CURRICULUM VITAE

   

Tracie Church Guzzio

                                                           

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ohio University, PhD in English  (American and African American Literature);

1999

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Masters Degree in English;

1991  

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Bachelor's Degree in English;

1989

             

     PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

 

Academic Employment

 

State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Assistant Professor

Department of English, 2000-present

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Adjunct Professor

Department of English, 1997-2000

 

Ohio University, Teaching Associate

Department of English, 1993-1997

 

Ohio University, Teaching Apprenticeship in Literature

Department of English, Spring 1995

 

Ohio University, Paired Courses Instructor (Writing Across the Curriculum Project)

Department of English and University College, Fall 1994 and Fall 1995

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Adjunct Professor

Department of English, 1991-1993

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Writing Lab Instructor

Department of English, 1991

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Teaching Associate

Department of English, 1989-1991

 

 Related Employment

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Upward Bound English Instructor

Upward Bound Program, 2000

 

University College Composition Coordinator, Ohio University

University College, 1994-1995

 

Reader, Freshman Composition Placement Exam, Ohio University

University College, Summer, 1994

 

Co-Editor, The Write Connection, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Southern Nevada Writing Project, 1992-1993

 

Coordinator, Southern Nevada Writing Project, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1992-1993

 

 Membership in Learned Societies

 

John Edgar Wideman Society (Secretary/Treasurer)

African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS)

Charles Chesnutt Society

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS)

 

           SCHOLARSHIP

 

Dissertation

“ ‘All Stories Are True:’ John Edgar Wideman’s Responses to History” 1999. Director: Robert DeMott. Readers: Jeffery Tucker, Darrell Spencer, Vattel Rose (Chair, African American Studies) and E. Ethelbert Miller (Howard University)

 

 Publication

 

“Ralph Ellison” in American Writers, Ed. Jay Parini; Charles Scribner’s and Sons; Winter 2002

 

“Ishmael Reed” in American Writers, Ed. Jay Parini; Charles Scribner’s and Sons; Fall 2001

 

“Jean Toomer” in American Writers, Ed. Jay Parini; Charles Scribner’s and Sons; Fall 2001

 

“John Edgar Wideman” in Contemporary Novelists, Ed. Neil Schlager; St. James Press; November 2000

 

“Charles Chesnutt;” “John Edgar Wideman;” “House on Mango Street” (Sandra Cisneros)” “Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories” (Cisneros); “All Stories Are True” (Wideman); “Fever” (Wideman); “The Eyes” (Edith Wharton); in The Reader’s Companion to the American Short Story, Ed. Abby Werlock; Facts on File; Fall 2000

 

“Charles Chesnutt” in African American Novelists 1783-1945, Ed. Emmanuel Nelson; Greenwood Press, Spring 2000

 

“Clarence Major” in Contemporary African American Novelists, Ed. Emmanuel Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

 

“Collaborative Conclusions: Involving Students in the Evaluation Process” ERIC database

 

         SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS  

 

"'All my father's texts:" John Edgar Wideman's Historical Vision." American Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, Mass.; May 2003

 

"The Mosaic Self: Multicultural Autobiography in the Composition Classroom,"   College Composition and Communication Conference, New York, NY; April 2003

“ ‘Get off your knee and change your image': Clarence Major’s Postmodern Vision," American Literature Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA; May 2002.

 

“Constructing Authority: Pedagogy, Gender, and Race in the African American Literature Classroom,” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH; November 2001

 

“‘Gathering up the family:’ John Edgar Wideman’s Ancestral Stories, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Autoethnography,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA; May 2001

 

“ ‘The Meaning Is in the Gaps:’ Filling in the Silences between Fathers and Sons in the Work of John Edgar Wideman,” African American Literature and Culture Society Conference, Salt Lake City, UT; October 2000

 

“‘But my world has become one of infinite possibilities:’ The Postmodern Revision of the Figure of the Double in Clarence Major’s My Amputations, John Edgar Wideman’s Reuben, and Charles Johnson’s Dreamer,” African American Literature and Culture Society Conference, Salt Lake City, UT; October 2000


“Imagining Truth: John Edgar Wideman’s Response to Public History,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA; May 1998

 

“Stories of the Self, Community, and the Past: Autoethnography and John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and Keepers,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL; November 1997

 

“ ‘Father Texts:’ The Slave Narrative Tradition and the Work of John Edgar Wideman,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, MD; May 1997

 

“Native Sons: James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Signifying,” Dogwood Bloom Graduate Literature Conference, Athens, OH; April 1997

 

Introduction to John Edgar Wideman’s Reading, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Washington D.C.; April 1997

 

