Academic Biography
Anne Charles 54 Hill Street Barre, Vermont 05641 (802) 279-4231 (cell) (802) 476-3239 (home) [email protected]
Education: 1984-May, 1998: Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Area of Concentration: Women's Writing and Feminist Literary Theory Minor: Women's Studies 1975-78: M.A., English, Purdue University 1969-73: B.A., Political Science, Barnard College
Dissertation: Sapphic Modernism, Expatriatism and Marginality in the Novels of Djuna Barnes Director: Professor Betsy Draine
Publications:
"Two Feminist Criticisms: A Necessary Conflict?" Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Eds. Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope. Blackwell, 1993. 55-65.
Encyclopedia Entry, “1909: Barney Opens Her Paris Salon.” Encyclopedia of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered History. Ed. Mark Rehn. Salem, 2004.
Encyclopedia Entry: “Djuna Barnes.” Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History in America. Ed. Marc Stein. Scribner’s, 2003.
Encyclopedia Entries: "Modernism," "Janet Flanner," and "Djuna Barnes." Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Bonnie Zimmerman. Garland, 2000.
Review Essay, “Narratives of People, Places, and Paintings.” Rev. of Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Unusual Niece, by Joan Schenkar, Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris, by Suzanne Rodriquez, Eve’s Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt, by Sally Webster, and All Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930, by Andrea Barnet. NWSA Journal 19 (Summer 2007): 240-6.
Review Essay, “A Broader View of Modernism.” Rev. of Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties, by Gay Wachman, Virginia Woolf and Fascism, by Merry Pawlowski, The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America, by Elizabeth Francis, Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances, by Anne Herrmann, and Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist, by Dorothy Scura. NWSA Journal 15 (Fall 2003): 179-188.
Review Essay, “Modernism Modified.” Rev.of Refiguring Modernism: The Women of 1928, Refiguring Modernism: Postmodern Feminist Readings of Woolf, West, and Barnes, by Bonnie Kime Scott, The Gender of Modernity, by Rita Felski, and H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence, by Cassandra Laity. NWSA Journal 9 (Fall 1997): 174-182.
Review, The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson, by Joanne Winning. American Literature 74.1 (March 2002): 167-169.
Review, Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule’s Fiction, by Marilyn Schuster. American Literature 72.4 (December 2000): 883-4.
Review, Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity, by Erin G. Carlston. International Review of Modernism 2.2 (Spring/Summer 1999): 23- 4.
Review, Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women’s Fiction, by Patricia Juliana Smith. Lesbian Review of Books 5.4 (Summer 1999): 9-10.
Review, Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho, by Diana Lewis Burgin. Lesbian Review of Books 2.1 (Summer 1995): 31.
Review, Tilting the Tower: lesbians teaching queer subjects, by Linda Garber (ed.). NWSA Journal 7 (Summer 1995): 121-2.
Review, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis. NWSA Journal 6 (Fall 1994): 507-8.
Review, Gertrude and Alice, by Diana Souhami and The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, by Linda Simon. NWSA Journal 5 (Summer 1993): 270-3.
Review, All Contraries Confounded: The Lyrical Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras, by Karen Kaivola. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 19.3 (November 1992): 35-6.
Review, Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, by Mary Lynn Broe (ed.). Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 19.1 (March 1992): 40-2.
Review, Writing For Their Lives: The Modernist Women 1910-1940, by Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers and Breaking The Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction, by Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs (eds.). Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 17.1 (March 1990): 18-20.
Review, Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940, by Shari Benstock. Gay Studies Newsletter 14.2 (July 1987): 25-6.
Conference Papers and Panels:
National Women’s Studies Association, “Escapades and Experimentalism: Evelyn Scott Leaves New Orleans.” New Orleans, June 2003.
College Composition and Communication Conference, “Contention and Concern: Feminist Practice in a Composition/Argument Course.” New York, March 2003.
Modernist Studies Association, “Djuna Barnes’s Queer Pastoral.” Madison, October, 2002.
Langston Hughes Centennial Conference, “Across Gender, Form and Time: Hughes and Harper Meet.” Joplin, February, 2002.
Modernist Studies Association, “Sapphic Rites in Ladies Almanack and Ryder: What Djuna Barnes Knew.” Houston, October, 2001.
Society for the Study of American Women Writers, “Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Women’s Literature Class.” San Antonio, February, 2001.
Modernist Studies Association, Seminar Leader, Sapphic Modernism Seminar. Philadelphia, October, 2000.
National Women’s Studies Association, “Activism and the Academy: Lesbian Feminist Snapshots.” Boston, June, 2000.
Modernist Studies Association, “Hughes’s Jesse B. Semple and Harper’s Aunt Chloe: A Well-Matched Pair.” State College, October, 1999.
Modernist Studies Association, “The Almanack and The Well : Aesthetics and Sexology in Two Novels of 1928.” State College, October, 1999.
South Central Women’s Studies Association, “Lesbian Studies at Century’s End: Millennial Meditations.” New Orleans, March, 1999.
Modern Language Association, Organizer and Moderator, “Conflict, Cooperation, Convergence: A Roundtable on the Academic and the Nonacademic in Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Print Culture.” San Francisco, December, 1998.
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, “Sapphic Modernism in Ryder and Passing: A Discernible Discourse.” Louisville, February, 1998.
National Women's Studies Association, "'And I Wrote This in My Journal': Journalkeeping as Practice and Pedagogy in the Women's Studies Class." St. Louis, June, 1997.
