Meryl Altman DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana 46135 [email protected]

Academic Employment.

DePauw University. Professor of English and Women’s Studies, 2006-present Associate Professor of English, 1997- 2006; Assistant Professor of English, 1990-97. Director of Women’s Studies 1990-2006 and 2009-2010. Faculty Development Coordinator, 2006-2009.

College of William and Mary. Assistant Professor of English, 1986-90.

International Gender Studies Center, Oxford, Visiting Fellow, Hilary Term 2005. American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Visiting Senior Associate Member, Spring 2010.

Education.

Columbia University. PhD 1988. Department of English and Comparative Literature. Dissertation: Interlocutions: Men, Women, and Modernisms in American Poetry. Read works of Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore from a feminist perspective, looking at how literary history and writers themselves construct gendered fictions of influence and how these fictions affect poetic practice. M. Phil, 1982. M.A., 1980.

Swarthmore College. B.A 1979. Major: English. Minor: French. High Honors.

American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Summer Session, 2009.

Articles.

“Policy Gaps and Theory Gaps: Migrant Women and Domestic Labor,” with Kerry Pannell. Feminist Economics. Accepted for publication.

“Necessity but [unintelligible].” Introduction to a previously unpublished manuscript fragment by Simone de Beauvoir. The Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmerman, Illinois University Press, forthcoming November 2011.

"The Unspeakable Vice of the Americans" (with Andrew Lear), Iris, September 2010. (Account of controversy over Sandra Boehringer's L’homosexualité dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine.) http://www.lambdacc.org/iris/20108.pdf

“Posthumous Queer: Hemingway Among Others. ” Hemingway Review, Fall 2010. 30(1), 129-141.

"Post-War Williams and Pre-war Aragon: a Note," William Carlos Williams Review, 29:2, 2009, forthcoming.

“Civics Without Cynics: A Campus-Wide, Ethics-based Approach to Social Justice Pedagogy” (with Neal Abraham, Terri Bonebright, and Jeannette Johnson-Licon). Social Justice Education: Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions, edited by Roman Graf, Catharine Wright, and Kathleen Skubikowski. Stylus Publishing, 2009.

“Minding the Gap: Feminist perspectives on policies affecting immigrant labor in the domestic services industry in Europe.” (with Kerry Pannell). Cahiers de l’URMIS (Unité de recherche migrations et société), N°12, June 2009, “Circulation migratoire et insertions économiques précaires en Europe.” http://urmis.revues.org/index810.html .

“Beauvoir, Hegel, War.” Hypatia 22.3, Summer 2007.

“Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience,” Feminist Studies 33.1, Spring 2007. Also reprinted in French Feminists: Critical Re-evaluations in Cultural Theory, edited by J. Hansen and Anne Cahill, Routledge, 2007. French translation, Genre, sexualité & société numéro 2, Automne 2009, http://gss.revues.org/index1007.html

“Mentors and Tormentors.” NWSA Journal 19.3, Fall 2007.

“Sappho’s Lost Sessions,” translation and discussion of newly discovered poem. Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2006.

“Across the Language Barrier: ‘Gender’ in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory” (with Dana Dudle). Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird (eds.) Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

“Transforming Institutional Culture: Programs Plus Policies” (with Neal Abraham). Gender Equality in Higher Education. Miscellanea. Third European Conference. Genova, 13-16 Aprile 2003. ed. Valeria Maione. Edizione Franco Angeli. 2005.

“Simone de Beauvoir and the Sexual Revolution.” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers-IAPH, Barcelona, 2004.

2 “Beyond Trashiness: The Sexual Language of 70s Feminist Fiction.” Journal of International Women’s Studies (special issue on Third Wave Feminism), April 2003. http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/April03/index.htm

“La Femme Frigide dans le Deuxième Sexe,” Le Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe, ed. Sylvie Chaperon, Paris, Syllepse, 2002.

“A Navel of One’s Own: Some Doubts About the Women’s Memoir Boom,” Trouble and Strife #37, Summer 1998.

