English Service
Resume:
Sharon L. Moore, PhD
Las Vegas, Nevada 89107
ablpp4@r.postjobfree.com
Education
Ph.D. English: University of Georgia, Athens, GA (August 1999)
Primary Area: African American Literature
Secondary Area: Harlem Renaissance
Dissertation: "'I can never be that wretched, diffident,
submissive girl again': (Un)Veiling the Black,
Feminist, Modernist Aesthetic of Jessie Redmon
Fauset"
Committee: R. Baxter Miller (Chair), Barbara McCaskill, Tricia
Lootens, Timothy Powell, Diane Batts-Morrow
M.A. English: Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL (September 1994)
Primary Area: American Literature
B.A. English: Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL (September 1991)a
Publications (Non-refereed Journals)
"Coming to Voice: Discovering the Work of Frances E. W. Harper."
Reconnaissance 1 (Spring 1995): 13-15.
Book Reviews and Other Publications
Review of American Paradox: Young Black Men, by Renford Reese. Popular
Culture Review 17 (Winter 2006): 93-94.
Review of Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of
Afro-America, by A. Robert Lee. The Modern Language Review 31 (Fall
2001): 311-312.
"Bigger Thomas." Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters.
Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, and Charles Brower. New
York: Facts on File, Incorporated. 2008.
"Gabriel Grimes." Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters.
Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, and Charles Brower. New
York: Facts on File, Incorporated. 2008.
"John Grimes." Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters.
Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, and Charles Brower. New
York: Facts on File, Incorporated. 2008.
"Harlem Renaissance." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001, 271-74.
"Bronzeville Mother." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001, 110-111.
"Walking Our Boundaries." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th
Century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001, 411-12.
Professional Presentations
"Blackface or Social Satire?": Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia's Walk on a
Comedic Fineline." Nineteenth Annual Farwest Popular and American
Culture Associations Conference. Imperial Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada.
January 26-28, 2007.
"Are You Down or Not?": The Challenge of Pedagogy and Publishing as Part of
the Hip-Hop Generation." Twenty-eighth Annual Southwest Texas Popular
Culture and American Culture Associations Conference. Albuquerque,
New Mexico. February 14-17, 2007.
"Alice Walker's Meridian is to the Civil Rights Era as Socially Conscious
Rap is to Hip-Hop: Keepin' It Real in a Time of
Progress/Capitulation." Thirty-fourth Annual 20th Century Literature
and Culture Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville,
Kentucky: February 23-25, 2006.
"Not All Gangstas are Alike: Voices of Protest in Contemporary Hip-Hop."
Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Conference.
Imperial Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada: Jan. 27-29, 2006.
"Harlem Renaissance Redux: 'How Shall the Negro Be Portrayed' in 21st
Century America? Or in Hip-Hop Parlance, Who's Keepin' It Real?" Far
West Popular and American Culture Associations Conference. Imperial
Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada: February 3-5, 2005.
"Teaching and Publishing as Part of the Hip-Hop Generation." UGA Doctoral
Forum II: Beyond Hip-Hop. Sixty-fiftth Annual College Language
Association Convention. University of Georgia: The Georgia Center.
Athens, Georgia: April 6-9, 2005.
"The Rupturing Self: Blackness and Identity in the Short Fiction of Jessie
Redmon Fauset." Tenth International American Women Writers of Color
Conference. Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel. Baltimore, Maryland:
November 21-23, 2004.
"A Raced and Gendered Marketplace: Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun." Society for
the Study of American Women Writers. The Renaissance Worthington
Hotel. Fort Worth, Texas: September 24-27, 2003.
"American Media Fascination with Black Music Done Over in White Face." Far
West Popular and American Culture Associations Conference. Imperial
Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada: February 3-5, 2003.
"Black Masculinity, American Democracy, and America's National Pastime:
Smiling Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and the Great Homerun Race of 1998."
Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Conference.
Imperial Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada: February 5-7, 2001.
"A 'Pathway to Freedom': Anna Julia Cooper, Education, and America's Race
Problem." Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Holiday
Inn/UCF Select. Orlando, Florida: April 6-9, 2000.
"Fauset, the Modern: The Chinaberry Tree and American Modernist
Expression." Inaugural Conference of the Modernist Studies
Association. Nittany Lion Inn. Pennsylvania State University. State
College, Pennsylvania: October 7-10, 1999.
"Strange Bedfellows: Jessie Fauset, Ernest Hemingway, and American "New"
(Black) Woman." Annual Conference of National Association for Ethnic
Studies. DoubleTree Resort and Conference Center. Kissimmee,
Florida: March 24-28, 1999.
"Romance, Rhymes, and Fairy Tales: The Satirical Use of Form in the Fiction
of Jessie Redmon Fauset." Annual Conference of the College Language
Association. Fayetteville State University. Fayetteville, North
Carolina: April 14-18, 1999.
"Universals and Particulars: The Politics of Identity in Jean Toomer and
Jessie Fauset." The State of Harlem Renaissance Studies. Hosted by
the University of Tennessee. Knoxville: April 1997.
" 'And I Dream of Our Coming Together': An Analysis of the Sense(ual) in
Audre Lorde's Zami." Annual Conference of the National Association of
African-American Studies. Adam's Mark Hotel. Houston Texas: February
11-15, 1997.
"In the Face of Blackness: Jessie Fauset and Her Struggle for Black
Identity." Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Writers
Association. Stouffer Harbourplace Hotel. Baltimore Maryland: April
1994.
Other Conference Participation
"Postcolonial Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender." Session Chair.
