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CV (printable version)

 

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RACHEL ELIZABETH ADAMS

rea15@columbia.edu

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

• Columbia University, Professor of English and Comparative Literature

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

 

• Raising Henry:  A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery.  Yale University Press, 2013.  Winner Delta Gamma Kappa Educators Award.
• Keywords for Disability Studies, coedited with Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin.  New York University Press, 2015.
• Continental Divides:  Remapping the Cultures of North America.  University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Sideshow U.S.A.:  Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination.  University of Chicago Press, 2001 (reviewed in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, American Literature, Choice, Journal of American History, The Historian, Modernism/Modernity, Publisher’s Weekly (starred selection), Virginia Quarterly Review; and online at H-Net Reviews, nthposition.com, PopPolitics.com, and theage.com).
• The Masculinity Studies Reader, co-edited with David Savran.  Blackwell Publishers, 2002 (reviewed in Times Higher Education Supplement and Canadian Journal of Sociology online)
• The Awakening and Selected Stories.  Fine Publications, 2002.

 

 

ARTICLES

• “Choosing Disability, Visualizing Care.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal2 (June 2017): 301-321.
• “Disability and the Novel.” (forthcoming, Oxford History of the Novel in English, ed. Cyrus Patel and Deborah Williams)
• “Disability, Life Writing, and the Problem of Dependency in The Autobiography of Gaby Brimmer.” Journal of Medical Humanities special issue on Caregiving, Kinship, and the Making of Stories 38.1 (March 2017): 39-50.
• “Tradition.” Keywords for Global Modernism, ed. Eric Hayot and Rebecca Walkowitz. Columbia University Press, 2016.
• “Privacy, Dependency, Discegenation:  Toward a Sexual Culture for People with Intellectual Disabilities.”  Disability Studies Quarterly 35.1 (2015).
• “Disability” (with Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin).  Keywords in Disability Studies, ed. Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin.  New York:  New York University Press, 2015.
• “Guillermo Verdecchia’s Northern Borderlands.”  Latino/a Canadian Theatre:  Eight Plays, ed. Natalie Alvarez.  Toronto:  Playwrights Canada Press, 2013.
• “Imagining North America.”  Charting Comparative North American Studies, ed. Reingard M. Nischik.  New York, Palgrave, 2014.
• “Gender and Disability.”  Gender:  Key Concepts, ed. Mary Evans and Caroline Williams.  New York and London:  Routledge, 2012.
• “Widening Circles.”  The Global and the Intimate, ed. Victoria Rosner and Geraldine Pratt.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 2012.  105-115
• “Disability and the Circus.”  The History of the Circus in America, ed. Kenneth Ames.  Yale University Press, 2012.  2-20.
• “My Adventures in Sugar.”  Gastronomica 11.1:  71-76.
•  “The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora.”  Hemispheric American Studies, ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert Levine, Rutgers University Press, 2007.  313-327.
• “Detecting the Continent:  Crime Fiction from the U.S and Mexico,” Shades of the Planet:  American Literature as World Literature, ed. Laurence Buell and Wai-Chee Dimock, Princeton University Press, 2007.
• “Blackness Goes South:  Race and mestizaje in Our America.” Our Americas:  Toward a Transnational Frame, ed. Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, Duke University Press, 2007.  214-248.
• “The Ends of America, The Ends of Postmodernism.” After Postmodernism, ed. Andrew Hoberek, special issue of Twentieth Century Literature 53.3 (Fall 2007): 248-272.
• “Going to Canada:  The Politics and Poetics of Northern Exodus,” Yale Journal of Criticism 18.2 (Fall 2005):  409-434.
• “Hipsters and jipitecas:  Literary Countercultures on Both Sides of the Border,” American Literary History 16.1 (Spring 2004):  56-84.
• “Caught Looking:  Spectators and the Exhibition of Human Curiosities.”  Common-Place 4.2 (January 2004) <http://www.common-place.org>.
• “Ishi’s Two Bodies:  Anthropology and Popular Culture,” Ishi in Three Centuries, ed. Clifton B. Kroeber and Karl Kroeber.  Lincoln:  U of Nebraska P, 2003.  18-33.
• “Carnival, Community, and ‘the spectacle of whitefolks,’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” Skin Deep, Spirit Strong:  The Black Female Body in American Culture, ed. Kimberly Wallace Saunders.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.  153-181.
• “‘A Mixture of Delicious and Freak’:  The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers,” American Literature 71.3 (September 1999):  551-583.
•  “Fat Man Walking:  Masculinity and Racial Geographies in James Mangold’s Copland,” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 42:  5-29.
•  “An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love,” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, ed., Rosemarie Thomson. New York: NYU Press, 1996.  277-290.

