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JEAN PFAELZER Department of English, Women's Studies, East Asian Studies PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Delaware Speech Writer and Senior Legislative Analyst for Congressman Frank McCloskey (8th District, Executive Director, National Labor Law Center, 1982-1983. University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature & California State University, Humboldt, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1974 1975. University of London, External Degree Division, Supervisor and Tutor, part time, 1968 1970. EDUCATION University of London, University College, Ph.D., 1976, in English, American Literature, American Studies Director: Stephen Fender University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1967, in English and American Literature. University of California, Berkeley, B.A. with Honors in English, 1965. BOOKS IN PRINT “Driven Out” The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, Random House, May, The Utopian Novel in America, 1886 1896: The Politics of Form. University of Pittsburgh EDITED BOOKS IN PRINT Mizora by Mary E. B. Lane, A Critical Edition. Syracuse University Press, 2000; 2001 AWARDS FOR DRIVEN OUT: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2007; San Francisco Chronicle Top Books of 2007 Bloomsbury Review “Favorite Books 2007; Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Books 2007”; Globalist Top Ten Books of 2007 News, Views, Reviews Magazine “Best of 2007: Best Asian Non-Fiction” A.L.A. Asian Pacific American Literature Award Best Non-Fiction Award 2007 Amazon.Com “Ten Most-Wished For Books” Asian American May, 2008 TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY “The Chinese Experience in Rural California” PBS/KEET (2003; 2004)
PRINT REVIEWS S.F. CHRONICLE June 3, 2007 CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON POST THE NEWS TRIBUNE/TACOMA , June 3, 2007 CHINA PRESS “The Forgotten War” (transl) July 5, 6, 2007 SAN JOSE MERCURY JULY 15, 2007 http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/7131NX/7131NX_1917 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AUGUST 7, 2007 BOOKLIST May 5, 2007 SEATTLE TIMES INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, July 28, 2007 FERNDALE ENTERPRISE June 6, 2007 CHINA TRIBUNE t.b.d. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, July 14,; August 19, 2007 EUREKA TIMES-STANDARD May 31, 2007, June 15, 2007 HUMBOLDT BEACON, June 7, 2007 EPOCH TIMES (GLOBAL CHINESE NEWSPAPER) July 12, 2007 http://mag.epochtimes.com CHINESE AMERICAN FORUM (Quarterly) July 7 2007 CHINESE AMERICAN FORUM web review WORLD JOURNAL September 19, 2007; BALTIMORE CHRONICLE NEW EPOCH WEEKLY (Hong Kong) July 12-18, 2007 WORLD JOURNAL, December 27, 2007 STATESMAN JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, August 12 (note) SEVEN OAKS: A MAGAZINE OF POLITICS, CULTURE, & RESISTANCE June 19 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE January 14, 2008 OAKLAND TRIBUNE, January 18, 2008 Metro p. 1 &2 SACRAMENTO BEE January 13, 2008 THE STOCKTON RECORD, January 15, 2008 IMMIGRATION LAW TODAY January/February 2008 vol. 27:1 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, February, 2008 MUSEUM EXHIBITS “Driven Out” Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, California, 2008 (to become traveling exhibit) “The Geary Act” Museum of the Chinese of the Americas, New York (consultant) Geary Act Exhibit. 2007. MUSEUM EXHIBITS REVIEWS OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Asian Culture Center, “Exhibit Highlights Chinese Struggle” January 18, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, “Must See” January, 2008
MUSEUM EXHIBITS, FORTHCOMING Organization of Chinese Americans, “Driven Out” August, 2008 National Women's History Museum, Washington DC, “Chinese American Women” California Historical Society, Museum Exhibit, (consultant for centennial commemoration of the opening of Angel Island Detention Center) “Slavery in California” (consultant) California Historical Society Museum of the Overseas Chinese, Beijing, China. t.b.a. Oakland Museum, Chinese American Women, 2010. t.b.a.
TELEVISION 2007-2008 C-SPAN BOOKTV July, 21, 2007. 1hr 15 minutes. KTSF SAN FRANCISCO Interview on Immigration, January 30, 2008 NEW AMERICAN MEDIA, (SYNDICATED) host Sandip Ray TV “LABOR ON THE JOB” SF ATT CABLE 29 Labor Video Host: Steve Zeltzer; KFTY TV 50 “Your Turn” Santa Rosa, CA. t.b.a FORA.tv January 15 http://fora.tv/2008/01/15/Forgotten_War_Against_Chinese_Americans OPBS “Isleton” consultant to Prod. Laura Dickson; Dir. Gwen Wright OP-EDs History News Network “What's Scary About the Immigration Debate” The Globalist: three part Labor Day Series on Immigration, September 3, 4, 5 2007 Huffington Post - Featured Article FILM “The Coolies” (The Chinese and the Railroads in the U.S.) Historical Advisor w/ Steve Yee. Dir. Shiubo Wang. (in pre-production) 2008-9 t.b.a.