“Teaching Doctoral Students to Teach,” Panel presentation. College English Association of Ohio Annual Conference, Columbus, OH; April 1996

 

“Collaborative Conclusions: Involving Students in the Evaluation Process, “ Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI; March 1996

 

“A Community of Voices: Culture and Conversation in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street,” American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD; May 1995

 

“Crossing the Boundaries: Orality and Literacy in the Composition Classroom,” College English Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH; April 1995

 

“The Fulfillment of Manhood: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Fences,”

Mid  Atlantic Writer’s Association (MAWA) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD; October

1993           

 

“Collaborative Grading,” Southern Nevada Writing Project Summer Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; July 1993

 

         OTHER PROFESSIONAL/ SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

 

Associate editor, 20th Century Encyclopedia of African American Literature, Facts on File; in progress

 

Referee, African American Review: Official publication of the Division of Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, May 2000-present

 

Assessment review from instructors for the Second Edition of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, December 2000

 

Participant, NCTE Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature (African, African American Literature), Myrtle Beach, SC; 1996

 

           CURRENT AREAS OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH EXPERTISE AND TEACHING

 

Scholarship

African American Literature (18th century to contemporary era)

American Literature

Multicultural and Ethnic American Literature

African American Music and Popular Culture

Race and Cultural Studies

Film Studies

The Literature of AIDS  

Popular Culture Studies  

Literature and Cultural Studies of the American West

Autobiography Studies

 

Teaching Competence

African American Literature (all periods and genres)

American Literature (all periods and genres)

Ethnic Literature

Film Studies  

Women’s Studies and Literature

Literary Theory and Criticism

Literary Study

General courses in Fiction, Poetry, Drama

Modern and Contemporary World Literature

Survey or introduction to “Western masterpieces” (from the ancient world to the modern era), Medieval, and Renaissance (including Shakespeare) literature

Rhetoric and Composition

 

           COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED

(at SUNY-Plattsburgh)

 

ENG 101: Freshman Composition

ENG 111: Visions of America

ENG 195: Literary Study: the Literary Object

ENG 270: Introduction to African American Literature

ENG 301: Expository Writing

ENG 340: Literary Criticism

ENG 343: American Literature: Civil War to World War I

ENG 345: Multicultural American Literature

ENG 435: African American Novel

 

 

           DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

Strategic Enrollment Management Writing Group, 2003

 

Advisory Committee for Minority Studies/Africana Studies; SUNY-Plattsburgh; 2002 to present

 

Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee; SUNY-Plattsburgh; 2002 to present

 

Women’s Studies Forum Committee: SUNY Plattsburgh; 2002 to present

 

Student Recruitment and Retention Committee; SUNY-Plattsburgh; Dept. of English; 2001 to present

 

Diversity Task Force; SUNY-Plattsburgh, Spring 2001-present

 

Black Poetry Day Committee, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Fall 2000 to present

 

T.E.A.M. Mentoring Program, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Fall 2000 to present

 

Composition Committee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 1998-1999

 

Peer Mentoring Program Coordinator for Adjunct Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 1998-1999

 

Graduate Committee, Ohio University; 1996-1997

 

Textbook Committee, Freshman Composition, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 1990

 

           PUBLIC/ CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

 

Faculty Advisor (interim) for Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society): SUNY-Plattsburgh: Fall 2002 to present

 

Co-host for WRAP Session, Higher Learning; Center for Diversity, Pluralism, and Inclusion; SUNY-Plattsburgh: October 2002

 

Introduced and helped present E. Ethelbert Miller’s reading for Black Poetry Day; October 2002

 

Faculty Advisor for the Organization of Women of Ethnicity (Student organization); SUNY-Plattsburgh: Fall 2001 to 2002

 

Invited Speaker, Ethnic Women’s Literature Presentation for the Women’s Studies Forum; SUNY-Plattsburgh: Fall 2001

 

Presenter, Panel Discussion: “Reading Between the Frames, “ Clinton County Community College Diversity Celebration: October 2001

 

Co-host for WRAP Session, Pleasantville; Center for Diversity, Pluralism, and Inclusion; SUNY-Plattsburgh: September 2001

 

Participant, Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar, SUNY-Plattsburgh: Fall 2000 to Spring 2001; Fall 2002 and Spring 2003

 

Presentation: “ ‘Double Exposure:’ Revisions of the Double Figure in Contemporary African American Literature” Champlain Valley Hall Colloquium Series, November 2000

 

           HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Professional Development Individual Award, State University of New York, Plattsburgh: Fall 2000

 

Felicia Campbell Adjunct Teaching Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: 2000

 

Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, Ohio University: 1996 and 1997

 

John Houk Memorial Research Grant: Spring 1995 and Spring 1996

 

Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society

 

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

 

 

 

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