Dr. Linda Belau
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies
(956) 665- 3421
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000
Major: Comparative Literature
Dissertation Title: Program in Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism
MA, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1999
Major: Philosophy
MA, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995
Major: English
BA, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 1990
Major: English
BA, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 1990
Major: German
Areas of Emphasis: Applied Linguistics
EMPLOYMENT
Academic - Administrative Assignments
Director, Film Studies Program, (2010 - 2017)
Associate Department Chair, Department of English, The University of Texas-Pan American (2004 2006)
Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (August 2015)
Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (August 2011 - July 2015)
Associate Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (August 2006 - August 2011)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (August 2003 - August 2006)
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University (August 2000 - May 2003)
Licensures and Certifications
Quality Matters Course Certification, ( 2016)
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Quality Matters Course Certification, ( 2015)
Quality Matters Course Certification, ( 2015)
Applying the QM Rubric Workshop, Center for Online Teaching and Technology. ( 2014)
Program Blueprinting-Film Studies Minor, Center for Online Teaching and Technology. ( 2014)
Quality Matters Course Certification, ( 2014)
Quality Matters Course Reviewer Training/Certification: Applying the QM Rubric, Quality Matters .
( 2014)
Online Exemplary Course Program Certification/Training, ( 2011)
Online Training and Instructional Certification, The University of Texas-Pan American. ( 2009)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Linda Belau, Psychoanalysis and la Femme. Special Issue of Women Writers (Vol 11), 2010.
Linda Belau Topologies of Trauma. Co-authored. The Other Press, 2002.
Linda Belau. Trauma: Essays on the Limit of Knowledge and Memory. Special Issue of Post-Modern
Culture (11.2), 2001.
Linda Belau. The Demand of Writing: Trauma, Psychosis, Psychoanalysis.
Book Chapters
Linda Belau. "‘Under the Floorboards of this Nation’: Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of
History in 12 Years a Slave." Movies in the Age of Obama: The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist
Cinema. David Izzo (Ed.) Rowman & Littlefield, 2015:
Linda Belau. "Sublimation, Myth and the Work of Dreams: Radical Nostalgia and Melancholic
Attachment in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Edip Re." Dreamscapes Projected: The Oneiric in Italian Film
Culture. Francesco Pascuzzi (Ed.) Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014:
Linda Belau "Charles Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African-American Literary Response to the
1898 Wilmington Race Riot." Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African
American Fiction Writer. MacFarland, 2009:
Linda Belau. "The Mystical Encounter with Extremity: Teaching Saint Teresa through
Psychoanalytic Theory." MLA Approaches to Teaching the Spanish Mystics. Alison Weber (Ed.)
PMLA: Approaches to Teaching Saint Teresa and the Spanish Mystics., 2009:
Linda Belau. "Reading Kristeva and Beyond: Psychoanalysis as Textual Ethics." Textual Ethos
Studies . Rodopi Press, 2006:
Linda Belau. "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through." Topologies of Trauma. The Other
Press, 2002:
Linda Belau. "The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Repetition and the Failure of
Interpretation." Topologies of Trauma. The Other Press, 2002:
Linda Belau. "Viewing the Impossible: The U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum." The Holocaust:
Memories, Research, Reference. Haworth Press, 1998:
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Linda Belau. "Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination." The Films
of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Linda Belau. "Film as Autobiographical Act: Pasolini's Oedipus." Memory in World Cinema.
Linda Belau. "Season for the Signifier: Formation of the Feminine Subject and the Absent Father." A
Lacan Primer.
Journal Articles
Linda Belau, Melodrama, Sickness, and Paranoia: Todd Haynes and the Woman’s Film.
Co-authored.. Film & History. (2017)
Linda Belau. Writing in Translationese: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and the Uncanny
Dialect of the Diasporic Writer. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. (2012)
Linda Belau. Has Tomomi Lost Her Mind? Psychosis, Femininity, and the Universal Appeal of
Kazumi Yumoto’s Spring Tone. Studies in the Novel. 42, no. 1 (2010)
Linda Belau In Praise of Freud: An Introduction. Women Writers. Women Writers. 12, no. 1 (2010)
Linda Belau. Traumatic Suffering and Superegoic Demand: Ota Yoko's Hiroshima Testimony.
