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Curriculum Vitae http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~rcalvink/cv.html

Ritchie L. Calvin

16A Erland Rd. Women's Studies Department Stony Brook, NY 11790-1114 115 Old Chem [email protected] Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456 (631) 246-6449 (631) 632-7607

EDUCATION Ph.D., 2000 SUNY at Stony Brook Dissertation: "A Feminism of Their Own: Escritoras mexicanas, Chicana Writers and Autochthonous Feminisms" Director: Professor Román de la Campa M. A., 1993 Bowling Green State University M. A. Thesis: "The Appropriation of Text in the Creation of Discursive Space: A Modernist, Postmodernist, and Feminist Approach" Director: Professor Ellen E. Berry B. A., 1992 Bowling Green State University Major: English Literature; Minor: Literatures in Translation Senior Thesis: "The Divine Corpus of Philip K. Dick" Director: Professor Thomas Wymer ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS 2005 Student Choice Award: Most Influential Professor 2001 Women's Studies Teaching Award 2000 Vivien Hartog Endowment Award in Women's Studies Women's Studies Teaching Award 1999 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipient University Learning Communities Fellow 1998 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Nominee 1993 University Master Teacher Award Nominee 1992 Graduated summa cum laude University Achievement Scholarship Gloria Swihart English Award Inducted Phi Beta Kappa 1991 Ruth and Milton Klein English Scholarship University Book Award ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2000 — Instructor of Women's Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook 2002 — Adjunct Associate Professor, Suffolk County Community College 1998 - 2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Suffolk County Community College 1997 (Summer) Research Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook 1996 - 2000 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook 1993 - 1998 Adjunct Instructor, Suffolk County Community College 1993 - 1996 Adjunct Instructor, Nassau Community College 1993 (Summer) Research Assistant, Bowling Green State University 1992-93 Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University

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WORKS IN PROGRESS "Colonization and Indentured Servitude: C. J. Cherryh and the Azi on the High Frontier" "Going Nova: Samuel R. Delany, Postmodernism, and " "Where you lead": Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity

WORKS UNDER REVIEW "Isabella Ríos and Victuum: Speculating a Chicana Identity" "Tanith Lee, the (Post)Modern Body, and the Conservation of Form" "Sex and the District Attorney on NBC's Law & Order" On Feminine Culture (translation of Rosario Castellanos' Sobre cultura femenina) "The Female Man: Gender and the Sex(ed) Pre-text" PUBLICATIONS Articles: "Ana Castillo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. Forthcoming. "Ana Castillo: The Mixquihuala Letters." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. Forthcoming. "Ana Castillo: Massacre of the Dreamers." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. Forthcoming. "Ana Castillo: Sapogonia." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. Forthcoming. "Latina/o Literature." A comprehensive bibliography of Latina and Latino literature. http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~rcalvink/latinaolit.html. "Science Fiction and ." Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism. Ed. Leslie Heywood. Forthcoming. "Women's Studies vs. Gender Studies." Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism. Ed. Leslie Heywood. Forthcoming. "Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo's Chicana Feminist Aesthetics." (Un)Making Race, Re-Making Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom. Ed. Angela Cotten and Christa Acampora. SUNY Press. Forthcoming. "The Real eXistenZ TransCendz the Irreal." Extrapolation 45.3 (Fall 2004): 262-79. "Reading the Modern Myth." SFRA Review 240 (June 1999): 4-7. "'Yo quiero literatura latina': The Border Runs Here." Faculty Exchange 6.1 (Fall 1998): 4-7. "Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts." Feminism in a Multi-Cultural Context. Ed. Antonio Sobejano-Moran. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1997.

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"Gilles Deleuze: A Con-Text." Enculturation 1.2 (1997) Reviews: "Review of Jason X." Pat Cadigan. Forthcoming. "Review of Metallic Love." Tanith Lee. Forthcoming. "Review of Destroyer." C. J. Cherryh. Forthcoming. "Review of Crucible." Nancy Kress. The New York Review of 196 (December 2004): 11. "Review of Steel Helix." Ann Tonsor Zeddies. SFRA Review 269 (Jul/Aug/Sept 2004): 25-6. "Review of Forge of God." C. J. Cherryh. SFRA Review. Forthcoming. "Review of La ciudad fragmentada." María Mercedes Andrade. INTI. Forthcoming. "Review of Hammerfall." C. J. Cherryh. SFRA Review 254-5 (Sept-Dec 2001): 44-5. "Review of Turning on the Girls." Cheryl Benard. FEMSPEC 3.1 (Fall 2001): 99-101. CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures: Feminist Campus Colloquia / Humanities Institute "Science Fiction, Representation, and Femininity: Modifying the Female Body" April 7, 2005 WST 401/402 "Representations of Reproductive Technologies in Feminist Science Fiction." November 23, 2004 Women's History Week "The Epitome of Femininity: Representations of the Female Body in Science Fiction" Suffolk Community College, March 25, 2004 Conference Presentations: Pacific Modern Language Association Portland, OR, November 2004 "TransCending eXistenZ: David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick on the Real" Central New York Conference on Literature and Language SUNY Cortland, October 29-31, 2004 "Going Nova: Samuel R. Delany and the Foundations of Cyberpunk" Central New York Conference on Literature and Language SUNY Cortland, October 27, 2003 "The Female Man: Gender and the Sex(ed) Pre-text" Gender, Technology, Place Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 30, 1996 "Mapping New Spaces: Fictive Images of Reproductive Technologies" Crisis in Criticism University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 22-23, 1996 "Deleuze’s Text: A Con-Text" The Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association Chicago, IL, November 11-13, 1994

