DEBBIE LOPEZ
The University of Texas at San Antonio Dept. of English, Classics, Philosophy, San Antonio, TX 78249 (210) 458-5973 [email protected] Revised January 23, 2009
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Academic Training
March, 1994 Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language. Distinction conferred. Dissertation received Howard Mumford Jones Prize.
1987 A.M., Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language.
1981 M.A., Middlebury College (Bread Loaf School of English).
1977 B.A. The University of the South, Department of English.
Summer, 1976 University College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Teaching Positions Held
September 2008-February 2009 Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
1999-Present Associate Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy
2008-2009 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Fulbright Lecturer.
1993-1999 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication.
1988-1993 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language.
1984-1986 Part-time Instructor in Composition and American Literature and Instructor in the Writing Laboratory at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
1984-1986 Part-time Instructor in Composition, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama.
Non-University Positions Related to Field
1992-1993 Research Assistant to Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
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1987-1988 Research Assistant to Professor Marjorie Garber, Harvard University.
1981-1983 Staff Writer and Editor, Alabama Public Television
Publications Book: Lopez, Debbie. Taking the Fall: Lilith and Lamia in the New World Eden. (Book manuscript)
Refereed Journal Articles: Lopez, Debbie. “’Richer Entanglements’: The ‘Gordian Knot’ of Relations Between Keats and Hawthorne.” Symbiosis 3:1, 41-53.
Lopez, Debbie. “’Invisible Anthropophagi’ and Asymmetrical Conclusions in London’s Naturalist Tale: ‘The Red One’.” Excavatio XVII January, 2003.
Lopez, Debbie. “The Sea-Wolf’s Romantic Illusions Lost.” Excavatio January, 2005.
Refereed Books: Lopez, Debbie. “Daring the Free Fall: Sula as Lilith.” Trickster Livers, editor Jeanne Campbell Reesman (The University of Georgia Press, 2001).
Lopez, Debbie. “Ungraspable Phantoms: Keats’s Lamia and Melville’s Yillah.” Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity, editors Diane Long Hoeveler and Larry Peer (Camden House, 1998).
DeGuzman, Maria and Debbie Lopez. “Algebra of Twisted Figures: Trans- valuation in Martin Eden.” in Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer, editors Jeanne C. Reesman and Sara H. Hodson (Huntington Library Press, 2002).
DeGuzman, Maria and Debbie Lopez, “Teaching Martin Eden’s Narrative Acts of Translations.” MLA Guide to Teaching Martin Eden. (Forthcoming)
Presentations
October, 1989 At the Harvard Feminist Colloquium, presented “La Petit Mort: Sula’s Sexual Search of Self.”
June, 1991 At the Harvard American Colloquium, presented “Fictitious Alliance: Pierre Glendinning and John Keats.”
January and At Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning September, 1992 presented (with Brian Freeman) “Discussion Leading in the Humanities.”
November, 1994 At the University of Texas at San Antonio Silver Anniversary Celebration, Presented “Insider Trading: Co-authoring an Article on Mark Twain and the Stock Market.”
October, 1994 At the Ford Foundation National Conference, Moderator, Symposium on Literature and Language.
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September, 1995 At the American Conference on Romanticism’s National Conference, presented “Ungraspable Phantoms: Keats’s Lamia and Melville’s Yillah.” Moderator: “Comparative Romanticisms. At the Institute for Texan Cultures, presented “The Richer Entanglements of Keats’s Lamia.”
December, 1995 At the Modern Language Association’s national conference, presented “Cashing in on a Bull Market: Twain’s Use of Financial Terms.”
March, 1996 Guest Speaker, Harvard University Seminar on Environmental Ethics. “The Environmental Ethics of Shelley’s Frankenstein.”
June, 1996 At the American Literature Conference, presented “Once and Future Bosses: Twain’s Connecticut Yankee and London’s Goliah.”
October, 1996 At Jack London symposium, presented “Fictitious Alliances Between London’s Martin Eden and Melville’s Pierre.”
