Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory - Texas Southern University
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EDUCATION<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>, Ph.D.<br />
Office: 713-313-1180 FAX: 713-313-6772<br />
<strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>E@TSU.EDU<br />
Updated/September 9/26/2012<br />
Ph. D., with Honors, English (British and American <strong>Dr</strong>amatic Literature and<br />
Playwriting), Florida State <strong>University</strong>, Tallahassee, Florida<br />
M.A., with Honors, English, (British and American Literature and Playwriting,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana (renamed <strong>University</strong><br />
of Louisiana at Lafayette)<br />
B. A., with Honors, English (Major) and Psychology (Minor), <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana (renamed <strong>University</strong> of Louisiana<br />
at Lafayette)<br />
STUDY ABROAD<br />
Mexico, Summer 2011<br />
West Africa, Accra, Ghana, Summer 2009<br />
The Caribbean (Barbados), Summer 2007<br />
Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Summer 2006<br />
Brazil, Fall 2005<br />
Canada, Summer 2004<br />
England, Scotland, and Wales, Summer 2002<br />
China, Summer 2001<br />
France, Summer 2000<br />
The Caribbean (Bahamas), Summer 1991<br />
Mexico, Summer 1983<br />
TEACHING FIELDS<br />
African American and African Diaspora Literatures, with expertise in <strong>Dr</strong>amatic<br />
Literature, Playwriting, American <strong>Dr</strong>amatic Literature, Women’s Literature,<br />
Multicultural/Multiethnic Literatures, American Literature since 1865, <strong>Southern</strong><br />
Literature, Film Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.<br />
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong><br />
Distinguished Professor of Theatre, 2009-Present<br />
Thomas F. Freeman Honors College Fellow, 2010-Present<br />
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<strong>University</strong> of Houston<br />
Professor, Department of English, 1998-2009<br />
Honors College Faculty Affiliate, 1990-2009<br />
Women’s Studies Faculty Affiliate, 1990-2009<br />
African American Studies Faculty Affiliate, 1990-2009<br />
Associate Professor of English (with tenure), 1988-1998<br />
Dillard <strong>University</strong>, New Orleans<br />
Assistant Professor of English, 1982-1988<br />
<strong>University</strong> of South Carolina at Spartanburg<br />
Assistant Professor of English, 1980-1982<br />
Florida State <strong>University</strong><br />
Graduate Teaching Assistant in English, six courses per year, 1977-1979:<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Southwestern Louisiana<br />
Graduate Teaching Assistant in English, four courses per year, 1976-1977<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS<br />
Associate Provost/Associate Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, 2009-Present<br />
Created two new councils, Associate/Assistant Deans’ Council and Department Chairs’<br />
Council—Chair the councils and provide mid-management with access to the Office of<br />
the Provost.<br />
Established “Back to Basics”, a unique two-week intensive summer institute designed to<br />
bring Houston metropolitan area high school teachers and their students to campus to<br />
study literature and technology as well as prepare students for excelling on the<br />
ACT/SAT. This unique TSU/School Partnership is designed to recruit and retain students<br />
and includes a mentoring and tracking component. Secured a grant of $20,000 in 2010,<br />
$25,000 in 2011, and $25,000 in 2012 from Chevron Corporation to fund the institute.<br />
Directed seven successful dean searches: Thurgood Marshall School of Law (2009-<br />
1010), College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences (2009-2010), College of<br />
Continuing Education (2009-2010), Thomas F. Freeman Honors College (2010), Jesse H.<br />
Jones School of Business (2010-2011), College of Education (2011-2012), and the<br />
Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (2011-2012). College of<br />
Pharmacy and Health Sciences dean search in progress (2011-2012); Academic Search,<br />
Inc. is continuing the search during 2012-2013).<br />
Served as Commencement Chair; redesigned commencement protocol to increase<br />
efficiency of the fall and spring ceremonies.<br />
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Assumed a leadership role in revitalizing the <strong>University</strong> Curriculum Committee, which<br />
was renamed <strong>University</strong> Curriculum Council (UCC). Oversaw the revision of the UCC<br />
Handbook.<br />
Chaired the <strong>University</strong> Faculty Awards Committee--Developed criteria and processes for<br />
several new and/or re-envisioned university awards, including the Presidential<br />
Achievement Medal, Provost’s Department of the Year Award, McCleary Teaching<br />
Excellence Award, Scholarly Research/Creative Activities Award, Distinguished Service<br />
Award, and Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research/Creative Activities.<br />
Designed and implemented an external review process for all academic departments and<br />
established a regular rotation of departments to undergo review of undergraduate<br />
programs.<br />
Designed and implemented a process for submitting (arranging) promotion and tenure<br />
dossiers. Worked in concert with the provost to review all dossiers and recommend<br />
decisions to the president.<br />
Assumed a leadership role on several committees and university projects: Retention<br />
Strategies Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, Professorships Review Committee,<br />
Founders Day Committee, Founders Day Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Student<br />
Evaluation of Faculty and Faculty Performance Evaluation Instruments.<br />
Served as the TSU president-appointed liaison to work with the City of Houston on the<br />
Deluxe Theater Project (a $3+ million dollar project benefiting 5 th<br />
Ward, TSU and the<br />
City of Houston).<br />
Researched and designed a sabbatical leave process tailored to TSU.<br />
Defined and established the Office of the Associate Provost as a hub for research of<br />
academic best practices and policies. Over 70 research projects have been completed to<br />
date and have been used to inform decisions made by upper administration.<br />
Developed a proposal and secured Title III funding for the establishment of a <strong>University</strong><br />
Teaching and Learning Excellence Center (TLEC), which began operating in January<br />
2012.<br />
Oversaw the overhauling of the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong> course inventory at the <strong>Texas</strong><br />
Higher Education Coordinating Board, which positioned TSU to receive better state<br />
funding.<br />
Initiated a recognition ceremony for newly promoted and/or tenured faculty.<br />
Redesigned and implemented New Faculty Orientation program that includes faculty who<br />
are in their first three years of employment.<br />