 

 

REVIEWS

• Review of Christina Crosby, Body Undone. Public Books 15 June 2016.
• Review of Steven Shapiro, Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. San Francisco Chronicle 27 August 2015.
• “American History through the Eyes of the Obscure,” Review of Jill Lepore, Book of Ages:  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, American Literary History  (forthcoming).
• “Disney, Autism, and Whatever Works.”  Review of Ron Suskind, Life, Animated:  A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, LA Review of Books June 16, 2014.
• “Solomon’s Ladder:  On Parenthood, Difference, and Identity.”  Review of Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, LA Review of Books January 26, 2013.
• “A World Where We Are All Autistic (review of Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World), Public Books 7 May 2013.
• “Disability Studies Now,” American Literary History (invited essay, forthcoming).
• “Casting Light on Disability,” American Quarterly 64.4 (2012):  851-860.
• Review of Nancy Bentley, Frantic Panoramas:  American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 in Novel 44.2 (Summer 2011):  305-308.
• Review of Michael Chemers, Staging Stigma:  A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show in Modern Drama 53.1 (Spring 2010):  117-119.
• Review of Ramon Saldivar, The Borderlands of Culture:  Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary in The Americas 64.4 (April 2008):  632-634.
• Review of Robert Aguirre, Informal Empire:  Mexico and Central America in Victorian Literature in The Americas 62.3 (January 2006):  478-479.
• Review of Anna Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere in  Nineteenth Century Literature 60.1 (June 2005):  87-90.
• “Bringing out the Dead:  Inside the Arbus Archive,” American Quarterly March 2005:  207-221.
• Review of Manuel Luis Martinez, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera.  The Americas 61.1 (July 2004): 124-125.
• “The Worlding of American Studies” (review essay), American Quarterly 53.4 (December 2001):  720-732.
• “Behind the Scenes!:  Exploitation Film Exposed” (review of Eric Schaefer, “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959), Minnesota Review 52-54 (Fall 2001):  359-364.
• “Masculinity without Men” (review of Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity), GLQ 6.3 (2000):  467-478.
• Review of Simi Linton, Claiming Disability and Ann Pointon and Chris Davies, eds., Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media.  Signs 26.1 (Autumn 2000):  295-298.
• “Enabling Differences: New Work in Disability Studies,” Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 1998):  342-350.

 

