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Maite Urcaregui Department of English | University of California | Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 208-954-2165 | [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph. D. English, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (expected 2021) Dissertation: Reading Disruption: Visual Grammars of Citizenship (Chair, Dr. Stephanie Batiste) Ph.D. Emphases: Black Studies, Feminist Studies Certificate: College and University Teaching

M. A. English, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO (2016) Certificate: Women & Gender Studies

B. A. English (magna cum laude), Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (2013) Teaching Credentials: Secondary English & Language Arts Minors: Dance, Spanish

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Chapters in Edited Anthologies “‘A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind.’: Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home” in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama (forthcoming). “Intersectional Feminism in Bitch Planet: Comics, Fandom, and Activism beyond the Page” in Gender and the Superhero Narrative, edited by Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott, and Philip Smith, University Press of Mississippi, 2018, pp. 45-73.

Academic Book & Media Reviews “Ethics in the Guttter Review.” International Journal of Comic Art (forthcoming). “The Michigan State University Comic Art and Graphic Novel Podcast Media Review.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2017, pp. 647649.

Journalistic Articles & Reviews “Saga #50 Marks an Important Anniversary” WomenWriteAboutComics, 20 Apr. 2018, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/04/saga-50-marks-an-important-anniversary/. “Can Laughter Be as Vital to Bitch Planet as Anger?” in A Bitch Planet Comic Studies Round Table edited by Osvaldo Oyoa and Qiana Whitted, 13 March 2018, https://themiddlespaces.com/2018/03/13/bitch-planet-3/. “World of Wakanda: A Short-Lived but Powerful Tale of Fierce, Queer Love.” WomenWriteAboutComics, 14 Feb. 2018, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/02/world-of-wakanda-short-lived-but- powerful-tale-of-fierce-queer-love/. “WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2017.” WomenWriteAboutComics, 30 Dec. 2017, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/12/wwacs-favorite-big-press-comics-of-2017/.

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AWARDS AND HONORS English Department’s Frost Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019 Humanities & Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Graduate Collaborative Award for project entitled “Drawing Diversity: Identity, Organizing, and Imagining in Comics and Graphic Narratives,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2019-Fall 2019 English Department’s Teaching Achievement Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018 Honorable Mention for The Comics Studies Society’s Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation for “Comics’ Ephemerality as Queer Performance in Chris Ware’s Building Stories,” 2018 Center for Community Action and Service-Learning Impact Award for creation of “Justice in January” Program, Gonzaga University, 2013 Fr. William T. Costello, S.J. Outstanding Senior English Major Award, Gonzaga University, 2013

PRESENTATIONS Refereed Conference Presentations “Materializing Race through Lena’s Maternal Body in Light in August.” Faulkner’s Families: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS, July 21-25, 2019. “Ethics and Empathy in Comics: Teaching Visual Representations of Violence Past and Present.” International Comic Arts Forum, Davenport, IA, April 5, 2019. “Queer Textual Relations in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 5, 2019. “Autographic Witnessing in Wimmen’s Commix.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Denver, CO, November 10, 2018. “Performing the Erotic: Sharon Bridgforth’s Literary Autotheory.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 30, 2018. “Reading in the Flesh: Formal Pleasure and Play in Sharon Bridgforth’s love conjure/blues and the bull-jean stories.” Queer Hemisphere: América Cuir, Santa Barbara, CA, February 8, 2018. “Comics’ Ephemerality as Queer Performance in Chris Ware’s Building Stories.” International Comic Arts Forum, Seattle, WA, November 4, 2017. “Excess Punctuation: Interpretive/Interruptive Resonances in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” UCSB’s Resonance Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, May 12, 2017. “‘I Wonder What the Blues Will Bring’: Queer Futurity in Langston Hughes’ Blues Poetry.” National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 12, 2017. “President Bitch: Gender & the Superhero Narrative.” WonderCon, Anaheim, CA, April 1, 2017 “Blues Women: Raising A Queer Consciousness” (seminar participant). Modernist Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, November 20, 2016. “‘Goldie’s’ Autobiographical Aura: Vulgarity, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Ordinary,” Page23 LitCon, Denver Comic Con, Denver, CO, June 17, 2016. 3

“A Call to Action: Recognizing Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Bitch Planet,” National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Seattle, WA, March 22, 2016. “Queering the Modernist Archive in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, November 14, 2015. “‘It’s About Us’: Celebrating Low Culture and Challenging Canon in Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga,” Page 23 LitCon, Denver Comic Con, Denver, CO, May 24, 2015. “Queering Canon, Collapsing Boundaries, and Constructing Self in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Transformative Horizons Graduate Student Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, May 7, 2015. “‘Ventilation of the Heart’ in Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries: Reintegrating Female Voices and Bodies through Space,” University of Florida’s 2015 Comics and Graphic Novels Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 11, 2015. “Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: Constructing Narrative, Constructing Self,” Southwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 11, 2015.

Panels Organized “Affinities and Affiliations, Familial and Otherwise.” Faulkner’s Families: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS, July 21-25, 2019. “Modes of Representation and the Political Potential of Comic Books.” Page 23 LitCon Denver Comic Con, Denver, CO, June 17, 2016. “Bodies from the Swamp: Rereading Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing,” Page 23 LitCon Denver Comic Con, Denver, CO, May 25, 2015.

