Corey Hickner-Johnson Department of English University of Iowa [email protected] INTERESTS 19th/20th century American Literature; diverse feminist cultural studies; bodies, affects, and feelings; dress/fashion theory; culturally responsive teaching EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Iowa, English, in progress Certificate Student in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies M.A. University of Saint Thomas, English, 2012 Thesis: A Vindication of Self: Transfiguration of the Captivity Narrative Genre in Sarah Wakefield’s Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees B.A. College of Saint Benedict, English and Secondary Education, 2007 PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Digital Scholarship “Beyond the Boundaries of Time and Text: Recovering Oral Traditions in American Women’s Writing.” Edited by The Society for The Study of American Women Writers Editorial Board for The American Women Writer’s Blog Series, U.S. Studies Online March 27, 2015. Book Review Review of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Lisa Tetrault, Modern Language Studies 44.2 Winter 2015: 56-58. Public Scholarship “Empowered Enough to Respond.” The Press Citizen February 12, 2015. “Forgetting the Girl: 10 to 17 years-old; Nigerian; Suicide Bomber.” Feministing January 22, 2015. “A Dakota War Story You Should Know.” The Star Tribune August 15, 2015. Literary Nonfiction “Forever A Blazer.” College of Saint Benedict’s Magazine Winter 2015: 16-17. PRESENTATIONS Conference Presentations “Fashioning Narratives: Feminine Power and Racial Politics in Scandal’s Costume Design and The Limited’s Scandal Collection.” Fashion, Sex, and Power Symposium, forthcoming September 2015. “ ‘Clean as Paper Before the Poem’: From Cruel Optimism to Hope in The House on Mango Street.” NeMLA, forthcoming May 2015. “Hurston’s Writerly Resistance and Body Politics: Changes and Exchanges in the writing of Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Craft Critique Culture, April 2015. “Mythology and Selfhood in Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘The Hammer Man’” Craft Critique Culture, April 2014. “A Vindication of Self: Transfiguration of the Captivity Narrative Genre in Sarah Wakefield’s Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees” Society for the Study of American Women Writer’s Conference, October 2012. Invited Talks “Sarah Wakefield and The Dakota War.” Women’s Rhetoric, University of Saint Thomas, 2012. “A Vindication of Self: Transfiguration of the Captivity Narrative Genre in Sarah Wakefield’s Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees (abbreviated version).” University of Saint Thomas English Department Colloquium, 2012. “Differentiated Instruction.” Wayzata Public Schools Board Presentation, 2011. Blazer Athletics Senior Speech. College of Saint Benedict, 2007. TEACHING University of Iowa Graduate Instructor of Rhetoric, 2013— Speaking Center Tutor/Advisor, 2014— Wayzata Public Schools 7th grade Language Arts and Advisory, 2008-2013 6th grade Family and Consumer Science, 2007-2008 8th grade Language Arts, 2007-2008 LICENSURE Secondary Education, Communication Arts/Literature, State of Minnesota LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE Craft Critique Culture Conference Panel Organizer, 2015 Graduate Advisory Committee Secretary, Department of Rhetoric, 2014-2015 Student Body Liaison, Graduate Advisory Committee, Department of Rhetoric, 2014-2015 Craft Critique Culture Conference volunteer, 2014 Student Teacher Advisor, College of Saint Benedict/Wayzata East Middle School, 2013 Professional Development Leadership Team Chair, Wayzata East Middle School, 2012-2013 iPad Initiative Team, 2011-2012 Academy of Wayzata Educators Study Group Facilitator, 2011-2012 District Department Meeting Facilitator, 2010-2013 7th Grade Weekly Parent Newsletter Editor, 2010-2011 Wayzata District Turning Technologies Committee, 2010-2011 Professional Development Leadership Team Member, 2009-2013 Girls Cross Country Coach, Wayzata Middle Schools, 2009-2011 PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS National Urban Alliance Cultural Proficiency Training, 2009-2013 The Skillful Teacher Training, 2012 Response to Intervention Training, 2012 Data Driven Dialogue, 2011 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS National Women’s Studies Association Northeast Modern Language Association Society for the Study of American Women Writers
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