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Curriculum Vitae Tuire Valkeakari

Providence College, Department of English One Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918-0001, USA e-mail: [email protected] office phone: +1-401-865.2802

1. FULL-TIME FACULTY POSITIONS

Professor, Department of English, Providence College. July 2016–. Current position.

Associate Professor, Department of English, Providence College. July 2010–June 2016.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Providence College. September 2006–June 2010.

2. PART-TIME POSITIONS IN ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

Interim Director, Black Studies Program, Providence College. January–June 2019.

Interim Director, American Studies Program, Providence College. July 2015–June 2016.

Assistant Chair, Department of English, Providence College. July 2011–June 2012.

3. ACADEMIC DEGREES

Ph.D., African American and American Studies, Yale University. May 2012.

M.Phil., African American and American Studies (with distinction), Yale University. December 2005.

M.A., African American and American Studies, Yale University. May 2005.

Ph.D., English, University of Helsinki, Finland. April 2004.

Lic.Phil., English, University of Helsinki. December 2002.

M.A., English, University of Helsinki. June 1998.

M.Th., University of Helsinki. December 1998.

B.Th., University of Helsinki. October 1995.

4. OTHER CURRENT ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Dosentti. (Finnish equivalent of German Privatdozent.) Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland. October 2010–.

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5. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Black diasporic Anglophone literatures, especially African American and African-Caribbean fiction and autobiography; contemporary American fiction and autobiography; contemporary Finnish fiction.

6. OTHER TEACHING FIELDS

American culture and history; race and ethnicity; postcolonial literature.

7. ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Internal Research Awards at Providence College

Summer Scholar Award, School of Arts and Sciences. June–August 2019.

Committee on Aid to Faculty Research Travel Grant, 2019.

Elected Participant in the 2017 Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar at Providence College. January–May 2017. (One course release and a stipend.)

Nomination for the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends Program. (One of two Providence College nominees for 2013.)

Elected Participant in the 2007 Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar at Providence College. January–May 2007. (One course release.)

Study/Dissertation Fellowships for the Yale Ph.D.

Robert M. Leylan Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2006–07, 12 months. (Declined due to conflict with tenure-track position at Providence College.)

John F. Enders Fund Award, Yale University. June–August 2006.

Yale University Fellowship. September 2003–May 2006.

Study/Dissertation Fellowships for the University of Helsinki Ph.D.

Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation. April–August 2003.

Finnish Cultural Foundation. October 2002–March 2003.

Oskar Öflund Foundation and Finnish Konkordia Fund (for a visiting graduate student position at Yale). November 2000–August 2001.

Academy of Finland (for a visiting graduate student position at Yale). June–October 2000.

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Fulbright Graduate Grant (for a visiting graduate student position at Yale). August 1999–May 2000.

Finnish National Graduate School for Literary Studies. January 1999–September 2002.

Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Oskar Öflund Foundation. September–December 1998.

Other Research Awards and Affiliations

Visiting Scholar. Department of American Studies, Brown University, Rhode Island. July–December 2012. (Non-salaried position; held while on sabbatical from Providence College.)

Elected Ethnic Studies Affiliate in the Program of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. January– May 2006. (Stipend.)

M.Th. Thesis Prize, Department of Theology, University of Helsinki. December 1998. (Stipend.)

Teaching Award Nominations at Providence College

Nomination for the Collegewide Joseph R. Accinno Teaching Award, 2016–17.

Nomination for the Collegewide Joseph R. Accinno Teaching Award, 2013–14.

8. PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Books

Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.

Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952–1998. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. • Chapter 2 reprinted in Ralph Ellison, edited by Harold Bloom (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views). New edition. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism/Infobase, 2010, 173–197.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Updating Camus: The Absurd, Revolt, and Strangerhood in Riikka Pulkkinen’s Vieras.” Scandinavian Studies (accepted, forthcoming).

“The Photographer-Flâneur as Facilitator of Urban Connectivity in John Edgar Wideman’s Two Cities.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 60.2 (2019): 222–235.

“‘Railway Spine,’ Trains, Migration, and Mobility in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 28.3–4 (2015): 202–207.

