Curriculum Vita
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Ooltewah, Tennessee 37363 Phone: 423-614-8211 Fax: 423-614-8209 E-mail: dsummerlin@leeuniversity.edu
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| Donna J. Summerlin
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Education |
1992 – 1995 University of Tennessee
Ph.D. in English Knoxville, TN Dissertation: A Portrait of the Woman as Artist: Women’s Struggle for Artistic Expression in the Fiction of Six Appalachian Women Writers An overview of the contributions women have made to the Appalachian literary canon, along with an examination of the major works of six of the region’s most acclaimed women writers: Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Olive Tilford Dargan, Harriette Arnow, Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, and Denise Giardina.
1991-1992 University of Tennessee M.A. in English Chattanooga, TN Thesis: The Comic Grotesque in Southern Literature An examination of the use of the technique of the comic grotesque in the fiction of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
1976-1978 University of Tennessee M.Ed. Chattanooga, TN
1970-1974 Lee College B.A. in English Cleveland, TN |
Professional experience |
1988-Present Lee University
Professor of English Cleveland, TN
1970-1988 Hamilton County Department of Education English teacher Chattanooga, TN
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| Additional Professional Activities
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Director, American Ethnic Studies: New England cross cultural trip
Director, American Ethnic Studies: The South cross cultural trip Division Coordinator, Department of Language and Literature |
| Professional Memberships | National Council of Teachers of English
Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on Christianity & Literature Society for the Study of Southern Literature Appalachian Studies Association
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| Representative
Courses Taught |
ENGL110: Rhetoric & Research
ENGL307: Modern Literary Criticism ENGL314: United States Literature: 1865 to the Present ENGL315/EDUC510: Young Adult Literature ENGL320: Women Writers ENGL326: Multi-Ethnic United States Literature ENGL431: American Novel SCED413/EDUC517 Teaching English, Grades 7-12
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| Honors | 2004 – Excellence in Advising Award, Lee University
2002 – Selected as a participant for NEH Institute: An Appalachian Exemplar at Ferrum College 1993 – Awarded Mellon Felllowship to pursue doctoral studies 1992 – Awarded Mellon Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies 1990 – Elected Teacher of the Year by Student Education Association at Lee University
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Conferences
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ALAN Workshop, NCTE Conference, Boston, MA, November 25-26, 2013
Southeast Core to College Curriculum Council, Common Core Implementation meeting, October 7, Chattanooga, TN
Appalachian Studies Conference, Boone, NC, 22 March 2013
INVEST Workshop: Building a College and Career Ready Tennessee By Preparing New Teachers for Common Core, Ayers Institute, Cleveland, TN, March 25-26, 2013
Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, April 19-21, 2012
Christianity and Literature Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 16-17, 2010 Tennessee Philological Society, Lee University, Cleveland, TN, February 25-27 “Young Adult Literature: What Is It Good For?” presentation for teacher in-service meeting at Cleveland High School, Cleveland, TN, February 15, 2008 Conference on Appalachian Literature and Culture, Somerset Community College, Somerset, KY, April 3, 2009 Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, March 28-30, 2008 ALAN Workshop, NCTE Conference, Nashville, TN, November 21-22, 2007
Appalachian College Association Conference, Abingdon, VA, October 20, 2007
Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Rome George, September 27-29, 2007
Emory & Henry Appalachian Literary Festival, Abingdon, VA, September 21-23, 2006
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH, March 17, 2006.
Thomas Wolfe Conference, Asheville, NC, November 18, 2005
Festival of Faith & Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 22-24 April 2004
MLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, November 15, 2002
Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Lafayette Louisiana, March 14-16, 2002
Fellowship of Southern Writers, Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature, Chattanooga, TN, April 19-21, 2001
Art & Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, February 22-25, 2001
Berry College, Southern Women Writer’s Conference, Rome, GA, April 13-15, 2000
ACA Technology Summit, Knoxville, TN, October 12-14, 2000
Ohio University Womens’ Studies Program, The Women of Appalachia: Their Heritage and Accomplishments, Zanesville, Ohio, October 27-29, 1999
Southern Voices ’99, Birmingham, AL, February 26-28, 1999
Conference on Southern Literature, Chattanooga, TN, April 15-17, 1999
Virginia Humanities Conference, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA, April 3-4, 1998
Fellowship of Southern Writers Conference, Chattanooga, TN, April 3-5, 1997
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 7-9, 1996
Southern Festival of Books, October 11-12, 1996
Tennessee College English Association, Walters State Community College, Greeneville, TN, September 25-26, 1997
Fellowship of Southern Writers, Chattanooga, TN, April 6-8, 1995
Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 31-April 1, 1995
Tennessee College English Association, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, September 16, 1994
Christianity and Literature Conference, Shreveport, LA, February 6-8, 1992
Tennessee Collaborative for Teaching Excellence, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, February 1, 1992
Tennessee Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN, October 4-5, 1991
Tennessee College English Association meeting, Jackson, TN, September 27, 1991
Approaches to Modern Fiction workshop, Tennessee Collaborative for Educational Excellence, University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, March 2, 1991
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 9-11, 1990
Tennessee Council of Teachers of English, Gatlinburg, TN, October 5-6, 1990
Conference on Christianity and Literature, Southern College, Chattanooga, TN, April 5-7, 1990
“Shakespeare Up On His Feet,” Tennessee Collaborative for Educational Excellence and Tennessee Humanities Council, Chattanooga, TN, February 3, 1990
“Gateways: Education into the 21st Century,” Association of Teacher Educators, St. Louis, MO, February 18-20
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| Publications | “Gender, Race, and Religion in Silas House’s Appalachian Trilogy.” Appalachian Journal 37.1/2 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 76-99.
