HEATHER HEWETT Curriculum Vitae 2019

EDUCATION

2001 Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Ph.D. Certificate, African Studies Ph.D. Minor, Cultural Studies (Anthropology, Journalism and Mass Communication, African American Studies, History of Photography)

Dissertation: “Diaspora’s Daughters: Buchi Emecheta, Julie Dash, Edwidge Danticat and the Remapping of Mother Africa.”

1995 M.A., English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1991 B.A., English, Yale University, New Haven, CT Magna cum laude, with distinction in the major

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2017-present Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliate, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

2012-2016 Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

2005-2011 Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

2004-2005 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, Pace University, NY, NY; and Instructor, Barnard Center for Research on Women, NY, NY.

1998-1999 Visiting Lecturer, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis, Senegal.

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

2005-2011 Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

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PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

“Unlearning Introductions: Problematizing Pedagogies of Inclusion, Diversity, and Experience in the Women’s and Gender Studies Intro Course.” With Meg Devlin O’Sullivan and Karl Bryant. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice / Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la justice sociale vol. 37, no. 2, 2016, 22-33.

“Mothering Across Borders: Narratives of Immigrant Mothers in the U.S.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly vol. 37, no. 3, 4, 2009, 121-139.

Reprinted as “Rosario’s Lament: Mothering Across Borders.” Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, edited by Patrick R. Grzanka, Westview Press, 2014, 220-227.

“At the Crossroads: Disability and Trauma in The Farming of Bones.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States vol. 31, no. 3, 2006, 123-145.

“Talkin’ Bout a Revolution: Building a Mothers’ Movement in the Third Wave.” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, vol. 8, no. 1, 2, 2006, 34-54.

“Coming of Age: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Voice of the Third Generation.” English in Africa, vol. 32, no. 1, 2005, 73-97.

“In Search of an ‘I’: Embodied Voice and the Personal Essay.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 33, no. 6, 2004, 719-41.

“My Sister’s Family.” The Scholar and Feminist Online, vol. 2, no. 3, Summer 2004. sfonline.barnard.edu/family/printhhe.htm.

Book Chapters

Accepted: “Women.” With Meg Devlin O’Sullivan. Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, Vol. II, edited by Catherine M. Orr and Ann Braithwaite, Routledge.

“Mothering Memoirs.” The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles. Forthcoming, Routledge 2019.

“Vigilance and Valour in the Kitchen: Feeding, Eating, and the Intellectual Work of Motherhood in Food-Allergic Families.” Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives, edited by Florence Pasche Guignard and Tanya M. Cassidy, Demeter Press, 2016, 88-102.

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“Linking Economic Justice and Women’s Human Rights: Feminist Approaches for the Human Rights Classroom.” Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, MLA Press, 2015, 143-156.

“Rewriting Human Rights: Gender, Violence, and Freedom in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, edited by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu Iwuanyanwu, Syracuse University Press, 2015, 166- 184.

“Translating Desire: Exile and Leila Aboulela’s Poetics of Embodiment.” Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image, edited by Charlotte Baker, Peter Lang, 2009, 249-278.

“Of Motherhood Born.” Mothering in the Third Wave, edited by Amber E. Kinser, Demeter Press, 2008, 19-30.

“You Are Not Alone: The Personal, The Political, and the ‘New’ Mommy Lit.” Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction, edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young, Routledge, 2006, 119- 139.

Conference Proceedings

“Toward a Feminist Analysis of Motherhood, Family, and Food Allergies.” What Do Mothers Need? Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century, edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2012, 165-173.

Chapters in Textbooks

“Women’s Studies and Transnational Feminism.” Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, edited by Nancy Schniedewind and Suzanne Kelly, McGraw-Hill, 2011, 28-31.

Lyric and Memoir Essays

“Dressing Up.” Minerva Rising, Issue 16, Spring 2019, 48-52.

“Cowgirls and Indians.” Kaleidoscope 55, Summer/Fall 2007, 50-56.

“Dog Days and Dark Nights.” Ducts: The Webzine of Personal Stories, vol. 13, Summer 2004. www.ducts.org/06_04/html/essays/hewett.htm.

Personal Essays in Anthologies

“Parenting without a Rope.” The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, edited by Avital Norman Nathman, Seal Press, 2014, 41-47.

