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Curriculum Vitae of
Lorena Russell
May 2002 Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dissertation: “Queering the Pulpit: Fears and Pleasures in British Feminist
Metafiction” May 1995 MA, English, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
May 1993 MA, Liberal Arts, University of North Carolina Asheville
Thesis: “Lesbian Representation in Recent Historical Fiction” May 1989 BA, English, German, Summa Cum Laude, University of North Carolina Asheville
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (1 semester). http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/liter337sp2003/index.htm Senior Seminar in Women's Studies (1 semester). http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/wmst400sp2006/index.asp Virginia Woolf and her World (1 semester). Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) remains a central intellectual figure for understanding any number of cultural and social issues of the early twentieth-century. Her legacy as an artist and as a political thinker is still very much with us today. Although she remains a notoriously difficult figure to locate, we will explore Woolf and her world through four major areas: 1) family & biography; 2) Bloomsbury (the early twentieth-century intellectual group with which Woolf was closely identified); 3) history, war & empire; 4) gender & sexuality. For more information on these themes, see Approaching Woolf. The first part of the class will be devoted to understanding Woolf’s relationship to these varied (and often overlapping) areas through texts, films and art. I’ll ask each student to choose one of the four areas for their focus. You’ll be expected to do additional reading in the area in her journals, fiction or essays, facilitate discussion forums, and complete a short paper on the topic. We will end the semester reading two of Woolf’s major novels: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. The learning objective of this course is to facilitate a critical understanding & appreciation of Virginia Woolf: her milieu, her writings and her many contributions to social thought and to Anglo-American culture. http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/hon373f2005/ Queer Fictions (1 semester). This introductory course explores a range of queer representations through selected poetry, fiction and film. We’ll explore themes including shame and celebration, queer gothic, camp, AIDS, queer postcolonial, and queer utopias. Although the majority of our texts emerge from the Anglo-American tradition, we’ll also be looking at representations from Europe, Africa and South Asia. Texts include works by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Radcliffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Yukio Mishima, Walt Whitman, Ama Ata Aidoo, Jeanette Winterson, Audre Lourde, Michael Cunningham, Paul Monette and Pat Califia. Films include Valley of the Dolls, Suddenly, Last Summer, Thelma and Louise, Fire, The Crying Game, Dakan, Big Eden. http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/liter373sp2005/ Intro to Theory (2 semesters). This course offers an introduction to the historical development and theoretical positions of key schools of contemporary theory and criticism. We will examine a variety of critical approaches to literature, including New Criticism, Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and queer, feminist and postcolonial theories. In our reading and writing, we will examine the intellectual foundations of critical methods and their implications for interpretive practices. We will read primary essays by theorists, as well as secondary material about literary theory. LITER 446 The Art of the Novel (2 semesters). An intensive study of the novel and its historical dimensions with emphasis on meaning and technique. http://www.unca.edu/~lrussell/liter356f2003/ Angela Carter & Cathy Acker: Feminism and the Pornographic Imaginary (1 semester). A graduate-level tutorial exploring feminist uses of pornographic writing forms and associated theory.
Foundations of Academic Writing (6
semesters). Develops critical writing and thinking skills through close readings
of various texts: fiction, non-fiction, film and art, with an emphasis on
college-level conventions of essay writing. Themes include: Humanities: Medieval/Renaissance (4 semesters). Fosters critical and creative thinking through interdisciplinary study. The course follows developments in Europe, Africa, Asia, India and Latin America from the fall of Rome to the 17th century, exploring the human condition through a variety of positions, interrogating such concepts as nature, the divine, community and the individual. Most recently taught as diversity intensive. http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/hum214f2005/ Introduction to Poetry (2 semesters). Introductory survey includes close reading of a variety of poetic forms with emphasis on developing an appreciation of the poet’s craft and vision. http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/liter241sp2003/index.htm Special Topics: Seminar in the Postcolonial (1 semester). An intensive study of colonial and postcolonial literatures and theories entitled "Sex & Gender in the Postcolonial." http://facstaff.unca.edu/lrussell/liter337sp2003/index.htm
