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Education

1991 Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Rutgers University
1983 M.A., English Language and Literature, Rutgers University
1981 B.A., English and Journalism, Indiana University
1977-79 McGill University

Employment

1998-present Associate Professor, English, University of Maryland
1992-98 Assistant Professor, English, University of Maryland
1991-92 Assistant Professor, English, Howard University
1988-90 Instructor, English, Howard University

Books

Willa Cather: Queering "America" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

Creative Non-Fiction

Roxie's World http://roxies-world.blogspot.com.

Edited Collections

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). With an introduction, chronology, and bibliography by the editor.

Editions

• Willa Cather's O Pioneers! with introduction, notes, and chronology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge with introduction, notes, and chronology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Selected Chapters and Articles

• "The Madwoman With a Laptop: Notes Toward a Literary Prehistory of Academic Fem Blogging."The Journal of Women's History 22.4 (Winter 2010): 209-19.
• "To Her, With Love." (A tribute to Susan Gubar.) Inside Higher Ed, April 29, 2010 (http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/04/29/lindemann).
• "Cather's 'Elastigirls': Reckoning with Sex/Gender Violence in the Woman Artist Stories" in Merrill Skaggs and Joseph Urgo, eds., Cather, Violence, and the Arts (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007) 190-203.
• "Fear of a Queer Mesa?: Faith, Friendship, and National Sexuality in ‘Tom Outland's Story'" in John Swift and Joseph Urgo, eds., Willa Cather and the American Southwest (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002) 43-54.
• "Disagreeing to Agree: A Reply to John Murphy and Joe Urgo." The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review 45.2 (Fall 2001): 46-8.
• "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Witch?: Queer Studies in American Literature." American Literary History (Fall 2000): 757-70.
• "'It Ain't My Prairie': Gender, Power, and Narrative in My Ántonia" in Sharon O'Brien, ed., New Essays on Willa Cather's My Ántonia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) 111-35.
• "Fear of a Queer Prairie: Figures of the Body and/as the Nation in Willa Cather's Early Fiction" in Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review 42.2 (Fall 1998): 30-35.
• "Willa's Case" in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 3.1 (Winter 1996): 20-22. Rpt. in Richard Schneider, Jr., ed., The Best of The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997) 198-204.

Invited Lectures, Radio, and TV Interviews

• "Cather, Modernism, -- and Blogging." Plenary Address. 12th International Willa Cather Seminar. Chicago, June, 2009.
• "Queering the Turtle: Building LGBT Studies at Maryland – and Beyond." Plenary Address. Bodies of Knowledge Symposium, University of South Carolina Upstate, April, 2008.
• "On the Internet, Everybody Thinks I'm a Dog: The Queer Adventures of an English Prof in the Blogosphere." Graduate English Alumni Lecture, Rutgers University, November, 2007. Also, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, UM, February, 2008.
• "'Almost Without Tenderness': Sex /Gender Violence in Cather's Woman Artist Stories." Plenary Address. Willa Cather International Seminar, Red Cloud and Lincoln, Nebraska, June, 2005.
• "'Just Plain Billy': Cather as Queer Icon." Plenary Address. Willa Cather International Seminar, Bread Loaf, VT, May, 2003.
• Panel on American Studies and American Poetry (respondent). Department of English, University of Washington. 14 May 1999.
• Panel on Willa Cather's My Ántonia. The Diane Rehm Show. Natl. Public Radio. 1 Oct. 1999.
• Panel on tolerance on college campuses. Good Morning America. ABC-TV. 23 Oct. 1998.
• "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Witch?: Queer Studies in American Literature." Lecture for Department of English, Penn State University. 2 Dec. 1999.
• "LGBT Issues on Campus." Talk for University of Nebraska Committee on GLBT Concerns, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 15 Nov. 2001.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Roundtable: "New Tools, Hard Times: Social Networking and the Academic Crisis" (organizer, presenter), Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, 2011.
•"How Public, Like a B(l)og: Emily Dickinson and a Feminist Literary Prehistory of the Blogosphere." Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Oxford University, August 2010.
• Roundtable: "The Futures of Feminist Scholarship and Theory" (presenter), Celebrating Susan Gubar, Writer and Teacher (symposium), Indiana University, April, 2010.
•"On the Internet, Everyone Thinks I'm a Dog: The Queer Adventures of an English Prof in the Blogosphere." Panel: "Agora.Techno.Phobia.Philia2: Feminist Critical Inquiry, Knowledge Building, Digital Humanities." Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "Building LGBT Studies at Maryland," Roundtable: "We're Used to It: Institutionalizing LGBT, Sexuality, and Queer Studies in the Academy," Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 2007.