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Organized Fall and Spring Opening Faculty Meetings, including implementing the<br />
concept of faculty-driven panels and roundtables on topics of interest to faculty.<br />
Established the Taskforce on Course Scheduling, Course Rotations, and Space Utilization<br />
(the first course scheduling policy to be approved at TSU).<br />
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)<br />
2000–2001<br />
Chaired CLASS Undergraduate Studies, a committee that designed the degree<br />
requirements document for the newly merged College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences<br />
(CLASS). Implemented and hired staff for a college-wide undergraduate advising center,<br />
which grew into the Dean’s Office of Academic Affairs. Conceived and implemented the<br />
revision of the CLASS course evaluation process. Developed faculty and student<br />
grievance procedures for the newly merged college. Developed Faculty Affairs<br />
procedures for new hires and assisted with tenure procedures for CLASS. Conceived,<br />
designed and implemented the first CLASS Undergraduate Research/Creative<br />
Colloquium. Developed a college-wide exit interview to track alumni. Served as chair of<br />
the search committee for Director of African American Studies. Served as chair of the<br />
CLASS scholarship committee. Served as chair of the CLASS Teaching and Service<br />
Excellence Awards committee.<br />
Director, African American Studies, 1990-1991<br />
Co-authored a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, ($500,000.<br />
funded to create endowed chairs with joint appointments in African American Studies<br />
and English and African American Studies and History); hosted a lecture series<br />
(friend/fundraising) that brought twenty-five business and professional leaders to the<br />
campus over the course of the year.<br />
Founding Director, The Houston Suitcase Theater at the <strong>University</strong> of Houston,<br />
1992-2009<br />
Administered and organized a series of programs (lectures by distinguished professors,<br />
performances, creative writing contests, etc.) designed to enhance multiculturalism in the<br />
arts at the <strong>University</strong> of Houston, including directing performances of Erzulie, an<br />
Africana dance troupe at UH. Receiving support from the Office of the President, Office<br />
of the Provost, deans, department chairs, and academic program directors, the director<br />
was charged with working with academic and non-academic units across the campus to<br />
sponsor interdisciplinary programs.<br />
SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY<br />
AWARDS/HONORS<br />
-2007: Houston’s Ensemble Theater’s “Heart of the Theater Award” for The Break of<br />
Day (presented February 2007)<br />
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-2005, 1998, 1994: Assigned Sabbatical Leaves for Scholarly and Creative Activity,<br />
Department of English<br />
-2005: A Little Diversion, (a one-act play), performed as the keynote presentation at the<br />
annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, TX, Oct.<br />
27, 2005.<br />
-2005: The Break of Day (a full-length play), produced professionally by Chicago’s ETA<br />
Creative Arts Foundation, May 5 through June 19, 2005. Directed by Edward<br />
Richardson.<br />
-2004: Distinguished Scholar/Artist-in-Residence, <strong>University</strong> of Wisconsin, Eau Claire,<br />
May 3-9, 2004.<br />
-2004: The Break of Day, selected for a series of staged readings as part of the 12th<br />
Annual R. Joyce Whitley ArenaFest, Karamu Performing Arts Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio,<br />
April 19-30, 2004. Directed by Eva Withers-Evans.<br />
-2003: When the Ancestors Call (a full-length play), professionally produced by<br />
Chicago’s ETA Creative Arts Foundation, May 1 through June 15, 2003. Directed by<br />
Chuck Smith.<br />
-2001-2002: Winner of a grant from the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources<br />
Foundation, Smackover, Arkansas, for Chautauqua 2002 (one of five selected nationwide<br />
for a Chautauqua scholar/artist residency).<br />
-2001: La Bakair (a full-length play) performed as a Keynote Presentation at the annual<br />
meeting of the College Language Association, New Orleans, April 19, 2001.<br />
-1998-1999: Winner of a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa for<br />
Chautauqua 1999 (one of five selected nationwide for a Chautauqua scholar/artist<br />
residency).<br />
-1997: Winner of the Eden Theatrical Playwriting Award in Denver for Wango, Oh Me,<br />
Papa. Awarded a production of the play at Denver’s Shwayder Theater.<br />
-1997: Winner of Danny Glover’s Robey Theater Playwriting Award for Wango, Oh Me,<br />
Papa! Awarded a production of the play at the Robey Theater in Los Angeles.<br />
-1996: Winner of Louisiana State <strong>University</strong>'s “Native Visions and Voices” Playwriting<br />
Contest ($2,500 award) for Just a Little Mark.<br />
-1995:Winner of the Ensemble Theatre's “Out of the Shadows Playwriting Contest” for<br />
Just a Little Mark ($250).<br />
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-1993: Jane Chambers (national) Playwriting Competition, Honorable Mention for Just a<br />
Little Mark<br />
-1991: Black Louisiana Women Achievers in Arts and Letters award, (sponsored by<br />
Louisiana Secretary of State, W. Fox McKeithen and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority).<br />
-1991: Young Black Achievers of Houston Award (sponsored by Human Enrichment of<br />
Life Programs).<br />
-1985: First Place Playwriting Award for Bayou Relics in a Louisiana state-wide<br />
competition sponsored by YWCA ($500).<br />
-1983: The City of New Orleans Playwriting Award for Bayou Relics (sponsored by the<br />
Mayor's Office)<br />
GRANTS (support for creative/scholarly activity at UH)<br />
UH Provost’s Travel Fund, 2009<br />
UH Martha Gano Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism, 2009<br />
UH Martha Gano Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism, 2004, 2005, 2006<br />
UH Women’s Studies Faculty Travel Grant, 2004<br />
African American Studies Travel Grant, 2004<br />
UH Small Grants Program, 2003, 2004, 2006<br />
UH African American Studies Faculty Development Grant, 2000, 2002<br />
UH Asian American Studies Faculty Development Grant, 2001<br />
UH Limited Grant in Aid (LGIA) for support of research, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1995<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> Committee for the Humanities Grant, 1992, 1993<br />
National Council of Black Studies Grant, funded by the Ford Foundation, 1991<br />
Business and Industry Cluster of Louisiana Grant, 1988<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> Arts Federation Grant, 1988<br />
Louisiana Museum of Art Grant, 1987<br />
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1987<br />
United Negro College Fund Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1986-87<br />
Dillard <strong>University</strong> Faculty Summer Development Grants, 1982-1987<br />
Florida State <strong>University</strong> Research Fellowship, 1979<br />