Introduction to Sexuality (1 semester). Explores questions of what counts as sexuality, how sexualities and genders get produced, the various categories through which we understand sexuality, and the exclusions and violence (not to mention pleasures) that these categories generate. The course examines a range of sexual expressions—historical, economical, cultural, political—through a variety of materials: film and TV, fiction, legal documents, memoir, visual art, articles and essays. http://www.duke.edu/~lorenar/sexuality/sxl115s/ Queer/Postcolonial (1 semester). Explores intersections between sexuality, gender, race, and nationality through selected media, film and fiction, with a focus on how the represented interplays of desires and identities produce and resist colonial, imperial and postcolonial impulses. Readings from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean. (Blackboard web site not available)
Introduction to Fiction (1 semester). Designed to offer an introduction to conventions of fiction through novels and short stories. Subtitled “Imperial Gothic,” this class explores convergences of Gothic and imperial writings through selected texts. Taught as part of the English Dept. “Link Program,” and executed in collaboration with a composition class: http://sites.unc.edu/~lorenar/engl23e/ Contemporary Literature (1 semester). An introduction to contemporary literature, exploring themes and issues of “The Subject in History” through selected poetry, drama, short fiction and novels. (web site no longer available). Rhetoric and Composition (7 semesters, three in computer-assisted classrooms). Develops students’ skills for writing sustained analysis and arguments for various audiences and topics, including popular culture, public issues, and professional or academic communities. http://sites.unc.edu/~lorenar/engl1196. 1999 Carolina Computer Initiative pilot laptop class A composition class conducted in a wireless environment. Included service-learning component “Aging in America,” a writing unit executed through web-based collaboration with residents from Carol Woods, a local continuing care retirement community. http://sites.unc.edu/~lorenar/engl11z Writing Across the Curriculum (2 semesters). Teaches writing for specific academic disciplines, with units in natural science, social science and humanities. (web site no longer available). 1999-2002 Program Assistant and Instructor, UNC-CH Division of Continuing Education & Distance Education Contemporary Literature (4 semesters). An on-line course that serves as an introduction to contemporary literature through poetry, drama, short fiction and novels. Responsible for teaching on-line and for developing course module and teaching materials. http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/cco/ 1998-1999 Teaching Assistant, UNC-CH Curriculum in Women’s Studies Introduction to Women’s Studies (2 semesters). Interdisciplinary course that introduces students to key themes and history of the women’s movement and women’s studies. Collaborative planning for discussion sections, web page/discussion forum, paper topics and exams. Responsible for leading discussion sections and grading. http://www.unc.edu/courses/wmst050 1997-1999 Technical Trainer, UNC-CH Academic Technology and Networking Lead Trainer: Internet Curriculum. Responsible for teaching a variety of software (MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, email applications, etc.), with specialization in internet applications and web authoring. Audience included all members of the university community: staff, administrators, students and faculty. Responsible for developing curriculum and modules for internet classes. Developed and authored/co-authored documentation for Document Sharing and Collaboration with MS Word, Internet Essentials, Web Authoring with Netscape Composer, File Management for Site Managers, Web Authoring with FrontPage. http://help.unc.edu/training 1996 Tutor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Writing Center Tutor. (1 semester). Worked in one-on-one tutorials with graduate and undergraduate university students and faculty. Helped to develop on-line component, http://www.unc.edu/depts/wc/ 1991-1993 Tutor, University of North Carolina Asheville Writing Center Tutor. (4 semesters). Worked in one-on-one tutorials with university students. Queering the Pulpit: Fears and Pleasures in British Metafiction. (under consideration). "Defense of Family Acts: Queering Familia in The Sopranos." Considering David Chase. Ed. Thomas Fahy. McFarland Press, 2007. (in progress) “Teaching Diversity through the Postcolonial Novel.” Teaching the Novel in the Major and Across the Curriculum. Ed. Colin Irvine. (in progress). “Latent Lesbians and Heterosexual Narrative: Tracing a Queer Poetics in Fay Weldon’s Fiction” Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. Ed. Richard Fantina. McFarland Press, 2006. (in press). “Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” Booker Prize Winners. Ed. Merritt Moseley. New York: Thomson Gale, 2005. (in press). “Aesthetes, Ogees and “The Lady”: Queer Complications in The Line of Beauty.” Postscripts 23 (2006): 169-192. “Strangers in Blood: The Queer Intimacies of Six Feet Under.” Considering Alan Ball. Ed. Thomas Fahy. McFarland Press, 2006. “Heterosexual Panic in the Ass-End of Space: Queer Gothic in Alien3.” Gothic Studies 7.2 (2005). “Angela Carter.” Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York & London: Routledge Press. 