ESSAYS, COMMENTARIES, AND OPINION PIECE

• Book + Worm series, September 2017-present
• “It Happened to Me: My Psychiatrist Told Me She Voted for Donald Trump,” XOJane 2 December 2016.
• “Why Has Japan’s Massacre of Disabled Gone Unnoticed?” The Conversation 29 August 2016.
• “Blogging Illness,” Los Angeles Review of Books 15 July 2016.
• “My Son Has Down syndrome: Stop Telling Me He Has No Future,” Pacific Standard 25 April 2016.
• “On Not Fixing What’s Not Broken,” Huffington Post 4 April 2016.
• “Airline Industry’s Miserable Record with Disabled Travelers,” The Hill 23 March 2016.
• “Arthur Miller’s Lost Opportunity,” Huffington Post 22 March 2016.
• “My Son Is Not A Mascot for Abortion Restrictions,” Washington Post 19 February 2016.
• “Building Disability Literacy, One Brick at a Time,” Huffington Post 10 February 2016.
• “The Muppets Give My Son with Down syndrome Comfort and a Sense of Belonging,” Washington Post 22 September 2015.
• “Plain Old Sibling Rivalry,” Huffington Post 22 July 2015.
• “What Google Can Learn from the Wheelchair,” Reuters 11 June 2015.
• “Depressing Realities,” Inside Higher Ed 1 June 2015
• “Bound and Unbounded” (review of Judith Scott exhibit), Avidly 5 December 2015.
• “Belated but Essential Steps to Respect,” Huffington Post 17 November 2014.
• “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” Avidly 29 October, 2014.
• “Included, Everyone,” Huffington Post 18 June 2014.
• “A Day in the Life,” American Journal of Medical Genetics April 2014.
• “New Tests, Same Old Bias and Misinformation,” Huffington Post 21 October 2013.
• “Growing up with A Disabled Sibling,” The New York Times 10 October 2013.
• “The Damaging Language of ‘Cure’ and Down Syndrome,” Thin Places:  Faith, Family, and Disability with Amy Julia Becker, 2 October 2013.
• “What I’ve Learned Raising a Child with Down Syndrome,” Maria Shriver:  Architects of Change 24 September 2013.
• “Henry Starts School,” Bloom 11 September 2013.
• “The Flip Side of Food Studies,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 2 August 2013.
• “Didn’t You Get Tested?” Salon Magazine 28 April 2013.
• “Our Nation’s Recipe for Food and Bigotry,” Huffington Post 13 April 2013.
• “Multiple Intelligences,” Huffington Post 13 November 2012.
• “Missing the Bus,” Huffington Post 13 September 2012.
• “Olympian Imperfection,” Huffington Post 6 August 2012.
• “Radical Pedagogy,” Huffington Post 25 July 2012.
• Response to “Past and Present of Eugenics,” Bio/Politics Spring 2012.
•  “Looking for Suffering in All the Wrong Places,” Huffington Post 9 March 2012.
• “Bring Down the Barriers, Seen and Unseen,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 6 November 2011. (reprinted in Practical Argument: A Text and Anthology 2/e, ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell)
• “Universal wisdom:  Inclusive teaching can benefit us all,” Times of London Higher Education Supplement 9 June 2011.
• “Narrative’s Medicine,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 6 March 2011.
• “Baby’s Lunch Provides Food for Thought,” in media res 2 March 2011.
• “Through ‘the keyhole’ Utopia,” Times of London Higher Education Supplement 3 June 2010:  40-43.

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Heyman Center Fellow, Columbia University, 2017-2018.
• Grant from Philanthropy Lab to support course on Philanthropy and Social Difference (with Victoria Rosner), Spring 2017, Spring 2018 ($68,000)
• Participant in NEH Humanities Connections project on Medical Humanities (directed by Rishi Goyal)
• Columbia University Humanities Initiative collaborative grant to co-direct (with Maya Sabatello) project on Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
• Public Voices Fellowship, Columbia University, 2016-2017.
• Course Development Grant, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University, 2015
• Course Development Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, 2015
• Delta Gamma Kappa Educators Award (for Raising Henry), 2014
• Schoff Publication Grant, Columbia University Seminars Program, 2013
• Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, Columbia University, 2010
• Faculty Appreciation Award, Liberal Studies Program in American Studies, Columbia University, 2009
• Schoff Publication Grant, Columbia University Seminars Program, 2008
• Co-Chair, NEH Summer Seminar, “Toward a Hemispheric American Literature,” Columbia University, Summer 2007 ($125,000 Institutional Grant)
• Global Fellow, UCLA International Institute, 2004-2005
• Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia University, 2000-2001
• Schoff Publication Grant, Columbia University Seminars Program, 2000
• Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award, Columbia University, School of General Studies, 2000
• Mellon Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas, Austin, Summer 1998
• Council Grant, Columbia University, Summer 1998 and Summer 1999
• Finalist, Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1998
• UCSB Affiliates Graduate Fellowship, 1996
• Outstanding Teaching Award, UCSB English Department (nominee), 1996
• New Doctoral Candidacy Fellowship, 1996
• Yvonne Gartrell Memorial Fellowship, 1993
• “High Pass” First Qualifying Exam, Spring 1993
• Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley

 

