Department of Literature and Languages
Ann Beebe - Curriculum Vitae
Ann Beebe, Ph.D.
Department of Literature and Languages
University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Boulevard Office Phone: 903-565-5827
Tyler, TX 75799
Fax: 903-565-5700 Email: ann_beebe@uttyler.ed
EDUCATION:
- May 2000 University of Kentucky Ph.D. (English)
- May 1993 Washington State University M.A. (English)
- May 1990 University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire B.A. (English)
DISSERTATION:
‘If you had nothing in the world but your brothers’: Sibling Relationships in Civil War Diaries of Young Women
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- May 2010 to June 2010: Acting Chair, Department of Literature & Languages, University of Texas at Tyler
- January 2009 to July 2009: Interim Chair, Department of Literature & Languages, University of Texas at Tyler
- August 2008 to present: Graduate Advisor, Department of Literature & Languages, University of Texas at Tyler
- September 2007 to present: Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Tyler
- Fall 2001 to August 2007: Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Tyler
- Fall 2000 to Spring 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Maine at Farmington
- Spring 1998: Visiting Scholar/ Pre-Doctorate Appointment, Indiana University [scholar exchange program with University of Kentucky]
- Fall 1994 to Spring 2000: Writing Program and English Department TA, University of Kentucky
- Fall 1993: Writing Tutor for The Business School, Tulane University
- Fall 1991 to Spring 1993: Writing Program TA, Washington State University
- June 1990 to June 1991: English Instructor, International Language School (Budapest, Hungary)
HONORS FOR TEACHING:
- Nominated for Chancellor’s / White Teaching Fellowship – UT Tyler, Spring 2010
- Provost’s Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, 2008-2009
- UT Tyler Nominee for the Regent’s Teaching Award (Tenured Category) – Spring 2009
- Nominated for Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Innovation – UT Tyler, Spring 2008
- Nominated for Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Innovation – UT Tyler, Spring 2007
- White Fellowship for Teaching Excellence – UT Tyler, Spring 2006
- Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, Spring 2006
- Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, Spring 2005
- Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, Spring 2004
- Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, Spring 2003
- Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award – UT Tyler, Spring 2002
- Chancellor’s Award for Teaching – University of Kentucky, Spring 2000
COURSES TAUGHT at The University of Texas at Tyler:
1. ENGL 1301 – Grammar and Composition I (10 sections)
2. ENGL 1302 – Grammar and Composition II (6 sections)
3. ENGL 2350 – American Literature Survey (3 sections)
4. ENGL 3308 – Writing Literary Analysis and Interpretation (9 sections)
Spring 2007 – Spring 2010: Podcast sections
5. ENGL 4341 – American Genres
20th Century American Novels (2 sections)
History of American Short Stories (2 sections)
American Short Story Collections (2 sections)
Thoreau’s Creative Nonfiction
6. ENGL 4345 – American Literature Through the Romantics (11 sections)
7. ENGL 4348 – American Renaissance (2 sections)
8. ENGL 4355 – American Twentieth-Century Literature (8 sections)
9. ENGL 4365 – Special Topics in Literary Study
Harlem Renaissance (2 sections)
American Renaissance
10. ENGL 4397 – Senior Seminar (3 sections)
Civil War Literature
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
11. ENGL 4399 – Independent Study (7 sections)
12. ENGL 5199 – Independent Study (MA Comprehensive Exams Prep)
13. ENGL 5340 – Masters of American Literature (4 sections)
Wallace Stevens & Marianne Moore
Sentimental Novelists of the 1850s
Washington Irving
Robert Frost
Thoreau’s Creative Nonfiction
14. ENGL 5346 – American Literature through the Romantics (5 sections)
Early American Novels
Early American Drama and Novels
Emily Dickinson
American Renaissance
15. ENGL 5348 – American Renaissance
16. ENGL 5395 & 5396 – Thesis
17. ENGL 5399 – Independent Study (10 sections)
18. UNIV 1000 – Freshman Year Experience (2 sections)
COURSES TAUGHT ELSEWHERE:
- Civil War Literature – University of Maine at Farmington
- African American Literature – University of Maine at Farmington
- Introduction to Literary Studies – University of Maine at Farmington
- Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English – Indiana University
- Business Writing – University of Kentucky
- Survey of American Literature – University of Kentucky
- Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced English Language Classes – International Language School of Budapest, Hungary
PUBLICATIONS:
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
- “Edward Taylor’s ‘Meditation 2.65.’” The Explicator 68.1 (January-March 2010): 1-4.
