March 2010 MINROSE GWIN PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: Jan. 2006- Kenan Eminent Professor University of North of English and Comparative Carolina, Chapel Hill Literature July 2009- Adjunct Professor of American University of North Studies Carolina, Chapel Hill Fall 2005 Visiting Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002-05 Professor of English Purdue University 2001-02 Professor of English Binghamton University 2000-01 Director, Feminist Research Institute 1992-93 Elizabeth Wertheim Professorship University of New Mexico University of New Mexico 1990-2001 Professor of English University of New Mexico 1987-90 Associate Professor of English 1987-88 Interim Co-coordinator, Women's Studies 1983-87 Assistant Professor of English Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech OTHER EMPLOYMENT: July 2008, 2009, 2010 Instructor, IntermediateWorkshop in the Memoir Taos Summer Writers Conference, University of New Mexico Page 1 of 16
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Phi Beta Kappa Phi Kappa Phi Modern Language Association American Literature Association American Studies Association Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Executive Council 1993-95, 2004-06) Faulkner Society Associated Writing Programs PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Queen of Palmyra: A Novel. New York: Harper Collins/ Harper Perennial, 2010. Wishing for Snow: A Memoir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Excerpts: The Women's Review of Books and Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing. The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. The Literature of the American South. Co-edited with William L. Andrews, Gen. Ed.; Trudier Harris; and Fred Hobson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. Entries and Section Introduction listed under Reviews and Anthology Entries. Stones and Roses by Erin Clayton Pitner. Edited with Preface. Albuquerque: Chamisa Press, 1993. A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862, by Cornelia McDonald. Edited with Introduction and Notes, based on the original diary manuscript. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin Series on American Autobiography. Gen. Ed. William L. Andrews, 1992. Cited by Civil War as one of 100 Best Books on the Civil War. Reprinted segments in many collections of Civil War narratives and in Civil War documentary film. Reprint: New York: Random House/Gramercy, 2003. The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. Chapter Two, The Silencing of Rosa Coldfield, reprinted in Absalom, Absalom! A Casebook, ed. Fred Hobson, Oxford U P, 2002. Page 2 of 16
Chapter One, Hearing Caddy s Voice, reprinted in The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Minter, W.W. Norton, 1994. Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1986-87. Olden Times Revisited: W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures. Edited with Introduction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982. BOOK IN PROGRESS: Remembering Medgar Evers studies the imaginative trajectory of writings responding to life and death of Mississippi s first NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers and the large questions his legacy raises. Under contract: Lamar Memorial Lecture Series and University of Georgia Press. Selected Articles and Chapters: History, Memory, Forgetting. Southern Literary Journal (Spring 2008). Special Issue in History, Memory, and Mourning. Ed. Minrose Gwin. 1-10. Racial Wounding and the Aesthetics of the Middle Voice in Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Faulkner Journal XX (Spring 2005). Special Issue on Faulkner, Memory, History: 21-34. "'Hereisthehouse': Cultural Spaces of Incest in The Bluest Eye. Thicker than Water: Incest and the Literary Imagination. Ed. Elizabeth Barnes. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2003. 316-28. "Contemporary Southern Women Writers and Race." The History of Southern Women's Literature. Ed. Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weeks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 2002. 455-66. "The 'Intricate Design' of Margaret Walker's 'Humanism': Revolution, Vision, History." Fields Watered in Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker. Ed. Maryemma Graham. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2001. 66-77. "Whose Faulkner?" Faulkner at 100. (Response to papers at centennial conference, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha.) Ed. Donald Kartiganer. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2000. 226-30. "The Place of the Letter: An Epistolary Exchange." Coauthored with Angelika Bammer, Cindi Katz, and Elizabeth Meese. Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Ed. Susan Hardy Aiken, Ann E. Brigham, Sallie A. Marston, and Penny M. Waterstone. Tucson: U of Arizona P, Page 3 of 16
