CURRICULUM VITAE
Debrah Raschke
Dept. of English MS 2650
Southeast Missouri St.
University
573 651-2623
draschke@.semo.edu
Education:
PhD
MA
BA
Dissertation: Metaphysical
Havens as Sexual Fantasy: Epistemological and Sexual Construction in The Modern
British Novel Director: Lee Edwards
Research and Teaching
Interests:
Twentieth-Century British
Literature (Modern and Contemporary), Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary
Critical Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Studies
Publications:
Books:
Modernism,
Metaphysics and Sexuality (
Doris
Lessing: Forays into the Millennium
(essay collection), with Phyllis Perrakis and Sandra Singer (in progress)
Articles:
"And
They Went to Bury Her": Margaret Atwood's The
Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride, with Sarah Appleton Aguiar,
in Adventures of the
Spirit, ed Phyllis Perrakis (forthcoming: Ohio State University Press).
"Doris
Lessing: British Writer, Social Critic, and Seer," in Encyclopedia of
British Literature. Ed. David Scot Kastan
"Faulkner
and Modernism," in A Companion to William Faulkner Studies, eds.
Charles A.
Peek and Robert W. Hamblin (
"Re-Envisioning
Plato's Cave: Forster's A Passage to
Interpretations: A
Passage to
2004): 129-45.
"Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child: From Fairy-Tale to
Monstrosity," in Doris Lessing Studies 23.1 (2003): 10-12, 25.
"Boundaries, Vision,
and Ethics in Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear," in Perceptions
of Religious Faith in the Works of Graham Greene, ed. William Thomas Hill (
Lang, 2002): 175-96.
"Doris Lessing and
the Spirit of Postcolonialism:
Chennells, Doris
Lessing Studies 21.2 (2001): 1-3.
"The 'Heart of the
Kingdom': Colonial Politics in Lessing's The
Fifth Child," Doris Lessing
Studies 21.2 (2001): 20-26.
"'It won't be fine'
tomorrow: Lessing's Struggles with Woolf," in Virginia Woolf Out of
Bounds, eds. Jane Goldman and
Jessica Berman (
"Cabalistic Gardens: Doris Lessing's Memoirs
of a Survivor," in Spiritual Exploration in
the Works of Doris Lessing, ed. Phyllis Perrakis
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999):
43-54.
"To the
Lighthouse 'Through the Looking Glass': Woolf's Revisionary
Metaphysics," in Virginia Woolf and her Influences, eds. Laura
Davis and Jeanette McVicker (New York: Pace UP,
1998): 288-93.
"Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy:
Re-envisioning Hetero/Homo Relations in
Maurice," in Queer
Forster, eds. Robert Martin and George Piggford
(
"Re-Envisioning Plato's Cave: Forster's A
Passage to
10-24.
"Rescuing the Concrete and Other Things
Physical from the Dung Heap: Eavan Boland's
Outside History and In a Time of
Violence," Colby Quarterly 32 (1996): 135-42.
"Margaret Atwood's The
Handmaid's Tale: False Borders and Subtle Subversions,"
Literature Interpretation Theory 6 (1995):
257-68.
"Penelope Lively's
Moon Tiger: Re-envisioning the 'history of the world,'" Ariel
26 (1995): 115-32.
"The Problematic Symbolic: Lacan as Trickster," European Studies Journal 7
(1990): 43-56.
"Fatal Attraction," Cineaste
Magazine (Spring 1988): 44-45.
"Creating 'A World Elsewhere': A Cultural
Perspective on the Writing Process," ERIC 296-346 (December 1988).
"The Question of Satire in Report from
Reviews and Short
Publications:
“Letter
on the Special Issue on Teaching Doris Lessing,” with Tonya Krouse, 26.1
(2006).
"Letter from the
President," Doris Lessing Studies 24.1-2 (2004): 2
"Letter from the
President," Doris Lessing Studies 23.2 (2004): 3-5.
