DR. ROSEMARY WEATHERSTON
Department of English
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI 48221-3038
(313) 993-1083
weatherr@udmercy.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Southern California,
English, August 1999
M.A., University of Southern California, English, 1993
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English,
1989
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First
Century U.S. and British literatures
U.S. Ethnic and Minority literatures
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies; Queer Theory and Criticism
Narrative Medicine
Rhetoric and Composition
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, "Introduction
to Women's and Gender Studies," "Twentieth-Century
U.S. Novels," "Transatlantic Modernisms," "U.S.
Literatures and Cultures after 1945," "U.S. and British
Literatures after 1945," "Postmodern U.S. Literature
and Theory," "U.S. Minority Literatures and Discourses,"
"U.S. Literatures and Pedagogies," "Introduction
to Literary Criticism," "Honors Composition,"
"Academic Writing," "Study of Poetry," "Study
of Fiction," "Topics in Gender: 'Feminine Delinquents',"
"Editorial Processes and Procedures," "Topics
in Genre: 'Twice-Told Tales'," "Topics in Genre: Detective
Fictions'," U of D Jesuit High School Creative Writing Workshops,
College of Liberal Arts, UDM, 2000 to present.
Post-Doctoral Lecturer, "Advanced Writing in the Arts and
Humanities," "Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences,"
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern
California, 1999-2000
Coordinator of Incoming Assistant Lecturer Training, University
of Southern California, 1998-9
Coordinator, Expository Writing Program, University of Southern
California, 1997-9
Assistant Lecturer, Expository Writing Program, University of
Southern California, 1995-9
Writing Center Instructor, University of Southern California,
1995-7
PUBLICATIONS
"Queering the Campus Gender Landscape
through Visual Arts Praxis." Landscapes: Mapping Queer
Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy. Edited by J. Oakleaf Lunn,
Elizabeth McNeil, James Wermers. Co-authored with Dr. Libby Balter
Blume. Forthcoming
"Growing the Mission through Micro
Grants." AJCU's Connections. 12.7 (2012): 6, 9. Print.
Co-authored with Dr. Mary-Catherine Harrison
"For Whom the Belle Toils: Americana's
Chaste Love Affair with the Drag Queen." Gender and Sexuality:
American Texts, Contexts, Controversies. The Americanist:
Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States. 26 (2011):
39-56.
"'The True Words of Real People': Documenting the Myth of
the Real in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 39.1-2
(2008): 189-216.
"Reading Students Reading Detectives."
Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction.
Ed. Edward Rielly. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2008.
206-17.
"The Creative Deformation that is
Plot: Arturo Islas, Cultural Authenticity, and Ethno/biography."
Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Fictions. Edited by Frederick
Luis Aldama. Bilingual Review / Press. 2008. 251-85.
"Epilogue:
The Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture." A Different
Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press | An Anthology. Detroit:
Broadside and UDM Presses, 2004. 280-283.
Co-editor, A
Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press | An Anthology.
Detroit: Broadside and UDM Presses, 2004.
Co-editor, Recitations. Audio
CD. Detroit: Broadside and UDM Presses, 2004.
"Embattled Grounds: Resistance, Representation, and the
Literary Landscaping of Postcolonial Space." AUMLA: The
Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature
Association (November 2001): 135-53.
"Performing Bodies, Performing Culture:
An Interview With Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco" in Body
Politics and the Fictional Double. Edited by Debra King.
Indiana UP, 2000. 105-130
"Frontier Reservations: Art, Identity,
and Political Agency in the Queer 90's; An Interview with Cherríe
Moraga" in Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders,
and Generations. UP Wisconsin, 2000. 64-83.
Co-editor, Queer Frontiers: Millennial
Geographies, Genders, and Generations. An anthology including
14 essays by professors, artists, activists, and graduate students
working in lesbian, gay, and queer theory. UP Wisconsin, 2000.
"When Sleeping Dictionaries Awaken:
The Re/turn of the Native Woman Informant," Post Identity,
(Oct 1997): 113-44.
Performance Review of Nao Bustamante
and Coco Fusco's STUFF, Theatre Journal (Dec 1997): 516-18.
Book Review of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Outside in the Teaching Machine, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical
Studies in Media and Culture, (Spring 1994).
PAPERS/CONFERENCES
Invited Speaker: ""I'm Not
a Feminist, But . . . ." Matrix Theater. Detroit, MI. November
2014
Invited Speaker: "Sports and Intimate
Partner and Domestic Violence." University of Detroit Mercy.
Detroit, MI. October 2014
"Story vs. Guidebook: Undermining
‘Diversity’ in Minority Literature Courses.” Michigan
College English Association Conference. Eastern Michigan University.
Ypsilanti, MI, October 2014
Invited Speaker: "An Evening With
Broadside Press." Charles H. Wright Museum of African American
History. Detroit, MI. April 2013.
"Nothing This Pretty Could Be Real":
Drag, Homosexuality, and Gender in 1990s Americana." Gender
Matters: Instabilities Conference. DePaul University. Chicago,
IL, April 2013
" Why, What, Where, When, and How?:
A Roundtable on the Future of US Women's and Gender Studies Programs"
Gender Matters: Instabilities Conference. DePaul University.
Chicago, IL, April 2013
"Feminism, Activism, and Social
Change," Seaholm High School's Miss Representation film
screening and student conference. Co-presented with Dr. Heather
Hill-Vasquez. April 2012.
Co-organizer. "Detroit Solutions:
An open forum on Detroit's pressing issues and their creative
solutions." University of Detroit Mercy. March 2012.
Invited Speaker, "Forum on Diversity."
University of Detroit Mercy. January 2012.