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"In Excess of : Abjection in Science Fiction" (Discussant, Invited) (In collaboration with Dr. Deepika Petraglia-Bahri) 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 28-May 1, 1994 "Crises in Subjectivity: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembenga's Nervous Conditions" "Woman," Text, Image State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 15-16, 1994 "Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts" Beyond the Limits of Realism: Metaliterature, the Fantastic, Simulacra... State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 1993 "The Aleph in Borges' Postmodern Discourse" Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, 12-14. February 1993 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH "C. J. Cherryh and Donna Haraway: The Azi as Cyborgs" "The Girl God Forgot: A Dramatic Adaptation of Djuna Barnes' Nightwood" Eighth Annual Ethnic Studies Conference, 11. November 1991 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. "What is Meant by Political Correctness?" TEACHING INTERESTS: Contemporary U.S. literature and culture Contemporary Women’s literature Chicana/o literature and culture Contemporary Latin American literature Women's Studies, Feminist Theory Literary and Cultural Theory Feminist Science Fiction Science Fiction CURRICULUM TAUGHT: Bowling Green State University: A year-long first-year composition course Nassau Community College: First-year composition course Suffolk County Community College: First-year composition courses (EG 10, EG11) Introduction to Literature (EG 13) Advanced Expository Writing (EG35) Science Fiction (EG 58) Mythology (HM 44) Sexism in the Humanities (HM 46) Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction (HM 48) SUNY at Stony Brook: First-year Composition Philosophy and Literature in Its Social Context (HUM 109) Images of Women in Literature (TA and Stand-alone) (HUM 122)

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Sexuality and Literature (TA) (HUM 123) Classical Mythology (CLS 215) Latino/Latin: Dichotomies in Identity (LRT 301) Women, Culture, Difference (Intro to Women's Studies) (WST 103) Histories of Feminism (WST 301) Feminist Theory in Context (WST 305) Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction (WST 394) 20th-Century U. S. Latina Literature (WST 398) Feminism and Science Fiction (WST 402) Senior Seminar in Women's Studies for Minors (WST 407) Senior Seminar in Women's Studies for Majors (WST 408) Women's Studies in the Humanities (Continuing Education) (CEI 533) Feminist Theory (WST 601) Teaching Practicum in Women's Studies (WST 699) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2005 Search Committee, Director of Wo/Men's Center 2004 — Fulbright National Screening Committee for Graduate Study in Mexico 2003 — Tinker Field Research Committee 2003 — Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Women's Studies 2000 — Exceutive Committee, Women's Studies 2000 — Faculty Advisor for Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Stony Brook Chapter 2001 - 2003 Faculty in Residence, Hand College, SUNY at Stony Brook 2000 - 2003 Associate Editor — FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal 1998 - 2000 Editorial Board — FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal 1997 - 1999 Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Studies Committee OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004 Conference Organizer: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity: Daughters of the Motherland Speak 2001 - 2003 Developed and maintained Web site for FEMSPEC 1999 - 2000 Developed and maintained Web Site for the Learning Communities 1997 - 1999 Established and maintained Web Site for Women's Studies 1996 - 2003 Established and maintained Web Site for the Department of Comparative Studies 1996 - 2001 Co-founded and maintained a listserv for Comp Lit graduate students 1996 - 1999 Established and maintained Web Site for the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature 1993 Organizing committee for Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1997 Guest Lecture for EGL192. "Richard Rodriguez and the Politics of Identity" 1996 Guest Lecture for EGL101. "'Flowers for Algernon': Myth and Science Fiction" Guest Lecture for Dr. Román de la Campa, USB SPN415. "Cristina Peri Rossi and the Politics of the Female Body" 1993 Conducted a seminar for the Basic Education Program faculty at Nassau CommunitCollege on "The Rationale, Implementation, and Practice of Portfolios as a Means of Assessment" TalkBack Book Series - The Big Sky (an annual series of literature lectures and discussions as a part of the County Library adult education program). Guest lecture for Marwan Tantash, BGSU, ETH 100. "Ethnicity and AIDS in America" Guest lecture for Dr. Deepika Karle, BGSU, ENG 264. "Jorge Luis Borges and Magical Realism" 1992 TalkBack Book Series - A Doll House 1991 TalkBack Book Series - Hamlet 1989 "Using MIDI: Computers and Music"

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LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION Dr. Román de la Campa, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook Dr. Robert Harvey, Department of Comparative Studies, Stony Brook Dr. Beverly Haviland, Department of Comparative Studies, Brown University Dr. Ban Wang, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University Dr. Temma Kaplan, Department of History, Rutgers University Dr. Sarah H. Sternglanz, Department of Women's Studies, Stony Brook Last updated: 05.05.05

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