“‘New Negro’ Men, World War I, and African American Masculinity in Guy Johnson’s Standing at the Scratch Line.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 39.4 (Winter 2014): 50–68.

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“A Journey to ‘Partial Cosmopolitanism’ in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) 38.2 (2013): 67–87.

“Huck, Twain, and the Freedman’s Shackles: Struggling with Huckleberry Finn Today.” Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 28.2 (December 2006): 29–43.

“Through a Black Traveler’s Eyes: Claude McKay’s A Long Way from Home.” American Studies in Scandinavia 38.1 (2006): 78–98.

“The Politics of Perception in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” Studies in American Fiction, 33.2 (Autumn 2005): 229–250.

“Beyond the Riverside: War in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” Atlantic Literary Review 4.1–2 (January–March & April–June 2003): 133–164. • Finnish version: “Kohti dialogisen avoimuuden rauhaa: Sota historiallisena aiheena ja vertauskuvana Toni Morrisonin romaaneissa.” Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seuran vuosikirja 54 [Yearbook of the Finnish Literary Research Society 54] (2001): 82–116.

“A ‘Cry of the Dying Century’: Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and the Women’s Cause.” NJES (Nordic Journal of English Studies) 2.1 (2003): 193–216.

“Toni Morrison Writes B(l)ack: Beloved and Slavery’s Dehumanizing Discourse of Animality.” Atlantic Literary Review 3.2. (April–June 2002): 165–187. • Reprinted in Critical Perspectives in American Literature, ed. Meenakshi Raman. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2004, 194–218. • Finnish version: “Subjektina ihminen: musta teksti mustan päällä Toni Morrisonin Beloved- romaanissa.” Subjektia rakentamassa: tutkielmia minuudesta teksteissä [Constructing the Subject: Studies on ‘Self’ in Literary Texts], eds. Tomi Kaarto and Lasse Kekki. Turku: University of Turku, 2000, 150–189.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

“John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and Keepers and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying as Family Memoirs and Narratives of Black Captivity.” Mielikuvituksen Maailmat/Worlds of Imagination: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Literary Research, edited by Merja Polvinen, Maria Salenius, and Howard Sklar. Turku, Finland: Eetos, 2017, 249–267.

“After Eden: Constructs of Home, House, and Racial Difference in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” Living Language, Living Memory: Essays on the Works of Toni Morrison. Eds. Kerstin W. Shands and Giulia Grillo Mikrut. Huddinge, Sweden: Södertörn University, 2014, 107–126.

Invited and Editor-Reviewed Book Chapters and Articles

“Between Camps: Paul Gilroy and the Dilemma of Race.” Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings. Ed. Jopi Nyman. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 8–29.

“‘Luxuriat[ing] in Milton’s Syllables’: Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road.” Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture. Eds. Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 192–214.

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“Secular Riffs on the Sacred: Religious Reference in Invisible Man.” Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies 5/6 (2002/2003): 235–267.

“Student-to-Student Interaction Between Remote Sites in International Videoconferencing in the Context of Teacher Education.” Mediakasvatuksen tietostrategian teoriaa ja käytäntöä. [Theory and Practice of Cognitive Strategies in Media Education.] Studia Paedagogica 23. Eds. Marja Mononen-Aaltonen and Anna Lintula. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Department of Teacher Education, 2000, 71–107.

Peer-Reviewed Encyclopedia Article

“African American Novel.” The Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Peter Logan et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 9–18.

Academic Reviews of Scholarly Books

Review of Frank Wilker, Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017). African American Review 52.1 (Spring 2019): 109–111.

Review of Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 2007). American Studies in Scandinavia 39.2 (2007): 114–117.

Review of J. Brooks Bouson, Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother (SUNY Press, 2005). American Studies in Scandinavia 39.2 (2007): 117–119.

Review of Lucille P. Fultz, Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). American Studies in Scandinavia 38.1 (2006): 114–116.

Review of Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003). American Studies in Scandinavia 37.2 (2005): 124–127.

Review of Joel Dinerstein, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). American Studies in Scandinavia 37.2 (2005): 127–129.

Review of Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002). American Studies in Scandinavia Vol. 37.1 (2005): 108–110.

Review of Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002). American Studies in Scandinavia 36.2 (2004): 120–122.