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS<br />
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS<br />
Alice Childress: Performing Activism, Staging Freedom (research in progress and under<br />
contract with <strong>University</strong> of Michigan Press)<br />
Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America. Westport, Connecticut:<br />
Greenwood Press, 1988. Hardcover, 165pp; New York and London: Praeger, 1990<br />
Paperback, 165 pp; Korean translation, 2001.<br />
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EDITED BOOKS<br />
Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black<br />
Women’s Literature. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006.<br />
Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth-Century Literature<br />
Austin, <strong>Texas</strong>: <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Texas</strong> Press, 1996. Hardcover and Paperback, 249 pp.<br />
Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem<br />
Renaissance to the Present. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990. Hardcover,<br />
251 pp.; New York and London: Praeger, 1990. Paperback, 251 pp. (This recovery<br />
project remains the only anthology that brings together plays—with critical analyses—by<br />
black women over a seventy-year period. This book continues to be adopted across the<br />
country in Black literature, Women’s Studies, and theatre courses.)<br />
ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN EDITED BOOKS AND REFEREED JOURNALS<br />
“Obstacles or Opportunities: The Wisdom to Know the Difference.” Shaping Memories:<br />
Reflections of African American Women Writers. Ed. Joanne Veal Gabbin. Jackson:<br />
<strong>University</strong> Press of Mississippi, 2009. 60-70.<br />
“Africanisms in Zora Neal Hurston’s The First One, Color Struck, and Mule Bone.<br />
Approaches to Teaching Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works.<br />
Ed. John Lowe. New York: MLA, 2009. 171-181.<br />
“Race, Gender and Social Politics in Alice Childress’s A Short Walk, ” College Language<br />
Association Journal 51.2 (December 2007): 109-132.<br />
“On Their Way to Becoming Whole: Black Women’s Migratory Narratives.” Middle<br />
Passages and the Healing Place of History. Ed. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>. Columbus,<br />
Ohio: The Ohio State <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006. 1-13.<br />
“Place and Displacement in Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black<br />
Girl in Search of God.” Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History. Ed. <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006. 155-170.<br />
“Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now”: Place and Displacement in Black Women’s Plays from the<br />
United States, South Africa, and England, College Language Association Journal 59.4<br />
(June 2006): 383-405.<br />
“Urban Spaces and Lost Voices in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women.” Urbanization and<br />
African Cultures. Eds. Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm. Durham: Carolina Academic<br />
Press, 2005. 81-88.<br />
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“Navigating Taboos in Nigerian Culture: Suppression of Women’s Desires in Zulu<br />
Sofola’s Plays.” Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Toyin Falola. Durham: Carolina<br />
Academic Press, 2002. 829-845.<br />
“Reconfiguring History: Migration, Memory, and (Re)Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’s<br />
Plays.” <strong>Southern</strong> Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism.<br />
Eds. Linda Rohrer Paige and Robert McDonald. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Alabama Press, 2002. 183-197.<br />
“Mentoring: Building Bridges for the Twenty-First Century. South Central Review 13<br />
(Winter 1996): 1-4.<br />
“Lorraine Hansberry as Visionary: Black and White Ante-bellum <strong>Southern</strong> Women in<br />
Concert.” <strong>Southern</strong> Women. Ed. Caroline Matheny Dillman. New York: Hemisphere<br />
Publishing Co./Division of Harper and Row, 1988. 57-62.<br />
“Emerging Voices in the American Literature Canon: New Handles on Old Pitchers.”<br />
CCTE Studies 55 (September 1990): 89-91.<br />
“Demystifying Global Education.” Momentum 22 (February 1989): 58-63. Co-author:<br />
Lucius M. <strong>Guillory</strong>.<br />
“Reinforced Lessons: Strategies for Teaching Composition.” Xavier Review (Fall 1988):<br />
6-15. Co-author: Barbara Loy.<br />
“Black English: Different, Not Deficient.” Today’s Catholic Teacher 21 (October 1987):<br />
43-53, 58. Co-author: Lucius M. <strong>Guillory</strong>.<br />
“Images of Blacks in Plays by Black Women.” Phylon 47 (September 1986): 230-237.<br />
“Lorraine Hansberry: The Politics of the Politics Surrounding The <strong>Dr</strong>inking Gourd.” The<br />
Griot (the official journal of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc.) 4<br />
(Winter/Summer 1985): 18-28.<br />
ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN REFERENCE BOOKS<br />
“Alice Childress,” pp. 227-229, Vol I.<br />
“Nella Larsen,” pp. 227-229, Vol II.<br />
Sonia Sanchez,” pp. 98-99, Vol III.<br />
Black Women In America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 2 nd<br />
Edition. Ed. Darlene Clark<br />
Hine. Volumes I, II, and III. New York: Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 2005.<br />
“Alice Childress.” African American Lives. Eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn<br />
Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 2004. 164-165.<br />
“Alice Childress,” pp. 140-142<br />
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“A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich,” p. 354<br />
“Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life,” p. 441<br />
“Mildred Johnson,” pp. 498-499<br />
The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature. Eds.William L. Andrews,<br />
Trudier Harris, Frances Smith Foster. New York: Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1997.<br />
“Toni Cade Bambara,”Vol. 1, p. 245<br />
“Alice Childress,” Vol. 1, pp. 537-538<br />
“Mari Evans,” vol. 2, pp. 918-919<br />
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Eds. Jack Salzman, David<br />
Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996.<br />
“Louise Meriwether,” pp. 563-564<br />
“Arthenia J. Bates Millican,” p. 569<br />
“Carlene Hatcher Polite,” p. 685<br />
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Eds. Cathy N.<br />
Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1994.<br />
“A Hero Ain’t Nothin' But a Sandwich” (expanded version of a 1992 publication by<br />
HarperCollins)." Masterplots II: African American Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill.<br />
Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1994. 523-528.<br />
“Alice Childress,” pp. 233-235<br />
“Shirley Graham DuBois,” pp. 357-358<br />
“Angelina Weld Grimke,” pp. 504-505<br />
“Nella Larsen,” pp. 695-697<br />
“Marita Bonner Occomy,” pp. 148-149<br />
“Sybil Kein,” p. 674<br />
Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Ed. Darlene<br />
