Christine L. Grogan
University of Delaware
Dover Campus
Education Technology Building
Room 759
Dover, DE 19904
cgrogan@udel.edu
http://christinegrogan.weebly.com
Education
Ph.D. University of South Florida, English, May 2011
Certificate in Women’s Studies, May 2008
M.A. University of Richmond, English, May 2004
B.A. University of Delaware, English, magna cum laude, May 2002
Publications
Book
Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Articles
“In transition: Catholic Overtones in Kay Boyle’s ‘Theme’ and Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” South Central Review 35.2. (2018): 103-116.
“Embodying Conflicted Faith and Questionable Grace: The Women of Robert Stone’s ‘Helping’ and ‘Miserere.’” Literature and Belief 37.1 (2017): 25-47.
“Authorship and Artistry: Zelda Fitzgerald’s ‘A Millionaire's Girl’ and ‘Miss Ella.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 110-29.
“Teaching Incest, the Erotic, and Lesbianism; or, The Troubles Teaching Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Sarah Namulondo, co-author. EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 11 (2014): 94-124.
“Lolita Revisited: Reading Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 43.1 (2014): 52-72.
“‘Naw You Ain’t No Man’: Rereading the Patriarchal Phallocentrism in the Trueblood Episode of Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Feminist Studies in English Literature 21.1 (2013): 39-66.
Book Review
Review of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Deborah Pike. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1 (2018): 223-25. (invited)
Review of Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. RMMLA 61.2 (2007): 127-30.
Forthcoming Articles
“Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter's ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” Mississippi Quarterly
“Parker’s Black? A Rereading of Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” Renascence
Honors and Awards
Cooley Scholarship for Doctoral Work in American Literature, University of South Florida, 2010, $2,000
Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship Award, University of South Florida, 2010, $750
John and Dorothy Iorio Award for Outstanding English Graduate Student in Literature, University of South Florida, 2009, $500
Williams Scholar, University of Richmond, 2002-2004, $10,000
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, English Department, 2018-present
ENGL 110: Seminar in Composition
ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature
Associate Teaching Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2017-2018
ENGL 202D: Business Writing
Senior Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2015-2018
ENGL 202D: Business Writing
MA and MFA Advisor, University of South Florida, English Department, 2013-2015
Counseled MA and MFA students
Developed strategies to ensure that students completed degree requirements
Served as a liaison between students and faculty and graduate director
Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida, English Department, 2011-present
AML 3051: American Literature 1912-1945
ENC 1101 and 1102: Composition I and II
ENC 3250: Professional Writing
ENG 3014: Literary Methodology
LIT 2000: Introduction to Literature
LIT 2040: Introduction to Drama
LIT 3155: Twentieth Century Literature
LIT 3301: Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of South Florida, English Department, 2005-2011
ENC 1101 and 1102: Composition I and II
LIT 2010: Introduction to Fiction
LIT 2030: Introduction to Poetry
LIT 3022: Modern Short Prose
LIT 3093: Contemporary Literature
Tutor, University of South Florida, Student Affairs & Student Services, Project Thrust Mentoring Program, Summer 2007
Research Assistant, University of Richmond, English Department, for Drs. Abigail Cheever, Daryl Dance, Terryl Givens, Elisabeth Gruner, and Anthony Russell, 2002-2004
Editorial Experience
Editor, Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
Literature Coeditor, Banyan, University of South Florida, 2007
Editorial Assistant, Victorians Institute Journal 30, University of Richmond, 2002
Conference Presentations
“In transition: Katherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle.” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017
“The Body as Site of Healing in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Co-authored by Sarah Namulondo. RMMLA Convention, Boulder, CO, October 2012
“How Brother Killed the Pregnant Rabbit: Reflections on ‘The Grave’ and ‘How Baby Talked to the Fairies.’” Round Table Discussion on “‘The Downward Path’: Depictions of Childhood in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction.” ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2010 (Invited)
