SHANE GRAHAM

SHANE GRAHAM shane.graham@usu.edu Department of English Office: 1-435-797-2719 3200 Old Main Hill Cell: 1-435-764-1616 Utah State University Home: 1-435-752-2756 Logan, UT 84322-3200 Fax: 1-435-797-3797 EDUCATION PhD MA BA Indiana University, 2001. Major: English Literature; Minor: African Studies. Dissertation Title: Trauma, Representation, and Public Memory in South Africa: Apartheid Prison Narratives and the Truth Commission. Committee: Albert Wertheim (Chair); Patrick Brantlinger; Wendy Hesford; Eileen Julien. Indiana University, 1997. Major: English Literature. Northwestern University, 1994. Major: English Literature/Fiction Writing. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of English, Utah State University, 2009-. Assistant Professor of English, Utah State University, 2005-2009. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2004-05. Assistant Professor of English, Sam Houston State University, 2001-05. Associate Instructor of English, Indiana University, 1996-2001. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS African and Caribbean literature. Postcolonial literature and theory. Contemporary fiction and drama. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (SINGLE-AUTHOR) Theories of trauma and memory. Transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. Multicultural/multiethnic literature. South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; South African edition published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011). EDITING Shane Graham and John Walters, ed. Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Book Review Editor for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 2010 present. Caribbean Shakespeares: An Anthology (co-editing with Pier Paolo Frassinelli in progress).

Shane Graham, p. 2 JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS IN PRINT I had forgotten a continent : Cosmopolitan Memory in Derek Walcott s Omeros. In Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Ronit Frenkel, and David Watson. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2011. 95-118. Introduction. Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence. Ed. Shane Graham and John Walters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 1-23. Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: The Bells of Amersfoort. In Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda. Ed. David Bell and Johan Jacobs. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2009). 57-72. This text deletes itself : Traumatic Memory and Space-Time in Wicomb s David s Story. Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (2008). 127-45. (Special issue: Postcolonial Trauma Narratives. ) Remembering to Forget: Monumental vs. Peripatetic Archiving in Achmat Dangor s Bitter Fruit. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 9.1 (2008). 39-52. Memory, Memorialization, and the Transformation of Johannesburg: Ivan Vladislavić s Propaganda by Monuments and The Restless Supermarket. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 53.1 (2007). 70-96. I Was Those Thousands! : Memory, Identity and Space in John Kani s Nothing But the Truth. Theatre Research International 32.1 (2007). 68-84. Layers of Permanence: Toward a Spatial-Materialist Reading of Ivan Vladislavić s The Exploded View. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 11.2 (2006) (special issue devoted to Vladislavić): 48-61. Reprinted in lightly revised form in Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group 24.1 (2008). Re/reading Leslie Marmon Silko s Almanac of the Dead After 9/11. English Studies in Africa 48.2 (2005). 75-88. Albie Sachs, Indres Naidoo, and the South African Prison Memoir. Scrutiny2 10.1 (2005): 29-44. Private Trauma, Public Drama: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona s The Island and Maponya s Gangsters. English Studies in Africa 48.1 (2005): 107-23. The Truth Commission and Post-Apartheid Literature in South Africa. Research in African Literatures 34.1 (Spring 2003): 11-30. Apartheid Prison Narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Construction of National (Traumatic) Memory. In Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration, ed. Graeme Harper. New York: Continuum Books, 2001. 223-39. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS FORTHCOMING On Daffodils and Castaways: Intertextual Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Accepted for a forthcoming MLA volume on Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. Supriya Nair. Expected 2011. 16 pages. SHORT ARTICLES Entries on Ingrid de Kok ; Todd Matshikiza ; Zakes Mda ; Richard Rive ; Albie Sachs ; Anthony Sampson. Forthcoming in the Dictionary of African Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong. Oxford: Oxford University Press; expected 2011. 5000 words total.

