Activities and publications listed from 1999-end 2006 were accomplished while teaching 20 classes every year. Subtext: I make things happen; imagine what I could do in a traditional setting -- I can. Hire me.
Education
Ph. D. Humanities – Studies in Literature: University of Texas at Dallas, May 2002
Major Fields: Euro-romantic through Contemporary American Poetics, Literary Theory, Feminist Philosophy
Dissertation: A Poetics of Being Two: Irigaray's Sexual Difference and the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy and Jorie Graham
Committee: Alex Argyros, Cynthia Haynes, Jeffery Perl, Edrie Sobstyl (chair)
M. A. English Studies and Creative Writing: Illinois State University, 1994
Creative Thesis: "Conjugating Safety in the Arms": A Collection of Original Poems with Critical Introduction
Committee: Thomas Foster, Lucia Cordell Getsi (advisor)
B. A. English, minor French Language and Literature: Illinois State University, 1991
Voluntary Unemployment / Self-funded Sabbatical
October 2006 to present: I stopped teaching in order to pursue scholarship, writing, and publication. Between the Art Institute of Dallas and adjunct teaching two classes for my alma mater, I taught 139 classes in just about seven years. My scholarship and writing would not advance at any satisfying pace had I remained. All work listed since 1999, I accomplished while teaching a minimum of 20 classes per year. I stopped in order to put my energy and time back into research, writing, publishing, and living. I would very much enjoy a return to the academy, but in a context that allows fruitful balance between teaching and scholarship.
Publications
Essays and Articles
"Burn the Panopticon: Irigaray's Ethics, Difference, Poetics." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. (Spring 2005) Http://www.reconstruction.ws/051/robertsintro.shtml.
"Irigaray's Eastern Turn: Tantra and An Ethics of Sexual Difference." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 9 (Fall 2004).
Http://www.rhizomes.net/issue9/issue9.htm. (under: Simone Roberts)
"Poetic Subjectivity, Its Imagination and Others: Toward an Ethical Postmodern Imagination." Enculturation 1.2 (Fall 1997). Http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation/1_2/
roberts.html> (under: Meaghan Roberts)
"An Open Letter to George Sand." Collages & Bricolages 9 (March 1995):8-11. (under: Meaghan Roberts)
Reviews
(forthcoming) Rev. of The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monothesism, by Regina M. Schwartz,
Common Knowledge, 2006.
Rev. of Revolt, She Said, by Julia Kristeva, Common Knowledge 11.3 (Fall 2005): 495.
Rev. of The Maze Game, by Diana Reed Slattery. FemSpec (2004).
Rev. of Demeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth, by Tamara Agha-Jaffar. FemSpec (2004).
Rev. of The Feminine and the Sacred, by Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clément. Common Knowledge 10.2 (Spring 2004): 364.
Rev. of Between East and West: From Singularity to Community, by Luce Irigaray. Common Knowledge 10.1 (Winter2004):158-9.
Rev. of Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, by Joan Copjec. Common Knowledge. 9.3 (Fall 2003): 541-2.
Rev. of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection, by Judith Butler. Common Knowledge. 7.2 (Fall 1998): 93.
Rev. of The Women and the Men, by Nikki Giovanni. The Mining Company, 1998.
Rev. of Region of Unlikeness, by Jorie Graham. The Small Press and Magazine Review. 26 (2 Feb 1994): 13.
Poetry
"Attraction." The Licking River Review. 33(Winter-Spring 2003), 69.
"Key Progression." Trans/forms: Constructions of Knowledge/Activations of Desire, Fall 1997.
"Time Dances a Silk Ribbon Over Her Shoulder" in Venue October 15, 1997.
Invited Readings: WordSpace, Dallas, TX, March 2000; Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Dallas TX, April 2000; International Poetry Festival, Virtual Community of Lingua MOO, 1997; Writes of Spring with WordSpace Board, hosted by The Writer's Garrett, March 2006.
Scholarship in Development
Anthology: "Iris Murdoch's Scenes: An Anthology of Moral Imaginations," a collection of contemporary responses to Murdoch's works in philosophy, literature, and aesthetics, Co-Editors Alison Scott-Baumann, University of Gloucestershire, and David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University. CFP issued February 2006, expected publication with McFarland Press, 2008.
Interview: Invited written interview with Luce Irigaray on subjects related to her hybridization of Eastern and Western philosophical traditions in her project of sexual difference. Exchanges begin in February of 2006.
Article: "For the Other: How to Read The Motion and Immobility of Douve" offers an extensive close reading of Bonnefoy's long poem through the critical lens of Irigaray's ethics of sexual difference.