Clark Hine. New York: Carlson Publishing Co., 1993.<br />
“Gloria Naylor,” pp. 875-876<br />
“Sonia Sanchez,” pp. 1003-1004<br />
“Ntozake Shange,” pp. 1026-1029<br />
“Alice Walker,” pp. 1205-1208<br />
“Shirley Anne Williams,” pp. 1266<br />
Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Ed. Darlene<br />
Clark Hine. New York: Carlson Publishing, Co., 1993.<br />
“A Hero Ain't Nothin’ but a Sandwich.” Masterpieces of African-American . Ed. Frank<br />
N. Magill. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1992. 193-196.<br />
“Trouble in Mind.” Masterplots II: <strong>Dr</strong>ama. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, California:<br />
Salem Press, 1990: 1654-1659; reprinted in Masterpieces of African-American<br />
Literature. New York: HarperCollins, Inc., 1992. 577-580.<br />
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“A Photograph.” Masterplots II: <strong>Dr</strong>ama. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, California:<br />
Salem Press, 1990. 1241-1245.<br />
“A Photograph: Lovers in Motion.” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters. Ed. Frank N.<br />
Magill. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990. 1204-1205.<br />
“Ntozake Shange.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers After l955:<br />
<strong>Dr</strong>amatists and Prose Writers. Volume 38. Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1985. 240-<br />
250.<br />
ESSAY PUBLISHED IN COMPANION READERS<br />
“Sissiertta Jones: The Life and Times of the ‘Black Patti.’” Arkansas Museum of Natural<br />
Resources Bulletin (Summer 2002): 4pp.<br />
“Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Activist.” America 1899: Looking<br />
Forward to a New Century: Companion Reader to the 1999 Chautauqua. Arts and<br />
Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1999: 12-15.<br />
PEDAGOGICAL NOTES<br />
“Integrating Television Game Shows and Reader-Response Criticism.” Exercise<br />
Exchange 34 (Fall 1988): 42-43.<br />
“The Wheel of Fortune: Peer Grouping and Collaborative Writing.” Exercise Exchange<br />
33 (Fall 1987): 17-18.<br />
REVIEW ESSAYS<br />
“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, by Anna Deavere Smith.” African American Review 31:2<br />
(Summer 1997): 9-10.<br />
“Hansberry’s <strong>Dr</strong>ama: Commitment Amid Complexity, by Steven Carter.” Theatre<br />
Journal (December 1992): 558-559.<br />
“Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950, edited by Kathy<br />
Perkins.” SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women (Summer 1991): 78-79.<br />
“The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American<br />
Novelists, by Ralph C. Wood.” American Literature (December 1989): 771-772.<br />
“Risen Sons: Flannery O’Connor’s View of History, by John Desmond.” American<br />
Literature (October 1988): 497-498.<br />
“The Uptown Mrs. Carrie, by L. V. Whitney, Oakland Gateway Arts, 1988.” SAGE: A<br />
Scholarly Journal on Black Women 2 (Fall 1988): 81-82.<br />
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“Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, edited by Gloria T. Hull, W. W.<br />
Norton: 1984.” SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 3 (Spring 1986): 58-60.<br />
INTERVIEWS WITH PLAYWRIGHTS<br />
“Denise Chavez: Chicana Woman Writer Crossing Borders.” South Central Review<br />
16.1(Spring 1999): 30-43.<br />
"Alice Childress: A Pioneering Spirit." SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 4<br />
(Spring 1987): 66-68.<br />
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS/PRODUCTIONS<br />
PLAYS PUBLISHED<br />
Online Database and CD-ROM<br />
When the Ancestors Call, 2003, The Break of Day, 2003, La Bakair, 2001, Missing Sister,<br />
1996, Saving Grace, 1993, Mam Phyllis, 1990, Snapshots of Broken Dolls, 1987, Marry<br />
Me, Again, 1984, Bayou Relics, 1983, and Somebody Almost Walked Off With All of My<br />
Stuff, 1982. (Ten plays published in Black <strong>Dr</strong>ama: 1850 to the Present, an online<br />
research collection published by Alexander Street Press and available to university<br />
libraries by subscription only. http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com. Date plays included<br />
in the collection, June 2004.<br />
Hardcopy Publications of Plays:<br />
“When the Ancestors Call.” In Acting Up and Getting Down: Plays by African American<br />
Texans. Ed. Sandra Mayo and Ervin Holt. Austin: <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Texas</strong> Press.<br />
(forthcoming in 2013)<br />
Saving Grace. The Griot (the official journal of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on African<br />
American Studies, Inc.) 22.2 (Fall 2003): 47-66.<br />
La Bakair. The SUNO REVIEW: A Journal of the Arts and Humanities 1:2 (Spring<br />
2001): 49-88.<br />
Mam Phyllis. In Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the<br />
Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>. Westport,<br />
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990: 191-227.<br />
Snapshots of Broken Dolls. Colorado: Contemporary <strong>Dr</strong>ama Service, a division of<br />
Meriwether Publishing Co., 1987. 36pp.<br />
Bayou Relics. Colorado: Contemporary <strong>Dr</strong>ama Service, a division of Meriwether<br />
Publishing Co., 1983. 30 pp.<br />
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PLAYS PRODUCED:<br />
A Little Diversion, a one-act play, performed at the Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency<br />
Hotel, TX, October 27, 2005; produced at the UH Cullen Performance Hall, Houston,<br />
TX, October 26-27, 2005.<br />
The Break of Day, a full-length play, directed by Dianne Jemison Pollard and produced at<br />
the Ollington Smith Playhouse at <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, February 16-19, 2012 and<br />
February 24-26, 2012; directed by Edward D. Richardson and produced professionally at<br />
the ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago, May 5 through June 19, 2005; selected for a<br />
series of staged readings at Karamu Performing Arts Theater, Karamu House, Cleveland<br />
Ohio, April 19-30, 2004; first produced on April 9-11, 2003 in the UH Cullen<br />
Performance Hall.<br />
When the Ancestors Call, a full-length play, directed by Chuck Smith and produced<br />
professionally by ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago, May 1 through June 15, 2003.<br />
Ten Years in a Suitcase, a performance piece including monologues from La Bakair, Just<br />
a Little Mark, Mam Phyllis, and Madam C.J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a<br />
Start, February 5-6, 2002, <strong>University</strong> of Houston Cullen Performance Hall.<br />
La Bakair, a full-length play first produced February 25-28, 2001, <strong>University</strong> of Houston<br />
Cullen Performance Hall; followed by a performance at the annual meeting of the<br />
National Association of Business and Professional Women on March 10, 2001, Marriott<br />
Hotel, Houston; selected for performance at the College Language Association, Royal<br />