1997. 161-202. "Nonfelicitous Space and Survivor Discourse: Reading the Incest Story in Southern Women's Fiction." Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Ed. Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan Donaldson. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997. 416-440. "Space Travel: The Connective Politics of Feminist Reading." Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Special Issue on Theory and Practice (Summer 1996): 870-905. "Her Shape, His Hand: African-American Women's Space in Go Down, Moses." New Essays on Go Down, Moses. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Cambridge U P, 1996. 73-100. "Did Ernest Like Gordon? Faulkner's Mosquitoes and the Bite of Gender Trouble." Faulkner and Gender. Ed. Donald Kartiganer. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1996. 120-144. "Mosquitoes' Missing Bite: The Four Deletions." Faulkner Journal: Faulkner and Sexuality Special Issue, 9 (Fall 1993/Spring 1994) (published Fall 1995): 31-42. "Sweeping the Kitchen: Revelation and Revolution in Contemporary Southern Women's Writing." Southern Quarterly (Spring 1992): 54-62. "Feminism and Faulkner: Second Thoughts." Faulkner Journal Special Issue on Faulkner and Feminisms, 4 (Fall 1988/Spring 1989--published Dec. 1991): 55-66. "(Re)Reading Faulkner as Father and Daughter of His Own Text." Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of the Patriarchy. Ed. Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Ad Feminam Series. Gen. Ed. Sandra Gilbert. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. 238-59. Reprint: William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism. Southern Illinois University Press, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin, 2002. 153-172. "A Theory of Black Women's Texts and White Women's Readings, or... the Necessity of Being Other." National Women's Studies Association Journal 1 (Fall 1988): 23-33. "Repetition and Recollection: The Unconscious Discourse of Mark Twain's Autobiography." Literature and Psychology (July 1987): 120-31. "Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community." Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, Literary Tradition, A Collection of Criticism. Ed. Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1985. 132-50. "Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives." Conjuring. 39-52. Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1998. Page 4 of 16
"Mentioning the Tamales: Food and Drink in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas and Other Stories." Mississippi Quarterly, 38 (Winter 1984-85): 49-57. Creative Nonfiction: "Decline and Fall: A Memoir." The Women's Review of Books, Special Issue on Southern Women Writers. July 1999. 22-23. "Hearing My Mad Mother's Voices." Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing. Ed. Sally Wolff and Nagueyalti Warren. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P,1999. 13-27. (With the poem Processional. ) Poetry: "Travel," Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Ed. Susan Hardy Aiken et al. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1997. "Processional" and "Bone," The Women's Review of Books, Jan. 1995. "Aspens," "Dream of My Mad Mother Dying," and "Six O'Clock Flight: Albuquerque/One Stop Midland," IKON 14 & 15: (1994). New Orleans to Editorship: Southern Literary Journal. Special Double Issue in History, Memory, and Mourning. Spring 2008. Coeditorship: Coeditorship with Fred Hobson, Southern Literary Journal, 2005-. Guest Editorship: Guest Editorship, Mississippi Quarterly, Faulkner Issue, Summer 1995. Reviews and Anthology Entries: Review of Faulkner and Love by Judith L. Sensibar. Southern Literary Journal. Spring 2010. Review of To Change the World by Margaret Randall. Women s Review of Books. Nov./Dec. 2009. Review of Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination by Sarah Gordon. Flannery O'Connor Page 5 of 16
Bulletin. 2002. 109-110. Katherine Anne Porter, Lillian Hellman, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Randall Jarrell, Walker Percy, Carson McCullers, Peter Taylor, James Dickey, Flannery O Connor, William Styron, A.R. Ammons, Reynolds Price, Wendell Berry, Fred Chappell, Bobbie Ann Mason, Dave Smith, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R.T. Smith, Andrew Hudgins. Introductions, Bibliographies, and Selections. Literature of the American South. Section Introduction: The Contemporary South: 1940-Present. Co-authored with Trudier Harris. Literature of American South. 583-93. Kate Drumgoold." The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. William L. Andrews, Trudier Harris, and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Oxford U P, 1996. Review essay of Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner by Deborah Clarke and Faulkner and Southern Womanhood by Diane Roberts. Modern Fiction Studies (Summer 1995). "Mary Chesnut." Reconstructing American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. D.C. Heath 1989; second edition, 1994; third edition, 1997. 2011-2020. Review of The History of Southern Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., et al. The Georgia Historical Quarterly (March 1987): 167-170. Review of Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory, by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 85 (July 1986): 476-78. "Arna Bontemps." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern American Poets, 1880-1945. Second Series. Ed. Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark, 1986. 38-45. EDUCATION: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. English University of Tennessee Dissertation: The Peculiar Sisterhood: Black and White Women of the Old South in American Literature. 1983. Co-directed by William Shurr and Marjorie Pryse. AWARDS, GRANTS, AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION: Institute for Arts & Humanities Fellow, Fall Semester 2009. Course Development Grant, Office of Undergraduate Studies, University of North Carolina, 2008. Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence in 2003-2004, Department of English, Purdue University, 2004. Page 6 of 16
Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in 2003-2004, Department of English, Purdue University, 2004. Teaching Enhancement Grant, University of New Mexico, 1997. Dean's Research Fellow, University of New Mexico, 1996. Dean's Research Grant Recipient, University of New Mexico, 1996-97. University Research and Travel Grant, University of New Mexico, 1995. A Woman's Civil War, cited by Civil War in 1994 as one of 100 Best Books on the Civil War. Keynote Speaker, Women's Studies Twentieth Anniversary, University of Tennessee Bicentennial, 1994. Rockefeller Research Scholar, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1993. Fenimore Lecturer in American Literature, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 1993. English Department Nominee, University Burlington Teaching Award, University of New Mexico, 1991. Finalist, University Alumni Teaching Award, Virginia Tech, 1988. Recipient, College of Arts and Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, 1988; English Department Nominee, 1987, 1988. Virginia Tech Nominee, Council of Southern Graduate Schools New Scholar Award, 1987. Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature, Named Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1986. Research Associate, Center for Programs in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 1985-86. Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching by a Graduate Student at the University of Tennessee, 1981-82. John C. Hodges Award to New Graduate Student Teacher for Excellence in Teaching, University of Tennessee, 1978-79. INVITED LECTURES AND READINGS: Lamar Memorial Lectures, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, Oct. 2010. Reading, The Queen of Palmyra. Society for the Study of Southern Literature, New Orleans, April 2010. Reading, The Queen of Palmyra. Taos Writers Conference, Taos, July 2009. Alice Walker s Legacy, Response to Keynote by Thadious M. Davis, Southern Intellectual Circle, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Feb. 2009. The Civil Rights Movement and the Work of Eudora Welty. NEH Summer Seminar. Jackson,MS. July 2008. Mourning Medgar Evers: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local. (Keynote). Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Richmond, VA. April 2008. Page 7 of 16
Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local. Biennial Lecture in Southern Literature and Culture. Emory University. February 2008. Locating House and Home: Medgar Evers in the Writings of Anne Moody, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker. (Keynote). Southern Women s Literature Conference. Berry College, Rome, GA, September 2007. Invited Readings, Wishing for Snow: A Memoir: Taos Writers Conference (July 2008), Southern Women s Literature Conference (September 2007), Louisiana Book Festival (2005), Brown Univ. (2004), Univ. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (2004), (Univ. of New Mexico (2004), Modern Language Association Conference (2000). Place, Space, and Gender: The Example of Joy Harjo. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April 2004. Whose Faulkner? A Response, Faulkner at 100, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, Miss., August 1997 (One of three invited respondents to the papers of the conference). "Did Ernest Like Gordon? Faulkner's Mosquitoes and the Bite of Gender Trouble." Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS, August 1994. Space, Gender, and Reading. Women s Studies Twentieth Anniversary (Keynote Lecture). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 1994. "Crossing Boundary/Making Space: Strategies for Reading Contemporary Women's Narratives." Fenimore Lecture, Albion College, Albion, Michigan, March 1993. Other readings in New Orleans; Jackson, MS; Atlanta; Houston; Chapel Hill, NC; Durham, NC; Albuquerque, NM; San Francisco; Oxford, MS; Bay St. Louis, MS; Mobile, AL; Lafayette, IN. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and READINGS AT CONFERENCES: The Implications of Judith Sensibar s Faulkner and Love. Society for the Study of Southern Literature. New Orleans. April 2010. Where Are the Voices Coming From? Medgar Evers in the Writings of Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker. American Literature Association. San Francisco, May 2006. Page 8 of 16
