Sharon Patricia Holland

Department of English (MC 162)

University of Illinois at Chicago

Academic History:

· Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Department of English Language and Literature, granted August 1992.

· A.B. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. English and Afro-American Studies, granted June 1987.

Employment History:

· University of Illinois at Chicago, Departments of African American Studies and English. Associate Professor, Fall 2000.

· NEH, Division of Public Programs (Film & Media). Humanities Administrator. Winter 2000. Declined.

· State University of New York, Albany, Department of English. Assistant Professor. Fall 1999. Tenured, Spring 2000.

· Stanford University, Stanford, California, Department of English. Assistant Professor. Fall 1993 to Spring 1999.

· Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Program in African American Studies. Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 1992- Summer 1993.

Public and Professional Service:

· Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English (UIC) (2002-05).

· Executive Committee of the MLA Southern Literature Discussion Group (2001-05).

· Board Member, CLAGS, The Graduate Center @ CUNY, New York (2000-03).

· MLA Executive Committee member, Twentieth Century Literature Division (1999-04).

· Board Member, Esoterikpix , New York City (1999).

· Nominee, Princeton University Alumni Trustee-At-Large (1996 & 1997 Elections).

· MLA Delegate Ethnic Studies Division (1995-97).

Post-degree Honors and Awards:

· Lora Romero First Book Prize for Raising the Dead from the American Studies Association (ASA). November 2002.

· Dean's Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, California. Fall 1997-Spring 1998.

· Sinclair Drake Teaching Award, Black Community Services Center, Stanford University. 1997 and 1999 Recipient.

· Center for Chicano Research, Research Grant, Stanford University. Summer 1996

· Program in Feminist Studies, Curriculum Grant, Stanford University. Winter 1995.

· Irvine Foundation, Multicultural Curriculum Grant, Stanford University. Spring 1994.

· Wesleyan University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in African American Studies. 1992-1993.

Publications:

Books:

· Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity , Duke University Press (2000).

Journal Articles:

· “Everyday Mo(u)rning,” Theatre Journal: Special Issue on Tragedy , March 2002.

· “Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur and the (Queer) Art of Death,” Callaloo , Spring 2000.

· "Bakulu Discourse: Toni Morrison's Language of the Margin," Lit (Literature, Interpretation and Theory ), 1995.

· "'If you know I have a history, you will respect me:' A Perspective on Afro-Native American Literature," Callaloo 17.1 (Winter 1994).

· "'Which Me Will Survive': Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and Black Feminism," Critical Matrix (Spring 1988).

Essays in Edited Volumes:

· “(Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts: Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and its Revival of James Baldwin's Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni's Room ,” in James Baldwin Now , Dwight McBride, ed. (New York University Press, 1999).

· “Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment ,” in Beyond the Binary , Timothy Powell, ed. (Rutgers University Press,1999).

· “The Communities and World(s) of Beloved " with Michael Awkward, in Toni Morrison , Nellie Y. McKay, series ed. (MLA Publications, 1997).

· "[White] Lesbian Studies," in The New Lesbian Studies . Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. (The Feminist Press, 1996).

· "To Touch the Mother's C[o]untry: Siting Audre Lorde's Erotics," Lesbian Erotics: Practices and Critiques , Karla Jay, ed. (New York University Press, 1994).

· "Humanity is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing," Tilting the Tower , Linda Garber, ed. (Routledge, 1994).

Review Essays and Individual Book Reviews:

· “The Revolution, In Theory.” A Review of Jody David Armour, Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: the Hidden Costs of Being Black in America; Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double ; and Hazel V. Carby, Race Men . American Literary History (ALH) , Spring 2000.

· “On Waiting to Exhale: Or What to Do When You're Feeling Black and Blue, a Review of Recent Black Feminist Criticism.” Feminist Studies , Spring 2000.

· Review of Nat Turner before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection , Mary Kemp Davis. American Literature (Fall 2000).

· Review of Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 , Sandra Gunning and Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston , Deborah G. Plant. Signs 24, no. 3 (Spring 1999).

· "Audre Lorde: Poet and Philosopher," Uncommon Heroes , Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, eds. (Fletcher Press, 1994).

Published Conference Proceedings:

· "Who's God Am 'I, god': Institution and Experience in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ," in All About Zora (Papers presented at the First Zora N. Hurston Festival of the Arts, Eatonville, Florida, 1991).

Work in Progress:

· ' Between Fabrication and Generation[s]': Telling the Story of a Woman (monograph).

· Crossing Waters, Crossing Paths: Black and Indian Journeys in the Americas (co-authored with Tiya Miles)

· How Bubba the Socrates Got to Be Neither (a novel).

· Halfway to Heaven (a play).

Major Invited Papers and Addresses:

· English Department group for Studies in the Literature and Culture of the Americas, University of Pennsylvania. “The Last Word on Racism.” Spring 2002.

· Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University. “After the 20 th Century: Black Feminism and the Lure of the Erotic.” Spring 2002.

· American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College. “Derrida, Faulkner and Racism's Last Word.” Spring 2001.

· CUNY, The Graduate Center. “Futures of the Field: Building LGBT Studies into the 21 st Century.” Spring 2001.

