BARBARA FOLEY
209 Ivy Street
Newark, NJ 07106
(973) 373-4781 (home) / (973) 353-5037/5279 (work)
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. with Honors, University of Chicago. 1976.
M.A., University of Chicago. 1971.
B.A. Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College. 1969.
Employment History
Professor of English, Rutgers-Newark, 1995--.
Associate Professor of English, Rutgers-Newark, 1987-1995. Tenure awarded 1990.
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, Northwestern U, 1980-87.
Assistant Professor of English, U of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976-79.
Books
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in US Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1993.
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1986.
Articles, Book Chapters, Review Essays
"Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anticommunism, Post-Marxism, and African American Literature." Forthcoming, Cultural Logic. May 1998.
"Historicizing Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.'" In The Other Romance: Essays in Honor of James E. Miller, Jr.. Ed. Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Donald Pease. Forthcoming, Chicago and London: U of Chicago P. 1998.
"Higher Frequencies: Ralph Ellison's Radical Fiction and Journalism." Forthcoming, Science and Society. 1998.
"'In Camp Ground"': Economics and History in Jean Toomer's Cane." Forthcoming, African American Review. Summer 1998.
"The Rhetoric of Anti-Communism in Invisible Man. College English 59 (September 1997): 530-47.
"Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From 'Blue Veins' to Seventh-Street Rebels." Modern Fiction Studies 42 (Summer 1996): 289-322. Winner of 1996 Margaret Church Award for best article published in MFS.
Introduction to Myra Page, Moscow Yankee. The Radical Novel in the United States Reconsidered Series. Ed. Alan Wald. Urbana and London: U of Illinois P. 1996. Pp. vii-xxvii.
"Renarrating the Thirties in the Forties and Fifties." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies. 20 (1995): 455-66.
"Jean Toomer's Sparta." American Literature 67 (December 1995): 747-775.
"What's at Stake in the Culture Wars." Review essay on Peter Shaw, Recovering American Literature; John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation; and Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education. New England Quarterly 68 (September 1995): 458-79.
"Proletarianism Revised." Review essay on James D. Bloom, Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman; Walter Kalaidjian, American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique; and Michael E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. minnesota review n.s. 43/44 (November 1995): 198-211.
"Wayne Booth and the Politics of Ethics." In Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth. Ed. Frederick J. Antczak. Columbus: Ohio SUP. 1995. Pp. 135-52.
"Generic and Doctrinal Politics in the Proletarian Bildungsroman." In Understanding Narrative. Ohio SU Series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Ed. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio SUP, 1994. Pp. 43-64.
"Class." Rethinking Marxism. 5 (Summer 1992): 117-28.
"Race and Class in Radical African-American Fiction of the Depression Years." Nature, Society and Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism. 3, 3 (1990): 305-24.
"Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy." College Literature, Special Edition on The Politics of Teaching Literature 17, 2/3 (1990): 64-79.
"Marxism in the Post-Structuralist Moment: Some Notes on the Problem of Revising Marx." Cultural Critique 15 (1990): 5-37.
"Women and the Left in the 1930s." American Literary History 2 (Spring 1990): 150-169.
"The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Wright's Native Son." In Narrative Poetics: Innovations, Limits, Challenges. Ed. James Phelan. Columbus, Ohio: Papers in Comparative Studies Vol. 5. 1986-87. Pp. 55-67.
"The Politics of Deconstruction." Genre, Special Issue on Deconstruction, 17 (Spring-Summer 1984): 113-34.
"Charles Feidelson and the Deconstruction of American Literature." American Quarterly 36 (Spring 1984): 42-64.
"Fact, Fiction, Fascism: Mimesis and Testimony in Holocaust Narrative." Comparative Literature 34 (Fall 1982): 330-360.
"The Treatment of Time in The Big Money: An Examination of Ideology and Literary Form." Modern Fiction Studies, Special Issue on John Dos Passos 26 (Autumn 1980): 447-467.