Women Writers. 12, no. 1 (2010)
Linda Belau. Death of the Master? Paternal Authority and the Discourse of Academia. (a): The
Journal of Culture and the Unconscious. 5, no. 1-2 (2008)
Linda Belau. Melancholic Performance and the Matter of Origins in Walter Benjamin’s Translation
Theory. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Translation. 12, no. 1 (2008)
Linda Belau. The Ambivalence of Fidelity: Franz Fanon and the Cultural Unconscious. Vitalpoetics.
1, no. 2 (2008)
Linda Belau. Killing the Object: Psychosis and the Criminal Act. The Cardoza Law Review. 24, no.
6 (2002)
Linda Belau. Reading Otherwise. Janus Head. (2002)
Linda Belau. Sleight of the Letter: Fantasy and the Signifier. (a): A Journal of Culture and the
Unconscious. 2, no. 1 (2002)
Linda Belau. Trauma and the Material Signifier. Post Modern Culture. 11, no. 2 (2001)
Linda Belau. Catastrophe, Crisis, and the Impossible Form of Saying. Crossings: A
Counter-disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural and Literary Studies. 1, no. 2 (1998)
Other
Linda Belau. Review of 'Mishima’s Negative Political Theology: Dying for the Absent Emperor,' by
Akio Kimura. Nationalism, War & Sacrifice: Dying for One's Country. Library of Social Science
Newsletter . (2013)
Under Submission
Book Chapters
Linda Belau. Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination. The Films of
Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Linda Belau. Film as Autobiographical Act: Pasolini's Oedipus. Memory in World Cinema.
Linda Belau. Season for the Signifier: Formation of the Feminine Subject and the Absent Father. A
Lacan Primer.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Excellence in Online Teaching Award (University-Wide), Center for Online Learning, Teaching, and
Technology, University of Texas-Pan American (2013)
University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas System (2011)
Online Exemplary Course Program Reviewer Training, The University of Texas-Pan American
(2010)
Provost’s Award For Advancement of Study Abroad Programs, The University of Texas-Pan
American (2005)
Institutional Citation for Teaching Excellence, The George Washington University (2002)
PRESENTATIONS
Linda Belau. "Family Ties and Maternal Things: Bates Motel as Family Romance for the
Post-Oedipal Era," South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, TX. (2016)
Linda Belau. "Humanities Seminar--Multi Cultural Cinema." Houston, TX. (April 2016)
Linda Belau. "Screening Savagery: Traumatic Returns in Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave.”,"
South Central Modern Language Association, (October 2014)
Linda Belau. "Narrative Film as Sublimation: The Case of Pier Paolo Pasolini," Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association, Portland, OR. (October 2013)
Linda Belau. "Documentary and Personal Narrative," Pacific Ancient & Modern Language
Association, Seattle, WA. (October 2012)
Linda Belau. "You Yourself are the Criminal You Seek: Repetition and Melancholic Attachment in
Edipo Re." Memory in World Cinema Conference, San Antonio, TX. (September 2011)
Linda Belau. "Traumatic Suffering and Superegoic Demand," Middle Atlantic Popular Culture
Association, Alexandria, VA. (October 2010)
Linda Belau. "Failure, Representation, and the Memorial Text: Ota Yoko’s City of Corpses," Pacific
Ancient & Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA. (November 2009)
Linda Belau. "Sublimation and Women’s Experience in Eighteenth-Century Captivity Narratives,"
South Central Society for 18th-Century Studies, Corpus Christi, TX. (February 2009)
Linda Belau. "The Impossibility of Memoir," South Central Modern Language Association, San
Antonio, TX. (November 2008)
Linda Belau. "Public and Private Mourning: Trauma, Sublimation, and the Question of
Representation in the Trauma Memoir," South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis,
TN. (November 2007)
Linda Belau. "Franz Fanon and the Cultural Unconscious." International Conference on Caribbean
Studies, (2006)
Linda Belau. "Mystical Transgression: Saint Teresa and the Experience of Jouissance," South
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Linda Belau. "Mystical Transgression: Saint Teresa and the Experience of Jouissance," South
Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, TX. (2006)
Linda Belau. "African American Literary Responses to the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot," UDC
Seminar Series, University of District of Columbia, Washington DC. (2006)
Linda Belau. "Beyond the Phenomena: Trauma and Psychosis in the Subject of Psychoanalysis,"
Critical Theories of Trauma International Symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (2005)
Linda Belau. "Death of the Master: Paternal Authority and the Discourse of Academia," California
Psychoanalytic Circle , Berkeley, CA. (2005)
Linda Belau. "To the Other and Back: Crossing Borders in the Puritan Captivity Narrative," Group
for Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio. (2005)
Linda Belau. "Coloring the Lines of History: Rhetoric and Literature of the 1898 Wilmington Race
Riot," Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire, (2004)
Linda Belau. "From the Universal to the Particular: The Subject of Discourse and The Paradox of the
Political in Lacan’s Seminar XVII," Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
(2004)
Linda Belau. "Reading Translation and Melancholia in Walter Benjamin," Modern Language
Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA. (2004)
Linda Belau. "Trauma and Subjective Destitution: Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and the
Impossibility of Mourning," American Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio, TX .
