Ann Marie Adams
UPO 560 Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
(606) 783-2739
a.adams@moreheadstate.edu
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Rank: Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy (Initial rank assignment: August 1998; Tenured: August 2004)
Specializations: 20th-Century British Literature and Critical Theory
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (English) Bowling Green State University, 1998. Examination areas: 20th Century British literature and Postcolonial literature and theory. Dissertation: Writing Revolution: Women Writers and Fictions of Nationalism.
M.A. (English) Bowling Green State University, 1994. Thesis: “Stripping Bark from Myself: Remythologization and the Poetry of Eavan Boland.”
B.A. (English Honors) summa cum laude University of Toledo, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming articles:
“Defending ‘Identity and the Writer’: A.S. Byatt’s Delineation of the Proper ‘Function of Criticism at the Present Time.’” Critique.
“What’s in a Frame?: The Authorizing Presence in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein.” The Journal of Popular Culture.
Articles in print:
"Reader, I Memorialized Him: A.S. Byatt's Repesentation of Alfred Lord Tennyson in The Conjugial Angel." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 19.1 (2008): 26-46.
"Look Back in Realism: The Making and Unmaking of Dramatic Form in the Reception of the British New Wave." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 40.1 (Spring 2007): 75-86.
“‘Dead’ Authors, Born Readers, and Defunct Critics: Investigating Ambiguous Critical Identities in A.S. Byatt’s Possession” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 107-24.
“Writing Self, Writing Nation: Imagined Geographies in the Fiction of Hanan al-Shaykh.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 20.2 (2001): 201-16.
“It’s a Woman’s War: Engendering Conflict in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra.” Callaloo 24.1 (2001): 287-300.
“The Sense of an Ending: Representing Homosexuality in Brendan Behan’s The Hostage.” Modern Drama 40.3 (1997): 414-21.
“Decima’s Triumph: Yeats’s Construction of the New Woman in The Player Queen.” Yeats Annual 14 (1996): 3-18.
Reprinted articles:
“‘Dead’ Authors, Born Readers, and Defunct Critics: Investigating Ambiguous Critical Identities in A.S. Byatt’s Possession.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 107-24. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 218. Ed. Jeff Hunter. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2006.
“Writing Self, Writing Nation: Imagined Geographies in the Fiction of Hanan al-Shaykh.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 20.2 (2001): 201-16. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 218. Ed. Jeff Hunter. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2006.
“The Sense of an Ending: Representing Homosexuality in Brendan Behan’s The Hostage.” Modern Drama 40.3 (1997): 414-21. Rpt. in Modern British Literature: Volume I, A-G. 2nd ed. Ed. Laurie DiMauro. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James P, 2000. 153-5.
Published reviews and entries:
Review of Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression, by E. San Juan, Jr. Amerasia (1998): 181-3.
“Colonialism and Literature.” Identities and Issues in Literature. Ed. Eric Howards. Pasadena, Ca.: Salem P, 1997. 270-1.
“The Fatwa.” Identities and Issues in Literature. Ed. Eric Howards. Pasadena, Ca.: Salem P, 1997. 396-400.
“John Montague.” MODERN IRISH WRITERS: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. West Port, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1997. 232-7.
“Materialist Queer Theory: A Working Bibliography.” The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural Studies Reader. Boulder, Colorado: Westview P, 1996. 381-92. (With Tamara Powell, Angie Albright, Angela Athy, James R. Bennett, Heath Diehl, Kristi Johansen, Joe Sanders and Jeff Schwartz)
Under consideration:
“In or About November 1859: Analyzing the New Synthesis of ‘Darwin’s Plots’ in Contemporary Fiction” (28 pp., sent to College Literature)
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Special Editor for Sankofa: Racial Formation and Transformation, Toward a Theory of African American History by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua (©2000, Working Papers Series in Cultural Studies, Ethnicity, and Race Relations, Department of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“A Passage to Bloomsbury: Contemporary British Writers’ Attempts to ‘Only Connect’ to Modernism.” The College English Association Annual Convention. St. Louis, Missouri. March, 2008. (national juried)
“Tradition and the Individual Servant: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Aesthetic Ends of Modernism” The Ketucky Philological Association. Louisville, Kentucky, March 2008. Presented over the web due to weather cancellation. (state non-juried)
“Looking at the Company She Keeps: The Ethics of Reading in A.S. Byatt’s Fiction.” College English Association Annual Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana. April, 2007. (national juried)
“Reader, I Memorialized Him: Representations of Tennyson in A.S. Byatt’s The Conjugial Angel.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2007. (national juried)
“The Full-Text Fallacy, Or, Why British Literature Teachers Need to Be Leery of Electronically Accessed Research.” Midwest British Studies Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. October 2006. (regional juried)
“A New Local Color Artist?: Improbable Intersections of Race and Region in the Reception of Kazuo Ishiguro.” College English Association Annual Convention. San Antonio, Texas. April 2006. (national juried)
“The Function of the Author at the Present Time: Intentional Ambiguities in the Work of A.S. Byatt.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2006. (national juried)
“Moving Out of the Campus Novel: The Post-Historical University in Contemporary Fiction.” College English Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. April 2005. (national juried)
“Kenneth Branagh’s (Bride of) Frankenstein: The Persistence of James Whale’s Cinematic Vision in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2005. (national juried)
“Darwin’s (Postmodern) Plots: Narrations of New Syntheses in Contemporary Fiction.” Kentucky Philological Association. Morehead, Kentucky. March 2004.