Review of Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999). American Studies in Scandinavia 36.2 (2004): 123–125.

Review of Melissa Nobles, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000). American Studies in Scandinavia 36.2 (2004): 125–127.

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“Harlemia etsimässä: mustan yhdysvaltalaisen kaupunkiestetiikan nousu.” [In Finnish. Review of Maria Balshaw, Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African-American Literature, London: Pluto Press, 2000.] Terra (Journal of the Geographical Society of Finland) 114.2 (2002): 113–115.

“Monta kontekstia, monta vastarintaa.” [In Finnish. Review of Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Studia Carelica Humanistica 14. Eds. Jopi Nyman & John A. Stotesbury. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, 1999.] Rajatapauksia: Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seuran vuosikirja 53 [Yearbook of the Finnish Literary Research Society 53] (2000): 214–219.

Reviews of Novels and Memoirs

“Armahdus.” [In Finnish. Review of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy. Written on the occasion of the publication of the Finnish translation of the novel.] Nuori Voima 3 (2009): 61–63.

“Unelmista muutokseen, sanoista tekoihin.” [In Finnish. Review of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father. Written on the occasion of the publication of the Finnish translation of the memoir.] Kritiikki 1 (2009): 116– 119.

9. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Updating Camus: The Absurd, Revolt, and Strangerhood in Riikka Pulkkinen’s Vieras.” SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study) 2019. Madison, Wisconsin, May 2–4, 2019.

“Family Formation as a Metaphor for Black British Identity Formation in Post-Windrush Fiction.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2018. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 12–15, 2018.

“The Photographer-Flâneur as Facilitator of Urban Connectivity in John Edgar Wideman’s Two Cities.” (Im)Possible Cities: First International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies. University of Tampere, Finland, August 23–24, 2017.

“John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and Keepers and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying as Family Memoirs and Narratives of Black Captivity.” NAAS (Nordic Association for American Studies) 2017. University of Odense, Denmark, May 22–24, 2017.

“The Sexual Politics of a Migration: Black Caribbean Women in Post-Windrush Fiction.” Ethics of Storytelling: Historical Imagination in Contemporary Literature, Media and Visual Arts. University of Turku, Finland, June 4–6, 2015.

“New York City, Nova Scotia, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes.” NAAS (Nordic Association for American Studies) 2015. University of Oulu, Finland, May 11–13, 2015.

“‘A Journey to ‘Partial Cosmopolitanism’ in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2014: Capitals. New York University, New York City. March 20–23, 2014.

“After Eden: Constructs of Home, House, and Racial Difference in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” Twenty Years Since the Nobel Prize: Anniversary Symposium on the Works of Toni Morrison. Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. October 18–19, 2013.

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“The Shifting Ground: Land and Migration in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Create Dangerously.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2013. Boston, Massachusetts. March 21– 24, 2013.

“Land, a Sense of Place, and Diaspora in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.” CAAS (Canadian Association for American Studies) 2012: Geographies of Promise and Betrayal: Land and Place in U.S. Studies. Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 25–28, 2012.

“Black, Caribbean, Canadian: Jamaican Women Immigrants in Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved.” The Seventh Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies. Uppsala University, Sweden. September 20–22, 2012.

“Trauma, Displacement, and the African Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” ALA (American Literature Association) 2012. San Francisco, California. May 24–27, 2012.

“George Lamming’s Dialogue with French Existentialism in The Emigrants.” Joint MELUS & USACLALS Conference (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.; the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies). San Jose, California. April 19–22, 2012.

“War and African American Veterans in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Tar Baby.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2012. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 29–April 1, 2012.

“Movement, Migration, and the Formation of the African Diaspora in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2011. New Brunswick, New Jersey. April 7–10, 2011.

“World War I and African American Manhood in Guy Johnson’s Standing at the Scratch Line.” CEA (College English Association) 2011. St. Petersburg, Florida. March 31–April 2, 2011.

“Gendered Migrations: Narratives of Mobility in Black Caribbean Fiction.” The Twentieth Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, Georgia. February 25– 26, 2011.

“The Neo-Slave Narrative Goes Global: The Circum-Atlantic World of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes.” SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) 2010. Atlanta, Georgia. November 5–7, 2010.

