Assistant Professor (2000-2003)
Department of English
The George Washington University
Washington D.C.

EDUCATION

State University of New York-Binghamton

Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature--The Program in Philosophy, Literature, and the Theory of Criticism.  August 2000.      

M.A., Department of Philosophy. May 1999.

M.A., Department of English. May 1994.

B.A., Department of English.  December 1990.

B.A., Department of German.  December 1990.

Minor Field: Applied Linguistics.

Study Abroad: Stadt Rosenheim, West Germany. 1987-88.

PUBLICATIONS

Books/Collections:

Reading Women’s Writing in and through Psychoanalysis. Special Issue Co-Editor, Women Writers 12.1

        (January 2010).

Topologies of Trauma, co-edited with Petar Ramadanovic. New York: The Other Press, 2002. 

Trauma: Essays on the Limit of Knowledge and Memory. Special Issue Editor, Post Modern Culture 11:2

       (January 2001).

Articles

“‘Writing in Translationese’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and the Uncanny Dialect of the

       Diasporic Writer,” co-authored with Ed Cameron.  Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.

      (Forthcoming 2010).

“Season for the Signifier: Formation of the Feminine Subject in Kazumi Yumoto’s Spring Tone.” 

        Psychoanalysis in Context, Edited by Alvin Henry.  London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

“Traumatic Suffering and Superegoic Demand: Ota Yoko’s Hiroshima Testimony.” Women Writers 12.1

       (Spring 2010).

“In Praise of Freud: An Introduction.” Women Writers 12.1 (Spring 2010).

“Has Tomomi Lost Her Mind? Psychosis, Femininity, and the Universal Appeal of Kazumi Yumoto’s

       Spring Tone.” Studies in the Novel 41.1 (Spring 2010).

“The Mystical Encounter with Extremity: Teaching Saint Teresa through Psychoanalytic Theory.”

       Approaches to Teaching Saint Teresa and the Spanish Mystics. Edited by Alison Weber. New York :

       PMLA, 2009.

“Charles Chesnutt, Jack Thorne and the African-American Literary Response to the 1898 Wilmington Race

       Riot,” co-authored with Ed Cameron. Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African

      American Fiction Writer. Edited by David Izzo. New York: MacFarland, 2009.

“The Ambivalence of Fidelity: Franz Fanon and the Cultural Unconscious,” Vitalpoetics 1.2 (Spring 2008).

 “Death of the Master? Paternal Authority and the Discourse of Academia.”  (a): The Journal of Culture and

        the Unconscious 5.1-2. (Spring 2007).

 “Melancholic Performance and the Matter of Origins in Walter Benjamin’s Translation Theory,” Gramma:

       Journal of Theory and Translation 12 (Fall 2006): 11-21.

“Reading Kristeva and Beyond: Psychoanalysis as Textual Ethics,” in Textual Ethos Studies or Locating

       Ethics. New York: Rodopi Press, 2006.

“Killing the Object: Psychosis and the Criminal Act,” The Cardoza Law Review 24.6 (Fall, 2003).

 “Sleight of the Letter: Fantasy and the Signifier,” (a): A Journal of Culture and the Unconscious, 2.1

       (Spring, 2002).

 “Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through,” in Topologies of Trauma. New York:

       The Other Press, 2002.

“The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Repetition and the Failure of Interpretation,” in

       Topologies of Trauma. New York: The Other Press, 2002.

“Reading Otherwise,” Janus Head  (Spring, 2002).

 “Trauma and the Material Signifier,” Post Modern Culture 11.2 (January, 2001).

“Viewing the Impossible: The U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum,” in The Holocaust:

       Memories, Research, Reference (New York: Haworth Press, 1998).

“Catastrophe, Crisis, and the Impossible Form of Saying,” in Crossings: A Counter-disciplinary Journal

       of Philosophical, Cultural and Literary Studies, 1.2 (Spring, 1998).

