Teaching Philosophy and Materials
| Julianne Newmark, Ph.D. | Click here for CV as a printable PDF |
New Mexico Tech
Department of Humanities
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2004 English Literature, Wayne State University
M.A. 2000 English Literature, Wayne State University
B.A. 1996 English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor of English, Humanities Department, New Mexico Tech, 2007-present
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Humanities Department, New Mexico Tech, 2006-7
Instructor, University of New Mexico Department of Language and Literature, 2005-6
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Wayne State University Honors Program, 2004-5
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Brigham Young University Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Visiting Scholar (Spring semester), 2009
Newberry Library/South Central Modern Language Association Research Fellowship, 2007
Brigham Young University Charles Redd Center for Western History Short-term Fellowship, 2006
Newly-Published Scholar Award, International D. H. Lawrence Conference, 2005
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Honors Program, Wayne State University, 2004-5, 2005-7 (declined)
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Wayne State University, Summer 2004
Thomas Rumble Dissertation Fellow, Wayne State University, 2003-4
School of Criticism and Theory (Diana Fuss's seminar), Cornell University, Summer 2001
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
“Place, Not Race: Sites of American Literary Neonativism, 1899-1933.” Click here for abstract as PDF.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
"From Professional Presence to Political Power: The Activist Writings of Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Alexander Eastman, and Carlos Montezuma." Click here for abstract as PDF.
PUBLICATIONS
"An Introduction to Neonativist Collectives: Place, Not Race, in Cather's The Professor's House and Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent." Forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly.
"Sensing Re-Placement in New Mexico: D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, and (Post)Colonial Textual Geographies."
Forthcoming in "Terra Incognita": D. H. Lawrence at the Frontiers. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.
"Language, Absence, and Narrative Impossibility in Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador." Latin American Literary Review. 61 (January-June 2003): 5-22.
"Writing (and Speaking) in Tongues: Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories." Western American Literature. 37.3 (Fall 2002): 335-358.
"D. H. Lawrence, 'Whitman,' and the Leap to the Irrational." Etudes Lawrenciennes. 28 (Spring 2003): 109-32.
ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW
"Connecting Students to Zitkala-Sa through WAC: From Her 'School Days' to Theirs."
BOOK REVIEWS
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith. Forthcoming in Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL).
The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence by Fiona Becket. D. H. Lawrence Review. Fall 2004.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"Political Visions and Places of Change: The Activist Writings of Zitkala-Sa and Charles Eastman." Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Annual Western Studies Luncheon. Featured speaker. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. March 2009.
"Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, Dr. Carlos Montezuma, and the Rhetoric of Activist Medicine." American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Regional Conference. Breakout Session Featured Presentation. New Mexico Tech. Socorro, NM. April 2008.
"Introducing Students to Zitkala-Sa through WAC: From Her 'School Days' to Theirs." University of Michigan. Sweetland Writing Center. Ann Arbor, MI. March 2007.
"WAC in the Classroom: Strategies for Incorporating WAC Pedagogies into Your Class!" Writing Across Communities Week 2006. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 2006.
"Finding a Neonativist Political Voice: Zitkala-Sa in Utah and Washington D.C." Brigham Young University Omnibus Lecture Series. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. June 2006.
"Surviving Nativism and Neonativist Survivance: The Repatriation of Charles Alexander Eastman." University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. January 2006.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
National and Regional Modern Language Association (MLA) meetings:
Roundtable member. Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal. MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
"Connecting Students to Zitkala-Sa: From Her 'School Days' to Theirs." MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006.
"Locating the Future Native: Lawrence's American Neonativism." MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. December 2004.
"Natives and Early Twentieth Century Literary Neonativism." South Central MLA. New Orleans, LA. October 2004.
"The Future and Fluid Native: A Third Theory of Early Twentieth Century Literary Nativism." MLA Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. December 2003.
"Occupying The Atlantic Monthly: Zitkala-Sa and the Dynamics of Textual Space." Northeastern MLA. Cambridge, MA. March 2003.
