Erin Elizabeth Bell

Erin Elizabeth Bell
Wayne State University

Dept. of English
5057 Woodward,
Ste. 10304

Detroit, MI 48202

 

email: ea3118@wayne.edu

 

Education

Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature (Twentieth Century American),

Wayne State University Expected date of graduation: April 2015

 

Dissertation:

 

Economies of Language: Navigating the Complexities of Gender and Genre in American Short Fiction Written by Women Committee: renée hoogland (Chair), Jonathan Flatley, Caroline Maun, and Darcy Brandel

 

2008 M.A., English, Marygrove College

 

2001 B.A., Journalism, Oakland University

 

Teaching Experience

2010-present      Graduate Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University Detroit, MI

 

2010-11                Tutor, Wayne State University Writing Center, Detroit, MI

 

2009-10                Instructor, Macomb County Community College, Warren, MI

 

2009-10                Instructor, Oakland County Community College, Waterford, MI

 

2009-10                Instructor, Wayne County Community College, Detroit, MI

 

2006-08                Tutor, Nancy McDonough Geschke Writing Center, Marygrove College,

                               Detroit, MI

 

Courses Taught

Wayne State University
Winter 2014      English 3010: Intermediate Composition

Winter 2014      English 3470: Survey of African-American Literature

Fall 2013            English 3140: American Literature from 1865

Winter 2013      African Studies 2390/English 2390: African-American Literature

Fall 2012            Pilot English 1020: Introductory College Writing (Two Sections)

Spring 2012      African Studies 2390/English 2390: African-American Literature

Winter 2012     English 1020: Introductory College Writing

Fall 2011           English 2310: Major American Books

Fall 2011           English 1020: Introductory College Writing

Spring 2011     African Studies 2390/English 2390: African-American Literature

Spring 2011     English 1020: Introductory College Writing

Winter 2011    English 1020: Introductory College Writing

 

Oakland County Community College Highland Lakes Campus

Winter 2010    ENG 1510 Composition I

 

Winter 2010    ENG 1520 Composition II

 

Fall 2009          ENG 1510 Composition I (Two Sections)

 

Macomb County Community College Warren Campus

Fall 2010          ENGL 1180: Communications I ENGL 1190 Communications II

 

Spring 2010     ENG 1210: Composition I

 

Winter 2010    ENGL 1180: Communications I ENGL 1190: Communications II

 

Wayne County Community College District Downtown Campus

Fall 2010         ENG 119: English I (Two SectionsFall 2009 ENGL 0050: Preparatory Composition

 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed articles:

2013 “Ghosts in the Machine: Trespassing Memory in the Age of Social Networking." Tresspassing Journal. (A peer-reviewed journal). http://trespassingjournal.com/?page_id=699

 

2013 “For all this we thank the Führer:” Rape, Biopolitics and the Bare Life in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City" (accepted for publication in Lilith: A Feminist History Journal)

 

Book Reviews:

2013 “The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter.” (accepted by the Journal of American Culture, Wiley Periodicals, Inc., forthcoming)

 

2013 “BDSM In American Science Fiction and Fantasy by Lewis Call.” (accepted in the Journal of American Culture, Wiley Periodicals, Inc., forthcoming)

 

2013 “Out of the Picture” Review of Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems by Steve Edwards.” (accepted by Criticism, Wayne State University Press; forthcoming )

 

Peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries:

2013 “Alternative Media.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. (forthcoming, 2015)

 

2013 “Gender and Visual Culture.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. (forthcoming, 2015)

 

 

College and University Service

Wayne State University:

2013    Volunteer Staff: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference (ASAP/5)

 

2012, 2013 Graduate Assistant Representative for Department Library Committee

 

2013    Assessment Committee for English 1020 

 

2013 Facilitator and Speaker for Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation: Peer Mentoring Session, Teaching Literature Session, Teaching English 1020 Session, English 1020 Policy Session

 

