LYDIA E. FERGUSON
Department of English
Auburn University
9016 Haley Center
Auburn, AL 36849
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Auburn University—Auburn, AL
PhD candidate, English
Areas of Concentration: 19th- century American Literary Realism & Regionalism; 19thcentury African American Literature; 19th and 20th-century Performance & National
Identity
2011-2016 (expected)
Clemson University—Clemson, SC
Master of Arts in English
Concentration: 19th century American Literature
2010
Ball State University—Muncie, IN
Bachelor of Arts in English
English: Literature
2008
PUBLICATIONS
“Branding Blackness: Disney and the Commodification of Black Culture.” Film for
Children: Redefining the Consumption of Visual Narratives. Beeler, Karen, and Stan
Beeler, eds. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, forthcoming.
Review of Bradford’s Indian Book: Being the True Roote & Rise of American Letters as
Revealed by the Native Text Embedded in Of Plimoth Plantation, by Betty Booth
Donohue. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 37.3.
“In the Shadow of No Towers.” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents and
Underground Classics. Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2012.
“The Power of Myth and Metal: Captain Nemo as the New Ancient Mariner in The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I.” Presentations of the 2010 Upstate
Steampunk Extravaganza and Meetup. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2011.
“Writing with Worth: A Client-Based Approach to Learning.” Commissioned Video for
Clemson University’s Advanced Writing Program Website, 2011.
“Louise Erdrich.” (Revision and update of existing entry). Critical Survey of Poetry: Third
Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011.
“Paula Gunn Allen.” Critical Survey of Poetry: Third Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, 2011.
“Dog Soldiers.” Masterplots: Revised Third Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.
“The Shipping News.” Masterplots: Revised Third Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press,
2010.
UNIVERSITY JOB HISTORY/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR: FALL 2011 TO PRESENT
English Composition (ENGL 1100): Focuses on writing and critical thinking by
using an integrated approach to writing that teaches various rhetorical
strategies for reading and constructing arguments.
English Composition II (ENGL 1120, Business) This business-themed
composition course seeks to encourage discussions in social, ethical, legal, and
economic matters. Student compositions include analyzing and evaluating
arguments, comparing/contrasting and synthesizing sources, and constructing
an extended argument using multiple research sources.
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, INSTRUCTOR: SUMMER 2011
English Composition (ENGL 111): Designed to develop students’ abilities to
think, organize, and express their ideas clearly and effectively in writing.
Emphasis on the various forms of expository writing such as process,
description, narration, comparison, analysis, persuasion, and argumentation.
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, ADVANCED WRITING PROGRAM LECTURER: AUG 2010 TO MAY
2011
Business Writing (ENGL 304): Introduced students to the theory and practice of
business communication and the conventions of several workplace-writing
genres. Students participated in extended client-based learning projects.
Technical Writing (ENGL 314): Focused on intensive individual and team
project-based applications of principles of audience, context, purpose, the
organization of information, and writing strategies of technical writing. Students
participated in extended client-based learning projects.
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE TEACHER OF RECORD: AUG 2009 TO MAY 2010
Accelerated Composition (ENGL 103): Duties included teaching two sections of
the course, leading class discussions, grading academic work, mentoring
students, and assigning final grades.
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, WRITING CENTER TUTOR: AUG 2008 TO AUG 2009
Grammar and composition tutoring, brainstorming paper topics with students,
organizing student drafts, and collaborative editing at the undergraduate,
graduate, and post-graduate levels.
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS
“Mapping History: A Virtual Underground Railroad.” NeMLA, Rochester, New York,
16 March 2012.
“The Power of Myth and Metal: Captain Nemo as the New Ancient Mariner in The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I” at The Upstate Steampunk
Conference, Greenville, SC, 20 November 2010.
“Tip-Toeing Down the Color Line: Pigment, Professionalism, and Parenting in
Sanders’s Clover and Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Southeast Coastal
Conference on Languages & Literatures, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro,
GA, 1 April 2010.
“Mothers, Mirrors, and Metaphor in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping” at The
Women’s Studies Graduate & Faculty Research Forum, Clemson University,
Clemson, SC, 26 February 2010.
“Comics in the Classroom: The Pedagogy of Graphic Novels.” Guest Lecturer to Junior
and Senior English classes at Mississinewa High School, Gas City, IN, 14
December 2009.
“The Reactions to Remus in Text and Film: Harris Versus Disney” at the PCAS/ACAS,
Popular & American Culture Associations in the South Conference, Wilmington,
NC, 1 October 2009.
“Learning the New Middle Ages: Notes on a Graduate Wiki” at the UVA-Wise
Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXIII, Wise, VA, 24 September 2009.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Graduate Student Council (GSC) Senator: 2011-2012
GSC Events Committee: 2011-2012
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Auburn University Writers Conference: Planning Committee, Headliner Press Release
Coordinator, Oct 2011.
"4th Annual Clemson Literary Festival." Interview by Jillian Weise. Your Day. ETV
Radio. 28 Mar. 2011.
Fourth Annual Clemson Literary Festival: Faculty Co-Chair, 2011
Organized festival events and author accommodations and itineraries; wrote
text, gathered content, and designed layout of festival website, managed
volunteers and venues; created and consulted designs for banners, brochures,
invitations, posters, and t-shirts.
“Clemson’s Literary Legacy: Past and Future.” Presentation to the Humanities
Advancement Board on behalf of the Fourth Annual Clemson Literary Festival,
Oct 2010.
“Well, I’ll Be Banned,” Banned book reading and brief discussion of Nabokov’s Lolita,
Sept 2010.
Society of English Graduate Students (SEGS) Vice-President: 2009-2010
Third Annual Clemson Literary Festival Graduate Student Director: 2010
Served as the Graduate Student Director and Author Coordinator; worked
closely with authors, agents, organizers, and volunteers; oversaw author
contracts, travel arrangements and accomodations, interviews, book signings,
and welcome packets; secured volunteers, festival venues, business donations,
and advertizing; aided in website, brochure, poster, banner, and t-shirt designs.
GRANTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Clemson University Professional Enrichment Grant (PEG): Awarded 2 November
2009.
126th MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011.
“The Educational Potential of Social Media.” Advanced Writing Program Workshop,
Clemson University, 7 October 2010.
Pearson Publishing: “MediaShare in the Classroom.” Advanced Writing Program
Workshop, Clemson University, 14 September 2010.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Northeast Modern Language Association: 2011-present
Association of Writers & Writing Programs: 2011-present
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VOLUNTEER WORK
St. Jude Up ‘til Dawn: a nation-wide collegiate event that began in 1998 to give college
students the opportunity to help raise funds and awareness for St. Jude’s
Children’s Hospital Research: Nov 2009
Fundraising Feasts: Graduate Conference Fundraising Luncheons: 2009-2010
Read-a-Rama Children’s Workshop: Nature Fun: Nov 2009
“Recycle Now!” Fashion Show - The Arts Center: Oct 2009
Clemson University Summer Reading Program Facilitator: Aug 2009
Read-a-Rama Children’s Workshop: Science Fun: Apr 2009
Read-a-Rama Children’s Workshop: Animal Kingdom: Nov 2008
REFERENCES
Barton Palmer
Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
[email protected]
864-656-4017
Susan Hilligoss
Professor of English
[email protected]
864-656-3168
Keith Lee Morris
Associate Professor
[email protected]
864-656-3272
Jillian Weise
Assistant Professor, Teaching Mentor
[email protected]
864-423-6926
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