EDUCATION
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-Ph.D., 1996 University of California, Riverside, California.
English.
-M.A., 1992 University of California, Riverside, California. English.
-B.A., 1990 University of La Verne, La Verne, California. English.
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SPECIALIZATIONS
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-African American Literature
-Diasporic Women’s Literature
-19th Century American Literature
-Feminist Discourse
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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-Faculty Development Fellowship, 2002, $33,000 (declined)
-Diversity Enhancement Grant, 2000, $10,000
-Research Council, Faculty Grant, 2000, $5,900
-Research Council, Distinguished Lecturer Grant, 2000, $3,000
-Research Council, Symposium Grant, 2000, $2,500
-Academic Senate, Convocations Grants, 2000, $700
-Michigan Humanities Council, Collaborative Grant, 1999-2002,
$12,000
-Human Rights and Human Diversity Summer Fellowship, 1999,
$6,000
-Teaching Council Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1999, $6,150 (declined)
-Research Council, Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 1998, $6,500
-Humanities Research Institute Fellow, 1995-1996, $4,500
-Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1995-1996, $12,500
-Research Assistantship and Mentor Program, 1994-95, $20,000
-Distinguished Scholar Award, 1990-1994, $52,000
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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-Associate Professor, Purdue University,
2003-
-Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2001-2003
-Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1996-2001
-Lecturer, Pomona College, Spring 1996
-Lecturer, Mount San Jacinto Community College, 1992-1995
-Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside, 1992-1994
-Appointed Graduate Fellow, January 2000
-Appointed Women’s Studies Faculty, May 1998
-Appointed Women’s Studies Affiliate, October 1996
-Appointed Graduate Faculty Member, September 1996
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COURSES TAUGHT
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-African American Literature
-American Novel to Dreiser
-Black Women Writers
-Contemporary African American Literature
-Early African American Literature
-Great American Books
-Harlem Renaissance
-Introducation to African American Studies
-Seminar in African American Literature
-Studies in the African Diaspora
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ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
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-Director, African American Studies and
Research Center, Purdue, 2003-
-Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee (English), UNL, 2001-2003
-Coordinator, African American Studies Program, UNL, 1998-2001
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PUBLICATIONS
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Books
Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature
Bedford/St. Martin’s 2006, Paperback. 386 pp
Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology.
New Brunswick: Rutgers P, 2001.
Cloth and paper. 21p introduction + 619pp.
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s
Fiction. Albany: SUNY P, 2000.
Cloth and paper. 194 pp.
Articles and Chapters in Books
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"Revisioning the Harlem Renaissance." Teaching American Leterature: Background Readings.
Ed. Venetria K. Patton. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's P, 2006. 132-43
(excerpted from Double-Take introduction)
"White Scholors in African American Literary Circles: Appropriation or Cultural Literacy?,"
White Scholars?African American Texts, Ed. Lisa Long. New Brunswick:
Rutgers UP, 2005. 87-96.
“‘Yes, Anyone With Half an Eye Could See That it Wasn’t
She’: Helga Crane’s Resistance
to Representation,” Postcolonial Perspectives on Women
Writers From Africa and the African Diaspora, Ed. Martin
Japtok. Africa World Press, 2003. 69-89.
“Come Colour My Rainbow: Themes of Africana Womanism in
the Poetic Vision of Audrey Kathryn
Bullett,” with Ronald J. Stephens and Maureen
Keavney. Journal of Black Studies 32.4 (2002): 464-478.
“Policing Our Daughters’ Bodies: Mothering in Africana
Literature,” The Journal
of the Association for Research on Mothering 2.2 (2000):
176-87.
“Seen But Not Heard. . . The Racial Gap Between Feminist
Discourse and Practice: A Dialogue,”
with Kimberly Nettles. Frontiers 21.3 (2000):
64-81.
“Narrating Competing Truths in the Thomas Jefferson—Sally
Hemings Paternity Debate,”
with Ronald Jemal Stephens. The Black Scholar 29.4 (1999):
8-15.
Encyclopedia Entries
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“Ralph Ellison.” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains,
Ed. David J. Wishart.
Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2004. 478
“Amanda Smith.” American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920.
Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. 317-21.
“Gladys Louise Husted Cromwell.” American National
Biography. Eds. John A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes. Vol. 5. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 762-63.
“Lizzie Petit Cutler.” American National Biography.
Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Vol. 5. New York: Oxford
UP, 1999. 932-33.
“Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey.” American National Biography.
Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C.
Carnes. Vol. 6. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
770-71.
“Mary Ashley Townsend.” American National Biography.
Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C.
Carnes. Vol. 21. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
788-89.
“Anne Richmond Warner.” American National Biography.
Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C.
Carnes. Vol. 22. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 687.
Book Reviews
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Review Essay of Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Comtemporary Narrative of Saavery and Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Posmodern Slave narrative: "Black Subjects Re-Forming the Past through the Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition."
Modern Fiction Studies. 45.4(2008): 877-83.
Review of Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale
Hurston from the Federal Writers’
Project edited and with a biographical essay by
Pamela Bordelon. Resources for American Literary Study 28 (2002)
217-19. (appeared in 2003)
Review of Fighting Words: Black Women & the Search for
Justice by Patricia Hill Collins.
(forthcoming The Ethnic Studies Review).
Review of Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks.
Prairie Schooner 73.4 (1999):
165-7.
Review of Heroism and the Black Intellectual by Jerry Gafio
Watt. American Literature 67.2 (1995):
413-14.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS
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“How to Publish Scholarly Articles and Books,” National Council for Black Studies Conference, New Orleans, March 2010.
Venetria K. Patton
“Other Mothers as Elders and Culture Bearers in The Salt Eaters and Daughters of the Dust,” National Association of African American
Studies, Baton Rouge, February 2010.
“The Child Figure as a Means to Ancestral Knowledge in Daughters of the Dust,” National
Council for Black Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 2009.
“The Ancestral Presence as Means of Re-imagining the Legacy of Slavery,” Multi-Ethnic Literatures Across the Americas and the Pacific: Exchanges, Contestations, and Alliances,
Boca Raton, April 2006
“Ancestral Memory and Migration in Song of Solomon,” American Women Writers of Color Conference, Baltimore, November 2004.
"Mammies, Mothers, or Monsters:
Disrupting the Plantation Myth," Modern
Language Association, San Diego, December 2003.
"A History Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: The Matrilineal Story
of
SLavery and Its Legacy," Society for the Study of
American Women
Writers, Forth Worth, September 2003.
“Elders Who Refuse to Forget and Force Us to Remember: Elders
as Culture Bearers in Paule Marshall’s
Praisesong for the Widow and Toni Cade
Bambara’s The Salt Eaters,” American Women Writers
of Color Conference, Ocean Springs,
October 2001.
“Elders as Culture Bearers in Africana Literature,”
National Association of African
American Studies Cancún International Conference, Cancún,
September 2001.
“Policing Our Daughters’ Bodies: Mothering in Africana
Literature,” National Council
for Black Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 2000.
“Preserving Our Daughters: Mothers’ Socialization of
Black Girls,” Mothering in
the African Diaspora: Literature, History, Society, Popular Culture
and the Arts, York University, February 2000.
“Contending Voices: Negotiating Subjectivity in Sherley Anne
Williams’ Dessa Rose,”
National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, Kissimmee,
March 1999.
“‘Yes, Anyone With Half an Eye Could See That it Wasn’t
She’: Helga Crane’s Resistance
to Representation,” Multi-Ethnic Literatures Across the
Americas and the Pacific: Exchanges, Contestations, and Alliances,
Honolulu, April 1997.
“‘The Great Man Can No Longer Just Get Up and Go’:
Post-Colonial Resistance in Annie
John,” Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association,
San Jose State University, November 1997.
“‘Yes, Anyone With Half an Eye Could See That it Wasn’t
She’: Helga Crane’s Reconstruction
of Artistic Constructions,” American Women Writers
of Color Conference,” Ocean Springs October 1997.
“Mother Love: Maternal Discourse in Toni Morrison’s
Sula, Beloved, and Song of Solomon,”
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Annual
Meeting, University of California, Irvine, November 1996.
