Department of English The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Curriculum Vitae Mary Lou Emery (Abbreviated) Phone: (319) 335-0436 (Office) (319) 335-0454 (Dept.) E-mail: mary-emery@uiowa.edu EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Higher Education Ph.D. Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1976-1981 (M.A. en passant) Concentrations in Twentieth-Century Literature, Critical and Social Theory Post-graduate Study, San Diego State University, 1974-76 Concentrations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, Women s Studies, Social Theory B.A. English, The University of Oklahoma, 1968-1972 Professional and Academic Positions Professor of English, The University of Iowa, 2008 International Programs (0%), 2011 Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, 1990 2008 Assistant Professor of English, The University of Iowa, 1983 1990 Lecturer, Foothill Junior College, Foothill, California, 1982 Instructor and Lecturer in Freshman English, Stanford University, 1977 1981 Honors and Awards (Since 1990) Career Development Awards, Fall 2012, Spring 2006, Fall 2000, Fall 1994, Fall 1988 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008 Graduate Mentor Award, 2007 Center for Teaching Thank a Teacher Recognition, Fall 2005 International Programs Outstanding International Educator Recognition, Fall 2003 Collegiate Teaching Award, 2002 Marion L. Huit Faculty Award, 1998-99 John Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-99 Regents London Program (Selected for the Program Faculty), Spring 1992 Memberships Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association International Virginia Woolf Society Society for the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Working Group: Circulating Cultures SCHOLARSHIP (Since 1990) Books Modernism, 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
2 Edited Volume Guest 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 forthcoming 2013) The Poetics of Labor in Jean Rhys s Global Modernism, Philological Quarterly, Special Issue on the New Modernist and New Southern Studies, ed. Harilaos Stecopoulos, Vol. 90, no. 2 & 3 (Spring & Summer 2011): pp. 173-203 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); and Modern 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): 71-91 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)]
3 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 Encyclopedia Entries, Forewords, Reviews Derek Walcott, The Routledge Digital Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross, 10 manuscript pages (forthcoming 2013) Foreword, Rhys Matters, ed. Mary Wilson and Kerry Johnson (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillian, 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 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 form of housing that has circuited the globe over a period of four centuries, becoming a conflicted emblem of modernity. Grants International Programs Summer Research Grants, 2012, 2004, 2002 International Programs Curriculum Development Awards, Fall 2003, Fall 2000 Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grants, 2002-03, 1999-2000 International Programs Travel Awards, Spring 2002, Spring 2000, Summer 1992
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ( Invited as indicated; otherwise, selected by conference committee) (Since 1990) 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 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 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 4
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 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 5 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
6 TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Characteristic Graduate Courses Modernity and Plantation Modernism Modernist Arts in Britain Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group England between the World Wars Caribbean Literature: Writings in Exile Characteristic Undergraduate Courses Honors: Modernist Arts in Britain Modernist Women Writers Caribbean Literature and Culture Transcultural Modernism Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20 th Century Introduction to the Novel Graduate and Honors Thesis and Exam Committees Director or Co-Director of 21 Dissertations in the areas of Postcolonial, Caribbean, and Modernist Studies Reader for 23 Additional Dissertations (data available since 1997) Area Director or Reader for 31 PhD Comprehensive Exam Committees Director of 1 M.A. Thesis Reader for 1 NFW Thesis Director of 12 Honors Theses SERVICE (Since 1990) Profession Evaluator, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Applications, 2011 External Examiner, PhD Dissertation, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 2006 External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion Cases: 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: 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
Department Salary Committee 2013 Chair English DEO Search Committee, 2013 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2013 Salary Committee, 2012 Executive Committee, 2011- Graduate Steering Committee, 2010-2011 Placement Committee, Fall 2011 Chair, Placement Committee, Spring 2011 Co- Chair, Search Committee, Digital Literacies/ Visual Cultures, 2010-2011 Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2010 Placement Committee, 2010 Graduate Steering Committee, 2010 Assistant Professor Review Committee, Third-Year Review, 2009 Chair, Fifth-Year Assistant Professor Review, 2009 Director 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, 2008-09 Curriculum Committee, 2008-09 Honors Program, Assistant to the Director, Fall 2007 Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2007 Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2006 Assistant Professor Review Committee, Fall 2005 Gateway Course Committee, Fall 2005 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 students Curriculum Committee, 2002-2005 Elected to Executive Committee, 1999-2005 Graduate Steering Committee, 2001-2002 Placement Committee, 2001-2002 (Chair in Spring 2002) Assistant Professor Review Committee, 1999-2000 Director, 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, 1990-1993 T.A. Advisor, 1991-2001, 1983-1989 Graduate Admissions Committee, 1995 Honors Program Committee, 1995 Acting Director of the General Education Literature Program, Spring 1993 Associate Director of the General Education Literature Program, 1991-1994 Search Committees, 1993-1994, 1992-1993, 1984-1985 Elected to Executive Committee, 1992-1995, 1985-1988 7
8 Coordinator of the General Education Literature Cultural Diversity Task Force under the Ford Grant, 1991-1992 Graduate Steering Committee, 1990-1991 College Collegiate Teaching Award Committee, 2002-2003 Discussion Leader for New Faculty Orientation, Fall 2002 Participant Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Workshop on Graduate Teacher Training, Summer 1999 As Director of General Education in Literature, worked with CLAS on financial aid and curriculum review, 1995-1999 University International Programs, Summer Fellowship Evaluation Committee, Spring 2013 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Member, Working Group on Circulating Cultures, 2011-12 Obermann 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, Amherst Symposium in Honor of Huston Diehl, Co-organizer with Dee Morris, Spring 2010 Caribbean, Diaspora, Atlantic Studies Program, Steering Committee, 2002-2007 Organized guest lecture by Carole Boyce Davies, invited graduate students to speak at lunchtime series, gave two invited lectures Arts and Humanities Initiative Evaluation Committee, 2004 Elected to Faculty Senate, 1996-1999 Chair, Study Abroad Scholarship Committee, 1998-1999 Study Abroad Scholarship Committee, 1996-1999
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