(2004)
Linda Belau. "At the Limits of Autonomy: Kazuo Ishiguro Between the Colonial and the
Sovereign," Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA. (2003)
Linda Belau. "For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Lacan’s Theory of the Four Discourses," Comparative
Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. (2003)
Linda Belau. "On Jouissance and Mysticism: Trauma and the Experience of Writing," Narratives of
Disaster Conference, University of Munster, Munster, Germany. (2003)
Linda Belau. "Killing the Object: The Case of the Psychotic Andrei Chikatilo," Lacan and Crime
Conference, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY. (2002)
Linda Belau. "The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Repetition, and the Failure of
Knowledge," Knowing Subjects: Human Sciences Conference, The George Washington University,
Washington DC. (2001)
Linda Belau. "Sleight of the Letter: Fantasy and the Signifier," California Psychoanalytic Circle, San
Francisco, CA. (2001)
Linda Belau. "The Vicissitudes of Jouissance: Sexual Difference and the Experience of Psychosis,"
Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, LA. (2001)
Linda Belau. "Trauma, Representation and the Crisis of Memory," Popular Culture Association
National Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (2001)
Linda Belau. "Sexual Difference and Mystical Experience," Colloquium on Conceptualizing
Genders, Program for the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC.
(2000)
Linda Belau. "Symptom in the Topology of the Subject." Association for the Psychoanalysis of
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Culture and Society, Columbia, SC. (1999)
Linda Belau. "Encountering Melancholia," Modern Language Association Convention, San
Francisco, CA. (1998)
Linda Belau. "Holocaust, Representation, and the Impossibility of Memory." International
Association of Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, CA. (1998)
Linda Belau. "The Crisis of Origins in Early Christian Mysticism," Conference on Christianity and
Literature, Santa Clara University. Santa Clara, CA. (1998)
Linda Belau. "Performance, Failure, and the Margins of Language." International Association of
Philosophy and Literature, Univesrity of South Alababma, Mobile, AL. (1997)
Linda Belau. "The Demand of Writing: Ota Yoko’s City of Corpses," Modern Language Association
Convention, Toronto, Canada. (1997)
Linda Belau. "Hannah Arendt and the Concentration Camp Experience." Conference on the
Holocaust, Millersville University, PA. (1995)
Linda Belau. "The Literary History of Slave Narratives," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. (1994)
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Adv Topics-English
Film Theory
History of Film
Intro to Literature
Intro to World Lit
Lit and Film Adaptation
Literature & Film Adaptation
Studies in Literary Theo
Studies in Literary Theory
Survey of Lit Theory
Survey of Literary Theory
Thesis
Topics in Film Theory
SERVICE
University Service
Program Coordinator, Assessment Coordinator. ( 2015)
Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. ( 2015)
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Committee Member, English Literature Program Committee. ( 2015)
Committee Chair, Film Studies Advisory Committee. ( 2009)
Program Coordinator, Film Studies Program. ( 2009)
Committee Member, Film Studies Advisory Committee. ( 2008)
Committee Chair, Hiring Committee. (2016 - 2017)
Committee Member, Cultural Studies Committee. (2015 - 2016)
Committee Member, General Education Core Committee. (2015 - 2016)
Committee Member, Graduate Exam Committee. (2015 - 2016)
Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2015 - 2016)
Program Organizer, Platica Discussion with Film Studies and Mexican American Studies Programs.
