ELIZABETH SWANSON GOLDBERG - …



ELIZABETH SWANSON

CURRICULUM VITAE

284 Main Street Babson College

Centerville, MA 02632 231 Forest Street

774.313.0159 Wellesley, MA 02457

EDUCATION

Ph.D. English, Miami University of Ohio, 2000

M.A. English, Northeastern University, 1993

B.A. English, Northeastern University, 1988

TEACHING AND COMMUNITY AWARDS

Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2019

Lewis Institute for Social Innovation Changemaker Award, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award, Babson College, 2012

Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2009

Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2008

Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2007

Women Who Make a Difference Award, Babson College, 2007

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Babson College, 2006

Innovators Among Us Award (for pedagogical innovation), Babson College, September 2004

Outstanding Teacher Award, Miami University, 1995

RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS

Mandell Family Foundation Senior Term Chair, 2019-2024

Faculty Scholarship Award, Babson College 2012

Mandell Family Term Chair, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 2007-2012

Babson Teaching Innovation Fund Grant: 2012

Graduate Student Achievement Award Scholarship, Miami University, 1996

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Miami University, 1995

Graduate Student Writing Award, Northeastern University English Department, 1992

BOOKS, EDITED JOURNALS, AND EDITED COLLECTIONS

Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Ed.

Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson. New York: Palgrave, 2018.

Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries, ed. James Brewer

Stewart and Elizabeth Swanson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018.

Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series, 2015. “Introduction: Charting New Courses: Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies,” 1-10.

Human Rights and Cultural Forms. Ed. Greg Mullins, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, and

Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Special Issue, College Literature. Summer 2013.

“Introduction: On Texts and Performances,” 9-14.

Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and

Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2011. “Introduction: Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline,” 3-19. “Epilogue,” 261-264.

Special Issue, Peace Review: A Journal for Social Justice. Theme: Film, Literature, and Human

Rights (20:1) Spring 2008. “Introduction,” 1-3.

Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers

University Press, 2007.

PEER-REVIEWED ESSAY PUBLICATIONS

“Indefinite Detention: Chronotopes of Unfreedom in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo

Diary.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Under Review: Ariel: A Review of

International English Literature.

“Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity.” Special Issue: Cultural

Representations of Wartime Rape. Violence Against Women, forthcoming, Spring 2019.

“Prologue: Rhetorics of torture in the Public Sphere.” Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from

Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.

“Editors’ Introduction: On the Social Contexts of Witnessing: Expanding the Frame of Life

Writing About Torture.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Witnessing Torture:

Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018

“Defending Slavery, Denying Slavery: The Problem of Indifference in Historical

Perspective.” With James Brewer Stewart. Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories

of Past and Present Slaveries. Ed. James Brewer Stewart and Elizabeth Swanson.

Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Forthcoming 2018.

“Introduction: Getting Beyond Chattel Slavery.” With James Brewer Stewart. Human Bondage

and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries. Ed. James Brewer Stewart

and Elizabeth Swanson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Forthcoming 2018.

“Freedom, Commerce, Bodies, Harm: The Case Against .” Special Issue: Human

Trafficking, Siddarth Kara, Ed. Social Inclusion 5:2, Summer 2017. 3-15.

“Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee.” In The

Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Ed. Sophia A. McLennen and

Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2015. 60-68.

“Beyond the Post/Colonial and the West.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. In Teaching

Human Rights and Literature and Cultural Studies. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2015. 53-67.

“Victims, Perpetrators, and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Palermo Fiction about

Sex Trafficking.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. The International Journal of

Human Rights. 16:1 (2015). 16-31.

“‘Let Us Begin with a Smaller Gesture’: An Ethos of Human Rights and the Possibilities of

Form in Chris Abani’s Song for Night and Becoming Abigail.” With Alexandra

Schultheis Moore. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 45:4 (2014).

59-87.

“Human Rights.” In Critical Terms for Gender Studies. Ed. Catharine R. Stimpson and

Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 139-155.

“Meditations on a Fractured Terrain: Human Rights and Literature.” With Alexandra Schultheis

Moore. In College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies. Special Issue:

Human Rights and Cultural Forms. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, and Greg Mullins. 40.3 (Summer 2013). 15-37.

“‘Accorded a Place in the Design:’ Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema.” Screening Torture. Ed.

Michael Flynn and Fabiola Fernández Salek. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 167-190.

“Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and the

Indivisibility of Human Rights.” Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and

Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2011. 103-119.

With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. “Old Questions in New Boxes: Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here

and the Problem of Transnational Witnessing.” Special Issue: Gender and Humanitarian Narrative.” Ed. Samuel Martinez. Humanity. Spring 2011. 233-253.

