Susan Elizabeth Farrell
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ADDRESS
104
Battlewood Avenue
Department of English
Charleston,
SC 29407
College of Charleston
(843)
571-1008
Charleston, SC 29424
e-mail: farrells@cofc.edu (843) 953-5785
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
English, August 1993, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: "Ethnic Women Writers in Post
Civil Rights Era America"
Dissertation
Committee Chair: Professor Evan
Carton
M.A.,
English, 1987, University of
Texas at Austin
B.A.,
English, College Honors and Honors in English, 1985, Austin College
EMPLOYMENT
College
of Charleston:
Associate Professor of English 1999-present
Assistant Professor of English
1993-1999
Austin College: Adjunct
Instructor of English
1991
University of Texas: Assistant
Instructor of English 1985-1991
COURSES TAUGHT
Literature
Courses
Contemporary American Fiction
College of Charleston
Women Writers (British and American )
College of Charleston
Major Authors: Morrison
and Erdrich College
of Charleston
Literature of the Vietnam War
College of Charleston
American Literature Survey
College of Charleston
Experiences in Literature Austin
College
Masterworks of American/British Literature
University of Texas at Austin
Composition
Courses
Composition and Literature College of Charleston
Honors Composition and Literature College
of Charleston
Introduction to Writing Austin
College
Writing About Contemporary Women Authors University
of Texas at Austin
Rhetoric & Composition University of Texas at Austin
PUBLICATIONS
(Refereed Articles and Books)
“Tim O’Brien and
Gender: A Defense of The Things
They Carried.” Accepted for publication in The CEA
Critic. Forthcoming.
Jane Smiley's A
Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide.
Continuum Contemporaries Series.
New York: Continuum, 2001.
"Colonizing
Columbus: Dorris and Erdrich's
Postmodern Novel." Critique:
Studies in Contemporary Fiction
40.2 (Winter 1999): 121-135.
"Fight vs.
Flight: A Re-evaluation of Dee in
Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use.'" Studies in Short Fiction 35.2 (Spring 1998): 179-186.
"Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine." The
Explicator 56.2 (Winter 1998): 109-112.
"'Who'd He Leave
Behind?'" Gender and History
in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." Having Our Way: Women Rewriting the Tradition in
Twentieth-Century America. Special issue of the Bucknell Review 39.1 (Spring 1995): 131-150.
"Sexual Relationships
in The Woman Who Escaped From Shame
." The Review of
Contemporary Fiction 11.2 (Summer 1991): 199-209.
PUBLICATIONS
(Invited Articles and Reviews)
“Louise Erdrich,”
“Love Medicine,” “Tracks,” “Alice McDermott,” “Dori Sanders,” Encyclopedia
of Multiethnic American Literature:
Five Volumes. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. Forthcoming.
“Louise Erdrich”
and “Michael Dorris.” Popular Contemporary Writers. Ed.
Thomas McCarthy. New York: Marshall Cavendish Publishers. Forthcoming, 2005.
"Alice
McDermott." Dictionary of
Literary Biography: Twenty-first
Century Novelists. Vol. 292. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Group, 2004. 231-239.
“Author Lillian
Gilbreth ‘Supermom” of Another Era.”
Rev. of Making Time:
Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Life Beyond ‘Cheaper by the Dozen,’” by Jane Lancaster. Charleston Post and Courier 20 June 2004:
3E.
“Horsing
Around: Pulitzer Prize-Winning
Author Explores her Obsession with Horses, Often to a Weird Degree.” Rev. of A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love,
Money, and Luck, by Jane
Smiley. Charleston Post and
Courier 13 June 2004: 3E.
“Female Pilots’ Role in Space Program Told.” Rev. of The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American
Women and the Dream of Space Flight,
by Martha Ackmann, and Almost Heaven:
The story of Women in Space,
by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Charleston
Post and Courier 9 September
2003: 3E.
Rev. of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and The Future of Women, by Estelle Freedman. Charleston Post and Courier 21 April 2002:
F9.
"Louise Erdrich" and
"Michael Dorris." Macmillan Profiles: American Indian Portraits. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 2000.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“The Labyrinth in Tim O’Brien’s Going After
Cacciato.” Popular Culture
Association/American Cultural Association meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 2004.
"Gender, Death, and Transformation in the Work
of Louise Erdrich." South
Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, November 2002.
"Transformative History in the Poetry of Louise Erdrich." American Women Writers of Color Conference. Ocean City, MD, October 2001.
"'Look-back
Time': Feminism and Metafiction in
Joyce Carol Oates' Foxfire." Twentieth Century Literature
Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1999.
"Beloved and Huckleberry Finn:
Morrison's Reworking of Twain." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference,
Savannah, GA, November 1998.
"Community, Storm, Stress, and
Reconciliation in Joyce Carol Oates's Foxfire."
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Savannah, GA,
November 1996.
"Native American Literature and the
Postmodern: An Examination of
Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich's The Crown of Columbus."
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA,
November 1995.
"Censorship and Multicultural
Literature: A Case Study of
Reaction Against Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Fifth National Women Writers of Color Conference, Ocean City, Maryland,
October 1995.
"Narrative Strategy
in Gish Jen's Typical American." Fourth National Women Writers of Color
Conference, Ocean City, Maryland, October 1994.
"Laying Claim to the
Past: Michael Dorris and Louise
Erdrich's Crown of Columbus."
Reclaiming New Worlds: A
Multicultural Commemoration of the Quincentennial, University of Texas at
Austin, October 1992.
"Crossing the
Water and Coming Home: Alienation
and Belonging in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine."
Second National Women Writers of Color Conference, Ocean City, Maryland,
May 1992.
"'Who'd He Leave
Behind?': Black Women, Patriarchy
and Myth-Making in Song of Solomon." Texts, Lies and Stereotypes
Conference, Emory University, May 1991.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Director,
College of Charleston Women's Studies Program, 2002-present
Chair,
American Literature Sections, SAMLA, 2000
Outside
Submissions Reviewer for College English and University of Arkansas Press
Service: English
Department: Honors, Curriculum, Assessment (Chair), Personnel, Senior
Symposium (Chair), Technology, and Graduate Committees, 1993-2004
College wide: Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1993-2004; Nominations
Committee, 2004-2005; Hearings Committee, 2002-2003; Graduate Education
Committee (Secretary) 2001; Curriculum Committee (Secretary), 1996-1998; Grievance
Committee, 1994-1995
AWARDS
AND GRANTS
College of Charleston Summer Research Grant, 2001 and
1994
College of Charleston Sabbatical Leave Grant, Spring
2000
South
Carolina Humanities Council Grant, 1995
Professional
Development Awards, University
of Texas, 1991 and 1992