"History, Fiction, and the Ground Between: The Uses of the Documentary Mode in Black Literature." PMLA 95 (May 1980): 389-403.
"Fact, Fiction, and 'Reality.'" Contemporary Literature 20 (Summer 1979): 357-78.
"History, Fiction, and Satirical Form: The Example of Dos Passos' 1919." Genre 12 (Fall 1979): 357-378.
"From U. S. A. to Ragtime: Notes on the Forms of Historical Consciousness in Modern Fiction." American Literature 50 (March 1978): 85-105.
Reviews, Notes, Letters, Encyclopedia Articles
"'Lepers in the Acropolis': Liberalism, Capitalism, and the Crisis in Academic Labor." Review Essay on Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical, and Cary Nelson, ed., Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Forthcoming, Contemporary Literature. 1998.
Review of Robert B. Jones, ed., Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism. Forthcoming, Resources for American Literary Study. 1998.
Review of Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time. Modern Philology 94 (February 1997): 422-26.
Review of Douglas Wixson, Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990. Modern Philology 94 (November 1996): 271-75.
Review of Carla Cappetti, Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel. Modern Philology 94 (August 1996): 129-32.
Reply to Sanford Pinsker. New England Quarterly 59 (June 1996): 320-21.
Review of Constance Coiner, Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. American Literature 68 (June 1996): 485-86.
"The Federal Writers Project." In Encyclopedia of African-American History and Culture. Ed. Jack Salzman, David L. Smith and Cornel West. Forthcoming, New York and London: Macmillan. 1997.
Review of Terry A. Cooney, Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930s. Journal of American History 82 (March 1996): 1625-26.
"Tillie Olsen." In A Companion to American Thought. Ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell. 1995. Pp. 509-11.
Review of Michael E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. American Literature 67 (September 1995): 403.
Review of Phyllis Frus, The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless. Modern Fiction Studies 41 (Summer 1995): 344-46.
Review of Dana D. Nelson, The Word in Black and White: Reading 'Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867, and James S. Leonard et al., Black Perspectives on "Huckleberry Finn". Modern Philology 92 (February 1995): 379-85.
Review of Tobin Siebers, Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (Winter 1995): 446- 47.
Review of Alan A. Block, Anonymous Toil: A Re-evaluation of the American Radical Novel in the Twentieth Century. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (Autumn 1994): 153-54.
Review of James Murphy, The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy Over Leftism in Literature, and Lynn Hanley, Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory. Modern Fiction Studies 38 (Autumn 1992): 989-91.
Review of Paula Rabinowitz, Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. American Literature 64 (December 1992): 837-39.
Review of Naomi Jacobs, The Character of Truth: Historical Figures in Contemporary Fiction. Modern Philology 90 (November 1992): 308-12.
Review of Lawrence Schwartz, Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 23 (Winter 1990): 218-20.
Review of Donald Pizer, Dos Passos' U. S. A.: A Critical Study. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (April 1990): 266-69.
Review of Peter J. Rabinowitz, Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 23 (Fall 1989): 92-94.
Review of Lennard J. Davis, Resisting Novels: Ideology and Fiction. Ariel 20 (1989): 189-91.
Review of Alan Wald, The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. minnesota review n.s. 30/31 (Spring-Fall 1988): 205-208.
Review of Jonathan Arac, Postmodernism and Politics. Comparative Literature Studies 25, 2 (1988): 197-201.
Review of John Frow, Marxism and Literary History. Ariel 18 (July 1987): 86-88.
Review of Gail L. Mortimer, Faulkner's Rhetoric of Loss: A Study in Perception and Meaning. American Literature 57 (March 1985): 161-62.
Review of Lennard J. Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel. Genre 17, (Winter 1984): 422-25.
Review of Lawrence Langer, Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit. Comparative Literature 36 (Summer 1984): 282-84.
Review of Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism. Modern Philology 80 (May 1983): 443-46.