October, 1997 At the American Literature Association Symposium on The Trickster: “’Artists Without an Art Form’: Sula and Lilith.”
October, 1997 At the South Central MLA Annual Conference: Chair and presenter at panel, “Saying the Thing Which is Not’: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth- Century Utopian Fictions.”
January, 1998 Member, National Endowment for the Humanities panel on funding grant Requests (Washington, D.C.).
May, 1998 At the American Literature Association’s Annual Conference, presented “Keats, Hawthorne and the Feminization of the Romantic Artist.”
October, 1999 At the Jack London Society Fourth Biennial Symposium, (with Maria DeGuzman), “Algebra of Twisted Figures: Transvaluation in Martin Eden.
May, 2001 At the American Literature Association’s Annual Conference, presented “Avoiding ‘Brown-Out’: Reassessing London’s ‘The Red One.”
May, 2002 At the International AIZEN conference in Spain, presented “London’s ‘Invisible Anthropophagi’ and ‘Asymmetrical Conclusions’.”
October, 2003 At the International AIZEN conference in San Antonio, Texas, presented “The Sea-Wolf’s Romantic Illusions Lost.”
May, 2004 At the Jack London Biennial Symposium conference in Santa Rosa, California, Co-presented with Maria DeGuzman, “The Sea-Wolf, Guilt and the Gothic.”
May, 2004 At the American Literature Association’s Annual Conference, presented “Moby-Dick and Native American Indian Myth.”
October, 2004 At the American Literature Association’s Fiction Symposium, “Mining for ‘Comic Capital’: Stock Market Vernacular in The Gilded Age.”
May 2005 At the American Literature Association’s annual conference, presented “Teaching English Romance Poetry in a ‘Majority Minority’ Institution.”
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May, 2007 At the American Literature Association’s annual conference, presented “Teaching Martin Eden’s Narrative Acts of Transvaluation.”
March 2008 At the College English Association, University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, presented “Tashtego and the Tantalizing Conclusion of Moby-Dick
January 2009 At Aristotle University, presented “Melville’s ‘Curiously Conspicuous’ Red Man”
Encyclopedia: Lopez, Debbie. “Maria Gowen Brooks.” Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, editor Denise D. Knight (Greenwood Publishing Groups, Inc., 1997).
Review: Lopez, Debbie and Joseph Towson. “PC for Twain Studies: The Twain’s World CD-ROM.” Mark Twain Circular 8 (1994), 3-5.
Courses Taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio
African-American Women Writers, Contemporary British Women Writers, The English Novel, Hawthorne and Melville, Introduction to Literature, Literary Criticism and Analysis, Major British Writers II, Minority Voices, Native American Literature, Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, Romantic Literature, The Romantic Age, Victorian Literature, Introduction to Graduate Studies, Major American Writers, Topics in Literary Genres: Poetry, graduate surveys: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Creative Activities
1994 Organized and presented at “The Colombian Muse” Poetry Reading 1994 Presenter at the UTSA Silver Anniversary Alumni Day. 1995 Reader at Women’s History Week Poetry Reading. 1996 Lecturer in the UTSA Fall Lecture Series.