BROADCAST, ELECTRONIC, MEDIA, PRINT INTERVIEWS KUOW NPR “THE BEAT” Seattle Megan Sukys Interview, April 24 APEX/KPFA, Berkeley, CA, Live, May 31 WBAI/Pacifica Radio, National, Live, History of immigration policy May 31 http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/genx.php?name=home WBAI Radio, NY “ASIA PACIFIC FORUM” Live, Leyla Mei June 5 NPR/NY WNYC “LEONARD LOPATE SHOW” Live, June 6 FREE SPEECH TV/DISH SATELLITE, Taped, Jim Dingeman June 7 WPAT Multicultural Radio, National Syndicated, Taped, Gene Heinemeyer, June 7 KPCC “AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE,” Los Angeles, Live, June 11 WVMR KVMR “BOOK TALK ,” Nevada City, Live, Eric Tomb June 11 KALI/KBLA LA, Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, Gary Mercer June 11 C-SPAN aired throughout July, taped Chinese Historical Soc. S. California KERA NPR THINK/KERA, “ANYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW” Dallas KHSU/NPR “THURSDAY NIGHT TALKS,” Northwest, CA, David Cobb June 14 KPFA/Pacifica Bay Area THE MORNING SHOW, Andrea Lewis June 18 Jonathan Tilove, Newhouse News Service, June 22 MSNBC.com June 25 CHINA PRESS, live interview w/ Chief Washington Correspondent Donghui Yu, July 3 & 4 THE BEAT/ KUOW-FM NPR Seattle Megan Sukys, Re-air, June 26 KVON, “LATE MORNINGS”, Napa, CA July 3 NPR/WASHINGTON DC “TELL ME MORE” National Syndication, Michal Martin, July 9 WBUR/NPR "HERE AND NOW”, National Syndication, Robin Young July 19 VOICE OF AMERICA, “VAO NEWS” air week of July 30, 2007 KALW/SF “UP FRONT” Sandip Roy, Taped, San Francisco July 31 NPR, “JEFFERSON EXCHANGE” E. Oregon, N. California, C: Valerie Ing-Miller, Live phone in. August 3 NPR/KPBS “THESE DAYS” San Diego, August NPR, Washington D.C. KOJO NMANDI SHOW, August 29 NPR /CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO, “Eight Forty-Eight Morning Newsmagazine ” Allison Cuddy, September 4 KQED/NPR “PACIFIC TIME”, San Francisco, K. Oanh Ha, October 11 KPFK/LA “The Chinese Exclusion Act” host Ernesto Arce, November 26 KPFA “AGAINST THE GRAIN” Berkeley, CA, CS Soong, December 3 WILL/NPR “THE AFTERNOON MAGAZINE”, Urbana, IL, Celeste Quinn, January 7 WYPR NPR MD t.b.a.
EVENTS/PUBLIC TALKS/ILLUSTRATED LECTURES re: Driven Out Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, NY “The Dog Tag Act” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, “Driven Out: Library of Congress, Featured Speaker, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2008 Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and Smithsonian Museum of the American Chinese Tacoma Reconciliation Project Ground- breaking Oakland Museum of California January 14, 2008 Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, January 15, 2008 Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, “Violence and Violations” Monterey California Historical Society and Chinese Historical Society of America, co-sponsored, Chinese Culture Foundation, Sacramento, 2008 Chinese Cultural Society Stockton/University of the Pacific , Jacoby Center for Oakland Asian Cultural Center Oakland, California,“Driven Out” Museum Exhibit opening and gallery lecture, gallery talk; exhibit January to May, 2008. Organization of Chinese Americans, Greater Philadelphia Chapter; Lunar New Years Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library History Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley,” University of Pennsylvania School of Law, “The Chinese Re-Write The Letter of the Law.” Washington DC Diversity Consortium, “The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans” Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2007 @ Georgetown Day School Truckee Donner Historical Society, Truckee, CA, (in remaining opium den) Humboldt County Historical Society, Eureka CA . 2007, 2004 Humboldt County Library, CA Ferndale City Hall, CA “Expelled: the Chinese in Northern California” Invited Keynote. Humboldt Historical Society, 2004 Association Asian American Studies, NY “The Dog Tag Act” University of Maryland; Women's Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies Politics and Prose Bookstore, lecture Washington DC. North Town Books, Arcata, CA
PUBLIC TALKS FORTHCOMING Labor Film Fest, San Francisco
PAPERS DELIVERED related to Driven Out Hood College, MD. February 21 Ethnic and Area Studies Lecture Series, University of Delaware, “The Poetry of Angel Island Detention Center” September 20 Women's Studies Fall Lecture, University of Delaware, “Driven Out: A Forgotten Tale of Chinese American Women” September 27 American Studies Association, “The Archives Fight Back” , 2007 “What's In What's Out?” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2006 “No Longer Buried Alive: The Rebellious Subjectivity of Chinese Americans in the Late "To Broker Rebellion" American Studies Association, 2006. “Purging the Body Politic” City University of New York, 2006 Invited Speaker "Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re Writing the Letter of the Law” British Association for American Studies Conference, Cambridge University, 2005 “The Overseas Chinese in California: Roundups and Resistance” Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker & Visiting Faculty, November-December 2004 “9/11 from 11/4: The American Political System and The Presidential Election of 2004" Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker “Public History: A Documentary of Dispersion and Dissent” Re-thinking Asian-American History Consortium Invited Speaker, Smithsonian Museum of American History, 2004 “Trading Gazes: The Empire Looks Back” Invited Panelist Nineteenth Century American Women Writers 2004 “Domesticity and Property; Race and Law” Asian American Studies, 2004 “The Chinese Diaspora in California: The Local and the Global” Invited Speaker, Temple University, 2003 "Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re writing the Letter of the Law" American Studies Association, 2003 INTERNET WEB PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS (most still currently on-line) Events: Reviews and Features: Culturedose - Online magazine that offers the latest info and reviews on music, television, movies, and books. Review. http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?rid=10006415 Huffington Post - Article featured on the home page. www.huffingtonpost.com/jean-pfaelzer/ethnic-cleansing-in-small_b_50968.html Chinatown Connection - Chinese culture, arts and festival news for Chinese American communities across the US. Excerpt posted. www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese-pai-hua.htm History Wire: Book Alert Driven Out REVIEWS AND FEATURES forthcoming THE OCCIDENTAL, 2008 http://www.testprepnetwork.com/
FILM “The Coolies” (The Chinese and the Railroads in the U.S.) Historical Advisor w/ Steve Yee. Dir. Shiubo Wang. (in pre-production) 2008-9 t.b.a.
PUBLICATIONS-BOOKS IN PROGRESS The Apology Exceeding History: Imagining the Future Feminist Women, A Class Act: Discourses of Women and Class in the Nineteenth Century
PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING “Dreaming of a White Future: Edward Bellamy, Mary Lane, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in America” Blackwell Companion to the American Novel, edited by Alfred Bendixen, forthcoming 2008. “Rebecca Harding Davis” Women in American History, ed. Hasia Diner, NY: Facts on File. Forthcoming 2008
PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES “The Politics of Nature” in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction “Driven Out! Roundups and Resistance of the Chinese in Rural California” Chinese America: “The Foreign Miners' Tax and Chinese Expulsion” Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working “Intersections: American Feminism in International Contexts” American Studies International “Mizora: A Prophecy.” A Dictionary of Literary Utopias, Champion-Slatkine de Paris, 2000. “Salt of the Earth: Utopian Desire and Chicana Identity.” Legacy, 1999. "Eliza Leslie." American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1999. "Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, ed. Karen “Engendered Nature/Denatured History" Speaking the Other Self: New Essays on American Women Writers, ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997 "Feminism, Utopia and the Politics of Subjectivity." The American Columbiad: “Discovering” America, Inventing the United States ed. Mario Materassi, VU Uitgeverij/VU University Press, Amsterdam, 1996. "Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia" in Worlds of Difference: Utopian Fiction By Women, ed. Carol "The Dialectics of Silence: Tillie Olsen's Tell Me A Riddle." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's "Domesticity and the Discourse of Slavery." E.S.Q., 1992. "A Profile of Rebecca Harding Davis." Legacy, Fall 1990. "What Happened to History?" Feminism, Utopia and Narrative, The University of Tennessee "Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott: The Sentimental Promise and the Utopian "Nineteenth Century American Utopianism: Texts and Contexts." American Transcendental "Edward Bellamy: Immanence, Indeterminance and the Utopian Pun." Looking Backward, "The Changing of the Avant Garde: The Feminist Utopia." Science Fiction Studies, October "Sentiment and Silence in `Marcia' by Rebecca Harding Davis." Legacy, Fall 1987. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Feminism as Ideology." Extrapolations, Winter 1983. "Rebecca Harding Davis: Domesticity, Social Order and the Industrial Novel." International "The Impact of Political Theory on Narrative Structures." America as Utopia, Franklin Press, ed. "Dystopia as Parody and Satire." Science Fiction Studies, Spring 1980. "American Utopian Fiction: The Origins of a Literary Form." The Minnesota Review, Fall 1976. PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES UNDER CONSIDERATION "The Personal is Historical: Teaching Feminism and Utopianism" in Pedagogies of Possibility, ed. Libby Jones. PUBLICATIONS - REVIEWS “Review: Women, Creators of Culture, ed.s Ekaterini Georgoudaki & Domna Pastourmatzi, Journal of American Studies, Turkey, 1999. “Review: Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America: 1888-1918, by Francis Robert Shor.” Left History, 1999. PAPERS DELIVERED (unrelated to Driven Out) “Leave the Guns; Don't Forget the Cannoli” University of Delaware Women's Studies “No Longer Buried Alive: The Rebellious Subjectivity of Chinese Americans in the Late "To Broker Rebellion" American Studies Association, 2006. “Purging the Body Politic” City University of New York, 2006 Invited Speaker "Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re Writing the Letter of the Law” British Association for American Studies Conference, Cambridge University, 2005 “The Overseas