Sonesta Hotel’s South Ballroom, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 2001.<br />
Missing Sister, a one-act play first produced March 27-28, 1996, <strong>University</strong> of Houston<br />
Cullen Performance Hall and at Our Mother of Mercy Church in Church Point,<br />
Louisiana, March 30, 1996.<br />
Just a Little Mar, a full-length play, directed by Ron Jones, professionally produced by<br />
the Ensemble Theatre, October 26-November 5, 1995; directed by Aileen Hendricks,<br />
produced by <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Theatre Department, April 27-30, 1994; first<br />
produced at the <strong>University</strong> of Houston’s Cullen Performance Hall, November 5-8,1992.<br />
Note: Revised more than 50% and renamed When the Ancestors Call in 2003.<br />
Saving Grace, a full-length play first produced November 17-21, 1993, <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Houston Cullen Performance Hall and at St. Peter's Catholic School gymnasium,<br />
Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>.<br />
Snapshots of Broken Dolls, a one-act comedy, first produced at Dillard <strong>University</strong>, New<br />
Orleans, followed by multiple productions at the Martin Luther King Center in Lake<br />
Charles and the Lincoln Center in New York City in 1986.<br />
Marry Me, Again, a one-act comedy, first produced at Dillard <strong>University</strong> in 1984.<br />
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Somebody Almost Walked Off With All Of My Stuff, first produced at Tukey Theater,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of South Carolina, Spartanburg, March 5-7, 1982.<br />
Mam Phyllis, a full-length comedy, first produced at Converse College in Spartanburg,<br />
South Carolina in 1981; revised and produced at Dillard <strong>University</strong> in 1985; revised in<br />
1989 for publication by Greenwood Press; revised in 2003 for publication in Alexander<br />
Street Press’ Black <strong>Dr</strong>ama: 1850 to Present.<br />
Bayou Relics, a one-act comedy, first produced at the Spartanburg Arts Center in March<br />
of 1981.<br />
SOLO PERFORMANCE PIECES<br />
Sissieretta Jones: The Life and Times of the ‘Black Patti,’” premiere performance in<br />
Smackover, Arkansas, May 28-June 1, 2002, with subsequent performances by invitation,<br />
(video available).<br />
Josephine Baker: International Black Heroine, premiere performance in Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
January 20, 2001, with subsequent performances by invitation.<br />
Madam C.J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start, premiere performance in<br />
Oklahoma, June 1-20, 1999, with subsequent performances by invitation.<br />
Ancestral Voices: Monologues from Mam Phyllis and Just a Little Mark, premiere<br />
performance in Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 8, 1996, with subsequent performances by<br />
invitation.<br />
SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS<br />
“Beacon Hill,” Louisiana Literature 18. 2 (Fall/Winter 2001): 63-83.<br />
“The Progressive Pig,” The Literary Griot, 4 (Winter/Summer 1985): 93-100.<br />
TEACHING<br />
AWARDS/HONORS<br />
-2007: Selected by UH Alumni Association as one of four “Phenomenal Professors” and<br />
featured in the February issue of UH Magazine<br />
-2006: Selected by Office of the Provost and Houston Alumni Office as one of eight<br />
faculty members to lecture during the First Alumni College Weekend, May 20, 2006<br />
-2004: UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award<br />
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-2000: Distinguished Teacher Award (UH Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, International<br />
English Honor Society)<br />
-1998: Nominated by UH Provost’s Office for the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the<br />
Year Award<br />
-1997: Nominated by UH Provost’s Office for the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the<br />
Year Award<br />
-1997: <strong>University</strong> of Houston Cooper Teaching Excellence Award<br />
-1993: Distinguished Humanities Scholars Lecture Series, Honors Institute, Broward<br />
Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida<br />
-1991: Outstanding Professor of 1990-1991, (UH Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta,<br />
International English Honor Society)<br />
-1991: Visiting scholar/lecturer at Loyola <strong>University</strong>, New Orleans, July, (funded by the<br />
Louisiana Endowment for Humanities<br />
COURSE DEVELOPMENT (at UH)<br />
(1988-present)<br />
English 2305 (Intro to Fiction)<br />
English 2307 (Intro to <strong>Dr</strong>ama)<br />
English 3351 (American Literature, 1865-present)<br />
English 3357 (Modern American <strong>Dr</strong>ama)<br />
English 3360 (Survey: African American Literature)<br />
English 3363 (Survey: African American Fiction)<br />
English 3364 (Survey: African American Poetry and <strong>Dr</strong>ama)<br />
English 3365 (Postcolonial Literature)<br />
English 3396 (Special Topics: Black Women Playwrights)<br />
English 3396 (Special Topics: Creation and Performance of <strong>Dr</strong>amatic<br />
Literature/Playwriting Workshop)<br />
English 4364 (Minorities in Literature—American Indian, African American, Asian<br />
American, Mexican American writers)<br />
English 4378 (Women Writers)<br />
English 7396 (Survey: African American Literature)<br />
English 7396 (Black Women Novelists—1859 to present)<br />
English 7396 (African, Caribbean, Black British, and African American Women’s Plays)<br />
English 7396 (Creation and Performance of <strong>Dr</strong>amatic Literature/Playwriting Workshop)<br />
English 8379 (American <strong>Dr</strong>ama)<br />
English 8383 (African-American Poetry/<strong>Dr</strong>ama)<br />
English 8384 (African-American Fiction)<br />
English 8364 (Women Writers—Literature by Writers from Africa and the African<br />
Diaspora)<br />
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PARTICIPATION IN TEACHING PROJECTS<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>—since 2009<br />
Conceived of the <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong> Back to Basics Summer Institute, which<br />
brings to campus teachers and their hand-selected students to study literature and<br />
technology and engage in ACT/SAT drill and practice. No other summer institute in the<br />
country brings together both teachers and their student to a campus to study and be taught<br />
by professors and high school teachers. Secured $20,000 in 2010, $25,000 in 2011, and<br />
$25,000 in 2012 to fund this university/school partnership, which is designed to recruit<br />
student to TSU.<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Houston<br />
Spring 2008: Led a seminar, “What Does it Mean to Be an American?: Multi-Ethnic<br />
Literatures of the United States” for the Houston Teachers Institute (HTI), a project that<br />
introduces elementary through high school teachers in the arts and sciences to special<br />
topics offered by UH professors.<br />
Spring 2007: Led a seminar, “Playwriting: Crafting and Adapting Plays for School-Aged<br />
