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Mary Catherine Loving Blanchard
Associate Professor
English Department
New Jersey City University
2039 Karnoutsos Hall, 308
Jersey City, NJ 07305
201-200-3120
Education:
Ph.D.
The
African American Literature, American Literature, Literary Theory,
Rhetoric.
MA
The
American Literature, Literary Theory, Creative Writing. BA
The
Teaching Interests:
African American Literature, American Literature, American Women’s Literature, African and Caribbean Women’s Literature, Rhetoric/Composition, Children’s Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Creative Writing, Literary Theory, Translation, Contemporary World Literature, Linguistics
Teaching Experience:
2007 -
Associate Professor of English, New Jersey City University.
2001 – 2006
Assistant Professor of English,
1998 – 2000
Teaching Assistant: The
1998 – 2000
Adjunct Professor:
1997 – 1998
Adjunct Professor:
1992 – 1997
Substitute Teacher:
Workshop Experience:
November 2003.
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Administrative Experience:
Fall 2006 -
Member, University Curriculum Committee; Humanities Division,
Fall 2003 – Fall 2005
Member, Writing Assessment Committee,
Fall 2001 – Summer 2005
Chair, English Composition Committee;
Fellowships and Honors:
Spring 1996 – Summer 2001
The
2000.
Fellow
-
2000
Nominee - Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teacher Award, The
Commissions
1997 . “Quilting”, Poetry in celebration of organization’s twenty-fifth year; Commissioned by The Children’s Choir of Greater Dallas.
1995 (Installation: 2004) “Here”, Poetry for inscription on The Freedman’s Memorial; Commissioned by The Freedman’s Council,
Professional Service:
2006 -
Reader,
African American Review.
2005
Review:
Occasions for Writing, by Bob DiYanni and Pat Hoy MA: Thomson-
2003
Search Committee
-
2003
Reaccreditation Committee,
Grants
Fall 2006.
Separately Budgeted Research.
Fall 2006. International Incentive Grant.
Spring 2006. Separately Budgeted Research.
Fall 2005.
International Incentive Grant.
Fall 2004.
International Incentive Grant.
Invited Presentations:
May
2008.
“Reading Community, Rebellion, and Religious Conversion in Phillis Wheatley’s Letters”.
March 2008. “The Lucky Slave and the American Revolution”. Women’s and Gender Studies.
Texas Woman’s University.
April 2007.
“Reading Phillis Wheatley.”
February 2007.
“No Father There: Mothering in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton”.
November 2005.
Guest Speaker.
Conferences:
March 2007. “The Art of Nicesty: Unmasking Rebellion in Phillis Wheatley’s Letters”
Imagining Transatlantic Slavery.
Chawton House Library,
November 2006.
. “Locating Feminist Mothers in the texts of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century African American Women”
Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
May 2006. “Reading a Feminist Mother in Alice Walker’s Short Fiction”.
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM). Carework in Literary Works and Film.
December 2005. “A Culture of Mexican Women: Reading
Las Chicanas in the poetry of
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1648 (51) – 1695)”.
International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies.
November 2005. “Reading Literacy”. College Colloquium of The National Council of Teachers of English.
Approaches to the Fields of English Studies and English Education.
November 2005.
. “Queering Lucille Clifton”.
Women and the Arts Conference . The
September 2005. “Heroic Images in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton.” 14th Annual Women and Society Conference.
Conference.
Women and the Environment: Globalizing and Mobilizing.
January 2005. “Re/imagining Phillis Wheatley’s Fantastic Journey: A New Reading of ‘On
being brought from AFRICA to
November 2003. “Thinking About Sex: Nineteenth Century Black American Women Writers Construct
Sexuality”
.
Southwest Women Writers’ Association, The
May 2003.
“Education in a Global Perspective.”
The Summer Institute of the
October 2003. “
Redefining
Whiteness: Women of Color as Texts in the Classroom”.
American Studies Association, The
March 2001. “
Harriet Jacobs’s Sentimental Slave Narrative”
.
March 2001.
