CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
PhD in American Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, May 2010.
Dissertation: “Black Mothers and the Nation: Claiming Space and Crafting Signification for the Black Maternal Body in Slavery, Reconstruction, and Segregation Narratives, 1852-2001”
Committee: Deborah Mix, Kecia McBride, Robert Nowatzki, Scott Stephan
Abstract: This study tracks the ways that nineteenth and twentieth-century texts position the black maternal body as subversive. It points to the ways in which that subversive potential has been repeatedly, violently, and surreptitiously circumscribed in some quarters even as it succeeds in others. It goes on to analyze the myriad ways in which women have used representations of the black maternal body to both construct and undermine stereotypical representations of black motherhood and also how these authors connect, in elaborate and complicated ways, the black maternal body and the nation.
MA in Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2004.
Thesis: “The last . . . thing one needed to know’: Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade”
BA in English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2002.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2011-present.
Courses Taught: ENG 230: Reading and Writing about Literature; HONRS 201: Inquiries in the Ancient World; HONRS 202: Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment.
Instructor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2011.
Courses Taught: ENG 230: Reading and Writing about Literature; ENG 206: Reading Literature; ENG 103: English Composition; ENG 393: Writing Competency Course (at the Miami County Correctional Facility, through the School of Extended Education).
Graduate Advisor, Low-Residency MA Program, Prescott College, AZ, 2009-2011.
Description: Facilitated development of advisee’s study plan for completion of Master’s degree in literature and guided advisee through several independent study courses, from Medieval literature through Realism; Provided detailed feedback on advisee’s written work, including a conference paper, publishable articles, and Master’s level thesis.
Instructor of English, Ivy Tech Community College, Muncie, IN, 2005-2010.
Course Taught: ENG 111: English Composition.
Teaching Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2010.
Courses Taught: ENG 103: English Composition; ENG 104: Research and Composition; WMST 210: Introduction to Women’s Studies.
Course Co-Taught: ENG 250: American Literature 2: 1860-Present (with Rai Peterson).
Instructor of English, Ivy Tech Community College, Richmond, IN, 2005-2008.
Courses Taught: English 025: Introduction to College Writing; English 111: English Composition (classroom, online, and hybrid sections).
Instructor of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2005.
Course Taught: English 104: Literature and Composition.
Other Related Work Experience
Writing Consultant, Muncie, IN, 2011.
Description: Provided guidance on the framing and organization of a dissertation
project in sociology and comprehensive feedback on drafts of several chapters.
Graduate Research Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2002-2009.
Conducted research for faculty projects and for the National Writing Project.
Assistant to Director of Graduate Studies, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
Developed and wrote web content for Department of English website.
Co-Assistant to Director of Writing Center, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
Supervised and assessed undergraduate tutors, facilitated student writing in individualized tutoring sessions, and developed and delivered presentations to university groups.
Study Strategies Tutor, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 1999-2001.
Designed and implemented individualized undergraduate tutoring sessions.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Black Mothers and the National Body Politic: The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present. University of Georgia Press. (currently revising as per reader’s comments in order to resubmit)
“The Subversive Potential of the Abjected Black Maternal Body in Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit.” Flannery O’Connor Review 8 (2010).
“Queering Texas: Interview with Del Shores.” The Southern Quarterly 47.1 (2009): 104-20.
“Chasing the ‘Coloured Phantom’: Gender Performance as Revealing and Concealing Modernist Ideology in Millay's Sonnets.” Journal of American Culture 32.2 (2009): 155-64.
“Double-Voicedness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ‘Loud Talking’ to a Northern Black Readership.” American Transcendental Quarterly 22.3 (2008): 517-25.
“(Re)visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.” Interactions 17.2 (2008): 111-23.
“Problematizing Polygyny in Achebe’s Historical Novels: The Role of the Western Feminist Scholar.” Research in African Literatures 39.1 (2008): 166-84. Rpt. in Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2009. (listed under Andrea Powell)
“Jane and Bertha in Polly Teale's Jane Eyre.” Journal of Drama Studies 2.1 (2008): 34-41. (listed under Andrea Powell)
“Living the Legacy of the Southern Belle: Ellen Gilchrist's Rhoda in ‘1957, a Romance.’” The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers 1.2 (2008): 1-18.