Children,” for the Houston Teachers Institute (HTI).<br />
Spring 2003: Led a seminar, “Literature as Healing Balm: Multicultural Women Writers<br />
in America,” for the Houston Teachers Institute (HTI).<br />
Spring 2001: Led a seminar, “Multicultural Works: The Richness of the <strong>Dr</strong>ama of<br />
America, for the Houston Teachers Institute (HTI).<br />
2006-2009, 1989-1998: Led summer seminars in the UH Common Ground Teachers<br />
Institute (a two-week program that prepares high school teachers to include the literature<br />
of underrepresented groups in the curriculum and is open to teachers from Houston<br />
Metropolitan Area High Schools for continuing education and gifted and talented credit).<br />
INTELLECTUAL SUPERVISION:<br />
DISSERTATION AND THESES INSTRUCTION (at UH)<br />
Ph.D.:<br />
Director: Julia Jay, Lisa Abney, Juluette Bartlett-Pack, DeLinda Marzette, Daintee<br />
Glover Jones<br />
Committee Member/Reader: Romanus Muoneke, Yemisi Jimoh, Tom Williams,<br />
Deyonne Bryant, Daniel Walker (History), Bernadette Pruitt (History), Derrick Burleson,<br />
Claire Kajeyama, Kathryn Paterson<br />
M.A.:<br />
Director: Juluette Bartlett, Sharon Gray (Theater), Jasmin Vann, Julie Sample<br />
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Committee Member/Reader: Heather Bohannan, Robert Jones, Dorothy Murphy, Kathryn<br />
Paterson, and Tim Landry (Anthropology)<br />
B.A.:(Honors Thesis)<br />
Director: Karl Eifreg, Connie Simmons, Suellen Dehart, Jennifer Yawn<br />
Committee Member/Reader: Brandice Mueller (Psychology), Camille Buxton, Kaye<br />
Moon Winters, Kymberly Keaton<br />
FACULTY MENTOR FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (at UH)<br />
Organized a panel of four graduate students around the topic of “Religion and Spirituality<br />
in Alice Childress’s Plays,” presented at the College Language Association’s annual<br />
convention, Miami, April 2007.<br />
Organized a panel “Place and Displacement in Literature Written by Women Writers<br />
from Africa and the African Diaspora,” presented in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-7,<br />
2005.<br />
Submitted to the College Language Association’s Creative Writing Competition the<br />
works of two students for whom I served as mentor—Ph.D. candidates Jericho <strong>Brown</strong>,<br />
who won first-place ($500 prize) in the national poetry contest in April 2004, and<br />
Michael Webster, who won Honorable Mention in the national playwriting contest in<br />
April 2005.<br />
Organized panels since 1988 at national and regional conferences to allow the following<br />
graduate students to present papers:<br />
Cynthia Girgen, Romanus Muoneke, Juluette Bartlett-Pack,Tora Cureton, Julia Jay,<br />
Daniel Walker, DeLinda Marzette, Daintee Glover Jones, Tina Nguyen, Kathryn<br />
Paterson, Jasmin Vann, Kyle Solak, Sampada Chavan, Annette Nelson<br />
FACULTY MENTOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS<br />
Served as mentor to two undergraduates who placed in a national creative writing<br />
competition in April 2006, sponsored by the College Language Association: Kalaiah<br />
Vaughn won second place ($300 prize) for her poem “Shug Avery” and Nicholas<br />
Garelick won honorable mention ($50 prize) for his play “Portrait Shadow”.<br />
Served as mentor to an undergraduate English major, Anita Wadhwa, who won a firstplace<br />
prize ($2500) in a national fiction contest sponsored by the College Language<br />
Association in April 1999.<br />
<strong>University</strong> Scholars Program and other funding<br />
(Secured $1,000 scholarships for students to engage in research)<br />
Nicole Mitchell, 2000<br />
Sarah West, 2000<br />
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Tina Nguyen, 2001<br />
Daniel de Simone, 2001<br />
Megan Brannon, 2003 (I organized a panel on which Megan presented a paper at the<br />
National Women’s Studies Association conference, June 2003)<br />
Iliana Rocha, 2003 (I organized a panel on which Iliana presented a paper at the National<br />
Women’s Studies Association conference, New Orleans, June 2003)<br />
Melissa Moran, 2004<br />
Madelyn Ivy, 2008<br />
TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES/RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION<br />
EFFORTS<br />
2002—Founder & Director of Erzulie, an African dance troupe at UH<br />
1992 to the present—Founder & Director of The Houston Suitcase Theater (THST),<br />
a <strong>University</strong> of Houston student, faculty and staff troupe committed to enhancing<br />
multiculturalism in the arts at UH since 1992.<br />
As founder and director of THST, I . . .<br />
--directed plays and performance pieces annually, including “Staged Readings of New<br />
Plays by UH Graduate Students (Fall 2004), “Staged Readings of New Plays by UH<br />
Undergraduates (Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006), “Ten Years in a Suitcase” (a tenth<br />
anniversary celebration of the founding of The Houston Suitcase Theater at UH—Spring<br />
2002), “Conversations with Madam C.J. Walker and Alexander Graham Bell (Fall<br />
1999),” “I Am Not Tragically Colored: Performances by UH Women” (Spring 1999),<br />
“Performances by UH Women of Color” (Spring 1994).<br />
--Coordinated visits to the UH campus of nationally recognized playwrights, novelists,<br />
poets, and literary critics, such as Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Gordone and Suzan-Lori<br />
Park, Thomas Melancon, Denise Chavez, Douglas Turner Ward, Whitney LeBlanc,<br />
Amiri Baraka, bell hooks, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Aishah Rahman, Anita Bunkley,<br />
Ntozake Shange, Tess Onwueme, Violet Harrington Bryan, Hazel Arnett Ervin, Trudier<br />
Harris, and others.<br />
--Communicated on a regular basis with Houston metropolitan area teachers who, along<br />
with their students, attend THST lectures/performances.<br />
--Coordinated playwriting competitions and festivals of student written/performed plays<br />
for UH students.<br />
--Coordinated projects of undergraduate creative writers who submit entries to the<br />
College Language Association’s (CLA) Creative Writing Contest.<br />
--Coordinated field trips to museums, plays, films, symphony, etc.<br />
--Coordinated monthly socials/potlucks for graduate and undergraduate students.<br />
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--Tutored/advised undergraduate English majors and serve as mentor to minority<br />
graduate students in English, History, Anthropology, and Theater and Dance.<br />
(NOTE: Awarded an Outstanding Service Award in 1995 by The UH Council of<br />
Ethnic Organizations for THST.)<br />
ADVISING FOR THE HONORS COLLEGE<br />
Assisted (as an Honors College Faculty Affiliate) in academic advising for priority<br />
registration, 1994-2000.<br />
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES<br />
(Delivered more than one 150 lectures/presentations/performances since joining the UH<br />
faculty in 1988.)<br />
INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/PERFORMANCES<br />
“The Global Black Woman: Reflections on Roots, Religion, Culture and Identity,”<br />