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“The Valley of the Kings.” A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, edited by Laurence Carr and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Codhill Press, 2013, 169-170.

Personal and Opinion Essays

“Remembering Alison Piepmeier.” Women=Books blog, Women’s Review of Books, Apr. 2017. http://www.wcwonline.org/Women-=-Books-Blog/remembering-alison-piepmeier.

“A Feminist Practices Yoga.” Women=Books blog, Women’s Review of Books, Jan. 2016. http://www.wcwonline.org/Women-=-Books-Blog/a-feminist-practices-yoga.

“Food Allergies and the Good Enough Mother.” Allergic Living magazine, June 2014, 69-71.

“The Allergen-Free Cake That Wasn’t.” The New York Times Motherlode Blog, Oct. 21, 2013.

“Debate: Should Schools Be Nut-Free Zones? Yes.” Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Summer 2012, 13-15.

“Non, the French are not better moms.” With Deborah Siegel. CNN.com, May 16, 2012. www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/opinion/hewett-siegel-mommy-wars/index.html.

“When Valentine’s Day is Dangerous for Kids.” CNN.com, Feb. 14, 2012. www.cnn.com/2012/02/14/opinion/hewett-food-allergies-school.

“Maternal Health, One Year Later.” Ms. Magazine, Mar. 8, 2011. msmagazine.com/2011/03/08/maternal-health-one-year-later/.

“Early Bilingual Study Boosts Cognitive Skills.” The Journal News, July 4, 2010, 11A.

“Who’s Your Nanny?” The Washington Post, Aug. 26, 2007, B3.

Selected Journalism Articles and Interviews

“The Teen Brain.” Allergic Living magazine, Fall 2015, 24-33.

“Marking Sacred Time.” Interview with writer Eliza Griswold. Boston Review, Apr. 03, 2014. www.bostonreview.net/poetry/npm14-heather-hewett-eliza-griswold-afghanistan-women- landay.

“Mothers on the Tenure Track.” The Mothers Movement Online, Jan. 2009. www.mothersmovement.org/features/09/02/mama_phd/tenure_track_1.html.

“Telling It Like It Is: Rewriting the ‘Opting Out’ Narrative,” The Mothers Movement Online, Oct. 2005. www.mothersmovement.org/features/05/h_hewett_1005/opting_out_1.htm.

Selected Book Reviews 5

“Master Mind.” Review of Bassey Ikpi’s I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying. Women’s Review of Books, Sept./Oct. 2019, 30-31.

“Bold Lives Matter.” Review of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation, by Jodie Patterson. Women’s Review of Books, Mar./Apr. 2019, 19-20.

“Litany Of Madness.” Review of Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi. Women’s Review of Books, July/Aug. 2018, 15.

“Stories Matter.” Review of Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta; Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi; and The Book of Memory, by Petina Gappah. Women’s Review of Books, Jan./Feb. 2017, 11-12.

“The Woman You’ve Never Heard of Who’s the Reason You Practice Yoga.” Review of The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West. Women’s Review of Books, Jan./Feb. 2016, 5-7.

“Going Home.” Review of Ghana Must Go, by Taiye Selasi, and We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo. Women’s Review of Books, May/June 2014, 19-20.

“Feeding the Family.” Review of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage, Ed. Caroline M. Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper; Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family, by Susan Weissman; and French Kids Eat Everything, by Karen Le Billon. Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Fall 2013, 59-61.

“An African tale of two friends is too much.” Review of White Dog Fell from the Sky, by Eleanor Morse. The Washington Post, May 15, 2013, C3.

“The Politics of Everyday Life.” Review of The Nation Writ Small, by Susan Andrade, and News From Home and Swallow, by Sefi Atta. Women’s Review of Books, Jul./Aug. 2012, 26-27.

“Natural Mothering.” Review of The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, by Elisabeth Badinter and The Paradox of Natural Mothering, by Chris Bobel. Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Spring 2012, 56-61.

“Working It: The Problem with Too Many Names.” Review of A Mother’s Work, by Neil Gilbert and The War on Moms, by Sharon Lerner. Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Fall 2010, 55-60.

