I earned my BA and MA in English at Bowling Green State University, in my home state of Ohio.

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16A Erland Rd.
Stony Brook, NY 11790-1114
rcalvink@ic.sunysb.edu

Women's Studies Department
115 Old Chem.
USB 3456
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456

EDUCATION

Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook - December 2000
Ph.D. Dissertation: "A Feminism of Their Own: Escitoras mexicanas, Chicana Writers and Autochthonous Feminism"
Director: Román de la Campa

M. A. Bowling Green State University - 7. August 1993
M. A. Thesis: "The Appropriation of Text in the Creation of Discursive Space: A Modernist, Postmodernist, and Feminist Approach"
Director: Professor Ellen E. Berry

B. A. Bowling Green State University - 9. May 1992
Major: English Literature; Minor: Literatures in Translation
Senior Thesis: "The Divine Corpus of Philip K. Dick" Director: Professor Thomas Wymer

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
2001 Women's Studies Teaching Award 2000 Vivien Hartog Endowment Award in Women's Studies
1999 President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching
1999 University Learning Communities Fellow
1998 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Nominee
1993 University Master Teacher Award nominee
1992 Graduated summa cum laude
1992 University Acheivement Scholarship
1992 Gloria Swihart English Award
1992 Inducted Phi Beta Kappa
1991 Ruth and Milton Klein English Scholarship
1991 University Book Award

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2000 -- Instructor of Women's Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook
1998 Adjunct Assistant Professor, SCCC
1997 (Summer) Research Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook
1996- Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook
1996- Adjunct Instructor, SUNY at Stony Brook
1993-98 Adjunct Instructor, Suffolk County Community College
1993-96 Adjunct Instructor, Nassau Community College
1993 (Summer) Research Assistant, Bowling Green State University
1992-93 Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University

WORKS IN PROGRESS
":The Female Man: Gender and the Sex(ed) Pre-text."

"C. J. Cherryh and the Azi: (De)Limiting the (Re)Definition of the Self"

"Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castilla and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics"

On Feminine Culture (translation of Rosario Castellanos's "Sobre cultura femenina"

The Displaced: Chronicles of the Uprooted (translation of Alfredo Molano's Desterrados: Cronicas del desarraigo (with María Mercedes Andrade, Baruch College)

WORKS UNDER REVIEW
"The Real eXistenZ TranCendz the Irreal"

PUBLICATIONS
"Teaching the Modern Myth." SFRA Review 240 (June 1999): 4-7.

"'Yo quiero literatura latina': The Border Runs Here." Faculty Exchange 6.1 (Fall 1998): 4-7.

"Gilles Deleuze: A Con-Text" Enculturation 1.2 (Fall 1997). <http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation/1_2/calvin/deleuze.htm>

"Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts." Feminism in a Multi-Cultural Context. Ed. Antonio Sobejano-Moran. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1997. 71-83.

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
Gender, Technology, Place Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 30, 1996 "Mapping New Spaces: Fictive Images of Reproductive Technologies"

Crisis in Criticism University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 22-23, 1996 "Deleuze's Text: A Con-Text"

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association Chicago. IL, November 11-13, 1994 "In Excess of Cyborgs: Abjection in Science Fiction" (Discussant, Invited)

(In collaboration with Dr. Deepika Petraglia-Bahri) 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 28-May 1, 1994 "Crises in Subjectivity: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembenga's Nervous Conditions"

"Woman," Text, Image State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 15-16, 1994 "Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts"

Beyond the Limits of Realism: Metaliterature, the Fantastic, Simulacra... State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 1993 "The Aleph in Borges' Postmodern Discourse"

Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, 12-14. February 1993 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH "C. J. Cherryh and Donna Haraway: The Azi as Cyborgs" and "The Girl God Forgot: A Dramatic Adaptation of Djuna Barnes' Nightwood"

Eighth Annual Ethnic Studies Conference, 11. November 1991 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. "What is Meant by Political Correctness?"

CURRICULUM TAUGHT
BEP 091: NCC. A non-credit composition course.

ENG 111: BGSU. Part One of a year-long composition course.
ENG 112: BGSU. Part Two of a year-long composition course.

EG 10: SCCC. A non-credit, first-year composition course.
EG 11: SCCC. Credit, first-year composition course.
EG 13: SCCC. Introduction to Literature.
EG 43: SCCC. Latina Literature Today. (Fall '99)
HM 44: SCCC. Mythology.
HM 46: SCCC. Sexism and the Humanities. An Intro to Women's Studies.
HM 48/WS48: SCCC. Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction.

CEI 533: USB. Women's Studies in the Humanities.
CLS 215: USB. Mythology
EGC 101: USB. Campus-wide, first-year compostion course.
HUM 109: USB. Philosophy and Literature in Its Social Context.
HUM 122: USB. Images of Women in Literature.
HUM 123: USB. Sexuality and Literature. (TA)
LRN 301: USB. Latino/Latin Dichotomies and Identities. (Fall '99)
WST 103: USB. Women, Culture & Difference.
WST 396: USB. 20th-Century U. S. Latina Literature
WST 402: USB. Feminism and Science Fiction
WST 394: USB. Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction
WST 407: USB. Senior Seminor for Women's Studies Minors
WST 408: USB. Senior Seminar for Women's Studies Majors

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2001- Faculty in Residence, Hand College, SUNY at Stony Brook
2001- Executive Committee, Women's Studies Department
2000- Faculty Advisor for Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Stony Brook Chapter
2000- Associate Editor, FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal
1998-2000 Editorial Board, FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal
1997-1999 Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Studies Committee

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003- Re-Deigned and maintained Web Site for Women's Studies
2001- Developed and maintained Web Site for FEMSPEC
1999-2000 Developed & maintained Web Site for the Learning Communities Program
1997-1999 Established and maintained Web Site for Women's Studies
1996-2001 Co-founded and co-maintained a listserv for Comp Lit graduate students
1996- Established and maintained Web Site for Dept. of Comparative Studies
1996-99 Established and maintained Web Site for Dept. of Hispanic Langauges and Literature
1993 Organizing committee for Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997 Guest Lecture for EGL192, USB "Richard Rodriguez and the Politics of Identity"
1996 Guest Lecture for EGL101, USB. "'Flowers for Algernon': Myth and Science Fiction"
Guest Lecture for USB SPN415. "Cristina Peri Rossi and the Politics of the Female Body"
1993 Conducted a seminar for the Basic Education Program faculty at Nassau Community College on "The Rationale, Implementation, and Practice of Portfolios as a Means of Assessment"
TalkBack Book Series - The Big Sky (an annual series of literature lectures and discussions as a part of the County Library adult education program).
Guest lecture BGSU, ETH 100. "Ethnicity and AIDS in America"
Guest lecture for Dr. Deepika Karle, BGSU, ENG 264. "Jorge Luis Borges and Magical Realism"
1992 TalkBack Book Series - A Doll House
1991 TalkBack Book Series - Hamlet
1989 "Using MIDI: Computers and Music"
 

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