The Gorgias Society.
“
Sentimental
Fiction and the Slave Narratives of Nineteenth Century Black American Women” The
May 2001. “The New Negro: A Resistant Reader and the
March 2000.
“Reading Phillis Wheatley: A Rhetoric of
Self-Authorization.”
Literature and Culture:
Blacks in the Diaspora Student Conference.
The
Publications:
Books
Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works. CT:
Manuscripts in progress
Woman’s Writing: African American Women write Slavery and Feminism. (A literary history project that reveals the African American woman writer’s participation in a feminist literary practice that is revised by eighteenth and nineteenth century white American women writers)
Dear Sister, I hope ever to follow your good advices: Letters from Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner. (A monograph examining the relationship between the slave poet, Phillis Wheatley, and her most trusted advisor, Obour Tanner, also a slave).
The Book of Desire (A collection of poetry that examines the importance desire plays in matters ranging from lust to chattel slavery).
Chapters
“Alice Walker and the Turn Toward Imagining”.
Dialogues: Alice Walker, ed. Michael J. Meyer,
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Community, Rebellion, and Religious Conversion in Phillis Wheatley’s Letters.” Correspondences: U. S. Letters and Cultural Transformations (1760 – 1820). Ashgate Academic Press. Forthcoming.
“Reclaiming Pleasure: Reading the Body in ‘People Should Not Die in June in
“Poets, Lovers and the Master’s Tools: A Conversation with Audre Lorde.” This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformations. NY: Routledge Press, 2003.
Articles
“Claude Brown”, “Teri Woods”, “Dopefiend: Story of a Black Junkie”,
Anthology of Hip Hop
Literature, ed. Tarshia Stanley. CT:
“Queering Lucille Clifton”.
Women of Note Quarterly, Vivace Press.
“(Un)Writing the Self in Popular Culture, or, Notes from a Television Junkie.”
Women on
Campus.
“Confession of a (Non)Hip Compositionist.:
The Academic Forum,
Reviews
The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Writing, Edited by Charlotte H. Bruner.
Calyx,
A
Journal
of Art and Literature by Women.
The Black Woman’s Gumbo Ya-Ya, Edited by Terri L. Jewell.
Calyx, A Journal of Art and
Literature by Women.
Vol. 16, Number 1.
The Black Christ by Kelly Brown
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for my Journey Now, by Maya Angelou,
The
Short Fiction
“Speaking In Tongues.”
“Graduation.”
KenteCloth:
African-American Voices in
Poetry
“In the
My Mother talks to Gods. Afro-Europa: Culture and Identities of Africans in
“Overheard at Tea, near Kensington and DeVeers,
“Untitled #1”.
The
“Hanukkah Celebration;” “a village of witches;”
“In the Sudan
.” Bridges: Jewish Women of
Color Special Issue.
Volume 9, Number 1. Spring 2002.
“off key,” “Bloodlines,” “Picking Cotton.”
“graffiti”. Bridges: Jewish Women of Color, Poetry Issue. Volume 9, Number 2. Fall 2002.
“news item: Police seek African-American man,/last seen wearing cornrows/and a brown bomber
jacket”.
Dogwood. CT:
“Once every full blue moon.”
WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas.
“In
“the name she calls my breasts.”
“Cleopatra’s Court;” “Penelope’s Lament.”
“learning to read.”
Voices from the Outside.
“
“before babel.”
Mutant Mule Review.
“getting a word in edge-wise.” KenteCloth: Southwest Voices of the African Diaspora. TX: UNT Press, 1998.
“the first cuckoo of spring.”
“tomar razón de
.”
In Other Words. CO:
“. . . but, how can you, in good conscience, lie on a government form?”
The
“boy;” “career choices;” “green koolaid;” “Ode to a Rwandan Child;” “why mothers cry.”
KenteCloth: African-American Voices in
“at
dusk;” “moves;” “thoughts on being a poet.”
New
Professional Organizations:
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Modern Language Association
(MLA)
Society for the Study of American Women writers (SSAWW)
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
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