EVE ALLEGRA RAIMON Professor, Department of English University of Southern Maine Associated Faculty, American and New England Studies Women and Gender Studies (207) 780-4676 (w) /raimon@usm.maine.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., English and American Literature, Brandeis University, May 1995 Major fields of concentration: American and African American literature; gender and ethnic studies; literary and cultural theory, media studies M.A., English, University of Vermont, 1988 B.A., Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1980 ACADEMIC HONORS Faculty Senate Research Grant, University of Southern Maine, 2013 University of Southern Maine, Faculty Senate award for excellence in scholarship, May 2006 University of Southern Maine, Faculty Senate award for excellence in university service, May, 1998 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 1988-1992 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, 2011-present Professor, Arts & Humanities, University of Southern Maine, 2007-2011 Chair of the faculty, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College, 2004-2006 Associated Faculty, M.A. Program in American & New England Studies, 2005-present Women and Gender Studies Executive Council, 1997-present Associate Professor, Arts & Humanities, University of Southern Maine, 2001-2007 1
Assistant Professor, Arts & Humanities, University of Southern Maine, 1995-2001 Lecturer, University of Southern Maine, 1994-1995 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: Boggis, JerriAnne, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White, eds., with a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Harriet Wilson s New England: Race, Writing, and Region, Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. The Tragic Mulatta Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: Brutality and Brotherhood: James Baldwin and Prison Sexuality, special issue of African American Review, 46.4, 2013 (backdated, published in 2014) Making Up Mammy: Representing Historical Erasure and Confounding Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye s The Watermelon Woman, in Too Bold for the Box Office: Mockumentaries from Big Screen to Small, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. New York: Lanham, MD, (2012). Lost and Found: Making Claims on Archives, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 27.2, 2010 James Baldwin Abroad: Writing and Directing Race and Sexuality in Turkey, American Studies Association, November, 2010, with collaborator Melinda Plastas, Bates College Whose Greater Expectations Are They, Anyway? Exposing the Tensions within Educational Reform Rhetoric, Rosemary Cleary and Eve Allegra Raimon, Winter, 2009, AAC&U s Liberal Education Writing Group as Sanctuary, Lisa Botshon and Eve Allegra Raimon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2009 Miss Marsh s Uncommon School, in JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White, eds., Harriet Wilson s New England: Race, Writing, and Region, with a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, July 2007 Raimon, Eve Allegra and Jan. L. Hitchcock, Civic Character Engaged: Adult Learners and Service Learning, The Practice of Change, Washington, D.C.: AAHE, 2000 Raimon, Eve Allegra. "Miscegenation, Melaleukation, and Public Reception, Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, Purdue University Press, 1999 2
David E. Harris and Eve Allegra Raimon. What is Race? : A Transdisciplinary Course, A Pedagogical Challenge, College Teaching, 46.2 (Spring 1998) WORKS IN PROGRESS Beyond the Black Heritage Trail: Race, Place, and Public Memory This book will critically examine the cultural work of African American historical recovery projects in New England. My Mother, My Archive, a creative nonfiction essay about maternal recovery via textual traces in notes for a 1949 English M.A. thesis from Cornell University, under revision. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS New England s New Old Past and African American Public Memory Projects, American Studies Association, November, 2013 Incongruous Scenes on a Spot of Natural Beauty : Maine s History of Removal of a Different Kind, American Studies Association, November, 2012 Beyond the Black Heritage Trail: Race, Place, and Public Memory in the Memorial to Harriet Wilson American Literature Association, April, 2011 James Baldwin Abroad: Writing and Directing Race and Sexuality in Turkey, American Studies Association, November, 2010 Lost and Found: Making Claims on Archives, American Literature Association, June, 2010 Making it Real, Making Them Feel: Private and Public Archives in the Classroom, Women in the Archives conference, University of New England, May, 2009 Miss Marsh s Uncommon School, American Literature Association, May 2006 Cleary, Rosemary J., Eve Allegra Raimon, and Robert M. Schaible, Advocacy s Just Another Word: Advocacy Teaching and Academic Freedom in the Classroom, AAC&U annual conference, 2006 New England American Studies Association conference roundtable, Same Sex, Different State: Sex and Citizenship Across State Lines, 2006 Cleary, Rosemary J. and Eve Allegra Raimon, The Visionary and the Volatile: The Promise and Making Up Mammy: Representing Historical Erasure and Confounding Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye s The Watermelon Woman, American Studies Association conference, 2002 Numbering by Colors: Antislavery Fiction and the New Census of 1850, American Studies 3
Association conference, 2000 What is Race to American Studies? American Studies Association conference,1998 SELECTED BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Frieda Mock, dir. Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, American Film Foundation, 2014. Meg McLagan and Daria Somners, dirs. Lioness. Room 11 Productions, 2008, in The Journal of American History, 95.3 (Fall 2009) Vanessa D. Dickerson, Dark Victorians in The Journal of American History. 95.4 (Winter 2009) "Social Criticism in Richard Hildreth s The White Slave (1852)" for the African American Review, June, 2009. Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, in The Journal of American History, 93.3 (2006) Janet Gabler-Hover, Dreaming in Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (2000), in Nineteenth- Century Contexts 25.4 (2003) MANUSCRIPT READER Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race, for New York University Press, in proccess Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and the New Regionalism, for Literature Compass, 2010 Play (writing) and En(acting) Consciousness: Theater as Rhetoric in Harriet Wilson s Our Nig, for Western Journal of Black Studies, 2009 Sanctuary: African Americans and the American Empire, for Rutgers University Press, 2007 Ordinary Women: Female Agency, Power, and Authority in Colonial New Hampshire, 1690-1770, for The University Press of New England, 2006 COURSES TAUGHT: Slavery and Public History, The Politics of Difference, Introduction to Cultural Studies, Early African American Literature and Culture, What is Sex? Women Writing Around the World, Women Writing Across the Color Line, Texts and 4
Meanings, Nineteenth-Century Best Sellers, Media and the Iraq War, What is Race? Sexualities in U.S. Literature and Film, Theories of Popular Culture, Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Culture, Literacy Studies and Service Learning, Aesthetics and the Politics of Language, Creative Nonfiction, Newswriting, Creative Critical Inquiry into Modern Life, Introduction to Literature, College Writing SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE Advisory Board, Talbot African American Collection, Sampson Center for Diversity, University of Southern Maine, 2014 Let s Talk About It, Maine Humanities Council, Civil War Fiction, 2011 President, New England American Studies Association, 2007 Scholar/participant, University of New Hampshire and Center for the Study of New England workshop for secondary education teachers on teaching Harriet Wilson s Our Nig, 2006 Women and Gender Studies Executive Council, 1999- present USM Faculty Senate, 1999-2000; 2010-2014 President s Committee on Diversity, 1998-2004; 2010-2011 Scholar/facilitator, Maine Humanities Council Literature & Medicine hospital reading series, 2001-2003. Co-chair, Lesbian & Gay Studies Seminar, Center for the Humanities, Harvard University, 1994-97 RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Statehouse reporter, Vermont Press Bureau, Montpelier, VT, 1984-1986 Reporter and anchor, WCAX-TV, CBS affiliate, Burlington, VT, 1981-84 Reporter and anchor, WHCU Radio, Ithaca, NY, 1979-1981 5