Christine L. Grogan
University of Delaware
Dover Campus
759 Education Technology Building
Dover, DE 19904
[email protected]
http://christinegrogan.weebly.com
Academic Appointments
University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, Dover, DE
Associate Professor, 2022-present
Assistant Professor, 2018-2022
- COMM 212: Public Speaking and Professional Presentation
- ENGL 110: Seminar in Composition
- ENGL 204: American Literature
- ENGL 210: Introduction to the Short Story
- ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 290: Studies in Literature: African American Literature
- ENGL 312: Written Communications in Business
- WOMS/LLCU 330: Varying Authors, Themes, and Movements: African Women’s Literature
The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, State College, PA
Associate Teaching Professor, 2017-2018
Senior Lecturer, 2015-2018
- ENGL 202D: Business Writing (resident and online)
University of South Florida, English Department, Tampa, FL
MA and MFA Advisor, 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
- AML 3051: American Literature 1912-1945
- ENC 1101 and 1102: Composition I and II
- ENC 3250: Professional & Technical 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
- 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
- Mentored public high school graduates who were provisionally accepted into USF
- Worked one-on-one and guided students through the writing process
- Prepared students to transition into a bachelor’s degree program
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, Business and Technical Writing, magna cum laude, May 2002
Publications
Book
Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Anthology: Open Educational Resource
Editor. Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020. An Open Anthology. 2021.
Articles
“Opportunity Cost in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru: Refinancing Efuru’s Inherited Wealth through Uhamiri.” Sarah Namulondo, co-author. English in Africa 49.1 (2022): 71-93.
“Parker’s Black? A Rereading of Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” Renascence 72.1 (2020): 25-42.
“Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” Mississippi Quarterly 72.1 (2019): 49-68.
“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): 103-16.
“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.
Note
“Kay Boyle and the 'Jewel of Inconsistencies.’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 36.4 (2023): 588-592.
Encyclopedia Entry
“Robert Stone.” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020, First Edition. Ed. Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen J. Burn, and Lesley Larkin. Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. 1267-1271.
Bibliography
Unrue, Darlene H.; Grogan, Christine. “Katherine Anne Porter.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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
“Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall be Tanga: An African Diasporic Anomaly.” The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature. Ed. Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide. 2024. 491-502.
Editorial Experience
Editor, Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
Literature Coeditor, Banyan, University of South Florida, 2007
Editorial Assistant, Victorians Institute Journal 30, University of Richmond, 2002
Conference Presentations
“Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall be Tanga: An African Diasporic Anomaly.” African Literature Association Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 2023
“Kay Boyle and the ‘Jewel of Inconsistencies.’” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2021
“Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” American Literature Association (ALA) Conference, Boston, MA, May 2019
“Kay Boyle and the ‘Color Question.’” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2019
“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.” Sarah Namulondo, co-author. 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
Service
Service to the Profession
Katherine Anne Porter Society
Newsletter Contributor, The Katherine Anne Porter Society Newsletter, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
President, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2013-2019
Executive Committee Member, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2009-present
Conference Chair, 2018, 2013
“Katherine Anne Porter: A Woman of Letters.” ALA Conference, San Francisco, May 2018
“Reading and Teaching Katherine Anne Porter.” ALA Conference, Boston, May 2013
Moderator, “‘The Truth that Finally Overtakes You’: Katherine Anne Porter.” American Women Writers National Museum, Washington, DC, May 2014
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
Vice President of Membership and Finances, 2019-2022
Conference Chair, 2021,“19th-Century Environments and Ecologies.” SSAWW Conference, Baltimore, November 2021
Committee Member, Nominations Committee, SSAWW, 2018
Member, Advisory Board, SSAWW, 2014-2020 (two terms)
Blog Contributor, “On Boyle’s Short Stories,” The Kay Boyle Society Web site, October 2019, https://kbs.hypotheses.org/385
Reviewer, Textual Practice, 2021; Humanities Bulletin, 2020; PMLA, 2019; Pacific Coast Philology and 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 (all reviewed by invitation)
Reviewer, Bedford/St Martin’s new edition of a poetry anthology, May 2014 (invited)
Service to the College and University
Senator, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, University of Delaware, 2020-present
AAP Representative, Blue and Golden Open House Event, University of Delaware, 2022
Member, Student Evaluations Committee (Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee), University of Delaware, 2022-present
