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Alexandra Schultheis

Professor 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

 

 

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