Chinese in California: Roundups and Resistance” Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker “9/11 from 11/4: The American Political System and The Presidential Election of 2004" Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker “Public History: A Documentary of Dispersion and Dissent” Re-thinking Asian-American History Consortium Invited Speaker, Smithsonian Museum of American History, 2004 “Trading Gazes: The Empire Looks Back” Invited Panelist Nineteenth Century American Women Writers 2004 “Expelled: the Chinese in Northern California” Invited Keynote. Humboldt Historical Society, 2004 “Domesticity and Property; Race and Law” Asian American Studies, 2004 “The Chinese Diaspora in California: The Local and the Global” Invited Speaker, Temple University, 2003 "Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re writing the Letter of the Law" American Studies Association, 2003 “Photographs of Violence: The Chinese Expulsions in Rural California” The Historical Memory Colloquium in American Studies, Invited Speaker, Yale University, 2003 “Reclaiming Class Rethinking Race: The Expulsion of Chinese Workers in Rural California” Asian American Studies, 2003 “The Chinese Experience in Humboldt County” Invited Keynote Speaker, Symposium sponsored by PBS, The Humboldt County Historical Society, and California State University, Humboldt 2003 “American Women's Literature in an International Context” Society for the Study of American Women Authors, 2003 “'Mizora,' 'The Harmonists' and The Dialectics of Hope” Nineteenth Century American Women Writers Group, 2002 “American Utopian Fiction and the Trauma of Race” Keynote Speaker University of Nottingham, 2002 “Half and Half: Respondent. Bi-racialism and Bi-Culturalism in Pre-Adolescents.” Independent Schools Consortium on Diversity, 2002 “Key Words in American Studies: Reconstruction” American Studies Association, 2001 “ Driven Out: The Roundups of Chinese People in California” Library of Congress Asian- American History Month Celebration. Invited Speaker. 2001 “Women Writing War” American Literature Association, 2001 “International Perspectives on American Women Writers” Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, 2001. “Women Writing the Nineteenth Century” Invited Speaker “The Inevitability of Whiteness in American Utopian Fiction” International Utopian Studies Conference, Vancouver, 2000 “A Millennium of Utopias” University of Norwich, UK, 1999. “Mary E. Bradley Lane: Writing White.” Society for Utopian Studies, 1998. “History, Cinema, and the Utopian Imagination” European Association of American Studies, Portugal, 1998 “American Feminisms/Transnational Constructions.” American Studies Association, 1997. “The Literary Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis.” Hellenic Association of American Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997. “Feminism, Socialism, and the Nineteenth-Century Utopian Imagination.” British Association for American Studies, 1997. “Feminist Studies/American Studies” United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Literature” 1997 “French Feminist Theory in North American Contexts” United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Literature, 1996. "Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism." American Studies Association, 1995. "Motherhood: A Class Act." British Association for American Studies, 1995. "History and Subjectivity: Writing Feminist Biography." American Studies Association, 1994. "Women Writing Women: Writing Rebecca Harding Davis." American Studies Association, 1993. "Women and the Labor Movement: The Nineties." Women in Non-Traditional Labor Conference, 1993. "Utopian Fiction: The Social Function of Fantasy." University of Maryland Center for Political "Still Gazing After All These Years: Feminism, Film and Utopia." Society for Utopian Studies, "Pedagogy and Possibility." Society for Utopian Studies, 1992. "Feminism, Utopia and the Politics of Subjectivity: Creation in Whose Image," European Association for American Studies, Spain, 1992. "Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia." Society for Utopian Studies, 1990. "Slavery and the Discourse of Domesticity." American Studies Association, 1990. "Women's Influence on the 101st Congress." Women in Non-Traditional Labor Conference, "Utopia The Mother: Power, Desire and Integrated Space." British American Studies "History: The Significant Absence." Modern Language Association, 1989. "Utopian History/Dystopian Narrative: The Relationship Between Utopian Fictions and "Motherhood: Changing Images, Changing Laws." Women in Non-traditional Labor Conference, 1989. "Reconceptualizing the '30s." American Studies Association, 1988. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Text and Context." College of William and Mary Lecture Series in "Women: The Image and the Law." Keynote Speaker, Women in Non Traditional Labor "Lost in Inner Space: Narrative Discourse in Women's Utopian Fiction." American Culture "Peer Tutoring Across the Curriculum." Brown University Conference on Peer Tutoring, 1986. "A Woman's View from the City on the Hill." National Association of Women's Studies, 1985. “Gender and Literary Representation." Modern Language Association, 1984. "Women in American Utopianism." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1979. "A History of Motherhood and the Law." United Mineworkers of America, Women Miners' "The Fate of Women's Legislation in the 98th Congress." League of Women Voters, Planned "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Modern Language Association, 1979. "Domesticity and Social Order in the American Industrial Novel." Modern Language "American Utopian Fiction 1888 1896: The Impact of Political Theory on Literary Structures." TEACHING Graduate and Undergraduate: Asian American Culture and History, Pathways, Mapping Dissertation Supervisions: (selected) in American Studies, American Literature, Feminist Theory, Utopianism, American Theater History, Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Representing Trauma, 19th C. Irish-American Immigrant Women's Fiction, Chinese-American Women Writers and Sentimentalism; Embroidery and Female Literacy; Transnational Adoption Narratives in Fiction and Film, Sentimentalism and Regionalism, Feminism and the Gothic: History and Film; The Trickster: the (Con-Text) of American Sentimentalism; Material Culture theses with Winterthur Museum Fellows. GRANTS University of Delaware Women's Studies Faculty Fellowship “Imaging Chinese American Women: History Unbound” Summer, 2008 University of Delaware Faculty Research Award, “Purging the Body Politic” 2008-9, University of Delaware Social Sciences Faculty Development Grant, for exhibit at Oakland Asian Culture Center, 2008 United States Department of Education International Studies and Foreign Language Project Title VI: "East Asia in a Globalizing World: Exploring Globalization Processes and Local/Global Connections." To work with a team of faculty members across the disciplines to develop East Asian Studies at the University of Delaware. Also develop and teach "East Asian Cross Roads in the American West." 2005-7 Library of Congress Scholar, 1991-2, 1998-present (Research and Facilities Grant); renewed 2007-present. Tracy Memorial Trust Fund, Humboldt Foundation, 2004 WNET (New York) P.B.S Documentary Production Grant, 2003-4 C.P.B.S., National Center for Outreach, Documentary Production and Symposium Key Note Speaker2004 Center for International Studies, 2002-3 University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 2002-3 Pew Charitable Trust: “Problem Based Learning: Mapping America's Future” 2000 University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 1998 United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Studies, 1995, 1996, 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities, Consultant to Faculty Seminar, Hood College, "Reinterpreting American Literature," 1993. National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1990 American Philosophical Society Travel Research Grant, 1990. University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 1988. University of Delaware Instructional Improvement Grant, 1985, 1986. To design University of California Regents Affirmative Action Research Grant, 1981. University of California Regents Innovative Education Grant, 1979, "History University of California Academic Senate Research Grant, 1978. University of California Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1978. University of California Regents Innovative Education Grant, 1976. To design and implement PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, HONORS, AND AWARDS International Committee, American Studies Association, 2007- Consulting Historian, National Women's History Museum, Washington DC, 2007- Memorial for Tillie Olsen, Organizer and Speaker, Univ. Maryland, w/ Prof. Debby Rosenfelt, Executive Board, Society for Utopian Studies, 2006- Smithsonian Museum of American History, Division of Asian American Studies, “Rethinking Asian American History Consortium” 2004- Nellie Arnott Darling and Missionary Women's Edition Project, 2004- Editorial Board, Utopian Studies Journal, 1993-.present Search Committee, Editor, Utopian Studies 2002-3 Executive Board, Society for Utopian Studies, 2003-present Diversity Consortium of Independent Schools, Washington DC 2001- Program Committee, International Conference on American Women Writers, 2000 Consultant, Northeastern University Press, American Women Regionalists Series 1999- Chair, American Studies Association International Women's Task Force 1996-1998 American Studies Association International Women's Task Force, ex officio, 1999- Editorial Board, Legacy, Journal of American Women's Writing 1996-.2001 Editorial Board, Biography Series, Syracuse University Press, 1995-present. American Studies Association International Committee 1996-1998. Consultant to New College, George Mason University, 1995. Convener and Chair, "Women Writing Women: A Roundtable on Feminist Biography" Coordinator: "Feminism, Film and Utopia," Society for Utopian Studies, 1992. Coordinator: "Domesticity: A Cross Cultural Perspective," American Studies Association, 1990. Guest Editor: American Transcendental Quarterly, Special Edition on Nineteenth Century Mortarboard Society Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Delaware, 1988. Chair: "Recent Trends in Utopian Theory," American Culture Association, 1988. Reader for: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Legacy, ATQ, Utopian Studies, Yale University Press, University of Michigan Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Delaware Press, Plenum Press, Northeastern Press, Broadview Press, amongst others. Chair: Panel on Women and Literary Theory, Modern Language Association Convention, 1984. Chair: "Feminism and Critical Theory," Modern Language Association, 1977. University of California Women's Undergraduate Honorary Society, Panille, admitted 1963.