Review of Robert C. Rosen, John Dos Passos: Politics and the Writer. International Fiction Review 9, 2 (1982): 129-32.
"E. L. Doctorow." In Twentieth-Century Novelists, 3rd Ed. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's P, 1982. Pp. 182-83.
Letter of response regarding 1980 PMLA article. PMLA 96 (January 1981): 106-07.
Reprints, Excerpts
Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction. Excerpts of Chapter One. Forthcoming in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. Ed. Patrick D. Murphy. Durham: Duke UP. Fall 1996.
"Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy." Rpt. in Pedagogy Is Politics: Literary Theory and Critical Teaching. Ed. Maria-Regina Kecht. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1992. Pp. 70-89. Also rpt. in Margins in the Classroom: Teaching Literature. Ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Linda S. Myrsiades. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1994. Pp. 137-52.
"The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Wright's Native Son. Rpt. in Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K. A. Appiah. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad. 1993. Pp. 188-199.
"The Politics of Deconstruction." Rpt. in Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schliefer. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P. 1985. Pp. 113-134.
"From U. S. A. to Ragtime": Notes on the Forms of Historical Consciousness in Modern Fiction." Rpt. in E. L. Doctorow: Essays and Conversations. Ed. Richard Trenner. Princeton: Ontario Review Critical Series, 1983. Pp. 158-179. Excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1982. Pp. 121-23. Also rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House. 1985.
Work in Progress
Georgia on My Mind: Jean Toomer, History, and the Politics of Modernism.
Ralph Ellison and the Cold War
"'Deep-Rooted Cane': Jean Toomer and U. S. Cultural Nationalism." In Mike Hill and Warren Montag, ed., Counter-Publics: Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere.
"Postmodernism, the Left, and African-American Literature." Lecture to be delivered at SUNY-Buffalo, Spring 1998.
"Jean Toomer, History, and the New Negro." Colloquium to be delivered at Rutgers-Newark, March 1998.
Presentations/Panel Organizing
"Jean Toomer, 'Trauma,' and History." Special Session on "Race and Trauma." MLA Convention. December 1997.
"Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anticommunism, Post-Marxism, and African-American Literature." Special Session on "The Politics of Post-Marxism." MLA Convention. December 1997.
"Jean Toomer and Georgia." "A New Tradition: The Harlem Renaissance and Its Heritage: A Conference and Celebration." Paine College, Augusta, Georgia. October 1997.
"Toeing the Line: Ralph Ellison's Early Journalism and Communist Party Politics." Conference on Working Class Studies and the Future of Work. Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. June 1997.
Panelist, Teach-In on "The Future of Academic Work." Rutgers-New Brunswick. February 1997.
Chair and Panel Organizer, "The Reemergence of the Right in the Academy." Session Sponsored by the Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature. MLA Convention. December 1996.
"Ralph Ellison, Anticommunism, and the Discourse of the Cold War." Rethinking Marxism Conference. December 1996. Also delivered at the Brecht School. June 1997.
"Ralph Ellison, the Federal Writers Project, and the New Masses." Special Session on "The Representation of the Masses, 1900-1950." Midwest Modern Language Association. November 1996.
Panel Organizer and Panelist, "Marxism, Globality and Proletarian Internationalism." Marxist Literary Group. June 1996.
"The Rhetoric of Anti-Communism in Invisible Man." Radical Caucus Session, "Proletarian Literature Revisited." MLA Convention. December 1995. Also delivered at the University of Arkansas. March 1996. Revised version delivered at the Conference on "The Cold War and American Culture." University of Toledo. April 1996.
"Marxism and the Dialectic of Race and Class." Seminar, University of Arkansas. March 1996.
"How Oppositional Is Oppositional Criticism?" Keynote Address, Conference on "Oppositional Criticism." Bowling Green State University. March 1996.