Article: "How to See, How to Be/come: Graham, Maso, and Subjectivity in the Interval" argues that a revolutionary, pleasure-centered subjectivity is emerging in poetry and prose.
Article: "Into the Breach: The Poetry of Jorie Graham as Interval between High Modern and Symbolist Traditions" seeks to read selected recent work by Graham as a meeting between these schools and between the aesthetics of the critics Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff.
Conference Presentations
(upcoming) "In Love the Body is No Object: Irigaray, Murdoch, and Moral Imagination." The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray Conference, Jointly hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Women's Studies, Stony Brook University, Manhattan Campus, September 22-23, 2006.
"In Love the Body is No Object: Irigaray, Murdoch, and Moral Imagination." Panel: Iris Murdoch and the Moral Imagination, Chair Pamela M. Brown, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D. C., Dec. 27-31, 2005.
"Tantric Dance of a Divine Love: Recovering Pleasure in a Feminine Divine." Women and the Divine, Conference for the Institute of Feminist Theory and Research, Jointly hosted by University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University College, June 17-19, 2005. Http://www.itfr.org.uk./womenandthedivine.html.
"Perception, War, Pleasure: H. D. and Carole Maso Teach Seeing Other-wise." The Language of War: Exploring War and its Literature, The Dallas Institute of the Humanities and Culture with WordSpace, Dallas, TX, April 12, 2003.
"Lament: Poem." Presented at the Arts Exhibit of the College Feminist Conference, The University of Texas-Austin, March 28-30, 2003.
"The Poetics of Metamorphosis: Poems and Critical Discussion." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Western Washington University, Nov. 8-10, 2002.
"Irigaray's Eastern Turn: Tantra and An Ethics of Sexual Difference." The Female Principle: Eclipses and Re-Emergences, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 30-April 1, 2000.
"How to Transform Landscapes in a Word: Poems." New Mexico State University's Women's Studies Conference, New Mexico State University, March 19-21, 1998.
"Flower with an Unknown Name: Long Poem." The 8th Annual Conference on Language and Literature, Louisiana State University, February 19-20, 1998.
"The Agonizing Risk of Fecundity." South Central Women's Studies Association, The University of Houston-Clear Lake, March 6-7, 1998.
"Women's Lives in Real and Metaphorical Sweatshops: Poems and Critical Discussion." South Central Women's Studies Association, The University of Houston-Clear Lake, March 6-7, 1998.
"Wings of Women: Oppression and Flight through Language: Poems and Critical Discussion." South Central Women's Studies Association at Texas A&M University, March 6-8, 1997.
"Liberal Ironism and Sexual Ethics: The Scopes of Contingency." The 30th Annual Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium: French Feminisms across the Disciplines, Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 1997.
"Poetic Subjectivity and Otherness: For an Ethical Postmodern Imagination." 2nd Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium at The University of Texas at Arlington, April 27, 1996.
Teaching Fields
Summation: History of Ideas and Aesthetics 1750 to the Present
Poetics of Euro-romanticism through the Postmodernity, 20th Century American Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Critical Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Humanities, Rhetoric and Composition
Teaching Experience
Lecturer/Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Gender in Western Thought (GISAH 3394): This upper division undergraduate course satisfies requirements in the Gender Studies major as well as General Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. The course combines a focus on gender in the history of ideas with contemporary feminist philosophical and political responses to that history, and requires that students apply these theories in the reading of novels that address gender as a theme or major motif. (Spring 2005)
Reading and Writing Poetry (HUSA 6350): This graduate course balances creative with critical faculties, combining the creation of a portfolio of poems, a paper developing an in-depth reading of a contemporary poet, and a critical introduction to the student's poems placing their work in context with regard to authorial, generic, political, or philosophical influences and interests. (Spring 2004)
Instructor, Art Institute of Dallas
Introduction to the Humanities (GE 0114) Summer 2005 and future: This sophomore level course focuses on the study and appreciation of the fine and performative arts and the ways in which they reflect the values of civilizations. My course focuses in each major historical era on the image and role of the artist as both ideal human being and challenger to convention, with an emphasis on painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and philosophy.
College Writing II (GE 2084) Fall 2003 and future: This course replaces the Critical Reasoning class in response to a changing context in which critical reasoning is now integrated into the school's programs and is designed much like the literature and composition courses common to many English departments. Students study two of the three major genres with a combination of New Critical and other approaches to literature, and write two MLA style analyses of works incorporating their own research.
Myth, Mythology, and Mythography (GE 3504) Fall 2002: An upper division course focusing on a limited number of mythic archetypes, the historical context of selected myths, and the psychology of myth, this course allows students to explore mythology through comparative readings, literary and cultural analysis, and creative interpretation.