“Cross-Currents and Convergencies: Emerging Paradigms.” With Madhu Dubey. The

Cambridge History of African American Literature. Ed. Maryemma Graham and Jerry Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 566-620.

“Plotting, Finally, the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge

and A Distant Shore.” South Atlantic Review. Special Issue: Caryl Phillips. Ed. Hunt

Hawkins. Summer 2010. 135-154.

“War Film during the War on Terror: Displacement and Indirection.” Kulturausausch.

December 2006.

“Who was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination in Lumumba:

La Mort du Prophet.” Terror, Media, and Liberation. Ed. J. David Slocum. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, Depth of Field Series, 2005. 248-266.

“What’s a Cultural Studies Curriculum Doing at a College Like This?” with Danna Greenberg.

Liberal Education: Journal of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. September 2004. 16-25.

“Living the Legacy: Pain, Desire, and Narrative Time in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.”

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. 26:2 (Spring 2003). 446-472.

“Splitting Difference: Global Identity Politics and the Representation of Torture in the Counter-Historical Dramatic Film.” Violence and American Cinema. Ed.

J. David Slocum. New York: Routledge, 2000. 245-270.

“The Way We Do the Things We Do: Enunciation and Effect in the Multicultural

Classroom.” Teaching African-American Literature: Theory and Practice. Ed. Sharon Pineault Burke and Maryemma Graham. New York: Routledge, 1997.

151-177.

REVIEWS, CASES, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Viewing Guide: I Am Jane Doe.” June 2017. Available through .

“Review: Mark Bracher, Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics,

& Schema Criticism. American Literary History Online Review, Series VII (1). Summer 2016.

“On Happy Endings.” End Slavery Now. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

5 November 2014. Web.

“Made By Survivors: Business Solutions to Human Trafficking.” With Gaurab Bhardwaj. Babson

College Case Series, Babson College, 2014.

“Review: African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations, and Boundaries.” Journal of the African

Literature Association. Fall, 2012.

“What Price Progress? The Case of India’s Sardar Sarovar Dam Project.” With Neal Harris.

Geneen Case Series in Business and Ethics. Babson College, 2007.

Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). Ed. J. Gray. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American

Poets and Poetry. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2005. 201-204.

“Review: Through Your Eyes.” Dir. Eva Urrutia and Guillermina Buzios. The Americas: A

Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. Fall, 2004.

“Review: Jon Stratton’s Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities.” Culture

Machine. May 2003.

Poems: “Body Language,” “Legacies,” “Gathering Fruit.” A Sense of Place: An Anthology of

Cape Women Writers. Ed. Anne Garton. Eastham, MA: Shank Painter Publishing, 2002.

INVITED LECTURES

“Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries.” Cottage

Conversations Series, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington DC. 7 February, 2019.

“Denial and Indifference in Historical Proslavery and Contemporary Sex Worker Rights

Rhetoric.” Slaveholding Then and Now. Historians Against Slavery Biannual

Conference. 6-8 October, 2017.

“Witness Beyond Recognition: Representing Wartime Rape.” Keynote, International Cultural

Responses to Wartime Rape: Ethical Questions and Critical Challenges. Maynooth University, Ireland. 19-20 June, 2017.

“Structured Absence: The Place of Revolution in Human Rights Oriented Literary Criticism.”

Crisis and Beyond: Imaginaries, Narratives, Anticipations. A Symposium held by the

English Department, Uppsalla University, 28 June – 1 July, 2017.

“Thinking and Acting: Academic and Activist Pathways for Graduate Students in the

Humanities.” Career Pathways Seminar, Professor Maryemma Graham, Kansas State

University. 14 December 2016.

“On Women and Leadership.” Women’s Leadership Speaker’s Series. Experion Systems,

Boston, MA. 9 September 2015.

“Gender and Human Rights: Women Empowering Women Empowering…Everyone.”

Women2Women International: Babson Day. Babson College, Wellesley, MA. 5 August, 2015.

“Nurturing Corporate, Academic, and NGO Partnerships in Delivering Responsible

Management Education.” 2nd Annual Conference on Responsible Management Education, IILM, Delhi, Delhi, India. 3-5 January 2015 (video presentation).

“The Power of Partnership: Business Innovations in the Fight Against Slavery.” Slavery Then,

Today, and Tomorrow: A Lecture Series. Institute for Humane Studies, Augustana

College. Sioux Falls, SD. 9 April 2015.