Review of Vadim Linetski, The Text Which
is Difficult to Reach (St. Petersburg Nocent,1998),
The Comparatist 22 (1998): 198-201.
Review of Laura Doyle, Bordering on the
Body (
Review of Linda K. Christian-Smith, Becoming
a Woman Through Romance (Routledge 1991), Women's Studies International
Forum 15 (1992): 623-24.
"A Comment on
Clara Juncker's 'Writing (with) Cixous,'" College English 50 (1988): 822-26.
Abstract of "The
Blood and the Hunt: Atwood's 'Death by Landscape' as Mock Puberty Initiation
Rites," Margaret Atwood Newsletter 21 (Fall/Winter 1998): 2.
Abstract of "Contesting
Colonial Impulses in Doris Lessing's The
Fifth Child,"
Lessing Newsletter 19.1 (Winter 1998): 10.
Poetry:
"The
Quiet One,"
"Living Alone," Changing Woman 1
(June 1984): 21.
"Winter Morning," Blue Unicorn
7 (February 1983): 44.
"Subtractions,"
"So
Many Things Ended,"
Conference Presentations
Conference Papers:
“Race, Coloniality, and Narrative in Doris Lessing’s The Grandmothers, to be presented at the
Second Doris Lessing
International Conference,
Machiavellian Politics in
Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride,
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
February 2006.
"Temptation to Apocalypse in Margaret
Atwood's The Robber Bride," MLA,
2004.
"Expected and Unexpected Challenges in
Teaching Doris Lessing's Memoirs and The Fifth Child, The First
International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans, April 2004.
"Rethinking Literary Research," MLA,
"Burning all Traces,"
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Anorexic Logic and Eugenics in
Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child,"
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Metaphysical Horrors in Conrad's Victory,"
MLA,
"Doris
Lessing's The Fifth Child and Ben in
the World: From Fairy Tale to Monstrosity,"
MLA,
"Gender and Metaphysics in
Modernism," The Modernist Studies Association,
"'It will not be fine' tomorrow:
Lessing's Struggles with Woolf," Tenth Annual International
Virginia Woolf
Conference,
"Lawrence and Lessing's Sexualized
Metaphysical Spaces," MLA ,
1999.
"A 'Small Margin of Error': The Construction of Colonial Narratives in
William Boyd's
"Doris Lessing's Apocalyptic
Imagination,"
MO, February 1999.
"The Blood and the Hunt: Atwood's 'Death
by Landscape' as Mock Puberty Initiation
Rites," MLA, San
Francisco, December 1998.
"Rethinking
Community in Jacob's Room: Endorsing Transgression and Heresy,"
Eighth
Annual Conference on
Virginia Woolf,
"Contesting Colonial Perspectives in
"Colonial Impulses in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child," MLA,
"To the Lighthouse 'Through the
Looking Glass': Woolf's Revisionary Metaphysics,"
Seventh Annual Conference
on Virginia Woolf,
"Tita's Occult
Recipes: Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate
as Spiritual Allegory,"
Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference,
"Cabalistic Gardens: Doris Lessing's Memoirs
of a Survivor," MLA,
December 1996.
"A Metaphysical Interregnum: Angela
Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of
Doctor
Hoffman," Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference,
"Eavan Boland's
Outside History and In a Time of Violence,"
Twentieth-Century Literature
Conference,
"Penelope Lively's
Moon Tiger: Rewriting the Fates, Furies, and Muses," Twentieth-
Century Literature
Conference,
"Western Metaphysics and Other Seduction
Narratives," Perceiving the Body: A Symposium,
University,
"Thelma and Louise as Polyphonic
Feminist Theory," Work in Progress: A Conference on Feminist Scholarship,
Old
"Margaret Atwood's The
Handmaid's Tale: False Borders and Subtle Subversions,"
Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference,
"Exiting Negative Representations," Southeastern
Women's Studies Conference,
"Reading Strategies:
Using Feminist Literary Theory," National Council of Teachers of
English,
"Shouting at the Border: The Female
Experience and French Feminism,"
Women's Studies Association Conference,
"Creating 'A
World Elsewhere': The Self as Resisting Society in Contemporary
Composition
Theory." Conference on College Composition and Communication,
MO, March 1988.