Participation in Faculty Development
Courses Introduced: African-American Women Writers, Contemporary British Women Writers, Hawthorne and Melville, Native American Literature, Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Member, English Ph.D. Feasibility Committee. Creator and Co-Moderator, English Graduate Research Colloquium
Significant Professional Service
M.A. Graduate Advisor of Record (appointed September 2005) Member, UTSA Division of English, Classics and Philosophy Curriculum Committee (1993-1996). Member, UTSA Division of English, Classics and Philosophy Ph.D. Feasibility Committee (1994-1995). Member, UTSA Committee on Probation and Reinstatement (1995-1996)
4 Chair, UTSA Committee on Probation and Reinstatement (1995-1996) Member, UTSA Graduate Program Evaluation Committee (1995-Present) Member, UTSA Division of English, Classics, and Philosophy English Graduate Studies Committee (1995-1998) Assistant Graduate Advisor of Record in English, UTSA Division of English, Classics and Philosophy (1996-Present) Member, UTSA University Honors Program’s Ronald E. McNair Student Development Program (1996) Member, UTSA Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication Search Committees (Eighteenth-Century, Cultural Studies, 1996; Romantic Period 1997) Member, UTSA Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication Ph.D. Task Force Committee (1998) Chair, Ph.D. Task Force Committee on Recruitment, Retention, and Funding (2001-2002) Member, UTSA Research Awards Committee (1998-2000) Editorial Consultant, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (1997) Editorial Consultant, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Romantic Poetry and Prose (1998) Member, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant-Funding Panel in Washington, D.C. (1998) Member, UTSA Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy Curriculum Committee (2001) Member, UTSA Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy Faculty Advisory Committee (2001-2002) Member, UTSA English Graduate Studies Committee (2001-2003) Chair, UTSA English, Classics, and Philosophy Periodic Review Committee (2001-2002 and Fall 2003) Subject Evaluator, Tenure Review for Professor Louis Mendoza (Fall, 2001) UTSA English Library Liaison (2001-2002) Member, UTSA Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series Committee (Spring, 2002) Originator and Co-Moderator, English Graduate Research Colloquium (2001- 2002). Consistent Observer for Third-Year Review and Tenure Review (Fall, 2002- Spring, 2003) Chair, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy FRAC Committee (Fall 2002-Spring, 2003) Member, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy Honors Committee (2002-2003) Affirmative Action Representative for Secondary Education Job Search (Fall, 2002-Spring, 2003) and for Psychology Department (2003-2004) Member, University Fall Convocation Committee Member, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy Honors Committee (2005-2006) Member, Department Honors and Scholarship Committee (2003-2006) Member, Graduate Council (2005-2006) Member, Faculty Development Leave Committee (2004-2005) Chair, Graduate Council Committee on Evaluating Graduate Programs
Honors and Awards
1973-1977 At the University of the South: Member, Order of Gownsmen (academic society), Dean’s List, Honors Thesis on the plays of Wm. B. Yeats, Honors in English, 1976 Scholarship to British Studies at Oxford.
5 1986-1993 Winner, Harvard University’s Graduate Prize Fellowship
1988 Cited in the Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education Guide for excellence in teaching (as section leader for Professor Barbara Johnson’s course, African-American Women Writers).
March, 1989 Ph.D. Orals Examination, Distinction conferred.
1991 Chosen contributor to the Harvard Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Center’s “Training Videotape for Section Leaders in Humanities.”
1990-1991 Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
April, 1994 Winner, Harvard Univeristy English Department’s Howard Mumford Jones Prize, awarded for best doctoral dissertation submitted in 1993-1994 “concerning some aspect of British or American Literature or literary history in the nineteenth century.”
1996 Citation, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
1996 Second Runner-up Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship
1996- Present Awarded position as the English Division’s first Assistant Graduate Adviser of Record.
Oct. 9-11, 2003 Chief Local Organizer for the 12th International AIZEN Conference
Sept. 2008-Feb. 2009 Fulbright Award to teach at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Funded Grants
1997 Summer International Travel Grant
2008-2009 Fulbright Lecturer Award by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to teach American literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2008-February 2009.
Theses Supervised
1995 Honors Paper by Judith Hurst 1996 Independent Tutorial Paper by Pamela Ferguson 1998 Adviser for Rosemary Coste’s Graduate Student Grant project Spring, 2001 Independent Tutorial Paper by Denise Tolan Fall, 2001 Independent Tutorial Paper by Richard Moon Spring, 2002 Richard Moon’s Conference Paper (Oklahoma State Historical Society)
Dissertation Adam’s Nightmare: John Keats’s Legacy to Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne (awarded Harvard’s Howard Mumford Jones Prize)
Dissertation Directors: Professors Sacvan Bercovitch and James Engell
Secondary Readers: Lawrence Buell, David Perkins, and Helen Vendler
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References
Bridget Drinka, English Department Chair, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Sacvan Bercovitch, Charles H. Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Professor of Comparative Literature
James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Languages
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