“Disillusionments in the Heart of Empire: Novels of the Black Caribbean Immigrant Experience in Post-World War II Britain.” MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) 2008. Leiden, The Netherlands. June 25–28, 2008.

“Interrogations of ‘Home’: The Ambiguities of Return in Caryl Phillips’s Early Fiction.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2008: Arrivals and Departures. Long Beach, California. April 24–27, 2008.

“Roots, Routes, and Returns: Literary Journeys Back to the Caribbean.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2008. Buffalo, New York. April 10–13, 2008.

“Passages to (Be)Longing: Recent Literary Portraits of the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States.” CEA (College English Association) 2008: Passages. St. Louis, Missouri. March 27–29, 2008.

“Black Diaspora as an Idiom of (Be)Longing.” Symposium “Post/National Enquiries: Borders, Migrants and the State,” organized by MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas). University of Joensuu, Finland. June 15–16, 2007.

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“Spiritual Leadership and Secular Salvation in Octavia Butler’s Parables.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2007. Baltimore, Maryland. March 1–4, 2007.

“The Dilemma of ‘Return’ in Black Diasporic Fiction.” MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) 2006: Crosscurrents: Navigating the Mainland and the Margins in U.S. Ethnic Literatures. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. April 27–30, 2006.

“Mapping the Black Atlantic: Caryl Phillips’s Geographies of Movement and Migration.” CEA (College English Association) 2006: Reading the Regions/Writing the Regions/Teaching the Regions. San Antonio, Texas. April 6–8, 2006.

“A Violent Vision: Leon Forrest and the ‘Black Christ’ Tradition.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2006. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2–5, 2006.

“‘A Theater of Transformations’: The Politics of Perception in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” ALA (American Literature Association) 2005. Boston, Massachusetts. May 26–29, 2005.

“Healer, Heal Thyself: Spiritual Leadership in Gayl Jones’s The Healing.” CEA (College English Association) 2005: Space(s). Indianapolis, Indiana. March 31–April 2, 2005.

“The Diasporic ‘Word’ and Vision in John Edgar Wideman’s The Cattle Killing.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2005: Imperialisms—Temporal, Spatial, Formal. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. March 11–13, 2005.

“A Long Way From Home: Claude McKay’s Wanderlust and His Quest for Democracy.” SNECORE (Southern New England Consortium on Race and Ethnicity): Temples for Tomorrow: The Harlem Renaissance—New Readings and Contexts. Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, May 7–8, 2004.

“In Search of Redemption: Spiritual Quest in Leon Forrest’s Witherspoon-Bloodworth Trilogy.” ALA (American Literature Association) 2003. Cambridge, Massachusetts. May 22–25, 2003.

“‘The Gospel of the Good News of the Blues’: The Secular and the Sacred in African American Expressive Culture.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Fourth International Conference. Tampere, Finland. June 29–July 2, 2002.

“Icons of Humanity, Celebrants of Community: Transformations of the Preacher in the Contemporary African- American Novel.” ALA (American Literature Association) 2002. Long Beach, California. May 30–June 2, 2002.

“‘Luxuriating in Milton’s Syllables’: Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road.” FINSSE (Finnish Society for the Study of English) 2001. University of Turku, Finland. September 28–30, 2001.

“Signifying on the Sacred: Toni Morrison and the Trope of Scapegoating.” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2001. “Topos/Chronos”: Aesthetics for a New Millennium. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. April 20–22, 2001.

“Unconventional Ministers, Unorthodox Salvations: The Secularization and Feminization of the ‘Preacherly’ by Contemporary African American Women Writers.” The Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for

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Graduate Scholarship/The Secular and the Sacred: Western and Nonwestern Contexts. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. December 8, 2000.

“’No Need to Cast Out the Offending Eye?’ Religion as a Cultural Context for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” The Word in the Word: Tensions and Interconnections between Religion and the Novel. University of Reading, UK. November 11, 2000.

“The Neo-Slave Narrative Writes Back: The Religion of the Flesh and the Paradoxical Power of the Word in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Tenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. SUNY College at Cortland, New York. October 29–31, 2000.