“’The last . . . thing one needed to know’: Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.3 (2006): 78-102. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
“The Shaping of the New Woman in The Rise of Silas Lapham.” MP: An Online Feminist Journal 1.1 (2004): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Other Publications
Article
“Bradstreet vs. Taylor: Acceptable Expressions of Grief in a Puritan Society.” New Contemplative Review: Journal of Spirituality Studies 1.1 (2004): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Book Reviews
Rev. of With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, by Catrióna Rueda Esquibel. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 33.1 (2008): 225-28. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Rev. of Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West 1890-2000, by Cas Wouters. Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1 (2006): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
Rev. of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History, by Michael R. Marrus. Perspectives of Evil and Human Wickedness 1.4 (2004): 72-5. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Contributions to Reference Works
“Mammy.” Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Eds. Andrea O’Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson. New York: SAGE Publications, 2010.
“’The Cannon Between My Knees’ by Paula Gunn Allen.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. Eds. Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan Velie. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2007. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
“The Beats in Film.” Co-Author William Lawlor. Beat Culture: Icons, Lifestyle, and Impact. Ed. Lawlor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Blog
literatimom: a motherhood-centered literary blog by Andrea Powell Wolfe, PhD. Web. (posts include “’Kubla Khan’ Regret,” “The Power of Fertility in Inanna Literature and Today,” “Penelope as (M)other: Telemachus’s Coming of Age in The Odyssey,” “Genesis: More and Less, Or, What I Didn’t Learn in Sunday School,” “Dido at the Extremes: Vergil’s Tragic Heroine as Victim of and Threat to Rome,” “The Good Woman of A Few Good Men,” “The Threat of the Monstrous Mother in Beowulf and The Tempest, and, by Extension, the Western Humanities,” and “’The Golden Virgin’ of Amiens Cathedral”)
Conference Presentations
“’Remember there is no black man, and mamma is close here beside you’: Oppression and True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s Virginia” at American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
“‘Naming and Claiming’ and Rights to the Gaze in Sherley Anne William’s Dessa Rose” at Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
“The Use of Domestic Ideology to Empower Black Mothers in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces (1900)” at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
“The Angel and the Madwoman in Polly Teale’s Jane Eyre” at Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy Spring Meeting, Cleveland, OH, 2008.
“Problematizing Polygyny in the Historical Novels of Chinua Achebe: The Role of the Western Feminist in Transforming African Marriage Customs” at Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007.
“Deconstructing the Basic Writing Dichotomy: Bridget as a Basic Writer” at National Council of Teachers of English, New York, NY, 2007.
“Modernist Aesthetics in Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade” at American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2007.
“The Pregnant Body: Julia Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in the Works of Evelyn Scott.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 2007.
“Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader as Narrative Fetish” at Midwest/Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2006.
“Sixteenth-Century Feminism?: Isabella Whitney’s ‘I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover’” at Midwest/Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006.
“The Politics of Polygyny in Achebe’s Arrow of God” at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2006.
“Performance as Revealing and Concealing Modernist Ideology in Millay’s Sonnets” at Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 2005.
“A Safe Place for Exploring New Versions of Femininity: Colonial Space in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko” at College English Association, Indianapolis, IN, 2005.
“The Shaping of the New Woman in The Rise of Silas Lapham” at Indiana College English Association, Muncie, IN, 2004.
“(Re)Visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems” at Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, 2004.
“Bradstreet vs. Taylor: Acceptable Expressions of Grief in Puritan Society” at Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Marion, IN, 2004.
“The ‘Puzzle,’ the ‘Crisis,’ and the ‘Impossibility’ of Motherhood: A Feminist Mother’s Analysis of Stepmom” at Practical Criticism Midwest, Muncie, IN, 2003.
“School without Departments: Interdisciplinary Study at the Virginia B. Ball Center” at Indiana Teachers of Writing Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2000.
Invited Talks and Presentations
“Professional Development and the Job Market” for Deborah Mix’s English 693: Writing in the Profession, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
“How to Get Published as a Graduate Student” for Graduate Student Advisory Board’s Friday Forum, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
“Graduate Student Professional Development” for Deborah Mix and Adam Beach’s English 693: Writing in the Profession, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
“Language and the Black Female Body in Audre Lorde’s Poetry” for Robert Nowatzki’s English 491: African American Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
“Southern Gothicism in the Works of Flannery O’Connor” for Rai Peterson’s English 240: American Literature 1, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2007.