“Before We Said ‘We’ (and after): Bad Sex and Personal Politics in Doris Lessing and Simone de Beauvoir,” Critical Quarterly Vol. 38 No. 3, Autumn 1996.

“Mosquitoes, The Bug That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sex, Art, Faulkner’s Worst Novel, and the Critics,” The Faulkner Journal, 1995. Awarded in 2003 the Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize. http://www.english.ucf.edu/faulkner/index.php?URL=hinkle

“A Book of Repulsive Jews? Rereading Nightwood,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 13 no. 3, Fall 1993 (special issue on Djuna Barnes).

“The Clean and the Unclean: William Carlos Williams, Europe, Sex, and Ambivalence,” The William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 18, No. 1: Spring 1992.

“Song of the Skirt,” Women’s Review of Books, February 1991. Part of a special section on the state of Women’s Studies and feminism in the academy.

“‘No Audience at All’? Djuna Barnes’s Antiphon,” Silence and Power: Critical Essays on Djuna Barnes, ed. Mary Lynn Broe, Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

“How Not To Do Things With Metaphors We Live By,” College English Vol. 52, No. 5, September 1990.

“Everything They Always Wanted You To Know: The Ideology of Popular Sex Literature,” Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance, Routledge and Kegan Paul, October, 1984.

“Kennis van het Grieks: H.D. en de literatuur-geschiedenis” (translated by May van Sligter). Lust en Gratie 5, Amsterdam, Summer 1985.

Presentations.

“Beauvoir and Surrealism: Revisiting Race.” International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, Eugene, Oregon June 15-18th, 2011.

3 “Gender Approaches to Archaeology,” Theoretical Seminar. Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies, Athens, Greece, April 13, 2011.

“Policy Gaps and Theory Gaps: Migrant Women and Domestic Labor,” Feminist Economics Workshop: Special Issue on Gender and International Migration. Bilbao, Spain March 11-12, 2011.

With Kerry Pannell. “Domestic Labor, Global Migration, and Feminist Theory: Ethical and Methodological Challenges,” International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Buenos Aires, July 2010.

"What is a Woman’s Oikos? Herodotus and Kinship," Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), Oklahoma City, March 26, 2010.

"Modernist Languages and the Classical Tradition," Seminar leader. Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, November 5-8, 2009.

“Confluences: Beauvoir and Fanon.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, Brunel University, London, June 2009.

“Posthumous Queer: Hemingway Among Others.” “Teaching Ernest Hemingway's the Garden of Eden,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 23, 2009.

“Parthenoi to Watch Out For: A Red-figure Kylix from the Metropolitan Museum.” Conference of Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), April 2009.

With Kerry Pannell. “Minding the Policy Gap: Feminist Perspectives on Domestic Labor Migration in Europe.” Winter Workshop on Economics and Philosophy, “Ethics, Justice and Gender,” Urrutia Elejalde Foundation, Madrid, 12 September 2008.

“Beauvoir and Blackness.” Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference, “The Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir,” University of Northumbria, Newcastle, England, June 13-15 2008.

“Beauvoir and Blackness.” American Philosophical Association Central Division Group Session, April 16, 2008.

“Simone de Beauvoir, Bad Sex, and Interdisciplinary Feminism.” Communicating Feminisms, the 2007 meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, University of Alberta, October 14, 2007.

With Kerry Pannell. “Closing the Gap: Feminist perspectives on policies affecting immigrant labor in the domestic services industry in Europe.” URMIS conference, “New migration dynamics,” University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 6-8 December, 2007.

4 “Post-War Williams and Pre-War Aragon,” Modernist Studies Association, October 1-4, 2007, Long Beach, California.

“Beauvoir and Blackness.” Midwest Society of Women Philosophers, East Lansing, Michigan, April 8, 2007.

“Posthumous Queer: Hemingway Among Others.” Seminar session on Posthumous Publication, Modernist Studies Association 8, Tulsa, November 2006.

“Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience.” XII IAPh Symposium (International Association of Women Philosophers), Rome, September 2, 2006.