“Look(ing) Back in Realism: Assessing the Shifting Reception of the British New Wave.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2004.
“Chronicles of Higher Education: Excavations of the ‘University in Ruins’ in Contemporary Fiction.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illiniois. November 2003.
“Lost Notes on the Art of Biographical Criticism: Exploring the Dissociation of Intentionality in A.S. Byatt’s Work.” Ashland, Kentucky. Kentucky Philological Association. March 2003. (state non-juried)
“On or About November 1859: Plotting Darwin in Contemporary Fiction.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2003. (national juried)
“Silly Theories and Lady Theorists: Representations of Feminists and Feminist Theory in A.S. Byatt’s Work.” Kentucky Philological Association. Ashland, Kentucky. March 2002.
“Where in the ‘World’ is Homi Bhabha?: The Politics of (De)Territorialization in Contemporary Literary Theory.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2002.
“The British Are Coming, the British Are Coming—Quick, Get Mel Gibson.” The Kentucky Philological Association. Georgetown, Kentucky. March 2001. (judged best in session)
“Haunted by Heritage: A.S. Byatt’s Use of the Literary Past.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2000.
“Keeping an Eye on the Prize: The Booker Prize and the Future of (British) Literary Study.” Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 2000.
“Angry Young Realists: The Making and Unmaking of Mimesis in the Revolution of 1956.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Kansas City, Missouri. November 2000.
“Culture and Colonialism: Irish Studies in/and Postcolonial Discourse.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Kansas City, Missouri. November 2000.
“Possessing the Secret of Culture: A.S. Byatt’s Valedictory Metafiction.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Boise, Idaho. October 2000.
“Love Among the Ruins: Reeling in the Romance in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2000.
“Artist in an Interstitial World?: Territorializing the Global Literary Reception of Kazuo Ishiguro.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. December 1999.
“Diminishment, Devolution and the Loss of National Sovereignty?: Taking a Closer Look at the Reception of Postwar British Literature.” The Kentucky Philological Association. Louisville, Kentucky. March 1999.
“Phantasmal Fatherlands: Constructing ‘Irishness’ in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” The North American James Joyce Conference. Toronto, Canada. June 1997.
“Embodying Space: The Imagined Geographies of Hanan al-Shaykh.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 1996.
“Woman, Nation, Other: Tropes of Nationalism in New English Literatures.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 1996.
“I/i Tituba, Migrant Woman of the Diaspora: The Politics of Identity in Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.” Against the Grain: The Second Annual Culture Studies Conference. Bowling Green, Ohio. March 1996.
“The Real Kathleen: Dismantling Mother Ireland in Julia O’Faolain’s No Country For Young Men.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 1996.
“Indian Woman is not a Feminist Category: Gender Politics in The Inner Courtyard.” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. November, 1995.
“Portrait of the Elderly Artist: The Aesthetics of Age in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and W.B. Yeats.” Fighting Irish Studies in America. South Bend, Indiana. March 1995.
“To Ireland of the Coming Times: A Closer Look at Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent.” Fourth Annual 18th and 19th Century Women Writers Conference. South Bend, Indiana. March 1995.
“‘On a Childhood Spent in England’: Postcolonialism and the Poetry of Eavan Boland.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 1994.
“Father Knows Best: Disney’s Reinscription of Fairytales.” 21st Annual Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Associations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 1994.
