EDUCATION
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Purdue University, 2015
M.A. English, Andrews University, 2007
B.A. Russian Studies, The American University, 2001
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-present Director of the Writing and Communications Center, Department of Humanities and Languages, New Economic School, Moscow, Russian Federation
2020-present Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track), Department of Humanities and Languages, New Economic School, Moscow, Russian Federation
2018-20 Department of Literature and Languages, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, Visiting Assistant Professor, English composition and literature
2016-18 Department of Literature and Languages, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English composition and literature
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
2021 Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Lexington Books, February 2021 (hardcover), September 2022 (paperback)
Creative Non-fiction
2022 Pastors, Chiefs, and Warlords: The Ministry of Being With, with Bob Walters, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, May, 2022
Articles
2020 “Writing Our Stories with Hooks and Needles: Literary Women’s Voices in Textiles” Cultural Studies, under review
2019 “Old Wine in New Wineskins: Fairy-Tale Pastiche on Film.” Response
2016 “Putting Words in Their Mouths: Russian Bylini as Discursive Space.” Folklorica, Vol. 20 (2016), pp. 83-111
Refereed Book Chapters
2024 [book chapter] “Fairy Tale Adaptations in Literature and Film,” The Routledge Companion to the Fairy Tale. Eds. Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones, Oxford: Routledge, forthcoming
2017 “The Findern Codex and In the Middle: Understanding ME Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century,” The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective. Eds. Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
Book Reviews
2023 Mads Sohl Jessen, Marina Balina, Ben Hellman, and Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen, editors. Hans Christian Andersen in Russia. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020. In Marvels & Tales, forthcoming
2022 Stephen Prickett, Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Lives. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021. In Literature and Theology, Vol. 36 (2022), no. 3, 350-351 https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac021
2018 Giuseppe Pitrè Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales, Ed. and trans. by Jack Zipes. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, August 23, 2018
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 Ralph Donald Award for Outstanding Paper or Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference for “Old Wine in New Wineskins: Fairy-Tale Pastiche on Film”
2012 Mary Gitzen Memorial OEPP Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University (median score of 4.5 or higher on a scale of 5)
2011 Oral English Proficiency Program Award for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University (median score of 4.8 or higher on a scale of 5)
2010-2011 Lynn Fellowship, Purdue University
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Papers
2023 “Fantasy Animation & Death,” Disney Culture & Society Research Network (DisNet) Conference, virtual, June 2023
2022 “Portrait of a Wartime Writing Center,” with L. Ashley Squires, International Writing Centers Association, Vancouver, BC, October 2022
2022 “Toward a Theory of the Fantastic Afterlife,” American Comparative Literature Association, virtual, June 2022
2022 “Fantasy, Animation, and Death,” Popular and American Culture Association, virtual, April 13-18, 2022
2021 “The Subtle and Profound Subversions in Alix Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches,” Popular and American Culture Association, virtual, June 2-5, 2021
2021 “Writing Our Stories with Hooks and Needles: A Digital Humanities Project,” Creative Bodies – Creative Minds, University of Graz, Austria (virtual), May 27-29, 2021
2021 “Fairy Tales and Why We Need Them,” American Comparative Literature Association, virtual, April 7-11, 2021
2019 “The Decline of Sacred Scripture in American Culture and What Comes Next: The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7-9, 2019
2019 “Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America,” Popular Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019
2018 “Old Wine in New Wineskins: Fairy-Tale Pastiche on Film,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Baltimore, MD November 8-10, 2018, received the Ralph Donald Outstanding Paper Award
2018 “Writing Our Stories with Hooks and Needles: Literary Women’s Voices in Textiles,” Creative Bodies – Creative Minds, University of Graz, Austria, March 25-26, 2018
2017 “The Unbearable Fairy-Tale Princess,” Virginia Humanities Conference, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, April 8, 2017.
2017 “Fairy-Tale Women in Post-Soviet Russia,” Association for Women in Slavic Studies Conference, Alexandria, VA, April 7, 2017.
2014 “Errantry and Violence among the Women of Le Haut Livre du Graal: Perlesvaus,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 2014
2014 “Medievalism at Work: The Hero, the Land, and Ethnic Identity in the Muromets Bylina Tradition,” joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association and The American Culture Association, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2014
2014 “Errant Maidens and Severed Heads in Le Haut Livre du Graal: Perlesvaus,” Eighth Annual Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, April 4, 2014
2013 “Building Community through Shared Narrative” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013
2013 “A Community of Copyists and Writers: Collaborative Composition in Findern (Cambridge Ms Ff.1.6)” The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript Final Conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 25, 2013
2012 “A Look at Middle English Vernacular Manuscript Production through the Lens of Web 2.0,” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2012
2012 “‘Neither Perfectly in the Indian, nor yet in the European Taste:’ Hybridity in The Female American,” Early Atlantic Reading Group Colloquium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April, 2012
2012 “Generativity and Destruction: Textiles and Reproductive Labor among the Women of the Volsungasaga,” Comitatus Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, February, 2012
2011 “The Maiden Without Coins, OR Susannah Rowson’s Adaptations of the Calumniated Wife Tale Type in the Novel Reuben and Rachel,” Early Atlantic Reading Group Colloquium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April, 2011
2010 “Explorations of Class in Medievalesque Literature for Children and Young Adults,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2010
2009 “On a Quest in a Dress: Medievalism in YA Fantasy by Robin McKinley and Gail Carson Levine,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2009
2008 “Who’s the Man: Tristan, Mark, and Masculinity on Film,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, session 531, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 2008
2007 “Folklore and Social Tension in the Medieval Romances Emaré and Degaré,” joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association and The American Culture Association, Boston, MA, April 6, 2007
Panels Organized
2013 Medievalism and the Marvelous in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013
2010 Voices of the Medieval in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2010
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 Ralph Donald Award for Outstanding Paper or Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference for “Old Wine in New Wineskins: Fairy-Tale Pastiche on Film”
2012 Mary Gitzen Memorial Oral English Proficiency Program Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University (median score of 4.5 or higher on a scale of 5)
2011 Oral English Proficiency Program Award for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University (median score of 4.8 or higher on a scale of 5)
2010-11 Lynn Fellowship, Purdue University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
complete list of courses taught with links to syllabi and course evaluations
2015-16 Department of Literature and Languages, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, Adjunct Professor, Composition, August 2015 – May 2016
2015-16 Department of English, University of the District of Columbia Community College, Washington, D.C., Adjunct Professor, Composition, August 2015 – July 2016
2014, 2005-09 English Dept. & English Language Institute, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, Contract Teacher Fall 2014, July 2009 – January 2010; Graduate Teaching Assistant January 2005 – December 2006; Reader August 2005 – August 2006
2011-13 Oral English Proficiency Program & Comparative Literature Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Graduate Teaching Assistant, instructor of record for Classroom Communication for International Graduate Students, August 2011– May 2013
2011 Liberal Arts Program, Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette, IN, Adjunct Instructor, English Composition, January – May, 2011
2007-09 Developmental Studies Department, Southwestern Michigan Community College, Dowagiac, MI, Adjunct Professor, ESL, August 2007 – May 2009
2007 English Department, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs, MI, Student Teacher, January – May 2007
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2022 “Planning for Flexible Instruction,” faculty workshop, NES Writing and Communications Center, March 18, 2022
2018-19 Magnificat, MU journal of undergraduate non-fiction, faculty co-editor and advisor
2018-19 Composition Pilot instructor, Marymount University
2018-19 “Teaching Revision in the Writing Intensive Classroom” talk at MU Teaching Toolbox, January, 2018
2017-18 Composition Program Curriculum Redesign Committee, Marymount University
2016-17 Webmaster, Department of Literature and Languages, Marymount University
2011 Comitatus Writing Group (founded), Purdue University, August 2011
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2018 Student Research Conference, panel presentation judge, Marymount University, April, 2018
2017 Student Research Conference, poster judge, Marymount University, April, 2017
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2017 Humans of the Academy, Editorial Team Member
BOARD LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
2016-Present Member, American University United Methodist Chaplaincy Board. (Interim chair 10/2017 – 4/2018).
2007-2010 Public Relations Coordinator, Kalamazoo Russian Festival Board
2007-2010 Chair, Jones United Methodist Church Administrative Board
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 European Writing Centers Association Summer Institute attendee May 22-26, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Freelance developmental editor. Professional reference and excerpts available upon request.
2017, 2007-13 Freelance technical writer and Russian translator and interpreter for the specialized welding industry. Professional reference and excerpts from manuals available upon request.
2016-17 Stage manager. Perfect Pointe Dance Studio Spring Recitals
2013-15 Personal Representative (executor) of the Estate of Adam Koppy
CERTIFICATIONS
2007 State of Michigan Department of Education Provisional Certificate: Secondary, English, History
2000 Certificate in Russian Translation, The American University
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2022 New Books Network podcast interview with Carmen Gomez-Galisteo about Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, November 25, 2022
2022 “Fairy Tales as American Scripture,” public talk, Profs and Pints, DC, April 11, 2022
2021 “Fairy Tales as American Scripture,” public talk, Profs and Pints Online, Crowdcast, March 4, 2021
2020 “Cinderella and the American Dream,” public talk, Profs and Pints DC, La Pop, January 13, 2020
2019 “Staging the Fairytale,” invited panelist. Marymount University, December 3, 2019
2013 “Cartoon Medievalism: The Discursive Space in the Animated Ilya Muromets i Solovey Razboinik” Lecture given at the Russian Studies Conference, 18th Annual Kalamazoo Russian Festival, Kalamazoo, MI, November 15, 2013
2013 “Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience” Lecture given as part of the Early Atlantic Reading Group’s course for the Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association, West Lafayette, IN, March 26, 2013
2011 “Anne Bradstreet: The Poetry of Everyday Life” Lecture given as part of the Early Atlantic Reading Group’s course for the Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association, West Lafayette, IN, October 19, 2011
2010 “Reward and Punishment Tales” Lecture given at the Russian Studies Conference, 15th Annual Kalamazoo Russian Festival, Kalamazoo, MI, November 12, 2010
2010 Looseleaf Poetry Workshop (once per week for six weeks) at the New Community School, Lafayette, IN, co-taught with Josh Kaminski, Fall 2010
2007-10 Public Relations Coordinator for the Kalamazoo Russian Festival Committee, August 2007 through June 2010
2006-07 “Snegurochka,” “Repka,” and “Emelya Durachok” Russian folktales told at the monthly meeting of the Kalamazoo-Pushkin Partnership, Kalamazoo, MI, February 2006 and March 2007