Service to the Department
Faculty Advisor, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, Dover, 2018-present
Member, Academic Advisory Committee, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, 2023
Member, Peer Review Committee, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, 2022-2023
Member, Program Goals Group, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, 2022-present
Co-Faculty Advisor, Student Engagement Club, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, Dover, 2018-2020
Member, Equity and Inclusion Committee, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, 2020-present
Dover Faculty Advisor, UDARI Grant, Kali Barnes, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, 2022
Member, Faculty Mentoring Protocol Committee, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, Dover, 2019
Assistant to Librarian Lauren Wallis, AAP English 110 Library Module Pilot Project, University of Delaware, 2019
Coordinator, African American Read-In, University of Delaware, Associate in Arts Program, Dover, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
Volunteer, College Application Month, Caesar Rodney High School, Camden, DE, November 2018
Reader, Undergraduate English Honors Thesis Committee, University of South Florida, Tampa, Stephanie Potthoff, 2013, and Kristen Gay, 2011
Service to the Community
Volunteer Liaison, Unity Community Garden, 101 N. Queen Street, Dover, DE, April and May 2022; October and November 2021
Volunteer Liaison, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Coastal Cleanup, Kitts Hummock Beach, DE, October 2023, September 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018
Beach Grass Planting, Kitts Hummock Beach, DE, 2023, 2022, 2019
Volunteer, Open Streets Dover
Go Pink! Health Fair, October 2019
“Silver Lake Day,” Silver Lake Park, August 2019
“Spring into Action,” Flyer Distribution, April 2019
“The West-End Capital Holiday Celebration,” Loockerman Street, November 2018
“Mayor’s Cup 5K Run/Walk and Row,” Silver Lake Park, October 2018
“Faith, Fun, and Fitness,” Cecil and N. New Streets, September 2018
Professional Development
Faculty Facilitator Trainee, MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access Oriented Institutions, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024
“MLA Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy: Outcomes, Lessons Learned, and Paths Forward”
Workshop 1 and 2
Participant, University of Delaware’s The Winter Institute on Learning, 2023
“Assessing Program Educational Goals,” virtual, January 24-25, 2023
Panelist, University of Delaware’s The Summer Institute on Teaching, 2022, 2021
“Source Evaluation: Methods and Misunderstandings,” virtual, June 2, 2022
“Reducing Barriers Through Open and Affordable Teaching Materials,” virtual, June 2, 2021
Participant, University of Delaware’s The Summer Institute on Teaching, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019
“Defining and Measuring Teaching Excellence: Update from an Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee," 2023
“College Student Realities in a Pandemic—and Beyond,” 2021
“Assessing Student Learning Through Oral Exams,” 2021
“Spring Into Fall: Lessons Learned from UD Pandemic Classrooms,” 2021
“Remarking Upon Learning: Annotation Across Texts and Contexts,” 2021
“Annotate Your Syllabus,” 2021
“Helping Students ‘Learn How to Learn,’” 2021
“Improving First-Year Students’ Transition for the Student and the Parent: From the Residence
Halls, to the Classroom, to All Available Resources,” 2021
“Perusing Perusall: Get Students to Read More While You Grade Less,” 2020
“How Specifications Grading Can Change College Assessments,” 2020
“Mobile, Global, and Any Time: Universal Design for Learning,” 2019
“Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone with Universal Design for Learning,” 2019
“Dwelling on the Research Process: Time in the Undergraduate Classroom,” 2019
“Using Student-Curated Exhibitions to Facilitate Authentic Learning,” 2019
“Toward a Student-Ready Campus: Data from the Associate in Arts Program—Wilmington,” 2019
“Design for the Mind: Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies from Psychology and the Learning Sciences,” 2019
“Affordable and Open Resources Panel,” 2019
“Making Canvas Courses Accessible,” 2019
“Generating Reflective Writing Exercises,” 2019
“What We’ve Learned about Teaching from Peer Observations,” 2019
Presenter, University of Delaware’s English Faculty Forum, virtual, February 24, 2022
Participant, Remote Teaching with Eric Mazur, Harvard University, virtual, August 14, 2020
Participant, University of Delaware’s Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) Friday Roundtable, 2020, 2019, 2018
“Establishing and Maintaining Authentic Presence Online,” Zoom, April 2020
“Assignments that Click: Tapping into Student Creativity with Digital Multimedia Projects,” Newark, DE, October 2019
“Ban Technology from the Classroom or Embrace It?” Newark, DE, May 2019
“Documenting Your Teaching for Promotion and Tenure,” Newark, DE, February 2019
Making Group Work Work,” Newark, DE, October 2018
“Building Community, Even in Your Large Classroom,” Newark, DE, September 2018
Participant, “Write Winning Grant Proposals,” University of Delaware, Newark, DE, January 2019
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
Grants and Awards
Instructional Improvement Grant from UD’s CTAL to develop an open-access American literature anthology
Cooley Scholarship for Doctoral Work in American Literature, University of South Florida, 2010
Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship Award, University of South Florida, 2010
John and Dorothy Iorio Award for Outstanding English Graduate Student in Literature, University of South Florida, 2009
Williams Scholar, University of Richmond, 2002-2004