"Stories Within
a Story in Leslie Silko's Ceremony,"
American Folklore Convention,
Panels
Chaired:
"Doris
Lessing," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Doris
Lessing," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Doris
Lessing: Prophet or Maverick," MLA,
"Terrorism and
Trauma," The First International Doris Lessing Conference,
"Courting the Postmodern:
Narrative Transgressions, Experiment in Form," The First
International Doris
Lessing Conference,
"'I'm
Just a Storyteller,' She Says," MLA,
"Margaret
Atwood," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Anorexic
Logic or Disappearing Bodies and the Politics of Domination in Lessing, Boland,
and Coetzee," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
"Between Faith and
Genre: Re-evaluating Hemingway and Miller," Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference,
"Shifting
the Image/Shifting the Story: Traditions, Allusions, and Interests in Margaret
Atwood's Works," MLA,
"Woolf and Other Writers II: Vexed
Relationships--Byatt, Lessing, and Divakaruni," Tenth
Annual Conference on
Virginia Woolf,
"Atwood And . .
.: Comparative Atwood," MLA,
"Breaking
Down of Boundaries: Lessing and Autobiography," MLA,
"Interrogating the Boundary Between Fiction and Memoir,"
"Virginia Woolf and Feminist
Theory," Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf,
Invited Lectures:
“Are Women ‘Out of it’?:
Rethinking Modernism,” Book Signing for Modernism, Metaphysics and
Sexuality,
"I
am Supposed To Do What?" Sigma Tau Delta, Southeast
Missouri St. University, 2004.
"Urban
Legends, Night Creatures, and the Cultural Unconscious."
University, October 2000.
"Revamping Dracula: The
Postmodern Vampire." Common Hour Lecture, Southeast
Missouri St. University,
April 2000.
"Mapping the Signs
in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,"
Classic Reader's Guild,
Southeast, March 2000.
"Vice and Virtue in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Southeast Missouri St. University,
March
2000.
"
"Cultural Fairy-Tales: Joyce's Portrait,"
The Classical Reader's Guild,
St. University, March
1999.
"Reading Women's Histories: Theorizing
Historical Narrative,"
University, September 1997.
"Woolf and Contemporary Fiction,"
Woolf Seminar,
1995.
"A Cow is not Milk: Fixity of the Sign in
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale," English
Club,
"Lacan's Metaphor and Metonomy:
Implications for Poetic Form," Gender and Language
Seminar,
"Political Libidos: The Epistemological
Construction of Desire," Poststructuralist Theory
Colloquium,
"Jane Flax and Jacques Lacan: Reluctant Aesthetics," Feminist Theory
Colloquium,
"Changing the Subject," Discussion
Round Table, Central Virginia Faculty Consortium,
"Medieval Brothels, Augustinian
Authority, and the Question of Mastery: Applying
Feminist Theories to
Chaucer's 'The Wife of
April 1990.
"This Is and Is Not Lacan,"
English Department Colloquium,
University, March 1989.
Editorial Reviewing
Editorial
Board: Doris Lessing Studies
Guest
Co-editor, with Tonya Krouse (
Guest Co-Editor, with Anthony Chennells
(
21.2 (2001).
Reviewer for PMLA,
Mosaic, The Comparatist,
Ariel, Studies in the Novel, and South Atlantic Review,
essay collection on Graham Greene.
Teaching Experience:
2006- Professor,
2001-2006
Associate Professor,
1997-2001
Assistant Professor,
Undergraduates
Courses: Masterpieces
of English Literature II, Victorian Studies, Mythic Dimensions of Literature,
Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, Victorian Studies,Masterpieces of English Literature I
Graduate
Courses: Research
in English Studies, Contemporary Anglophone Literature/Contemporary Theory,
Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
Graduate
Independent Studies: Victorian Cultural Studies, Narrative Strategies in Atwood, Diamant, and Reynolds; Postcolonial Literature &
Postcolonial Theory, Literary Theory; Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century
British Literature, Contemporary Theory, Poststructuralist Theory and Legal
Theory, A.S.