“‘But She Was Too Free’: Aunt Amy’s Mysterious Hemorrhage in Porter’s ‘Old Mortality.’” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2009
“Single and Fabulous?: The Golden Girls of Sex and the City.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco, CA, March 2008
“Daddy’s Girls: Phallic Power and Perverse Paternity in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night and Mailer’s An American Dream.” Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2007
“A Reading of ‘That Tree’: Katherine Anne Porter as Expatriate.” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007
Professional Development
Participant, University of Delaware's Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning First Friday Roundtable: "Building Community, even in Your Large Classroom," University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 2018
Online Teacher Training, Foundations for Online Teaching Certificate, The Pennsylvania State University, World Campus, 2017
OL 1000: Introduction to World Campus, May 2017
OL 2000: Essentials to Online Teaching, June 2017
OL 2100: Introduction to Canvas, October 2017
OL 3000: Supporting Accessibility for Online Learners, August 2017
Service
Service to the Profession
President, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2013-present
Chair, "Katherine Anne Porter: A Woman of Letters." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2018
Member, Steering Committee, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2014-present
Moderator, “‘The Truth that Finally Overtakes You’: Katherine Anne Porter.” American Women Writers National Museum, Washington, D.C., May 2014
Reviewer, Bedford/St Martin’s new edition of a poetry anthology, May 2014
Chair, "Reading and Teaching Katherine Anne Porter." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2013
Reviewer, Pacific Coast Philology, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 2016; Twentieth-Century Literature, 2015; University of North Texas Press, Twentieth-Century Literature, and ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 2013
Service to the Department
Member, Undergraduate English Honors Thesis Committee, Stephanie Potthoff, 2013, and Kristen Gay, 2011
Conference Organizer, “Anything But Safe: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” English Graduate Student Association, University of South Florida, 2009
Assistant, Department of English Graduate Recruitment Committee, University of South Florida, 2008-2009
Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association, University of South Florida, 2006-2007
Service to the Community
Volunteer, Delaware Coastal Cleanup, Kitts Hummock Beach, DE, September 2018
Volunteer, Open Streets Dover: Faith, Fun, and Fitness, Cecil and N. New Streets, Dover, DE, September 2018
University of Delaware
Dover Campus
Education Technology Building
Room 759
Dover, DE 19904
cgrogan@udel.edu
http://christinegrogan.weebly.com
Education
Ph.D. University of South Florida, English, May 2011
Certificate in Women’s Studies, May 2008
M.A. University of Richmond, English, May 2004
B.A. University of Delaware, English, magna cum laude, May 2002
Publications
Book
Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Articles
“In transition: Catholic Overtones in Kay Boyle’s ‘Theme’ and Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” South Central Review 35.2. (2018): 103-116.
“Embodying Conflicted Faith and Questionable Grace: The Women of Robert Stone’s ‘Helping’ and ‘Miserere.’” Literature and Belief 37.1 (2017): 25-47.
“Authorship and Artistry: Zelda Fitzgerald’s ‘A Millionaire's Girl’ and ‘Miss Ella.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 110-29.
“Teaching Incest, the Erotic, and Lesbianism; or, The Troubles Teaching Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Sarah Namulondo, co-author. EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 11 (2014): 94-124.
“Lolita Revisited: Reading Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 43.1 (2014): 52-72.
“‘Naw You Ain’t No Man’: Rereading the Patriarchal Phallocentrism in the Trueblood Episode of Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Feminist Studies in English Literature 21.1 (2013): 39-66.
Book Review
Review of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Deborah Pike. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1 (2018): 223-25. (invited)
Review of Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. RMMLA 61.2 (2007): 127-30.