invited presenter on a roundtable, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, September 4, 2012.<br />
“The <strong>Dr</strong>umbeat of Belonging: Identity Formation in Plays by Women of Color,” invited<br />
keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Symposium at Rice <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (CSWGS), Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
March 30, 2012.<br />
“Obstacles or Opportunities: The Wisdom to Know the Difference,” invited to read<br />
excerpts from a personal essay, James Madison <strong>University</strong>, Harrisonburg, Virginia,<br />
November 5-7, 2009.<br />
“The Complexities of Color: Revisiting Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘How it Feels to be<br />
Colored Me,’ Their Eyes Were Watching God, ‘The First One,’ and ‘Color Struck,’<br />
invited public lecture as part of the annual Books on the Bayou Lecture Series, Houston<br />
Public Library—Central Branch, October 13, 2009.<br />
“Life Don’t Owe Me Nothin’, Sugah!”, featured solo performing artist at the annual<br />
Black Theater Association conference, Denver, July 30, 2008.<br />
“Contemporary Black Women Playwrights: The Changing Landscape of American<br />
Theater,” invited keynote speaker, Third Annual Women and Gender Studies<br />
Conference, Houston Community College—Southeast College, March 28, 2008.<br />
“Doublehead: A <strong>Dr</strong>amatic Monologue,” invited performing artist, at the Barbados<br />
Museum at the Garrison, Barbados, West Indies, May 25, 2007.<br />
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“Striking out for the Deep Water: The Evolution of Blues and the Blues/Jazz Tradition in<br />
Ann Petry’s “Solo on the <strong>Dr</strong>ums” and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” invited keynote<br />
speaker for a Black History Month Convocation, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, February<br />
23, 2007; Developed the presentation to include additional research and a live jazz band<br />
for the UH Scholarship and Community Conference “Music Across Boundaries,”<br />
September 26, 2007, UH Hilton Hotel.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: Performances of Monologues from Plays by <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>Brown</strong>-<br />
<strong>Guillory</strong>,” invited keynote speaker and performing artist, Black History Month<br />
Convocation, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, February 23, 2007.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: Performances of Monologues from Plays by <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>Brown</strong>-<br />
<strong>Guillory</strong>,” invited keynote speaker and performing artist, Office of the Dean of Student<br />
Life, San Jacinta College, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, April 11, 2006.<br />
“Life Writing and Righting Life: Staging Plays that Heal,” invited speaker and<br />
performing artist in the Performance as Public Practice Program, Dept. of Theatre and<br />
Dance, <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Texas</strong>, Austin, November 18, 2005.<br />
Keynote Performance of my play “A Little Diversion” at the annual meeting of the South<br />
Central Modern Language Association, Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel,<br />
Houston, TX, October 27, 2005.<br />
Keynote Breakfast Speaker, Bennet-Brooks Literary Society, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, presented<br />
February 7, 2004.<br />
“How Do I Self-Identify: <strong>Southern</strong> Women Writers Roundtable” (with Lee Mitzen Grue,<br />
Poppy Z. Brite, and Olympia Vernon), National Women’s Studies Association, New<br />
Orleans, Louisiana, June 21, 2003.<br />
“The Break of Day,” featured performing artist and Q&A, <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on<br />
African American Studies, Inc., Charleston, South Carolina, February 21, 2003.<br />
“When the Ancestors Call,” featured playwright in “Conversations with Playwright,<br />
Director, Cast Series,” ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, May 3, 2003,<br />
(videotape available).<br />
“Obstacles or Opportunities: The Wisdom to Know the Difference,” presented a memoir,<br />
Wintergreen Women’s Writers Retreat, Wintergreen, Virginia, May 16-18, 2003.<br />
“Sissieretta Jones,” (winner of a grant from the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources<br />
Foundation, Smackover, Arkansas, for Chautauqua 2002—one of five selected<br />
nationwide for a Chautauqua scholar/artist residency), May 28-June 1, 2002.<br />
“Performing Black Women’s Theater Traditions,” keynote lecturer/performing artist,<br />
McCleary Symposium, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, April 18, 2002.<br />
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“Madam C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start,” featured performing<br />
artist, meeting of the National Association of Business and Professional Women,<br />
Ensemble Theater, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, February 23, 2002.<br />
“Josephine Baker: International Black Heroine,” featured performing artist, <strong>Southern</strong><br />
Conference on African American Studies, Inc., San Antonio, February 21, 2002.<br />
“Madam C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start” and “Josephine Baker:<br />
International Heroine,” featured performing artist, Border Book Festival, Las Cruces,<br />
New Mexico, March 14-18, 2001.<br />
“Josephine Baker: International Black Heroine,” featured performing artist, the annual<br />
meeting of the <strong>Texas</strong> Council Teachers of English (TCTE), Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, January 20,<br />
2001.<br />
“Madam C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start,” featured performing<br />
artist, San Jacinto College, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, November 9, 1999.<br />
Madam C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start,” featured performing<br />
artist, River Oaks Women’s Breakfast Club, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, September 21, 1999.<br />
“Madam C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start,” Chautauqua<br />
scholar/performing artist, Tulsa, Oklahoma, (in residency) June 1-20, 1999.<br />
“Madam C.J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a Start,” featured performing<br />
artist, annual meeting of <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on African American Studies,” Houston,<br />
<strong>Texas</strong>, February 19, 1999.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: Monologues from Mam Phyllis and Just A Little Mark,” featured<br />
performing artist, “Juneteenth: Its Meaning,” <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Houston,<br />
<strong>Texas</strong>, June 18, 1998.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: Monologues from Mam Phyllis and Just a Little Mark,” featured<br />
lecturer and performing artist, “Living Writers Series,” Tarrant County Junior College-<br />
Northeast Campus, Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, March 5 and 6, 1998.<br />