“Introduction to Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader” for Frank Felsenstein’s Jewish Studies Course Development Faculty Summer Workshop, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Service
Service to the Profession
Chair, “Ellen Glasgow and Other Writers: Professional Influences” Panel, American Literature
Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
Scorer, Indiana Writing Project Scoring Conference, Muncie, IN, 2011.
President, Names in Literature Panel, American Name Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
Reader, Plenum: The South Carolina State University Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2009.
Scorer, AP Literature and Composition Scoring Conference, Louisville, KY, 2008.
Chair and Panel Organizer, Women’s Realist Fiction of the Late Twentieth Century: The Politics of the Personal, Midwest Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Midwest/Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH, 2007.
Table Leader, National Writing Project Annual Scoring Conference, Denver, CO, 2007.
Reviewer, Perspectives in Argument, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2007.
Member, Midwest Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Midwest/Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2006-2008.
Service at Ball State University
Designer and Instructor, English 103 Service Learning Project, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
Member, Graduate Student Advisory Board, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2010.
Member, College of Sciences and Humanities Student Advisory Council, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2009-2010.
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2007.
Co-Director, Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Group, with Adrienne Bliss, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Member, Practical Criticism Midwest conference planning committee, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2007.
Contributor, development of training materials for Writing Center, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Service at Ivy Tech Community College
Designer and Instructor, English 111 Service Learning Project, Ivy Tech Community College, Muncie, IN, 2010.
Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Ivy Tech Community College, Richmond, IN, 2005.
Service to the Community
Mentor, Project Leadership, Muncie, IN, 2010-2011.
Honors, Awards, and Grants
Sarah Gordon Award, cash prize for best essay written by a graduate student on Southern literature, granted by Flannery O’Connor Review, 2009.
Rippy Graduate Scholarship, annual monetary award, used for dissertation research, 2009.
Voss Graduate Scholarship, annual monetary award, used for research on depictions of maternity and motherhood in Southern literature, 2007.
Travel Grants from Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs, Graduate Student Advisory Board, and Department of English, used for travel to conferences, 2003-2009.
Harris Manchester Scholarship, competitive monetary award for study at University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 2001.
Virginia Woolf Scholar, one of 12 students selected to participate in interdisciplinary, immersive course within a creative inquiry program, 2000.
Updated May 2012.
Education
PhD in American Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, May 2010.
Dissertation: “Black Mothers and the Nation: Claiming Space and Crafting Signification for the Black Maternal Body in Slavery, Reconstruction, and Segregation Narratives, 1852-2001”
Committee: Deborah Mix, Kecia McBride, Robert Nowatzki, Scott Stephan
Abstract: This study tracks the ways that nineteenth and twentieth-century texts position the black maternal body as subversive. It points to the ways in which that subversive potential has been repeatedly, violently, and surreptitiously circumscribed in some quarters even as it succeeds in others. It goes on to analyze the myriad ways in which women have used representations of the black maternal body to both construct and undermine stereotypical representations of black motherhood and also how these authors connect, in elaborate and complicated ways, the black maternal body and the nation.
MA in Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2004.
Thesis: “The last . . . thing one needed to know’: Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade”
BA in English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2002.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2011-present.
Courses Taught: ENG 230: Reading and Writing about Literature; HONRS 201: Inquiries in the Ancient World; HONRS 202: Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment.
Instructor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2011.
Courses Taught: ENG 230: Reading and Writing about Literature; ENG 206: Reading Literature; ENG 103: English Composition; ENG 393: Writing Competency Course (at the Miami County Correctional Facility, through the School of Extended Education).
Graduate Advisor, Low-Residency MA Program, Prescott College, AZ, 2009-2011.
Description: Facilitated development of advisee’s study plan for completion of Master’s degree in literature and guided advisee through several independent study courses, from Medieval literature through Realism; Provided detailed feedback on advisee’s written work, including a conference paper, publishable articles, and Master’s level thesis.
Instructor of English, Ivy Tech Community College, Muncie, IN, 2005-2010.
Course Taught: ENG 111: English Composition.
Teaching Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2010.
Courses Taught: ENG 103: English Composition; ENG 104: Research and Composition; WMST 210: Introduction to Women’s Studies.
Course Co-Taught: ENG 250: American Literature 2: 1860-Present (with Rai Peterson).
Instructor of English, Ivy Tech Community College, Richmond, IN, 2005-2008.
Courses Taught: English 025: Introduction to College Writing; English 111: English Composition (classroom, online, and hybrid sections).
Instructor of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2005.