“‘Tell Our Own Stories’: Contemporary African Women’s Fiction.” Review of fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Petina Gappah, and the contributors to Women Writing Zimbabwe. Women’s Review of Books, Mar./Apr. 2010, 3-5.

“Song, Myth, Epic Poem.” Review of The Amputated Memory, by Werewere Liking. Women’s Review of Books, Mar./Apr. 2009, 16-17. 6

“Orphans of the Storm in Nigeria.” Review of Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Newsday, Nov. 19, 2006, C34.

“Up and Down on the Work-Parenting Carousel.” Review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars and Parenting and Professing. Women’s Review of Books, Mar./Apr. 2006, 17-19.

“Finding Her Voice.” Review of Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Women’s Review of Books, 2004, 9-10.

“A Country in Fragments.” Review of The Stone Virgins, by Yvonne Vera. Women’s Review of Books, 2003, 5-6.

“Siblings without rivalry.” Review of Riding the Bus, by Rachel Simon. Women’s Review of Books, 2002, 11-12.

“The Body in Question.” Review of Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women, edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson. Women’s Review of Books, 2001, 13-14.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2015-2016 Teacher of the Year Award, May 2016, Liberal Arts and Sciences, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2017-2018 Robert Sillins Family Foundation Grant: Co-recipient with Jan Schmidt for “Literature of Witness” field trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC and two outside speakers (Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel and Consolee Nishimwe), SUNY New Paltz, NY.

2017 Sustainability Course Development Grant: Co-recipient with Melissa Rock to develop “Gender, Development, and Justice,” SUNY New Paltz, NY.

2015 NEH Summer Institute, “Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and Environment,” June 22-July 17, 2015, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

2014 Vermont Studio Center Writing Residency and Partial Fellowship, Mar. 2014, Johnson, VT.

2010 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave, Fall 2010, UUP, SUNY.

2009 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. 7

2002 Summer Seminar for Writers Scholarship, June 2002, Sarah Lawrence Graduate Creative Writing Program, Bronxville, NY, 2002.

2000 Mary Adams Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2000, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

2000 Vilas Research Travel Award, Sept. 2000, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, Madison, WI.

1991 Richter Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2016-2017 Sustainability Faculty Fellow, Sustainability Faculty Learning Community, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

2010 Teagle Workshop Participant, “Civic Engagement in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom: Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation,” Nov. 2010, NWSA Convention, Denver, CO.

2008-2009 Global Scholar, Sept. 2008-May 2009, Rutgers Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers, NJ. 2003 M.A. coursework, Bread Loaf School of English at Lincoln College, Oxford University, July-Aug. 2003, Oxford, U.K.

CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES

Lyric essay class with Chelsey Clammer (June/July 2019; Aug./Sept. 2018); Thread at Yale (June 2017); Memoir writing workshop with Christina Baker Kline (NYC, 2011-2012); Workshops with Katherine Lanpher (2011) and Katie Orenstein (2007) at the OpEd Project (NYC); Class with Gretchen Henderson (Barnard Center for Research on Women, NYC, 2004); Essay writing class with Philip Lopate (Mediabistro, NYC, 2003); essay writing class with Vivian Gornick (Sarah Lawrence Graduate Creative Writing Program, Bronxville, NY, June 2002); writing workshop with Peter Bricklebank (NYC, 2000-2002).

INVITED TALKS

2014 “Feminist Food Studies: Food Allergies, Exclusion, and Disability.” Fall 2014 Themester: Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science. Indiana University, 20 Oct. 14, Bloomington, IN.

2012 “What Mothers Need: Support for Caregiving During Chronic Disease and Disability.” What Do Mothers Need? Empowering Mothers/Maternal Empowerment Forum. MIRCI Symposium, 9 May 2012, Toronto, ON. 8

2010 “‘Mommy’ Lit.” Lunchtime talk and conversation with Amy Sohn, author of Prospect Park West. WSQ Mother Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, 31 March 2010, NY, NY. 2010 “Mothering Across Borders: Narratives of Immigrant Mothers in the United States.” WSQ Mother Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, 32 March 2010, NY, NY.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Papers Presented

2018 “Rethinking the Cisnormative Family? Narratives of Gender, Parenting, and Family in Memoirs about Transgender Kids.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2017 “Reconceiving Pregnancy: Narratives of Reproduction and Reproductive Justice.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2015 “When Parents Go Public: Issues of Identity, Power, and Privilege in the Food Allergy Blogosphere.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI.