Racial Trauma and the Aesthetic Imperative of Margaret Walker s Civil Rights Poetry. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2005. Where Are the Voices Coming From? Medgar Evers in the Writings of Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty. Kenan Eminent Lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nov. 2005. Using Sources in Writing Memoir. Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, Nov. 2004. Wishing for Snow: A Memoir. (Reading in a session devoted to discussion of my memoir) Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2004. Racial Wounding and the Aesthetics of the Middle Voice in Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Modern Language Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 2003. Wishing for Snow: A Memoir. (Reading) National Women s Studies Association Conference. New Orleans, June 2003. Trauma and the Failure of Departure in The Bluest Eye. Society for the Study of Narrative Conference. Berkeley, March 2003. Anthologizing the American South. Southern Historical Association Conference. New Orleans, Nov. 2001. "Sensory Evidence in Elaine Kraf's Find Him!" International Uncommon Senses Conference. Montreal, April 2000. "Lost in Space: Find This Book!" National Women's Studies Conference. Albuquerque, June 1999. "Literature of the American South: Theoretical and Pedagogical Questions." American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, May 1999. Chair, "Where the Line Forms: Identity, Voice, and Boundary in Southern Women's Fiction," Crossing the Lines: A Conference on Contemporary Southern Women's Literature. Fayetteville, Ark., October 1997. (Panel developed with UNM graduate students) "Faulkner and Morrison: New Approaches." American Literature Association Special Conference. Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 1996. "Nonfelicitous Space and Survivor Discourse: Reading the Incest Story in Southern Women's Fiction." Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. Richmond, VA, April 1996. Page 9 of 16
"Crossing Boundary/Making Space: "'World'-Traveling in Women's Narrative." Modern Language Association Conference. Toronto, December 1993. "A Series of Letters on Travel, Identity, and Displacement." With Angelika Bammer, Cindi Katz, and Elizabeth Meese. Southwest Institute for Research on Women. Rockefeller Research Conference on Space and Gender. Tucson, October 1993. "Bringing History into the House: The Civil War Journal of Cornelia Peake McDonald." American Literature Association Conference. San Diego, June 1992. "The Feminine and Faulkner: Second Thoughts" American Literature Association Conference. Washington, D.C. May 1991. "Sweeping the Kitchen: Revelation and Revolution in Contemporary Southern Women's Writing." Society for the Study of Southern Literature Session, Modern Language Association convention, 1990. "Trying to Read Rosa Coldfield's Hysterical Text... Hysterically." American Literature Association Conference. San Diego, June 1990. "'It's yours now': The Place of the Story in Contemporary Women's Narrative." International Conference on Narrative. Tulane University, New Orleans, April 1990. "Old Scenes/New Spaces: Contemporary Southern Women Writers and the Transformation of Place." Symposium on Southern Women, Georgia College, October 1989. "The In-between Space of Place: Contemporary Southern Women Writers and the Transformation of Narrative." National Women's Studies Association Conference. Towson, Maryland, June 1989. "Flooding and Faulkner's Feminine Narrative." International Conference on Narrative Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1989. "White Southern Women's Autobiographies: Bringing History 'Into the House.'" Society for the Study of Southern Literature session. Modern Language Association convention, 1987. "White Women Reading Black Women's Texts... or The Necessity of Being Other." National Women's Studies Association Conference, June 1987. "Thinking and 'Unthinking' History: Black Women's Narrative Sensibility as Feminist Model." National Women's Studies Association Conference, June 1987. "Paternal Absence and Narrative Desire: Faulkner as Father and Daughter of His Own Text." Modern Language Association Convention, 1986. Page 10 of 16
"Saying No to the Father: Margaret Walker's Humanistic Voice." Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, Feb.1986. Chair, Women's Studies Division Section, "Celebrating Women's Autobiographies." Modern Language Association convention, 1984. "The Female Self and the South: Articulations and Redefinitions in Black and White Wom Autobiographies." Society for the Study of Southern Literature Section, Modern Language Association Convention, 1984. "'... I shall mention the tamales': Food and Drink in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas and Other Stories. Fifth Annual Winthrop College Symposium on Major Modern Writers, Rock Hill, S.C., April 1982. "Rebellion and Return: The Pattern of Two Oppressive Relationships in Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools." South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention, Louisville, November 1981. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Topics Courses Developed in Literature and Creative Writing: The Global South (Graduate) The Contemporary Memoir: Readings and Issues (Graduate) Memory and Literature (Undergraduate) Memory, History, Mourning: American Literature and Southern History (Graduate Seminar) Eudora Welty and Flannery O Connor: The Art of the Short Story (Graduate Seminar) Teaching Literature of the U.S. South (Graduate Seminar on the pedagogy of teaching literature of the U.S. South, linked to undergraduate Southern Literature Course) (Funded by a Research and Teaching Grant, University of New Mexico) Literature and Culture of the U.S. South (Undergraduate) Faulkner at 102 (Graduate Seminar) Faulkner, Morrison, and Questions of Trauma, Memory, and History (Graduate Seminar) Gender, Space, and Reading (Graduate/Undergraduate) Place, History, and American Women Writers 1840-1940 (Graduate) Creative Nonfiction Workshop (Graduate) Southern Women s Writing and Theories of Space (Undergraduate) Woolf, Faulkner, and 'Gender Trouble' (Graduate Seminar) Queer Texts (Graduate/Undergraduate) The American Dream and Its Critics (Undergraduate) Toni Morrison (Graduate Seminar, Undergraduate) Contemporary Women Poets and Space (Graduate/Undergraduate) African American Women Writers (Undergraduate) The Old South in American Thought (University Honors Seminar) Page 11 of 16
Contemporary American Women Writers and Feminist Theory (Graduate) Woolf, Faulkner, Hurston (Graduate) Women Writers and Nature (Honors) Faulkner and Morrison (Senior Honors Seminar) Contemporary American Women Writers and Theories of Space (Graduate/Undergraduate) The American Short Story and the NEH Film Series (funded by a Teaching Enhancement Grant) Catalog Courses: African American Literature (Graduate and Undergraduate) Feminist Theory (Graduate and Undergraduate) Appalachian Literature (Undergraduate at Virginia Tech) American Literature Surveys (Undergraduate) Gender and Literature (Undergraduate) The Novel (Undergraduate) Contemporary Literature (Graduate) The Modern American Novel (Undergraduate) Introduction to Women's Studies (Undergraduate) The American Short Story (Undergraduate) Dissertations and Theses Directed (University of North Carolina): The Ancestor in Faulkner and Morrison. (M.A. Thesis) Jameela Dallis. Fall 2009. Literature of Detection. (Ph.D. Dissertation) Erin Bartels, in progress. The Present Elsewhere: Theorizing an Aesthetics of Displacement. (Ph.D. Dissertation) Mary Alice Kirkpatrick, in progress. Sissy! Queer Bodies in 20 th Century American Literature. (Ph.D. Dissertation) Harry Thomas, in progress. Dissertations/Theses Directed (Purdue): Gayl Jones s Corregidora and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Philathia Bolton, May 2003. Shaping Absence: The Descriptive and Unifying Nature of Silence in Beloved, Mike Mauritzen, Nov. 2004. The Aesthetics of Translating Cultural Trauma: Traumatized communities in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film. Laura Beadling, April 2007. Page 12 of 16
Dissertations Directed (SUNY): The House that Class Built: Desiring Spaces in Woolf s Shorter Fiction, Heather Levy, Feb. 2003. Dissertations Directed (University of New Mexico): "The Organics of Working-Class Struggle: Literature, Theory, and Practice: The Example of Dorothy Allison. Gloria Larrieu, May 2002. "Stein, Joyce, and the Question of Canon," Tracy Johnson (co-chair), May 2001. "'Being among the pioneers': Rhetorics of Activism in the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers," Alanna Cotch, March 2001. "The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era," Linda Joyce Brown, March 2001. (Routledge Press, 2004) "Leaving Home: Travel and the Politics of Literacy in United States Women's Fiction and Autobiography," Elizabeth Wright, Oct. 2000. "Loving the Mother: Feminine Spiritual Spaces in the Writings of Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso." Carmela Delia Lanza, Oct. 2000. "'Neither Master nor Slave of Meaning': American Women Poets and the Sublime," Renee Faubion, Apr. 2000. "Locating in the Actual: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Eavan Boland," Jeannette Riley, Jan. 1998. "Boundary Breaking: Mestiza Literature and Cultural Plurality," Kay Thurston, March, 1997. "Poetic Epistemologies: Knowledge and Gender in Women's Language-Oriented Writing," Megan Simpson, Oct. 1996. (SUNY Press, 1998) "Theorizing the Self: Feminist Theory and the Autobiographical Voice of Mary Austin," Anna Carew-Miller, Oct. 1994. "Spatial Metaphors, Narrative Form, and the Autobiographical Self in British Women's Autobiographies: 1660-1899," Mary Lou Fisk, Oct. 1993. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Page 13 of 16
