader for the following 24 committees:

Lisa Kammensjo 2013Raquel Baker 2012Angela Watkins 2011Brenton Thompson 2011Jillian Walker 2010Nicki Buscemi 2009Adele Holoch 2009Le Don Sweeney 2009Deborah Manion 2008Lynn Nugent 2007Sucheta Mallick 2006Cory Hutchinson-Reuss 2006Heidi LaVine 2005Young Hee Kwon 2005Tom Keegan 2005Ania Spyra 2004Joyce Kelley 2002Eddie Mallot 2001Bidisha Banerjee 2000Amy Lilly 1999Elyse Myers 1999Joann Quinones-Perdomo 1999Traci Kyle 1999Kimberli Stafford 1998Jason Mezey 1997

Reader on additional PhD Exams in English, Comparative Literature, American Studies

Second Reader, Honors Thesis, Spring 2011, Spring 2007 (and in previous years)

Undergraduate and Graduate Advising (ongoing)

SERVICE

ProfessionEvaluator, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Applications, 2011

External Examiner, PhD Dissertation, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 2006

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External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion Cases: University of Kentucky (Full Professor Promotion, 2013), Merrimack College (Full Professor Promotion, 2012), Franklin Marshall College (2009), University of Miami (2008), University of Florida (2007), Purdue University (2007), Macalester College (Full Professor Promotion, 2006), Kansas State University (2005), SUNY Buffalo (2004), Brandeis University (2001), Merrimack College (2000)

Reader of Book Manuscripts and Proposals for: Oxford UP (Book Manuscript 2012), Oxford UP (Manuscript and Proposal 2010) Previous Years – Oxford UP, Routledge, MLA, Palgrave Macmillan, Heinemann Publishers, Caribbean Series; The University of Texas Press; The University of Iowa Press

Reader of Critical Essays for: Journal of Africana Religions (2013), Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2011), PMLA (2011) Journal of Caribbean Literatures (2010)

Previous Years – Philological Quarterly, ARIEL; Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature; SIGNS; Style; PMLA; The Journal of Caribbean Literatures; The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; The Jean Rhys Review

Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Caribbean Literatures; The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; and The Jean Rhys Review

DepartmentChair, Review Committee for Full Professor, 2013Executive Committee, 2012-2014Crossing Borders Mentor, 2013Salary Committee, 2013Chair English DEO Search Committee, 2013Graduate Admissions Committee, 2013Salary Committee, 2012Executive Committee, 2011-2012Graduate Steering Committee, 2010 - 2011Placement Committee, Fall 2011Chair, Placement Committee, Spring 2011Co- Chair, Search Committee, Digital Literacies/ Visual Cultures, 2010 - 2011Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2010Placement Committee, 2010Graduate Steering Committee, 2010Assistant Professor Review Committee, Third-Year Review , 2009Chair, Fifth-Year Assistant Professor Review, 2009Director of Graduate Studies, 2008-09 Responsible for orienting and advising 18 new graduate students; advising 97 continuing graduate students through qualifications, comprehensive exams, and dissertations; writing proposal for post-comprehensive research fellowships; administering fellowship and award selections; recruiting prospective students Executive Committee, 2008-Graduate Steering Committee, 2008-09Curriculum Committee, 2008-09Honors Program, Assistant to the Director, Fall 2007Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2007Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2006Assistant Professor Review Committee, Fall 2005Gateway Course Committee, Fall 2005

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Associate Chair for Faculty, 2003-2005 Responsible for overseeing faculty search committees, co-chairing faculty review committees, nominating faculty for teaching and other awards, revising departmental documents, mentoring new and junior faculty, co-coordinating faculty colloquia and lunch-time discussions with graduate studentsCurriculum Committee, 2002-2005Elected to Executive Committee, 1999-2005Graduate Steering Committee, 2001- 2002Placement Committee, 2001-2002 (Chair in Spring 2002)Assistant Professor Review Committee, 1999-2000Director, General Education Literature Program, 1995-1999

Responsible for teacher orientation and training for up to 90 graduate instructors, selection and coordination of 6 Program Associates, revision of curriculum, implementation of new courses, administration of financial aid appointments, mediation of complaints and plagiarism cases, nominations for teaching awards

Assistant Professor Review Committees, 1998-99, 1995-1997, 1990-1993T.A. Advisor, 1991-2001, 1983-1989Graduate Admissions Committee, 1995Honors Program Committee, 1995Acting Director of the General Education Literature Program, Spring 1993Associate Director of the General Education Literature Program, 1991-1994Search Committees, 1993-1994, 1992-1993, 1984-1985Elected to Executive Committee, 1992-1995, 1985-1988Coordinator of the General Education Literature Cultural Diversity Task Force under the Ford Grant, 1991-1992Graduate Steering Committee, 1990-1991General Education Literature Program Committee, Spring 1989, Fall 1986, 1983-1985Chair, General Education Literature Course Review Committees, 1989, 1985Affirmative Action Committee, 1983-1985

CollegeCollegiate Teaching Award Committee, 2002-2003Discussion Leader for New Faculty Orientation, Fall 2002Participant Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Workshop on Graduate Teacher Training, Summer 1999As Director of General Education in Literature, worked with CLAS on financial aid and curriculum review, 1995-1999

University

Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Director, Working Group on Circulating Cultures, 2013-14

Crossing Borders Steering Committee, 2013International Programs, Summer Fellowship Evaluation Committee, Spring 2013Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Director, Working Group on Circulating Cultures, 2012-13 Organized monthly meetings of faculty from the arts, social sciences, and humanities Organized public lecture and seminar session by Laura Doyle from the University of Massachusetts, AmherstObermann Center for Advanced Studies, Member, Working Group on Circulating Cultures, 2011-12Symposium in Honor of Huston Diehl, Co-organizer with Dee Morris, Spring 2010Caribbean, Diaspora, Atlantic Studies Program, Steering Committee, 2002-2007

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Organized guest lecture by Carole Boyce Davies, invited graduate students to speak at lunch-time series, gave two invited lectures

Arts and Humanities Initiative Evaluation Committee, 2004Elected to Faculty Senate, 1996-1999Chair, Study Abroad Scholarship Committee, 1998-1999Study Abroad Scholarship Committee, 1996-1999Jane A. Weiss Scholarship Committee, 1989Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 1985

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