Elizabeth Rich's Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Honors

Full tuition scholarship, Duquesne University, 1992-1999.

Recipient of the Rob O'Brien Memorial Award for Teaching Fellows, Duquesne University 1996.

Publications

“’Remember Wounded Knee’: AIM’s Use of Metonymy in 21st Century Protest.” College Literature 31.2 (July 2004)

"The Function of Metaphor and Metonymy in Elizabeth Bishop’s The Complete Poems." Q/W/E/R/T/Y, subtitled "Arts, Litteratures & Civilisations des Pays Anglophones," a French journal of English and American studies published by the University of Pau, fall 2002.

"'I'm really tooth decay': The Paradox of Avant Garde Resistance in the Case of Negativland's DisPepsi." Bad Subjects, summer, 2001. (on-line journal)

"Disciplined Identities: Western Author(ity) in Crisis in Penelope Lively's Cleopatra's Sister." Post Identity, summer, 1998.

Under Review

“A Brief History of Time: Poetry and the Press in Robert Coover’s The Public Burning.” Critique.

"'In my opinion she's guilty as sin': The Construction of the Murderess in Margaret Atwood'sAlias Grace." For a collection of essays on Atwood's Alias Grace, edited by Deborah Rosenthal.

On Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: The Legend of Annie Mae by Antoinette Nora Claypoole (AnamPress West, 1999) in Writers NW, spring 2000 14:1.

“Metaphorical and Metonymical Perspectives in Elizabeth Bishop’s The Complete Poems.” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville; Louisville, KY, February 2003.

"'Remember Wounded Knee': The American Indian Movement and Twenty-first Century Protest." MLA Annual Convention. New Orleans, December 2001.

"Unwriting the Past: Capturing the Colonial Text and Breaking the Treaty in the Poetry of Susan Howe and Hannah Weiner." Modern Studies Association Conference. Rice University, Houston, TX, October, 2001.

" Historian or Hysteric?: Revising the History of the Canadian Frontier in Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie." MLA Annual Convention. Washington, DC, December 2000.

"History as Current Event: Atwood and Coover Critique the Press." MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, December 1999.

"'Thisland Isours': Searching the Black Hills for Lost Histories in Hannah Weiner's Spoke." Barnard College Poetry Conference; Where the Lyric Tradition Meets L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry: Innovation in Contemporary Poetry by Women. New York, New York, April 8-10, 1999.

"'In my opinion, she's guilty as sin': The Construction of the Murderess in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace." NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1999.

"'Disremembered and unaccounted for': Social History, Historiographic Metafiction and Toni Morrison's Beloved." (Re)Covering the Past, the Ninth Annual Romance Languages and Literatures Conference . SUNY Binghamton, April 17-18, 1998.

"Analytical Paragraphs: A Methodology for Writing About Complex Ideas." Workshop conducted at the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English Language Arts Conference. Penn State University, October 24, 1997.

"'It was not a story to pass on': (dis)Remembering History in Toni Morrison's Beloved." The Mid- Atlantic American Culture Association and Popular Association Regional Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 2, 1996.

"The Feminization of the Urban in John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer." The Cortland Language and Literature Conference. SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY, October 21, 1996.

"Author(ity) and the Construction of History in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 24, 1996.

"'There Are Traces of Blood in the Fairy Tale': Text as Agent in Susan Howe's 'Articulations of Sound Forms in Time.'" The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 25, 1995.

"Structures of Identity in Jean Toomer's Cane." Whose World Is It?: Gender Politics in Twentieth- Century Mulitcultural Texts. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA November 13, 1993.

"American Literature in the 21st Century: Traditions and New Directions" for the permanent section, American Literature II: Literature After 1870. Mid-west Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH, November 1-3, 2001.

"Problems with Eurocentricism: Repositioning Chicano Literature." Borders and Frontiers: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 23, 1996.

"Art and Industrialism: The Tension of Cather's Pittsburgh." Cather's Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's Cather: A Centennial Observance, 1896-1996. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 7, 1996.

"Strategizing the Subject: (Re)Visionary Histories as Praxis." The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 25, 1995.

"Retrieving, Transforming Sexual Place and Legality." What's the Diffrence?: Communities and Communication in Transition, An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2, 1995.

"Censorship and the Rule of Law." NTCE Conference, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, November 19, 1993.

"Semiotic, Psychology and Cinema." Whose World Is It?: Gender Politics in Twentieth-Century Mulitcultural Texts. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 13, 1993.

Global (Inter)Sections: Gender, Race and Class in (Multi)Cultural Texts. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 12, 1994. Coordinated with Lynda Szabo and Elizabeth Savage from Duquesne University.

