CURRICULUM VITAE
Debrah Raschke
Professor
Department of English MS 2650
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
573 651-2623
[email protected]
Education:
PhD University of Massachusetts-Amherst, English 1991
MA Colorado State University, English 1977
BA
Colorado State University, Social Sciences 1974
Research and Teaching Interests:
Twentieth and Twenty-first Century British and Anglophone Literature, Modern and
Contemporary Critical Theory, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Gender Studies,
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Publications:
Books:
Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times, with Phyllis Perrakis and Sandra Singer, eds.
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press), 2010.
Modernism, Metaphysics, and Sexuality (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press,
2006).
Articles:
“Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Postmodernism, Apocalypse, and Rapture,” in Studies in
Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne 39.2 (Spring 2014): 22-44.
Can Xue’s ‘Hut on the Mountain’: Ghosts of China’s Cultural Revolution,” in Short Story 21.2 (Fall
2013): 69-78.
“Framed Identity: Finding Lucy in Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape,’” in Mosaic: A Journal
for Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 45.3 (2012): 65-80.
“Introduction,” with Phyllis Perrakis and Sandra Singer, in Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, October 2010): 1-8.
“Knowledge and Sexual Construction in Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor and The Fifth Child,”
in Doris Lessing Studies 28.1 (Winter-Spring 2009): 13-17.
“‘And they went to bury her’: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and The Robber
Bride,” with Sarah Appleton Aguiar, in Adventures of the Spirit, ed. Phyllis Perrakis
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(Columbia: Ohio State University Press, 2007): 126-52.
“Eavan Boland’s Outside History and In a Time of Violence: Rescuing Women, the
Concrete, and Other Things from the Dung Heap,” Rpt., in Poetry Criticism 58, ed.
Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 2005.
“Faulkner and Modernism,” in A Companion to William Faulkner Studies, eds. Charles A.
Peek and Robert W. Hamblin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004): 199-124.
“Re-Envisioning Plato’s Cave: Forster’s A Passage to India,” Rpt., in Bloom’s
Modern Critical Interpretations: A Passage to India, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House:
Philadelphia, 2004: 129-45.
“Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child: From Fairy-Tale to Monstrosity,” in Doris Lessing
Studies 23.1 (2003): 10-12, 25.
“Boundaries, Vision, and Ethics in Graham Greene’s Ministry of Fear,” in Perceptions
of Religious Faith in the Works of Graham Greene, ed. William Thomas Hill (New York:
Peter Lang, 2002): 175-96.
“Doris Lessing and the Spirit of Postcolonialism: Zimbabwe to Star Wars,” with Anthony
Chennells, in Doris Lessing Studies 21.2 (2001): 1-3.
“The ‘Heart of the Kingdom’: Colonial Politics in Lessing’s The Fifth Child,” in Doris
Lessing Studies 21.2 (2001): 20-26.
“‘It won’t be fine’ tomorrow: Lessing’s Struggles with Woolf,” in Virginia Woolf Out
of Bounds, eds. Jane Goldman and Jessica Berman (New York: Pace University Press,
2001): 79-85.
“Cabalistic Gardens: Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor,” in Spiritual Exploration
in the Works of Doris Lessing, ed. Phyllis Perrakis (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1999): 43-54.
“To the Lighthouse ‘Through the Looking Glass’: Woolf’s Revisionary Metaphysics,”
in Virginia Woolf and her Influences, eds. Laura Davis and Jeanette McVicker (New York:
Pace University Press, 1998): 288-93.
“Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy: Re-envisioning Hetero/Homo Relations in
Maurice,” in Queer Forster, eds. Robert Martin and George Piggford (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1997): 151-65.
“Re-Envisioning Plato’s Cave: Forster’s A Passage to India,” in The Comparatist 21
(1997): 10-24.
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“Rescuing the Concrete and Other Things Physical from the Dung Heap: Eavan
Boland’s Outside History and In a Time of Violence,” in Colby Quarterly 32 (1996): 135
42.
“Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: False Borders and Subtle Subversions,” in
Literature Interpretation Theory 6 (1995): 257-68.
“Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger: Re-envisioning the ‘history of the world,’” in Ariel 2
(1995): 115-32.
“The Problematic Symbolic: Lacan as Trickster,” in European Studies Journal 7 (1990):
43-56.
“Fatal Attraction,” in Cineaste Magazine (Spring 1988): 44-45.
“Creating ‘A World Elsewhere’: A Cultural Perspective on the Writing Process,” in ERIC
296-46 (December 1988).