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Univ. Delaware) College of Arts and Science Committee on Diversity; East Asian Studies Executive Committee, College of Arts and Science Academic Senate, Department of English Executive Committee, University Committee on Privilege and Welfare, Department of English Graduate Committee, Director: Honors Writing Fellows Program, Department of English Graduate Committee, Ethnic and Cultural Studies Concentration, Center for International Studies Selection Committee, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, Convener: American Literature Faculty, Honors Program Executive Committee, Honors Program Faculty Committee, Promotion and Tenure H. Fletcher Brown Endowed Chair Search Committee, Pathways: Pilot New First Year Interdisciplinary Course, Honors Colloquium Review Task Force, Judge Rosenberry Prize (Best Undergraduate Essay) Committee, Judge Honors Literary Award Committee, amongst others. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES (recent) *North Star Quest Advisory Committee (Leadership Experiences for Adolescent Girls) 2003- BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Married: Hon. Peter J. Panuthos "Crossing the Gender Divide: Out of Body Out of Time " Society for the Study of American Women Authors, 2003 “Utopia and Food” Respondent to Plenary Session, Utopian Studies Association, 2003 “Photographs of Violence: The Chinese Expulsions in Rural California” The Historical Memory Colloquium in American Studies, Invited Speaker, Yale University, 2003
“Reclaiming Class Rethinking Race: The Expulsion of Chinese Workers in Rural California” Asian American Studies, 2003 “The Chinese Experience in Humboldt County” Invited Keynote Speaker, Symposium sponsored by PBS, The Humboldt County Historical Society, and California State University, Humboldt 2003 "Whiteness and the Working Class: The Chinese Roundups in California and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Labor" International American Studies Association Congress, Leiden, 2003 “American Women’s Literature in an International Context” Society for the Study of American Women Authors, 2003 “Screening the Border” American Studies Association, 2002 “‘Mizora,’ ‘The Harmonists’ and The Dialectics of Hope” Nineteenth Century American Women Writers Group, 2002 “American Utopian Fiction and the Trauma of Race” Keynote Speaker University of Nottingham, 2002 “Half and Half: Respondent. Bi-racialism and Bi-Culturalism in Pre-Adolescents.” Independent Schools Consortium on Diversity, 2002 “Key Words in American Studies: Reconstruction” American Studies Association, 2001 “ Driven Out: The Roundups of Chinese People in California” Library of Congress Asian-American History Month Celebration. Invited Speaker. 2001 “Women Writing War” American Literature Association, 2001 “American Women Humorists” Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, 2001. Respondent “International Perspectives on American Women Writers” Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, 2001. “Women Writing the Nineteenth Century” Invited Speaker “Rebecca Harding Davis in International Contexts” Invited Speaker, University of Granada, Spain, 2000(Papers delivered - continued “Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me A Riddle: Sounds of Silence” Invited Speaker: University of Barcelona, 2000 “The Inevitability of Whiteness in American Utopian Fiction” International Utopian Studies Conference, Vancouver, 2000 “Driven Out: The Chinese Roundups in California” California Studies Association, 2000. “Subjection, Subversion, and Subjectivity: Women, Class, and Culture in 19th c. America” American Studies Association, 1999. “A Millennium of Utopias” University of Norwich, UK, 1999. “Women Negotiating Multiple Identities: Perspectives from Around the World.” American Studies Association, 1998. “Mary E. Bradley Lane: Writing White.” Society for Utopian Studies, 1998. “History, Cinema, and the Utopian Imagination” European Association of American Studies, Portugal, 1998 “American Feminisms/Transnational Constructions.” American Studies Association, 1997. “The Literary Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis.” Hellenic Association of American Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997. “Feminism, Socialism, and the Nineteenth-Century Utopian Imagination.” British Association for American Studies, 1997. “Feminist Studies/American Studies” United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Literature” 1997 “Politics, Praxis, and the Utopian Imagination: Salt of the Earth.” American Studies Association, 1996. "Contested Ground: Rebecca Harding Davis and American Nationalism." Woman to Woman: 19th-Century Women Writers in the 21st-Century, 1996. “French Feminist Theory in North American Contexts” United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Literature, 1996. "Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism." American Studies Association, 1995. "Motherhood: A Class Act." British Association for American Studies, 1995. "History and Subjectivity: Writing Feminist Biography." American Studies Association, 1994.