Faculty Research Council Grant, The University of Texas-Pan American, 2008.

            Title: “The Trauma of Japanese-American Internment during World War II: A Psychoanalytic

                        Study of the Autobiographical Writings of Survivors”

Faculty Research Council Grant, The University of Texas-Pan American, 2004.

            Title: “A Comparative Analysis of Literary Representations and First-Hand Witness Testimonials:

                      The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898”

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship.  Resident Fellow, The University of Virginia, 1997-1998.

            Topic: Violence, Culture, and Survival

“The Voice of Trauma: Sublimation and the Impossibility of Representation.”  College English Association

       Conference. San Antonio, Mar. 25-27, 2010.

“Failure, Representation, and the Memorial Text: Ota Yoko’s City of Corpses.” Pacific Ancient & Modern

      Language Association Conference. San Francisco, Nov. 6-8, 2009. 

“Sublimation and Women’s Experience in Eighteenth-Century Captivity Narratives.” South Central Society

       for 18^th-Century Studies Convention, Corpus Christi.  February 6-9, 2009.

 “The Impossibility of Memoir.” South Central Modern Language Association Convention, San Antonio.

       November 6-8, 2008.     

 “Public and Private Mourning: Trauma, Sublimation, and the Question of Representation in the Trauma

       Memoir.” South Central Modern Language Association Convention, Memphis.  November 1-4, 2007.

“Franz Fanon and the Cultural Unconscious.” International Conference on Caribbean Studies. South Padre

       Island, TX.  November 2-5, 2006. 

 “Mystical Transgression: Saint Teresa and the Experience of Jouissance.” South Central Modern Language

       Association Convention, Dallas.  October 26-29, 2006.

 “African American Literary Responses to the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot,” Department of English Seminar

       Series, The University of the District of Columbia, April 27-30, 2006.

“Failure, Representation and the Memorial Text: A Woman’s Account of the Hiroshima Catastrophe,”

       Women and War Conference, South Texas College, April 18-20, 2006.

“To the Other and Back: Crossing Borders in the Puritan Captivity Narrative,” Group for Early Modern

       Cultural Studies Annual Conference, San Antonio. December 1-4, 2005.

“Trauma in Early American Literature: Mary Rowlandson and the Impossibility of Mourning,” South

       Central Modern Language Association Convention, Houston.  October 27-29, 2005.

“Beyond the Phenomena: Trauma and Psychosis in the Subject of Psychoanalysis,” Critical Theories of

       Trauma International Symposium. Ohio State University. May 20, 2005.

“Death of the Master: Paternal Authority and the Discourse of Academia,” The California Psychoanalytic

       Circle Annual Conference, Berkeley, May 28-29, 2005.

 “From the Universal to the Particular: The Subject of Discourse and The Paradox of the Political in Lacan’s

       Seminar XVII,” The Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia. December, 2004.

“Reading Translation and Melancholia in Walter Benjamin,” The Modern Language Association

       Convention, Philadelphia. December, 2004.

“Coloring the Lines of History: Rhetoric and Literature of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot,” The Center for

       the Humanities, University of New Hampshire.  November 4, 2004.

“Trauma and Subjective Destitution: Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and the Impossibility of

       Mourning,” American Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 7-10, 2004.

“At the Limits of Autonomy: Kazuo Ishiguro Between the Colonial and the Sovereign,” The Modern

       Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 26-30, 2003.

“On Jouissance and Mysticism: Trauma and the Experience of Writing,” Representing the Unimaginable:

        Narratives of Disaster, Universität Münster, Germany, May 23-25, 2003.

“For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Lacan’s Theory of the Four Discourses,” Fifth Annual University of South

       Carolina Comparative Literature Conference, Columbia, SC, February 13-15, 2003.

 “Killing the Object: The Case of the Psychotic Andrei Chikatilo,” The Jouissance of Transgression:

       Lacan and Crime, Cardozo Law School, New York, March 10-11, 2002.

