Kathleen Lipovski-Helal

Kathleen Lipovski-Helal Department of Humanities Home address: St. Edward’s University 3901 Michael Neill Drive SEU Box 623 Austin, TX 78730 Austin, TX 78704 (512) 415-1457 [email protected] [email protected] Education Ph. D. English Literature, Indiana University Dissertation: The Poetics and Politics of Modernist Women’s Satire Director: Susan Gubar Committee: Patrick Brantlinger, Jonathan Elmer, Richard Nash M. A. English Literature, Indiana University B. A. English, High Honors, University of Texas at Austin

Research and Teaching Interests 20th and 21st century British and American Literature, Women’s Literature, Literary Theory, Christianity and Literature, Academic Writing, Creative Writing, Film Studies

Published Articles “Flannery O’Connor’s Encounter with Mary Ann Long.” Flannery O’Connor Review, forthcoming. “Flannery O’Connor, The Holocaust, and the Evolution of Catholicism.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 21.3 (2010): 205-222. “Anger, Anxiety, Abstraction: Virginia Woolf’s ‘Submerged Truth.’” South Central Review 22.2 (2005): 78-94. “Celebrity, Femininity, Lingerie: Dorothy Parker’s Autobiographical Monologues." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 33.1 (2004): 177-202. “Satire, Gender and the Limits of Literary Theory.” Proceedings of the 24th Annual Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, 2003. Review of Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity, by Jane Dowson. Virginia Woolf Bulletin 12 (2003): 57-60. “‘I must not settle into a figure’: Virginia Woolf and Celebrity Culture.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 11 (2002): 8-21.

Selected Presentations “‘Her Face Smiling Up at the Cloudless Sky’: Death and the Divine Eros in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction.” Presented at the 2012 South Central MLA Conference. San Antonio, TX, November 8-10, 2012. “Flannery O’Connor and the Inspiration of Mary Ann Long.” Presented at the 2011 South Central MLA Conference. Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 25-27, 2011. “O’Connor, Teilhard, Mary Ann: A Moment Towards Convergence.” Presented at “Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O’Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians.” Loyola University, Chicago, October 6-8, 2011. Lipovski-Helal 2

“A Small and Startling Figure: Mary Ann and the Modes of Good in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction.” Presented at the Flannery O’Connor Conference. Georgia College, April 14-16, 2011. “ Virginia Woolf, Visionary.” Presented as the public keynote lecture for Senior University Spring Semester. Georgetown, Texas, January 12, 2005. “Ah, Satire … They’re the Big Boys: Satire, Gender and the Limits of Literary Theory.” Presented at the 24th Annual Southwest Texas PCA / ACA Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 12-15, 2003. “Virginia Woolf and Celebrity Culture.” Presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Across the Generations. Sonoma State University, June 6-9, 2002. “Coloring Outside the Lines: Anger in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.” Presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds. University of Maryland, 2000. “Laughing with Rebecca West: One Solution to Feminist Criticism.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the South Central Women’s Studies Association. University of Houston, 1998.

Professional Experience Adjunct Professor, Department of Humanities, St. Edward’s University, fall 2006— present CATH 3345 Catholicism and Film ENGL 2300 Introduction to Literary Studies CULF 1318 Literature and Human Experience ENGW 1301 Rhetoric and Composition I FSTY 0308 Basic Writing II FSTY 1311 Rhetoric and Composition I FSTY 1313 Rhetoric and Composition II Assistant Professor, (non-tenure track, maximum 2-year appointment), Department of English, Southwestern University, fall 2002—spring 2004 ENG 10-013 Writing and Critical Thinking ENG 10-143 Masterpieces of Literature: Women’s Literature Lecturer, Department of English, Texas Christian University, spring 1999—spring 2000 E20623 Women’s World Literature E10103 Portraits and the Looking Glass in Fiction E2103 Introduction to World Fiction: Cultural Styles and Perspectives E20803 Sophomore Composition: Writing for a Literary Community E1803 Freshman Composition: Writing as Knowledge Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Franklin College, spring 1998 ENG 118 World Literature II Teaching Consultant, Department of English, Indiana University, fall 1996—spring 1998 W501 Teaching of Composition in College Associate Instructor, Department of English, Indiana University, fall 1995—spring 1998 L141 Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature: Identity Politics and the Autobiography W131 Elementary Composition: Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing W231 Professional Writing Lipovski-Helal 3

Professional Activities and Memberships

Secretary, Flannery O’Connor Society, SCMLA Conference, Fall 2012 Specialist Reader, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2012-present Specialist Reader, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 2010-present Modern Language Association, 1996-present South Central Modern Language Association, 2001-present International Virginia Woolf Society, 1997-present National Council for Teachers of English, 2006-present Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2002-present

References

Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor Emerita and Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita, Indiana University (812-855-3634; [email protected]; Department of English, Indiana University, Ballantine 442, Bloomington, IN 47405) Catherine Rainwater, Professor of English, Humanities Department, St. Edward’s University (512) 448-8544; [email protected]; Andre Hall 202, Austin, TX 78704) Lou Brusatti, Dean of Humanities, Associate Professor of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward’s University (512-448-8643; [email protected]; Andre Hall 101, Austin TX 78704) Richard Bautch, Associate Dean of Humanities, Associate Professor of Humanities, St. Edward’s University (512-448-8570; [email protected]; Andre Hall, 111, Austin TX 78704) Steve Rodenborn, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Edward’s University (512-637-5618; [email protected]; Premont 233, Austin, TX 78704)