Byatt; Poststructuralist Theory
1996 Visiting Assistant Professor,
Feminist Literary Theory (Graduate)
1995-96 Visiting Assistant Professor,
Spring 1997 Major American Writers, Freshman Seminar, Contemporary Fiction & Millennium Perils
1992-94
Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Twentieth-Century British Literature, Modern Novel, Feminist Literary Theory,
Survey of British Literature I and II, Composition and Rhetoric, Gender Construction in the Modern Novel
1988-92 Instructor,
1984-88 Teaching Assistant for Writing Program,
1986-87 Instructor, English Department,
Modern Novel 1900-1930,
Modern Novel 1930-60
1977-80 Teaching
Assistant,
Honors and Grants:
Graduate Research Funding Grant, Spring 2002
Provost Funding, Professional Development Spring
1999 ($600)
University Studies Funding, Professional
Development, Fall 1998 ($200)
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Victorian Studies,
2003 ($1,200)
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Nineteenth-Century
British Collections and Women's Studies Collections,
2000 ($2610)
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Twentieth-Century
British Collections, 2000 ($2,000)
Special Library Allocation Grant: Modern British
Collections, 2000 ($388)
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Gender Studies, 1999
($2,999)
Special Library Allocation Grant: Literary Theory
1998, ($499)
Kent Library Endowment Grant: Modern British
Collections, 1998 ($2,959)
Special Library Allocation Grant: Modern British
Collections, 1997 ($485)
University Service:
Graduate Council: Southeast Fall 2000-2003
Task Force for Academic Excellence (Graduate
Council) 2000-2003
Task Force for Capstone Experience (Graduate
Council) 2001-2003
Women's Studies Board: VCU 1989-1994
College Service:
Library Committee and Liaison: Southeast Fall
1999-
Departmental Service:
Task Force for Faulkner-Twain Conference 2006
Chair of Library Committee: Southeast Fall 1999-
Graduate Committee 1997-
Assessment Outcomes Committee: Southeast 1998-
Literature Committee: Southeast 1997-
Search Committee Member for Multicultural position
2004
Judge for Journey, essay contest: Southeast
2000
Participant in Job Search Graduate Symposium:
Southeast Fall 1997 and Spring 1998
Director of Graduate Studies: Southeast Fall
1999-2002
Chair of Graduate Committee Fall 1999-2002
Strategic Planning Committee: Southeast 1998
Service to the Profession
Webmaster for the Doris Lessing
Society Website 2003-
Executive officer for the Doris
Lessing Society
President of the Doris Lessing
Society (Allied Organization of MLA) 2003-2006
Co-Director of the First International Doris
Lessing Conference 2002-2004
Vice-President of the Doris Lessing Society
2000-2002
Co- Director of the Doris Lessing Conference (
Secretary /Historian for the Margaret Atwood
Society 2002-04
Executive Officer of the Doris Lessing Society
(Allied Organization of MLA): 2000-
Executive Officer of the Margaret Atwood Society
(Allied Organization of MLA) 1998-
MLA Liaison to the Doris Lessing Society 2003-2006
MLA Liaison to Margaret Atwood Society 1998-2000
Essay Judge for 2006 Margaret Atwood Annual
Society Awards: Undergraduate essay
Essay Judge for 2005 Margaret Atwood Annual Society
Awards: Undergraduate essay
Essay Judge for the 2004 Margaret Atwood Annual
Society Wards: Undergraduate essay
Essay Judge for 1998 Margaret Atwood Annual
Society Awards: Dissertation chapters,
theses, and graduate papers
Professional
Memberships:
Modernist Studies Association
Society for the Study of Narrative
Margaret Atwood Society
Doris Lessing Society
International
Virginia Woolf Society
Modern Language Association