EMPLOYMENT | EDUCATION | HONORS AND AWARDS | PUBLICATIONS | PRESENTATIONS | COURSES TAUGHT | SERVICE | REFERENCES

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of English, Morehead State University, 1998-present.

Robert E. Park Teaching Fellow, English, University of Georgia, 1997-98.

English Tutor for American and ESL students, all levels and disciplines, Writing Center, University of Georgia, 1996, 1998.

Teaching Assistant, English, University of Georgia, 1993-96.

Teaching Assistant, English, Université d'Orléans (France), 1991-92.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Spring 1997, Department of English, University of Georgia. Dissertation: " 'A Politics of Asking Women's Questions'? Adrienne Rich's Later Career." Director: Margaret Dickie.

Diplôme de Maîtrise, cum laude, September 1992, Department of English, Université d'Orléans (France). Thesis: "The Representation of Madness in American Cinema." Co-directors: Catherine Bernard and Mark Niemeyer.

Diplôme de Licence, September 1991, Department of English, Université d'Orléans (France).

Diplôme de Maîtrise, September 1991, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Université d'Orléans (France).

Diplôme de Licence, September 1990, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Université d'Orléans (France).

Diplom-Vorprüfung, October 1989, Department of Technical Translation, Universität Hildesheim (Germany).

HONORS AND AWARDS

American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2001 ($27,000).

Institutional Faculty Research Grant, Morehead State University, 2000 ($3,689).

Summer Research and Creative Productions Fellowship, Morehead State University, 1999 ($1,000).

Franklin College Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1996-1997 ($10,000).

Robert H. West Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Georgia, 1996-97 ($1,000).

Helen S. Lanier Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1995 ($3,300).

Helen S. Lanier Summer Research Assistantship, University of Georgia, 1994 ($3,300).

Study-Abroad Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (Bourse de Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies), Université d'Orléans (France), 1992-93 ($1,500).

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

The Creative Crone: Aging the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, May Sarton, and Adrienne Rich (in progress).

Articles:

" 'A Mutually Transformative Date' ": Elizabeth Bishop, Max Jacob, and Questions of Translation and Influence." Forthcoming in Texas Studies in Language and Literature.

"The Self-Categorization, Self-Canonization, and Self-Periodization of Adrienne Rich." Challenging Boundaries: Gender & Periodization. Eds. Margaret Dickie and Joyce Warren. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2000. 267-83.

"When Helen Awakens: Revisionary Myth in Judy Grahn's The Queen of Wands." Women's Studies 29 (Summer 2000): 289-312.

"Adrienne Rich." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Writers. (Entry update.) Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. 364-81.

"The 'Slow Turn of Consciousness': Adrienne Rich's Family Plot." Women's Studies. Special issue on "'A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here': Adrienne Rich's Recent Poetry." Eds. Albert Gelpi and Jacqueline V. Brogan. 27 (Spring 1998): 347-58.

"German-Language Responses to Dickinson," "'Daisy,'" "Capitalization," "Immortality." Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein. Oakland, CA: Greenwood P, 1998.

"Adrienne Rich's 'Autumn Equinox.'" The Explicator 55.3 (1997): 169-72.

"Neither Lesbian nor Straight: Multiple Eroticisms in Emily Dickinson's Love Poetry." The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.2 (1995): 1-19.

PRESENTATIONS

"Positive Disfigurements: Literary Indirection in Frank Bidart's "Ellen West." Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, San Antonio, TX, 14-18 February 2002.

"Early Signs of Aging, Later-Life Repairs: Age-Defiance in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 22-24 February, 2001.

"May Sarton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Question of Aging." MELUS Europe. Orléans, France, 22-25 May, 2000.

" 'A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here': May Sarton and the Land of Old Age." Modern Language Association Convention (special session), Chicago, IL, 27-30 December 1999.

"The Art of Elizabeth Bishop's Translation." American Literature Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, 27-30 May 1999.