“Beyond the Riverside: The Motif of War in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” USACLALS (United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) 2000: Global Perceptions and Intersections. Rhode Island College and Bryant College, Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island. May 5–6, 2000.

“Animal Imagery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Literary Representation of Dehumanization in American Slavery.” MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) 2000: Multiethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 9–12, 2000.

“A Double-Edged Sword: Christianity as an Element of African American Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine.” NAAS (Nordic Association for American Studies) 1999: American Studies at the Millennium. University of Turku, Finland. August 11–15, 1999.

“Paradise Lost, Scapegoats Wanted: The Scapegoat Motif in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Paradise.” The Eighth Tampere Conference on North American Studies: Border Crossings. University of Tampere, Finland. April 22–25, 1999.

10. OTHER PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES

“Historical Fiction and Black Studies: The Case of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes.” Black Studies Program, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. November 20, 2013.

“Perceptual Change and Spiritual Transformation in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” English Faculty Seminar, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. December 3, 2009.

Invited response to Robert J. Kiely’s Presentation “Anxious about Exodus: The African American Experience.” Annual Randall Chair Conference, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. February 28, 2009.

“Being Human: The Lens of Race.” Providence College, Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Open Forum. Providence, Rhode Island. April 30, 2007.

“Race, Ethnicity, and Globalization.” Providence College, Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar. Providence, Rhode Island. February 26, 2007.

“Dreaming in Black Atlantic: Diasporic Fictions of (Be)Longing.” Yale University, Program of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Ethnic Studies Affiliates’ Research Workshop. New Haven, Connecticut. February 27, 2006.

“‘Study War No More?’: The Idiom of War in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” Providence College, Department of English. Providence, Rhode Island. January 30, 2006.

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“Sacred Words and Secular Visions: Christian Influences in African American Novels.” Yale University, Department of African American Studies, Research Workshop. New Haven, Connecticut. February 23, 2005.

“Musta yhdysvaltalainen naiskirjallisuus” [Contemporary Black Women’s Writing in the United States]. Open University at the University of Helsinki, Finland. September 24, 2002.

“Ruumiillisuuden problematiikka Octavia E. Butlerin Xenogenesis-trilogiassa.” [The Problematics of the Body in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy.] Convention of Finnish Science Fiction Scholars. University of Jyväskylä, Finland, July 11, 2002.

“Interpretations of Christianity in African American Letters.” Research Seminar. Finnish National Graduate School for Literary Studies. University of Turku, Finland. March 15–16, 2002.

“Secular Riffs on the Sacred: Mock-Messianic Rhetoric in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Research Seminar. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, Finland. January 31, 2002.

“Sacred Words, Secular Intentions: The Profane Poetics of Revision and Renewal in the Postwar African- American Novel.” Research Seminar. Finnish Graduate School for Literary Studies. University of Helsinki, Finland. October 12–13, 2001.

“Towards the ‘Peace of the Dancing Mind’: Toni Morrison and the Discourse of War.” Americanist Colloquium: Inter-American Connections. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. December 7, 2000.

“Christian Language and Motifs in the African American Literary Imagination.” English Department Week, University of Helsinki, Finland. March 24, 1999.

11. COURSES TAUGHT

Providence College

English Department (several courses cross-listed with Black Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and/or Women’s Studies):

400-level courses: • Honors Colloquium: American Autobiography. Fall 2018. • Seminar: Toni Morrison. Spring 2010, Spring 2011, and Spring 2012. • Seminar: The Black Body in African American Literature. Spring 2009. • Independent Study: Twentieth-Century African American Fiction as Historiography. Spring 2018. • Independent Study: Toni Morrison. Fall 2009. • Independent Study: The Fiction of John Edgar Wideman. Spring 2008.

Theses advised: One senior thesis (Katherine O’Brien, 2016) and two “independent study” theses (Patrick Allen, 2009; Ryan Barnicle, 2008). Served as second reader of senior theses in Spring 2017 (Colleen L’Etoile) and in Spring 2012 (Kyle Farrell).

