Brandy A. Harvey

Master of Arts, English, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, May 2001

Bachelor of Science, English, University of Southern Mississippi, May 1995

COLLEGE-LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Nicholls State University

Instructor of English

Fall 2005-Spring 2007

L.E. Fletcher Technical Community College

Adjunct Instructor of English

Summer 2005

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

University Fellow

2002-2004

Graduate Assistant

1999-2002

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: “The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in ‘Woman Hollering Creek.’” To appear in Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict. Rodopi Press.

“Clothes as Power in Elizabethan England: A New Historicist Criticism of John Donne’s ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed.’” Theory Into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Ed. Ann B. Dobie. Heinle and Heinle, 2001.

PRESENTATIONS

Presenter, “The Transformative Power of Silence: Trauma Narratives of Marginalized Mothers,” National Association of Humanities Educators, San Francisco, CA (February 2007)

Presenter, “Occupying the Silence: Marginalized Mothers Narrating the Self,” Fletcher Conference, Nicholls State University (November 2006)

Presenter, “Testimony of the Victim/Agent: The Narrative of the Infanticidal Mother,” 31^st Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University (February 2006)

Presenter, “Textualizing Trauma: Maternal Infanticide in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” International 18^th and 19^th Century British Women Writers Conference, Lafayette, LA (April 2005)

Moderator/Chair, Postmodern Identities, SMLA, New Orleans, LA (October 2004)

Presenter, “Reading the Paradox: Isabella Bird in the Feminist/Postcolonial Space,” ULL Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (April 2004)

Guest Lecturer, Humanities 200, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir: On the Rights of Women in Nineteenth Century England, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Fall 2002) 

Guest Lecturer, English 380, Justice in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Fall 2002)

Presenter, “Beloved and Oroonoko: The Assertion of Self in Infanticide,” SCMLA, Austin, TX (November 2002) 

Presenter, “Perpetual Liminality in Tess of the D’Urbervilles: The Construction of Identity Through Narrative and Silence,” ULL Graduate Student Conference on Language and Literature, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (April 2002)

Participant, “Colloquium on Feminism and Pedagogy with Dr. Susan Gubar,” University of Louisiana at Lafayette (November 2001)

Participant, Forum Discussion: “Performing, Feminism, Teaching,” Deep South Festival of Writers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (October 2001)