Thelma Shinn Richard
2006
Curriculum Vita
Present Position
Professor Emerita of English
Addresses
Department of
English
(480)
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Degrees
B.A. 1965
English major, History
minor
M.A. 1967
Modern and Medieval
Literatures
Ph.D. 1972
American Literature and Culture
Teaching Experience
2004-present Professor Emerita,
1985—2004 Professor,
2000 Fulbright Senior Lecturer, U.
of
Spring 1996 Fulbright Visiting
Lecturer,
Spring 1994 Fulbright Senior
Lecturer,
1987-88 AIFS
Faculty,
1982-85 Associate Professor, ASU
1975-82 Assistant Professor, ASU
1973-75 Assistant Professor,
1971-73 Instructor,
1970-71, 1966-67 Graduate Assistant,
Administrative Experience
Spring 2002 Interim Chair,
Department of English, ASU
Spring 1998 Acting Chair, Department of English, ASU
1995-1998 Associate Chair, Dept. of English, ASU
1987-88 ASU Coordinator for AIFS Study in
Spring 1987 Program Coordinator for Humanities, ASU West
1985-87 Co-Director, AZ Consortium of Humanities Scholars
1977-80 Founding Director of Women's Studies, ASU
1973-75 Head, Writing Laboratory and Urban Education English
Program,
Other Work Experience
2001-pres. Senior Editor, Jon Richard Literary Agency,
1985-87 Drama Reviewer, The
1975-76 Volunteer Counselor,
1968-70 Psychiatric Social Worker,
1968 Caseworker,
NYC Social Services,
1965-66 Caseworker,
July 2006 Fulbright
Senior Specialist to
2004-09 Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar
Roster
Fall
2002 Sabbatical Leave, ASU
Spring
2002 Thelma Shinn Richard Above and Beyond Award established by ASU
Women’s Studies Program
2001 Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award,
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), ASU
2001 Finalist
for ASU Parents’ Assn. Professor of the Year Award
2000 Fulbright
Senior Lecturer to
April 1999 Distinguished Mentor of Women, ASU Faculty Women’s Assn.
Fall 1998 Theater Education Delegate to
Summer 1998 CLAS Travel Grant to
BCLA International
Spring 1996 Sabbatical Leave, ASU
Spring 1996 Lecture Travel Grant, Spanish Fulbright
Commission
Spring 1994 Fulbright Senior Lecturer to
Feb 1992 ASU Student Affairs Award,
Mar 1990 Notable
Fall 1988 Sabbatical Leave, ASU
1987-88 AIFS Faculty for Study in
Aug 1987 NEH Summer Institute Participant,
Apr 1987 Jack Williamson Lectureship, Eastern
1985-87 AZ Humanities Council Grants for Consortium of Humanities
Scholars: $78,000 total in three grants
Spring 1982 Sabbatical Leave, ASU
1978-79 AZ Humanities Council Grants for three separate Women's Studies Conferences
1977 Shell
Travel Grant/ ASU Summer Research Grant
1970 Graduate
Poetry Prize,
1967-68 NDEA Title IV Fellow,
Listed in World Who's Who of Women, International Who's Who in Education
Professional Memberships and Activities
2001-Spring
2002 Peer Review Committee, Fulbright Senior Specialist
Manuscript Reader for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Legacy, MELUS
Book Manuscript Reader for Harcourt,
Brace Jovanovich; Houghton Mifflin; Fairleigh Dickinson
and Longmans Publishers
Senior Editor, Jon Richard Literary
Agency
Lifetime Member, Fulbright
Association
South Central Modern Languages
Association
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
National Association for Ethnic
Studies
Community Service Activities
Educational Service:
Faculty Representative,
AZ Board of Regents, 1991-92
Member,
Secretary,
Boards of Directors:
Global
Stewardship For Africa, Inc. (GSFA), 10/2005-2/2006
Black Theatre Troupe,
Inc.,
ASU Women's Center,
1990-91
Dramatic Activities:
Recent Activities
Acted part of Joanna in
“The Crown Prince of Perfect” by Jay Boyer at The Play’s The Thing,
ASU,
Producer for Christmas
play,
Co-writer of Easter
play,
Ongoing and Earlier Activities
Playwriting (see
publications and presentations)
Theater Education
Delegate to
College & Community
Theatre, 1961--present
Founding Member,
Tabard Theatre: Theatre
of New Writing,
Drama Reviewer, The Arizona Republic, 1984-87
Evaluations:
NEH Evaluator,
"Angle of Vision,"
Poetry Judge, AZ Poetry
Association, 1985 & 1986
Teaching
New Courses Developed:
Anglophone Lit:
Narratives of
Slavery & Freedom
The Other American
Romantics British
Science Fiction
American Women Writers Ethnic
American Drama
Ethnic Am. Women Writers Women and
Myth
Women's Literature
Worldwide Women
and Society
Contemporary American
Fiction by Women
Women Writers of
Speculative Fiction Fairy
Tales Revisited
19th c. American Women's
Fiction Worlds in Our
Words
African American Women
Novelists American
Drama
Women and the Meronymic
Novel Modern Women
Playwrights
Online courses Developed:
American Drama
Contemporary American
Women Writers
19th Century
American Women Novelists
Post-Colonial Mirrors:
Southern African & African American Women Novelists
Anglophone Literature:
Current
Research Topics
Octavia Butler
Cosmopolitan Aesthetics
Nineteenth Century American Women
Writers
Comparative Southern African and
American Literatures
Development of Online Courses/ the Global Classroom
Publications, Performances and Papers
Books: all published by Greenwood
Press,
Women
Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel. 1996.
