Teaching and Research Interests

Education

PhD 1998, English, University of Georgia
BA 1986, Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (concentration: Print Journalism)
BA 1984, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (concentration: Creative Writing)
 

Teaching Experience

Professor, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University, 2000-
Robert E. Park Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of Georgia, 1998-2000.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Georgia, 1991-98.
English Instructor. American Language Program, University of Georgia. 1991-98 (summers).
English Instructor. BCM English Educational Center, 1988-90. Seoul, South Korea.

Additional Experience

Journalist. Bodrum and Environs Magazine. Bodrum, Turkey.
Apprentice Reporter, Freelance Writer. The Business Journal. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
 

Sample Courses Taught

Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo (5010)
Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature: African American Whiteness (5010)
Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Multicultural Paradigm Shifts (5010)
Studies in Literary Criticism: Critical Race Theories and American Literatures (4775)
Studies in African American Literature: Passing and the Fictions of Race (4750)
Film and Society: Constructions of Youth in Contemporary Cinema (4192)
Senior Seminar: Authors and Authorship (4300)
Senior Seminar: The Graphic Bildungsroman (4300)
Contemporary Asian Literature (3907)
Multicultural American Literature (3705)
Late Twentieth-Century American Literature (3704)
Early Twentieth-Century American Literature (3703)
Film and Literature (3504)
Literary Critical Whiteness Studies (3002)
Advanced Composition: Race, Class, and Gender in the Professional Workplace (3001)
Advanced Composition: Writing in the Wild (3001)
Introduction to African American Literature (2705)
Literature, the Self, and the World: Fiction (2011)
Literature and Human Values: Race, Age, and Gender (2009)
Literature and Human Values: Labor, Class, and Power (2009)
Composition and Language (1001, 1002, 1091H, 1092H, computer and non-computer sections)
 

Publications

Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. (co-editor with John N. Duvall) Modern Language Association, 2006.

Towards a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies. (editor; Introduction by David R. Roediger) Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, 2006.

Critical Essays on Don DeLillo. (co-editor with Hugh Ruppersburg) G.K. Hall, 2000.

Articles

"'What did she see?': The White Gaze and Postmodern Double Consciousness in Walter Dean Myers' Monster." (co-author with Fern Kory) Children's Literature Association Quarterly (forthcoming).

"Incarceration, Identity Formation, and Race in Young Adult Literature." (co-author with Fern Kory) English Journal 102.4 (forthcoming, March 2013).

"Whiteness." Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Trevor Burnard, ed. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"African American Whiteness in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills." African American Review 43.3 (Winter 2009): 661-79.

"DeLillo and the Political Thriller." The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. John N. Duvall, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

"Connecting White Noise to Critical Whiteness Studies." Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. Tim Engles and John N. Duvall, eds. Modern Language Association, 2006.

"Introduction." (with Hugh Ruppersburg) Critical Essays on Don DeLillo. G.K. Hall, 2000: 1-27.

"'Who are you, literally?': Fantasies of the White Self in White Noise." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 45.3 (Fall, 1999): 755-87. [reprinted in Critical Essays on Don DeLillo, G.K. Hall, 2000; excerpted in Don DeLillo, Harold Bloom, ed., Chelsea House, 2003]

"'Visions of me in the whitest raw light': Assimilation and Doxic Whiteness in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker." Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Studies 4.2 (Summer 1997): 27-48.
 

Reviews, Notes, Other

Biographical entries. "Chang-rae Lee," "Li-Young Lee." Great Lives: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Salem Press, forthcoming.

Review. "The Taste of Tea (Cha no aji)." News and Reviews. Asian Education Media Service, Winter 2009: 4.

Character study. "Henry Park, in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee." Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. Volume 2. Manly/Facts on File, 2008: 759-60.

Review Essay. Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism, by Andy Doolen, and To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing, by Steven J. Belluscio. American Literature 79.3 (Fall 2007): 612-15.

Opinion Column. "The Whiteness of Hip Hop." Daily Eastern News April 24, 2007.

Opinion Column. "Porn Dehumanizes Us." Daily Eastern News February 20, 2007.

Bibliographic Entries. "Literature, Cinema, and the Visual Arts." Towards a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies. Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, 2006.

Book Review. ReWriting White: Race, Class, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, by Todd Vogel. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 30.3 (Fall 2005): 247-251.