- “Edward Taylor’s ‘Meditation 2.56.’” The Explicator 66.2 (Winter 2008): 75-78.
- “Emily Dickinson’s ‘Immortal is an Ample Word.’” The Explicator 65.1 (Fall 2006): 36-39.
- “Denise Levertov’s ‘Making Peace.’” The Explicator 63.3 (Spring 2005): 176-179.
- “Marianne Wiggins.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers since 1945 (5th series). Ed. Patrick Meanor & Richard E. Lee Detroit: Thomson Gale Publications, 2007. 311-317.
- “Marianne Moore’s ‘Virginia Britannia’.” The Explicator 62.1 (Fall 2003): 26-29.
- “Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852).” Writers of the American Renaissance: An A to Z Guide. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 292-299.
- “Becoming a Surrogate Brother: Lizzie Hardin’s Civil War Diary.” Border States Volume 13 (2001): 34-43.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
- “Edward Taylor.” Early American Literature. Ed. Angela Vietto. New York: Facts on File (Expected Publication Date: late 2009)
- “Julia A. J. Foote.” Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Volume One. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 204-207.
- “The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich.” Encyclopedia of Native American Literature. Ed. Alan R. Velie and Jennifer McClinton-Temple. New York: Facts on File.
- “Marilyn Mei Ling Chin.” Asian American Literature Encyclopedia. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
- “Monica Sone.” Asian American Literature Encyclopedia. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007)
- “Lucille Clifton.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Volume One. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 476-478.
- “Lucy A. Delaney.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Volume Two. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 562-563.
- “Margaret Esse Danner.” Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 239-240.
- “Pauline E. Hopkins.” Encyclopedia of African American Literature Volume II. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 791-792.
- “Lucy Terry.” Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Volume IV. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 1574-1575.
PROFESSIONAL ONLINE CONTENT:
- The Literature Podcast at the University of Texas at Tyler
Patriot Podcast site – free, open to public
Phase 1: 200+ extended definitions of literary terms recorded interview style with
eleven UTT student volunteers (complete)
Phase 2: 11 one-hour explanations of literary theories recorded in interview style
with UTT student and faculty volunteers
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
- “‘I am almost ready to yield and die’: E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Civil War Voice”
College English Association Conference
San Antonio, TX (March 2010)
“The Literature Podcast at UT Tyler”
Distance Learning Conference
Tyler Junior College (June 2009)
“The Literature Podcast at UT Tyler”
Innovations in Online Learning (IOL) Conference
Austin, TX (May 2009)
“It was altogether a wild scene”: Washington Irving’s A Tour of the Prairies
(1835)
College English Association Conference
St. Louis, MO (March 2008)
“’To Counterfeit is DEATH’: The Counterfeiter in Charles Brockden Brown’s
Arthur Mervyn and Ormond”
Biennial International Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society
New Orleans, LA (November 2006)
“’The Madam stands for business’: The ‘Madam’ Poems of Langston Hughes”
South Central Modern Language Association
Houston, TX (October 2005)
“Economic Terrorism in Early 19th-Century American Literature: Counterfeiting
in Ormond and The Pioneers”
South Central Modern Language Association
New Orleans, LA (October 2004)
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“Children of War: The Civil War Girl in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Louisa May
Alcott”
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Fort Worth, TX (September 2003)
“Mostly Famine: Soldier Songs and Civil War Rations”
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
New Orleans, LA (March 2003)
“’The Town’s Assertiveness’: Marianne Moore and Jamestown, Virginia,”
American Studies Association of Texas
Kerrville, TX (October 2002)
“’Life now filled to the horizon’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Gates Trilogy”
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Savannah, Georgia (March 2002)
“Pocahontas PC: The 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition and Postcards of
Pocahontas”
New England American Studies Association
University of New Hampshire, Manchester (April 2001)
“’The Art of Ogling’: Spectatorship and Control of the Gaze in A Lady of Quality
and His Grace of Osmonde”
25th Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film
West Virginia University (October 2000)
“Becoming a Surrogate Brother: Lizzie Hardin’s Civil War Diary”
Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association
Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee (April 2000)
“The Nation Building Spectacle of Two Civil War Funerals: New York’s Colonel
Elmer E. Ellsworth and New Orleans’ Colonel Charles D. Dreux”
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association: 19th-Century Spectacles
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March 1999)
“’I shall never forget that sight’: Representations of Women at Slave Auctions”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Atlanta, Georgia (November 1998)
“’I should be his little housekeeper’: Training for Courtship and Marriage Motif
in Civil War Diaries”
23rd Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film
West Virginia University (October 1998)
“Slavery and Racial Identity” Literature of an Issue as an Alternative to the
Sophomore Survey Course”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Salt Lake City, Utah (October 1998)
“Hazel Heckman: From Weekend Naturalist to Advocate”
American Women Nature Writers
University of New England (June 1998)
“The Drawing Master and the Female Artist: Wilke Collins’s The Woman in
White”
Women’s Studies Conference: Women and Creativity
Marquette University (March 1998)
“’Some Profound Unraveling’: Balance and Imbalance in Tom Horton’s An
Island Out of Time”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
University of Louisville (February 1998)
“’Statements made with fidelity and accuracy ought to be welcome’: The
Honorable Amelia Murray’s Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada”
Snapshots from Abroad: Travel Writing Conference
University of Minnesota (November 1997)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reading Globally, Writing Locally Faculty Forum
Infusing the Summer Book into College Writing
UT Tyler (May 2010)
Chair, War and Literature I
College English Association Conference
San Antonio, TX (March 2010)
Tracdat Update Training
UT Tyler (January 2010)
University of Texas System Leadership Institute Workshop
Evaluations and Hiring: Tools for Academic Leadership
UT Tyler (April 2009)
Chair, Literary Constructions of America’s Past
A Useful Past: History, Politics and Literature from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day
University of Texas at Tyler
Tyler, TX (March 2009)
National Institute on Learning Communities
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Evergreen College
Olympia, WA (June 23-23, 2009)
College Readiness Symposium
January 23, 2009
Austin, TX
Chair, American Literature Panel I – Open Topic
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Ft. Worth, TX (October 2006)
Secretary, American Literature Panel I – Open Topic
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Houston, TX (October 2005)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Invited Panelist, Grapes of Wrath
Tyler Public Library
Tyler, TX (April 2010)
The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement (Invited Lecturer)
Pre-movie lecture, A Raisin in the Sun
Sponsored by 13 Ways: The Literature Appreciation Society
UT-Tyler Library (February 2006)
John Smith and The New World Presentation (Invited Lecturer)
Barnes & Noble
Tyler, TX (November 2005)
Civil War Diaries (Invited Speaker)
Varied Arts Study Club
Henderson, TX (February 24, 2005)
Resumes & Curriculum Vitae Presentation (Invited Speaker)
Sigma Tau Delta’s Information Session on Graduate & Professional
Schools
University of Texas at Tyler (November 2004)
Ormond and The Pioneers Presentation (Invited Lecturer)
Barnes & Noble
Tyler, TX (November 2004)
The House of the Seven Gables Presentation (Invited Lecturer)
Barnes & Noble
Tyler, TX (April 2004)
Cold Mountain Presentation (Invited Lecturer)
Barnes & Noble
Tyler, TX (November 2003)
“Freshman Composition Expectations” (Invited Consultant)
AP Summer Institute, Presented to 3 AP groups
Tyler, TX (June 2003)
“Freshman Composition Expectations” & “American Literature in the College
Setting” (Invited Consultant)
AP Conference
Houston, TX (January 2003)
“Freshman Composition Expectations” (Invited Consultant)
AP Summer Institute
Tyler, TX (June 2002)
GRANT:
Applicant for Franklin Research Grant for Summer 2010 – American Philosophical Society [Notification in April 2010]
UT Tyler Nominee for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend (September 2009)
Provost’s Scholarship for the IOL (Innovations in Online Learning) Conference (May-June 2006)
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Department Representative, Graduate & Professional School Information Fair (October 2010)
Member of Summer Reading Program Committee (Fall 2010 to present)
Thesis Committee Member for Bea Roberson, History (Summer 2010)
Thesis Committee Member for Ella Bonner, Art History (Summer 2010 - Fall 2010)
Department Representative, New Student Orientation (June 2010)
