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Erin Hurt

Department of English

1 University Station, B5000

Austin, TX 78712

erinhurt@mail.utexas.edu

Education

Ph.D., English—University of Texas at Austin, expected May 2010.

Dissertation: “Selling Feminism: Race, Gender, and the Market in Contemporary Feminist Culture”

Areas of specialization: Popular culture, public sphere and reader response theory; women and gender studies; feminist theory and pedagogy; 20^th century multi-ethnic American literatures; and new media studies

M.A., English—University of Texas at Austin, May, 2006.

Thesis: “Dirty Reading: Coordinating Theoretical and Popular Responses to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s The Dirty Girls Social Club”

Thesis advisor: Domino Renee Pérez

B.A, English—University of North Texas, December, 2002.

Thesis: “Situating the Theoretical: A Personal Definition of Feminist Politics”

Minors: Creative Writing, Women and Gender Studies

Student, 1997-1999—Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

Appointments

Managing Editor, E3W Review of Books, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.

Computer Writing and Research Lab Graduate Research Assistant, UT-Austin, Summer 2009.

Assistant Director, Lower-Division English Program, Department of English, UT-Austin, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

Assistant Managing Editor, E3W Review of Books, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

Staff member and proctor, Computer Writing and Research Lab, UT-Austin, Fall 2007-Spring 2009.

Plan II Undergraduate Writing Evaluator, Fall 2007-Fall 2008.

University Writing Center consultant, UT-Austin, Fall 2006-Summer 2007.

Honors and Awards

UT Department of English Semester Fellowship, Fall 2009.

Professional Development Award, UT-Austin Graduate Studies, 2006-9.

Publications

Articles

"Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latindad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls Social Club." MELUS 34.3 (Fall 2009): 133-153.

"Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at UT-Austin" with Layne Craig. Thirdspace (Spring 2009).

Reviews

Hooking Up: A Girl’s All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality by Amber Madison and Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s by Susan K. Freeman. Feminist Teacher. Forthcoming.

Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008): 71-72.

Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination by Joanne Barker. Special issue of Studies in the Humanities (Dec. 2006): 307-08.

The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality by Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 7 (Spring 2007): 32-33.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 6 (Spring 2006): 32-33.

Invited Lectures/Presentations

National

“From Pencils to Pixels: Lorna Dee Cervantes' Online Presence and the Innovation of Literary Form.” 2009 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA (December 2009).

All-day workshop co-chair, “Crosscurrents in Feminism: Building Coalitions, Sharing Knowledges and Pedagogies, Shaping Networks.” 2009 Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA (March 2009).

Co-presenter, “The Feminist Solidarity Group: Building Feminist Networks at the University of Texas at Austin: A Conversation.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans LA (April 2008).

“‘The weirdie of the bunch’": The Negotiation of Chicana/o Identity in Popular Responses to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s Dirty Girls Social Club.” National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA (April 2007).

“Dirty Reading: Coordinating Theoretical and Popular Responses to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s The Dirty Girls Social Club.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM (February 2007).

“Reponses to a Democratic Discrepancy: A Critical Look at the Aesthetic, Stylistic, and Theoretical Frameworks within Marita Bonner’s Frye Street and Environs.” South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, TX (October 2006).

“Articulating the Playing Field: The Dirty Girls Social Club and the Contestation of 'Essentializing' Latina/o Cultural Identity within 'Minority' Latina Fictive Narratives.” Latina Letters Conference, San Antonio, TX (July 2005).

University of Texas

“Navigating the Popular: The Disavowal of Ambivalence in the Work of Lorna Dee Cervantes.” 16th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, UT-Austin, Austin, TX (April 2009).

Departmental

Panelist, “The Successful Prospectus.” Professional Skills Committee, UT-Austin, February 2009.

Panelist, “Grading research summaries and crafting peer review activities.” E398T, UT-Austin, September 2008.

Panelist, “A Panel on Publishing.” Professional Skills Committee, UT-Austin, April 2008.

Teaching

Assistant Instructor, Department of English, UT-Austin, Fall 2006-Spring 2009

English 314L/Women and Gender Studies 301: Reading Women Writers, Spring 2009. Substantial Writing Component.

Rhetoric 306 University Extension Program: Rhetoric and Writing, Summer 2008. Substantial Writing Component.

Rhetoric 309K Topics in Writing: The Rhetoric of Protest, Fall 2007-Spring 2008. Substantial Writing Component.

Rhetoric 306 Topics in Writing: Rhetoric and Writing, Fall 2006-Summer 2007. Substantial Writing Component.

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, UT-Austin, 2004 – 2006. English 316K: Masterworks of American Literature, Masterworks of British Literature.

Guest lecturer, Department of English, UT-Austin.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and “Unspeakable Things Unspoken,” Dr. Layne Craig’s

E314L undergraduate course “Banned Books and Novel Ideas,” UT-Austin, October 15 and 27, 2009.

Lorna Dee Cervantes’s “Under the Shadow of the Freeway,” Lydia Wilmeth’s “Introduction to Mexican American Studies, UT-Austin, September 14, 2009.

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Melanie Haupt’s undergraduate course “Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture,” UT-Austin, November 3-12, 2008.

Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, Dr. George Christian’s undergraduate “Masterworks of British Literature,” UT-Austin, Spring 2006.

Service

Departmental

Graduate student representative, Graduate Program Committee, Spring 2008-Fall 2009.

Special section editor, “Resistance Literature,” E3W Review of Books, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.

Review editor, Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, Fall 2006.

Co-founder and planning committee member, Feminist Solidarity Group, March 2006-present.

Planning committee member, American Literatures Group (ALG), Fall 2005-present.

Organizer, ALG Writing Workshop, Fall 2007-Fall 2008.

Co-planner, 2^nd Symposium on American Literary Studies with guest lecturer Sharon P. Holland, October 2008.

Co-founder and planning committee member, Department of English mentor program, September 2006-Fall 2009.

Mentor, Department of English, 2006-2007, 2008-2009.

University

Layout and editorial work. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, UT-Austin, Fall 2006-2007.

Review Editor. Intersections: The Women and Gender Studies Academic Journal, UT-Austin, Summer 2006.

Public/National

Anonymous reader, Feminist Review, May 2009.

Special section co-editor, “Crosscurrents in Feminism: Building Coalitions, Sharing Knowledges and Pedagogies, Shaping Networks,” Peitho: a publication of the coalition of women scholars in the history of rhetoric and composition. 11.1 (Fall 2009): 1-8.

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association and College English Association

Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United State

National Council of Teachers of English

References

Ann Cvetkovich

Professor, Department of English, University of Texas

(512) 471-8374 cvet@mail.utexas.edu

Domino Perez

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Texas

(512) 232-7853 drperez@mail.utexas.edu