Other national and international conferences:
“Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, Dr. Carlos Montezuma, and the Rhetoric of Activist Medicine.” American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. May 2009.
"The Bursum Bill and the Re-Placing of Pueblo Indians: D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, and Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos." American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. May 2008.
“Doing WAC: How First-Year Writing Students Bring WAC to New Mexico Tech.” International Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Conference. Austin, TX. May, 2008.
"'Inner life of people little understood': Gertrude Bonnin, William F. Hanson, and The Sun Dance Opera." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Southwest Regional Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2007.
"Ecocriticism, Zitkala-Sa's Poetry, and the Network of her Writing." Native American Literature Symposium. Mt. Pleasant, MI. April 2006.
"Surviving Nativism and Neonativist Survivance: The Repatriation of Charles Alexander Eastman." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 2006.
"Place, Not Race: Neonativism as an Alternative to Walter Benn Michaels's Nativist Modernism." Western Literature Association Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. October 2005.
"The Plumed Serpent, Neonativism, and the Frontiers of National Identity." D. H. Lawrence International Conference. Santa Fe, NM. June 2005.
Panel chair and presenter. "D. H. Lawrence: Neonativist in New Mexico." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 2004.
"Representing Education and Cultural Loss: The Dawes Act, Zitkala-Sa, and the Literary Legacy of Forced Acculturation." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 2003.
"Zitkala-Sa: Problems in Publication and Context." Western Literature Association Annual Conference. Tucson, AZ. October 2002.
"Bartolome de las Casas: Conquest, Time, and New Terminology." GEMCS Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 2000.
COURSES TAUGHT
Literature and American Studies courses:
Survey of American Literature
Survey of Native American Literature
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to American Studies
Introduction to Literature and Writing, Fiction
Directed Study Seminar in American Expatriate Modernity
Writing courses:
Graduate Writing Seminar
Technical Writing
Introduction to College Writing
Introduction to College Writing/Mechanical Engineering "Learning Community"
Intermediate Writing: Argument and Analysis
Honors Introductory and Intermediate College Writing
Chicano/Boricua Studies Program Intermediate Composition
Project 350 (Basic Writing summer program for "at risk" students)
College for Lifelong Learning Senior Thesis (as part of BA and MA program for “nontraditional” students)
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE
Composition Coordinator, New Mexico Tech, 2007-present
Retention Task-Force, New Mexico Tech, 2007-present
State-Wide (NM) Task-Force, English Entry Requirements for State Universities, 2007-present
Article reviewer. The D. H. Lawrence Review. 2008-present
Recording Secretary, D. H. Lawrence Society of North America, 2003-present
Xchanges Online Journal, Editor, 2001-4, 2008-present
Writing Across Communities (WAC) initiative, University of New Mexico, 2005-6
Y|X Conference Director, Wayne State University American Studies Program, 2000-4
Graduate English Curriculum Review/Revision Committee, Wayne State University, 2002-3
Chief Researcher, Graduate Curriculum Revision, Wayne State University, Summer 2002
Teaching and Technology Committee, Wayne State University English Department, 2002-3
Graduate Committee, Wayne State University English Department, 2001-2
Chair Search Committee, Wayne State University English Department, 2000-1
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association of America
American Studies Association
South Central Modern Language Association
Western Literature Association
D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
LANGUAGES
Spanish (writing, reading, and speaking proficiency)
French (reading knowledge)
REFERENCES
Professor Richard Grusin
English Department, Wayne State University
r.grusin@wayne.edu
Professor Jerry Herron
Dean of Honors College, Wayne State University
jerry.herron@wayne.edu
Professor Emerita Virginia Hyde
English Department, Washington State University
hydev@wsunix.wsu.edu
Professor Ross Pudaloff
English Department, Wayne State University
aa1236@wayne.edu
Professor Renata Wasserman
English Department, Wayne State University
aa0902@wayne.edu
Professor Gerald Vizenor
American Studies Department, University of New Mexico
vizenor@unm.edu