Stephanie S. Li

University of Rochester
Department of English
RC BOX 270451
Rochester, NY 14627-0451

sli12@mail.rochester.edu

Education

• Ph.D. English Language and Literature, Cornell University. August 2005.
• M.F.A. Creative Writing in Fiction, Cornell University. January 2004.  Thesis: “Ombligo”

• M.A. English Language and Literature, Cornell University. May 2003.
• B.A. with honors and distinction, Comparative Literature, Stanford University. June 1998.  Honors Thesis: “The Development of Consciousness: A Comparative Study between the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ralph Ellison”
  
  

Dissertation

“Resistance Through the Body: Power, Representation, and the Enslaved Woman”

Academic Committee: Kate McCullough, Shirley Samuels, Hortense Spillers, Helena Viramontes, Shelley Wong
Major Subject: American Literature after 1865
Minor Subjects: African American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Women’s Literature

Teaching and Research Interests

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Creative Writing, Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies

Publications

Black Female Resistance and the Politics of Sexual Agency. Under review at various academic presses.

“Resistance, Silence, and Plaçees: Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet.” Forthcoming from American Literature.

“Motherhood as Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Forthcoming from Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

“Humanizing the Horrific in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye” and “Hate, War, and Sex: The Secrets of Toni Morrison’s Love.” The Fiction and Prose of Toni Morrison: Teaching Race, Culture, and Identity. Ed. Jami Carlacio. Forthcoming.

“The Secret American.” Telling Tongues: New Perspectives on Language, Identity, and Power in America Latina. Eds. Louis Mendoza and Toni Nelson-Herrera. Forthcoming.

“Love and the Trauma of Resistance in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” Callaloo, Vol. 29 No. 1, Winter 2006.

“Baker, Nikki,” “Baraka, Amiri,” “Bibb, Henry,” “Cleaver, Eldridge,” “Evans, Mari,” “Jones, Gayl,” “Lorde, Audre,” ‘Morrison, Toni,” “West, Cornel.” Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

“Thief.” Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers. Ed. Boice-Terrel Allen. Pittsburgh: Rattlecat Press, 2003. 203-210.

"Intruder in the Dust from Novel to Movie: The Development of Chick Mallison." The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1 &2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001). 105-118.

“In Search of My Ombligo.” The Geography of Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas. Ed. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 1998. 41-46.

Lectures and Conference Presentations

“Cindy Sheehan and the Rhetoric of Maternity.” Conference on Feminism and War. October 2006. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

“Malleable Mulattas and Resistant Silences: Placage and Louisa Picquet.” Frederick Douglass Institute, March 2006. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

“Black Female Resistance: Intra-Independence and the Politics of Sexual Agency.” Future Faculty Career Exploration Program. October 2005. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

“Genre and Self in The Bondwoman's Narrative.” 10th International American Women Writers of Color Conference. November 2004. Baltimore, MD.

“Rewriting the Mother’s Home: Poetry and the Body in Audre Lorde’sZami." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference. March, 2004. Pittsburgh, PA.

“Voices from the Dead in Kincaid’s The Autobiography of my Mother and Silko’s Ceremony." Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. November 2003. Wilmington, DE.

Session Chair for "Theory and Interpretation of Death in American Literature II." Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. November, 2003. Wilmington, DE.

“Motherhood as Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’sIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. October, 2003. Cortland, NY.

“Re-Searching the Family.” The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. February, 2003. Baltimore, MD.

“The Development of Consciousness in the Works of Ellison and Dostoevsky.” South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference. October, 2002. Austin, TX.