Christine L. Grogan
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of English
434 Burrowes Building
State College, PA 16802
clg5579@psu.edu
http://christinegrogan.weebly.com
Education
Ph.D. University of South Florida, English, May 2011
Dissertation: "The Wound and the Voiceless: The Insidious Trauma of Father-Daughter Incest in Six American Texts"
Dissertation Director: Elizabeth Hirsh
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.
Articles
"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 Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. RMMLA 61.2 (2007): 127-30.
Forthcoming Article
"Embodying Conflicted Faith and Questionable Grace: The Women of Robert Stone’s 'Helping' and 'Miserere.'" Literature and Belief
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
Senior Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2015-present
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, 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
Service
Service to the Profession
President, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2013-present
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 Associatio 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
Department of English
434 Burrowes Building
State College, PA 16802
clg5579@psu.edu
http://christinegrogan.weebly.com
Education
Ph.D. University of South Florida, English, May 2011
Dissertation: "The Wound and the Voiceless: The Insidious Trauma of Father-Daughter Incest in Six American Texts"
Dissertation Director: Elizabeth Hirsh
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.
Articles
"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 Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. RMMLA 61.2 (2007): 127-30.
Forthcoming Article
"Embodying Conflicted Faith and Questionable Grace: The Women of Robert Stone’s 'Helping' and 'Miserere.'" Literature and Belief
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
Senior Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, English Department, 2015-present
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, 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
Service
Service to the Profession
President, Katherine Anne Porter Society, 2013-present
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 Associatio 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