Course Taught: English 104: Literature and Composition.
Other Related Work Experience
Writing Consultant, Muncie, IN, 2011.
Description: Provided guidance on the framing and organization of a dissertation
project in sociology and comprehensive feedback on drafts of several chapters.
Graduate Research Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2002-2009.
Conducted research for faculty projects and for the National Writing Project.
Assistant to Director of Graduate Studies, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
Developed and wrote web content for Department of English website.
Co-Assistant to Director of Writing Center, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
Supervised and assessed undergraduate tutors, facilitated student writing in individualized tutoring sessions, and developed and delivered presentations to university groups.
Study Strategies Tutor, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 1999-2001.
Designed and implemented individualized undergraduate tutoring sessions.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Black Mothers and the National Body Politic: The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present. University of Georgia Press. (currently revising as per reader’s comments in order to resubmit)
“The Subversive Potential of the Abjected Black Maternal Body in Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit.” Flannery O’Connor Review 8 (2010).
“Queering Texas: Interview with Del Shores.” The Southern Quarterly 47.1 (2009): 104-20.
“Chasing the ‘Coloured Phantom’: Gender Performance as Revealing and Concealing Modernist Ideology in Millay's Sonnets.” Journal of American Culture 32.2 (2009): 155-64.
“Double-Voicedness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ‘Loud Talking’ to a Northern Black Readership.” American Transcendental Quarterly 22.3 (2008): 517-25.
“(Re)visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.” Interactions 17.2 (2008): 111-23.
“Problematizing Polygyny in Achebe’s Historical Novels: The Role of the Western Feminist Scholar.” Research in African Literatures 39.1 (2008): 166-84. Rpt. in Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2009. (listed under Andrea Powell)
“Jane and Bertha in Polly Teale's Jane Eyre.” Journal of Drama Studies 2.1 (2008): 34-41. (listed under Andrea Powell)
“Living the Legacy of the Southern Belle: Ellen Gilchrist's Rhoda in ‘1957, a Romance.’” The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers 1.2 (2008): 1-18.
“’The last . . . thing one needed to know’: Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.3 (2006): 78-102. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
“The Shaping of the New Woman in The Rise of Silas Lapham.” MP: An Online Feminist Journal 1.1 (2004): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Other Publications
Article
“Bradstreet vs. Taylor: Acceptable Expressions of Grief in a Puritan Society.” New Contemplative Review: Journal of Spirituality Studies 1.1 (2004): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Book Reviews
Rev. of With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, by Catrióna Rueda Esquibel. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 33.1 (2008): 225-28. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Rev. of Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West 1890-2000, by Cas Wouters. Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1 (2006): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
Rev. of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History, by Michael R. Marrus. Perspectives of Evil and Human Wickedness 1.4 (2004): 72-5. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Contributions to Reference Works
“Mammy.” Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Eds. Andrea O’Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson. New York: SAGE Publications, 2010.
“’The Cannon Between My Knees’ by Paula Gunn Allen.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. Eds. Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan Velie. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2007. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
“The Beats in Film.” Co-Author William Lawlor. Beat Culture: Icons, Lifestyle, and Impact. Ed. Lawlor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. (listed under Andrea Powell)
Blog
literatimom: a motherhood-centered literary blog by Andrea Powell Wolfe, PhD. Web. (posts include “’Kubla Khan’ Regret,” “The Power of Fertility in Inanna Literature and Today,” “Penelope as (M)other: Telemachus’s Coming of Age in The Odyssey,” “Genesis: More and Less, Or, What I Didn’t Learn in Sunday School,” “Dido at the Extremes: Vergil’s Tragic Heroine as Victim of and Threat to Rome,” “The Good Woman of A Few Good Men,” “The Threat of the Monstrous Mother in Beowulf and The Tempest, and, by Extension, the Western Humanities,” and “’The Golden Virgin’ of Amiens Cathedral”)
Conference Presentations
“’Remember there is no black man, and mamma is close here beside you’: Oppression and True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s Virginia” at American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
“‘Naming and Claiming’ and Rights to the Gaze in Sherley Anne William’s Dessa Rose” at Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
“The Use of Domestic Ideology to Empower Black Mothers in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces (1900)” at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
“The Angel and the Madwoman in Polly Teale’s Jane Eyre” at Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy Spring Meeting, Cleveland, OH, 2008.
“Problematizing Polygyny in the Historical Novels of Chinua Achebe: The Role of the Western Feminist in Transforming African Marriage Customs” at Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007.