National and International: Referee and Tenure and Promotion Reader: National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Bellagio Foundation, ACLS/Mellon, PMLA, Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society, American Literary History, National Women's Studies Association Journal, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, American Literary Realism, Modern Fiction Studies, Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, University of Georgia Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Tennessee Press, Louisiana State University Press, Feminist Press; Carnegie Mellon University, Arizona State University, Louisiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, SUNY/Albany, University of Alabama, North Carolina State University, City of New York Community College, Louisiana State University. Selection Committee: Hugh Holman Award for Best Critical Book in Southern Literature, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (1998, 1999). Editorial and Advisory Boards: Jackson State University, Margaret Walker Alexander Collection (2007- ); Modern Fiction Studies (2002-05)); Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism (1995-99); North Carolina Literary Review (1991-95); Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (1990-92). Elected board member, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (1993-95), (2004-06). Modern Language Association Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Ethics: An MLA committee of seven persons charged with writing a code of ethics for the profession (1987-90). UNIVERSITY SERVICE: University of North Carolina: University Level Southern Studies Curriculum Committee, American Studies, 2010- Committee to review Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, 2007 Postdoctoral Selection Committee, Center for the Study of the American South, 2005 Departmental Level: 20 th Century American Literature Search Committee, 2010 Teaching Evaluator, Elyse Crystall, 2009 English Department Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2009 English Department Search Committee, Assistant Professor Position in Asian American Literature, 2009 Page 14 of 16
English Department Speaker Series Coordinator, 2008 Tenure and Promotion Committee, Elected member, 2006-07 Search Committee, 20 th Century Literature senior position, African American Literature junior position, 2005-06 Purdue University: University Level: Provost s Hiring Committee, Vice President for Research Position, 2003-05. Coordinator, Creative Writing Panels for the International Conference on Trans-Positions, sponsored by the Purdue University Women s Studies Program, April 2005. Reader for School of Liberal Arts Research Incentive Grants 2002. Dean s Strategic Plan Committee, School of Liberal Arts 2002-03. Reader for Proposals for Black Women s Studies Conference 2002. Women s Studies Subcommittee for Program Planning 2002. Women s Studies Affiliated Faculty 2002-05. American Studies Affiliated Faculty 2003-. Reader, Graduate Student Fellowships, American Studies 2003-04. Faculty Member, ALLY Support Group for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students. Faculty Advisor, Student Group for Lesbian, Bisexual, Progressive Women. Departmental Level: Policy Committee (elected at-large member), 2004-06. Graduate Studies Committee 2002-04; Elected Chair, 2003-04. Two-Member Advisory Board, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, 2003-04. Graduate Admissions Committee, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, 2004. Reader for Graduate Dissertation Fellowships 2002. Primary Committee 2002-. Binghamton University (SUNY): Departmental Level: Senior Promotion Committee 2001-2002. Junior Promotion Committee 2001-2002. University of New Mexico: University Level: Director, Feminist Research Institute, 2000-01. Women's Studies Executive Committee, 2000-2001. College of Arts and Sciences Senior Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97. Page 15 of 16
Women's Studies Associate Faculty, 1996-2001. Faculty Advisor, Lesbian/Gay Student Alliance, 1994-96. Convener, Feminist Theory Lecture Series, 1991-93. Board of Directors, Arts and Sciences Women's Caucus, 1990-2000. Chair, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, 1992-93, 2000-2001. Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1990-93. Women's Studies Hiring Committee, 1991-92. Regents' Scholar Mentor, 1993-97. Official Mentor: Assistant Professor Monica Cyrino, Modern and Classical Languages, 1993-1999. Departmental Level: English Department American Literature Search Committees, 1990, 1998. English Department Executive Committee, elected Full Professor Representative, 1990-91, 1991-92; Elected At-Large Rpresentative 1993-94; 1994-95; 1995-96; 1997-99. English Department Graduate Committee, UNM, 1990-92, 1998-99. Undergraduate Committee 1995-97. Convener, Faculty Colloquia, 1997-98 (developed, organized, and ran a regular lecture series by faculty. Official Mentor: Assistant Professors Carolyn Woodward, Monica Espinosa, Laurie Alberts, Gail Houston, Jesse Aleman, Catherine Ramirez. Virginia Tech University Level: Interim Co-Coordinator, Women's Studies, 1987-88. Selection Committee, Arts and Sciences Research Grants Program, 1987-1990. Organizational Committee, Women's Research Institute, 1987-88. Summer Stipend Grants Selection Committee, Center for Programs in the Humanities, 1987-88. Advisory Committee to the Director of Humanities, 1987-88 (Elected Member). Recruitment Committee, Center for Programs in the Humanities, Appalachian Studies Faculty Committee, 1985-89. Faculty Sponsor, Honor Society for Women Students, 1983-85. Group Leader, Seminar for Faculty, "Black Students and White Teachers," 1984. Departmental Level: Executive Committee, 1984-86 (elected). Search Committee, 3 positions, 1987-88. Peer Evaluator of Assistant Professors and Instructors, 1986-88. Departmental Mentor, 1987-90. Page 16 of 16