“Beyond the Law: The Power of Human Connection in the Fight Against Slavery.” Northeast

Regional Model United Nations Conference, International School of Boston. 4 April

2015.

“State of the Field: Fighting Human Trafficking, 2014.” World Boston: A World Affairs

Council. Boston, MA. 11 December 2014.

“Business Solutions to Human Trafficking.” Guest Lecture, Seminar in Business and Human

Rights, Professor Deborah Leipziger. Simmons College MBA program, 21 February

2014.

“Concentric Circles: Keys to Cosmopolitan Engagement.” Keynote. Widows and Orphans

Forum. Boston, MA. 9 November 2013.

“More Radical Than Thou: Politics and Posturing in the Reception of Sex Trafficking

Narratives.” Historians Against Slavery Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH 23 -25

September 2013.

“From Survival to Freedom: Evolving Strategies for Reintegration in the Aftermath of Sex

Slavery.” Boston Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights. University of

Massachusetts, Boston. 12 March, 2013.

“Surviving Brothel Slavery: Reintegration in the Context of Changing Repatriation Law.”

Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati. 4 March 2013.

Gallery Exhibition and Lecture, “Harbor: Survivors Among Us.” With Elshafei Dafalla

Mohamed. Art and Ideas Series: Peace and Conflict. Framingham State University, February 27, 2013.

“Survivors Among Us: An Exploration of Voice, Genre, and Human Rights.” Wellesley

College, “Conversations About Human Rights Across the Disciplines.” 7 February 2013.

“Teaching Literature and Human Rights.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Research

Program on Humanitarianism, Human Rights Institute. University of Connecticut,

October 2, 2012.

“Entrepreneurship and the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Classroom.” Hiram College, 17 May

2012.

“Meditations on a Fractured Terrain: Literature and Human Rights.” Keynote. Human Rights

and the Humanities Conference, American University of Beirut, May 7-9 2012 (unable to attend; co-author Alexandra Schultheis Moore presented our work)

“Fighting Trafficking with Empowerment, Education, and Hope.” Tufts University, University

Seminar: International Perspectives on Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances. November 18, 2011.

“Going ‘All In’: Multi-Sector Partnerships to Fight Human Trafficking.” The Five Elements of

Civil Society: A New Approach to Participation in Fighting Human Trafficking. The Protection Project Sixth Annual Symposium on Trafficking in Persons, Johns Hopkins University, 7 November 2011.

“Re-Abolition: What to Do about the Global Sex Trade.” Wellesley College International

Relations Club. 22 April, 2011.

“Is Torture Gendered?” For seminar “Gender in a Global Perspective.” Emerson College, Boston,

MA. 8 April 2010.

“Plotting the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge and

A Distant Shore.” For panel, “The Nature of Intolerance: Caryl Phillips and Human

Rights.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 6-8 November 2009.

“Reading, ‘Righting,’ and Recognition: Literature and Human Rights in the New Global Era.”

Scholars’ Symposium, Department of English, University of Tampa,

23 September 2009.

“Old Questions in New Boxes:Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here and the Problematics of Transnational

Witnessing.” For Scholars’ Symposium, “The Gender of Humanitarian Narrative:

Genealogies of Humanitarian/Human Rights Reportage, Outreach and Campaigning.” Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut. May 2009.

“The Missing Frontier: Literature and Economic Rights.” Series in Human Rights. University of

North Carolina, Greensboro. 19-20 February, 2009.

“The Case of the Entrepreneurial Homicide: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Economic

Human Rights.” Rackham Seminar in Human Rights. University of Michigan, 13

February 2009.

“Literature and Film After 9/11.” One-Day University, Wellesley, MA, 29 September 2008.

“Literature and Film in an Age of Terror.” Understanding Our World Lecture Series, North

Hill, Needham, MA. 29 May 2008.

“An Embrace of Praxis: Entrepreneurial Pedagogy in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts

Classroom.” Hiram College, Hiram Ohio. 15 May 2008.

“Of Manifestos and Manifesting: Professing Literature and Human Rights in an Age of Terror.”

Keynote Lecture, Ropes Memorial Lecture Series: Humanities in a Post-9/11 Age.

University of Cincinnati English and Comparative Literature Department.

12 February 2008.

Genocide/Witness.” Reading from Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights.

Miami University of Ohio English Department. 7 April 2006.

Guest Lecture, Issues in the Profession. Graduate English Course, Miami University of Ohio. 7 April 2006.

“Human Rights in Secondary Level Language Arts and Social Studies Curricula.” Bridges to

Scholarship Program. Northeastern University School of Education, Professional

Development Program. April 2004.