“The Question of Satire in Report from Iron Mountain,” in Studies in Contemporary
Satire 10 (1983): 26-31.
Reviews and Short Publications
“So much depends upon distance” Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty”
Doris Lessing Studies, 34 (2016): 38-41.
Abstract of “MaddAddam,” in Margaret Atwood Studies 7 (Fall 2013): 94.
“Letter from the Outgoing President,” in Doris Lessing Studies 25.2 (Winter 2006): 4-5.
“Letter from Guest Co-Editors: Introduction to the Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies:
Teaching Doris Lessing,” (with Tonya Krouse), in Doris Lessing Studies
26.1 (Summer 2006): 2-3.
“Letter from the President,” in Doris Lessing Studies 24.1-2 (2004): 2.
“Letter from the President,” in Doris Lessing Studies 23.2 (2004): 3-5.
Review of Vadim Linetski, The Text Which is Difficult to Reach (St. Petersburg:
Nocent, 1998), in The Comparatist 22 (1998): 198-201.
Review of Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body (Oxford 1994), in South Atlantic Review
61 (1996): 154-57.
Review of Linda K. Christian-Smith, Becoming a Woman Through Romance
(Routledge 1991), in Women’s Studies International Forum 15 (1992): 623-24.
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“A Comment on Clara Juncker’s ‘Writing (with) Cixous,’” in College English 50 (1988):
822-26.
Abstract of “The Blood and the Hunt: Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape’ as Mock
Puberty Initiation Rites,” in Margaret Atwood Newsletter 21 (Fall/Winter 1998): 2.
Abstract of “Contesting Colonial Impulses in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child,” in
Doris Lessing Newsletter 19.1 (Winter 1998): 10.
Poetry:
“The Quiet One,” in Nebraska Review 13 (1984): 41.
“Living Alone,” in Changing Woman 1 (June 1984): 21.
“Winter Morning,” in Blue Unicorn 7 (February 1983): 44.
“Subtractions,” in Colorado North Review 21 (Fall 1981): 6.
“So Many Things Ended,” in Colorado North Review 21 (Fall 1981): 40.
Conference Presentations
Conference Papers:
“Resisting a Crisis of Imagination in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy,” Rocky Mountain
MLA, October 2015.
“‘It will be fine tomorrow’ Eighty-Six Years Later: Atwood’s Dialogue with Woolf,” The
24thAnnual International Conference on Virginia Woolf,” Chicago, June 2014.
“Margaret Atwood’s Recent Work: MaddAddam,” MLA, Chicago, January 2014.
“Unlikely Companions: Dickens’ Great Expectations and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go,”
Rocky Mountain MLA, October 2013.
“The Postmodern Condition as Apocalypse in Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood,”
MLA, Seattle, January 2012.
“Shifting Critiques of Power in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the
Flood,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY,
February 2011.
“Canadian Landscape Painting and Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape,” The
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February
2010.
“The Synergy of Gender and Vision in Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor and The
Fifth Child,” MLA, Chicago, January 2007.
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“Machiavellian Politics in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride,” Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2006.
“Temptation to Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride,” MLA,
Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Expected and Unexpected Challenges in Teaching Doris Lessing’s Memoirs and The
Fifth Child,” The First International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans, April 2004.
“Rethinking Literary Research,” MLA, San Diego, December 2003.
“Burning all Traces,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 2003.
“Anorexic Logic and Eugenics in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child,” TwentiethCentury Literature Conference, Louisville, February 2002.
“Metaphysical Horrors in Conrad’s Victory,” MLA, New Orleans, December
2001.
“Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child and Ben in the World: From Fairy Tale to Monstrosity,”
MLA, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Gender and Metaphysics in Modernism,” The Modernist Studies Association,
Philadelphia (UPenn), October 2000.
“‘It will not be fine’ tomorrow: Lessing’s Struggles with Woolf,” Tenth Annual
International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Baltimore, June 2000.
“Lawrence and Lessing’s Sexualized Metaphysical Spaces,” MLA, Chicago, December
1999.
“A ‘Small Margin of Error’: The Construction of Colonial Narratives in William Boyd’s
Brazzaville Beach,” International Narrative Conference, Hanover, NH, April 1999.
“Doris Lessing’s Apocalyptic Imagination,” Missouri Philological Society, Cape
Girardeau, MO, February 1999.
“The Blood and the Hunt: Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape’ as Mock Puberty Initiation
Rites,” MLA, San Francisco, December 1998.