Western Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. Las Vegas, Nevada:
February 27, 2000.
"Colorful Flags." Session Chair. Far West Popular and American Culture
Associations Conference. Imperial Palace. Las Vegas, Nevada:
February 6, 2000.
"Disappearing Acts." Roundtable Participant. Committee on the Status of
Women in the Profession. Modern Language Association Conference.
Hyatt Regency. Chicago: December 27-30, 1999.
"Inside and Outside the Academy: Scholarship versus Activism." Roundtable
Participant. Women's Studies Student Symposium. University of
Georgia. Athens, Georgia: March 1996.
Professional Experience (Teaching)
Adjunct. College of Southern Nevada, 2009-present
English 100: Enhanced Composition
English 101: Composition I
English 102: Composition II
English 232: World Literature, II
Assistant Professor. University of Nevada Las Vegas, 1999-2008
English 743: Studies in Later American Literature-Black Women Writers
of the Harlem Renaissance
English 742: Studies in Early American Literature-Slavery and the
Slave Narrative Tradition
English 495A: Early African American Literature
English 495B: Modern African American Literature
English 453B: American Literature, 1918-Present
English 452A: American Literature, 1620-1800
English 436A: Major Figures in American Literature-Richard Wright and
James Baldwin
English 436A: Major Figures in American Literature-Toni Morrison and
Alice Walker
English 291: Slave Narratives, Literature, and Imagery
English 290: Introduction to African American Literature
English 242: Survey of American Literature, II
English 241: Survey of American Literature, I
English 232: World Literature, II
English 102: Introduction to Composition, II
Graduate Instructor. University of Georgia, 1993-1997
English 240G: Twentieth Century Multicultural American Literature
English 233: Early American Literature
English 102M: Introduction to Multicultural American Literature
English 102: Introduction to Literature
English 101: Introduction to Composition
Graduate Teaching Apprentice. Roosevelt University, 1992.
English 485: Apprentice for Introduction to Shakespeare
English 485: Apprentice for Afro-American Literature
Tutor. Chicago State University, 1992-1993.
English 100: Remedial English
Professional Service and Activity
AP Reader, English Prose. Education Testing Service. Louisville,
Kentucky. June 2009.
AP Reader, English Poetry. Education Testing Service. Louisville,
Kentucky. June 2008.
Editorial Board, Popular Culture Review, 2007-present
Peer Review, "Containment and the Fifties JD Film." For Popular Culture
Review. November 2006.
Peer Review, "Static Women: One Dimensional Sorceresses in Arthurian
Films." For Popular Culture Review. October 2006.
Peer Review, "Super Size Her, The (Dys)Functions of Female Body Image in
Calendar Girls and Real Women Have Curves." For Popular Culture
Review. October 2006.
Peer Review, "Language in the Inner City." For Popular Culture Review.
July 2006.
Peer Review, "'Come to My Window': Que(e)rying Comic Book Culture in Wonder
Woman-The Challenge of Artemis (1995)." For Popular Culture Review.
February 2001.
Peer Review, "Migration, Masculinity, and Racial Identity in Taylor
Gordon's Born to Be." For Western Migrations, volume in the Halcyon
series. July 2000.
Participant, Panel Discussion on Affirmative Action. Sponsored by The
Brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Xi Chapter. April
2003.
Assessor, Proposals for 2001 National Women's Studies Association
Conference. December 2000.
Participant, UNLV President's Fall Planning Retreat. August 2000.
Participant, UNLV Diversity Panel for Dr. Peterson's Ethical and Legal
Issues in Counseling Class. April 2000.
Moderator, UNLV Rebel Christian Fellowship's Forum on Race Issues. March
2000.
Participant, Sexing the Market: An Informal Discussion on Academic
Interviewing Skills at UNLV. March 2000.
Participant, Job Search Orientation for English Graduate Students and
Recent PhDs. September 1999.
Script Writer and Narrator, "Harlem Nights." Clark County Library Black
History Month Event. February 2001.
Departmental and University Service
Committees. University of Nevada Las Vegas, 1999-present
Member, Undergraduate Committee, 2005-2006
Member, Graduate Committee, 2000-2001
Member, First-Year Composition Committee, 2000-2005
Member, Chair's Advisory Committee, 2000-2001, 2005-present
Member, Business Writing Search Committee, 1999-2000.
Member, Professional and Technical Writing Search Committee, 2002-
2003.
Member, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, 2002-2005
Chair, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001.
Member, Faculty Senate, 2000-2002.
Graduate Student Committees. University of Nevada Las Vegas
Member, DeNara Hill, Ph.D. English (Ongoing)
Member, Quimby Melton, Ph.D. English (Ongoing)
Member, Beverly Rodgers, M.A. English (Fall 2006)
Chair, Rachele Dalton, M.A. English (Fall 2006)
Member, Rachel Santos, M.A. English (Summer 2006)
Member, Kelly Pedrick, M.A. English (Spring 2006)
Member, Brian Sodoma, M.A. Film (Spring 2006)
Member, Amanda Tomme, M.F.A. English "Blue Circle and A Steady Rain,"
(Spring 2005)
Member, Katherine Baker, Ph.D. English "Cleopatra: Three Visions of
Her Infinite Variety," (Spring 2004)
Member, Shannon Hammermeister, M.A. English "Re-Visionary Bodies:
Feminist/Brechtian Theory in the Plays of Paula Vogel," (Fall
2000)
Professional Memberships
American Association of University Women
College Language Association
Modern Language Association
American Literature Association
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