2006. (in press). "Hope and Despair in The English Patient. Postscripts: The Publication of the Philological Society of the Carolinas 22 (Spring 2005): 29-41. “Queering Consumption and Production in Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.” Horror Films: The Packaging of Terror. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: U Mississippi Press, 2004. 213-226. Review of Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Active Instruction by Rita Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2004) for Effective Teaching http://www.uncw.edu/cte/ET/, July 2004. “Paul Bailey.” British and Irish Novelists Since 1960. Ed. Merritt Moseley. DLB 271, New York: Thomson Gale, 2003. “Dog-Women and She-Devils: The Queering Field of Monstrous Women.” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies. 5.2 (2000): 177-193. “Defense-of-Family Acts: Queering Familia in The Sopranos.” Popular Culture Association of the South, Savannah, GA, October 2006. "Pushing the Boundaries with the Hogarth Press." Philological Association of the Carolinas, Fort Mill, SC, March 2006. "Shape Shifting in the Composition Classroom." Convergence and Change: Re-Crafting a Composition Program from Two Semesters to One. CCCC. Chicago, IL, March 2006. "Pushing the Boundaries with Hogarth Press." Literature and the Private Press." Philological Association of the Carolinas, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2006. "Appropriate Uses of Technology." 2005 COPLAC Institute on Liberal Learning in the Disciplines, Asheville, NC. June 2005. “Aesthetes, Ogees, and 'The Lady': Queering Complications in The Line of Beauty. ” Philological Association of the Carolinas, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2005. “The Arabian Nights and the Teeming Narrative: Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter.” Narrative: An International Conference. Burlington, VT, April 2004. (Panel Organizer, Moderator). “Postmodern Bluebeard: Feminist and Queer Recuperations.” Narrative: An International Conference. Burlington, VT, April 2004. “Hope and Despair in Ondaatje’s The English Patient. ´Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, March 2004. “Magic Realism and the Politics of Desire.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2004. "The Passion of Jeanette Winterson's Queer Poetics." The Central New York [International] Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, October 2003. "Technology and Liberal Arts Education." Symposium Participant. Wabash College Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Crawfordsville, IN, July 2003. (Panel Organizer/Moderator/Presenter) “Migrancy and Desire: Mapping the Postcolonial in the Stories of Angela Carter.” Philological Association of the Carolinas. Myrtle Beach, SC. March, 2003. “Queering Domestic Spaces: Violence In the Bedroom and The Deep End.” Cultural Studies Association of the South. Charlotte, NC. October, 2002. (Panel Organizer/Moderator) “Queer/Postcolonial” at Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Toronto, March, 2002. “Living in the Material World: Fay Weldon’s Materialist Feminism.” Philological Association of the Carolinas. Asheville, NC. March, 2002. (Panel Participant) “Innovative Learning and Student Forums for Excellence: Interdisciplinary Humanities Culture at the University of North Carolina Asheville.” Austin Peay State University Conference for Excellence in the Liberal Arts. Clarksville, TN, February, 2002. “Self-Disclosure and Community Building in the Web-based Literature Classroom.” Computers and Writing. Muncie, IN. May, 2001. “Queering Production and Consumption in Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Hartford, CT. March, 2001. (Session Facilitator) “Teaching for the Public Good: The Future of the Humanities in Public Higher Education.” Humanities Educators of North Carolina (HENC). Chapel Hill, NC. September 2000. “Service Learning and the Mobile Classroom.” Computers and Writing Conference. Fort Worth, TX. May, 2000. (Invited Speaker) “Using Internet Discussion Forums in the Women’s Studies Classroom.” Carolina Technology Expo 2000. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2000. “Nomadic Readings: Shifting Stakes in Angela Carter.” Queer Fears/Queer Pleasures. South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA). Memphis, TN. October, 1999. “Dog Women and She-Devils: Perverse Bodies in Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Fay Weldon.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA). Raleigh, NC. March, 1999. “Sex and Race in Cyberspace: Using Web-Based Discussion Forums in Women’s Studies.” UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Teaching and Learning Celebration of Teaching Conference. Chapel Hill, NC. April, 1998. “Colonial Constructions in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel.” American Literature Association. Baltimore, MD. May, 1997. “Sexing the Spirit: Jeanette Winterson’s Spiritual Materialism.” UNC-Greensboro Women’s Studies Conference. Greensboro, NC. March, 1997. “The Strange World of Martha Crick: Women and Evacuation in Waterland.” UNC-Chapel Hill Women’s Studies Conference. Chapel Hill, NC. March, 1997. “Mapping the Postmodern in Jeanette Winterson.” Women Across the Curriculum Interdisciplinary Conference. Chapel Hill, NC. March, 1995. “Lesbian Representation in Christa Wolf’s Cassandra.