ANNE STEWART DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 204 W 21ST STREET B5000, AUSTIN, TX 78712 [email protected] 512-517-3169

EDUCATION

PhD in English Literature, University of Texas at Austin, expected 2017 Dissertation: “Decolonial Ontologies: Rebellious Object Worlds in Late- Twentieth-Century Multiethnic U.S. Literature.” Supervisor: Dr. Heather Houser Committee Members: Dr. James H. Cox, Dr. Martin Kevorkian, Dr. Stacy Alaimo (external reviewer)

MA in English Literature, University of British Columbia, 2012

BA in English Literature, with honors, University of Winnipeg, 2005

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, & AWARDS

University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies Professional Development Award, 2016 E. Bagby Atwood Memorial Graduate Scholarship in English, 2015 University of Texas at Austin Department of English Dissertation Fellowship, 2015 SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2014 – 2017 Orville Wendell O’Neal Memorial Endowed Scholarship in English, 2014 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship, 2011 – 2012

PUBLICATIONS

Book Reviews Review of Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction by Heather Houser. E3W Review of Books 15 (Spring 2015): 35 – 36. Review of The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution by Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler. Studies in American Indian Literatures 26.1 (Spring 2014): 121 – 125. Review of Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity by Carlos Gallego. E3W Review of Books 13 (Spring 2013): 24 – 26.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

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“‘We expand to its bulk’: Shifting Scales of Body and Nation in the Moby-Dick Cultural- Industrial Complex.” Under review at American Literature. “Unruly Documentary Objects in John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire.” Under review at Novel. “Rebellious Infrastructure: Reimagining Race, Space, and Narrative Trajectory in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist.”

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Neoliberal Earthworks: Narrating Terrestrial Motion as Decolonial Action.” Panel Title: “Listen: Indigenous Writers Challenging Settler Colonial Epistemologies,” MLA Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 5th, 2017. Accepted.

“The Continuing Debate Over India’s ‘Dominance Without Hegemony.” Dispossession, Exclusion, Exploitation, MLG Institute on Culture and Society, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. June 28th, 2016. Reading Group Facilitator.

“Narrating Infrastructural Racism in Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing.” Arts and the Public, ASAP/7, Clemson University, Greenville, SC. September 25th, 2015.

“Narrating Race and Infrastructure in Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing.” The City and American Literature, ALA Symposium, New Orleans, LA. September 11th, 2015.

“Black Bodies, White Property: The Limits of the State’s Tolerance for Direct Action.” Non-Negotiable Sites of Struggle, MLA Subconference, Vancouver, BC. January 7th, 2015.

“The Anti-Rationalist City: Writing Agency into the Material Present.” Capitals, ACLA Annual Conference, New York University, New York, NY. March 21st, 2014.

“Unstable Materialities and Non-Identity in Luis Pérez’s El Coyote, the Rebel.” Anonymity, English Graduate Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. May 12th, 2013.

“The Deconstruction of Worlds in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.” Collapse/ Catastrophe/ Change, ACLA Annual Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 30th, 2012.

“’No, Not the Archive! Zombie Apocalypse & the Breakdown of the Symbolic Order.” Ghost Stories: Hauntings and Echoes in Literature and Culture, McGill EGSA Conference, McGill University, Montreal, QC. January 29th, 2012.

“‘Little images of moments which have seemed like ends’: Challenging the Liminality of Apocalypticism.” Time’s Out of Joint, English Graduate Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. June 16th, 2011. STEWART 3

“The Spatial Politics of Imagined Locality in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight.” Endnotes, English Graduate Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. April 8th, 2011.

TEACHING

2014 - 2017 Assistant Instructor in the Department Of English, University of Texas at Austin - “Native American Literature & Culture,” Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. - “Banned Books and Novel Ideas,” Spring 2016.

2012 – 2014 Assistant Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin - “Rhetoric of City Streets,” Fall 2013, Spring 2014 - “Rhetoric and Writing,” Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2012.

2010 – 2012 Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, University of British Columbia - Introduction to English Literature, “The Gothic in Literary History.” Dr. Nicholas Hudson. Winter Term 1 2010, Winter Term 2 2012. - Introduction to English Literature, “Approaches to Literature.” Dr. Miguel Mota. Winter Term 2 2011. - Introduction to English Literature, “Texts as/and Technologies.” Dr. Mary Chapman. Winter Term 1 2011.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2015 - 2016 E3W Review of Books, Head Editor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2014 - 2015 E3W Review of Books, Co-Editor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2013 - 2014 E3W Review of Books, Special Section Editor, “Literary Ecologies: Ecocriticism & the Spatial Turn,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2012 - 2014 Undergraduate Writing Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2012 Endnotes, English Graduate Conference, Chair, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2011 Endnotes, English Graduate Conference, Co-Chair, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2011 - 2012 University of British Columbia English Graduate Program, MA Representative 2004 - 2005 University of Winnipeg Department of English Hiring Committee, STEWART 4

Student Member, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB 2003 - 2005 University of Winnipeg English Students’ Association, Vice-President

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Member; Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Member; Marxist Literary Group (MLG), Member; Modern Language Association (MLA), Member; The Society for the Study of the Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Member.

LANGUAGES

French (fluent); Spanish (conversational)