Interview. "Mapping Mindsets: A Conversation with Adrian Piper." (co-interviewers--David R. Roediger and Suk Ja Kang-Engles) Art Papers 28.5 (September/October, 2004): 34-39.

Book Review. Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema, by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 29.2 (Summer 2004): 306-10.

Review Essay. The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness, by Stephen P. Knadler, and Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, by Dorothy E. Mosby. American Literature 76.1 (March 2004): 185-87.

Book Review. Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community, and Stories of Their Lives, by Jianli Zhao. Pacific Affairs 76.3 (Fall 2003): 515-16.

Commentary. "The Best That Has Been Western, White, and Male." Part of Concerning Curriculum: A Forum. AGORA (online journal). 28.2 (December, 2002).

Foreword. "Some Things Never Leave a Person: Paintings by Suk Ja Kang-Engles." AGORA (online journal).  27.4 (May, 2002).

Review Essay. "The Perils of Disembodied Readership."  MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 47.4 (Winter, 2001): 995-1003.

Book Review. Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature, by Kathleen Brogan. Gothic Studies (August, 2001): 221-23.

Translation, short story. (with Suk Ja Kang-Engles). Moo Sook Hahn. "Humiliation." Korean Literature Today (Fall, 1999): 74-84.

Book Review. Native Speaker, by Chang-rae Lee. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 22.2 (Summer, 1997): 140-42.

"Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use.'" Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories. Volume 2. Gale Publishing, 1997: 36-43.

"Li-Young Lee's 'Persimmons.'" The Explicator (Spring, 1996): 191-92.

"Karl Shapiro's 'The Fly.'" The Explicator (Fall, 1996): 41-43.
 
 

Campus, Conference, and Institute Presentations

(Invited Roundtable Presenter) "Confronting White Privilege in the Classroom." College of Education, University of Illinois. November, 2012.

(Invited Campus Speaker) "Hipster Slacktivism: White Privilege and Social Justice Activism." Pitzer College. October, 2012.

(Invited Campus Speaker) "White Privilege: Does It Still Exist?" Inclusive Illinois. College of Education, University of Illinois. September, 2012.

“Making Whiteness Visible in Young Adult Literature: The View from the Other Side.” (Fern Kory, co-presenter) National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention, Chicago, IL. November, 2011.

(Invited Campus Speaker) “Deconstructing Whiteness: What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness.” Spoon River College. March, 2010. (IHC Road Scholars Event)

(Invited Campus Speaker) “Critical Whiteness Studies in Everyday Life: How Did I Get So White?” Lewis University. February, 2010. (IHC Road Scholars Event)

“Optic Whiteness: Whiteouts and Blackouts in Percival Everett’s Erasure.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO. November, 2009.

(Invited Panelist) "The Histories of Whiteness." Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois. May, 2006.

(Invited Panelist) "What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness." Department of Psychology, University of Illinois. October, 2005.

(Organizer and Panel Moderator) After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts. Symposium. (Keynote Speaker: Amy Mooney) Eastern Illinois University. February, 2005.

"'A Curtain Is Rising on the Western World': The Whiteness of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree." The Suttree 25th Anniversary Celebration Conference (Cormac McCarthy Society). Knoxville, TN. October, 2004.

"Connecting Don DeLillo's White Noise to Critical Whiteness Studies." American Literature Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. May, 2004.

"What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness." Midwest MLA Convention, Chicago, IL. November, 2003.

(Co-organizer with Suk Ja Kang Engles) After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts. Symposium. (Keynote Speaker: Adrian Piper) University of Illinois. October, 2003.

(Panel Moderator) "Race and Visual Space." After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts. Symposium, University of Illinois. October, 2003.

(Invited Roundtable Presenter) "What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness." Department of Counseling Psychology. University of Illinois. September, 2003.

"Whites in the Room: Teaching Whiteness in Multicultural Literature Courses." National Association of Multicultural Educators, Pella, Iowa. April, 2003.

(Attendee) White Privilege Conference (fourth annual). Pella, Iowa. April, 2003.

"'Writing in the Wild' on the Web." Illinois Philological Association, Springfield, IL. April, 2002.

"'Is Whiteness Contagious?': Biracial Subjectivity in Danzy Senna's Caucasia." Outside American Studies: An American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, NH. June 18-23, 2001.