“When Our Lips Bruise the Flesh: Potential Utopias in Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned.” 21st Annual Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Associations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 1994.
“The Power of Persuasion: The Writings of Jane Austen and Harriet Taylor-Mill.” Third Annual 18th and 19th Century Women Writer’s Conference. East Lansing, Michigan. April 1994.
Miscellaneous conference experience:
Session Chair: “What Bridget Jones Ate and A.S. Byatt Knew—From Tarts and Vicars to Literary Potboilers: Troping the Nineteeth Century in Contemporary Fiction.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2001.
Session Chair: “‘As Barbara Cartland Would Put It, “I Love You Madly”’: Reimplementing the Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2000.
Session Chair: “Postmodernism and Postcolonialism: Intersection or Impasse?” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. November 1998.
Session Chair: “Queer Identities/Irish Identities.” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. November 1998.
Secretary: “English Literature after 1900.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 1997.
Secretary: “Irish Studies.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 1997.
Respondent: “Irish Studies.” Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. November 1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor at Morehead State University, 1998-2004. Associate Professor, 2004-. Teaching:
· English 100 (Writing I)
· English 200 (Writing II: Paired with Intro to Theatre; Intro to Lit)
· English 220 (Approaches to Literature: Adventure Fiction; the Short Story)
· English 332 (British Literature since 1750)
· English 398 (Gay and Lesbian Literature)
· English 444 (20th Century British Literature)
· English 476 (Independent Study: 20th Century British Fiction)
· English 495 (Tennessee Williams)
· English 499C (Integrated Capstone)
· English 553 (Modern Drama)
· English 570 (Film and Literature)
· English 603 (Bibliography)
· English 652 (Modern British Literature)
· English 666 (Contemporary Literature)
· Humanities 170 (Intro to Film)
· Women’s Studies 273 (Introduction to Women’s Studies)
Graduate Assistant at Bowling Green State University, 1992-1998. Taught:
· English 111 (Composition I)
· English 112 (Composition II)
· English 200 (Literature of Romantic Love; Women and Literature)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
At Morehead State University
· Member, Search Committee for an Instructor of English 2008
· Member, Faculty General Education Advisory Committee, 2007-present
· Graduate Coordinator and Assistant to the Chair, 2004-2007
· Chair, Library Committee, 2002-2006, member 2006-2008
· Member, University Graduate Programs Committee, 2005-2008
· Member, College Graduate Committee, 2004-2006
· Member, Undergraduate Programs, 2004-2006
· Member, MSU Film Series, 2004-present
· Member, Faculty Adjudication and Evaluation Committee, 2002-2004
· Member, Search Committee for an American Lit specialist, 2004-2005
· Member, Search Committee for an Instructional Librarian, 2004-2005
· Member, Academic Standards and Appeals, 2001-2004
· Member, Search Committee for a Linguist, 2002-2003
· Faculty Senator, Spring 2002
· Faculty Governance Committee, Spring 2002
· Member, College Planning Taskforce, 2001-2002
· Member, Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Council, 2001-2004
· Member, Graduate English Committee, 1999-present
· Member, On-line Catalog Library Committee, 1999-present
· Chair, Intercollegiate Athletic Committee (Academic Subcommittee), 1999-present
· Member, Undergraduate English Committee, 1998-present
· Member, Advisory Council, 2000-2001
· Member, Search Committee for a Creative Writing position, 1999-2000
· Member, Caudill College Council, 1998-2001
· Member, SACS Undergraduate Committee, 1998-1999
· Treasurer, Kentucky Regional Chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America
At Bowling Green State University
· Member of the committee to re-evaluate undergraduate English education, 1997-8
· Grad rep on the Hiring Committee for the 18th century British position, 1996-7
· Graduate Student Committee representative, 1996-7
· Assistant to the Associate Dean for Graduate orientation, Summer 1996
· Central Advisory Committee alternate and Grad rep to the Coordinator, 1995-6
· “Moderator” for the ESL Summer testing program, Summer 1995
Current Academic Organizations:
College English Association
Modern Language Association
Kentucky Philological Association
HONORS AND AWARDS
Morehead State, Sabbatical, Spring 2008
Morehead State, Summer Fellowship, Summer 2005
Morehead State Summer Research Grant, Summer 1999
Non-Service Fellowship, Fall 1997-Summer 1998
Teaching Fellowship, Fall 1992-Spring 1997
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
Golden Key National Honor Society
Mark J. Brunner Award
Cooke Scholarship