INVITED TALKS

• “Some Mother’s Child (Is Dead):  Maternal Care, Crip Temporality, and Failure,” Yale University Americanist Colloquium, 3 November 2017.
• “Mapping Dependency:  Narratives of Giving and Receiving Care,” English Department, Saint Louis University, 25 October 2016
• “Talking Back: 5 Things I’d Like Doctors to Know about Family and Healthcare in Our Post-Genomic Age,” Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 24 October 2016
• “Interdependencies: Narratives of Giving and Receiving Care,” Columbia University Seminar on Disability Culture, and Society, September 2016.
• “Making Time for Our Children:  Challenges and Opportunities for the Special Needs Family,” New Hampshire Family Voices Conference Keynote, April 2016.
• “Motherhood and Disability,” Manhattan Marymount College, December 2015.
• “Brother’s Keeper: Disability, Dependency, and Sibling Narrative,” Princeton University, November 2015.
• “Visualizing Care,” workshop on Choosing Disability, Pennsylvania University, November 2015.
• “From Freaks to Disability Studies: A Conversion Narrative,” Virginia Tech University, October 2015.
• “Raising Henry: Disability Stories and Disability Studies,” workshop on Patient Empowerment and Subjective Wellbeing,” University of Odense, Denmark, May 2015″
• “Making Time for Our Children: Challenges and Opportunities for the Special Needs Family,” New York Zero-to-Three Network, March 2015.
• “Including Henry:  Family, Education, and the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities,” keynote address, Princeton Disability Awareness Conference, November 2014.
• “A Note to the Future,” luncheon keynote, Symposium on Aging, Dementia, and Intellectual Disabilities, Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, NY, May 2014
• Keynote Graduation Address, Program in Occupational Therapy, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, May 2014
• “Bloodletting,” Disability and Life Writing Conference, SUNY Buffalo, April 2014
• “Only for the Healthy?  Toward a Sexual Culture for People with Disabilities,” Keynote Speaker, Undoing Health Graduate Student Conference, Deparment of English, Indiana University, March 2014.
• “From Freaks to Disability Studies:  A Conversion Narrative,” Disability and Change Symposium, Temple University, March 2014.
• “Disability Studies and American Studies,” Brooklyn College, April 2013.
• “Forbidden Intimacies:  Sexuality and Intellectual Disability,” Kemp Malone Lecture, Emory University, March 2013.
• “Seeing, Touching, Feeling:  The Haptic Art of Judith Scott,” Disability and Modernism Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 2013.
• “Unequal Access:  Disability, Teaching, and the University, or The Person at Chehaw Station,” MLA Presidential Forum, Boston, January 2013.
• “Disabling Memoir,” Hiram College, October 2012.
• “Writing a Job Letter,” Academia 2.0: Navigating Academic Careers Today, Fordham University, September 2012.
•  “Teaching Disability,” Drew University, April 2012.
• “On Disability:  Women, Work, and the Academy,” 40 Years of Women at Bowdoin Symposium, April 2012.
• “Her Left Foot:  Gaby Brimmer and the American Routes of Disability Literature,” Plenary Speaker, ESA Conference, CUNY, April 2012.
• “On Judith Scott and the Social Model,” Law and the Social Model Workshop, Columbia University, March 2011.
• “Reading for Ability:  Disability, Aesthetics, and the Art of Judith Scott,” Post45 Conference, Cal Tech University, November 2011.
• “Listening to Gaby:  Disability Rights in Hemispheric Perspective,” Reimaging the Hemispheric South” Conference, UC Santa Barbara, January 2011.
• “Reading for Ability:  Disability Studies, Aesthetics, and the Art of Judith Scott,” University of Maryland, November 2010.
• Roundtable on Teaching American Studies in New York City, Columbia University American Studies Seminar, April 2010.
• “Telling Your Stories:  The Practice of Narrative Medicine,” St. Vincent’s Hospital monthly genetics lecture, April 2010.
• “Pregnant Silences:  Prenatal Testing and Fetal Disability,” Feminist Interventions lecture, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, March 2010.
• “Surprised by Disability,” Disability Studies Seminar, Columbia University, November 2009.
• “Where in the World is North America?” Globalizing American Studies workshop, Indiana University, April 2007.
• “The Greatest Show on Earth:  Freaks in Transnational Context,” keynote speaker, Pathologies conference, Rice University, March 2007.
• “Indigenous Geographies of North America,” Post-1945 American Literature Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2006.
•  “Continental Ops:  Detective Fiction from the U.S. and Mexico,” Columbia University American Studies Seminar, September 2006.
• “Detecting the Continent,” Rice University, April 2005.
• “Women of the South Bank:  The Mexican Routes of North American Modernism,” Laura Romero Memorial Lecture, Stanford University, March 2005.
• “Fugitive Cartography:  Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery,” Yale University, October 2004
• “Where in the World is North America?” American Studies and Ethnic Studies Encounters, Columbia University, April 2004; Globalizing American Studies Conference, Indiana University, April 2007
• “Covering the North American Continent,” Intercultural America Conference, Mainz University, Germany, December 2002
• “Covering the North American Continent,” Plenary Address, American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 2002
• “The Stranger within and the Stranger without:  The Prodigious Body in Inter-American Context,” Americas Seminar, Harvard University, February 2001
• “‘Her connection with the world’:  Djuna Barnes’s Coney Island and Transnational Modernism,” St. John’s University, February 20001
• “Born in the U.S.A.:  American Masculinities in Transnational Context,” Keynote Speaker, Masculinities Conference, University of Basel, Switzerland, June 2000
• “From Side Show to the Streets:  Performing the Secret Self,” Invited Speaker, American Civilization Seminar, Columbia University, February 2000
• “Embodying the City: The New York Portraiture of Diane Arbus,” Invited Speaker, Centennial Views, NYMASA annual conference, New York University, February 1999
• “Freaks of Culture:  The Sideshow, the Museum, The Ethnographic Specimen,” Invited Speaker, Trinity College Center for Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, December 1998
• “Freaking Beloved: Body, Community, and ‘the spectacle of whitefolks,” Invited Presentation, Department of English, New York University, October 1997
• “Diane Arbus and the Fashioning of Freaks,” Invited Presentation, Cal State Northridge New Scholars Lecture Series, April 1996