Chair and Panel Organizer, "The Difference Class Makes." Session sponsored by the Division of Sociological Approaches to Literature. MLA Convention. December 1995.
"Jean Toomer and the Left." Conference, "Working-Class Lives / Working-Class Studies." Youngstown State U. June 1995.
Panel Co-leader, "Organizing in the Diaspora." Symposium, "Old Themes / New Directions: Studying the Third World in the Nineties." Rutgers-Newark. March 1995.
"Jean Toomer's Seventh Street and Literary Proletarianism." Special Session, "International Proletarian Literature." MLA Convention. December 1994.
"Jean Toomer, Economics, and the Politics of Modernism." Society for Critical Exchange. October 1994.
"The Women of Cane: From Myth to History." Third Southern Conference on Women's History. Southern Association for Women Historians. June 1994.
"The Retreat from Proletarianism: Renarrating the 1930s in the 1940s and 1950s." Symposium, "The Politics of Culture in the Cold War Era" (accompanying dedication of Howard Fast Papers). U of Pennsylvania. March 1994. Also delivered at the Essex County Ethical Culture Society. February 1995. Also delivered as Cultural Studies Discussion Group / English Department Colloquium. Rutgers University. April 1995.
"The Repression of History in Jean Toomer's Cane." Special Session, "Honoring Picket Lines: The Politics of Labor and Leftism in New Historicist Practice." MLA Convention. December 1993.
"Irony and History in Melville's 'Bartleby.'" International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. April 1993.
Panel Organizer, Special Session, "Black Writers and Left Politics." MLA Convention. December 1992.
"Gender and Class in Women's Proletarian Fiction." Session, "Women Writers of the 1930s and 1940s." Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ. May 1992.
"Teaching Multiculturalism." Workshop for Integration Project, Rutgers-Newark. April 1992.
"Socialism and Marxist Theory." SUNY-Buffalo Graduate Student Conference on Marxism. March 1992.
"Tradition and Experiment in American Proleterian Fiction." Marxist Literary Group Session, "Culture of the 1930s." MLA Convention. December 1991.
"The Politics of Multiculturalism." New Jersey Project Conference. October 1991.
"American Literary Leftism and the Great Depression." Colloquium, Rutgers-Newark Honors Program. October 1991.
"Feminism and Class in American Proletarian Fiction." English Department, Rutgers-New Brunswick. April 1991.
"Class." Division of Criticism Session, "After Glasnost: Whither Marxist Criticism?" MLA Convention. December 1990.
"Revising the American Literature Syllabus." Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ. May 1990.
"Discourses of Race and Class: Radical Politics and Levels of Narrative in Depression-Era Proletarian Fiction." International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. April 1990.
"The CP and the City: Proletarian and Folk Ideology in William Attaway and Richard Wright." Division on Afro-American Literature. Midwest MLA. November 1989.
"Women and the Left in the 1930s: Some Implications for Marxist and Feminist Theory." Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 1989.
"Rereading the 1930s: Politics, History, Theory." Colloquium, English Department, Rutgers-Newark. March 1989.
"Marxist Critics of the 1930s and Bourgeois Aesthetic Theory." Midwest MLA. November 1988.
"The Politics of Realism in Proletarian Fiction." Organizer, Special Session, "The Politics of Realism in American Literature." International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. April 1988.
"Resources at the Newberry Library for the Study of Radical Writers in the Early Twentieth Century." Colloquium, Newberry Library. February 1988.
"The Proletarian Novel: Problems of Historical Context and Political/Aesthetic Evaluation." Seminar, Newberry Library. January 1988.
"Marxism in the Poststructuralist Moment: Notes on the Problem of Revising Marx." Conference, "Changing Marx." U of Pennsylvania. December 1987.
"Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy." Special Session, "Theory/Pedagogy/Politics." MLA Convention. December 1986.
Session Organizer, "The Decanonization of American Literature." Midwest MLA Convention. November 1986.