“Deconstructing the Basic Writing Dichotomy: Bridget as a Basic Writer” at National Council of Teachers of English, New York, NY, 2007.
“Modernist Aesthetics in Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade” at American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2007.
“The Pregnant Body: Julia Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in the Works of Evelyn Scott.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 2007.
“Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader as Narrative Fetish” at Midwest/Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2006.
“Sixteenth-Century Feminism?: Isabella Whitney’s ‘I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover’” at Midwest/Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006.
“The Politics of Polygyny in Achebe’s Arrow of God” at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2006.
“Performance as Revealing and Concealing Modernist Ideology in Millay’s Sonnets” at Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 2005.
“A Safe Place for Exploring New Versions of Femininity: Colonial Space in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko” at College English Association, Indianapolis, IN, 2005.
“The Shaping of the New Woman in The Rise of Silas Lapham” at Indiana College English Association, Muncie, IN, 2004.
“(Re)Visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems” at Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, 2004.
“Bradstreet vs. Taylor: Acceptable Expressions of Grief in Puritan Society” at Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Marion, IN, 2004.
“The ‘Puzzle,’ the ‘Crisis,’ and the ‘Impossibility’ of Motherhood: A Feminist Mother’s Analysis of Stepmom” at Practical Criticism Midwest, Muncie, IN, 2003.
“School without Departments: Interdisciplinary Study at the Virginia B. Ball Center” at Indiana Teachers of Writing Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2000.
Invited Talks and Presentations
“Professional Development and the Job Market” for Deborah Mix’s English 693: Writing in the Profession, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
“How to Get Published as a Graduate Student” for Graduate Student Advisory Board’s Friday Forum, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
“Graduate Student Professional Development” for Deborah Mix and Adam Beach’s English 693: Writing in the Profession, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
“Language and the Black Female Body in Audre Lorde’s Poetry” for Robert Nowatzki’s English 491: African American Literature, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2008.
“Southern Gothicism in the Works of Flannery O’Connor” for Rai Peterson’s English 240: American Literature 1, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2007.
“Introduction to Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader” for Frank Felsenstein’s Jewish Studies Course Development Faculty Summer Workshop, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Service
Service to the Profession
Chair, “Ellen Glasgow and Other Writers: Professional Influences” Panel, American Literature
Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
Scorer, Indiana Writing Project Scoring Conference, Muncie, IN, 2011.
President, Names in Literature Panel, American Name Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
Reader, Plenum: The South Carolina State University Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2009.
Scorer, AP Literature and Composition Scoring Conference, Louisville, KY, 2008.
Chair and Panel Organizer, Women’s Realist Fiction of the Late Twentieth Century: The Politics of the Personal, Midwest Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Midwest/Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH, 2007.
Table Leader, National Writing Project Annual Scoring Conference, Denver, CO, 2007.
Reviewer, Perspectives in Argument, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2007.
Member, Midwest Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Midwest/Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2006-2008.
Service at Ball State University
Designer and Instructor, English 103 Service Learning Project, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2010.
Member, Graduate Student Advisory Board, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2010.
Member, College of Sciences and Humanities Student Advisory Council, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2009-2010.
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2007.
Co-Director, Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Group, with Adrienne Bliss, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Member, Practical Criticism Midwest conference planning committee, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006-2007.
Contributor, development of training materials for Writing Center, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2006.
Service at Ivy Tech Community College
Designer and Instructor, English 111 Service Learning Project, Ivy Tech Community College, Muncie, IN, 2010.
Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Ivy Tech Community College, Richmond, IN, 2005.
Service to the Community
Mentor, Project Leadership, Muncie, IN, 2010-2011.
Honors, Awards, and Grants
Sarah Gordon Award, cash prize for best essay written by a graduate student on Southern literature, granted by Flannery O’Connor Review, 2009.
Rippy Graduate Scholarship, annual monetary award, used for dissertation research, 2009.
Voss Graduate Scholarship, annual monetary award, used for research on depictions of maternity and motherhood in Southern literature, 2007.
Travel Grants from Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs, Graduate Student Advisory Board, and Department of English, used for travel to conferences, 2003-2009.
Harris Manchester Scholarship, competitive monetary award for study at University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 2001.
Virginia Woolf Scholar, one of 12 students selected to participate in interdisciplinary, immersive course within a creative inquiry program, 2000.
Updated May 2012.