Shane Graham, p. 3 Entries on Olaudah Equiano ; Marcus Garvey ; Negritude ; Pan-Africanism ; Gil Scott-Heron ; Slavery ; and Nat Turner. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 666-68; 797-98; 1617-18; 1702-04; 1992-93; 2044-47; 2184. Entries on South African Literature, Comprador, and African Language (Zulu) Literature. In Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. John Hawley. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. 5-6; 112-13; 409-14. SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS Stefan Helgesson, Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture. English Academy Review 27.2 (2010): 152-54. Double Review: Mark Sanders, Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission and Chris van der Merwe and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Narrating Our Healing: Perspectives on Working Through Trauma. English Academy Review 26.1 (March 2009): 100-04. Double Review: Michael Chapman, ed., The Drum Decade: Stories from the 1950s and Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner, ed., Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 38.4 (2007): 169-73. Bernth Lindfors, ed. Africa Talks Back: Interviews with Anglophone African Authors. In African Literature Association Bulletin 31.2 (2006): 82-85. Preparing Ourselves for Ambiguity. Review of Albie Sachs, The Free Diary of Albie Sachs. In Scrutiny2 11.1 (2006): 141-43. Double Review: Paul Gready's Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa and Mark Sanders's Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid. In Africa Today 51.4 (2005): 106-09. FELLOWSHIPS Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, one month in Fall 2011. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004-05. Visiting Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, 2004-05 [declined]. Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University Graduate School, 2000. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (for study of isizulu at IU and UCLA), US Department of Education, 1997-98 and summer 1997. GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS English Department Researcher of the Year, Utah State University, 2008-09. Quick Grants, Utah Humanities Council, in support of the speakers series sponsored by British and Commonwealth Studies, 2006-07, 2008. New Faculty Research Grant, Utah State University, 2006-07. Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, IU English Department, 2000.

Shane Graham, p. 4 INVITED TALKS Wounds in Time and Space: Collective Trauma and Postcolonial Narrative. Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, Belgium. March 18, 2008. Langston Hughes, the South African Drum Generation, and Cosmopolitan Deep Time. Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden. March 7, 2008. Globalization and the New Urban Fiction in South Africa. University of Pretoria English Department Seminar, Pretoria, South Africa. March 15, 2005. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Cultural Exchange in the Black Atlantic: The Late Work of Langston Hughes. Joint conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) and the US Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (USACLALS), Boca Raton, Florida, April 2011. Cosmopolis Built by Slaves: Slavery, Langston Hughes, and Jacques Roumain. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 2010. Johannesburg in Literature: Cosmopolis or Xenophobic Citadel? ACLA Annual Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., March 2009. Memories of Empire: The Empire Exhibition in Andrea Levy s Small Island and Hari Kunzru s The Impressionist. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, San Francisco, December 2008. I had forgotten a continent : Displaced Memory and the Caribbean in Walcott s Arkansas Testament and Omeros. MLA Convention, Chicago. December 2007. The Truth Commission and the Talking Cure in Post-Apartheid South Africa. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, October 2007. Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation. Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Conference. Vancouver, BC, August 2007. Traumatic Memory and Space-Time in Wicomb s David s Story and Mda s The Heart of Redness. MLA Convention, Philadelphia. December 2006. Excavating the Apartheid City: Aziz Hassim s The Lotus People. African Literature Association (ALA) Conference. Accra, Ghana. May 2006. Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: Zakes Mda s The Bells of Amersfoort. Africa in Literature: Conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa. U. of Cape Town, South Africa. July 2005. Towards a Spatial-Materialist Reading of South African Fiction. Colloquium: Present and Future Directions in South African Literary Studies. Wits U., Johannesburg, South Africa. May 2005. Rereading Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead After 9/11. American Studies Colloquium: Exploring American Literature and Culture. Wits U., Johannesburg, South Africa. August 2004. Something go off pop in yuh head : Coming of Age and Nationalism in George Lamming s In the Castle of My Skin. Twentieth Century Literature Conference. U. of Louisville, February 2004. Inside South Africa's Prisons: Struggles Over the Written Word in Apartheid Prison Writing. ALA Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, March 2003.

