Curriculum Vitae

MARTHA H. PATTERSON  

Department of English                               
McKendree College     
Lebanon, Illinois   62254

mhpatterson@mckendree.edu                                                                     

Education:  

Ph.D.    English, University of Iowa, May 1996.

Dissertation:   “‘Survival of the Best Fitted':   The Trope of the New Woman in Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Sui Sin Far, Edith Wharton, and Mary Johnston.”   Director:   Tom Lutz.

M.A.    Literary Studies, University of Iowa ,   August 1990.

B.A.      English, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, June 1988.   

            Earned distinction for English comprehensive integrative exercise and in the English major.

Awards:

Teagle Summer Research Grant, Spring Hill College, 2003.
Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship, 2002.
Interdisciplinary Partnership Grant, Spring Hill College, 2001.
Mitchell Faculty Scholarship Grant, Spring Hill College, 2001.
College Research Grant, Grinnell College, 1997-98.
Helm Fellowship, Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana, 1996.
Frederick F. Seely Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for Teaching and Research, Department of English, University of Iowa, 1995-96.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 1995.
Frederick P. W. McDowell Dissertation Scholarship for work in American Literature, Department of English, University of Iowa, 1994-95.

Publications:

Book:

Imagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915 .   Forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Articles:

“Incorporating the New Woman in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country .”   Studies in American Fiction ,   26.2 , Autumn 1998, 213-236.

“Kin' o'rough jestice fer a parson":   Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Reconstructing   History.”   African American Review ,   32.3 , Fall 1998, 445-460.

 “Remaking the Minstrel: Pauline Hopkins's Peculiar Sam   and the Formation of a Post-Reconstruction Black Subject.”   Black Women Playwrights:   Visions on the American        Stage , ed. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett.   Garland, 1998, 13-24.

“‘Survival of the Best Fitted':   Selling the American New Woman as Gibson Girl.”   ATQ: 19th-Century American Literature and Culture, June 1995, 73-87.

Reviews:

"Review of Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith, eds. Middlebrow Moderns:   Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s ."   Legacy 21.2, 2004 .           

“Review of Anne Ruggles Gere's Intimate Practices:   Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920 and Anne Meis Knupfer's Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood:   African American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. "   American Quarterly 51.1 , 1999, 221-227.

“Review of Annette White- Parks's Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton:   A Literary Biography .”   MELUS   22.2 , 1997, 122-124.

“Review of Ellen Garvey's The Adman in the Parlor .”   Legacy   14.1 , 1997, 64-65.

Recent Presentations:

"All you Sweet girls ,/ Listen here to me/Gin an' whiskey/Kin make you lose yo ' ginity '": Nella Larsen and the Temperance Politics of the New Negro Woman.”   American Literature Association.   San Francisco, May 2004.

"Selling the American New Woman as Gibson Girl, 1895-1913."   Invited Lecture.   University of South Alabama Gender Studies Lecture Series, University of South Alabama.   Mobile, February 2002.

“A New (White) Woman of a New (White) South:   Ellen Glasgow and the Evolutionary Logic of Progressive Reform.”   Ellen Glasgow Society ,   Modern Language Association Convention.   New Orleans, December 2001.

 “‘Babies Are No Longer Strapped on Boards':   Zitkala -Sa and the New Indian Woman.”  Gender and the Popular West, Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago,      December 1999.

 “Willa Cather and the New Woman.”   Willa Cather on Mesa Verde Symposium. Mesa Verde, Colorado, October 21-23, 1999.

 “The Trope of the New Woman in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala -Sa.”  Comparing United States Emergent Literatures,    Modern Language Association Convention.  Toronto, December 1997.

“From Entrepreneur to Employee:   The Descent of the New Woman in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country .”   The Society for Critical Exchange, Midwest Modern Language Association Conference.   Minneapolis, November 1996.

“The Wisdom of the New:   Sui Sin Far and the New Chinese Woman.”   Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.  University of Louisville. Louisville ,   February 1996.

“‘ Of One Blood':   Pauline Hopkins and Constructions of the Mulatto.”   Midwest Modern Language Association Conference.  Chicago, November 1994.

“‘Some of us tremble for the future':   Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Resistance in   Winona .”   National Women's Studies Association Conference.   Iowa State University.  Ames, June 1994.                                                                                                                                       

“Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Sentiment in Contending Forces .”   Mid-American American Studies Association Conference.  University of Iowa. Iowa City, March 1992.

