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CURRICULUM VITAE
Joanne M. Gass
Professor of Comparative Literature
California State University
Fullerton, CA 92634
(714) 278-3163 Office: (714) 278-2714
e-mail: JGASS@FULLERTON.EDU
Fax: (714)-278-5954
I. Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, CA,
Aug. 1989
M.A., Comparative Literature, California State University, Fullerton,
CA, Jan. 1976
B.A., Comparative Literature, California State University, Fullerton,
CA, June 1973
A.A.,
English, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, June, 1971
II. Doctoral Dissertation
Penelope's Tapestry: The Weave of History and Fiction in John Barth's
LETTERS and Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra.
Committee
members: Homer Brown, chair, Juliette MacCannell, Lillian Manzor-Coates
III. Teaching Experience
Full-time and part-time teaching experience in literature and
composition at the following universities and colleges:
California State University, Fullerton
University of California, Irvine, Teaching Associate 1982--1987
Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA, Part-time faculty, 1980--1988
Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA, Part-time faculty, 1980--1982
Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, CA, Part-time faculty,
1976--1980
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, Part-time faculty, 1977--1980
Coastline
Community College, Fountain Valley, CA, Part-time faculty, 1980--1982
IV. Publications
"Part-time Teaching and Cosmic Angst," Senate Forum,
California State University, Fullerton, 1986.
"Panopticism in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus."
The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1994.
"'The Significant Fact of an Unforgotten Grave': Encrypting the
Feminine in Conrad's Lord Jim," Published in Conradiana, vol. 27, no.
3, 1995, (250-7).
"History: An Escorial: Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra,"
Published in the South Eastern Latin Americanist, a Quarterly Review of the South
Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, Winter of 1994.
Guest-editor Angela Carter issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction,
Fall 1994.
"Written on the Body: The Materiality of Myth in Angela Carter's Heroes
and Villains." Published in the Arkansas Review, Spring 1995, (12-30).
"Bitter Reconquista: Jamaica Kincaid's The
Autobiography of My Mother," in Journal of Caribbean Studies,
Winter-Spring 2000-2001
"Webs
of Discourse: Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman" Hispanofila
134, Enero 2002.
"Angela Carter" in Postmodernism: the Key Figures. Hans Bertens and
Joseph Natoli, eds. London: Blackwell 2002.
“In the Nick of Time: DeLillo’s Nick Shay, Fitzgerald’s
Nick Carraway and the Myth of the American Adam” in Underwords: Perspectives
on Don DeLillo's Underworld Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving
Malin, eds
University of Delaware Press Sept. 2002
Review of Joyce’s Modernist Allegory: Ulysses and
the History of the Novel, by Stephen Secari, in South Atlantic
Review:
The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 67.3 (Summer
2002): 115-18.
Review Essay, "Instituting the New," in Studies in Latin
American Popular Culture. Vol. 6, Summer 2000.
Book chapter: "Written on the Body: The Materiality of Myth in Angela
Carter’s Heroes and Villains" in Critical Essays on Angela Carter,
Lindsay Tucker, editor, (New York: G.K. Hall, 1998).
Review of Angela Carter: The Rational Glass by Aiden Day in The Review of
Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1999.
Review of Angela Carter by Lyndon Peach in The Review of Contemporary
Fiction, Summer 1998.
Review of The Dogs by Rebecca Brown in The Review of Contemporary
Fiction. Spring 1999.
Review of The New Novel in Latin America by Philip Swanson in
The Review of Contemporary Fiction.
Review of La novela lúdica experimental de Julio Cortázar, by Maria D.
Blanco Arnejo, in Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, forthcoming.
Review of Rereading Conrad by Daniel
R. Schwarz, requested by the publisher, University of Missouri Press, 2001.
“Monkey in Translation: Hybridization in Maxine
Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey and Gerald Vizenor’s Griever”
in Comparative Literature in the Cross-Cultural Context. Cheng Aimin
and Yan Lixin, eds. Yilin Press, 2003: 283-93.