Critical Reasoning and Research (GE 0104) 1999-2003 (course discontinued): A methods course introducing argument and research strategies, culminating in a researched persuasive essay focused on an issue of the students' choice.
College Writing I (GE 0124)1999-present: An introduction to college writing, focused on media studies and advertising, requiring analytical essays and group project analyzing re-designing an advertising campaign, and defending the redesign on within the frame of semiotics and gender difference.
Courses Developed
Ethics and Human Values (GE 3604): An introduction to the theories of ethics, including a historical survey of major value systems and examination of contemporary moral problems in light of those systems.
Transformations (GE 3034): An upper division course that explores how artists translate stories, poems, paintings, plays and films from one genre or medium to another through close historical, cultural, and aesthetic analysis of selected works from which students create their own transformative creative projects.
Honors and Awards
James L. Fisher Outstanding Thesis Award for the College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University: Award given March 1995. --- Dr. Gesti at ISU makes her MA candiates read this thesis as their model for How to Do This Right!, to my humble gratitude that it serves a purpose.
Editorial Experience
Assistant Editor (at large), Common Knowledge, ed. Jeffery Perl, 2001 to present.
Editor, "Celebration of Women," Literary Festival, Richardson, TX, October 1997: Editing and Layout of chapbook of creative work – proceeds donated to charity.
Senior Editor of Sojourn: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Creative Arts (Fall 1995 - Spring 1997): A journal publishing poetry, fiction, drama, sketches and photographs, and accepting both UTD student and national submissions.
Senior Reader, Spoon River Poetry Review, ed. Lucia Cordell Getsi, Spring 1994.
Reader, Spoon River Poetry Review, ed. Lucia Cordell Getsi, Fall 1993.
Assistant, Illinois State University Publications Unit and Dalkey Archive, Summer 1992.
Assistant to Carole Maso for Ava, Fall 1991.
Service
Art Institute of Dallas
Faculty Development Standing Committee works to represent the interests of faculty to the administration and to facilitate the on-going education and research of the faculty for the benefit of their teaching.
-- Developed Sabbatical Policy adopted by Art Institute of Dallas, 2003
-- Developed comprehensive Faculty Development Policy, under consideration, 2004-05
Chair of Committee on Comprehensive Assessment developed a "capstone" exam of basic writing skills, critical thinking, and research skills for the writing and critical thinking courses in the General Education department.
Member of Operations and Administration Committee for evaluation of continuing accreditation by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
University of Texas at Dallas
Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Education Taskforce (1997-1998): assisted in the re-design of the paths through doctoral program to facilitate course work to dissertation completion in five years.
Graduate Student Representative to Development Committee (1996-1997): -- Assisted with fund raising and distribution for the School of Arts and Humanities.
-- Assisted with redesign of graduate program to accommodate reduced state supported hours for teaching assistants to assure completion of program with dissertation in five years
Dallas Public Library, Poetry Workshops, May 1998-May 2001: Workshops for Dallas/Ft. Worth public schools (K-12) in the writing of poetry.
Professional Memberships, Activities, Public Service
WordSpace: Secretary and Public Relations Liaison, Board of Directors, 1999- present: A non-profit organization for the creation and promotion of traditional and experimental writing and literary discussion in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
-- Secretary and Communications Officer, November 2004-present
-- Marketing Committee, Public Relations Liaison
Secured PR and Website design work pro bono, updated mailing materials and website for organization and easier, more comprehensive access by the public, 2005
-- Program Coordinator: Next On Deck!:
A tri-annual reading by North Texas college students of their poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, inaugurated Spring of 2005, solicitor of readers and host of reading
Member, Awful Coffee, 1995-2000: a poetry and performance group
Member, University of Texas at Dallas Gender Studies Working Group: A discussion and roundtable on Gender Studies in interdisciplinary contexts, 1997-2000
Affiliations (previous and present)
American Academy of Poets
American Comparative Literature Association
Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Thought
Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Women's Studies Association
References
Alex Argyros, Professor, Arts and Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas
Cynthia Haynes, Associate Professor, Director of Rhetoric Program, Arts and Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas
Lucia Cordell Getsi, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Illinois State University
Kevin Gustafson, Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Arlington
Melissa Johnson, Director, General Education, The Art Institute of Dallas
Darlene Pagán, Assistant Professor, English Department, Pacific University
Jeffery Perl, Professor, Editor, Common Knowledge Editorial Office, Faculty of the Humanities, Bar-Ilan University
Edrie Sobstyl, Assistant Professor, Douglas College
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