“Beauvoir and Blackness.” Second International BEST Conference, “Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective,” Berlin, 27-30 July 2006.

“Classics and Classicists in Virginia Woolf’s the Voyage Out.” 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference, “Ancient and Modern Narrative: Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices.” March 9-11 2006, California State University Long Beach.

“English/ Not English/Not English Only.” Seminar leader, Modernist Studies Association 7, Chicago, November 5 2005.

“Walter Benjamin and Queer Modernity.” Disciplining Modernism seminar session, Modernist Studies Association 7, Chicago, November 4 2005.

“Beauvoir, Hegel, War.” Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2005, “The Politics of Being,” University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 15-17 June 2005.

“Gender and Translation,” International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford, May 5, 2005.

“Some Reflections on Feminism and Translation,” Universitat de Vic, Catalunya, April 14, 2005. Invited lecture.

“Acquaintance Rape on Campus: Policies and Pedagogies,” International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Feb. 3, 2005 (part of series on “Domestic Abuse: Culture of Violence, Violations and Women’s Rights”).

“Mentors and Tormentors: Scholarly Generations and Feminist Waves,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, December 2004, as part of a panel on "Perception, Power, and Promotion: Seeing Women's Authority in the Academy," sponsored by the MLA's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.

5 “Whatever Happened to Feminist Criticism?” Seminar Leader. Sixth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, “Other Modernisms/ Modernism’s Others,” October 21-24 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Panelist, "Why Do My Students Find Feminist Theory Dull?" NWSA Conference, Oakland, California, June 15-18 2004.

“Mentors and Tormentors: Scholarly Generations and Feminist Waves,” GLCA Women’s Studies Conference, “Acting Up, Acting Out: Living Critically Within the Academy,” Kenyon College. April 16-17, 2004.

With Neal Abraham. “Building Equity: Gender Conscious Programs and Policies.” Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, January 21-24, 2004.

“Feminists Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel.” Hegelian Politics of Gender: Spirit, Nature, Law. 12-13 December, 2003, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

With Neal Abraham. “Transforming Institutional Culture: Programs Plus Policies.” 3rd European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, University of Genova, Italy, 13-16 April 2003. (with Neal Abraham).

With Marnie McInnes. “Marianne Moore and Science Studies.” Marianne Moore Conference: “A Right Good Salvo of Barks.” Pennsylvania State University, March 28- 30 2003.

“Muriel Rukeyser: Sex as Knowledge.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Madison Wisconsin, November 2002 (paper circulated in advance).

With Dana Dudle. “Across the Language Barrier: ‘Gender’ in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory.” Conference on Women in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, Iowa State University, October 17 - 20, 2002.

“Simone de Beauvoir and the Sexual Revolution.” 10th Annual Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers-IAPH, Barcelona, October 2-5, 2002.

“Beyond Trashiness: The Sexual Language of 70s Feminist Fiction.” The Third Wave Feminism International Conference, University of Exeter, UK, 23-25 July 2002.

“Coalition-Building and Program Development.” National Women’s Studies Association Program Administrator Pre-conference Meeting, June, 2002.

“Starting a First-Year Seminar Program.” Panel on Faculty Leadership for Curricular Change and Institutional Renewal. AAC&U National Conference, “Changing Students in a Changing World,” Washington DC, January 23-36, 2002.

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“From the Occupied Zone: Sartre, Genet, Beauvoir.” Seminar paper circulated in advance for session on “Collaboration and Collaborationism,” moderated by Holly Laird. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Rice University, October 2001.

“Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience.” Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, February 19, 2001. (paper circulated in advance)

“Science for Women Meets Women’s Studies: Paradigms and Paradoxes” Great Lakes College Association Women’s Studies Conference, Denison University, April 6- 7, 2000.

“Uses and Abuses of the Personal in Teaching: Talking About My Generation, or, Recollection, Repetition, and Working Through.” Delivered February 27, 1999, as part of a panel called “The Pedagogy of Fame,” at the 13th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, The University of Tulsa. The conference theme was American Cultural Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.