Faculty Organizer for 1st Annual EGSA Colloquium (November 2009)
Organizer Freshman Retention Prompt – all sections of ENGL 1301 & 1302 (2007, 2008, 2009)
Chair of Department of Literature and Languages Assessment Committee (Fall 2009 to present)
Member of Department of Literature and Languages Curriculum Committee (Fall 2009 to present)
Member of Department of Literature and Languages Graduate Committee (Fall 2009 to present)
Member of Composition TA Mentor Program (Fall 2009)
Committee on Committees, Department of Literature and Languages (Fall 2009 to present)
UT Tyler Graduate Student Orientation (August 2009, August 2010)
Speaker, TA Training for the Department of Literature & Languages (August 2009)
College Readiness Vertical Planning Meetings (May 2009, August 2009)
Student Learning Communities Advisory Board (Summer 2009-2011)
Faculty Senate Election Committee (Spring 2009)
Faculty Judge at UT Tyler Muntz Library Poetry Contest (April 2009, April 2010 as alternate judge)
Organizer of 1st annual College of Arts & Sciences GRE Prep Session / Pep Rally (March 2009, February 2010)
Host for Rebecca Bentley, Grace Community School 9th grade student on Shadow Day (March 2009)
Interim Chair, Department of Literature & Languages (January – July 2009)
CAS Graduate Ceremony, Honor Corder (December 2008 and May 2009)
Chair of M. A. Assessment Committee for SACS (2009 to present)
Member of Admissions / Recruitment / Retention Committee (2008-2011)
Graduate Advisor, Department of Literature and Languages (Fall 2008 – Present)
Member of Search Committee for Chair, Department of Literature & Languages (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Member of Search Committee for Director of Academic Advising (Summer 2008)
Chair of Student Governance Committee (2008-2009)
Member of University Committee on Committees (2008-2009)
Member of Senate Executive Committee (2008-2009)
Faculty Senator for College of Arts & Sciences (Spring 2008-Spring 2009)
Chair of Department Post-Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Greg Utley (June 2008)
Member of Sophomore Survey Assessment Committee (Spring 2008)
Member of English B. A. Assessment Committee (Spring 2008)
M.A. Thesis Committee Chair for Lee Starnes (2006-2008)
Chair of College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (2007-2008)
Member of Search Committee for Writing Center Director (2007-2008)
Member of Freshman Assessment Committee (Fall 2007)
Member of College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee (2006-2007)
Commencement Committee Member (2006-2007)
Faculty Reader at Patriot Village Coffeehouse (February 2007)
Member of Admissions and Recruitment Committee (2005-2006)
Organizer of Senior Seminar Colloquium (Fall 2005, Fall 2008)
Advisor for College of Arts & Sciences (Summer II 2005)
Emergency Replacement Faculty Advisor for Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship (Spring 2005)
Chair of Admissions and Recruitment Committee (2004-2005)
Vice Chair of Admissions and Recruitment Committee (2003-2004)
Alpha Omega Luncheon Committee (2002 and 2003)
Undergraduate Advisor for Department of Literature and Languages (2001-present)
Member of Composition / Rhetoric Search Committee (2001-2002)
Faculty Advisor for 13 Ways: Literature Appreciation Society (2002-2004)
Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society (2004-present)
Faculty Partners Program (2004-2005)
M.A. Thesis Committee Chair for Crystal Hicks (2003-2004)
M.A. Thesis Committee Member for Kathleen Dunsavage (2003)
WelcomeFest Event for Department & 13 Ways (August 2003)
Faculty Affairs Committee Member (2002-2003)
Department Representative at Freshman Orientation (June 2002, June 2003, June 2004, June 2005)
Department Representative at Patriot Preview Day (November 2002, March 2003, November 2003, November 2005, April 2006, March 2009)
Student Organization Fair for 13 Ways (February 2003)
Reader and judge for The Laurel (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Faculty Reader at A Celebration of Black Authors – UTT Library (February 2005)
Faculty Reader at Poetry Day – UTT Library (April 2002, April 2003, April 2004, April 2006)
Banned Books Week Reader – UTT Library (September 2002, September 2003, September 2004, October 2005, September 2006)
Reader for Langston Hughes Poetry Day – UTT Library (April 2002)
Writer (with Dr. Karen Sloan) of M. A. Comprehensive Exam in American Literature (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
M.A. Comprehensive Exams Reader (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Member of Dr. Niiler’s Composition Assessment Committee (May 2002)
Curriculum Development, Successful Course Proposal for ENGL 4341, American Genres (2002)
Judge for Writing Competition for Big Sandy school district, Ready Writing and Creative Writing – Grades 2 and 3 (November 2001)