(Respondent) "Contemporary Korean Film" panel, Asian Studies Association, Chicago, IL. March, 2001.

"'Who are you, literally?': The Emptied White Self in Don DeLillo's White Noise." American Literature Association Convention, Baltimore, MD. May, 1999.

"Addressing Invisible Adjectives in Asian American Course Material." Northeast MLA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA. April, 1999.

(Presenter and Organizer) "Addressing Whiteness in Multicultural Courses," Pedagogical Workshop, University of Georgia Department of English, March, 1999.

(Invited Lecturer) "Teaching Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior in a Twentieth-Century Novel Course." Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, February, 1999.

(Invited Lecturer) "Perceptions of Self as Otherized: Ruth Forman's 'Stoplight Politics' and Tracy Byrd's 'Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous.'" Furman University, Greenville, SC, January, 1999.

"Invisible Adjectives: Whiteness and Cultural Identity in American Literature and Film."  Back to the Futures: An American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. June 21-28, 1998.

(Panel Chair and Organizer) "Whiteness and Cultural Identity." South Atlantic MLA Convention, Atlanta, GA. November, 1997.

(Roundtable Presenter) "Addressing White Privilege in the Classroom." University of Georgia Teaching Assistant Mentoring Program, September, 1997.

"'The Brady Bunch never needed subtitles': Constructions of Whiteness in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Mina Shum's Double Happiness." Southern Comparative Literature Association Convention, Athens, GA. September, 1997.

"Teaching White Privilege in Multicultural Courses." Lily Conference on College and University Teaching (South), Athens, GA. May, 1997.

(Panel Chair and Organizer) "In Pursuit of Whiteness in American Literature." Northeast MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA. April, 1997.

"The Wages of Assimilation: Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker." Northeast MLA Convention. ("Asian American Literature" panel), Philadelphia, PA. April, 1997.

(Attendee) "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness." Conference, Berkeley, CA. April, 1997.

"'A world inside the world': Tim O'Brien, Don DeLillo, and the Unknowable Other." Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX. March, 1997.

(Workshop Organizer and Presenter, "Cinematic Orientalism") "White Appropriation of Asian Otherness in William Friedken's Jade." Atlantic Coast Asian American Student Union, Athens, GA. February, 1997.

"The Art of Compromise: Team Translation of Korean Literature." November, 1996. American Literary Translation Association, Bloomington, IN. November, 1996.

"'The heart never travels': Bourdieu's Habitus and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone." American Association of Comparative Literature, Athens, GA. May, 1996.
 

Selected Presentations and Appearances at Eastern Illinois University

(Symposium Presenter) "The White Gaze and Postmodern Double Consciousness in Walter Dean Myers' Monster." ICGD Symposium: Rethinking Race and Gender. November, 2012.

(Campus Speaker) "How Did I Get So White?" Beyond Words Lecture Series. February, 2010; April, 2008.

(Co-presenter, with Young Sook Lee) "The View from the Other Side: What's It Like to Live in a Foreign Culture?" Asian Heritage Month. April, 2009.

(Panel Chair and Organizer) "Black and White at Home and Abroad." African American Heritage Month. February, 2008.

(Panel Presenter) "Asian American Whiteness in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker." Asian Heritage Month. April, 2007.

(Panel Presenter) "Eyes Wide Shut: Three Waves of Critical Whiteness Studies." Departmental Colloquium, "Whither Cultural Studies?" January, 2006.

(Roundtable Organizer) "Writing in the Wild." English Studies Student Conference. December, 2003.

(Invited Campus Lecturer) "What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness." Booth Library Speaker Series. March, 2003.

(Symposium Moderator) "Election 2000: Any Lessons for Democracy?" January, 2001.

(Presenter) "The White Stuff: Addressing White Student Subjectivity." Departmental Colloquium. October, 2000.
 

Academic Service

Member, Editorial Board, MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States, 2003-

Reader, Advanced Placement English Literature Exam, Louisville, KY, 2008.

Elected Representative, Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association, 1998-2001

Peer Manuscript Review:

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (2012- )
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011- )
Contemporary Literature (2008- )
MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States (2001- )
AAR: African American Review (2004- )
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (2004- )
NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English (2006)
Sociology of Sport Journal (2004)
Studies in the Literary Imagination (2002)