 

 

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Moderator, Cripping Keywords roundtable, Modern Language Association, January 2017.
• Moderator, “Disability,” Queer Disruptions conference, Columbia University, October 2016.
• The Promises and Challenges of Precision Medicine, Columbia University, February 2016.
• Roundtable on Modernism, Feminism, and Disability, Modern Language Association Conference, Vancouver, January 2015.
• Chair, roundtable on “The Scholar-Parent,” Modern Language Association Conference, Vancouver, January 2015.
• “Writing, Parenting, and Advocacy,” YAI International Conference, New York, NY, April, 2014.
• “Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge,” Panel Chair, Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, January 2014.
• “Genetic Disability and the Nature-Nurture Divide,” American Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, November 2013.
• “Keywords:  Form and Content,” Medicine, the Humanities, and the Human Sciences Conference, Columbia University, April 2013.
• “The Politics of Storytelling, or, Why the World Needs Yet Another Disability Memoir,” Narrative Medicine in the 21^st Century Conference, Ohio State University, April 2013.
• Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Disability Studies, and Being Wrong, Modern Language Association panel chair, January 2013.
• “Toward an Inter-American Disability Studies,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.
• Narrative and Intellectual Disability, panel chair and organizer, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, January 2011.
• “Pregnant Silences:  Prenatal Testing and Fetal Disability,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, January 2011.
• “The Anti-Grotesque, or, A Defense of Normalcy,” American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2009.

 

READINGS, GUEST SEMINARS, AND LECTURES

• Breakout session on Parenting, Writing, and Advocacy, New Hampshire Family Voices Conference, Manchester, NH, April 2016.
• Organizer and speaker, Keywords: Choice, Columbia University, March 2016.
• Organizer, Keywords/Key Questions symposium, Columbia University, October 2015.
• Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland exhibit program, Hartford, CT, April 2015.
• Breakout Session, Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Convention, Indianapolis, IN, July 2014
• Narrative Medicine Writing Group, North Shore LIJ Hospital, NY, April 2014
• NYU Council on Disability, April 2014.
• University of California, Berkeley, English Department/Disability Studies, March 2014.
• Down syndrome Association of Delaware, March 2014.
• Villanova University, English Department/Women’s Studies, February 2014.
• University of Pennsylvania English Department/Disability Studies, February 2014.
• Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago, IL, January 2014.
• Narrative Medicine Rounds, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, November 2013.
• Fordham University, November 2013.
• Book Culture, October 2013.
• Book Salon, New York Metro American Studies Association, October 2013.
• “Rhetorics of Disability” workshop (with Michael Berube), Rhetoric Society of America, Lawrence, KS, June 2013.