Forthcoming Articles
“Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter's ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” Mississippi Quarterly
“Parker’s Black? A Rereading of Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” Renascence
Honors and Awards
Cooley Scholarship for Doctoral Work in American Literature, University of South Florida, 2010, $2,000
Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship Award, University of South Florida, 2010, $750
John and Dorothy Iorio Award for Outstanding English Graduate Student in Literature, University of South Florida, 2009, $500
Williams Scholar, University of Richmond, 2002-2004, $10,000
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, English Department, 2018-present
ENGL 110: Seminar in Composition
ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature
Associate Teaching Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2017-2018
ENGL 202D: Business Writing
Senior Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2015-2018
ENGL 202D: Business Writing
MA and MFA Advisor, University of South Florida, English Department, 2013-2015
Counseled MA and MFA students
Developed strategies to ensure that students completed degree requirements
Served as a liaison between students and faculty and graduate director
Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida, English Department, 2011-present
AML 3051: American Literature 1912-1945
ENC 1101 and 1102: Composition I and II
ENC 3250: Professional Writing
ENG 3014: Literary Methodology
LIT 2000: Introduction to Literature
LIT 2040: Introduction to Drama
LIT 3155: Twentieth Century Literature
LIT 3301: Cultural Studies & Pop Arts
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of South Florida, English Department, 2005-2011
ENC 1101 and 1102: Composition I and II
LIT 2010: Introduction to Fiction
LIT 2030: Introduction to Poetry
LIT 3022: Modern Short Prose
LIT 3093: Contemporary Literature
Tutor, University of South Florida, Student Affairs & Student Services, Project Thrust Mentoring Program, Summer 2007
Research Assistant, University of Richmond, English Department, for Drs. Abigail Cheever, Daryl Dance, Terryl Givens, Elisabeth Gruner, and Anthony Russell, 2002-2004
Editorial Experience
Editor, Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
Literature Coeditor, Banyan, University of South Florida, 2007
Editorial Assistant, Victorians Institute Journal 30, University of Richmond, 2002
Conference Presentations
“In transition: Katherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle.” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017
“The Body as Site of Healing in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Co-authored by Sarah Namulondo. RMMLA Convention, Boulder, CO, October 2012
“How Brother Killed the Pregnant Rabbit: Reflections on ‘The Grave’ and ‘How Baby Talked to the Fairies.’” Round Table Discussion on “‘The Downward Path’: Depictions of Childhood in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction.” ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2010 (Invited)
“‘But She Was Too Free’: Aunt Amy’s Mysterious Hemorrhage in Porter’s ‘Old Mortality.’” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2009
“Single and Fabulous?: The Golden Girls of Sex and the City.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco, CA, March 2008
“Daddy’s Girls: Phallic Power and Perverse Paternity in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night and Mailer’s An American Dream.” Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2007
“A Reading of ‘That Tree’: Katherine Anne Porter as Expatriate.” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007
Professional Development
Participant, University of Delaware's Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning First Friday Roundtable: "Building Community, even in Your Large Classroom," University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 2018
Online Teacher Training, Foundations for Online Teaching Certificate, The Pennsylvania State University, World Campus, 2017
OL 1000: Introduction to World Campus, May 2017
OL 2000: Essentials to Online Teaching, June 2017
OL 2100: Introduction to Canvas, October 2017
OL 3000: Supporting Accessibility for Online Learners, August 2017
Service
Service to the Profession
President, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2013-present
Chair, "Katherine Anne Porter: A Woman of Letters." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2018
Member, Steering Committee, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2014-present
Moderator, “‘The Truth that Finally Overtakes You’: Katherine Anne Porter.” American Women Writers National Museum, Washington, D.C., May 2014
Reviewer, Bedford/St Martin’s new edition of a poetry anthology, May 2014
Chair, "Reading and Teaching Katherine Anne Porter." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2013
Reviewer, Pacific Coast Philology, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 2016; Twentieth-Century Literature, 2015; University of North Texas Press, Twentieth-Century Literature, and ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 2013
Service to the Department
Member, Undergraduate English Honors Thesis Committee, Stephanie Potthoff, 2013, and Kristen Gay, 2011
Conference Organizer, “Anything But Safe: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” English Graduate Student Association, University of South Florida, 2009
Assistant, Department of English Graduate Recruitment Committee, University of South Florida, 2008-2009
Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association, University of South Florida, 2006-2007
Service to the Community
Volunteer, Delaware Coastal Cleanup, Kitts Hummock Beach, DE, September 2018
Volunteer, Open Streets Dover: Faith, Fun, and Fitness, Cecil and N. New Streets, Dover, DE, September 2018
