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Laura Sloan Patterson received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University with areas of specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, southern literature, women's literature, and feminist theory. Her research interests include southern women's literature, domesticity, material culture, composition pedagogy, and the use of technology in the classroom.

Education

• Ph.D., Department of English, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), 2001
• M.A., Department of English, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), 1997
• B.A., Magna Cum Laude in English Literature, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), 1996

Publications

• 鈥淪ensible Solutions to Discomfort.鈥� North Carolina Literary Review Online, 2020, pp.212-213. [Book review of Another Bungalow, a poetry collection by Maura Way] []
• 鈥淩eview.鈥� Resources for American Literary Study, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 171鈥�176. JSTOR. [Long form book review of The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow by Ashley Andrews Lear] [More Information]
• 鈥溾�楬uge Crowd Pleased by New Models鈥�: Elizabeth Bishop鈥檚 Cuttyhunk Notebook as Multimodal and Multimedia Artifact.鈥� Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, edited by Bethany Hicok, Lever Press, 2019, pp. 283-302.
• Poetry: 鈥淭he Snowbound Domestic.鈥� Rust and Moth. Winter 2015 []
• Poetry: 鈥淧assing.鈥� Pittsburgh Poetry Review 1 (2015): 95.
• Poetry: 鈥淪ycamores.鈥� HOOT Online. no. 50, April 2016. []
• Poetry: 鈥淧redawn Eastern Sky.鈥� Lines + Stars: Time Travel. Spring 2016. http://www.linesandstars.com/spring-2016/laura-patterson/predawn-eastern-sky/ []
• Poetry: 鈥淧omegranate.鈥� Spry. vol. 7, 2016. http://www.sprylit.com/archives/issue-07/poetry/pomegranate/ []
• Poetry: 鈥淪ister Agnes Tells about the Crocodile.鈥� Reprinted in Sky and Sea: A Sugared Water Anthology. January 2017.
• Poetry: 鈥淪tretch Marks.鈥� WomanArts Quarterly Journal. vol. 7, no.1, 2017, p. 18.
• Poetry: 鈥淒elaware River.鈥� North Carolina Literary Review. no. 26, 2017, p.73. [Finalist for the journal鈥檚 James Applewhite prize in poetry.]
• Poetry: 鈥淐ommittee Meeting.鈥� Voices from the Attic, edited by Jan Beatty, Carlow University Press, 2017, p. 71.
• Poetry: 鈥淏olt: Six Ways.鈥� Voices from the Attic, edited by Jan Beatty, Carlow University Press, 2018.
• 鈥溾�楽omething Beautiful, Something Frightening鈥�: Using Welty鈥檚 Stories to Teach Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Writing Courses.鈥� Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger, University Press of Mississippi, 2018, pp. 181-187.
• 鈥淭riangulation and an Outsider鈥檚 South in Eudora Welty鈥檚 鈥楴o Place for You, My Love.鈥欌�� Eudora Welty Review, vol. 9, Spring 2017, pp. 75-82.
• 鈥淪peed Dating an iPad Until the Break of Dawn: Creative Techno-feminist Pedagogy for Stephenie Meyer鈥檚 Breaking Dawn.鈥� Yin and Yang in the English Classroom. Ed. Sandra Eckard. R&L Education: Lanham, Maryland.
• Stirring the Pot: Domesticity and the Kitchen in the Fiction of Southern Women, Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2008.
• 鈥溾�榊ou have even been to lady school鈥�: Pierre Bourdieu, Lee Smith, and New Gender Theory for Southern Literature.鈥� Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 66.1 (Winter 2013): 3-29.
• Review of Desire and the Divine: Feminine Identity in White Southern Women's Writing, by Kathaleen Amende. The Journal of Southern Religion. 15 (2013). Web. []
• 鈥溾�楾he Thing They Knew鈥�: Social Exclusion at Southern Wakes in Eudora Welty鈥檚 鈥楾he Wanderers鈥� and The Optimist鈥檚 Daughter.鈥� Women and the Material Culture of Death. Eds. Elizabeth Tobin and Maureen Goggin. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, 2013.
• "Appalachian Lipstick" The Written Wardrobe. 2nd ed. Modcloth, 2012. Web.
• 鈥淲hy Are All the Fat Brides Smiling?: Body Image and the American Bridal Industry.鈥� Feminist Media Studies 5.2 (2005): 243-246.
• 鈥淪exing the Domestic: Eudora Welty鈥檚 Delta Wedding and the Sexology Movement.鈥� Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 42.2 (2004): 37-59.
• 鈥淔rom Courtship to Kitchen: Radical Domesticity in Twentieth-Century Southern Women鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� Women鈥檚 Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.8 (2003): 907-936.
• 鈥淓llipsis, Ritual, and 鈥楻eal Time鈥�: Rethinking the Rape Complex in Southern Novels.鈥� Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 54.1 (2000): 37-58.