“The Vicissitudes of Jouissance: Sexual Difference and the Experience of Psychosis,” The Modern

       Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December 27-30, 2001.

“Sleight of the Letter: Fantasy and the Signifier,” 3^rd Annual Symposium of the California Psychoanalytic      

       Circle, University of California, San Francisco.  May 2001.

 “The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Repetition, and the Failure of Knowledge,” Knowing

       Subjects: Human Lives, Human Worlds, The George Washington University. April 2001.

“Trauma, Representation and the Crisis of Memory,” The American Culture Association/ Popular Culture

       Association National Conference, Philadelphia, PA.  March, 2001.

“Sexual Difference and Mystical Experience,” Colloquium on Conceptualizing

       Genders, Program for the Human Sciences, George Washington University. November, 2000.

“Symptom in the Topology of the Subject,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

       Convention, Columbia University. October, 1999.

“Encountering Melancholia,” The Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco.

       December 27-30, 1998.

“Holocaust, Representation, and the Impossibility of Memory,” 22nd Annual International Association

       of Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of California, Irvine.  May 5-9, 1998.

“The Crisis of Origins in Early Christian Mysticism,” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa

       Clara University.  May 1-2, 1998.

“The Demand of Writing: Ota Yoko’s City of Corpses,” The Modern Language Association Convention,

       Toronto, Canada.  December 26-29, 1997.

“Performance, Failure, and the Margins of Language,” 21st Annual International Association for

       Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of South Alabama.  May 8-11, 1997.

“Hannah Arendt and the Concentration Camp Experience,” 14th Annual Conference on the Holocaust,

       Millersville University.  April 9-10,1995.

“The Literary History of Slave Narratives,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of

       Rochester.  November 3-6, 1994.

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS   

Assistant Chair, Department of English, The University of Texas-Pan American. 2003-2006.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES   

Special Issue Editor, Women Writers 11:2.  January, 2010.

Exhibit Reviewer, America’s Membranes, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX.

      November 2008.

Referee/Reviewer, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 2003-present.

Chair, “English III: Restoration and 18^th Century Literature” Division, South Central Modern Language

        Association October 2007- November 2008.

Secretary, “English III: Restoration and 18^th Century Literature” Panel, South Central Modern Language

        Association Convention, Memphis.  November 1-4, 2007.

Textbook Reviewer for Thomson Publishers, Reviewed Proposed Seventh Edition Literature Anthology,

       May 2007.

Chair, “Spanish Literature I” Division, South Central Modern Language Association.  October 2006-

       November 2007.

Grant Reviewer, Social Sciences an Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006-2007.

Session Organizer, “Psychoanalysis in the Caribbean: Three Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” International

       Conference on Caribbean Studies. South Padre Island, TX.  November, 2006.

       May 2004.

Textbook Reviewer for Pearson Publishers/Prentice Hall, Reviewed Literature: An Introduction to Reading

       and Writing, 3^rd Compact Edition.  November 2003.

Conference Organizer, “Psychoanalysis and Ethnography,” Program in the Human Sciences.  The George

       Washington University, 2001-2002.

Referee/Reviewer, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Special Issue on Queer Theory/Disability

       Studies. August 2001.

Special Issue Editor, Postmodern Culture 11:2.  January, 2001.

Session Organizer, “Symptom in the Topology of the Subject,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of

       Culture and Society Convention, Columbia University. October 1999.

Review Board Member/Selection Committee, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, Virginia

       Foundation for the Humanities, The University of Virginia.  February 1998.

Session Organizer, “Julia Kristeva and the Subject of Psychoanalysis,” Modern Language Association

       Convention, San Francisco.  December 1998.

External Reviewer for SUNY Press, Reviewed Once Below a Time: The Genesis of a Speaking Subject, by

       Eynel Wardi.  July 1997.

Provost’s Award for the Advancement of Teaching Abroad Programs, Office of International Education,

        The University of Texas-Pan American, 2005.