“Rethinking Community in Jacob’s Room: Endorsing Transgression and Heresy,” Eighth
Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, St. Louis, June 1998.
“Contesting Colonial Perspectives in West Africa: Subaltern Narratives in William Boyd’s
Brazzaville Beach,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 1998.
“Colonial Impulses in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child,” MLA, Toronto, December 1997.
“To the Lighthouse ‘Through the Looking Glass’: Woolf’s Revisionary Metaphysics,”
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Seventh Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Plymouth, MA, June 1997.
“Tita’s Occult Recipes: Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate as Spiritual Allegory,”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 1997.
“Cabalistic Gardens: Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor,” MLA, Washington, DC,
December 1996.
“A Metaphysical Interregnum: Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor
Hoffman,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 1996.
“Eavan Boland’s Outside History and In a Time of Violence,” Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference, Louisville, February, 1995.
“Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger: Rewriting the Fates, Furies, and Muses,” TwentiethCentury Literature Conference, Louisville, February 1994.
“Western Metaphysics and Other Seduction Narratives,” Perceiving the Body: A
Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, September 1993.
“Thelma and Louise as Polyphonic Feminist Theory,” Work in Progress: A Conference on
Feminist Scholarship, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, May 1992.
“Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: False Borders and Subtle Subversions,”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 1991.
“Exiting Negative Representations,” Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, Roanoke,
VA, March 1990.
“Reading Strategies: Using Feminist Literary Theory,” National Council of Teachers of
English, Baltimore, MD, November 1989.
“Shouting at the Border: The Female Experience and French Feminism,” Virginia
Women’s Studies Association Conference, Richmond, VA, October 1989.
“Creating ‘A World Elsewhere’: The Self as Resisting Society in Contemporary
Composition Theory,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis,
MO, March 1988.
“Stories Within a Story in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony,” American Folklore Convention, Salt
Lake City, Utah, 1978.
Panels Chaired or Moderated
“Labor and Cultural Materialism,” Faulkner and Morrison Conference, Southeast Missouri
State University, October 2010.
“Faulkner, Twain, and Literary Technique,” Faulkner and Twain Conference, Southeast
Missouri State University, October 2006.
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“Doris Lessing,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY,
February 2006.
“Doris Lessing,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2005.
“Doris Lessing: Prophet or Maverick,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Terrorism and Trauma,” The First International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans,
April 2004.
“Courting the Postmodern: Narrative Transgressions, Experiment in Form,” The First
International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans, April 2004.
“Doris Lessing: ‘I’m Just a Storyteller,’ She Says,” MLA, San Diego, December 2003.
“Margaret Atwood,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 2002.
“Anorexic Logic or Disappearing Bodies and the Politics of Domination in Lessing,
Boland, and Coetzee,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville,
February 2002.
“Between Faith and Genre: Re-evaluating Hemingway and Miller,” TwentiethCentury Literature Conference, Louisville, February 2001.
“Shifting the Image/Shifting the Story: Traditions, Allusions, and Interests in Margaret
Atwood’s Works,” MLA, Washington D.C., December 2000.
“Woolf and Other Writers II: Vexed Relationships—Byatt, Lessing, and Divakaruni,”
Tenth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Baltimore, June 2000.
“Atwood And . . .: Comparative Atwood,” MLA, Chicago, December 1999.
“Breaking Down of Boundaries: Lessing and Autobiography,” MLA, San
Francisco, December 1998.
“Interrogating the Boundary Between Fiction and Memoir,” Missouri Philological Society,
Cape Girardeau, MO, February 1999.
“Virginia Woolf and Feminist Theory,” Seventh Annual International Conference on
Virginia Woolf, Plymouth, MA, June 1997.
Lectures:
“Writing Conference Proposals,” Southeast Missouri State University, Council of Student
Educators of English (April 2016)
“Conference Proposal Workshop,” Southeast Missouri State University, Council of Student
Educators of English, December 2015
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“Professional Writers: Professional Writing in Literary Studies,” Midwest Graduate
Students’ Conference on Writing, Southeast Missouri State University, April 2014.
“‘Zero Hour. . . Time to go’: Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Playing Genetics”
(with Allen Gathman), Kent Athenaeum Series, October 2010.
“Do Women Make A Difference?” (with Peggy Hill, Deborah Holzhauer, Bonnie
Stepenoff), Kent Library’s Athenaeum Series, Southeast Missouri State University,
February 2010.
“Madonnas and Purple Triangles: Modernism, Representation, and Virginia
Woolf,” Grauel Lecture, Southeast Missouri State University, April 2007.