"Textual 'Subversion' and Political Oppositionality." Symposium, "Criticism and Pedagogy in the Waste Land," Hamilton College. October 1986.
Panelist, "Politics and the Academy." Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute. June 1986.
"The Politics of Poetics: Ideology and Narrative Form in Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Wright's Native Son." International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 1986. Also delivered at City College, CUNY. April 1986. Also delivered at Conference, "The Arts and Disciplines of Literary Study," SUNY--Stony Brook. March 1987.
"The Chicago School and Marxism." Special Session, "The Chicago School of Literary Criticism." MLA Convention. December 1985.
"Poststructuralism: Politics, Theory and Practice." Colloquium, Northwestern U. March 1985.
Respondent to Lawrence Lipking, "Aristotle's Sister: Feminism and Literary History." Colloquium, Northwestern U. January 1985.
"The Politics of Deconstruction." Special Session, "Contemporary Narrative Theory and the Yale Critics." MLA Convention. December 1984.
Chairperson and organizer, Special Session, "The Politics of Melville Criticism." MLA Convention. December 1984.
"The Pseudopolitics of Epistemological Rupture." Special Session, "Indiscre(e)tions: The Interpenetration of Fictional and Nonfictional Genres." MLA Convention. December 1983.
Respondent to Michael Kearns, "Phantoms of Mind: Melville's Criticism of Transcendental Psychology." Division on American Literature before 1870. Midwest MLA Convention. November 1983.
Panelist, "Myths and Realities of Ph.D. Employment: A Workshop on Academic and Non-Academic Careers." U of Chicago. October 1983.
Seminar, "The Contemporary Nonfiction Novel and the New Journalism." Northwestern U. November 1983.
Respondent to John Beverly, "Gongora, Gongorism, and the Production of Solitude." Northwestern U. March 1981.
Respondent to Mark Poster, "Foucault, Marx, and History." Northwestern U. April 1981.
"Ideology in Contemporary Documentary Narrative." Special Session, "Postmodern American Fiction and Nonfiction: Correspondences and Differences." MLA Convention. December 1980.
"Four American Novelists and the Problem of Influence." Colloquium, English Department, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Feburary 1978.
"Feminism and Tragedy in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Radio Lecture, U of Wisconsin-Extension. October 1977.
"Racism and Sexism in American Literature: The Ideological Interlock." Symposium, "Racism, Sexism and Culture," U of Wisconsin-Extension. June 1977.
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities. 1996-97 ($30,000).
Rutgers Research Council. 1995-96. $850.
The Graduate School, Rutgers-Newark. 1993-94. $300.
The Graduate School, Rutgers-Newark. 1990-91. $1000.
FASP Leave, Rutgers-Newark. Fall 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities/Newberry Library Fellowship. 1987-88 ($20,000, supplemented by Rutgers to salary level).
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. 1987-88 (declined to accept NEH fellowship).
Office of Research and Special Projects Grant, Northwestern U. 1981-82 ($700 for work-study student).
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. 1980 ($2500).
American Council of Learned Societies Semester Fellowship. Spring 1980 ($2500).
U of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grants. Summers 1978 and 1979 ($2000 apiece).
Special Humanities Fellowship, U of Chicago. 1969-72 ($3000/year plus tuition).
Isabel Briggs Traveling Fellowship, Radcliffe College. 1969 (declined).
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses Taught at Rutgers
English 23-224: Survey of American Literature, I & II.
English 363-364: The Novel in America, I & II.
English 395: African-American Literature, I & II.
English 351-2: Studies in American Authors, I & II.
English 348-49: Minorities in American Literature, I & II.
English 369: Special Topics in American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance.
Graduate Courses Taught at Rutgers
English 561: Proletarian Literature.
English 561: Marxist Literary Theory.
English 558: Urban Literature.
English 521: The American 1920s.
English 521: The Harlem Renaissance.
Independent Studies Conducted at Rutgers
Proletarian Writers.