South Central Modern Language Association, "Transgressive Tropes: Some Notes on the Ins and Outs of Teaching Lesbian Literature." New Orleans, November, 1994.
South Central Women's Studies Association, "Negotiating Differences in the Women's Studies Classroom." New Orleans, March, 1994.
Modern Language Association, Organizer and Moderator, "Gay and Lesbian Print Culture: Then and Now." Toronto, December, 1993.
Midwest Modern Language Association, "Barnes, Barney and Biographical Bias." Minneapolis, November, 1993.
New Jersey Project Conference on Transforming the Curriculum, "Teaching Love Alone: An Unexpected Discovery." Princeton, April, 1993.
Djuna Barnes Centennial, Moderator, panel on Djuna Barnes and expatriate modernists. College Park, October, 1992.
Modern Language Association, Organizer and Moderator, "Lesbian Lives As Texts." San Francisco, December, 1991.
Fifth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, "Biography of the Lesbian Subject." Morgantown, October, 1990.
Modern Language Association, "Two Feminist Criticisms: A Necessary Conflict?" New Orleans, December, 1988.
Modern Language Association, "Non-Violence in Class Dynamics." New Orleans, December, 1988.
Academic Honors:
2005: University of New Orleans Diversity Grant 2002: University of New Orleans Summer Scholar Award 1999: University of New Orleans Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing at the Freshman Level 1997: University of New Orleans Summer Scholar Award 1969: New York State Regents Scholarship
Academic and Administrative Experience: 2007-present: Adjunct Instructor, Champlain College 1989-2006: Instructor of English, University of New Orleans Fall, 2000: Facilitator, “Encounter in Louisiana,” Readings in Literature and Culture Program, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Spring, 2000: Adjunct Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University 1993-94: Women's Center Director, University of New Orleans 1984-88: Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1980-82: Co-editor of The Second Wave: A Magazine of the Ongoing Feminism, Cambridge, MA 1976-78: Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
Courses Taught:
Champlain College: COR 115—Rhetoric 1: Analysis and Reflection English 112—Critical Reading/Expository Writing
Univ. of New Orleans: English 4917--Contemporary Novels by Women and Men English 4391--Poetics, Erotics, Politics: Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature (cross-listed with Women's Studies) English 4378--Queer Modernisms (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) English 4378—Contemporary Novels by Women from Around the World (Internet Course) (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) English 4391--Modern Novels by Women and Men (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) English 4092--Twentieth-Century American Women Writers English 4042--American Literature, 1865-Present English 2041--Major American Writers (Internet Course) English 2248--Introduction to Poetry and Drama English 2238--Introduction to the Short Story and Novel English 2378--Introduction to Women’s Literature (cross-listed with Women's Studies) English 2398--The Artist as Heroine (cross-listed with Women's Studies) English 2398--Sexuality, Identity, Community: Twentieth-Century Lesbian Literature (cross-listed with Women's Studies) English 2376--Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Literature (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) English 2228—Introduction to Poetry Women's Studies 2010--Introduction to Women's Studies English 1158--English Composition, Research and Argument (computer classroom) (Internet Course) English 1157--English Composition English 0150--Developmental Writing Univ. Success 1001--University Success ACOR—Academic Orientation
University of New Orleans International Summer School English 4391--World Literature by Women English 2238--Introduction to the Short Story and Novel
A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane Univ.: MCOM 335--Management Communications
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: English 208--Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature (discussion leader and grader) English 207--Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Literature (discussion leader and grader) English 201--Intermediate Composition (studio method) English 101--Developmental Writing (computer classroom) Writing Laboratory Instructor (computer tutorials) College Access Program English Instructor (computer tutorials)
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Union: Wisconsin Union MiniCourse--Contemporary Women Writers Wisconsin Union MiniCourse--Grammar, Punctuation and Usage
Purdue University: English 585--Reading and Study Skills English 101--Freshman Composition
Work in Progress:
Review Essay, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Lyndall Gordon, Women, Power, and Political Change, by Bonnie G. Mani, June Jordan: Her Life and Letters, by Valerie Kinloch, and Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist, by Lois Gordon. Due: June 30, 2008.
Transforming Sapphic Modernism, Expatriatism and Marginality in the Novels of Djuna Barnes into the first feminist biography of Djuna Barnes.
Service to the Profession:
1992-2006: Regional Representative, Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
1996-1998: Michael Lynch Service Award Committee, Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
1993-96: President, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
Service to English Departments:
2005-2006: Undergraduate Advisory Committee, Department of English, University of New Orleans
2004: M.F.A. Thesis Committee: Callie Solano, Department of English, University of New Orleans.
1990-1999: Standing Committee on Women and Literature, Department of English, University of New Orleans.
1996-1998: English Department Advisory Committee, Department of English, University of New Orleans.
1998: M.F.A. Thesis Committee: J.J. Moore, Department of English, University of New Orleans.
1989-92: Introduction to Poetry and Drama Textbook Review Committee, Department of English, University of New Orleans.
1986-88: Graduate Student Association, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Service to Women’s Studies:
2001-present: Manuscript Reader/Reviewer, NWSA Journal
1990-1999: Women's Studies Major Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of New Orleans.
1994-95: Steering Committee, Women's Center, University of New Orleans.
1993-94: Steering Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of New Orleans.
1990-92: Task Force on Women in the Community, National Women's Studies Association.
Languages: Reading fluency in French and Spanish