Office: Keezell 407
Phone: 540-568-3754
Email: duvivisc@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008 TT 11:00-12:15; 2:00-3:15

COURSES:  
Spring 2008
ENG 431: Studies in CaribbeanLiterature
GENG 260: Survey of African American Literature           
ENG 361: African American Writers

SPECIALTIES:
African American and Caribbean American literature

EDUCATION:
Ph.D.    University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A.     University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A.      Queens College

HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Information Literacy for General Education, James Madison University, Summer 2007
International Development Grant, Office of International Programs, James Madison University, 2007
International Travel Grant, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University, 2007
Nellie Mae Foundation/W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies Non-working Fellowship, 2006
Frederick Douglass Teaching Fellowship, 2005
Nellie Mae Foundation/W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies Teaching Fellowship, 2004-2005
Graduate Academic Support Scholarship, 2004-2005
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 2004-2005
Ford Foundation/Cornell University Africana Studies Fellow, Summer 2003
Distinction on Comprehensive Examinations, 2003
Office of Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention Fellow, 2000-2001
W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies Graduate Fellow, 2000-2006
Golden Key National Honor Society, 1999-present

PUBLICATIONS:  
“(Re)Writing Haiti and Its ‘brave women’ into Existence: Edwidge Danticat and the Concept of Métissage.” MaComère 6, 2004.

“Black Stereotypes in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865.  Ed. Mason I. Lowance, Jr.  Princeton:  Princeton UP, 2003. 241-244.

PRESENTATIONS:
“Problematizing ‘American’ Identity: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Modern Black Female Subject in Literature.”  Blackness and Modernities: The Seventh International CAAR (The Collegium for African American Research) Conference at National University; Madrid, Spain; April 18-21, 2007.

“(En)Gendered by Home: Female Marginalization in Haitian American Fiction.” The Second International Conference on Minorities and Minor Literatures at Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco, March 9, 2006.

“Black Women’s Identities and the ‘Politics of Geography’: An Intersectional Analysis of Contemporary African-American and Caribbean-American Women’s Fiction.”  “Holding up Both Ends of the Sky: Engendering Africana Studies”: A Summer Institute on Critical Theory, Black Womyn Scholarship and Africana Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, July 7, 2003. 

“Literary Representations of Black Feminism(s): Homosocial Female Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Sula.”  American Literature Association Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 2003.

“Maintaining a Community of Resistance: The Healing Figure in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day.”  Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference at University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 10, 2003.

“Challenging the Status Quo?: Female Childhood Friendship in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng.” Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Conference at Stony Brook University, New York, April 25, 2003.

“Subverting the System?: Black Female Childhood Friendship in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Michelle Cliff’s Abeng.”  Black Women’s Studies Conference at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, March 1, 2003.

“‘We have stumbled but we will not fall’: (Re)Visioning Haitian Cultural, Political, and Gender/Sexual Ambivalences in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.”  Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference at Stony Brook University, April 19, 2002.

‘We have stumbled but we will not fall’: (Re)Visioning Haitian Cultural, Political, and Gender/Sexual Ambivalences in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.”  Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars’ Eighth International Conference, Point du Bout, Martinique, April 4, 2002.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES:
Presenter, “Navigating Uncharted Territory: Intersections in African American and Caribbean American Women’s Fiction.” West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, July 20, 2005.

Presenter, “Mapping Intersections: Identity and the Politics of Home in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow.”  The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, April 8, 2005.

Lecturer, “Black Stereotypes in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” American Identities Honors.  Department of English. University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 25, 2003.

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