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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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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 1 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. 2 March, 1995 Guest Speaker, Harvard University Seminar on Environmental Ethics. 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.” 3 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