"Report from Part Three: The Effects of Aging on Gwendolyn Brooks's Poetry." Modern Language Association Convention (special session), San Francisco, CA, 27-30 December 1998.

"The Anxiety of Not Influencing: Gertrude Stein's Autobiographical Phase," American Literature Association Symposium, Los Cabos, Mexico, 12-15 November, 1998.

"The Convergeance of Marginal and Mainstream Discourses: Judith Ortiz Cofer's 'Terms of Survival,'" South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, 13-15 November 1997.

"Choosing Not Choosing: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Habit of Movement," American Women Writers of Color Conference, Ocean City, MD, 31 October-2 November 1997.

"Adrienne Rich's Family Plot," American Language Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, 22-25 May 1997.

"Adrienne Rich's Self-canonization," Annual Conference of the Southeastern Women's Studies Association, Athens, GA, 18-20 April, 1997.

"Adrienne Rich's Self-censorship and Self-canonization," Modern Language Association Convention (special session), Washington, D.C., 27-30 December 1996.

"Marginal Force or Cultural Center? Adrienne Rich's Place within the Feminist Canon," Symposium of the English Graduate Organization of the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 12 November 1996.

"Writing Like a Radical: Political Awareness in Adrienne Rich's Early Poetry," National Poetry Foundation Conference on American Poetry in the 1950s, Orono, ME, 19-23 June 1996.

"When Helen Awakens: Revisionary Myth in Judy Grahn's The Queen of Wands," ALA Symposium on Women Poets of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico, 14-17 December 1995.

"Neither Lesbian nor Straight: Multiple Eroticisms in Emily Dickinson's Love Poetry," Emily Dickinson Abroad Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 4-6 August 1995.

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate:

Major American Poets.

American Fiction from its Beginnings to the Present.

Honors:

Honors American Literature from 1865 to the Present.

Honors Literature and Composition: "Pushing the Limits of Genre."

Upper division:

Twentieth-Century American Novel: "The Quest for a Durable Self."

"From Imagism to Language Poetry: American Poetic Theories and Practices of the Twentieth Century."

Major American Poets.

Expatriate Writers in Paris.

African-American Literature.

General education and lower-division:

Composition and Rhetoric, regular and computer-assisted.

Composition and Literature, regular and computer-assisted.

Multicultural English Composition: "Cultural Encounters and Clashes."

Approaches to Literature: "Wars: Military and Verbal."

English Literature from 1700 to the Present, computer-assisted.

American Literature to 1865: The Individual and the Community.

American Literature since 1865.

The Short Story and Novel.

Introduction to Women's Studies.

Introduction to French Culture.

SERVICE

Reader for The Ohio State University Press, 2001-present.

International Education Programs Advisory Committee, Morehead State University, 2000-present.

Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Program Advisory Council, Morehead State University, 1999-present.

Advisory Council, Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy, Morehead State University, 1999-present.

Planning Committee for the Wilma E. Grote Symposium for the Advancement of Women, to be held in March 2000 at Morehead State University, 1999-present.

Graduate English Committee, Morehead State University, 1998-present.

Undergraduate English Committee, Morehead State University, 1998-present.

Freshman Composition Examination Committee, University of Georgia, 1994, 1998.

Treasurer, Sigma Tau Delta, University of Georgia, 1996-97.

Assistant to the Vice-president of the Emily Dickinson International Society, 1994. Coordinator of the Dickinson Abroad Conference. Innsbruck, Austria, 4-6 August 1995.

REFERENCES

Jacqueline V. Brogan, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame. Jacqueline.V.Brogan.2@nd.edu.

Barbara Frey Waxman, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. waxmanb@uncwil.edu.

Steven Gould Axelrod, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside. steven.axelrod@ucr.edu.

Nancy Peterson, Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University. n.peters@morehead-st.edu.

Anne Williams, Professor of English, University of Georgia. awilliam@english.uga.edu.

Margaret Dickie (deceased in 1999), Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English. University of Georgia.

Dossier available upon request from Career Planning and Placement Center, Clark Howell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-6205 (706-542-8431).