JEAN WITHEROW, Ph.D.
212-M Allen Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 266-9117
TEACHING
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Spring 2001-Present: Instructor of English; Currently Instructor III;
 ENGL 2000, Special Emphasis in Ethics, Responsibility and Culture in a Globalized World
(2007-Present);
 ENGL 2025
o Special Emphasis in Louisiana Literature (2004-Present);
o CxC designated course (2011-2013);
o Service-Learning component utilizing collected oral histories of Old South Baton Rouge,
for which I wrote and received a $3000 grant from CCELL (2004-2005);
 Herget Residence College faculty (2003-2012);
 Taught ENGL 2000 Pilot Program (Spring 2007);
 Taught three sections of ENGL 1001 (2001- 2011) or ENGL 1002 (2001-2006);
 Taught one section of ENGL 3072 summers and once in the fall (2005-2007).
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
ENGL 1001 Committee: Conducted workshop on research strategies and hosted Instructor/GTA
social mixer, current;
Appeals Committee (Fall 2013-SP 2014);
Executive Committee (2013);
ENGL 2000 Committee, designing curriculum, conducting pilot program for pre-nursing students,
and facilitating faculty workshop (2005-2006);
Mentoring Program (2003-2006);
Caffey Award Reader, annual;
ENGL 2025 and 2000 Final Assessment Committees, regularly, often Table Leader;
Transfer Orientation, regular volunteer;
Graduation Ceremonies, regular volunteer;
Developed and acted as advisor of student Book Club at LSU (2003-2005);
o Members read and discussed one new book per month.
o Members conducted Junior Book Club at local middle school.
THE Forum: Service Learning Poster Session Presenter of Students’ Oral History Projects (Spring
2005);
Service-Learning Focus Session with LSU Grantees (Feb. 25, 2005);
First-Year Writing Program Committee (2004);
Literary Rally (2003-2006);
Instructor Interest Committee (2003);
Newsletter Committee (2002-2003);
ETS testing project (2002 - 2003);
AP Reader, Lexington, KY (Summer, 2003);
Book Festival volunteer (2002 and 2010);
LSU Forum: Keeping the Touch in Technology, participant (Spring 2002).
AWARDS
Instructor of Caffee Award recipient
Spring 2008
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Arkansas Philological Association
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Golden Key International Honor Society
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Presenter: “Rememory and Time in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: “Keeping the Past at Bay.”
Arkansas Philological Conference in Little Rock, Oct, 2013.
“Abysses of Solitude”: Chopin’s Intertextuality with Flaubert.” Mississippi Quarterly 64.1 (Winter
2011). Mississippi State UP.
Presenter: “Swinburne’s Deconstruction and Re-Imaging of God”: 38th annual meeting Arkansas
Philological Association, Oct 6-8, 2011.
A Gentle Roar: Kate Chopin’s Contribution to Realism and Naturalism Saarbrücken, Germany:
VDM, 2011.
Presenter: “Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ and the Failure of Communication.” SCLA
Convention, Baton Rouge, LA, Oct. 21, 2010.
“Kate Chopin’s Reconsideration of W.D. Howells: ‘What Cannot Love Do?’” Presenter APA
Convention (American Philological Association), Eureka Springs, AR, Oct. 10, 2009.
“‘To love a little and then to die!’: Chopin Awakens Emma Bovary.” Southern Studies.
Northwestern State UP XIV.II (Fall/Winter 2007): 29-48.
“Kate Chopin’s Dialogic Engagement with W. D. Howells: ‘What Cannot Love Do?’”
Southern Studies Northwestern State U P XIII.III and IV. (Fall/Winter 2006): 101-116.
Where Bluebirds Fly. Publish America. 2005.
“Anger and Heat: A Study of Figurative Language.” Journal of Literary Semantics 33 (May 2004):
71-82.
A Dialectic of Deception: Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.” Mosaic 36: 3 (September 2003):
165-180.
“Flaubert’s Vision and Chopin’s Naturalist Re-vision: A Comparison of Madame Bovary and The
Awakening.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South VIII: I and II
(Winter/Spring 1997): 27-36.
Presenter: “Flaubert’s Vision and Chopin’s Naturalist Re-vision: A Comparison of Madame Bovary
and The Awakening.” Kate Chopin Conference, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches,
LA, May 1996.
SUBMISSIONS
“The Deconstruction of a Wrathful God: Swinburne’s Benign Gods.” Still pending.