• Introduction to screening of Yo Tambien, Bronx Community College, April 2013.
• CUNY graduate center, March 2013.
• New School for Social Research, September 2012.
• American Language Program, Columbia University, February 2012.
• Reelabilities Film Festival panelist, The Last American Freak Show, New York, December 2010.
• Book Salon, New York Metro American Studies Association, May 2010.
• Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents, St. Vincent’s Hospital, January 2010.
• Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College, January 2010
• Seminar on American Modernism, New York University Faculty Resource Network, June 2004
• Emory University, February 2003
• Maryland Art Institute, October 2002
• Disability Studies Panel, Haverford College, October 2002
• Guest Lecturer, New York University Faculty Resource Network, June 2002
• Phi Beta Kappa Address, CUNY Staten Island, May 2002
• Dean’s Day, Columbia University, April 2002
• Book Salon, New York Metro American Studies Association, February 2002
• Saint John’s University, February 2001
• Visual Culture Group, New York, November 2000
• Disability Studies Seminar, Fordham University, November 2000
• Wagner College, October 2000
• Performance Studies Graduate Seminar, Dartmouth College, July 2000
• Seminar on Emergent Literatures, NYU Faculty Network Program, June 2000
• Columbia American Studies Seminar, February 2000
• Lifelong Learners Program, Columbia University, September 2000
• Introduction to American Studies course, Columbia University, October 2000

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Philanthropy and Social Difference, Columbia University English Department, Spring 2017.
• Feminism and Disability Studies, Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar, Columbia University English Department, Spring 2016.
• MA seminar, Columbia University English Department, Fall 2015.
• Gender, Embodiment, and Life Writing, Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Spring 2015.
• Narrative and Disability, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Fall 2013, Fall 2015.
• Memoir:  Illness, Disability, and Embodiment, Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar, Columbia University English Department, Spring 2013.
• Food and American Culture, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Spring 2013.
• Disability, Embodiment, and Social Justice, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Spring 2012; Spring 2015.
• Food Writing, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Summer Session, 2011, 2014; Spring 2012; Fall 2014.
• Disability Studies, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University English Department, Spring 2011.
• Contemporary Fiction, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Summer Session, 2010; Spring 2011.
• Contemporary Fiction, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University English Department, Fall 2009.
• Disability in American Literature and Culture, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Summer Session, 2009; Columbia University American Studies Program, Fall 2009.
• Food and American Life, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Spring 2009; Fall 2010.
• American Borderlands, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, Spring 2009.
• American Modernism, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, Fall 2008, Fall 2011; Fall 2014.
• American Modernism, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, Fall 2008, Fall 2011; Fall 2014.
• Post-1945 American Literature, Undergraduate Lecture, Columbia University Department of English, Fall 2007; Fall 2010; Fall 2012.
• American Studies:  Theories, Methods, Approaches, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Fall 2006, Fall 2007.
• North American Border Narratives, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Fall 2005
• Contemporary American Fiction, Undergraduate Seminar, UCLA Department of English, Spring 2005
• Border Narratives, Undergraduate Seminar, UCLA Department of English, Winter 2005
• American Studies:  Theory and Methods, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University American Studies Program, Spring 2004
• Feminist Texts II (1945-present), Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 2004
• Literature of the Americas (with Cyrus Patell), Faculty Seminar, Faculty Resource Network, New York University, June 2003
• Literature of the Americas, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English 2003
• American Literature in Transnational Context, Senior Seminar, Columbia University Department of English 2003
• Contemporary Fiction, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, 2002, 2003
• American Studies, Undergraduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, 2002
• American Modernism, Columbia University Department of English, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011.
• American Literature in Transnational Context, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English 2001
• American Studies, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, 2000
• Feminist Pedagogy (with Julie Crawford), Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, 2000
• U.S. Culture of the Vietnam Era, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, 1999
• Film and Literature: American Masculinities, Columbia University Department of English, 1998 and 1999
• The Ethnic American “I”, Graduate Seminar, Columbia University Department of English, 1998
• Film and Literature: Race, Gender, Nation, Columbia University Department of English, 1997
• Literature Humanities, Columbia University, 1997-2000; 2001
• Introduction to the English Major, UC Santa Barbara Department of English, 1995
• The Modern Short Story, UC Santa Barbara Department of English, 1995
• Research Writing, UC Santa Barbara Writing Program, 1995, 1996
• Introduction to Academic Writing, UC Santa Barbara Writing Program, 1993-1994