“Film and the Representation of Torture,” for panel Torture: From Clandestine Prison to

Popular Culture. Torture Abolition & Survivor Support Coalition One-Day Forum

Washington DC. 24 June 2003

“Not Now, I’m Eating: The Politics of Representing Human Rights Violations.” Faculty

Colloquium Series, Fisher College, Boston, MA. March 2001.

“Issues of Culture in Teaching and Reading Literature.” Massachusetts Department of

Education, Boston, MA. April 1999.

“The State of the Union: Adjunct Teaching in the Humanities.” Guest Lecture, Graduate Seminar: Introduction to the Professions. Miami University of Ohio. March 1998.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Tracing the Human in Human Rights.” Human Rights and Literary Studies in an Age of

Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and Precaritization: Limits, Forms, and Futures.

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Georgetown University,

Washington, DC, 7-10 March 2019.

“Through the Door, Onto the Train: Mechanisms of Escape in Colson Whitehead’s Underground

Railroad and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Escape to the Real: Formal and Aesthetic

Strategies for Representing Historical Trauma.” Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 5-9 December 2018.

“Subordinated, Hegemonic, and Toxic Masculinities in the Global Political Economy: A Reading

of Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog.” Gender & The Order of Things: New

Feminist Approaches to State Discourse. American Comparative Literature Association

Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 29 March – 1 April 2018.

“Traumatic and Historical Temporalities in Mohamedou Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary.” State

Violence and Visions for Justice. Association for the Arts of the Present. Berkeley, CA. 26-28 October 2017.

“Dangerous Echoes: The Rhetorics of 21st Century Sex Worker Rights Advocates and

Antebellum Proslavery Ideologues.” Human Rights and Literature: Historiography and

Historical Literacy. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis

Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht,

Netherlands. 6-9 July 2017.

“Modern Slavery and HBCUs: Huge Problem and Small Under-Resourced Colleges.” Modern

Slavery Institute Founding Conference, Tougaloo University. 6-8 March 2017.

“Exceptional Space, Everyday Time: The Problematic of Carceral Space-Time in Mohamedou

Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary.” Human Rights and Everyday Violence. Also Session

Organizer and Presider. Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,

PA, 4-7 January 2017.

“Restorations: Rebuilding Lives After Slavery and Exploitation.” Slavery: Past, Present, and

Future 2nd Global Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic, 2-4 May, 2016.

“Structured Absence: Revolution in Human-Rights Oriented Literary Criticism.” Human Rights

and Literature: Critical Reflections and New Directions. Also Session Organizer and Co-

Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative

Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, 17-20 March, 2016.

Roundtable: Business and Commerce, Slavery and Abolition, Then and Now. Historians Against

Slavery Conference, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH. 25

September 2015.

“Open Secrets: How Literature and Activism Contribute to Public Awareness of Guantanamo

Bay Prison.” ASAP. Greensville, SC. 24-27 September 2015.

“Vulnerability and Precarity, Innocence and Guilt: The Camp Delta Story.” Vulnerability,

Precarity, and Human Rights. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, New York: NY 2-29 March, 2015.

“The Body and the Word: Toward a Genealogy of Postcolonialism and Human Rights.” For

Session, Cultural Capital of Human Rights. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY. 20-23 March 2014.

“Are Men Human? Representations of the Perpetrator in James Levine’s The Blue Notebook.”

Negotiating Human Rights: Aesthetic, Cultural, and Political Framings. University of Denmark, Aarhus, 23-25 January 2014.

“Culpability as Continuum: Identifying the Perpetrator in the Sex Trafficking Scenario.” For

Session, “Interrogating the Perpetrator: Collective Guilt, Culpability, and Violation.” Historical Justice and Memory: Questions of Rights and Accountability in Contemporary Society.” Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights. December 5-7 2013.

“Politics and Posturing in Reception of Sex Trafficking Narratives.” For session “Styling Human

Rights,” American Comparative Literature Association. Also session co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Crystal Parikh. Toronto, 4-7 April 2013.

“K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents: An Investigation of Literature, Law, and the ‘Human Rights

Narrative.’” For Panel “Literature, Liberation, Law, and Sexuality.” African Literature

Association. Charleston, SC, 20-24 March 2013.

“Victims and Predators: Reflections On the Trafficking Narrative in James Levine’s The Blue

Notebook. For session “Trafficking: Cargos, Bodies, Texts.” Also Session Co-Organizer

and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Modern Language Association, Boston,

MA, 3-6 January 2013.

“Pedagogies of Human Rights and Literature, Or, the Importance of Reading Literarily.” Third

International Conference on Human Rights Education. Jagiellonion University, Krakow Poland, 5-8 Dec ember 2012.

“‘Accorded a Place in the Design’: Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema.” For Panel “Resistance to Apartheid: South Africa and the United States.” American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-18 November 2012.

“Being, Becoming, and Haunting in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail.” For panel “(In)Formal

Concerns: Human Rights and Cultural Forms.” American Comparative Literature

Association. Providence, RI. 29 March – 1 April 2012. Also Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins.

“Camp Delta 2011: Testimonial, Literature, and the Possibility of Lament.” For Panel “Human

Rights Modes: Lament.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA. 5-8 January 2012.

“Facing Blackface: Learning from Racism on a College Campus.” With Mary Pinard. Second

International Conference on Hate Studies. Spokane, WA. 4-6 April 2011.

“‘Let Us Begin with a Smaller Gesture’: Chris Abani and the Possibilities of Form.” With

Alexandra Schultheis. For Panel “To Embrace or to Unmask: The Role of Scholarship on Human Rights in Literature and the Arts.” American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver, Canada. 31 March – 3 April 2011.  Also Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis and Greg Mullins.

“Spectatorship and Abandonment in Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here.” With Alexandra Schultheis.

For Panel “Narratives of the Global Sex Trade.” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA, 5-10 January 2011.

“Old Questions in New Boxes: Multimedia Narrative and the Problematics of Transnational

Witnessing.” With Alexandra Schultheis. For panel “From Urgent Action to (Time Im)Memorial: Art and Literature of Human Rights In Changing Political Contexts.” American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, LA. 1-4 April 2010 (also Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis and James Dawes).

“Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Global Struggle for Economic Human Rights.” For panel Development,

Human/Environmental Rights, and African Literature. African Literature Association, Tucson, Arizona, 10-14 March 2010.

“Explosions in Black and White: Race, Gender, and Human Rights in Caryl Phillips’

Cambridge and A Distant Shore.” African Literature Association, University of Vermont, 15-19 April 2009.

“Literature and Economic Human Rights: A Post-Marxist Reading of Aravind Adiga's The

White Tiger.” For panel “Human Rights Literary Culture Within/Against Globalization. American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, 26-29 March 2009.

“Of Burrows and Being: Literature and Human Rights in an Age of Terror.” Also Seminar

Organizer and panel Co-Chair: Human Rights and/in Global Literary Production: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives. American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, 24-27 April 2008.

“Human Rights and Literature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Scholarship and Pedagogy.”

World Universities Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 31 January - 2 February 2008.

“Literature and Human Rights: Notes Toward a Theory.” South Central Modern Language

Association, Memphis, TN. 1-4 November 2007.

“Invisible Lifelines: Social and Economic Human Rights in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones.” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.

“Plotting the Human: Black (African) Man and White (European) Woman in Caryl Phillips’s

Cambridge and A Distant Shore.” African Literature Association. Morgantown, West

Virginia. 14-17 March 2007.

“Living in the ‘Awakened Dark’: Racism and Genocide in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of

Bones.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA. October 2006.

“Genocide/Witness.” 31st Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University.

2-5 February 2006.

“Harbingers of a New, Old Society: Rape, Consent, and Social Contract in J.M. Coetzee’s

Disgrace.” African Literature Association. Boulder, CO. 7 March 2005.

“Who Killed Patrice Lumumba?” for panel “Film and Revolution.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT. October 2003.

“All’s Clear in the Living Room – Just Don’t Enter the Bedroom: Race, Sexuality, and

Masculinity in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Six Degrees of Separation.” ACA

Masculinities Area, National Popular Culture Association/American Culture

Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. April 2003. Also served as Chair of panel.

“When Narrative Theory Meets Human Rights: Raoul Peck’s Lumumba.” African

Literature Association Annual Meeting. Alexandria, Egypt. March 2003.

“Change of Venue: Creating Radically Relevant Multicultural Literature Pedagogies.”

The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS).

Seattle, WA. April 2002.

“Generic Violences: Narrative Incoherence and the Representation of Torture,” for

Ideology, Race, Film, American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montreal,

Canada. October 1999.

“Cross Cultural Dialogics: The Figure of the Simidor in Contemporary Haitian

Literature,” for session Challenging Nationalist Constructions, 20th Century Literature

Conference, University of Louisville. February 1996.

“On Judging Books by Covers: Rereading Carl Can Vechten’s Nigger Heaven,” with

Marcy Knopf Newman for session Race and American Literature, 20th Century

Literature Conference, University of Louisville. February 1996.

