CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
PH.D.
The University of New South Wales;
Sydney, Australia
English with a specialization in Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Contemporary Women’s Writing. Dissertation:
“Becoming-Woman: ‘Difference Feminism’ and the Race for the Other”
M.A.
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut
English Literature. Specialization in Feminist Theory and Criticism
B.A.
Smith College,
Northampton, MA.
English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature (cum laude)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
IMPERILED WHITENESS: HOW HOLLYWOOD and MEDIA MAKE RACE IN “POSTRACIAL” AMERICA
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2023
THE SIGNIFYING BODY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF SEXUAL AND RACIAL DIFFERENCE
Albany: SUNY Press, 2008
Articles
“RACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER: STAR TREK, TRUMP, AND HOLLYWOOD’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM.”
Ed. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2019.
Essays on J.J. Abrams’ Final Frontier: The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek.
“OBAMA, TRUMP, AND THE POLITICS OF AN APE PLANET.”
Jump Cut 58, Spring 2018.
“FRAMING THE MOTHER IN ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU’S BABEL.”
Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological, and Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Petra Buskens. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2014.
REVIEW OF TRANSNATIONAL WHITENESS MATTERS. AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON, MARYROSE CASEY AND FIONA NICOLL (EDS), 2008. LANHAM, MD: LEXINGTON BOOKS.
Australian Feminist Studies 26:70 (2011): 509-14.
“VEILED RESISTANCE: ALGERIAN WOMEN AND THE RESIGNIFICATION OF PATRIARCHAL AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES OF EMBODIMENT.”
Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 19:1 (2009): 50-65.
“REPRESENTING THE IRISH BODY: READING NED’S ARMOR.”
Antipodes: Journal of the American Association of Australian Studies 20:1 (June 2006): 12-19.
Research for this article was funded by a grant from the NEH.
” RACIALIZING BABYLON: SETTLER WHITENESS AND THE ‘NEW RACISM.’ “
New Literary History 32:1 (Winter 2001): 157-176.
“FROM GODDESS SPIRITUALITY TO IRIGARAY’S ANGEL: THE POLITICS OF THE DIVINE.”
Feminist Review 66 (Autumn 2000): 46-72.
” ‘ONE DRIFTS APART’: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE AS ART OF RESPONSE.”
Philosophy and Literature (April 1999): 78-95.
“CAN THE SETTLER SPEAK?: APPROPRIATING SUBALTERN SILENCE IN JANET FRAME’S THE CARPATHIANS“
Cultural Critique 41 (Winter 1998/99): 79-107.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON.
June 2007 to present
ASSOCIATE CHAIR, GRADUATE ADVISOR
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
August 2012 to August 2014
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, AUBURN UNIVERSITY
August 2006- May 2007
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, AUBURN UNIVERSITY
July 2000-July 2006
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, HUMANITIES RESEARCH PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
September 1999 to July 2000
TEACHING AWARDS AND GRANTS
AWARDS
2023 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISOR (NOMINEE), UTA
2021 REGENTS OF TEXAS AWARD (NOMINEE)
2020 DOCTORAL MENTORING AWARD, UTA (FINALIST)
2018 REGENTS OF TEXAS AWARD (NOMINATED)
2017 ACADEMY OF DISTINGUISHED TEACHERS, UTA
2016 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD FOR TENURED FACULTY, UTA
2014 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISOR (HONORABLE MENTION), UTA
2013 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD FOR TENURED FACULTY, UTA
2012 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISOR (NOMINATED), UTA
1998 HUMANITIES RESEARCH PROGRAM AWARD FOR THE BEST DISSERTATION IN THE HUMANITIES, UNSW
GRANTS
2019 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS ENDOWMENT FOR FACULTY RESEARCH GRANT
2017 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT LEAVE, UTA
2005 HUMANITIES DEVELOPMENT GRANT, AUBURN U ($5,000)
2004 NEH SUMMER STIPEND ($5,000)
2004 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT, AUBURN U ($2,500)
2004 HUMANITIES DEVELOPMENT GRANT, AUBURN U ($5,000)
2002 HUMANITIES DEVELOPMENT GRANT, AUBURN U ($5,000)
2001 RESEARCH GRANT, AUBURN U ($5,000)
1995- AUSTRALIAN POSTGRADUATE AWARD, Government of Australia
1998 ($15,000 PER ANNUM)
1998 ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH & TRAVEL GRANT ($2,800), UNSW
Race, Gender, Media, Politics