“Unhappy Bodies: The Frigid Woman in the Second Sex.” Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe: Colloque International, CNRS, Paris, January 1999.

“Simone de Beauvoir, Bad Sex, and Bad Sexology.” American Philosophical Association, Conference of Philosophical Societies, Central Division, Chicago, May 8, 1998.

“A Book of Repulsive Jews? Rereading Nightwood.” Djuna Barnes Centennial Conference, University of Maryland, October 1992

“How Not To Teach About Rape.” Great Lakes College Association Conference, “Educating For Community,” Denison College, Feb. 21, 1992.

“William Carlos Williams, Europe, Sex and Ambivalence.” MLA conference, Chicago, December 1990.

“King David’s Other Sons: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Big House of Fiction.” Women’s Studies conference of the Great Lakes College Association, “Feminism, Ethnocentrism, and the Production of Knowledge,” Dayton, Ohio, November 2-4, 1990.

“How Not To Do Things With Metaphors We Live By: Recent Trends in Feminist Criticism,” SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1989.

“The Amazon and the Mother: Feminist Politics of Difference,” MLA Conference, San Francisco, 1987.

7 “The Medusa Laughs Last: Some Problems With the Maternal in Feminist Literary Theory.” Mid-Hudson MLA, Poughkeepsie, New York, December 1985.

“Clio Liked Olivia: History and Literary History in the Work of Bryher and H.D.,” Berkshire Women’s History Conference, Smith College, May 1984.

Book Reviews.

"The Grand Rectification." Review of new translation of The Second Sex by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier, Women's Review of Books, September/October 2010. http://www.wcwonline.org/Women-s-Review-of-Books-Sept/Oct-2010/the-grand- rectification

Review of Diane Warren, Djuna Barnes's Consuming Fictions, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Volume 28, No. 1, Spring 2009.

Review of Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, Women’s Review of Books, July/August 2008.

Review of Robert Rehder, Stevens, Williams, Crane and the Motive for Metaphor. William Carlos Williams Review, Spring/Fall 2008, vol. 28, nos. 1-2.

“Why I Read.” Review of Barbara Johnson, Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation. Minnesota Review 65 (Spring 2006). http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns6566/altman_meryl_ns6566_stf1.s html

“Less Cool, More Light.” Review of Cool Men and the Second Sex by Susan Fraiman. Women’s Review of Books, December 2004.

“Waiting for Lady Reason.” Review of The Sex of Knowing by Michèle Le Doeuff. Women’s Review of Books, November 2004. http://www.wellesley.edu/womensreview/archive/2004/11/highlt.html

“Looking for Sappho.” Review of Erica Jong, Sappho’s Leap, Margaret Reynolds, the Sappho History, and Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Women’s Review of Books, January 2004.

“Lives on the Line.” Review of Marge Piercy, Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir, and Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. Women’s Review of Books, April 2002. http://www.wellesley.edu/womensreview/archive/2002/04/highlt.html#altman

“The Age of Anxiety,” review of Mother Millett by Kate Millett. Women’s Review of Books, September 2001.

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Review of Ruth Vanita, Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 23, no. 2, 2001

“Sexual Politics,” review of My Dangerous Desires by Amber Hollibaugh. Women’s Review of Books, January 2001.

“Reality Check,” review of What is a Woman and other essays by Toril Moi. Women’s Review of Books, October 2000.

“American Literature: 20th Century,” Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, Lesbian Histories and Cultures, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, Garland Press, 2000.

Review of Erin Carlston, Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity. Women’s Review of Books, February 1999.

Review of Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry, edited by Yopie Prins and Maaera Shreiber. Women’s Review of Books, October 1998.

“More Nice Jewish Girls.” Review of Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon and The Escape Artist by Judith Katz. Women’s Review of Books, January 1998.

Review of Carolyn Allen, Following Djuna. Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 1997.

“Chic at a Price.” Review of six popular books about lesbian culture. Women’s Review of Books, March 1997.

“Taking Thinking Seriously.” Review of three books on Simone de Beauvoir. Women’s Review of Books, January 1996.