Worlds Within
Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women. 1986.
Radiant
Daughters: Fictional American Women. 1986.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters/Essays:
"Women in
the Novels of Ann Petry," in The Critical Response to Ann Petry, Ed.
Hazel Arnett Ervin,
“Team Teaching Around the World and Across the
Equator” in SAFUNDI Special Issue on
Pedagogy (Issue 16): 2005.
“The Science of Literature.” In AUETSA Conference Papers 2000.
Potchefstroom UP, 2001:
1-24.
Introduction to Harriet Prescott
Spofford's "Circumstance." In Heath Anthology of American
Literature
II. Revised 2000; earlier editions 1990/ 1994/
1998.
"Harriet Prescott Spofford"
in Instructor's Guide. Ed. Judith A. Stanford.
and
“ReCreating Memory in the American
West” in Communities in the American
West. Stephen
Tchudi,
editor, Nevada Humanities Committee.
“Is Hope A Fiction? Women and the
Meronymic Novel.” In Daughters of Restlessness: Women's
Literature
at the End of the Millennium. Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner,
Hanna Wallinger, and
Gerhild Reisner.
"Gender
Images and Patterns from Novel to Film."
In Gender, I-deology: essays on
theory, fiction
and
film. Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy
and José Ángel García Landa. Postmodern
Studies 16.
“Las Feministas Reinventan la
Historia en las Novelas de Silko, Kingston y Bambara.” In Nueva
Lectura
de la Mujer: Critica Historica. Virginia
Editors. Estudios
sobre la mujer.
"What's in a Word: Possessing A. S.
Byatt's Meronymic Novel." Papers on Language & Literature:
31:2, Spring 1995:
164-83.
"A Pattern of Possibility in Maxine Hong
Kingston's Woman Warrior" in Explorations in Ethnic
Studies,
17:1,
Spring 1994: 11-19.
"Living the Answer: The Emergence of African American Feminist
Drama," Studies in the
Humanities 17:2 (December
1990): 149-59.
"The Fable of Reality: Mythoptics in John Crowley's Little, Big," Extrapolation (Spring 1990): 5-14.
"Harriet Prescott
Spofford," in Dictionary of Literary
Biography. Vol. 74: American Short-Story
Writers
Before1880. Eds. Bobby Ellen Kimbel & William E.
Grant (
1988): 330-340.
"Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at
Work," in Woman
Worldwalkers:
New Dimensions in Science Fiction and
Fantasy. Ed. Jane B. Weedman
(Lubbock: Texas Tech
UP, 1985): 207-22.
"The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E.
Butler," in Conjuring: Black
Women,
Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Eds. Marjorie Pryse & Hortense
Spillers
(Bloomington: Indiana
UP, 1985): 203-15.
"An Ordinary Woman," in The
Road Re-Taken: Reentry Women in the Academy. Eds. Audrey
Roberts & Irene
Thompson(MLA, 1985):82-87.
"God is Dead, But Don't Worry: Mary's Pregnant Again: A Modern
Medieval Cycle Play," excerpted
in Whimsy III. Ed. Don Nilsen
(Tempe: AZ State UP, 1985).
"The Fiction of Octavia Butler," Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southwest and
Association
with a Topical Index (microfilm).
Compiled and edited by Michael K.
Schoenecke (Oklahoma
City: OK Historical Society, 1984):
163-75.
"Science Fiction as Metaphor: Octavia
Butler's Ironic Transformations," Whimsy
II. Ed. Don Nilsen
(Tempe: Arizona State
U.P., 1984): 58-60.
"Harriet Prescott Spofford: A Reconsideration," Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol. 1 No. 1
(Summer
1984): 36-45.
"A Fearful Power:
Ed. C.E. Frazer Clark,
Jr. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1984): 121-36.
"Early English Legends of the Virgin
Mary," in Essays on the History of
Myths and Legends. Ed. E.
M. Teagarden (
"Women in the Novels of Ann Petry,"
in Contemporary Women Novelists. Ed. Patricia Meyer
Spacks (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1977): 108-17.
"The Art of a Verse Novelist [E.A. Robinson]," Colby Library Quarterly, 12 (June 1976):
91-100.
"Women in the Novels of Ann Petry," Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 16 (1974): 110-20.
"A Question of Survival," Literature
and Psychology, 23 (1973): 135-48.
"William Saroyan: Romantic Existentialist," Modern Drama (September 1972):
186-94.
"Flannery O'
Criticism Excerpted:
"What's in a Word: Possessing A. S. Byatt's Meronymic Novel."
Reprinted in Contemporary
Literary Criticism.
"William Saroyan," in Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Vol. 9. Ed.
Dedria Bryfonski (
Gale Research, 1979):
452-54.
"Ann Petry," in Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Vol. 7. Eds. Phyllis
Dedria Bryfonski
(Detroit: Gale Research, 1977): 304-05.
"Flannery O'
Phyllis Carmel Mendelson
(Detroit: Gale Research, 1976): 375.
Contributions to Reference Works:
"Highwalking, Belle"; “Hungry Wolf,
American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Gretchen Bataille.
Revised 1998, earlier
edition 1993.
“Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters" and "A.S. Byatt's Possession." In Masterplots II: Women's
Literature. Frank N. Magill, Editor.
Entries on 45 pages include my
analyses of characters in the following novels: Patternmaster,
Mind
of my Mind, Survivor, and Kindred by
Octavia E. Butler and The Benefactor and
Death
Kit by Susan
Sontag. In Dictionary of American
Literary Characters. Franklin V. Benjamin,
Gary Geer & Judith
Haig, eds.
"The Basic Training of Pavlo
Hummel," in Masterplots II: Drama
Series, Vol. 1. Ed. Frank
(Pasadena: Salem Press,
1990): 127-132.
"Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'The Rise
of Maud Martha,'" in Masterplots II:
Short Story Series (
"Hortense Calisher's 'In
Series
(Pasadena: Salem Press, 1986):1137-40.
"Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman's 'Old
Woman Magoun,'" in Masterplots II:
Short Story Series
(Pasadena: Salem Press, 1986) : 1684-87.
Bibliocritical entries in American Women Writers, reprinted in two vol. paperback edition
(New
"Margaret Ayer Barnes,"
"Frances Courtenay Baylor" and "Kate Chopin." American Women
Writers. Vol. 1.
Ed. Lina Mainiero.
"Martha Farquharson Finley,"
"Lucy Virginia French" and "Shirley Ann Grau." American
Women
Writers.
Vol. 2.
Ed. Lina Mainiero.
"Mary Dana Shindler" and
"Harriet Prescott Spofford." American Women Writers. Vol. 4.
Ed. Lina
Mainiero.
Performances of Original Plays:
Time for Love.
Don't Worry--Mary's Pregnant Again. Western Humor and Irony Membership (WHIM)
Conference,
ASU IT Players,
1978—1980.
Desert Interpretations,
Reviews:
"Jane Campbell. A. S. Byatt and the Heliotropic
Imagination. “ Modern
Fiction Studies 51: 3
(Fall
2005): 696-99.
"Carol Thurston: The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New
Sexual
Identity." American
Studies 30:1 (Spring 1991): 126.
"George Walford: Beyond Politics: An Outline of Systematic Ideology." The
Ethical Record, Vol. 96,
No. 2 (February 1991): 18-19. Reprinted in Ideological Commentary 51 (May 1991): 13-14.
"Decan Kiberd: Men and Feminism in Modern Literature." English
Literature in Transition 1880-
1920, Vol. 29,No.
4 (1986): 457-59.
Book Reviews for The
Drama Reviews for The Arizona
Republic, 1984-87.
Papers Presented at Conferences:
“Through
Postcolonial Mirrors to a New Millenium,” AUETSA, Stellenbosch, RSA, July 9-12,
2006.
“Cultural Confluences in Anglophone Literatures,” SCMLA,
“Locating the Other Perspective,”
Globalicities Conf.,
“Female Coming of Age Stories in
13, 2001.
