Janice Elizabeth Rieman
Department of English
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina 28223
704.687.3266
[email protected]
Education
Ph. D. English, Georgia State University December 1997
Primary Field: Modern British and Commonwealth Literature
Secondary Field: Modern American Literature
Dissertation: “Memory, the Mother of All Nine Muses”: Rembrances of
Childhood in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction.
Committee: Randy Malamud, Director; Margaret Mills Harper, Marilyn Richtarik.
M. A. English, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte May 1993
Thesis: Purpose and Stability in a Dangerous World: The Family
in John Irving’s Fiction.
Committee: Daniel Shealy, Chair; Robin Hemley, Sandra Govan.
B. A. English, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte December 1989
Major: English Minor: Psychology
Teaching Experience
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lecturer, English Department Fall 2007-present
ENGL1101: English Composition
ENGL 1102: Writing in the Academic Community
ENGL 1103: Accelerated College Writing and Rhetoric
ENGL 1103 (H): Honors Accelerated College Writing and Rhetoric
ENGL 2100: Writing About Literature
LBST 2100: Liberal Studies: Canadian Literature and Culture
ENGL 3300: American Literature Survey I: Colonial to Present
ENGL 3301: British Literature Survey I: Medieval to Renaissance
Instructor, American Studies Department 2002 -2004
1950s America, 1980s America
Wilmington College Wilmington, Ohio 1999-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Advanced Composition
Freshman Composition with Writing Lab
Global Issues and Awareness (Honors Class)
Contemporary Canadian Literature
Major British Authors of the 20th Century
Survey of American Literature: The Colonies to the Civil War
Survey of British Literature: Restoration to the 20th Century
Senior Seminar: Critical Theory and Research
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Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 1997-1999
Postdoctoral Visiting Lecturer, Department of English
Survey of British Literature (Medieval to early 20th Century)
Major American Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Survey of American Literature (Colonial to Contemporary)
Introduction to the Short Story
Introduction to Literary Studies
Western World Literature (ancient Mesopotamia to Renaissance)
World Literature
Business Writing
Argumentative Writing
Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 1994-1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English
Freshman Composition
Research-based Composition / Argumentative Writing
Western World Literature
Business Writing
Agnes Scott College Decatur, Georgia 1996-1997
Instructor, Department of English
Freshman Composition and Literature (short fiction and poetry)
Freshman Composition with Writing Lab
Literature and Composition (novels, drama, and film)
Oglethorpe University Atlanta, Georgia Fall 1996
Instructor, Department of English
Modernism 1890-1945
Analytical Writing
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1992-1993
Graduate Teaching Assistant / Instructor, Department of English
Freshman Composition
Composition and Literature (short fiction and poetry)
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Writing Center 1991-1993
Georgia State University Writing Center 1994-1999
Tutor
Tutored a diverse student population, including ESL, in all aspects
of composition development.
Work Related to UNC Charlotte First Year Writing Program
Conference Presentations Given within the program
Literacy Narrative Assignment Presentation, Nov. 2010
Digital Portfolio Presentation, Oct. 2010
Digital Portfolio Workshop, April 2010
Conference attendance / participation outside of the program
N.C. Symposium on Teaching Writing, NC State, February 2011
Composing Across the Curriculum (CAC) Summer Institute, 2010
National Writing Project Teacher-Researcher Summer Institute, June 2010
Multi-Modal Writing Workshop, June 2009
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University/Departmental Service
UNC Charlotte
Ad-hoc Curriculum Redesign Committee (appointed), spring 2009
First-Year Writing Award Judge, spring 2011
Lecturer Liaison for Lecturer Hiring Committee (appointed), 2010-11
Salary Review Committee (appointed), 2010-2011
Faculty Development for Lecturers, Chair (elected), 2009-2010
University Common Book Reading Committee, 2009-present
Advisory Committee to the Department Chair (elected), 2008-2009
Judge, Sanskrit , fall 2002
Wilmington College
Review Committee on Faculty (appointed) , 2000-2001
Community Through Quaker Values Committee (appointed), 2000-2001
Theater Department Production Dramaturge (appointed), fall 2000
English Faculty Search Committee (appointed), 1999-2000
Early Childhood Education Faculty Search Committee (appointed), spring 2000
Reader/Judge, Bowman Award in Creative Writing , spring 2000
Peer Presenter, Women’s History Month: “The Glasgow Girls,” spring 2000
Presenter/Departmental representative, Outstanding Student Award, spring 2000
Proofreader, The Woodhouse, spring 2000
Publications
Janice Rieman, "Tenure-Track to Mommy-Track: In Search of My Scholarly Self.” Parenting
and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career. Ed. R. Hile Bassett.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, June 2005. 56-60.