“Where Am I? Who Am I? The Problem of Location
and Recognition in Helena Parente Cunha’s Woman Between Mirrors” in
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 29:1 (Winter 2005)
64-81.
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V. Papers Presented:
"Panopticism in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus."
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 25, 1990.
"Derrida/Joyce: The Purloined Post Card." National Endowment
for the Humanities 1990 Summer Seminar, Cornell University, August 1990.
"Forming and Re(-)forming the Canon." Acacia Group, English
Graduate Students’ Organization, May 1990.
"Webs of Discourse: Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman."
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 23, 1991.
"The Significant Fact of an Unforgotten Grave": Encrypting
the Feminine in Conrad’s Lord Jim. Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature Conference, Nice, France, June 1991.
"Imagining Christopher Columbus." Continuing Learning
Experience program, CSUF, Nov. 1991.
"Imagining Christopher Columbus: The Latin American Conquest of
Columbus in the Fiction of Abel Posse, Carlos Fuentes, and Alejo Carpentier."
Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska, Oct. 15, 1992.
(Revised and expanded)
"History: An Escorial: Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra."
South Atlantic Conference on Hispanic Literature, The Citadel, Charlestone, South
Carolina, April 2, 1992.
"’A Free Masonry of the Intellect’: Subversive Irony in
Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction." Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Conference, Albany, NY, April 1993.
"Written on the Body: The Materiality of Myth in Angela
Carter’s Heroes and Villains." "Fireworks: Angela Carter and the
Future(s) of Writing" Conference, University of York, England, Sept. 30, 1994.
"Tales from the Crypt: The House of History in Woolf’s Orlando
and Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude." Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado, Oct. 1995.
"To Charley Sowell: An Unknown Soldier of World War I."
Presented to Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society Initiation Ceremony, April 23, 1996.
"The Neverending Story: The Conquest of Peru in Vargas
Llosa’s The Green House." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature,
University of Nebraska, Sept. 1996.
"Magical Realism" to the Summer Institute, Ruby Gerontology Center, August
1996.
"Where Are They Going?" presentation to the English Council,
Del Mar, CA, Nov. 6, 1996.
"Bitter Reconquista: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography
of My Mother," a Lacanian reading. The International Comparative Literature
Association international conference, University of Leiden, Holland, August 22-26, 1997.
"Politics of the House: Domesticity in Manuel Puig’s Kiss
of the Spider Woman." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept. 1997.
"That Old Oxfordian Rag or Who Did Write Shakespeare’s Plays
(and Poetry) Anyway? And Who Cares?" to the As You Like Shakespeare Society, CSU
Fullerton, October 26, 1998
"Where Am I?" The Problem of Recognition and Location in Helena Parente
Cuhna’s Woman Between Mirrors, International Word and Image Conference,
University of Paris, Diderot, Paris, France, July 2, 1999.
"I Will Build My Church": The Institutionalization of Perón in Tomás Eloy
Martínez’s The Perón Novel, Congress of the Americas, Popular Culture
Association Conference, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, September 30, 1999.
“The Embalmer and the Biographer: Tomás
Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita” at the 5th Congress of the
Americas, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 18, 2001.
“Jamaica Kincaid’s Subversion of Jane
Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea” at the American Comparative
Literature Association Conference, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, April 12, 2002.
“Monkey in Translation” at the
Chinese Comparative Literature Association Conference, Nanjing Normal
University, Nanjing, China, July 17, 2002.
Panel Chair and Area Chair, Congress of the Americas, Popular Culture
Association Conference, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, September 30, 1999.
"In the Nick of Time," keynote address to Alpha Gamma Sigma
Conference, University of California, Irvine, May 5, 2000.
“The Biographer and the Embalmer: Tomás Eloy Martínez’s
Santa Evita” at the World Vernacular Conference, Puebla, Mexico,
October 5, 2003.
"The Designated
Crier: Confession in The Harp and the Shadow, I, the Supreme,
Autumn of the Patriarch, and Terra Nostra" World
Vernacular Conference, Puebla, Mexico, October 2005.
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