20th Century American Poetry	Elements of Writing (Comp. I)	Digital Storytelling
20th Century Novel	Introduction to Literary Studies	Introduction to Gender Studies
American Literature Survey II	Modern British Literature
American Multicultural Literature	Native American Literature
Contemporary American Fiction	Theory and Practice of English (capstone)
Contemporary American Fiction	Writing about My Generation
Development of the English Novel	Writing in the Professions

World Mythology, winter 2000
Strategies in Writing, fall 1999, winter 2000
Writing in the Disciplines- Education, fall 1999

Duquesne University. 1992-1998

American Literature Survey II, spring semester, 1998
Advanced Writing, fall semester, 1997
Computer / Writing Lab assistant, spring semester, 1997
Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum, 1992-1996
Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum, developmental, fall semester, 1993
Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing, 1992-fall 1997

Service to Saginaw Valley State University

Chair Gender Studies Program 2003-2004
Served on the University Self-Study for General Education, spring 2002-2003
Serve on the TLTR Distance Learning Action Team, fall 2002-
Serve on the SVSU Technology Advisory Committee, spring 2002-
Serve as Faculty Association Secretary, 2001-
Serve on the FA grievance committee, fall 2002-
Serve on the Gross Award Committee Member, spring 2001-
Chaired Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest committee, winter 2003
Served on the FA External Task Force, winter 2003
Served on the Barstow Committee Member, 2001-fall 2003
Served on two evaluation teams (Copp and Sunderman), fall 2002
Presented at the Blackboard Symposium, winter 2001
Published an article in the Faculty Association Newsletter The Connect, fall 2002
Published an article in the Blackboard Newsletter, fall 2002
Chaired a session of the Technology Conference at SVSU, spring 2002
Participated in the SVSU Taskforce on Diversity study, winter 2002
Judged and contributed questions for the Tuscola Academic Games, winter 2002

Service to Saginaw Valley State University's English Department

Created and maintained the English Department web site, 2001-
Served on the English Department’s Publicity Committee, Dr. Patricia Cavanaugh, Chair, 2001-fall 2003
Served on the Literature Course Rotation Committee, 2002
Served on the English Department’s Committee to Revise English 111, Dr. Mary Harmon, Chair, 2001-fall 2002
Presented at the English 111 seminars, summer 2001, 2002
Served on the Committee To Create Internships in English (Professional and Technical Writing), Dr.
Kay Harley, Chair, 2001
Created two new classes for the revised General Education Program: American Multicultural Literature
(fall 2001), syllabus is attached, and American Indian Literature and History (winter 2002)
Contributed to SVSU’s Literacy Link, 5.1 (November 2000): 6
Organized the English Club (fall 2000-). The English Club is recognized as a student organization by
Campus Life
Attended departmental forums on the new Applied Writing major and English 111, (fall 2000 and
winter 2001, respectively)

Panelist at Duquesne's Teaching Assistant Orientation, August 23-24, 1994, and August 19-20, 1997.
Participant in Duquesne University's Writing Assessment Project, March 20, 1997.
Participant in Duquesne University's Outcomes Assessment Research Program, November 30, 1995.

Service to Duquesne University's English Department

Member of the Speaker's Committee, Dr. Magali Michael and Dr. Wallace Watson, 1994-1995, including:
Fall 1994: Dr. Amy Ling, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lecture Titles: "The Dialogic Imagination of Maxine Hong Kingston," Friday November 11 and "Butterfly's Origins," Saturday November 12
Spring 1994: Dr. E. Ann Kaplan, Professor of English and Comparative Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute, State University of New York at Stonybrook. Lecture Title: "The Case of Baby M"
Fall 1993: Dr. Susan Stanford Friedman, Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lecture Title: "Beyond White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse"

Service to English Graduate Program

Teaching Committee member, 1994-1997, and co-chair spring 1995-fall 1997.
Ph. D. Liaison to the Graduate Studies Committee, 1996-1998.
Treasurer for the English Graduate Organization, 1993-1994.

Professional Development

Attended copyright seminar, winter 2002, Curtiss.
Participated in the Blackboard forum, led by Marcia Shannon and Dan Tyger, summer 2003.
Participated in the Summer Faculty Institute 2000, hosted by Diane Boehm.
Attended a variety of teaching-writing workshops at Grand Valley SU, 1999-2000.
Participated in Duquesne University's "Classrooms Without Walls" workshop in which I learned how to use e-mail, newsgroups, FirstClass, Adobe PageMill, and basic html programming, Spring 1997.
Attended a seminar on teaching in the college classroom, held by Lynda Barner-West, in which we shared teaching methodologies and critiqued one another after presenting micro-lessons.