2013 “Feminist Food Studies, Food Allergies, and the Field of WGS.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

2013 “Critiquing the Center: ‘Feminism’ and ‘Gender’ in African and U.S. Women’s and Gender Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

2012 “Feminist Meets Food Allergy.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Oakland, CA.

2011 “Bearing Witness in the Media Machine: African Literature in Transnational Spaces.” African Literature Association, Athens, OH.

2010 “Writing Women’s Human Rights in Africa.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO.

2010 “African Writers Go Digital: The Impact of Virtual Literary Diasporas on Anglophone African Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

2009 “Migrant Mothers, Motherhood Studies, and the Mothers’ Movement.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.

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2009 “Narrating Women’s Human Rights in Southern Africa.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA.

2008 “Reading the Third Generation: The Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Anglophone African Literature.” African Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

2008 “Literature and Lattes: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Global Narratives.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.

2007 “Mothering across Borders in Maternal Migration Narratives.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Charles, IL.

2007 “Globalization, the Nation, and the Case of Nigeria.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2006 “Third-Wave Feminist Mothering: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Oakland, CA.

2006 “Redefining Mothering and Feminism in the Third Wave.” The Association for Research on Mothering Conference on Caregiving and Carework/Theory and Practice Conference, Toronto, ON.

2006 “Reading Purple Hibiscus: Third Generation Nigerian Writing, Transnational Traditions, and An Aesthetics of Pain.” New York African Studies Association Annual Conference, New Paltz, NY.

2006 “Loss, Dis/ability, and Self-Identity in The Farming of Bones.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2005 “Trickster, Gatekeeper, or Crippled God? Reimagining Esu-Elegba in a Disability Studies Framework.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA.

Roundtable Participant

2017 “Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2012 “Creative Literature and the Field of Women’s and Gender Studies.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Rochester, NY.

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2011 “Gone Virtual: Opportunities and Challenges for Feminist Scholar- Bloggers.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2011 “Women’s Literature and Feminist Learning.” Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action. Barnard Center for Research on Women, NY, NY.

2009 “Feminist Publishing 2.0.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2009 “Creating, Evaluating, and Supporting Joint Appointments.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2008 “From Me to You: Intergenerational Conversations about Turning Over and Letting Go of Programs.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

2007 “Nigeria on the World Stage: Globalization and the Third Generation Novel.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

2005 “Third-Wave Feminism, Motherhood, and the Future.” Third Wave Feminisms Interest Group Roundtable, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

Panels Organized and Moderated

2017 Session moderator and organizer, “In Memory of Alison Piepmeier.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2017 Panel co-organizer, “Forgotten (M)others: Challenging Naturalized Maternal Narratives.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2016 Moderator, “Performing Motherhood: Practices of Decolonization.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Montreal, QC.

2015 Panel co-organizer, “Public Disclosures: Disease, Distortion, and the Politics of Being ‘Personal’ in ‘Public.’” National Women’s Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI.

2012 Roundtable co-organizer, “Teaching Literary Studies in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Rochester, NY.

2011 Session co-organizer, “In Memory of Jessica Nathanson: Scholar, Writer, Feminist, Professor.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, 11

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2011 Panel co-organizer, “Gone Virtual: Opportunities and Challenges for Feminist Scholar-Bloggers.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2011 Feminist mothering panel co-organizer, National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2010 Double panel co-organizer and moderator, “Women, Political Engagement, and the Artistic Imagination, I and II.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Denver, CO.

2009 Roundtable chair and organizer, “The English Department in the New Economy.” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

2009 Panel co-organizer, “Globalizing Motherhood Studies.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2009 Roundtable co-chair and co-organizer, “Creating, Evaluating, and Supporting Joint Appointments.” National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2008 Roundtable organizer and moderator, “From Me to You: Intergenerational Conversations about Turning Over and Letting Go of Programs.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

2007 Panel organizer and co-chair, “Mothers in Migration: New Diasporas and Implications for Transnational Feminism.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, St. Charles, IL. 2001 Panel organizer and chair, “Crossing Over: Academics Writing Journalism and Nonfiction Prose.” Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Campus Talks

2009 “Mothering Across Borders: Narratives of Immigrant Mothers in the U.S.” Women’s Studies Colloquium, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.