"Engendered Nature/Denatured History." Identity and Interdisciplinarity Conference on Women, University of Delaware, 1994. "Feminism, Realism, and Regionalism." Modern Language Association, 1993. "Women Writing Women: Writing Rebecca Harding Davis." American Studies Association, 1993. "Women and the Labor Movement: The Nineties." Women in Non-Traditional Labor Conference, 1993. "Utopian Fiction: The Social Function of Fantasy." University of Maryland Center for Political Leadership, 1993. "Still Gazing After All These Years: Feminism, Film and Utopia." Society for Utopian Studies, 1992. "Pedagogy and Possibility." Society for Utopian Studies, 1992. "Feminism, Utopia and the Politics of Subjectivity: Creation in Whose Image," European Association for American Studies, Spain, 1992. "Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia." Society for Utopian Studies, 1990. "Slavery and the Discourse of Domesticity." American Studies Association, 1990. "Women's Influence on the 101st Congress." Women in Non-Traditional Labor Conference, 1990. "Utopia The Mother: Power, Desire and Integrated Space." British American Studies Association, England, 1990. "History: The Significant Absence." Modern Language Association, 1989. "Utopian History/Dystopian Narrative: The Relationship Between Utopian Fictions and Utopian Communities." American Studies Association, 1989. "The Articulated Nowhere: The Feminist Utopia." International Conference of Utopian Studies, Rome, 1989. "Motherhood: Changing Images, Changing Laws." Women in Non-traditional Labor Conference, 1989. "Reconceptualizing the '30s." American Studies Association, 1988. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Text and Context." College of William and Mary Lecture Series in the Humanities, 1988. "Defending the Impossible: Recent Trends in Utopian Theory." American Culture Association, 1988. "Women's Discourse and the Utopian Narrative." Society for Utopian Studies, 1987. "Women: The Image and the Law." Keynote Speaker, Women in Non-Traditional Labor Conference, 1987. "Lost in Inner Space: Narrative Discourse in Women's Utopian Fiction." American Culture Association, 1987. "Peer Tutoring Across the Curriculum." Brown University Conference on Peer Tutoring, 1986. "A Woman's View from the City on the Hill." National Association of Women's Studies, 1985. “Gender and Literary Representation." Modern Language Association, 1984. "Women in American Utopianism." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1979. "A History of Motherhood and the Law." United Mineworkers of America, Women Miners' Conference, 1985. "The Fate of Women's Legislation in the 98th Congress." League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, AFL-CIO, National Organization for Women, 1983-1985. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Modern Language Association, 1979. "Domesticity and Social Order in the American Industrial Novel." Modern Language Association, 1976. "American Utopian Fiction 1888-1896: The Impact of Political Theory on Literary Structures." Modern Language Association, 1974. TEACHING Graduate and Undergraduate: Asian American Culture and History, Pathways, Mapping America’s Future, American Studies, American Literature Surveys: 18th, 19th, and 20th c., “The Many Voices of American Literature,” Women’s Studies, American Women’s Literature, Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, Realism and Representation, Utopian Fiction, Utopian Theory, Cultural Studies, Writing, Peer Tutoring, Labor Culture and History, Fiction of Social Change, Culture of the Civil War, Images of American Labor in Fiction, Film, and Folk Song, “America Works: The Culture of Work in America”; Naturalism; Realism; Individual Authors, Gilded Age, Peer Tutoring and Advanced Composition, Women in American History and Literature, Regionalism, Naturalism. Dissertation Supervisions: (selected) in American Literature, Feminist Theory, Utopianism, American Theater History, Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Representing Trauma, 19th C. Irish-American Immigrant Women’s Fiction, Chinese-American Women Writers and Sentimentalism; Embroidery and Female Literacy; Transnational Adoption Narratives, Feminism and the Gothic: History and Film; Re-Thinking American Sentimentalism; GRANTS United States Department of Education International Studies and Foreign Language Project Title VI: "East Asia in a Globalizing World: Exploring Globalization Processes and Local/Global Connections." To work with a team of faculty members across the disciplines to develop East Asian Studies at the University of Delaware. Also develop and teach "East Asian Cross Roads in the American West." 2005-7 Library of Congress Scholar, 1991-2, 1998-present (Research and Facilities Grant); renewed 2007. Tracy Memorial Trust Fund, Humboldt Foundation, 2004 WNET (New York) P.B.S Documentary Production Grant, 2003-4 C.P.B.S., National Center for