“Sanctuaries Under Siege:   Edith Wharton's Response to Modernity.”   Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.  University of Louisville. Louisville, February 1992.

Teaching and Research Interests:

    Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature
    Feminist Theory
    Women's Studies
    American Ethnic Studies
    African-American Literature and Culture
    Postcolonial Studies

Teaching Experience:

Assistant Professor, English Department, McKendree College, 2004 to present.

    English I
    303       American Literature to 1900

Assistant Professor, English Department, Spring Hill College, 2000-2004.        

    121       Composition and Literature I
    123       Composition and Literature II
    240       Introduction to Poetry
    241       Introduction to Fiction
    247       Women Writers
    315       Foundations in American Literature
    316       American Literary Realism
    402       Literary Theory and Criticism
    (Hum)   395       Issues in Women's Studies
    492       Flappers, Gangsters and Gin:   Literature and Culture of the 1920s

Lecturer, English Department, University of Michigan, 1998-2000.

    315       Women and Literature:   Feminism, Consumerism and Modernity
    240       Introduction to Poetry
    239       What is Literature?
    225       Argumentative Writing:   Race, Class, and Gender in Twentieth-Century America
    124       Writing and Literature:   The Art of the Personal Essay

Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Grinnell College, 1997-1998.

    107       Fundamentals of Literary Analysis
    228       American Literary Traditions II

Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Iowa, 1996-1997.

    8: 034   Reading Novels
    8: 035   Reading Poems
    8: 085   Topics in American Literature:   Technology in Modernist America (Division of Continuing Education)
    8: 161   American Ethnic Women's Literature   ( Summer 1996)  

Visiting Instructor in the English Department, University of Iowa, Spring 1996.

    8: 085   Topics in American Literature:   The American New Woman

Teaching Assistant in the General Education Program ,   University of Iowa, 1990-1995.  

    8G: 01   Interpretation of Literature
    8G: 09 American Lives
    8G: 06 Narrative Literature
    8G: 15 Women and Literature
    8G: 11 Literature and Sexualities

Instructor, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA, Fall 1996 and Fall 1992.
Writing Center Instructor, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA, Fall 1996.
Writing Tutor for Athletic Student Services, University of Iowa, 1988-1992.  
Summer-Rhetoric Assistant, Carleton College, 1988.  
Rhetoric Assistant, Carleton College, 1987-1988.

Administrative and Professional Service:

    Alabama Humanities Foundation Small Grant Award Recipient, Women's Studies Lecture, 2004.
    Co-Director of the Women's Studies Program, Spring Hill College, 2002-present.
    English Club Advisor, Spring Hill College, 2002-present.
    Library Committee later Information Literacy and Technology Committee, Spring Hill College, 2001-present.
    Freshman Seminar Advisor, Spring Hill College, 2002-2003.
    Manuscript Reviewer, Wayne State University Press, 1999.
    Admissions Committee, graduate reader, English Department, University of Iowa ,   1993 -95.  
    American Lives Textbook Committee, English Department, University of Iowa, 1993-94.
    African-American Literature Search Committee, English Department, University of Iowa, 1993-94.
    Affirmative Action Committee, English Department, University of Iowa, 1991-92.
    Senator, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa, 1990-91.  
    Fine Arts Council, University of Iowa, 1988-91.

Professional Memberships:

    American Studies Association
    Modern Language Association

References:

    Associate Professor Nancy Beck Young, History Department, McKendree College, (618) 537-6914.
    Professor John Greenfield, English Department, McKendree College (618) 537-6890.
    Associate Professor Tom Lutz, English Department, University of Iowa, (319) 335-0467.
    Associate Professor Margaret Davis, English Department, Spring Hill College, (251) 380-4651.
    Professor David Sauer, English Department, Spring Hill College, (251) 380-4644.    
    Associate Professor Kathleen Diffley , English Department, University of Iowa, (319) 335-0437.
    Associate Professor John Whittier-Ferguson, English Department, University of Michigan, (734) 763-4251.

Dossier Available Upon Request From:

    Educational Placement Office
    The University of Iowa
    N302 Lindquist Center
    The University of Iowa
    Iowa City, IA 52242-1529
    (319) 335-5353