300-level courses: • Twentieth-Century African American Literature. Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Summer-2 2015, Spring 2016, Summer-1

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2016, Fall 2016, Summer-2 2017, Fall 2017, Summer-1 2018, and Fall 2018. • Toni Morrison (300-level course since 2015). Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, and Spring 2019. • Global and Postcolonial Literature. Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, and Spring 2017. • Early American Literature. Fall 2008 and Spring 2013. • Intermediate Writing. Fall 2011. • Communications Internship (academic supervisor of interns). Fall 2007, Fall 2009, and Spring 2012.

100-level courses: • Introduction to Literature. Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2011, Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, and Spring 2019.

Development of Western Civilization Program, 200-level courses • “Race, Gender, Class and Mobility in the 20th-Century United States.” Fourth-semester colloquium. Co-taught with a historian. Spring 2018 and Spring 2019. • “Diasporas.” Fourth-semester colloquium. Co-taught with a historian. Spring 2014 and Spring 2015. • Development of Western Civilization 202. Team-taught course. Spring 2007, 2 sections; Spring 2008, 2 sections; Spring 2010, 2 sections; and Spring 2011, 2 sections. • Development of Western Civilization 201. Team-taught course. Fall 2006, 2 sections; Fall 2007, 2 sections; Fall 2009, 2 sections; Fall 2010, 2 sections; Fall 2013, 2 sections; Fall 2014, 2 sections; Fall 2015, 2 sections; and Fall 2017, 2 sections.

Women’s Studies and American Studies Programs, 100-level courses • Introduction to Women’s Studies. Co-taught with a sociologist. Fall 2013. • Introduction to American Studies. Spring 2012 and Spring 2013.

12. SERVICE

Discipline

Reader of a book manuscript for the University of Virginia Press. August 2017.

Article referee for ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Review. June 2016.

External pre-examiner of a doctoral dissertation on contemporary African American drama. University of Turku, Finland. August 2015.

Peer review panelist for the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends, National Competition. November 2013.

Article referee for LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. July 2013.

Reviewer of paper proposals for the 2011 National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Atlanta, Georgia). March 2011.

Article referee for African American Review. April 2009.

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Providence College

Chair of the Advisory Committee on Black Studies. January–June 2019.

Member of the Advisory Committee on American Studies. September 2008–present.

Member of the 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Nomination Committee, June–July 2018.

Member of the Faculty Scholar Award Committee. Spring 2017, Spring 2018.

Chair of the Advisory Committee on American Studies. July 2015–June 2016.

Member of the Advisory Committee on Black Studies. September 2011–June 2014.

Member of the E-Portfolio Assessment Committee for Global Studies. March–April 2011, April 2012.

Member of the Faculty Senate’s Core Curriculum Subcommittee on Social Sciences, Fine Arts, Theology, and Philosophy. August 2010.

Member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Course Review. October 2009–June 2011.

Member of the Faculty Senate (English Department Representative). September 2009–June 2011.

Member of the International Programs Advisory Committee. September 2009–June 2012.

Host of a Campus Visit by Novelist John Edgar Wideman. November 4, 2008.

Reviewer of paper proposals for the Annual Global Studies Student Research Symposium. March 2008, March 2009.

Member of the Advisory Committee on Global Studies. September 2007–June 2012.

Providence College, Department of English

Member of a Promotion-in-Rank Committee. November 2018–January 2019.

Member of a Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Multiethnic American Literature. September 2014–February 2015.

Member of a Tenure Committee. September–October 2014.

Member of an Appointments Research Committee. March–April 2014.

Member of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Composition and Rhetoric (Writing Specialist). September 2013–February 2014.

Chair of the Curriculum Committee. January–May 2013.

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Member of the Fortin Essay Prize Committee. April 2007, April 2010, April 2011.

Evaluator of Special Lecturers/Adjuncts. November 2009, April 2011, AY 2011–2012, March 2017.

Member of a Departmental Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. November 2008.

Member of the Search Committee for a Fiction Writer. September 2007–February 2008.

Host of a Class Visit by Novelist John Edgar Wideman. November 6, 2007.

Advisor for English Majors. April 2007–present.

13. CURRENT ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association (MLA). Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS).

14. LANGUAGES

Native or bilingual proficiency: English, Finnish. Intermediate: German, Swedish. Elementary: French. Elementary reading knowledge: Latin, New Testament Greek, biblical Hebrew.