Afro-American Writers.
Feminism and Marxism in 1930s U. S. Literature.
Thesis Supervision at Rutgers
"The Representation of Rape in Modernism" (Ph.D. Thesis--service as second reader)
"Radical Black Writers of the 1930s" (Undergraduate Honors Thesis).
"Motherhood in Black Women's Literature" (MA Thesis).
"Leftist Female Journalists of the 1930s" (MA Thesis).
Curriculum Development at Rutgers
Course release (Spring 1989) for participation in DHE grant for integration of gender, race and class into the curriculum. Result: revision of English 223-224, 363-364.
Service
Professional Positions
Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly. 1996-99.
Member, Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature. MLA. 1994-1999. President, 1999.
Member, Steering Committee, MLA Radical Caucus. 1994-present.
Editorial Board, minnesota review. 1992-present.
Editorial Board, Ariel: A Journal of International English Literature. 1987-1993.
President, American Literature Before 1870 Section. Midwest MLA. 1985-86.
Secretary, American Literature Before 1870 Section. Midwest MLA. 1984-85.
Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly. 1982-85.
Current Membership in Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors
Midwest Modern Language Association
Historians of American Communism
Manuscript Reader
College English
PMLA
American Quarterly
Mosaic
American Literary History
Modern Fiction Studies
minnesota review
American Educational Research Journal
Duke UP
U of Minnesota P
U of Missouri P
U of Illinois P
U of North Carolina P
UP of Mississippi
Princeton UP
Cambridge UP
Ohio State UP
Harvard UP
Modern Language Association
Columbia UP
Grant Evaluator
The Newberry Library
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Evaluator for Tenure and Promotion
Wesleyan U
CUNY-John Jay College
CUNY-Baruch College
SUNY-Albany
Pennsylvania State U
U of California-Santa Barbara
University Service at Rutgers
Search Committee, Academic Foundations. 1997-98.
English Department Graduate Director. 1991-1997.
FASN Faculty Library Committee. 1993-1994; Chair 1994-1996.
Board, Institute for Research on Women. 1994-1995.
Member, English Department Events Committee. 1994-95.
Member, Dean's Committee on University College-Newark. 1994-96.
Member, Provost's EO Committee. 1994-95.
Co-Organizer of symposium, "Old Themes / New Directions: Studying the Third World in the Nineties." Rutgers-Newark. Spring 1995.
Speaker, "Workfare and the Reemergence of Slave Labor." Rutgers- Newark NOW Forum on Welfare Repeal. Fall 1996.
Panel Organizer and Speaker, "Welfare 'Reform' and the Criminalization of Motherhood." Teach-In Against the Contract on America. Rutgers-Newark. March 1995.
Faculty Advisor, Rutgers-Newark NOW. 1995-present.
Graduate School Executive Committee. 1993-1996.
Participant and Co-Organizer, Faculty Cultural Studies Discussion Group. 1992-1995.
AAUP Grievance Hearing Pool. 1992-19945.
Faculty Guest Columnist, Rutgers Observer. 1993, 1994, 1995.
Faculty Supervisor in English Education, Rutgers-Newark. 1993- present.
Women's Studies Council. 1988-present.
Colloquium, Women's Studies Program. "Welfare 'Reform' and the Contract on America." Spring 1995.
Panelist, "The AAUW Report and Women at Rutgers-Newark." Colloquium, Women's Studies Program. Spring 1993.
Provost's Middle States Progress Report Commission. 1992-93.
Faculty MC, Senior Awards Night. May 1992.
Faculty Counsel, AAUP Grievance Hearing. Fall 1991.
Graduate School Admissions and Financial Aid Committee. 1991-94.
Faculty Fellow, Woodward Hall. Leadership of half-dozen student workshops on culture and politics. 1991-93.
NCAS Admissions Committee. 1990--1993.
English Department Curriculum and Budget Committee. 1990- 1996.