Awards

• Openness Award, Stars at 茄子视频 (Service Award), 茄子视频 University, May 2008
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2000-2001
• Tuition Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1996-2001
• Susan Ford Wiltshire Prize for Graduate Essay on a Women鈥檚 Studies Topic, Vanderbilt University, 2000
• Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Vanderbilt University, 2000
• Teaching Assistantship, Vanderbilt University, 1997-2000

Organizations

• College Composition and Communication
• Council of Writing Program Administrators
• Ellen Glasgow Society of the American Literature Association
• Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Pittsburgh Area Composition Directors
• Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Presentations

• 鈥溾�橝 lady couldn鈥檛 expect to travel without a hat鈥�: Disembodied Cultural Capital, Gender, and Sexuality in Welty鈥檚 Short Fiction.鈥� Charleston, South Carolina. February 21-23, 2019.
• 鈥淐reativity, Critique & Citizenship: Performance-Based Approaches to Teaching First-Year Composition.鈥� CCCC. Pittsburgh, PA. March 14-17, 2019.
• 鈥淕lasgow, the Gothic, and the Cultural Capital of Feminine Beauty.鈥� American Literature Association. Boston, MA. May 21-24, 2015.
• 鈥淭echnology with Heart: 鈥楾his I Believe鈥� Podcasts in Basic Composition鈥� iTeach. 茄子视频 University. Greensburg, PA. May 8, 2015.
• 鈥淭he Little Things: American Miniatures in Cultural Contexts.鈥� Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto, Canada. April 30-May 3, 2015. [Panel organizer and panelist]
• 鈥淪peed Dating an iPad until the Break of Dawn: Creative Techno-Feminist Pedagogy for Stephenie Meyer鈥檚 Breaking Dawn.鈥� English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities. California, PA. Oct. 3-4, 2014
• "The Gift of 'Dare鈥檚 Gift': Teaching Glasgow to Early Undergraduates." American Literature Association. Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014.
• 鈥�'But the one I most wanted to be was Tragedy': Lee Smith鈥檚 Tableaux Vivants in On Agate Hill." Northeast Modern Language Association. Harrisburg, PA. April 3-6, 2014.
• "Fashioning a Digital South: A Virtual Tour of Southern Style Blogs." Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Arlington, Va. March 27-29, 2014.
• "You have even been to lady school": Pierre Bourdieu, Lee Smith, and an Appalachian Education. Appalachian Studies Association. Indiana, PA. March 23-25, 2012. []
• "The thing they knew": Death Rituals in 'The Wanderers' and The Optimist's Daughter." Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Nashville, TN. March 29-April 1, 2012.
• 鈥淐reating an Assessment Community.鈥� Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. Baton Rouge, LA. July 14-18, 2011. []
• 鈥淭eaching with iPads: Motivation, Inspiration, Alienation in the Appleverse.鈥� Computers and Writing. Ann Arbor, MI. May 18-22, 2011. []
• 鈥淲e Were Theory Before Theory Was Cool: Lee Smith, Pierre Bourdieu, and New Gender Theory for Southern Literature.鈥� Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI. Jan 9-12, 2011.
• 鈥淭eaching Twilight and Feminism, or, What Have I Gotten Myself Into Now?鈥� The Twilight Saga: Girls, Women, Feminism, and Popular Culture: An Academic Conference. Edinboro, PA. Oct. 23, 2010
• 鈥溾�楤ut the one I most wanted to be was Tragedy鈥�: The Cultural Capital of Self-Denial in Lee Smith鈥檚 On Agate Hill.鈥� Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. New Orleans, LA. April 8-11, 2010 []