“Flying Below the Radar: Activist, Paternalist, and Obstructionist Responses to The Civil Rights Movement in Three East Tennessee Communities.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 66.3 (November 2007): 270-93. [co-authored with Dr. Mary Waalkes, Assistant Professor of History]
Murder And Mayhem In North Carolina: The Gothic And The Grotesque In Four New Southern Mysteries.” North Carolina Literary Review 11 (September 2002): 169-72.
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| Papers Presented | The Gothic Convention and the Contemporary Imagination: Re-Imaginings of Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights in Appalachian Contemporary Writer Denise Giardina’s Emily’s Ghost, Appalachian Studies Conference, Boone, NC, 22 March 2013
Festival Circle facilitator, “Composition Teachers in Christian Colleges.” Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, April 19-21, 2012 “To Everything a Season: Redemption Imagery in the Fiction of Silas House.” Christianity and Literature Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 16-17, 2010 “Making Their Peace with God: The Changing Face of Appalachian Religion,” Harriette Arnow Conference on Appalachian Literature and Culture, Somerset Community College, Somerset, KY, April 3, 2009 “Who We Are, Who We Have Always Been: Appalachian Identity in Silas House’s Appalachian Trilogy,” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, March 28-30, 2008 “Crossing Cultural Boundaries at Home: Planning a Domestic Trip with Cross Cultural Emphasis.” Appalachian College Association Conference, Abingdon, VA, October 20, 2007
“Flying Below the Radar: Activist, Paternalist, and Obstructionist Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Three East Tennessee Communities.” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH, March 17, 2006.
The South’s Angry Young Men: The Shadow of the Father in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel and Pat Conroy’s The Great Santini, Thomas Wolfe Conference, Asheville, NC, November 18, 2005
“Murder for God’s Sake: Sallie Bissell’s A Darker Justice.” MLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, November 15, 2002
“Probing the White Conscience: The Rhetoric of Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference, Lafayette, LA, March 13-16, 2002
“‘The Firey Hand of God’: Belief and Doubt in the Fiction of Lee Smith” at the Art & Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art Conference, Baylor University, Waco, TX, February 22-25, 2001
, “‘Women’s Ways of Knowing’: The Female Mystic as Triumph of Feminine Intuition in Sharyn McCrumb’s The Ballad of Frankie Silver” at the first annual conference of The Women of Appalachia: Their Heritage and Accomplishments on October 27-29, 1999, at Ohio University in Zanesville, Ohio
“Bringing Appalachian Literature into the Classroom,” TCEA Conference, Walters State Community College, September 25-26, 1997
“Music as Metaphor in Appalachian Fiction: Lee Smith’s The Devil’s Dream,” Northeast Modern Language Association convention, Boston, MA, March 31, 1995
“‘Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God’: A Close Reading of Donne’s Sonnet,” Christianity and Literature Conference, Shreveport, LA, February 6-8, 1992
“Methods of Evaluating Composition: Relative Merits,” Tennessee College English Association, Jackson, TN, September 27, 1991
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| OTHER
PRESENTATIONS |
Lecture, “Appalachia: Deconstructing the Myth,” presented for ENCORE Southern History class, Instructors Randy Wood and John Coats, 9 October 2013
Panel participant for ENGL300 to talk about the education major, the teacher education program, and my experience teaching in secondary schools (each semester)
Guest speaker for ENGL495 to talk about the integration of faith with the discipline of English/literature/teaching (each semester)
“Diversity and Social Change,” Building Community from Diversity Forum, Cleveland State Community College, January 22, 2010
Appalachian Seminar, Director and Speaker, Lee University, Cleveland, TN, March 24-30, 2010
“Women in Appalachian Literature, presentation at Homecoming alumni session, Lee University, Cleveland, TN, November 12, 1995
Inservice presentation for Blue Springs Elementary, Teaching Composition in the Content Area, Cleveland, TN, January 3, 1990
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REFERENCES
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Dr. Carolyn Dirksen Vice President for Academics Lee University Cleveland, Tennessee 37320-3450
Dr. Jean Eledge Chair, Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Lee University Cleveland, Tennessee 37320-3450
Dr. Allison Ensor Professor of English Department of English University of Tennessee, |