AML 6027: The Limits of Modernism: Modernity’s
Failures, Stephanie Smith, Spring 2005
AML 6017: American Literature to 1900, David
Leverenz, Spring 2005
LIT 6857: Neo-Soul or Post-Black? Contemporary
Black Cultural Studies, Amy Ongiri, Fall 2004
LAE 6947: Writing Theories & Practices,
Sidney I. Dobrin, Fall 2004
Teaching Experience:
Planned and teaching ENGL 102: First Year Composition
sections 35 and 61 at UA, Spring 2009
A process-based course on rhetoric and academic research
writing which includes the following major writing assignments:
rhetorical analysis of a visual argument of each
student's choice
"discovery analysis" of at least three different
scholarly perspectives on a topic of each student's choice
public argument on the same topic - either visual,
oral, or written - accompanied by written self-analysis of the
student's rhetorical choices therein
reflection
As instructor, selected all readings, created syllabus
and assignment sheets in accordance with given course structure,
teaching all classes, and grading all 50 (total) students' work
Planned and taught ENGL 101/197B: First-Year
Composition
sections 7 and 8 at UA, Fall 2008
A process-based course on academic writing
which
included literacy narrative, textual analysis, contextual analysis, and
reflection
assignments, plus a studio component for close drafting and revision
work
Theme: Black American Writers
As instructor, selected reader and all
readings, created syllabus and assignment sheets in accordance with
given course structure, taught all classes, and graded all 21 (total)
students' work
Designed and taught ENGL 300:
Literature and Film section 31 at UA, Summer Pre-Session 2008
Theme: Breaking the Rules
As instructor, selected books, films, and secondary
readings; created syllabus, essay and informal assignments, and exams;
taught all classes; and graded all 39 students' work
Planned and taught ENGL 102: First-Year
Composition section 117
at UA, Spring 2008 (25 students)
Planned and taught ENGL 101: First-Year
Composition
sections 116 and 219 at UA, Fall 2007
A process-based course on academic writing
which
included textual analysis, contextual analysis, and reflection
assignments
Theme: Societal expectations of love and
familial relationships
As instructor, selected all readings from given
texts, created
syllabus and assignment
sheets in accordance with given course structure, taught all classes,
and graded all 50 (total) students' work
A process-based course on argumentative
academic research
writing which took
place in a computer-based classroom and included rhetorical analysis,
summary, annotated
bibliography, and synthesis assignments and a research paper on a topic
in each student's area of study
Theme: Real and imaginary spaces
As instructor, selected all texts, created
syllabus and
assignment
sheets in accordance with given course objectives, taught all classes,
and graded all
19 students' work
Designed and taught ENC 1102-8180 &
1102-5866: Introduction
to
Argument and
Persuasion in the UWP, Fall 2005 (21 students each)
A process-based course on understanding and use
of rhetoric
which
took place in a computer-based classroom and included rhetorical
analysis, rebuttal, evaluation, proposal, and
reflection assignments
As instructor, selected all texts, created
syllabus and
assignment sheets in accordance with course objectives (as written by
Syllabus Design Committee, see below), taught all classes, and graded
all 19 students' work
Designed and taught ENC
1101-1656: Introduction to College Writing in the UWP, Spring 2005 (19
students)
Planned and taught ENC
1101-2854 & 1101-2855:
Introduction to College Writing in the UWP, Fall 2004 (21 students each)
Research Assistant to John Dasburg, historical
novelist and Vice
Chairman of the Board of
Governors for the Florida University System, March-September 2005
co-editing, with Laura Tuley, a collection on the
impact of major traumatic events on mothering in which Demeter Press
has expressed interest
Book
Chapters and
Articles
"The Reclamation of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee" in Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2005
Annual Meeting of the Florida
College English Association (ISBN#1904303935). Steve Glassman,
ed. Cambridge Scholars P, 2006. 175-194.
"Recognizing and Using Rhetoric" in A Student's Guide
to First-Year Writing, 29e (2008-2009), ed. Kristen Haven, Kelly
Myers, and H. Marlowe Daly-Galeano (Hayden-McNeil,
2008)
Review of Because
I Said
So:
33 Mothers Write About
Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves (ed.
Camille Peri and Kate Moses, Harper,
2005) in the Journal of
the Association for Research on Mothering 10.1 (Spring/Summer
2008). 305-306.
"A Sense of Guilt": Review of Jean Wyatt's Risking
Difference:
Identification, Race,
and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (SUNY P, 2004) in In-between:
Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism (ISSN#0971-9474) 13.2
(Sept. 2004). 189-191.
Review
of Fredrik
Strömberg's The
Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics
(Fantagraphics Books, 2005) in progress for ImageTexT:
Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
Entry on World War II bond drives in Encyclopedia of the Home
Front: World Wars I and II V.II: WWII (ISBN#1576078493). James
Ciment and Thaddeus Russell, eds. ABC-CLIO, 2007. 788-790.
Entries on Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson from Guys and Dolls (1950) and Mama Rose
from Gypsy
(1959) in Student's
Companion to
American Literary Characters (forthcoming from BCL/Manly, 2007?)
Entries on Nancy Chodorow,
Julia Kristeva, Maternal Abject,
and Linda
Rennie Forcey in progress for Encyclopedia
of Mothering, ed.
Andrea O'Reilly (forthcoming from SAGE Publications)
Poems
"Waiting" in The
MOM EGG: The
journal of Mamapalooza,
v.5. Alana Ruben Free and Marjorie Tesser, eds. YBK Publishing,
2007. 67-68.
"Feminist Mothering as Conservative: American Indian Sons
in Literature" as part of the National Women's Studies Association
Feminist Mothering Caucus panel,
"Multicultural Mothering/Mothering in the Diaspora," at NWSA; Cincinnati, Ohio; June
19-22, 2008
"Mother-Blame by Mothers: A Sinister Manifestation of the
Monster Mother Myth" as part of the panel "Identity, Myth, Agency," one
of three of the American Culture
Association’s
"Women’s Studies" area and the Popular Culture Association’s "Women’s
Lives and Literature" area for the 2008 joint
PCA/ACA conference; San Francisco, California; March 19-22, 2008
Parents of English Graduate Union committee member, 2009
Committee member for 2008 ARM conference and gave
words of welcome as chair of first keynote panel, "Violence,
Militarism, and Social Justice," featuring Sara Ruddick, Flavia Cherry,
Tiisetso Russell, and Wahu Kaara
A Student's Guide to
First-Year Writing Annual Essay Contest judge, April 2008
UA Graduate Student Professional Council Travel Grant
Evaluation Committee member, February and June 2008
UA Writing Program late registration volunteer, Fall 2007
and Spring 2008
Coordinator of Andrea O'Reilly
talk at UA, November 7, 2007
Proposed event to all parties; almost
single-handedly planned,
garnered
funding for, and publicized it; and introduced speaker
Chair, "Care and Mothering" panel at the May 2006
Association
for Research on Mothering Conference, "Carework and Caregiving:
Theory and Practice"