(2015 - 2015)
Committee Member, Teaching Effectiveness Committee. (2011 - 2015)
Committee Member, Literature Committee. (2008 - 2015)
Committee Chair, Annual Review Committee. (2011 - 2012)
Committee Member, Guest Lecturers Committee. (2009 - 2011)
Committee Member, Affirmative Action Advocate. (2009 - 2010)
Committee Member, Annual Review Committee. (2009 - 2010)
Committee Chair, Program Proposals and Appeals Committee. (2009 - 2010)
Committee Member, Graduate Exam Committee. (2008 - 2010)
Committee Member, Selection Committee. (2008 - 2010)
Committee Member, Office of International Programs. (2007 - 2010)
Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. ( 2009)
Faculty Mentor, New Faculty Support Program. (2008 - 2009)
Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (2007 - 2009)
Committee Member, Planning Committee. (2007 - 2009)
Committee Member, Planning Committee. (2007 - 2009)
Committee Member, Affirmative Action Advocate. (2007 - 2008)
Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Film Studies Minor Program Development Committee. (2007
- 2008)
Committee Chair, Post-Tenure Review Committee. (2007 - 2008)
Committee Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (2007 - 2008)
Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (2007 - 2008)
Committee Member, Graduate Council. (2005 - 2008)
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Committee Member, Affirmative Action Advocate. (2006 - 2007)
Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2006 - 2007)
Committee Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (2006 - 2007)
Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (2006 - 2007)
Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (2005 - 2007)
Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2005 - 2006)
Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee. (2004 - 2006)
Committee Chair, Curriculum Revision Committee. (2004 - 2006)
Committee Member, Department of English. (2004 - 2006)
Committee Chair, Graduate Literature Track Curriculum Revision Committee. (2004 - 2006)
Committee Member, Quality Enhancement Plan Committee. (2004 - 2006)
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society. (2004 - 2006)
Committee Member, College Executive Council. (2003 - 2006)
Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (2003 - 2006)
Faculty Advisor, English Graduate Organization. (2004 - 2005)
Committee Chair, Hiring Committee. (2004 - 2005)
Committee Member, Tenure/Promotion Guidelines Committee. (2004 - 2005)
Committee Member, Assessment Committee. (2003 - 2004)
Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2003 - 2004)
Committee Member, Planning and Development Committee. (2002 - 2003)
Faculty Advisor, Colonial Inauguration. (2001 - 2003)
Faculty Advisor, Freshman Advising Workshop. (2001 - 2003)
Committee Member, Executive Planning Committee. (2000 - 2003)
Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2001 - 2001)
Professional Service
Reviewer, Journal Article , Rupkatha: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (2010 2017)
Reviewer, Journal Article , Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2003 2017)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , (2015 - 2016)
Session Chair , Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (October 2013 - May 2014)
Session Chair , Pacific Modern Language Association (2012 - 2013)
Session Chair , Memory in World Cinema Conference , San Antonio , (September 2011)
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Session Chair , Memory in World Cinema Conference , San Antonio , (September 2011)
Session Chair , Middle Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference , District of Columbia ,
(October 2010)
Reviewer, Textbook , Cengage Learning (January 2010)
Editor, Journal Editor , Women Writers (January 2010)
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer , America’s Membranes , McAllen , (November 2008)
Session Chair , South Central Modern Language (October 2007 - November 2008)
Reviewer, Grant Proposal , Social Sciences an Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006 2007)
Committee Chair , South Central Modern Language Association (October 2006 - November 2007)
Committee Member , South Central Modern Language Association Convention , Memphis ,
(November 1, 2007 - November 4, 2007)
Reviewer, Textbook , Thomson Publishers (May 2007)
Session Chair , International Conference on Caribbean Studies , South Padre Island , (November
2006)
Reviewer, Textbook , Wadsworth Publishers (May 2004)
Reviewer, Textbook , Pearson Publishers/Prentice Hall (November 2003)
Reviewer, Journal Article , GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2001 - 2002)
Program Organizer , Program in the Human Sciences, George Washington University (2001 - 2002)
Editor, Journal Editor , Post-Modern Culture (2000 - 2001)
Session Chair , Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (1998 - 1999)
Session Chair , Modern Language Association Conference (1997 - 1998)
Advisory Board Member , University of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (1997 - 1998)
Reviewer, Book , State University of New York (SUNY) Press (1996 - 1997)
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