Department of Literature and Languages

Karen Sloan - Curriculum Vitae

Karen S. Sloan

 

Dept. of Literature and Languages - The University of Texas at Tyler - 3900 University Boulevard

 

EDUCATION

1998, Ph.D. Texas A&M University, English

Dissertation: The Territorial Unconscious: Human Territoriality as Metanarrative in the

Nineteenth-Century American Novel.

1978, M.A. California State University, Fullerton, English

1967, B.A. LeTourneau College summa cum laude, English

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006-present Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler

2000-2006 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler

1999- 2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler

1994-1999 Adjunct Instructor in English, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas

1990-1992 Lecturer in English, Texas A&I University-Kingsville

1989-1990 Adjunct Instructor, Texas A&I University, Kingsville

1981-1984 Adjunct English Instructor, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas

1980 Adjunct English Instructor, LeTourneau University

1977-1978 Special Lecturer, California State University-Fullerton

 

RESEARCH

Research Emphasis:

Developing and testing a paradigm that draws from contemporary theories of territoriality and the self to explore artistic representations of the semiotic relationship between ownership and self-construction, particularly in nineteenth-century texts.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

"Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Explicator 63 (2005): 159-64.

 

"The Nineteenth-Century Church Music Controversy: A Possible Referent for Cooper's 'Manifestly Impossible' Singing-Master in The Last of the Mohicans. ANQ 19.1 (2006): 33-41.

 

"Reterritorializing Cooper's Marginalia in The Last of the Mohicans: Authorial Commentary as Rhetorical Borderland." ANQ 19.2 (2006): 33-39.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

"Farmer, Nancy." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P. 2005.

 

"McDonald, Janet." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P. 2005.

 

"Derricotte, Toi." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P. 2006.

 

"Drumgoold, Kate." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P. 2006.

 

"Josannie's War." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File. 2006.

 

"The Map of Who We Are." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File. 2006.

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Electronic Media

"How to Cite Electronic Sources." The Learning Page. United States Library of Congress. <http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html.> Invited contributor. Published online 03/14/06.

 

Conference Papers

"Identities in Health Care: Toward a Model of Human Territoriality." Refereed. 2004 Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004. Junior author. Senior author: John H. Sloan

 

"Doctoring Images: Literary Subversion of Male Medical Authority in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Refereed. 2004 Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004. Senior author. Junior author: John H. Sloan.

 

“Surveying Moral Territory in The Wide, Wide World: The Gerrymandered Kitchen.” Refereed. Twenty-third Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association International Conference. New Orleans, March 6-8, 2003.

 

“Reterritorializing Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: Gothic as the Voice of Moral Outrage." Refereed. American Literature Association Symposium, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 5-8, 2002.

 

“America at the fin de siecle: The Specter of Human (non)Emergence in The Awakening.” Refereed. Narrative: An International Conference. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, April 11-14, 2002.

 

Conference Panels

 

Sloan, Karen. Panel Chair. "Out of Her Sphere: American Suffrage Literature 1870-1917." Society for the Study of American Women Writers: Second International Conference. Fort Worth, September 24-27, 2003.

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

University

2007-09 Graduation Committee

2005-06 Member, Women and Minorities Committee

2002-05 Member, University Faculty Research Committee (Chair, 2003-2004)

2002-03 Faculty Board Member, UT-Tyler Literacy Center

2002 Bylaws Subcommittee, UT-Tyler Literacy Center

2000-202 University Library Committee (Chair, 2001-2002)

College of Arts and Sciences

2007-09 Core Curriculum Subcommittee

2008-09 Core Curriculum Committee

2003-05 Member, College of Arts and Science Governance Committee

2002, 2003, 2004 Freshman Orientation

2002 Moderator, "Women's Ways of Knowing" Seminar

2002, 2004, 2005 I.S. Master's Comprehensive Exam, Bibliography & Methods of Research

2002 Presenter, Dean's Brown Bag Luncheon

2001, 2002 Department representative, UT-Tyler Freshman Orientation Information Fair

2001 Host, Student Transfer Day

 

Department

2009-present Chair, Scholarship Committee

2009-present Chair, Sophomore Literature Assessment Committee

2008-present Member, Graduate Committee

2009 Faculty Search Committee, Tenured Department Chair, Literature and Languages

2008 Session moderator, 4th Annual Medieval Conference

2007 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Composition Specialist/Writing Center Director

2007-present 3 master’s thesis committees; 2 completed, 1 pending

2005, 2006 Hospitality Coordinator, 1st and 2nd Annual Medieval Conference

2005 Invited Speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Career Day Conference

2005 Assessment Team Member, Core Writing Program

2004-2005 Master's Thesis Committee: David Pinnell

Title: How to Increase Your Holdings and Subvert Your Friends: Territorialism

in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale"

2002- present Undergraduate student advisor

2002-2003 Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Kathleen Dunsavage

Title: No Alibi in Existence: Silencing the Dialogic Voice in John O'Hara's Appointment in

Samarra

2002-2003 Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Pamela Clark

Title: Ernest J. Gaines: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-2002

2002-2003 New Course Proposal: Engl 4365 Special Topics in American Literature (approved, 2003)

2002 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Faculty: Rhetoric & Composition

2001 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Faculty: American Literature

2001 Co-writer, Proposal for Three-Track English Major (accepted and implemented)

2001 Co-Chair, Master's Thesis Committee (Karen Garner)

Title: Territorial Tug-of-War: Ownership Disputes and Solutions in University Writing Centers

2000-2001 TAAS II Objectives Committee, Chair

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2001 President’s Summer Research Grant, The University of Texas at Tyler

2001 Dean’s Summer Research Grant, The University of Texas at Tyler

1993 Inductee, Phi Kappa Phi