“Mammy’s Milk: Milk Theft and Its Degendering Effects,”
Thinking Gender, UCLA Center for
the Study of Women and USC Center for Feminist Research,
February 1996.
“Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s
Writing,” Milton to Morrison
to . . . The First Annual Graduate Student Conference
on Literature and Creative Writing, California State University,
Fresno, February 1996.
“Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s
Writing,” National Association
of African American Studies National Conference, Houston,
February 1996.
“Mapping the Body: Violence and Violation Constructing Identity,”
Mapping the Discipline, University
of California, Riverside, Graduate Student
Conference, January 1996.
“Shared Biology, Different Gender: The Degendering of African
American Female Slaves,” Theorizing
Subjectivity/Subjecting Theory, University of
California, Riverside, Graduate Student Conference, May 1994.
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INVITED TALKS
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“Talking Back as a Means to Piece Together An Identity” Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy: New Directions in Feminism and Womanism in Africa and the African Diaspora, Purdue University, November 6, 2009.
“Just What do We Know of Edward P. Jones The Known World?,”Books and Coffee, Purdue University, February 24, 2004.
"The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave:
the Ancestral Call in Black
Women's Fiction," Purdue University, March 3, 2004.
"The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave: the Ancestral Call in
Black Women's Fiction," Michigan State University, January 16,
2004.
"Reading Contee Cullen's Heritage," UNL
Critical Theory Class,
July 23, 2001.
A Discussion of Women in Chains, Nebraska Wesleyan African American
Literature Class, April 17, 2001.
“Black Women’s Poetry,” Lincoln High African American
Caucus, March 20, 2001.
“Black Women Writers Mini-Lecture,” Newman United Methodist
Church, March 10, 2001.
“Black Women Writers—A Celebration of Women,” Delta
Sigma Theta Jabberwok Workshop,
March 7, 2001.
“Women’s Studies and African American Studies Collaboration:
a Revisionist Anthology of the Harlem
Renaissance,” with Maureen Honey,
UNL Women’s Studies and African American Studies Colloquium,
January 2002.
“Cultural Unity in Communities,” Santa Ana College Honors’
Convocation, November 2001.
“Walking Without Footprints,” SOS Graduation Celebration,
University of Nebraska, December
2001.
“Policing Our Daughters’ Bodies,” AAAS Noon-time
Symposium, April 2000.
“Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s
Fiction,” Harambe, April 2000.
“Thomas Jefferson: Fathering Our Country,” with Ronald
Stephens, Nebraskans for Peace,
February 1999.
“The Didactic Lessons of Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy,”
University of California, Riverside,
Guest Lecture, November 2 & 4, 1994.
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
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“Stigmata: Embodying the Scars of Slavery” for a proposed essay collection, Imagining the Black Female Body: Studies in Literature and Culture, accepted by the editor, Carol E. Henderson. (in press, Palgrave Press).
Revised Introduction to Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology eds. Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey (accepted by African American National Biography eds. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press Online)
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Black Women, Gender, & Families.
“Still I Rise”: Black Women Writers and the Slave Narrative
Tradition
(edited volume of solicited
essays currently revising for submission to an
academic press).
"The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave: the Ancestral Call
in Black Women's Fiction" (current book project - drafting
chapters).
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness and Blackness: An Analysis
of
Racial Tropes in American and African
American Literature (conducting research).
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HONORS
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- Zora Neale Hurston Celebrated Elder Award For Outstanding Leadership And Service In The Promotion Of African Humanity, National Council for Black Studies, March 2008
-Distinguished Service Award, Purdue University Black Graduate Association, March 2008
-Certificate of Appreciation, Diversity and Retention Initiatives through Volunteering, Education, and Networking (DRIVEN), February 2006
-Appreciation Award, The Black Caucus of Faculty & Staff, April 2004
-Annis Chaiken Sorensen Distinguished
Teaching Award in the Arts and
Humanities, UNL Office of Academic Affaris, April 2003.
-Distinguished Teaching Award, UNL College of Arts and Sciences,
April
2003.
-Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students, UNL
Parents Association, January 2001
-Annual Research and Creative Achievement Award, UNL Humanities Center,
May 2001
-Community Award, NAACP-Lincoln Chapter, October 1999
Honorary Member, Black Masque Chapter of Mortar Board, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999
-“Before the Night Cometh” Excellence in Service Award,
Office of
Multi-Cultural Affairs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
April 1999
-The Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of People of Color
Certificate, (Awarded to members of The Faculty Town Hall)
September 1998
-Shades of Leadership Award, UNL Culture Center, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1998
-Best of Session, “‘The Great Man Can No Longer Just
Get Up and Go’:Post-Colonial Resistance in Annie John,”
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, San Jose
State University, November 1997
-Best of Session, “Mother Love: Maternal Discourse in Toni
Morrison’s Sula, Beloved, and Song of Solomon,”
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association,
University of California, Irvine, November 1996
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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-Reader, Journal of Narrative Theory, 2010
-Pre-Tenure Review, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, 2010
-Chair, “Heeding the Call of the Combahee: Examining the Multilayered Texture of Black Women?s Lives,” National Council for Black Studies Conference, New Orleans, March 2010
-Chair, Membership Committee, National Council for Black Studies, 2009-
-Member, Nominating Committee, National Council for Black Studies, 2009-2010
-Member, Student Essay Contest Committee, National Council for Black Studies, 2009
-Reader, Twentieth-Century Literature, 2009
-Reader, Western Journal of Black Studies, 2009
-Tenure Review, University of Windsor, 2009
-Tenure Review, Hope College, 2008
-Board Member, National Council for Black Studies, 2008-2010
-Literature Panel, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship Evaluator, 2008
-Tenure Review, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
-Tenure Review, University of Nebraska, 2007
-Reader, MELUS, 2007
-Program Review, Africana Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Department, Hunter College, May 2007
-Member, Advisory Board, Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth- century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), 2007-
-Editorial Board Member, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, 2006-
-Technical Reviewer, African American History For Dummies, written by Ronda Penrice, Wiley Publishing, 2006
-Reviewer, University of Georgia Press, 2006
-Literature Panel, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship Evaluator, 2006
-Program Review, African American Studies Program, UNC,Greensboro, 2005
-Reviewer, Contemporary Literature, 2005
-Reviewer, Literature Compass, 2005
-CIC Academic Leadership Program, 2004-2005
Tenure Review, Roosevelt University, 2004
Reviewer, Rutgers University Press, 2003-
-Pre-tenure Review, Mills College, 2003.
-Plenary Session, "Positioning Women in
the Academy: Issues of
- Teaching, Research, and Administration for Scholars of American Women
Writers: A Roundtable Discussion," Society for the Study of American
Women Writers Conference, 2003.
-Reviewer, Indiana University Press, 2003
-Reviewer, Rutgers University Press, 2003-
-Board member, UNL Humanities Center, 2001-
-Editorial Board member, Legacies of 19th Century U.S. Women
Writers, a series with NU Press, 2000-
-Reader, Legacy, 2000-
-Reader, Contours, 2000
-Reader, Twentieth Century Literature, 2000
-Reader, Great Plains Quarterly, 1999
-Moderator, “Diversity in Film,” Great Plains Film Festival,
July 1999
-Panelist, “African-American Women in Academia Panel,”
Nebraska Wesleyan University, March 1999
-Reader, Ethnic Studies Review, 1998
-Reviewer, “New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America”
for Prentice Hall, May 1998
-Panelist, “The Future of African American, Africana and
Black Studies Programs,” Big XII Conference on Black
Student Government, February 1998
-Reader, Ethnic Studies Review, 1997
-Chair, “‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken’: Toni Morrison’s
Fiction,” Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association,
San Jose State University, November 1997
-Panelist, “Preparing to be a Junior Faculty Member,”
Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, October 1996
-Panelist, “Professional Development as a Graduate Student,”
Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, October 1996
-Panelist, “Keys to Success and Survival in Graduate School,”
California Minority Graduate Education Forum, April
1993
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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-American Studies Association
-Association for Research on Mothering
-College Language Association
-Modern Language Association
-National Association of African American Studies
-National Association for Ethnic Studies
-National Council for Black Studies
-Society for the Study of American Women Writers
-Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United
States
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