“Neither Hair
nor There: African American Women
Playwrights Take Off Their Scarves,” MELUS
Conference,
“Myth, Metaphor and the Meronymic,”
British Comparative Literature Assn. 8th International. Conf.,
“Thinking About Power: Colonial Discourse
in Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction,” NEMLA
Conf.
“Create the Opposite Dream: The Other
Americans,” Mestizo Mainstream” Conf., American Studies
Assn. of
“Christianity and Communal Values in
Bestselling Novels by 19th Century Women,” Conference
on Christianity and
Literature,
“Reconstructing Memory in the American West,”
Conference on Memory,”
"Maps without Borders in Meronymic
Novels," RMMLA, Colorado Springs, CO (October 1994).
"Feminists Inventing our Story in Silko,
Studies,
"Gender Images and Patterns from Novel to
Film," Conference on Gender Issues in Film and
Fiction,
"Cultural Studies and the Meronymic
Perspective," Conference on Cultural Studies and
Interdisciplinarity,
"American Indian Women Novelists: Silko's
Ceremony and Erdrich's Love Medicine,” Conference
on 20th Century American
Literature, Univ. de Valladolid, Valladolid, SPAIN (April 1994).
"A Pattern of Possibility in Maxine Hong
Kingston's Woman Warrior," NAES
Conference,
City,
"Visual and Linguistic Guides to the
Meronymic Novel," 20th Century
Literature Conf., University
of
"Architectural Symbolism in John Crowley's Little, Big," Hasticon
Science Fiction Convention,
Library at
"Silko and Her Sisters: Ethnic Perceptions of Reality,"
American Women Writers of Color Conf.,
"In Living Black And White: The Dramatic
Portraiture of Adrienne Kennedy," Inventing &
Reinventing Ethnicity in Literature,
MELUS,
"History Re-Experienced: Octavia Butler's Kindred," Women In
Ethnicity,
"Mythoptics: New Visions for Old Realities," Wondercon, E. New Mexico U., Portales (Dec. 1988).
"A Diagnosis and a Warning: Doris Lessing's Shikasta," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture,
"Frankenstein as
"Women Ready to Go Elsewhere: Calisher, Piercy and Lessing,"
SFRA,
"Breaking the Ice: Archetypal Journeys in Women's SF," SW
Popular Culture Conference,
"Worlds Within Women," 42nd Annual World Science Fiction,
"The Fiction of Octavia Butler," American Lit. Symposium,
"Science Fiction as Metaphor," Western Humor & Irony
Membership,
"Worlds of Swords and Words: Joanna Russ & Suzette Haden
Elgin," 16th Annual Comparative
Literature Symposium,
"Treatment of the Wheelchair in Recent Films," American
Culture/ Popular Culture Conference,
"Studying Women's Studies: A Labor of Love," Rocky Mountain
MLA,
"Demonic Woman: Lilith in Legend and Literature,"
International Folklore Symposium,
NE (September 1978).
"Employment in the Middle Years," MidYears Conference,
"Early English Legends of the Virgin," Conference on the
History of Myth and Legend,
SD (October 1976).
Invited Lectures and Lecture/Discussion
Series:
January 2006, “A Novel Idea.” With Barbara
Levy. ASU Dept. of English Emeritus Colloquium
Series 2005-2006,
December 2001, “Literary Bridges from the
November 2000, "What Do Women Want?": Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics,"
University,
November 2000, "Literary Bridges: African and African American
Literatures,
March 2000 Keynote Address, “The Science of Literature,” AUETSA Conference, U. of the Free
State,
January 1997 Women and Myth,
Mountain Pointe HS,
December 1996 Goddess Traditions
Underlying Western Culture and Islamic Women Writers,
Arcadia HS (3 classes),
April 22-27, 1996 “Contemporary fiction by American Women Writers,” for
Universidad de La
Laguna,
April 28-May 2, 1996 “Language
and Culture,” for
April 18, 1996 “American Women
Writers: The Meronymic Novel,” Universidad Complutense,
April 1996 Seminar on Feminist
Theory, Universidad Nacionale e
April 1996 “African American
Women Writers,“ Universidad
April
1996 “Multicultural Literature of the
April 1996 “Women
Shapeshifters,”
March 1996 “Mapping Silko’s Ceremony,” University of the West of
England,
March 1996 “African American Women
Storytellers,”
February 1994 "Women and the University: Feminism, Research and Instruction." University of
February 1993 "Knowing the Goddess Within." ASU Women's Center,
February 1992 "Contemporary Transformations in American
Literature."
Library,
January 1992 "Marge Piercy
and the Dynamics of Utopia."