Outreach, Documentary Production and Symposium Key Note Speaker2004 Center for International Studies, 2002-3 University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 2002-3 Pew Charitable Trust: “Problem Based Learning: Mapping America’s Future” 2000 University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 1998 United States Information Agency Winter Institute in American Studies, 1995, 1996, 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities, Consultant to Faculty Seminar, Hood College, "Reinterpreting American Literature," 1993. National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1990 American Philosophical Society Travel Research Grant, 1990. University of Delaware Faculty Research Grant, 1988. University of Delaware Instructional Improvement Grant, 1985, 1986. To design and implement Writing Fellowship Program. University of California Regents Affirmative Action Research Grant, 1981. University of California Regents Innovative Education Grant, 1979, "History and Literature of American Women," with Prof. Thomas Dublin. University of California Academic Senate Research Grant, 1978. University of California Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1978. University of California Regents Innovative Education Grant, 1976. To design and implement interdisciplinary Humanities/Writing Program. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, HONORS, AND AWARDS Memorial for Tillie Olsen, Organizer and Speaker, Univ. Maryland, w/ Prof. Debby Rosenfelt, January 2007. Executive Board, Society for Utopian Studies, 2006- Smithsonian Museum of American History, Division of Asian American Studies, “Rethinking Asian American History Consortium” 2004- Nellie Arnott Darling and Missionary Women’s Edition Project, 2004- National Endowment for the Humanities, Consultant, Division of Preservation & Access, 2002-3 Editorial Board, Utopian Studies Journal, 1993-.present Search Committee, Editor, Utopian Studies 2002-3 Executive Board, Society for Utopian Studies, 2003-present Diversity Consortium of Independent Schools, Washington DC 2001- Executive Board, Founding Member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 1999-2002 Program Committee, International Conference on American Women Writers, 2000 Consultant, Northeastern University Press, American Women Regionalists Series 1999- Chair, American Studies Association International Women’s Task Force 1996-1998 American Studies Association International Women’s Task Force, ex officio, 1999- Editorial Board, Legacy, Journal of American Women’s Writing 1996-.2001 Editorial Board, Biography Series, Syracuse University Press, 1995-present. American Studies Association International Committee 1996-1998. American Studies Association Women's Committee, 1993-1996. Consultant to New College, George Mason University, 1995. Convener and Chair, "Women Writing Women: A Roundtable on Feminist Biography," American Studies Association, 1993, 1994. Coordinator: "Feminism, Film and Utopia," Society for Utopian Studies, 1992. Coordinator: "Domesticity: A Cross Cultural Perspective," American Studies Association, 1990. Guest Editor: American Transcendental Quarterly, Special Edition on Nineteenth Century Mortarboard Society Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Delaware, 1988. Chair: "Recent Trends in Utopian Theory," American Culture Association, 1988. Reader for: Legacy, ATQ, Utopian Studies, Yale University Press, University of Michigan Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Delaware Press, Plenum Press, Northeastern Press, Broadview Press, amongst others. Chair: Panel on Women and Literary Theory, Modern Language Association Convention, 1984. Chair: "Feminism and Critical Theory," Modern Language Association, 1977. University of California Women's Undergraduate Honorary Society, Panille, admitted 1963. UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Univ. Delaware) University Committee on Privilege and Welfare, Department of English Graduate Committee, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Senate, Department of English Executive Committee, Director: Honors Writing Fellows Program, Department of English Graduate Committee, Ethnic and Cultural Studies Concentration, Center for International Studies Selection Committee, Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, Convener: American Literature Faculty, Honors Program Executive Committee, Honors Program Faculty Committee, Promotion and Tenure Committees, Faculty Search Committees, African-American Studies Search Committee, H. Fletcher Brown Endowed Chair Search Committee, Pathways: Pilot New First Year Interdisciplinary Course, Honors Colloquium Review Task Force, Judge Rosenberry Prize (Best Undergraduate Essay) Committee, Judge Honors Literary Award Committee, amongst others. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES (recent)
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