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Division on Disability Studies, Modern Language Association, 2016-2019.
• Affiliate, Post-45 Collective
• Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession, Modern Language Association, 2012-2015
• Editorial Board, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
• NEH funded Project Consultant for Coney Island:  Visions of an American Dreamland, Yale University Art Gallery, 2010-2011
• Advisory Editor, Studies in American Fiction
• American Literature Executive Committee, Modern Language Association, 2008-2011
• Twentieth Century American Literature Delegate, Modern Language Association, 2008-2011
• Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association
• Women’s Committee, American Studies Association
• New York Metro American Studies Association Conference Coordinating Committee, “September 11:  One Year Later,” City Museum of New York, 19 October 2002
• Board Member, New York Metro American Studies Association, 2000-2003
• Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar in American Studies, 1999-2003
• Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of American Countercultures
• Manuscript Reviewer, Blackwell Publishers, Columbia University Press, University of Michigan Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Signs, Differences, Meridians:  Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
• Managing Editor, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 1994-1997

 

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Steering Committee, Precision Medicine and Society, 2016-present
• Director, Center for the Study of Social Difference, 2015-2017
• Co-director (with Maya Sabatello), working group on Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture, 2016-2017 (funded by a grant from Columbia Humanities Initiative)
• Chair, Asian American Search Committee, Columbia University, 2016-2017.
• Organizing Committee, Queer Disruptions: A Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, 2015-2016.
• Hiring Committee (Director of Development), Center for the Study of Social Difference, 2016.
• Member, Women and Gender Studies Council, Columbia University, 2015-present
• Fundraising Committee, Center for the Study of Social Difference, 2015-2017.
• Chair, Committee on Precision Medicine and Society, 2015-2016
• Sustainable Worlds Project development committee, 2014-2015
• English Department Mellon Search Committee, 2014-2015
• Bancroft Prize in American History Award Committee, 2012-2013
• Personnel Committee, English Department, 2012-2013, 2015-2016
• Chair, Committee on Instruction subgroup on disability, Columbia University, 2011-2012
• Faculty Advisor, Columbia University chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), 2012
• Chair, 19^th Century American Search Committee, Columbia University, 2011
• Undergraduate Committee, English Department, Columbia University, 2011-2012
• CSER Search Committee, Columbia University, 2010-2011
• University Writing Program Search Committee, Columbia University, 2010-2011
• Faculty Advisor, Metta House (campus sustainable living house), 2009-2010
• English Department Search Committee, 2009
• Mellon Search Committee, English Department, Columbia University, 2008-2009
• University Writing Program Faculty Committee, Columbia University, 2008-present
• Curriculum Committee, American Studies Program, Columbia University, 2009-present
• Associate Director, American Studies Program, Columbia University, 2005-2009
• Executive Committee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, 2008-2009, 2010-present
• Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Fall 2005-present
• Affiliated Faculty:  Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, American Studies Program
• Personnel Committee, English Department, Fall 2006
• American Studies search committee, Barnard College, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
• Speaker, Preparing for Graduate School panel, Fall 2005
• American Studies Steering Committee, 2001-present
• University Seminars Advisory Committee, 2002-2007
• Co-Chair, American Studies Seminar, 1999-2003
• MA Program Director, English Department, 2001-2004
• Co-organizer, Women on the Line:  Women and Work on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Columbia University, April 2003
• Faculty Committee for Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, 2002-2004
• Faculty Search Committee, 2001-2002
• Committee on Graduate Instruction, 1998-1999, 2001-2004, 2015-2016
• Curriculum Committee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 1999-2000, 2001-2002
• MA Essay Award Committee, 2002, 2003, 2004
• Post-colonial Studies Faculty Search Committee, 1999-2000
• Latino Studies Faculty Search Committee, 1999-2000
• Graduate Funds for Summer Research, Awards Committee, 2000
• Judge, Bunner Award for Best Graduate Essay on American Literature, 2000, 2002, 2004
• Graduate Student Teaching Observations, Composition Program, 1999-2001
• Curriculum Committee, 1998-1999
• Lectures Committee, 1998-1999