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA). Tampa, FL. March, 1992. PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMANCES "Race and Colonialism in Othello. Humanities 214 Course Lecture. Asheville, NC April 2006. UNCA. "Queering Carravagio." Humanities Presentation. Asheville, NC April 2006. UNCA (Invited Speaker) "Teaching in the Liberal Arts University." UNC-CH Department of English. Chapel Hill, NC. October 2005. UNC-CH. "Queer Heterosexuality." UNCA Women's History Month Brownbag Lunch. Asheville, NC March 2005. UNCA (Invited Speaker) “Maintaining Your Cultural Diversity in Today’s Politically Correct World.” Duke University, Durham, NC, January 2005. (Invited Speaker) “Queer Gothic.” Revoluticon: A Science Fiction and Gothic Conference. Asheville, NC, October 2004. "Queering the Pulpit: Outlining a Queer Poetic in Contemporary British Metafiction." Faculty Forum, Asheville, NC, March 2004. UNCA. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Woman Acting In Liberation (UNCA WAIL), Asheville, NC, February, 2004. UNCA. “Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book: “‘The Delights of the Flesh and Literature.’” UNCA Film Club, Asheville, NC, October, 2003. UNCA. “Queering the Academy.” UNCA Alliance, Asheville, NC, October, 2003. UNCA. “Making Due with Rags of Love.” Last Lecture Series, Underdog Productions, Asheville, NC, October, 2003. UNCA. “The Celluloid Closet.” UNCA Dept. of Literature and Language, LANG 102, Asheville, NC, September, 2003. UNCA “Teaching Black Venus: Approaching Race in the Postcolonial Classroom.” UNCA Women’s History Month Brownbag Lunch, Asheville, NC, March 2003. "Deconstructing Hearth and Empire: Queer Citizenship in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." 5th Annual UNCA LGBT-Q Conference, Asheville, NC, March, 2003. UNCA “Using the Online Peer Review Platform” January, 2003. Dept. Liter. & Lang. Faculty Orientation, Asheville, NC. UNCA “Deviance and Decadence in Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo.” Asheville, NC, January, 2003. UNCA. (Invited Speaker) “Bridging the Divide: Academics, Activists and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Aftermath of September 11.” Carolina Seminar Series. Chapel Hill, NC. November 2001. (Invited Speaker) “Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.” Lecture (200 students). Introduction to Women’s Studies. Chapel Hill, NC. September 2001. UNCA TEACHING WORKSHOPS "UNCA Diversity Retreat." May 25-26, 2004. Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC. "LANG 120 Development Workshop." May 11-12, 2004, Asheville, NC. UNCA "Plagiarism." Ramsey Library. March 24, 2004. Asheville, NC. UNCA. AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS 2004 Course Redesign with Technology
2001-2002 Senior Teaching Fellowship UNC-CH Department of English appointment in recognition of excellence in teaching and academic work. 2001 Ruth Rose Richardson Scholarship Fund UNC-CH English department award. Provides $500 for travel to an academic conference. 2000-2001 UNC-CH Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship University-wide award in recognition of quality of scholarly research and progress towards the degree. Provides two semesters of full-time support ($12,000.00) for completion of dissertation. 2000 IBM Instructional Grant: Peer Consultant Award University-wide award in recognition of contribution for technical training. (Declined in order to qualify for Dissertation Completion Fellowship). 2000-2002 UNC-CH Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars In recognition of excellence in teaching and contributions to education at UNC-CH. Mission of the academy is to promote and advocate excellence in teaching and enhance the intellectual climate of the university. 2000 UNC-CH Tanner Award for Excellence in Teaching Distinguished university-wide award in recognition of undergraduate teaching excellence. $1000.00 1997-1998 Communities in Collaboration: Graduate Sexuality Research in the Triangle Interdisciplinary weekly colloquium. Funded by UNC-CH Williamson Committee for Gay and Lesbian Studies, the UNC-CH Institute for Research in Social Science, and the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. 1998 Teaching Assistants’ Technology Supplement Award University-wide UNC-CH Graduate School award in recognition of innovative proposal for web-based supplemental instruction in Introduction to Women’s Studies course. $800.00. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Philological Association of the Carolinas (PAC) Modern Language Association (MLA) Popular Culture Association Society for the Study of Narrative Literature National Women’s Studies Association National Council of Teachers of English Pamela Cooper (Dissertation Director), Associate Professor of English, UNC-CH, (919) 962-4040; pcooper@email.unc.edu Daniel Anderson, Associate Professor of English, UNC-CH, (919) 962-8480; iamdan@email.unc.edu E. Jane Burns, Professor of Women’s Studies, Director of the Curriculum in Women’s Studies, UNC-CH, (919) 962-3908; ejburns@email.unc.edu Margaret J. Downes, Professor of Literature and Language, UNC-A, (828) 251-6577; downes@unca.edu Laurie Langbauer, Professor of English, UNC-CH, (919) 962-6921; llangbau@email.unc.edu John P. McGowan, Professor of English, UNC-CH, (919) 962-4022; JPM@email.unc.edu Linda Wagner-Martin, Professor of English, UNC-CH, (919) 962-8765; wagner1@prodigy.net |
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