2006 “Introduction to African literature.” Teacher Training Workshop on Africa, SUNY New Paltz.

Writing and Thought Leadership Workshops

2014 “Writing for Change: Feminism and Media.” Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 12

Visiting Artists Program, Wheaton College Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Norton, MA, Oct. 2014.

2014 “FABlogCon Bloggers: Who Are You, Where Are You Going, and Where Have You Been?” Food Allergy Bloggers Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 2014

2014 “Personal Writing about Food and Food Allergies: A Workshop for Teens.” Food Allergy and Research Education Conference, Rosemont, IL, June 2014.

2014 “Writing for Change: Feminism and Media.” Wheaton College Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Norton, MA, April 2014.

2014 “Writing for Change: Opinion Essays and Blogging.” Given as part of A Celebration of Women’s Voices: Women Writers Past and Present conference, Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY, March 2014.

Author Readings

2014 “The Valley of the Kings.” Reading at the Honors Center, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, Sept. 18, 2014.

2014 “Parenting without a Rope.” Reading and Good Mother Myth panel discussion, WORD in Brooklyn, NY, May 8, 2014. 2014 “Parenting without a Rope.” Resident Reading, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, March 25, 2014.

2014 “The Valley of the Kings.” Reading at Deyo Hall, Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY, March 8, 2014.

2014 “Parenting without a Rope.” Reading and Good Mother Myth panel discussion, Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY, Jan. 26, 2014.

2014 “Parenting without a Rope.” Reading at PowderKeg Writers, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25, 2014.

2013 “The Valley of the Kings.” Reading at Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, Aug. 11, 2013.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SUNY New Paltz (undergraduate unless otherwise noted)

Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (co-taught) 13

Transnational Feminisms Motherhood and Mothering Senior Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Theory Writing for Change Gender, Development, and Justice (co-taught)

Department of English Craft of Creative Nonfiction Transnational Literature Introduction to Postcolonial Literary Studies Seminar in Critical Practice Literature of Human Rights African Literature and Film Literature Across Borders Senior Seminar in English Postcolonial and Transnational Literature (graduate) Women in Literature

Honors Program Literature of Witness (co-taught)

Advisor for Honors Theses, Master’s Theses, and Independent Studies.

Pace University (undergraduate) Writing in the Disciplines

Barnard College Center for Research on Women (adult education) The Literature of Motherhood: Old and New Creative Nonfiction

Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (undergraduate) African Literature Race, Class, and Gender in American Civilization Nonfiction Writing

University of Wisconsin-Madison (undergraduate) Introduction to Creative Writing (instructor of record) Intermediate Composition (instructor of record) Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Literature (teaching assistant) Writing Center tutor

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Editorial Board, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 2010-present. 14

Academic Program Reviewer, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, April 2017. Academic Program Reviewer, Women and Gender Studies Program, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY, April 2015. Conflict Resolution Committee, National Women’s Studies Association, 2011-2014. Co-chair, Feminist Mothering Caucus, National Women’s Studies Association, 2009-2011. Special-Interest Delegate, Modern Language Association, 2005-2007. Manuscript Reviewer: Columbia University Press, Demeter Press, Seal Press, SUNY Press. Article Reviewer: African American Studies, Feminist Formations, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Literator, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, MELUS, Mosaic, Research in African Literatures, WSQ. Essay reviewer: Under Fire: Critical Discourses on African Women in War and Conflict.

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

College of SUNY New Paltz Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, Member. Fall 2018-present. Without Limits committee, Co-chair. Fall 2016-Spring 2017. Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee, UUP, Co-Chair, Fall 2016-Spring 2017. Black Studies Transition Task Force, Member, Fall 2015. Facilities Master Plan Steering Committee, Member, Fall 2009-Spring 2010. Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee, UUP, Member, Fall 2008-Fall 2009; Spring 2016- present.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Personnel Committee. Chair, Fall 2018-present; Co-Chair, Spring 2017. Promotion & Tenure. Member, Fall 2015-Spring 2016, Chair, Fall 2016-present. Self-Study Working Group. Member, Fall 2015-Fall 2016. Search Committee. Native American/Indigenous American Women’s History. Member, Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Self-Study Working Group. Chair, Fall 2009-Spring 2010. Steering Committee. Chair, Fall 2005-Fall 2006, Fall 2007-Spring 2010, Spring 2011; Member, Fall 2011-present. Curriculum Committee. Member, Fall 2005-Fall 2006, Fall 2007-Spring 2010, Spring 2011. Conference Committee. Co-chair, Fall 2007; Member, Fall 2005-Fall 2006, Spring 2011, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. Search Committee. Visiting Lectureship. Chair, Spring 2008.

English Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentor, Fall 2005-present. Tomaselli Awards in Creative Writing for Distinction in Nonfiction, Judge, 2016, 2019. Graduate Committee. Member, Fall 2012. Curriculum Committee. Co-chair, Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Promotion and Tenure Committee. Member, Fall 2005, Spring 2011, Fall 2014-Spring 2015, Fall 2016-Spring 2017. Curriculum Subcommittee (World Literature). Member, Fall 2008. 15

Search Committee. Open Specialization. Member, Fall 2007. Search Committee. British and American Contemporary Literature. Member, Fall 2006. Curriculum Committee. Member, Fall 2006. Promotion and Tenure Committee. Member, Fall 2005-Spring 2006. Library Committee. Member, Fall 2005-Spring 2006.

SUNY New Paltz Conference Organizer & Moderator Women’s Studies Conference organizer: “Reproductive Justice: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade,” 2013; “Green Feminisms: Women, Sustainability and Environmental Justice,” 2011; “Girlhood: The Challenge and Promise of Growing Up Female,” 2007; “Women, Gender and Science,” 2005, SUNY New Paltz. Panel respondent, “Sex, Money, and Power,” SUNY New Paltz, April 17, 2015. Panel moderator, “Bridging Faith and Reproductive Justice.” Reproductive Justice: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, April 2013, SUNY New Paltz. Panel organizer and moderator, “Feminism for Kids: Lessons from the Last 30 Years.” Women’s History Month Panel, 2009, SUNY New Paltz. Panel moderator, “Artistic Explorations of the Auto/Biographic-Diasporic Self.” First World Diaspora Conference, Redefining the Diaspora: Race, Color, Culture and Identity, 2008, SUNY New Paltz. Panel organizer and moderator, “The Personal and the Political: Three Generations of Feminism.” Women’s History Month Panel, 2008, SUNY New Paltz.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND ADVOCACY

Board of Directors and Mentor/Thought Partner for Fellows, Blossom Hill Foundation, April 2013-present, New Canaan, CT. Invited Panelist, I Am Malala screening and discussion, Washington Irving Intermediate School, 10 Feb. 2017, Tarrytown, NY. Facilitator, Parents as Spiritual Guides program, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, Fall 2015, Croton, NY. Organizer and writer, Creativity Grant, Kyle Dine music program, The Union Free School District of the Tarrytowns, Spring 2014, Tarrytown, NY. Teacher and Helping Hand, Religious Education program, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, Fall 2009-Spring 2013, Croton, NY. Search committee member, Dual Language Program, Washington Irving School, Aug. 2013, Tarrytown, NY. Advisory Board, Dual Language Program, The Union Free School District of the Tarrytowns, Fall 2010-2011. Advisory Board, She Writes (www.shewrites.com), 2010-2011.

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

1999-present Freelance Journalist. 2000-2002 Contributing Writer, Books and Poetry Section, Time Out New York, NY, NY. 1998 Reporter, “Art Box” column, Folio Weekly, Jacksonville, FL. 16

1996 Magazine intern and writer, Art Papers, Atlanta, GA. 1991-1992 Researcher and Contributor, The Environmental Forum / The Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC.

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1998-1999 Research and Writing Advisor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Study Abroad Program, Saint-Louis, Senegal. 1995-1997 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 1996 Writing Center Tutor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 1992-1994 English Teacher, 9th-12th grades, The Taft School, Watertown, CT. Awarded the 1992 Mailliard Fellowship for promise in teaching.

LANGUAGES

Conversational French

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Women’s Studies Association. 2005-present. The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. 2006-present. African Literature Association. 1997-present. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs. 2000-present. National Book Critics Circle. 2003-present.