“Are Women ‘Out of it’? Rethinking Modernism,” Book Signing for Modernism,
Metaphysics, and Sexuality, Southeast Missouri State University, October
2006.
Interview on literary modernism, by Jake McCleland, Going Public, Southeast Missouri
State University, October 2006.
“‘I am Supposed To Do What?’: Preparing for Doctoral Programs?” Sigma Tau
Delta, Southeast Missouri State University, 2004.
“Urban Legends, Night Creatures, and the Cultural Unconscious,” Southeast Missouri State
University, October 2000.
“Revamping Dracula: The Postmodern Vampire,” Common Hour Lecture, Southeast
Missouri State University, April 2000.
“Mapping the Signs in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale,” Classic Reader’s Guild,
Southeast Missouri State University, March 2000.
“Vice and Virtue in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” Southeast Missouri State University,
March 2000.
“Paradise Lost and Maria Fornes’s Fefu and Her Friends: Two Visions of the
Fall,” Millennium Project, Southeast Missouri State University, March 2000.
“Cultural Fairy-Tales: Joyce’s Portrait,” The Classical Reader’s Guild, Southeast Missouri
State University, March 1999.
“Reading Women’s Histories: Theorizing Historical Narrative,” Southeast Missouri State
University, September 1997.
“Woolf and Contemporary Fiction,” Woolf Seminar, College of William & Mary,
November 1995.
“A Cow is not Milk: Fixity of the Sign in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale,”
English Club, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 1994.
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“Lacan’s Metaphor and Metonomy: Implications for Poetic Form,” Gender and Language
Seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 1993.
“Political Libidos: The Epistemological Construction of Desire,” Poststructuralist Theory
Colloquium, Virginia Commonwealth University, March 1991.
“Jane Flax and Jacques Lacan: Reluctant Aesthetics,” Feminist Theory Colloquium,
University of Richmond, January 1991.
“Changing the Subject,” Discussion Round Table, Central Virginia Faculty Consortium,
Virginia Commonwealth University, October 1990.
“Medieval Brothels, Augustinian Authority, and the Question of Mastery: Applying
Feminist Theories to Chaucer’s ‘The Wife of Bath,’” Virginia Commonwealth University,
April 1990.
“This Is and Is Not Lacan,” English Department Colloquium, Virginia Commonwealth
University, March 1989.
Editorial Reviewing
Editorial Board for Doris Lessing Studies
Editorial Board for Literati: An Annual Journal of Literary Studies (student publication at
Southeast Missouri State University)
Guest Co-Editor, with Tony Krouse, Doris Lessing Studies 26.1 (2006).
Guest Co-Editor, with Anthony Chennells, Doris Lessing Studies, 21.2 (2001).
Reviewer for Mosaic, The Comparatist, Ariel, Studies in the Novel, and South Atlantic
Reviewed for PMLA, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature,
Contemporary Women Writers, English: Journal of the English Association, Ariel
Editorial Board for Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Works Graham Greene, ed.
Thomas Hill (New York: Peter Lang Press), 2002.
Teaching Experience:
2006Professor, Southeast Missouri State University
Undergraduates Courses: English Literature II, Mythic Dimensions of
Literature, Victorian Studies, Early Twentieth-Century British Literature,
Variety of Literature, Studies in Late British Literature: Margaret Atwood
Graduate Courses: Research in English Studies, Contemporary Anglophone
Literature / Contemporary Theory, Early Twentieth-Century British
Literature, Studies in Late British Literature: Margaret Atwood
2001-2006
Associate Professor, Southeast Missouri State University
Undergraduates Courses: English Literature II, Mythic Dimensions of
Literature, Victorian Studies, Early Twentieth-Century British Literature,
Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Graduate Courses: Research in English Studies, Contemporary
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Anglophone Literature / Contemporary Theory, Early Twentieth-Century
British Literature, Studies in Late British Literature: Rethinking Gender /
Rethinking Empire,
1997-2001
Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University
Undergraduates Courses: Masterpieces of English Literature I & II; Mythic
Dimensions of Literature, Early Twentieth-Century British Literature,
Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Graduate Courses: Research in English Studies, Modern Essay,
Contemporary Anglophone Literature / Contemporary Theory, Early
Twentieth-Century British Literature
Graduate Independent Studies: Victorian Cultural Studies, Narrative
Strategies in Margaret Atwood, Anita Diamant, and Sheri Reynolds;
Postcolonial Literature & Postcolonial Theory, Margaret Atwood
1996-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary
Twentieth-Century British Survey, British Survey I
1996
