RESHMI J. HEBBAR

Assistant Professor of English Oglethorpe University [email protected]

EDUCATION

Emory University, Ph.D. in English August 1997- May 2002

 Dissertation: “Disorderly Thinking, Model Conduct: Ethnic Heroine Construction in Twentieth- Century African and Asian American Women’s Fiction”

University of Florida, B.A. in English Summa Cum Laude August 1994- May 1997

FIELDS OF TEACHING/ RESEARCH

Multicultural Lit (African American & Asian American), Postcolonial Literature, Women’s Literature, Nineteenth-Century Novel

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS

Hebbar, Reshmi. Modeling Minority Women: Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction. 2005. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.

Hebbar, Reshmi J. "The Genre of Slave Narratives." Colonial Era to the 19th Century in American Literature, edited by Laura A. Leibman, Gale, 2016. Gale Researcher, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GLRS&sw=w&u=omni&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CJRVKNZ246359782& I t=r&asid=1483074000000~925729662d33d2fd584d0d79332f6841 . Accessed 30 Nov. 2016.

SELECTED SEMINARS, FELLOWSHIPS, ASSISTANTSHIPS, & HONORS

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, June 2015

“Forty Under Forty Professors Who Inspire” Spring 2015 --Selected to NerdWallet’s annual list featuring faculty around country

Marion L. Brittain Fellow: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-2007 --Post-doctoral fellowship in teaching writing and integrating technology

SELECTED TEACHING

Assistant Professor of English &Comparative Literature, Oglethorpe University, Fall 2013 + Lecturer, Department of English/African Diaspora & the World, Spelman College, Spring 2004

Part-Time Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Agnes Scott College, Spring 2003

Graduate Student Instructor, Department of English, Emory University, 1999-2001

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Maid in African America: The Aesthetics of Justice and Domestic Service in Jacobs, Morrison, and Adichie,” at ALA (African Literature Association Conference,” April 8-9, 2016

“Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Perfectly Teachable Narrative in an Imperfect Canon,” at ACTC (Association for Core Texts & Courses) Conference, April 14-17, 2016

“Diversifying the Teaching of Nineteenth-Century Literature,” at INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth- Century Studies) Conference, Atlanta, GA April 16-19, 2015

“Temporary Aliens: Governesses, Trainees, & Trafficked Workers in Transnational American Narratives,” at SAMLA 85 (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013.

SELECTED LECTURES, TALKS & SERVICE

Creator and Coordinator for “Enslavement & the Core: An Interdisciplinary Student Debate,” Oglethorpe University (sponsored by Center for Civic Engagement & the Core Committee), with undergraduates, January 28, 2016

Leader for CORE School for faculty (“Rethinking Core Texts”) at Oglethorpe, May 2014

Moderator for annual undergraduate research symposium (Liberal Arts & Sciences Symposium) on panel entitled “Diversity & Literature at OU,” April 2014

SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS

MLA (Modern Language Association) SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States ALA (African Literature Association) INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies)