Curriculum Vitae
Moira P. Baker
Curriculum Vitae
Moira P. Baker
Education:
May, 1982. Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Specializations: Renaissance Literature, Medieval Poetry, Medieval Drama
May, 1976. M. A., University of Notre Dame
May, 1973. B. A., Magna Cum Laude, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
Teaching and Professional Experience:
May 1997 - Present: Professor of English, Radford University (Full Granted, 5/97)
Sept. 1986-May 1997: Assistant and Associate Professor of English, Radford University (Assoc. Granted, 5/91)
Sept. 1982-May 1986: Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Sept. 1978-May 1982: Rector of Lewis Hall, University of Notre Dame
Publications:
Chapters
"The Politics of 'They': Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina as Critique of Gender, Sexual and Class Ideologies." The South at Issue: New Essays on Contemporary Southern Literature. Ed. Jeffrey Folks. U of Kentucky P. Accepted 1/15/98. Forthcoming.
"Thomas Adams." Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century. Vol. 151. Ed. Clayton D. Lein. Detroit: Gale, 1995. 3-10.
Articles
"The Topography of Desire: A Lesbian Space of Resistance in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina." The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. Accepted 5/5/98. Forthcoming.
"'What is English?': Developing a Senior 'Capstone' Course for the English Major." ERIC ED 411 512 (Nov 1997): 1-24.
"Mentoring as Teaching and Learning." ERIC ED 358 459 (March 1993): 1-9.
"'The Uncanny Stranger on Display': The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry." South- Atlantic Review 56.2 (1991): 7-25.
"(En)Gendering Change: One Woman's Voice and the Traditional Canon." Virginia English Bulletin 40.2 (1990): 14-26.
"'The Dichotomiz'd Carriage of all our Sermons': Satiric Structure in the Sermons of Thomas Adams." English Renaissance Prose 3.1 (1989): 1-17.
"At Home in the Contra War." Notre Dame Magazine 18.1 (1989): 73-76.
Edited version of above article published in Congressional Record 135.141 (18 October 1989).
"'This Gift of Celestial Honey': A (W)rite of Passage to Renaissance Studies." Eric ED 295 214 (14 November 1988): 1-23.
Conference Papers:
1997-98
"Queer Geography: A Lesbian Space of Resistance in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina." University of North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, 3/16/98.
"The Violence of Class and Gender Ideologies in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. 11/3/97.
"'Strange What a Difference a Tail Makes': Woolf's Argument with Freud in Three Guineas." International Virginia Woolf Conference, 5/15/97.
1996-97
"Dorothy Allison's Textualizing of a 'Queer' Identity Within/Against Dominant Categories of Class, Sexuality and Gender." Southeastern Women's Association Annual Conference, 4/19/97.
"'Infantile Fixation in the Fathers,' the 'Voice of Creon the Dictator,' and Back-Talking 'Daughters of Educated Men': Woolf's Three Guineas and Incest Metanarratives." International Virginia Woolf Association Annual Conference, 5/18/97.
1995-96
"'Round 1962: Racial Politics and Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11/8/95.
"Why Teach Shakespeare?" Workshop on the Teaching of Shakespeare (with Dr. Donald Samson).Virginia Association of Teachers of English Conference, 11/1/95.
"La Mestiza: Identity as Difference in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera." Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, 10/15/1995.
1994-95
"'The Tyranny of the Fascist State, . . . The Tyranny of the Patriarchal State': Woolf's Three Guineas and Wertmuller's Seven Beauties." International Virginia Woolf Conference, 6/18/95.
"'The Politics of They': Dorothy Allison's Demythologizing of the Working Poor." Appalachian Studies Conference, 3/95.
"Theorizing Appalachian Women's Literature: Dykeman's The Tall Woman and the New Historicism." National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 11/19/94.
1992-93
"'Can These Dry Bones Live?': Denise Giardina's Appalachian Feminist Theology of Liberation in The Unquiet Earth." Appalachian Studies Conference, 3/21/93.
"The Senior Capstone: Developing Critical Consciousness in Teachers-Students and Students-Teachers." College English Association Annual Convention, 3/3/93.
"Mentoring as Teaching and Learning." National College Composition and Communication Convention, 3/1/93.
"The Topography of Desire: Kate Chopin's The Awakening and a Redefined Women's Regionalist Tradition." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11/13/92.
1991-92
"Post-Structuralist Theory and Chopin's The Awakening." South-East Women's Studies Association Conference, 3/92.
"The Practice of Tenderness: Feminist Liberation Theology and Women in the Nicaraguan Revolution." Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, 10/4/91.
1990-91
"Living with Passion and Compassion: Women With/in the Nicaraguan Revolution." Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, 4/12/91.
"Representing the Female Body in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella." South-Central Renaissance Conference, 3/26/91.
"Herrick's Hesperides" and Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern England." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11/15/90 .
1989-90
"No Hay Contradicion: Liberation Theology, Public Policy and Women in the Nicaraguan Revolution." Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University symposium on religion and public policy, 4/3/90.
"The Female Body in Spenser's Faerie Queene." South-Central Renaissance Conference, 3/23/90.
"Discordia Concors: The Auditor in Donne's Deaths Duell." Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference, 3/9/90.
"Spenser's Amoretti and the Chased Female Body." Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies Conference, 10/13/89.
1988-89
"'A Book Only by Necessity': Deconstructing Documentary Literature in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Appalachian Studies Conference, 3/17/89.
"'The Uncanny Stranger on Display": the Female Body in Herrick's Hesperides." Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference, 2/24/89.
"Representations of the Female Body in Sidney and Greville." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11/12/88.
"Mythos and Logos: Puritan Meditation and Baxter's The Saints' Everlasting Rest." Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies Conference, 10/22/88.
1987-88
"Feminist Studies and the Socially Responsible Classroom." Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, 4/88.
"Voices from the Hills: Nicaraguans Speak about their Revolution." Appalachian Studies Conference, 3/19/88.
"The York Cycle Dream of Pilate's Wife." Medieval-Renaissance Conference at the University of South Florida, 3/11/88.
"The Dialectics of Love: The Speaker in Fulke Greville's Caelica." South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11/6/87.
"Narrative Strategies in Bacon's Early Latin Prose." Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies Conference, 10/16/87. Won the NOVUS Award for best paper submitted by a young scholar.
"'The Dichotomiz'd Carriage of all our Sermons': Satiric Structure in the Sermons of Thomas Adams." English Renaissance Prose Conference, 10/3/87.
1986-87
"Milton's Epic Similes and the Redemption of Classical Values." South-Central Renaissance Association Conference, 4/3/87.
"The Antaeus Simile and Milton's Conception of Temporal Flow." Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference, 3/6/87.
Professional Affiliations:
International Virginia Woolf Society (have presented at their conferences)
National Council of Teachers of English (have presented at their national conference)
Philological Association of the Carolinas (have presented at their conferences)
South-Atlantic Modern Language Association (have published in their journal and presented at their conferences)
Southeastern Women's Studies Association (have presented at their conferences)
South-Central Renaissance Association (have presented at their conferences)
Virginia Association of Teachers of English (have presented at their conferences and published in their journal)
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Professional and Development Leave from Radford University (1997)
Who's Who Among American Teachers (1996)
Inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, National Honor Society (1989)
NOVUS Award from the Conference for the Advancement of Early Studies for the best scholarly piece submitted by a younger scholar (1987)
University Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1981
University First-Year Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1974
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