Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D., English, University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation: "Critical Memory in the Fictions of Slavery"
Director: Samuel Otter
Readers: Stephen Best, Waldo Martin
1991 B.A., English, Vassar College
ACADEMIC HONORS
Minority Faculty Fellowship, City University of New York, 2000-2001
Dean's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-2000
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-1999
Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Block Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination: Passed with Distinction, 1996
Graduate OpportunityProgram Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1995
Dana Fellowship, Vassar College, 1990
Tuition Scholarship, Vassar College, 1987-1991
CONFERENCES /PUBLICATIONS
"Conjuring the Shadows of Slavery: Ishmael Reed and Kara Walker." Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C. Winter 2000.
"The Historical Novel of Slavery: Caryl Phillips' Cambridge." The First International Conference for CaribbeanLiterature, Nassau, The Bahamas. Fall 1998.
"The Camera, the Novel and the Bend: Photography and Literature of Turn of the Century Immigrants." American Culture Association, Occidental College, California. Spring 1996.
"Gayl Jones' 'New World Song': Slavery and the Blues Aesthetic" (under consideration for publication in American Literature).
"'Archives of Bamboo and Plantain': Derek Walcott's Omeros" (under consideration for publication in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
New York University, General Studies Program. Lecturer. "Modern Latin American Civilization." Fall 2001-Spring 2002.
New York University, General Studies Program. Instructor. "The Art of the Essay." Fall 2000-Spring 2001.
Pace University, Instructor. "Introduction to Fiction." Fall 1999-Spring 2000.
University of California at Berkeley. Instructor:
"Slavery and the Literary Imagination" (English 1A, Introduction to Literature and Composition). Spring 1997.
"Criminals and Misfits: Literary Portraits of Outlaws" (English 1B, Introduction to Literature and Composition). Fall 1997.
"What Is Postmodern Literature?" (English 1B, Introduction to Literature and Composition). Spring 1998.
"History and Memory in Anglophone Caribbean Literature" (English 1A, Introduction to Literature and Composition). Summer 1998.
University of California at Berkeley. Teaching Assistant. "The Making of Americans: American Literature 1864-1914." Spring 1996.
Compton Unified School District. Classroom Teacher, Teach for America.
Corps member. Davis Middle School (8th grade English); Ropsecrans Elementary (4th grade; all subjects, bilingual Spanish). Fall 1991-Spring 1993.
OTHER ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
University of California at Berkeley. Research Assistant:
Wrote the index for Professor Saidiya V. Hartman's book, Scenes of Subjection Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (1997). Fall 1996.
Organized initial research for Professor Stephen Greenblatt's book, Practicing New Historicism (2000). Spring 1995.
Compiled a class reader for Professor Genaro Padilla's course, "Border Crossings: Literature of Asian and Latino Immigrants and Exiles." Spring 1994.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Lecture Coordinator, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley.
Worked both with faculty and office staff in organizing academic lectures sponsored by the English Department. Responsibilities included contacting speakers, publicizing their talks, and collatorating with other departments in the humanities and social sciences for joint sponsorship of events. 1993-1995.
Program Assistant, Research Opportunities Program, University of California at Berkeley.
Organized summer tutorials for undergraduate scholars of diverse minority groups. Responsibilities included defining and fulfillilng administrative requirements for their stay at Berkeley (1994, 1995).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Studies Association