Invited Lectures “Women and Comics: A UCSB Reads Event.” University of California, Santa Barbara, February 4, 2019. “What Are Comics Doing in the University?” University of Colorado, Boulder, October 17, 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California, Santa Barbara Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Mellon Engaging the Humanities Initiative, University of California, Snata Barbara (PI: Dr. Linda Adler-Kassner), Spring 2020 Lead Teaching Assistant, “Pan-Latinx Literatures,” (Faculty: Dr. Ben Olguín, 36 students), Fall 2019 Lecturer, “Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature: Visualizing Citizenship,” Summer 2019 Facilitator, Summer Teaching Institute for Associates (STIA), Spring 2019-Summer 2019 Co-Lead Teaching Assistant for the English Department, (Co-facilitate Departmental and University-wide TA Trainings), Fall 2018-Spring 2020 Graduate Teaching Fellow, The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s “Foundation in Humanities” Prison Pedagogy Program, (Director: Dr. Susan Derwin), Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Lecturer, “Drawing Diversity in Comics & Graphic Narrative,” (23 students), Winter 2019 Lecturer, “Introduction to Literary Study: Ghosts and Geographies,” (18 students), Summer 2018 4

Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature,” (Faculty: Dr. Felice Blake, 50 students), Spring 2018 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Literary Study,” (Faculty: Dr. Jeremy Douglass, 53 students), Winter 2018 Teaching Assistant, “Southern Literature: Language & Culture,” (Faculty: Dr. Candace Waid, 28 students), Fall 2017

University of Colorado, Boulder Lecturer, “Expository Writing,” Pre-Collegiate Development Program for First Generation Students, (24 students), Summer 2015 & 2016 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Feminist Studies,” (Faculty: Dr. Celeste Montoya & Dr. Janet Jacobs, 95 students), Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to LGBT Studies,” (Faculty: Dr. Emmanuel David, 40 students), Spring 2015 Teaching Assistant, “Women of Color and Activism,” (Faculty: Dr. Emmanuel David, 35 students), Spring 2015 Teaching Assistant, “Modern and Contemporary Literature,” (Faculty: Dr. Paul Levitt, 30 students), Fall 2014

Writing Center Tutor, Santa Barbara City College, Fall 2016-present Tutor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fall 2014-Spring 2016 Tutor, Gonzaga University, Summer 2012-Spring 2013

Pedagogical Training Summer Teaching Institute for Associates (STIA), University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2018 Teaching Theory and Practice Course, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2018 Queering the Classroom: LGBTQ Teacher Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Spring 2015 English Department’s Pedagogy and Education Resource Center Teacher Training, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fall 2014

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Seminar Participant, Project Narrative Summer Institute on Serialized Narrative, The Ohio State University (Lead by Dr. Jared Gardner and Dr. Sean O’Sullivan), Summer 2019 Research Assistant, The Catalyst Undergraduate Literary Magazine, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Brian Donnelly), Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Mellon Graduate Fellow, Mellon Engaging the Humanities Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara (PI: Dr. Linda Adler-Kassner), Spring 2019-Fall 2019 Research Assistant, American Cultures in a Global Context Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Candace Waid), Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Graduate Research Fellow, “Reading Acts of Revision in Faulkner: New Approaches to Critical Race Literary Studies” Arnhold Collaborative Research Project, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Candace Waid), Summer 2018-Spring 2019 5

Graduate Research Fellow, “Kickstarting the Sixties at UCSB: The Huxley and Isherwood Lectures” Arnhold Collaborative Research Project, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Glyn Salton-Cox), Fall 2018-Winter 201 Research Assistant, The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Stephanie Batiste), Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Research Assistant, Early Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Patricia Fumerton), Spring 2017-present Research Assistant, Comics Encoding Project, University of California, Santa Barbara (Director: Dr. Jeremy Douglass), Summer 2017 Graduate Assistant, Campus Advocacy, Resources, and Education (CARE) Office in the Women, Gender and Sexual Equity Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (Supervisor: Lauren Gunther), Fall 2016-Summer 2017 Research Assistant, Race and Popular Culture (RAP) Lab in collaboration with the Gang Awareness Program (GAP) and the Three Keys Program at Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, University of Colorado, Boulder (Director: Dr. Adam Bradley), Summer 2015

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Mentor, Engaging Humanities Undergraduate Student Cohort, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2019 Mentor, Graduate Scholars Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2019 Committee Member, English Department Undergraduate Committee, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Co-director, Comics & Graphic Novels Interdisciplinary Reading Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2018-present Conference Organizer, Envisioning LGBTQIA+ Wellbeing: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 16, 2017 Researcher, The Prison Project in partnership with University of California, Santa Barbara, and the ACLU (Organizer: Dr. Felice Blake), Summer 2017 Co-Chair, Council of Graduate Students, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2017- Spring 2018 Cohort Representative, Council of Graduate Students, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2016-present M.A. Representative, English Graduate Student Council, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Co-director, “The Gutter” (Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Comics Reading and Research Group), University of Colorado, Boulder, Spring 2015-Summer 2016 Conference Organizer, Transformative Horizons Graduate Student Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 7, 2015

REFERENCES Dr. Stephanie Batiste, chair Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected]

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Dr. Swati Rana, committee member Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected]

Dr. Jennifer Tyburczy, committee member Associate Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbar [email protected]

Dr. Candace Waid, committee member Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected]