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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