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

• 2007 Michael Lynch Service Award, Gay/Lesbian/Queer Caucus, Modern Language Association
• 2002 Champion of Our Community Award, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Staff & Faculty Association, UM
• 1999 Diversity Initiative Achievement Award, Faculty Category, UM
• 1998-99 Instructional Improvement Grant--$4,000 grant from Undergraduate Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence to develop permanent courses in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Studies for the English department
• 1993 Graduate Research Board Summer Research Award, UM
• 1990 Faculty Graduate Study Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, National Endowment for the Humanities (Spring & Fall)
• 1989-90 Research Grant, University-Sponsored Faculty Research Program, Howard University (Summers)
• 1988-89 Louis Bevier Fellowship, Graduate School, Rutgers University
• 1988 Research Grant in Women's Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• 1987-88 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women (Fall & Spring)

Advising/Administration

• 2005- present Director, LGBT Studies (appointed in January, 2005, reappointed in July, 2010)
• 2002-04 Interim Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• 1999-2003 Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the English department
• 1995-9 Faculty Advisor for the English department's Undergraduate Studies Program

Professional Service

• Lead Organizer, DC Queer Studies Symposium (held annually in April at Maryland since 2008, co-sponsored with American, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities)
• Advisory Board, Cather Archive, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006-
• Selection Committee, American Association of University Women American Fellowships Program, March 2005 and March 2006
• MLA Delegate Assembly, 3-year term January 1999-2002
• Screening Committee, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2000-
• Tenure and Promotion Reviews: for Yasmin Y. DeGout, Howard University, Spring 2006; for Linda Garber, Santa Clara University, Fall 2003; for Margaret Breen, University of Connecticut, Fall 2001; for Lisa Marcus, Pacific Lutheran University, Fall 2000
• Planning committee and faculty member for "Discovering New Worlds: Multicultural Texts for the Twenty-First Century," summer institute for Maryland and New Jersey high school English teachers, sponsored by CAST, the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, and Rutgers University, at Rutgers, 1996

Selected University Service

 

Departmental

• Co-chair (with Robert Levine), 20th-Century Americanist Search Committee,
2000-01
• Chair, American Literature Area Group, Department of English, 2000-
• Chair, LGBT Studies Area Group, Department of English, 1993-
• Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Department of English, 1993,1994, 2005, 2006, 2007
• M.A. Admissions Committee, Department of English, 1996 and 1999
• M.A. Examination Committee, Department of English, 1994 and 1996-7
• M.A. Program Review Subcommittee, Department of English, 1996-7
• English Department Chair Search Committee, S 1998
• Graduate Committee, Department of English, 1997, 1999-
• Personnel Committee, Department of English, 1995-6, 2006-08
• Curriculum Committee, Department of English, 2006-08
• Placement Committee, Department of English, 1993-4 and 1994-5

College and Divisional

• General Education Faculty Board: Understanding Plural Societies, appointed for a 2-year term, Fall, 2010
• Co-Facilitator, Understanding Plural Societies Workshops (8 90-minute sessions to introduce faculty to one of the diversity categories in the new Gen Ed curriculum), Fall, 2010
• General Education Implementation Planning Subcommittee: Understanding Plural Societies, Summer, 2010
• Asian American Studies Director Search Committee, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-06
• First Year Book Selection Committee, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-06, 2010-11
• MITH Administrative Council, ARHU, 2005-06
• Diversity Living/Learning Program Steering Committee, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 2004-05
• College of Arts and Humanities Programs, Curricula and Courses Committee,
2000-01
• Collegiate Council, College of Arts and Humanities, 1993-94

Campus and University

• University Medal Award Selection Committee, 2009
• Lorde-O'Leary Award Selection Committee, 2009
• Review Committee for Professor Melinda Chateauvert, AASSP, 2008
• Provost's Commission on Learning Outcomes Assessment, College Coordinator (UGST), 2007-08
• Provost's Task Force on Latino/a Studies, 2005-06
• Leadership Education and Administrative Development Program (year-long seminar administered through the Office of the Provost), 2004-05
• Provost's Task Force on CORE Diversity, 2003-04
• Chair, Graduate Council Programs, Curricula and Courses Committee, 2002-04
• Graduate Council, 1999-04
• Graduate Council Programs, Curricula and Courses Committee, 2000-04
• President's Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, 2002-
• Faculty Oversight Committee, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Undergraduate Certificate Program, 2001-
• CORE Faculty Course Review Working Group on Humanities and the Arts, 1998-99