Janice Rieman, “Drinking Under Twenty-One: It’s Time to End the Debate.” The Longwood
Guide to Writing, 2nd ed. Eds. Ronald F. Lunsford and Bill Bridges. Needham Heights,
MA: Allyn and Bacon , 2002. 400-05.
Janice Rieman, “A Context for Argument: Julie Townsend and Janice Rieman Discuss Their
Own Writing Processes.” Instructor’s Resource Manual for The Longwood Guide to
Writing. Eds. Ronald F. Lunsford and Bill Bridges. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and
Bacon , 2002. 125-42.
Janice Rieman, “Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular
Fiction. 15 (2001): 423-29.
Janice Rieman, Review of A Quiet Game, by Margaret Atwood. Newsletter of the Margaret
Atwood Society. Fall/Winter 1998.
Janice Rieman, “Enamel” Sanskrit. 23 (1992): 38.
Janice Rieman, “I Need a New Loom” The GSU Review. Spring/Summer 1995.
Conference Presentations
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“American Girl: Marketing Perfected.” Popular Culture Association in the South / American
Culture in the South. Wilmington, NC, October 2009.
“Krispy Kreme: From Down Home Doughnuts to Uptown Trend." Popular Culture Association
in the South / American Culture in the South. Charlotte, NC, October 2002.
“Marsha Norman’s ‘night Mother: A Mother-Daughter Clashing of World Views.” 24th Annual
Comparative Drama Conference. Ohio State University, April 2000.
“Childhoods Revisited in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” II Conference on
English and American Studies. Small Worlds: Visions of Childhood
in Contemporary Literature in English. University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain),
March 2000.
“Remembrances of Childhood in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction.” 20th-Century Literature
Conference. University of Louisville, February 1999.
“Growing Up Blank with John Cusack.” Popular Culture Association in the South / American
Culture in the South. Columbia, SC, October 1997.
Chair of Session: Reading Tom Robbins. Popular Culture Association in the South / American
Culture in the South. Columbia, SC, October 1997.
“Bukka Doopeyduk’s Run-Ins With Multitudinous Forms of Da Hoodoo: Religion in Ishmael
Reed’s The Free-Lance Pallbearers.” 1996 Conference of the College English
Association. New Orleans, LA, April 1996.
“Eudora Welty: A Creative Humanist.” Popular Culture Association in the South / American
Culture Association in the South. Richmond, VA, October 1995.
“Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children as a Feminine Autobiographical Form.”
The Philological Association of the Carolinas. Asheville, NC, March 1995.
“Margaret Atwood’s Authorization of the Autobiographical in Cat’s Eye.” Popular Culture
Association in the South / American Culture Association in the South. Charlotte, NC,
October 1994.
“The World According to Garp: A Mother-and-Son Novel.” American Culture Association /
Popular Culture Association Conference. Chicago, IL, April
1994.
“Pre-history’s Dominance in John Irving’s Setting Free the Bears.” The Philological Association
of the Carolinas. Charleston, SC, March 1994.
Editing Experience
Associate Fiction and Poetry Editor 1996-1998
The GSU Review, Georgia State University
Assistant to the Editor Fall 1996
The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams (1997), Ed. Matthew Roudané.
Assistant to the Editor Fall 1996
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 4.1 (1996),
Ed. Mary B. Zeigler.
Academic Honors
Margaret Atwood Society Awards Commendation for “'The Past Isn’t Quaint
While You’re in It’: Revisiting a Life Story in Cat’s Eye.” 1998
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia State University 1997-1999
Member Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1992-2002
Professional Organizations
National Council of Teacher of English
Margaret Atwood Society
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South
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