NCAS Faculty/Student Affairs Committee. 1989-92.
Panelist, "The Rhetoric and Meaning of the Gulf War." ASG Teach- In. February 1991.
Faculty Advisor, Advocates for Choice. 1990-92.
English Department Library Committee. 1988-89, 1994-95.
Rutgers University Speakers Bureau. 1990-present. Presentations on "Literature and Social Values" at Middletown High School (1991) and North Arlington High School (1993, 1995).
Faculty Keynote Speaker, Freshman Recruitment Night. Spring 1990.
Faculty Adviser, Advocates for Choice. 1989-92.
Graduate School Membership Committee. 1990-91.
Phi Beta Kappa Secretary. 1988-90.
Community Service
Member, Combatting Racism Task Force, NOW-NJ. 1989-present; Chair 1994-1996.
Member, NOW-NJ State Board. 1990-1996.
Member, Essex County NOW. 1989-present.
Organizer and Panelist, "Is Workfare Slave Labor?" NOW National Conference. Memphis, TN. June 1997
Panel Organizer, "Women, Work, and Welfare." Institute for Research on Women. New Brunswick, NJ. May 1996.
Panelist, "Having an Impact on Government and Going Beyond the Vote." R. E. D. (Rutgers-Essex Drew) Conference on "Making the Personal Political." Essex County College. March 1996.
Guest Lecturer, "Women and Politics in the Grim New Days: Problems and Prospects." Celebration of Women's History Month. AT&T, Holmdel, NJ. March 1996.
Guest Lecturer, "The Four Big 'Isms' of the 20th Century." University High School Academic Decathlon. November 1995.
Panelist, "Voting Rights, Redistricting, and Grassroots Opposition to Inequity." Conference on Race and Inequity, Howard University, Washington, DC. October 1995.
Chair, Affirmative Action/Membership Committee, NOW-NJ. 1990- 1994.
Steering Committee, Committee to Elect Saundra Addison-Simpson, Candidate for Member-at-Large, Newark City Council. Spring 1994.
Organizer and Panelist, "Racism Can Be Bad for Your Health." NOW-NJ State Conference. October 1994.
Organizer, "The Politics of Welfare 'Reform.'" Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ. May 1994.
Organizer, "Combatting Racism in the Women's Movement." Midatlantic Regional NOW Conference. May 1994.
Organizer, "Racism and Welfare 'Reform.'" NOW-NJ State Conference. November 1993.
Organizer and Host, "Essex County NOW and Women's Issues." Local Public Access Cable TV Program. 1992-present.
Program Topics:
"Violence Against Women," I and II.
"Directions for Community Action in Newark."
"1992: The Year of the Woman?"
"The Politics of Welfare 'Reform,'" I and II.
"Women and AIDS."
"Economic Issues Facing Women in Newark."
"The AAUW Report: Views on Sexism in Education from the City and the Suburbs."
"School Vouchers and Racism in Education."
"Positive Alternatives at Hill Manor," I and II.
"Women and the Contract on America."
"The Resurgence of Racism."
"Police Brutality as a Women's Issue."
"Organizing NOW at Rutgers-Newark."
"The Attack on Affirmative Action."
"Women and the Fight for Jobs."
"Welfare, Prisons, and the New Slavery," I and II
"The Welfare Scapegoat."
"How Men Are Hurt By Sexism."
"B. J. Moore, Poet of East Orange."
"The New Slavery."
"How Sexism Hurts Men."
"Police Violence and Women."
"The Promise Keepers."
"Resistance to Police Violence."
Co-Organizer, "Racism in Education: A Scenario." NOW-NJ State Conference. November 1991.
Member, Mount Vernon School PTO. 1997-.
Member, Tuxedo Parkway Block Association (Newark). 1994-present.
Member, University High School (Newark) PTSO. 1989-1997.
Member and Activist, Ivy Hill Neighborhood Association (Newark). 1988-91.