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Richmond:
Feminist Literary Theory (Graduate)
1995
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary:
Major American Writers, Freshman Seminar:
Contemporary Fiction & Millennium Perils
1992-94
Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University:
Twentieth-Century British Literature, Modern Novel, Feminist Literary
Theory, Survey of British Literature I and II
1988-92
Instructor, Virginia Commonwealth University
1984-88
Teaching Assistant for Writing Program, University of Massachusetts
1986-87
Instructor, English Department, University of Massachusetts
Modern Novel 1900-1930, Modern Novel 1930-60
1977-80
Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University: Freshman and Advanced
Composition
Honors and Grants:
Margaret Atwood Society’s Best Article Award 2012
Grants and Research Funding, Spring 2010
Grants and Research Funding, Spring 2006
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Grants and Research Funding, Spring 2002
Graduate School Research Grant, Fall 2001
Graduate School Research Grant, Fall 2000
Graduate School Research Grant, Fall 1999
Provost Funding, Professional Development Spring 1999
University Studies Funding, Professional Development Fall 1998
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Contemporary Theory 2010
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Modernist Studies 2009
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Victorian Studies 2009
Kent Library Endowment Grant: World Mythology 2007
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Contemporary Theory 2003
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Victorian Studies 2003
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Nineteenth-Century British Collections
and Women’s Studies Collections 2000
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Twentieth-Century British Collections,
2000
Special Library Allocation Grant: Modern British Collections 2000
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Gender Studies 1999
Special Library Allocation Grant: Literary Theory 1998
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Modern British Collections 1998
Special Library Allocation Grant: Modern British Collections 1997
University Service:
University Tenure and Promotion and Sabbatical Leave Advisory Committee,
2015University Library Committee, 1999Library Committee and Liaison, 1999Grant and Research Funding Committee, 2008-2011
Graduate Council: Southeast, 2000-2003
Task Force for Academic Excellence (Graduate Council), 2000-2003
Task Force for Capstone Experience (Graduate Council), 2001-2003
Women's Studies Board: Virginia Commonwealth University, 1989-1994
College Service:
College of Liberal Arts Tenure and Promotion, Committee, 2008-2015
Departmental Service:
Chair, Departmental Search Committee for 2 RNTT positions, Dec 2013-May 2014
Chair of Library Committee, 1999Department Liaison to University Library Committee, 1999Department Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2003-2008
Faculty Development Committee, 2014Literature Committee, 1997Graduate Committee, 1997-2015; 2016Scholarship Committee, 2007-2015
Robert Hamblin Lecture Committee, 2011Grauel Lecture Committee, 2006- 2010
Outcomes Assessment, 1998-2009
Acting Department Chair, July13 –August 7, 2009
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Task Force: Faulkner Conference, 2005-2006
Merit Committee, 2003-2006
Participant in Job Search Graduate Symposium: 1997-98
Director of Graduate Studies, 1999-2002
Chair of Graduate Committee, 1999-2002
English Department Executive Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University,
1991-92
Composition Committee, VCU, 1988-1992
Search Committee for Assistant Director of Composition, VCU, 1988
Interdepartmental Service
Women’s History Month Committee, 2009-11
Honors Faculty
Service to the Profession
Webmaster for Doris Lessing Society (Allied Organization of MLA), 2003-2012
President of the Doris Lessing Society, 2003-2006
Co-Director of the First International Doris Lessing Conference, 2002-2004
Vice-President of the Doris Lessing Society, 2000-2002
Secretary / Historian for the Margaret Atwood Society (Allied Organization of
MLA), 2002-2004
Executive Officer of the Doris Lessing Society, 2000Executive Officer of the Margaret Atwood Society, 1998-2000
MLA Liaison to the Doris Lessing Society, 2003-2006
MLA Liaison to Margaret Atwood Society, 1998-2000
Essay Judge for the 2102 Margaret Atwood Annual Society Awards: Best
Dissertation
Essay Judge for 2005 Margaret Atwood Annual Society Awards:
Undergraduate essays
Essay Judge for 2004 Margaret Atwood Annual Society Awards:
Undergraduate essays
Essay Judge for 1998 Margaret Atwood Annual Society Awards:
Dissertation chapters, theses, and graduate papers
Professional Memberships:
Margaret Atwood Society
Doris Lessing Society
Modern Language Association
International Virginia Woolf Society
Rocky Mountain MLA