• 鈥淔ashioning Another Self and Another South: O鈥機onnor, Welty, Walker, and the Creation of Clothing.鈥� Southern Women Writers Conference. Rome, GA. September 24-26, 2009.
• 鈥溾�楥hick Lit鈥� and 鈥楶ollyannas鈥�: What We鈥檝e Learned from Book Selection Debates鈥� Northeastern Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. February 28-March 1, 2009.
• 鈥淚nside the Cage, Outside 鈥楾he System鈥�: Domestic Education and the Critique of Hyper-femininity in Ellen Glasgow鈥檚 Virginia鈥� American Literature Association. San Francisco. May 22-25, 2008.
• 鈥淪creeching and Hissing on the Route to Change: Railroads and Domesticity in Lee Smith鈥檚 Oral History.鈥� Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Williamsburg, Virginia. April 17-20, 2008.
• 鈥淪exual Violence in the Work of Raymond Andrews.鈥� Invited to present for the 鈥淪uper-session鈥� of the Southern Writers Symposium. Fayetteville, North Carolina. February 25-28, 2007.
• 鈥淓stablishing a Writing Program at a Small University as a New WPA.鈥� Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference. Chattanooga, Tennessee. July 13-16, 2006.
• 鈥淟et them Do Research!: Two Uncommon Approaches to Teaching the Research in a General Writing Course for First-Year Students.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago. March 22-26, 2006.
• 鈥淛ust a Taste: Eudora Welty鈥檚 Domestic Sensuality.鈥� American Literature Association. Boston. May 22-25, 2003.
• 鈥淭oni Morrison and the House of Jazz.鈥� MELUS: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Boca Raton. April 10-13, 2003.
• 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Cooking: Personal Narrative in the Online Kitchen.鈥� Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2000.
• 鈥淐racker Barrel Casserole and Bug Bite Soup: The Southern Kitchen Goes Online.鈥� Mid-Atlantic American/Popular Culture Association. Albany. November 3-5, 2000.
• 鈥淪torms Brewing: The Appalachian Kitchen as Indicator of Social Change in Lee Smith鈥檚 Oral History.鈥� Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South. Nashville. October 6-9, 2000.
• 鈥淭he Critique of Separate Spheres in Melville鈥檚 Typee.鈥� MLA. Chicago. December 27-31, 1999.
• 鈥溾�楢 Dwelling-house of the Valley Described鈥�: Gendered Architecture in Melville鈥檚 Typee.鈥� Gendered Landscapes. Pennsylvania State University. May 29-June 1, 1999.
• 鈥淢elville鈥檚 Fictional Gender Divide.鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: Transatlanticisms. Ohio State University. April 9-10, 1999.

Certifications

• Women's Negotiation Training for Project Catapult, Pennsylvania Women and Girls Foundation

Achievements

• Invited to lead workshop:鈥淯sing iPads in Teaching and Learning.鈥� June 2011 Faculty Development Workshops, Arcadia University. Glenside, PA. June 14-16, 2011.
• Selected to participate in the Council of Independent Colleges Information Fluency Workshop. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2010.
• Selected to participate in Faculty Seminar on Slave Narratives at Yale University, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History: June 7-10 2009
• Computer-Assisted Writing Coordinator, College Writing Program, Vanderbilt University, 2003-04
• Lecturer, Department of English and Program in Women鈥檚 Studies, Vanderbilt University, 2001-2004
• President, English Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University, 2000-2001
• Master Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, 2000-2001