CURRICULUM VITAE
LOIS WOLFE
Lois Wolfe
6104 Gulf of Mexico Blvd.
Marathon, FL 33050-3037
305.942.1357
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University (2008)
Dissertation: Toward a Pragmatics of Intent: Cognitive Approaches
in Creative and Critical Writing
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Florida International University (2001)
Thesis: Roman Wells, a novel
B.L.S., Liberal Studies, Barry University (1994)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Associated Writing Programs Intro Journal Award, Poetry, 1999.
Ranked, Top 15 Researchers, 1999, Florida International University (FIU).
Books and Books Poetry Award, 1998, 12th Annual Literary Awards Competition,
FIU Creative Writing Program.
Josephine Friedman Award for Fiction, 1998, 12th Annual Literary Awards Competition, FIU.
Sigma Tau Delta Writing Award, Fiction, 1994, Barry University English Honor Society.
Media Award, 1986: Dade County Psychological Association.
TEACHING
Faculty, Florida Keys Community College, 2011-present
Instructor, Florida Keys Community College, 2002-2010
ENC 1101 English Composition I
ENC 1102 English Composition II / Introduction to Literature
LIT 2000 Introduction to Literature
AML 2020 American Literature
CRW 1001 Introduction to Creative Writing
CRW 2100 Beginning Fiction Writing
CRW 2200 Intermediate Fiction Writing
FIL 1001 Introduction to Understanding Film
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Lecturer, University of Miami, 2004-2011
ENG 404 Advanced Prose Fiction
ENG 290 Beginning Fiction Writing
ENG 209 Introduction to Creative Writing
Instructor, Miami-Dade College, 2010-2011
ENC 1101 English Composition I
ENC 1102 English Composition II
Instructor, Florida International University, 2007-2011
CRW 2001 Introduction to Creative Writing
Workshop/seminar instruction in writing
Miami Writes, Metro-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, 1993
Florida Center for the Book, Fort Lauderdale, 1993
GoldenRod Writers' Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1992
PUBLICATIONS / Creative Writing
Books
Novels
Mask of Night. New York: Doubleday, 1993. Reviews in Publisher’s
Weekly, The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, The Miami Herald, The Palm
Beach Post
Mask of Night (paperback) New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
The Schemers. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Poems
“Neruda’s Bells” and “Left in the Line.” Coastlines. Boca Raton: Florida
Atlantic University, 2005.
“Bawling Song.” Mid-American Review. XX. 1-2 (2000): 212.
“Alone in the Orchard.” Write in Our Midst: An Anthology of South
Florida Writers. Selections from the 1992 Program, (1993) : 99.
Short Fiction
“Trestle.” Coastlines. Florida Atlantic University. 2005
“Take of the Bark of the Root.” Mangrove Online. 1 (Summer 2005).
www.mangroveonline
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Play-reading
Blue Horizon. 20 March 2007. Key West: Waterfront Playhouse.
PUBLICATIONS / Academic Writing
Critical Essays / Refereed
“Imagined Community of Female Intellectuals: Mistral, Ocampo and Castellanos.” Truth
to Power: Public Intellectuals In and Out of Acadademe. Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and
Karyn Hollis. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
“Cognitive Mimetics and Ethical Aesthetics in Coetzee’s Foe.” J. M. Coetzee: Critical
Perspectives. Ed. Kailash C. Baral. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008.
“Of Tragic Imperatives, a Moral Aesthetic and Cognitive Souls in Hamlet.” Shakespeare
and Renaissance Association Selected Papers, Vol. 26 (2003). Morgantown: West
Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association, West Virginia University and
Marshall University.
Editor
Book of non-fiction
South African Journeys: Reflections and Essays from the International Partnership
Conference. Co-editor Richard A. Donovan. New York: National Center for Educational
Alliances, 1999.
Co-editor responsible for inviting and editing submissions, overseeing design and
publishing process.
Academic journals
FACS Journal, Vol. 8-10. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies Program,
Florida Atlantic University, 2005-2007.
Editorial Board; duties include calls for papers, selecting manuscripts and
editing submissions.
With Open Eyes: A Perspective From the Front Line. Exec. Ed. Castell Bryant. Miami:
Miami-Dade Community College, 1996.
Copy editor; responsible for editing faculty submissions.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“When You Fight to Come Home: Multicultural Experience and Cognitive Linguistic Aesthetics
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in DeRosa’s Paper Fish.”
Panel on Exploring Literary Linguistics and the Active Reader. Modern
Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 30
Dec. 2006.
“On What Ground, Caliban?”
Special Session Panel on Intersecting Theories with/for/and Postcolonial
Literature.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Annual Conference. Charlotte,
NC. 12 Nov. 2006.
“Cognitive Mimetics and Ethical Aesthetics in Coetzee’s Foe.”
Special Session Panel “Postcolonial Aesthetics Again.” South Atlantic
Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Conference. Atlanta,
GA. 4 Nov. 2005.
“Desperately Seeking Susan: Presence and Absence in Coetzee’s Foe.”