Invited chair of Closing Roundtable for
"Detroit Global City: The Motor City in the World."
Wayne State University. September 2011
"Beyond Formation: Re/Creating Space
for Feminism Rhetoric(s) at a Catholic University." Feminism(s)
and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Michigan State University. October
2009
"Shout Out! Dudley Randall &
the Legacy of the Broadside Press." Invited Speaker. Sixties
Speakers Series. Macomb Community College. May 2009
"Wired, Tired, Expired: Making Difference in a Post-Multicultural
World." UDM English Faculty Symposium, April 2007.
"Dudley Randall, Broadside Press,
and The Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture." Invited
Speaker. Michigan State University Library. Michigan Notable
Books Project. May 2005.
"Poetry of the Black Arts Movement: A Different Image."
Invited Speaker. Oak Park Library. Michigan Notable Books Project.
May 2005.
"Community-Based Publishing: Broadside Press, 1965-2005."
Invited Speaker. Tecumseh Public Library. Michigan Notable Books
Project. May 2005.
"Changing the Face of Twentieth Century Poetry: Brooks,
Knight, Lorde, Madhubuti, Randall, and Sanchez." Invited
Speaker. Jackson Public Library. Michigan Notable Books Project.
May 2005.
"A Different Image: Michigan Notable Books." Invited
Speaker. Ann Arbor Book Festival, Barnes and Nobles Panel. April
2005.
"A Different Image: Michigan Notable Books." Invited
Speaker. Michigan Author Day. Library of Michigan and the Library
of Michigan Foundation, April 2005
"Killing Sylvia, Resurrecting Plath," Invited Speaker.
The Academic Council of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and
the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, March 2005.
"Minority Films and the Multicultural Classroom," Midwest
Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Associations
(MPCA / MACA), October 2004
"If I Only Knew Than What I Know Now: Marketing Yourself
In the Interview and On the Job," Featured Speaker. University
of Southern California, October, 2003
"'Are They Really Like That?': Resisting
the Ethnographic Impulse in Multicultural Literature Courses,"
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of
the United States (MELUS), April 2003
"Is There a Class for this Text?: Teaching Hypertexts in
the Traditional Literature Classroom," UDM Hypertext Symposium,
October 2002
"American Character/American Characters: Representing the
Real in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."
UDM CLA Faculty Symposium, April 2001.
"Nasty Coloured Girls," Modern Language Association,
Washington D.C. 2000.
"What They Never Told You About the Job Market...,"
Department of English Symposium. University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, 2000.
Panel Chair, "Representations of Race in Cinema, Theater,
and History," Figuring the Body Conference, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, 2000.
Panel Chair, "Staging Racial Conflict," American Studies
Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 1998.
"Backwards and in High Heels: Americana's Chaste Love Affair
With the Drag Queen," Across the Fruited Plains: Midwest
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered College Conference, U of Illinois,
Chicago, 1998.
"When Sleeping Dictionaries Awaken: The Re/turn of the Native
Woman Informant," Thinking Gender Conference, University
of California, Los Angeles, 1997.
"Colonial Landscapes and the Politics of Place," Mapping
Difference Conference, University of California Fullerton, 1995.
"The Color of My Mother: Maternal Tropes and Lesbian Subjectivity
in Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca
pasó por sus labios" MMLA, Minneapolis, 1994.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Program Evaluator, National Women's Studies
Association, 2014-present
Broadside Press Affiliate, 2001-present
Co-organizer, Dudley Randall / Robert Hayden Centennial Celebration,
2013-14
Chair, Core Review Committee for Integrating Themes of Human
Difference and Cultural Diversity, 2014-present
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, UDM, 2010 to present
Co-Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, UDM, 2009-10
Women's Studies Steering Committee, UDM, 2003 to present
Chair, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, UDM, 2004-2009
Director, Mission Micro Grant Program, UDM, 2009 to present
Director of the Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture, UDM,
2000 to present
Director, UDM Press, 2001 to present
College of Liberal Arts and Educaton Promotion and Tenure Committee
2012 to present
Liberal Arts Information Technology Committee, UDM, 2001-2
Co-editor of national, peer-reviewed journal, Post Identity,
UDM, 2000 to 2009
Administrator of McGregor Fund Grant to Department of English,
UDM, 2000-05
Faculty Advisor, English Student Publications, UDM, 2001 to present
Creative Writing Steering Committee, Department of English, UDM,
2000 to present
Curriculum Committee, Department of English, UDM, 2000 to present
Faculty Instructor, "Prologues and Transitions," Freshman
orientation at UDM, 2000, 2001
University Computing Programs and Support Task Group, UDM, 2001
to present
University Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, UDM, 2002
to present
University Future of Computing Committee, UDM, 2000-1
Curriculum Committee, Advanced Writing in the Letters, Arts,
and Sciences, USC, 1999-2000
Administrative Advisory Committee, Advanced Writing in the Letters,
Arts, and Sciences, USC, 1999-2000
General Education Reform Advisory Committee, USC, 1997-1999
Curriculum Committee, Expository Writing Program, USC, 1997-99
ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
Faculty Achievement Award, UDM, 2005
2005 Michigan Notable Books List, Library of Michigan, for A
Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press
Outstanding Service and Leadership Award, Department of Expository
Writing, University of Southern California, 1999Middleton University
of Southern California Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-9
Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1996
Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1995
All-University Merit Pre-doctoral Fellowship (3 years full support),
University of Southern California, 1991-93, 1994-95
Graduate School Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1993
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1989
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of
the United States (MELUS)
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Michigan Council of Teachers of English
International Society for the Study of Narrative
National Women's Studies Association
National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education |