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TRACY McCABE
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Vita |
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Education |
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., English, 1994 University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., English, 1988
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Teaching and Administrative Positions |
Director, Lecturer, Lake Forest College, 1998-present. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College, 1996-1998 Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in English, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies, 1990-95 |
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Dissertation |
"Resisting Primitivism: Race, Gender, and Power in Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance," directed by Susan Stanford Friedman |
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Scholarly Articles and Book Reviews
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"The Multifaceted
Politics of Primitivism in Rev. of What Else But
Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison,
by Philip M. Weinstein. MELUS (journal of the Society for the Study of
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the With Nellie McKay.
"African American Prose Writers." Women's Studies Encyclopedia.
Rev. and exp. Helen Tierney. "Yearning: Race,
Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990): Essay collection by Bell Hooks."
Entry in The African American Encyclopedia, Supplement. "Avenging Angel: Tragedy and Womanhood in Julia Ward Howe's The World's Own." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 12.2 (1995): 23-36. "Teaching in the
Promised Land: Ideals and Limits in Feminist Pedagogy." Rev. of Teaching
to Transgress, by |
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Other Publications |
.Chaos and Composition..
Amoskeag 23.1 (Spring 2006): 7-9. "Confessions of a Scrounging Scholar." Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 2001:B5. Rev. of Crossing: A Memoir, by Deirdre McCloskey. World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association. 14.4 (July/August 2000): 44-5. "Stranger in a Strange Land: Teaching Literature in a Creative Writing Program." Beacon Street Review. (Spring 2000): 55-59. "In Her Own Voice: Feminist and Unitarian Themes in Two Recent Historical Novels." World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association. 14.3 (May/June 2000): 28-33. |
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Academic Conference Papers |
"Jamaica Kincaid.s
The Autobiography of My Mother and the Limits of Feminist Criticism."
Midwestern Conference on Film, Language, and Literature. "Directions in
Multicultural Modernist Studies: Scenes of `Facing' in Künstlerromane
by H.D. and Nella Larsen." Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference. "Multicultural
Modernism and the Resistance of Primitivism: The Case of Home to "Resisting
Primitivism: Race, Gender, and Power in Modernism and the "Reconstructive
and Deconstructive Impulses in Feminist Thought: Female Identity in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name." Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and " "Whose Laugh Is It
Anyway?: Race, Gender, and Primitivism in Sherwood
Anderson's Dark Laughter." Invited Speaker.
"Avenging Angel: Feminist "Avenging Angel:
Tragedy, Womanhood, and Representation in Julia Ward Howe's The World's
Own." "Negotiating Ideologies
in the Oppositional Primitivism of Claude McKay's Home to "`Thimble of
Everything': Experimental Lesbian Aesthetics in a Steinian
Poem-Portrait." "Postmodernism and
Feminism in Gabrielle Burton's Heartbreak Hotel." University of
Wisconsin-System Women's Studies Conference. "`Give Virgin Lips
to Cornfield Concubines': Voiceless Women and Virgin Artists in Part One of
Jean Toomer's Cane."
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Other Academic Presentations and Related Work |
Panel
chair. "The Politics of Racial Identity." Conference on "The
Future of the Co-facilitator.
"Intersections of Collaborative Teaching and Learning: A Workshop."
College English Association. Invited Speaker.
"The Intersection of Race and Gender in the Curriculum." Symposium
on Curricular, Pedagogical and Research Issues in Racial/Ethnic Studies.
University of Wisconsin-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. Co-presenter.
"Feminist Negotiations of Institutional Space: A Dissertation Group in
Theory and Practice."
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Performances |
Choreographer, dancer,
writer. "Visions of Darkness," a service at the Choreographer, dancer,
writer. "Faith of Our Mothers," a service in recognition of women's
history month, Choreographer, dancer,
writer. "Creativity: Some Way of Prayer," a service at the Choreographer and
dancer. "How to Love This World," a service at the Dancer for numerous
performances with Synergy!, a professional jazz
dance company.
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Academic Honors
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University League Award
for Excellence in the Humanities, awarded by the Jacob Javits Fellowship in the Humanities, formerly National Graduate Fellowship, from U.S. Dept. of Education, 1991-1992, 1987-1990 University of Wisconsin-Madison Prize Fellowship, awarded to ten incoming students in the Humanities, declined, 1987 Sacks Award for best
senior thesis in American Literature, Phi Beta Kappa,
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