“Feminism in the Literature and Composition Classroom.” U.S./China Joint International

Conference on Women’s Issues, Beijing, China. August 1995.

“History-Making in the Postcolonial World: Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Walter

Rodney,” for session The Postcolonial Caribbean, Midwest Modern Language

Association, Chicago. November 1994.

“Writing Home: Toward a Haitian Politics of Place,” for National Cultures in the

Aftermath of Identity, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago. November

1994.

TEACHING

Babson College, Arts and Humanities Division

Professor and Division Chair, 2013 - 2016

Associate Professor, English; Mandell Family Term Chair, 2007-2012

Assistant Professor, English 2002-2007

• African American Literature (Intermediate)

• Seminar in Human Rights (Advanced, 2 Credit)

• Global Leadership Development Experience (advanced course on the UN MDGs)

• Human Trafficking; Slavery in Supply Chains (part of high school summer entrepreneurship course)

• Postcolonial India (advanced portion of semester-long offshore course Developing Economies in

Cross-Cultural Perspective: Brazil, India, China Russia (Intermediate)

• Culture and Identity, U.S.-Saudi Arabia Women’s Forum, Summer 2009

• Culture, Society, and the Developing Economy in South Africa, Stellenbosch U, South Africa (Advanced)

• Limit Cases: International Film, Literature, and Economic Rights (Advanced)

• Prizewriters: International Literature and the Literary Prize (Advanced)

• Literature of Witness (Intermediate) Spring 2014; Fall 2017

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights (Advanced)

• Joy, Beauty, Justice: Literatures of the Black Atlantic (Intermediate)

• When the West Left: An Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Film (Intermediate)

• Dwellings: Body, Home, City (Arts and Humanities Foundation)

• Challenging Boundaries: The Self Explored in Art and Philosophy 1800-2000

(Arts and Humanities Foundation)

Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts; Director, Honors Program

Fisher College, Boston, MA campus, August 2000-present

Honors Colloquium Courses Fall, 2001:

In the Extreme: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Rights

International Exile and Diaspora: The Figure of the Storyteller

English I: Expository Writing; English II: Literature and the Critical Essay

Intermediate Writing

Twentieth – Century American Short Fiction

Masterpieces of World Fiction

Women Writers

Images of Women in Literature

Literature on Film

Instructor, Fisher College, Hyannis, MA campus, 1995-2000

English I and II

Preparatory English

Creative Writing

20th Century American Novel

Literature on Film

The Semiotics of Popular Culture

Senior Lecturer, Western New England College, Bourne, MA 1997

Twentieth Century American Fiction

Lecturer, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA, 1995-1998

Writing Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Writing Parts I and II

English-as-a-Second-Language: Speaking and Writing; Intensive Writing

Graduate Instructor, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH, 1993-1995

College Composition

Literature and Writing

Graduate Instructor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1991-1993

College Composition

Literature and Writing

Business Writing

Writing for the Professions: Engineering

English-as-a-Second-Language: Introduction to Writing

CONSULTING, SERVICE, AND OUTREACH

Professional Activity

Academic Advisor, I Am Jane Doe. Dir. Mary Mazzio, 50 Eggs Productions, 2017

Faculty Director, Women’s Entrepreneurial Development Laboratory, a project of the Social Innovation Lab at Babson College’s Lewis Institute for Social Entrepreneurship, 2011 - 2016

Editorial Board, Ariel: An International Review of Literature in English 2014 - present

Editorial Board, Human Rights Quarterly, 2011 - present

Editorial Board, Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies, 2011 – present

Editorial Board, Teaching in Higher Education 2008 - 2015

Manuscript and Tenure Reviews for Palgrave, Routledge, Stanford University Press, Harvard University Press, Ohio State University Press, Rutgers University, PMLA, American Literary History, Studies in the Novel, Ariel, African American Literature

Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005, 2007)

Consultant, Arts and Humanities Curriculum Design and Implementation, Northern Alberta

Institute of Technology, 2006-2008; 2009 - 2012

Consultant, Entrepreneurial Approaches to Liberal Arts Pedagogy, Hiram College; Mt. Union

College, 2012; 2013; 2015; 2017

Member, Board of Directors, Historians Against Slavery (Academic NGO: “Using History to

Make Slavery History”), 2013-present

Chair, Board of Directors, Made By Survivors (NGO providing economic empowerment for

survivors of sexual slavery) 2008 - 2016

Director and Secretary, Board of Directors, The Emancipation Network 2007-2009

Chair, Barnstable County Human Rights Commission, 2010

Vice Chair and Commissioner, Barnstable County Human Rights Commission, 2007-2009

