University Assistant
Resume:
Samantha E. Cantrell
Curriculum VitaeGrant Development SpecialistOffice of Research Services
Middle Tennessee State University [home address redacted]
Box 124
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615-***-**** (phone); 615-***-**** (fax)
********.********@****.***
Education
PhD, English, Texas A&M University, May 2004. Dissertation: Housing Sexuality: Domestic
Space and the Development of Female Sexuality in the Fiction of Angela Carter and
Jeanette Winterson.
MA, English, Middle Tennessee State University, August 1993. Thesis: For Better or for
Worse?: The Theme of Marriage in the Fiction of Angela Carter.
BA, English, University of the South, May 1989.
Current Positions
Specialist, Office of Research Services, Middle Tennessee State University, September
2005 -
present. Working in research administration to assist faculty & staff who are preparing
grant proposals.
Adjunct Faculty Member. English Department, Middle Tennessee State University, Fall 2004,
Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009. Teaching lower division English courses intermittently.
Work History
Humanities Panelist, Louisiana Board of Regents (LBR), Spring 2009, Spring 2012.
Recruited
& contracted as an out-of-state panelist to assess humanities proposals submitted to the
Louisiana Board of Regents Humanities Enhancement Fund.
Writer, Office of Development, Middle Tennessee State University, January 2000-September
2005. Worked in Corporate and Foundation Relations.
Graduate Assistant. Texas A&M University, English Department, Spring Fall 1993-Fall 1999
.
Taught Rhetoric/Composition and Introduction to Literature; worked as
Consultant in
Writing Center.
Graduate Assistant, Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies (now existing as the
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research), Texas A&M University, Fall 1996-Spring
1998. Assisted with a distinguished lecture series & an international conference.
Graduate Assistant. Middle Tennessee State University, English Department, Fall 1990-
Spring
1992. Taught freshman composition.
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Service
Co-Chair, President s Commission on the Status of Women, Middle Tennessee State
University, Fall 2011-present. Member of Commission since Fall 2006.
Treasurer, Tennessee Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW),
July 2011-present.
Treasurer, Murfreesboro Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW),
July 2008-present.
Chair, Scholarship Committee, Murfreesboro Branch of the American Association of
University Women (AAUW), Spring 2012, Spring 2008. Committee member, Spring
2009, Spring 2011.
Member, Middle East Center Steering Committee, Middle Tennessee State University, Fall
2005-present.
Member, Faculty Research and Creative Activities Committee, Middle Tennessee State
University, Fall 2004-present.
Member, English 203 (Introduction to Literature) Committee, Texas A&M University, Fall
1998-Summer 1999 and Summer 1996-Spring 1997. Revised curriculum, developed
syllabus, reviewed textbooks.
Member, Conference Committee (1996 conference, "Virtual Gender: Past Projections, Future
Histories ), The Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study (IGHLS), Texas
A&M University, Fall 1995-Spring 1996.
Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, Fall 1995-
Spring 1996.
Treasurer, The Graduate Women's Studies Group, Texas A&M University, November 1993 -
Spring 1997.
Presentations
Proposal Writing for Competitive Funding, Annual Conference of the Tennessee
Advancement
Resources Council; Nashville, TN, July 2011. Invited speaker.
Domains of Privilege: Space and Sexuality in Jeanette Winterson's Art and Lies,
Gendered
Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space; Center for Studies
in
Landscape History; The Pennsylvania State University, May 1999.
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Burning Down the House: The Structure of the Patriarchy in the Fiction of Angela
Carter,
Western Kentucky University Seventh Annual Women's Studies Conference; Bowling
Green, KY; September 1993.
Writing and Reading the Texts of Feminine Sexuality: The Anatomy of Angela Carter's The
Bloody Chamber, Western Kentucky University Sixth Annual Women's Studies
Conference; Bowling Green, KY; September 1992.
Grants/Honors
Graduate Fellow, The Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies (IGHS), Fall 1998-
Spring 1999.
Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, February 1997.
Travel grants, Texas A&M University supporting travel to conferences in June 1998, March
1997, April 1995, September 1993.
Memberships
American Association of University Women (AAUW), National Council of University
Research Administrators (NCURA).
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References:
Mark E. Byrnes Pamela R. Matthews
Professor, Political Science Professor, Department of English
and and
Dean, College of Liberal Arts Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Box 97 1248 TAMU
Middle Tennessee State University Texas A&M University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132 College Station, TX 77843-1248
****.******@****.*** *-********@****.***
Jeffrey N. Cox Myra Norman
Professor of English & Humanities Director
and Office of Research Services
Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Box 124
University of Colorado Middle Tennessee State University
49 UCB Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Boulder, CO 80309-0049 615-***-****
303-***-**** ****.******@****.***
*******.***@********.***
Mary Ann O'Farrell (dissertation director)
Joanna Gibson Associate Professor
Director of Writing Programs (formerly) Department of English
Department of English 4227 TAMU
4227 TAMU Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227
College Station, TX 77843-4227 979-***-****
979-***-**** ****@****.***********@tamu.eduRobert C. Petersen
Allen Hibbard ProfessorProfessor, Department of English Department of English
and Box 70
Director, Middle East Center Middle Tennessee State University
Box 70 Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Middle Tennessee State University 615-***-****
Murfreesboro, TN 37132 ******.********@****.***
*****.*******@****.*** James Rosenheim
Professor, Department of HistoryNewtona (Tina) Johnson Texas A&M University
Professor,
Department of English 4214 TAMU
and College Station, TX 77843-4214
Director, Women s Studies 979-***-****
Box 498 *-*********@****.***
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
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