Department of English
Alexandra Schultheis
Contact Information
E-mail: awschult@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3320
At UNCG Since: 2003
Education
Ph.D. University of Rochester-1998
Graduate Certificate in Gender & Women’s Studies,
University of Rochester-1996
M.A. University of Rochester-1995
M.P.A. Syracuse University-1992
B.A. Brown University-1989
Research Interests
Dr. Schultheis is an Associate Professor whose work focuses on human rights in/and literature and film as well as on postcolonial literatures, film, and theory. Additional teaching interests include courses in contemporary British and American literature and cross-listed offerings with International and Global Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and African American Studies. Her current research is on "Transnational Tibet: Readings in Human Rights and the Humanities." She is also co-editing two collections on theorizing and teaching human rights and literature.
Selected Publications
- “Reading Tibet: Area Studies, Postcoloniality, and Tibetan Self-Determination.” South Asian Review: Imagining South Asia 28.1 (2009): 87-105.
- “African Child Soldiers and Humanitarian Consumption.” Peace Review 20.1 (2008): 31-40.
- “Traumatic Legacy in Darryl Pinckney’s High Cotton.” Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Literature. Ed. David Goldstein- Shirley and Audrey B. Thacker. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2007. 227-49.
- “Subjectivity Politics in Sorrow Mountain: Transnational Feminism and Tibetan Autobiography.” Genders 44 (2006): <http://www.genders.org/g44/g44_schultheis.html>.
- Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- “Family Matters in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother.” Jouvert 5.2 (2001).
- “Postcolonial lack and aesthetic promise in The Moor's Last Sigh.” Twentieth- Century Literature 47.4 (2001): 569-96.
- Co-author with Kirstin Hotelling. “Affinity, Collaboration, and the Politics of Classroom Speaking.” Feminist Teacher 11.2 (1997): 123-32.
Awards and Honors
- Contemplative Mind in Society & the Fetzger Institute Fellowship, 2009.
- Center for Critical Inquiry Summer Fellowships, 2007, 2008, 2009.
- Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Award, 2008.
- Marc Friedlaender Faculty Excellence Award for Research, 2007-2008.
- College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2006-2007.
Links
Co-ordinator of the Center for Critical Inquiry's Human Rights Research Network
Faculty for Women's and Gender Studies
Asian Studies Committee