Review of Sally Munt, ed., New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings, and Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope, eds., Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Women’s Review of Books, January 1994.

“A Prisoner of Biography.” Review of four recent books on the poet H. D. Women’s Review of Books, July 1992.

Review essay on Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: From the Greeks to Freud. In collaboration with Keith Nightenhelser. PostModern Culture II.3, May 1992. http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.592/review-6.592

“The Rage for Disorder.” Review of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Women’s Review of Books, July 1991.

9 “Uneasy Understandings.” Review of poetry by Robin Morgan, Irena Klepfisz, Judith Barrington, and Robin Becker. Women’s Review of Books, October 1990.

Review of Jane Gallop, Reading Lacan. Critical Text, Spring/Summer 1986.

Review of Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. Radical Teacher #29, September 1985.

Work in Progress.

Beauvoir in Time: Sexuality, Race, and Transatlantic Feminism. Book manuscript, in preparation. Under consideration by Indiana University Press.

Proposal to translate Sandra Boehringer’s L’homosexualité dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine. Revising for submission to Ohio University Press. With Andrew Lear.

Teaching, Service, and Awards.

Courses Taught at DePauw include Introduction to Women’s Studies; Feminist Theory; Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome; Introduction to Poetry; Modern Poetry; Modernism and Sexuality (senior seminar); Queer Theory; Modern American Literature; Modern British Literature; Literature and Philosophy/ Men, Women and Moral Choices; American Renaissance; Women and Work (first-year seminar); College Writing; independent studies on American women’s ethnic and regional writing. Black women’s novels, Third World women’s literature, Southern women’s writing, and women’s studies research methods.

Committee service has included the Committee on Faculty (University-wide promotion and tenure committee); the First-Year Seminar Committee (chair during inaugural phase of the program); the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning (chair); the Committee on Administration (advises the President on priorities and planning); the Resource Allocation Subcommittee; the Public Occasions Committee; search committees for the Dean of the Music School and Dean of Students; Conflict Studies Committee; Jewish Studies Advisory Committee; Phi Beta Kappa Canvassing Committee; faculty advisor to PanHellenic Council; Ad Hoc Assessment Committee on General Education (Chair); Ad Hoc Task Forces on Interdisciplinary Studies and on Secretarial Support services; and numerous search committees and English department committees, including personnel, library, and curriculum. From 2005- 2006 I served as the “catalyst” for the Mellon Grant for Faculty Career Enhancement, a two-year position with release time, and from 2006-2009 I served as faculty development coordinator, a half-time administrative appointment with responsibilities including orienting new faculty members, planning workshops and lectures, and mentoring both internal and external grants.

10 Awards at DePauw have included a University Professorship (2007-2011), Distinguished Professorship (2001-2003), and numerous internal grants for both scholarship and course development.

Selected Related Experience.

“Feminist Ethics and Women's Studies Renewal.” Organized four-day faculty workshop, supported by funding from the Mellon 23, June 2010. http://depauw.edu/acad/women/workshop2010

Editorial Board, NWSA Journal (now Feminist Formations), 2003 – 2009.

Manuscript reviewer, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Signs, NWSAJ, Feminist Studies.

Great Lakes College Association Women’s Studies Committee Member, Fall 1990- Spring 2006. (Faculty representative to the GLCA Board of Trustees, 2002-2003).

Grants review panel member, AAUW American Fellowships, 2004, 2005, 2010.

Member, Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, 2000-present.

Academic Coordinator, Women’s Studies Curriculum Development Grant from State Council for Higher Education in Virginia, Fall 1988- Spring 1990. (Started Women’s Studies program at William and Mary.)

Virginia Women’s Studies Association Steering Committee Member, 1988-1990. Advisory Board Member, Columbia College Women’s Center, 1984.

Participant, New York University Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Methodology Seminar, 1983-1986.

Part-time Researcher, Project on Value and Ethics in Health Care, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1981.

Planning Committee Member, “The Scholar and the Feminist Conference IX: Feminist Politics of Sexuality,” Barnard College, 1980-81.

-References upon request-

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