2012, 2013   English Instructor, Freshman Summer Preparation Course, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

 

2011, 2012   GRE English Testing Preparation Instructor, McNair Scholars Program

 

2012 Curriculum Committee for Composition Program

 

2012    Race for the Cure: Wayne State Warriors Team

 

2011    Peer Mentoring Committee for English Graduate Teaching Assistants

 

2011    Speaker, graduate teaching workshop on scaffolding and sequencing assignments

 

2010   Graduate Employee Organization Committee

 

Marygrove College:

2008 Student representative for Academic Appeals Board

 

2008 Judge, The Skillman Foundation Good Schools Poetry Contest

 

2007 Editor, Designer of The Nancy McDonough Geschke Writing Center newsletter

 

Conferences

2014 “Master of "Her" Domain: Surveillance in "Faith in a Tree" by Grace Paley.” (April 2014, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois.)

 

2014 “Carson McCullers’ Windows and the Voyeuristic Viewing of the Framed (Male) Object.” (February 2014, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, Kentucky.)

 

2013 “‘I want to Shake Hands Like a Brother:’ Exoticizing the Other in Television’s Diff’rent Strokes” (October 2013, Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, St. Louis, Missouri)

 

2012 “‘Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face:’ Sequences of the Oppositional Gaze in Dziga Vertov’s Man with the Movie Camera” (November 2013, Midwest Popular Culture/ American Culture Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio)

 

2012 “‘Plug Me In and Flip Some Switches’: Cyborg Sexuality in Songs by Women” (November 2012, Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio)

 

2012 "Public Sex Acts in On the Road” (September, 2012 The European Beat Studies Network Conference, Middleburg, the Netherlands)

 

2012 The Evolution of Death: Defying Mortality in the Social Network" (March 2012, The Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language & Media, Northern Illinois University)

 

2012 “Mapping Desire: Homoeroticism and The Third World” in Kerouac’s On The Road” (February 2012, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville)

 

2011 “Ghost in the Machine: Imaging Death in the Online” (December 2011, Critical Information: Mapping the Intersection of Art and Technology Graduate School of Visual Arts, New York, New York)

 

2011 “Junk Bonds: Representations of Female Hoarding on Reality Television” (November 2011, Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

 

2011 “Boxed In: Spaces of Containment in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49” (April 2011, Composing Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Cincinnati)

 

2009 “’Eyes Without A Face’: Privacy and Power within the Facebook Social Networking Site.” (April 2009, Tenth Annual Academic Symposium: Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan)

 

2008 “Identity Crisis: Searching for Self in Literature by African-American Women” (April 2008, Ninth Annual Academic Symposium. Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan)

 

2007 "’I Like Your Speech:’ Grace Paley’s Politics.” (October 2007, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture American Culture Association, Niagara Falls, Canada)

 

Awards

Wayne State University:

2014 Winner of Excellence in Teaching Award-GTA-English Department

 

2014 Nominee for the Heberlein Award for Excellence in Teaching

 

2014 Winter Semester English Department Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

 

2014 Humanities Center Graduate Student Travel Grant Award

 

2013 Department Nominee for 2013 Heberlein Teaching Award

 

2013 Winter Semester English Department Graduate Student Travel Award

 

2012 Fall Semester English Department Graduate Student Travel Award

 

2012 Thomas R. Jasina Endowed Scholarship in English

 

2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Award for the Landmarks of American History and Culture Program. (Social Change and Transcendentalism) Concord, Massachusetts

 

Marygrove College:

2006 Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society

 

2008 Graduate Student Travel Grant

 

Additional Professional Experience

2004-2009 Conference Organizer, National Student Assistance Conference

 

2004-2009 Editor and Writer. Student Assistance Journal and Employee Assistance Program Digest, Troy, MI

 

2003 Editor and Writer. Henry Ford Bi-County Hospital, Warren, MI

 

2005 2004 News Writer. Fox 2 News Detroit, Southfield, MI