Coordinator and Lead Teacher, Barnstable County Human Rights Commission High School Human Rights Academy, 2006 - 2009

Sandwich, MA Town Representative, Barnstable County Human Rights Commission, 2006-2008

Chair, Board of Directors, The Emancipation Network/Made By Survivors (NGO providing

economic empowerment for survivors of sexual slavery) 2009 - present

Director and Secretary, Board of Directors, The Emancipation Network 2007-2009

Fellow, Turkey Support Group. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights,

Washington DC 2003-2007

Citizen Ambassador, Education Delegation (led by Florence Howe, Editor, The Feminist Press), U.S./China Joint International Conference on Women’s Issues, Beijing, China, 1995 Attendee, United Nations World Conference on Women, Hairou, China, 1995

Invited Appearances/Events, Babson College

Moderator, “Reducing Recidivism Through Entrepreneurship,” Babson College Boston, 23

October 2018.

Toxic Masculinity and Sexual Violence. Center for Women’s Leadership Faculty Chat, 8

November, 2017.

Defending Slavery, Denying Slavery: Contemporary Sex Worker Rights Rhetoric in Historic

Context. Babson Faculty Research Fund Chat, 1 November 2017.

Race and Racism in the United States. Three-Part Workshop Series for International Students,

Babson College, September 2017.

Race, Justice, and Citizenship: Time to Reflect Upon Black Lives Matter.” Faculty and Staff

Diversity Matters Dialogue, Babson College, 1 September 2016.

Guest Lecturer, Women2Women International Leadership Conference, Babson College.

5 August 2015.

Judge, Holt Prize, 10 December 2015.

Faculty Speaker, Babson Presidential Inauguration, 18 October 2013

Basically Babson Day, Arts and Humanities simulation, 22 April 2013

Lecturer, “Business Solutions to Human Trafficking,” Empower Peace program,

Women2Women International, Babson College, 14 August 2013

Presenter, Faculty Learn and Share, session on Video Bricks, 29 August 2013

Discussion Leader, Babson Sustainability Dinner, From Day One, 3 September 2013

Guest Lecturer, “Contemporary Abolition.” Social Change Living-Learning Community,

25 September 2012

Guest Lecturer, Honors Seminar, “Creativity and Research,” 2 March 2011

Panelist, Admissions Retreat, April 2010

Facilitator and Speaker, Laramie Project reading, October 2009

Facilitator, Babson Reads, 2 September 2009

Speaker, Orientation Kick-Off Event, 31 August 2009

Presenter and Facilitator, Lunchtime Dialogue on Global Violence Against Women, Office of

Diversity and Inclusion, 10 February 2009

Moderator, Forum on Images of Black People in the Global Media. Hosted by Babson Black

Student Union, 6 February 2008

Workshop Leader: Social Justice Across the Babson Curriculum. With Professor Mike Caslin. Babson College Family Weekend, October 2007

Coordinator and Leader, Teach-In/Speak Out: Diversity and Racism, November 2006

Facilitator, All Campus Diversity Dialogues: Race, October 2005; Religion, November 2005

Judge, Women’s Leadership Center Essay Contest, Spring 2005

Guest Speaker, Presidential Candidates and Social Policy. Sophomore Honors Seminar,

October 2004

Interviewer, Women’s Leadership Scholarship Program, Basically Babson Day, April 16, 2004

Liberal Arts Classroom Simulation, Basically Babson Day, April 2004; 2005; 2008

Panelist, Symposium on Gay Marriage, 1 March 2004

Keynote Speaker, First-Year Dinner, 22 October, 2003

Faculty Panelist, Strategy for Success Workshop, 6 October 2003; 18 February 2004

Babson College Service

Faculty Mentor, Diversity Leadership Scholars, 2017-2018

Chair, Faculty Subcommittee, SEERS Steering Committee, 2017 – 2018

Member, SEERS Steering Committee, 2017 – 2018

Coordinator, Babson commitment to Principles for Responsible Management Education, 2009 –

2015.

Served as Discussion Leader at 2014 and 2015 PRME Global Forums; on Sharing Information on Progress review and awards committee; and on Faculty Development committee, co-authoring the Report on Faculty Development, 2015, with Copenhagen Business School and IILM, Delhi.