· University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. To ni McNaron Distinguished Lecture on Art and Culture. Spring 2001.

· CUNY, The Graduate Center. CLAGS Colloquium Series in Lesbian and Gay Studies. “Making Generation[s]: Gertrude Stein and Gayl Jones on Women.” Spring 2001.

· University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Toni McNaron Distinguished Lecture on Art and Culture. Spring 2001.

· Dartmouth University. Afro-Native Conference. “Nettie Jones's Mischief Makers and Narratives of Passing.” Spring 2000.

· University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Black Queer Studies Conference. “Queer Intersections, or Misogyny and Other Matters.” Spring 2000.

· University of Arizona, Tucson. “The Primal Scene(s): Matthew Shepherd and Discourses of Literacy.” Winter 2000.

· University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. “Randall Kenan and the African American Canon.” Fall 1999.

· University of California, Riverside. “‘I'm in the Zone': Tupac Shakur, Bill T. Jones and the Art of Death.” Fall 1998.

· University of California, San Diego. “A Motherless Art.” Spring 1998.

· University of North London, United Kingdom. “Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment .” Winter 1998.

· University of Oregon, Eugene. “Death, the Nation, and Critical Interventions.” Winter 1997.

· University of Chicago, Illinois. "Our Worst Fears in Black Face: the African-American Literary Imagination and its Canon(s)." Winter 1994.

· Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. “Siting Audre Lorde's Erotics.” Winter 1993.

Conference Papers:

· MLA, “Between Abstraction and Intimacy: A Phenomenological Conundrum.” December 2000.

· Modernist Studies Association (MSA), “Race and American Modernisms.” Seminar participant. Fall 2000.

· Women and Theatre Program (ATHE), “Misogyny.” August 2000.

· MLA, “ Requiem for a ‘Nigger Dope-Fiend Whore: Reading Infanticide and Generation(s) in Faulkner. December 1999.

· MLA, “Afro-Native Literature and the Politics of Passing in Nettie Jones's Mischief Maker .” December 1998.

· American Studies Association (ASA), “‘From This Moment Forth, We are Black Lesbians': Transgressing Whiteness and Querying Feminism in Consolidated's Business of Punishment .“ November 1998.

· MLA, “(Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts: Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and its Revival of James Baldwin's Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni's Room .” December 1997.

· UCLA Conference on Popular Music, “Transgressing Whiteness and Querying Feminism in Consolidated's Business of Punishment .” May 1997.

· ASA, "It's Tight Like That: Programs and Studies Vying for Institutional Space in the Year 2001." October 1996.

· ASA, "Out in the Three C's: Classroom, Campus and Community." October 1995.

· MLA, "Desire in the New Age: A Look at an episode of NBC's Frasier ." December 1995.

· ASA, "Afro-Native Subjectivity." October 1994.

· Readers and Writers Conference, San Francisco, "Black Lesbian Presence and the Development of Lesbian/Gay Studies." March 1994.

· American Literature Association (ALA), “After 500 Years: The Revised Afro-Native Text in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead ." November 1993.

· University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Qualifying Margins: The Discourse of Death in Native and African American Women's Novels." Winter 1991.

· First Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Eatonville, Florida. "Who's God Am 'I, god': Institution and Experience in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ." January 1990.

· University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "'Welcome to the Jungle': Heavy Metal Video and Postmodern Constructions." Spring 1989.

· Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. "'Which Me Will Survive': Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Black Feminism." March 1987.

Courses Taught:

· UI-Chicago:

“Introduction to African American Literature (1790-1910)”, undergraduate lecture.

“Faulkner and the Americas,“ graduate course

“African-American Studies 100: An Introduction” undergraduate course.

“English 243: The Beginning to 1914,” undergraduate survey seminar.

· SUNY-Albany

“African American Criticism: The Last Decade” (Theories of Language), core graduate course.

“Feminists Look at Gender, Race and Class,” graduate course.

“British and American Women Writers,” undergraduate lecture/seminar.

· Stanford University

'“Race' and Racial Representation in the 19th Century Imagination,” faculty and graduate seminar.

“Death and the Grotesque in Native and African-American Literature,” graduate seminar.

“Feminist Discourse and 20th Century Literature,” graduate seminar.

“William Faulkner, Race and Southern Experience,” graduate seminar.

“Poetry and Politics: Black Women Write,” undergraduate seminar.

“Black Popular Culture,” undergraduate seminar.

“Growing Up in America,” writing and critical thinking, freshman seminar.

“The Second Wave of U.S. Feminism,” undergraduate seminar.

“Literary Foremothers: Afra-American Literary History,” undergraduate lecture.

“19th and 20th Century African American Poets,” undergraduate lecture.

“19th and 20th Century African American Literature,” undergraduate lecture.

“Faulkner and Morrison,” undergraduate lecture.

· Wesleyan University

“African American Literary Foremothers,” undergraduate lecture.

“Hip Hop, Rap and African American Discourse,” senior seminar.

Professional Memberships:

Modern Language Association

National Women's Studies Association

American Studies Association

Modernist Studies Association