Contemporary Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee and Post-Apartheid South
African Literature: an International Conference. Royal Holloway,
University of London, Egham.
29 Apr. 2005.
“Damning Gloucester’s Eyes: Taming the Counterplot in Lear.”
Disjunctions 2005, Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference.
University of California, Riverside. 9 Apr. 2005.
“A Moral Aesthetic for ‘Straunge Chyldren’ in Lear .”
30th Annual West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association
Conference. Davis & Elkins College. 4 Apr. 2003.
“Aesthetics of Ambivalence and the Rational Soul of Hamlet”
West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association annual meeting.
West Virginia University. 19 Apr. 2002.
“Nor Let Thy Soul Contrive”
8th Annual International Graduate Symposium on Language and
Literature. McGill University, Montreal. 23 Mar. 2002.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Administrative
Executive Director, Greater Miami Urban Education Pact, College of
Education, Florida International University, April, 1998 – April, 2000.
Program administrator in a grant-supported unit of specialized
community research, training and service. Ranked among Top 15
Researchers at FIU 1998-1999. Supervised grant accounts of $1
million.
Professional organizations
Modern Language Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Secretary for Special
Session on Postcolonial Literature 2005-2007
PUBLICATIONS / Professional Writing
Book reviews
For The Miami Herald
Reviews of Salman Rushdie (4 Sept. 2005); Alice Walker (25 Apr. 2004); Toni Morrison
(26 Oct. 2003); Nadine Gordimer (25 Dec. 2005, 13 Apr. 2003); Louise Erdrich (2 Feb. 2003);
Joyce Carol Oates (12 Sept. 2004, 30 Oct. 2002); V. S. Naipaul (2 Aug. 2002); Doris Lessing (3
Mar. 2002); Susan Sontag (23 Sept.2001); Louise Erdrich (22 Apr. 2001); Ann Beattie (14 Jan.
2001); Barry Lopez (19 Nov. 2000); Lee K. Abbott (21 Dec. 1997); Lee Smith (30 Nov. 1997);
Richard Ford (22 June 1997).
Newspaper columns
“South Florida Book Beat.” Monthly columns October, 1988 through
January, 1991, in The Miami Herald, covering books and publishing in
South Florida. Sample columns:
“South Florida authors and the ‘write stuff.’” 6 Jan. 1991
“King Remembered offers oral history, lest we forget.” 7 Jan. 1990
“What’s in a book? Flash of insight, your worst nightmare.” 29 Apr. 1990
“From Pompano with a Peterbilt.” 5 Feb. 1989.
“Parents.” Bi-weekly columns 1983-85 in The Miami Herald, covering
parent education,
family relationships and child development. Sample columns:
“No longer kids, not yet adults.” 29 Jan. 1987
“On the road to creative thinking.” 30 Jan. 1986
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“Helping children understand tragedy.” 29 Jan. 1986
“First-born, most-loved and other parental fables,” 5 Dec. 1985
“When curiosity draws a child out of sight.” 18 July 1985
Journalism, general interest
The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 1979-1991
Columnist and freelance feature writer. Arts, lifestyle, profiles, travel,
opinion.
The Miami News, Miami, Florida, 1982-84
Freelance feature writer. Arts, lifestyle, profiles, family, children’s issues
TODAY, Vero Beach, Florida, 1970-72
General assignment reporter. Features, beat reporting on local
government, law enforcement. Photographer.
The Morgantown Post/Dominion News, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1969
General assignment reporter and feature writer.
Technical Writing
Grant Writing (partial list)
Florida International University, College of Education, April, 1998 –
April, 2000. Successful funding sources included: Ford Foundation, AT&T
Foundation, U.S. Department of Education and Dade Community Foundation.
The Village (Miami-based not-for-profit), March, 1997- April, 1998.
Successful funding sources included: Florida Department of Children and
Families, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation, WAGES Coalition, Miami-Dade
County Department of Human Services, Health Council of South Florida, Ryan
White Title I, Governor's Drug-Free Communities, Miami-Dade Department of
Justice System Support, Dade Community Foundation.
The Education Fund (Miami-based not-for-profit), 1994. Successful funding sources
included: DeWitt-Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE (partial list)
Florida Keys Community College Advisory Committee for the Middle
Keys, 2006-2008
Cultural Umbrella Committee, Monroe County Arts Council, 2003-2004
Monroe County Public Schools
Creative writing presentations at Marathon High School, 2008
Marathon Middle School, 2006, Marathon
PACE Center for Girls, 2007, Tavernier
Monroe County School Readiness Coalition, member 2001- 2004 / chair,
2002-2003.
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami Book Fair International,
Board member, 1995-98; Coordinator, Write in Our Midst,
1991-93
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Superintendent’s Advisory
Committee on Magnet Schools, 1987
South Florida Chapter, National Writers Association, Program Chair;
Outreach Coordinator, 1992
South Florida Black Writers, seminar organizer and program development, 1992
Florida Council of Parent Cooperative Preschools, conference coordinator
Sixth Annual Parent Involvement Conference, Miami-Dade Community College,
Kendall Campus, 1980.
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