Mentor, Visiting Scholar, Jose Londoño from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, fall 2015

Chair, Faculty Sub-Committee, Council for Diversity and Inclusion, Fall 2017 - present

Council on Diversity and Inclusion, Executive Committee, 2016-present

Search Committee, Babson College President, 2012-2013

Appointments Decision Making Body, 2011-2013; Co-Chair 2012-13

Posse Mentor, 2011 - 2015

Chief Diversity Officer Search Committee, 2012

Executive Committee, Council for an Inclusive Community, 2011- present

Advisory Board, Babson College Green Tower for Sustainability, 2012 – 2015

Advisory Board, Babson Free Press, 2012 - 2014

Mentor, Diversity Scholar Program, 2009

Faculty Co-Chair, Curriculum Sub-Committee, Committee for an Inclusive Community, 2009

Chair, Faculty Senate, 2008 - 2009

American Association of Colleges and Universities, Core Commitments Team, 2007 - 2009

Member, Babson College Judicial Board, 2007 - 2008

College Assessment Committee, 2007 - 2011

Faculty Advisor, Babson College Black Student Union, 2006 - 2009

Faculty Advisor, Babson College Chapter, Amnesty International, 2004 - 2008

Dean of Faculty Search Committee, 2008

Dean of Students Search Committee, 2007

Multicultural Assessment Committee, 2006 - 2010

Committee for a Diverse Community, 2006 - 2007

Co-Chair, MLK Jr. Legacy Day Planning Committee, 2006 - 2008

Member, Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Day Planning Committee 2005 - 2006

Workload Task Force, 2006 - 2007

Performing Arts Advisory Committee, 2004 – 2008

Co-Curator, Malcolm Stearns Memorial Film Series, 2004 – 2007

Faculty Mentor, First-Year Experience, 2003 - 2004

Planning Committee, Babson College and WBUR Symposium: Journalism in Times of Conflict: Challenges and Solutions, 31 March 2004

Arts and Humanities Division Representative, Library Committee, 2003-5

Arts and Humanities Division Service (Babson College)

Chair, Writing Center Director Search Committee, 2018-2019

Ad Hoc Committee on Publications Equivalents, AH/HS Divisions, 2017 - 2018

Assistant Professor Global Studies Search Committee, 2016

Chair, Arts and Humanities Division, 2013-2016

Assistant Professor Comparative Literature Search Committee, 2012 (Co-Chair)

Intermediate and Advanced Curriculum Revision Committee, 2011-12

Littauer Speaker Series Planning Committee, 2010

Foundation Review Committees on Foreign Languages, Ethics and Social Justice,

and Rhetoric Links 2008 - 2009

Coordinator, Arts and Humanities Foundation Curriculum Refreshment, 2006

Coordinator, Spring Arts and Humanities Foundation Team, 2003 - present

Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee, Liberal Arts Department, 2002 - 4

Assistant Professor Fiction/Rhetoric Search Committee, Winter 2005

Assistant Professor Politics Search Committee, Fall 2004

Assistant Professor History Search Committee. Fall-Winter 2002-3

Assistant Professor Sociology Search Committee, Fall 2003

Fisher College Service

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Fisher College Women’s Resource Center, 2001

Programming includes speakers, group outings, consciousness raising groups, Women’s

History Month events, Take Back the Night, and workshops on topics including self- esteem, sexual violence survivorship, eating disorders, and parenting

Organizer and Presenter, Fisher College. All-College Speak-Out and Discussion: Unfolding

Events in America, 13 September 2001. College-wide Convocation addressing student

concerns about September 11 attacks

Orientation Speaker, Fisher College, 5 September 2001. Address to first-year students regarding

faculty expectations of students

Director, Fisher College Honors Program, 2000-2002

Academic Advisor, Honors Program and Liberal Arts Department, 2000-2002

Chair, Honors Committee, 2000-2002

Coordinator, Honor Colloquium Speaker Series, 2001

Faculty Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa, Nu Omega Chapter, 2000-2002

Member, Ad Hoc Planning Committee, Faculty and Facilities, NEASC Self-Study, 2001

Creator and Editor, Fisher Writes!, a journal of first-year student writing, 1998

Miami University of Ohio Service

Mentor to first-year Graduate Teaching Associate 1993-1994

Northeastern University Service

Graduate Student Representative, Forum Committee, 1991-1993

Editorial Assistant, Publications of the Society for Literature and Science: 19th Century Contexts, 1992-1993

Organizer and Chair, Faculty Forum: Authenticity in Scholarship and Teaching of

Minority Literatures: Who Has the Power to Speak? Northeastern University English Department, March, 1992

MEMBERSHIPS/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Comparative Literature Association

Amnesty International, Urgent Action Network/Partners of Conscience

Historians Against Slavery

Modern Language Association

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