Program,
June 1991 "The Transformative
Touch of Feminism." ASU Women's
Studies Program,
April 1991 "American
Literature Today."
January 1991 "Beloved by Toni Morrison." Ajo
Writers & Readers,
Spring 1990 "Modern Sense of
the Self," for Arizona Theatre Company,
at
October 1990 "Close Up and
Personal." ASU Women's Center,
April 1990 "Women and
Myth."
March
1990 "Goddess
Traditions." Women's History Week,
Women's
Studies Program, ASU,
Fall 1989 "Changing Concepts
of the Hero," for Arizona Theatre Company, at
Library,
Aug. 1988 "Women: Why Should
We Be Studied?" AZ Humanist
Society,
April 1987 Jack Williamson
Lectureship, E.
"Worlds Within
Women: Programs for Social Change"
and
"Goddess Myths in
Women's Fantastic Literature."
March 1987 "Women and
Myth." S.C. Beth Shalom, Sun City AZ.
March 1987 "Why Women's
Studies?" S.C. AAUW,
March 1987 "Women and
Myth."
Jan. 1987 "Women and
Myth."
Dec. 1986 "Gertrude Stein's
'Voice Prints.'"
Oct. 1986 "Women and
Myth." PEO Educational Assn.,
Oct. 1986 "Women Becoming
Visible." Women Emerging,
May 1986 "Ring Lardner's
'Golden Honeymoon.'"
May 1986 "John Updike's 'The
March 1986 "Zenna Henderson:
Our Kind of People."
Authors Series,
March 1986 "Heavy Humor in
Gogol's The Inspector General." AZ Theatre Co.,
Spring 1986 "Women's
Literature Performed." for ASU Oral
Interpretation class, COM 494,
Feb. 1985 "Women in American
Fiction."
Feb. 1985 "Origins of
Valentine's Day Traditions."
Jan. 1985 "Why Women's
Studies?" Women Emerging,
Dec. 1984 "Introduction to
Poetry."
Nov. 1984 "How to Write a
Job Resume & Prepare for an Interview." For ASU-AFT Local 2050
Union, ASU,
Oct. 1984 Dramatic Critique for ASU Theatre,
Sept. 1984 "Women and
Myth." Upward View Nursing Home,
Apr. 1984 "The Poetry of
Denise Levertov."
to Levertov's reading.
May 1983 "Women and Science
Fiction." MENSA,
Spring & Fall 1983
"Women and Myth." for
WST 100, Women and Society classes, ASU Tempe.
Fall 1982 "Women's
Literature," for
Oct. 1982
"Women as Writers of Speculative Fiction." MENSA
Mar. 1982 "Women's History
Through Literature." Luke Air Force
Feb. 1982 "Science Fiction
and the Architecture of the Future."
AHC Architecture and Energy
Conference,
April 1981 "Harriet Prescott
Spofford: A Reconsideration."
American Studies Symposium,
Spring 1980 "Lilith in
Legend and Literature." Honors
Lecture, ASU,
Fall 1979 "Women as Poets in
America." for CED591 and LIS 465 classes, ASU,
March 1979 "Our Enterprising
Foremothers."
1978-79 "Ibsen's The Doll's House: An
Analysis." for The Human Event
honors course,
1977-80 "Introduction to
Women's Studies." Delivered frequently throughout
my duties as founding
Director of Women's Studies, ASU.
1978, 80 "Women and
Literature."
May 1979 "Women in
Fiction." ASU Faculty Wives,
1973-75 "Looking Backwards: Bellamy's Look
Forward." Delivered frequently for
the Bellamy
Foundation throughout the
Panels at Conferences
Chair, Cultural Confluences,” SCMLA Conference,
Chair, "Women Networking in Higher Education," Way Up
Conference,
Chair, "Literary Strategies of Accommodation and Liberation,"
Discourses of Power Conference,
ASU, October 1988.
Chair, "American Humor," WHIM Conference,
"Making
Conference, ASU,
November 1983.
Chair, "British Wit," WHIM Conference,
"The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ," Women
"Non-Traditional Women," Confronting the Male Marketplace,
ASU,
"Rape in Literature." Confronting Violence, ASU,
"Humanistic Education," Confronting Sexism in Education, ASU,
"Businesswomen in Literature," Women in Business, ASU,
October 1977.
"Sexism in Literature," Conference on Sexism in Education,
ASU,
"Women Today," Bellamy Foundation,
Workshops at Conferences:
"Reentry Women in Academe," RMMLA,
"Women and Communication,"
References
Dossier available upon request from
Purdue University Educational Placement Service, West
Lafayette, IN 47907.