Shane Graham, p. 5 Rotten English -- Nigerian Pidgin in Saro-Wiwa s Sozaboy and Soyinka s From Zia With Love. ALA Conference, Austin, Texas, March 1998. TEACHING EXPERIENCE GRADUATE COURSES World Literature and Culture: Utah State University. Langston Hughes, Cosmopolitanism, and Black Atlantic Literature : a seminar for Masters-level students. Fall 2010. British Literature and Culture: USU. Black and Asian British Literature Since World War II : a seminar focusing on fiction, drama, poetry, and theory. Fall 2007. South African and Postcolonial Literature: Wits University. Two lectures in a graduate seminar on postapartheid literature. Fall 2004. Studies in Modern World Literature: Sam Houston State U. A graduate survey of literature from Africa, the Middle East, India, and the Caribbean. Fall 2002 and Spring 2004. Multiculturalism and American Literature: SHSU. A graduate survey of African-American, Latino/a, Native American, and Asian-American literature. Spring 2003. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Studies in Literary and Cultural Theory: Utah State University. A senior seminar. Spring 2009 - Space, Place, and Memory in Postcolonial Literature. Literature and Cultural Difference: Utah State University. A senior seminar. Fall 2009 Langston Hughes, Cosmopolitanism, and the Black Atlantic. Spring 2006 - Black British Literature and Culture after World War II. Studies in Drama: Utah State U. Upper-division course on a special topic in drama. Spring 2010 - Beckett, Brecht, Artaud, and Politics on the World Stage. World Writers: Utah State U. Upper-division course on the work of one writer or a small group of writers. Spring 2011, 2009, Fall 2006 - Derek Walcott : his poetry, drama, and essays. Spring 2008, Spring 2006 - J.M. Coetzee and his South African Contemporaries. Studies in World Fiction: SHSU. A senior-level seminar on contemporary fiction. Spring 2002 - Truths in Fiction (Literature and History). Period Studies in World Literature: Utah State U. A junior-level course on literature in history. Fall 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 - African Literature in English, 1960s-1980s. Fall 2005 - African and Caribbean Literature of the 1950s and 1960s. British and Commonwealth Cultures: Utah State U. Upper division general education course on the literatures and cultures of the British Empire. Fall 2006, Spring 2008. Studies in Multicultural Literature: SHSU. A junior-level survey. Spring 2004 - Multi-ethnic American and world literature. Fall 2001 - African and Caribbean literature in English. African-American Literature: SHSU. A junior-level survey of African-American literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Fall 2003. Introduction to Literary Theory: Utah State University. An introductory, sophomore-level course in literary and cultural theory. Fall 2005. Literary Analysis: Utah State University. Introductory course for majors, focusing on the fundamentals of literary analysis and research. Spring 2011, 2010, Fall 2008. Introduction to Literature Surveys: SHSU. Taught many variations of 200-level courses designed as both general education courses and introductory courses for majors, including a survey of Western literature from Homer to the twentieth century; an introduction to the novel; and a theme-based course called Cannibals, Savages, and Headhunters: Race, Empire and Literature. 2001-2004. Writing and Composition: Fall 1996 through Spring 2004, Indiana University and SHSU. Many variations on first-year composition courses.

Shane Graham, p. 6 PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Faculty Senator, Utah State University, 2009-present. Member, Editorial Board of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 2008-present. Member, Editorial Board of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, 2006-present. Referee for PMLA, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Research in African Literatures, English Studies in Africa. Chair, Literary Studies Committee, 2010-present. Member, Professional Responsibilities and Procedures Committee (2009-present); Literary Studies Committee (2005-2009); Graduate Literature and Writing Committee (2006-present), USU. Host and Producer of Radio Cosmopolis on Utah Public Radio, 2010-present. Coordinator, British and Commonwealth Studies Program, Utah State University. 2005-2010. Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 2006-08. Faculty Advisor, African Students Association, Utah State University. 2008-2009. Convener, Colloquium on South African Literary Studies: Wits University, Johannesburg. May 2005. Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society), SHSU, 2002-04. Contributing Writer, The Ryder Magazine, Bloomington, Ind. 1999-2001. Concert Promoter, Beyond the Pale Productions, Bloomington, 1998-2001. Programmer and Volunteer, WFHB-FM, Bloomington, 1995-2001. Music Director and Programmer, WNUR-FM, Evanston, Ill. 1990-95. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association American Comparative Literature Association African Literature Association U.S. Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies English Academy of Southern Africa LANGUAGES Zulu: Three years of study at IU and UCLA. Adequate reading and speaking skills. French: Reading proficiency, adequate speaking skills. May 2011