“Black Women’s Theater and Its Impact on Literacy,” keynote speaker, annual<br />
convention of the <strong>Texas</strong> Council Teachers of English, San Antonio, <strong>Texas</strong>, February<br />
1998.<br />
“Riding the Goat: Women in Higher Education,” invited keynote speaker at the Women’s<br />
Caucus Breakfast, annual meeting of SCMLA, San Antonio, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 1996.<br />
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“From Washington, D.C. Harlem Lofts to Broadway: Black Women's Theater,” invited<br />
lecturer at the 1996 Lorraine Sherley Literature Symposium, <strong>Texas</strong> Christian <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 19, 1996.<br />
“Multicultural Approaches to Teaching American Literature,” invited workshop director,<br />
Tarrant County Junior College District, Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 9, 1996.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: A Performance Piece,” featured performing artist, Tarrant County<br />
Junior College District, Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 8, 1996.<br />
“Multicultural Approaches to teaching American Literature,” invited workshop director,<br />
Iowa Central Community College, Fort Dodge, Iowa, August 23, 1996.<br />
“Twentieth Century Black Women Playwrights and Their Vision,” invited lecturer, San<br />
Jacinto College, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, February 20, 1996.<br />
“Lessons to Die For,” an original dramatic monologue commissioned for the “Forum for<br />
the Death Penalty,” Xavier <strong>University</strong> of New Orleans, April 2l, 1994; revised and<br />
produced at the <strong>University</strong> of Houston, November 16 and 17, 1994.<br />
“The Making of Just A Little Mark”, featured speaker, <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong> Theatre<br />
Department, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (in conjunction with its production of Just A Little<br />
Mark, April 27-30, 1994.<br />
“The Politics of Capital Punishment in African-American Literature,” invited co-keynote<br />
speaker (with Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking), “Forum for the Death<br />
Penalty,” Xavier <strong>University</strong> of New Orleans, April 2l, 1994.<br />
“The Quest for Self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” invited<br />
lecturer, North Harris Community College, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, March l, 1994.<br />
“Meta-theater in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind,” invited lecturer, <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 7, 1994.<br />
“The Evolution of Black American Theater,” invited lecturer, <strong>University</strong> of Georgia,<br />
Athens, Georgia, February 7, 1994.<br />
“Black Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance,” invited<br />
lecturer, Distinguished Humanities Scholars Lecture Series, Honors Institute, Broward<br />
Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 30-November 2, 1993.<br />
“New Works: A Reading by Louisiana Writers,” featured performing artist, (excerpts<br />
from Just a Little Mark), at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, New<br />
Orleans, Louisiana, March 25, 1993.<br />
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“Open Casting: A Continuing Dialogue,” invited presenter and panelist, Tennessee<br />
Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 25, 1993.<br />
“The Literary Canon: Opening the Humanities to a Multicultural Perspective—Part II,”<br />
invited lecturer, Murray State <strong>University</strong>, Murray, Kentucky, February 14-16, 1993.<br />
Monologues from “Just a Little Mark,” featured performing artist, Murray State<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Murray, Kentucky, February 14-16, 1993.<br />
“Tennessee Williams and the Black Theater Experience,” invited presenter and panelist,<br />
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 27-<br />
29, 1992.<br />
“The Promise. The <strong>Dr</strong>eam. The Reality: How Writers Portray Race in Fiction,” invited<br />
presenter and panelist, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, New Orleans,<br />
Louisiana, March 27-29, 1992.<br />
“Their Place on the Stage: Twentieth Century Black Women Playwrights and Their<br />
Vision,” invited lecturer, Murray State <strong>University</strong>, Murray, Kentucky, February 14, 1992.<br />
“The Literary Canon: Opening the Humanities to a Multicultural Perspective,” invited<br />
lecturer, Murray State <strong>University</strong>, Murray, Kentucky, February 14, 1992.<br />
“Their Place on the Stage: Twentieth Century <strong>Dr</strong>amatists and Their Vision,” invited<br />
lecturer, at the conference “Celebrating the African-American Woman,” funded by the<br />
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, McNeese State <strong>University</strong>, Lake Charles,<br />
Louisiana, February 2, 1991.<br />
“Diverse Works Bookstore book signing/reading from Wines in the Wilderness,”<br />
Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, January 20, 1991.<br />
“Black Women Playwrights Since the Harlem Renaissance,” invited lecturer, the NEH<br />
Institute, “Two Hundred Years of Women's Writing: 18th to 20th Century,” presented at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of New Orleans, June 30, 1988.<br />
“Voices of Black Women Writers,” invited lecturer/performing artist, <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 21, 1988.<br />
“The Value of Persistence,” invited lecturer/performing artist, Loyola <strong>University</strong>, New<br />
Orleans, Louisiana, April 14, 1987.<br />
“Finding a Space to Write,” invited lecturer/performing artist, Louisiana Endowment for<br />
the Humanities” RELIC program, presented at New Orleans Public Library, Gentilly<br />
Branch, April 16, 1987.<br />
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“The Playwriting Process,” invited workshop director, “Louisiana Women Writers<br />
Symposium,” Loyola <strong>University</strong>, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 19-20, 1986.<br />
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<br />
International and National<br />
“Reaching Back and Pulling Forward: Recent Plays by Black Women on Broadway and<br />
Off-Broadway—Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop and Lydia<br />
Diamond’s Stick Fly,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the College Language<br />
Association, Lexington, Kentucky, April 10-13, 2013.<br />
“The <strong>Dr</strong>umbeat of Belonging: Identity Formation in Plays by Women of Color,”<br />
presented at the 75 th<br />
Annual College Language Association Convention, Atlanta,<br />
Georgia, April 29, 2012.<br />
“In Her Own Words: Writing/Righting the Wrongs in Alice Childress’ Essays and<br />
Plays,” presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association,<br />
Spartanburg, South Carolina, April 6-9, 2011.<br />
“When Daughters Become Mothers in Urban Landscapes: Performances of Motherhood<br />
in Alice Childress’ Rainbow Jordan,” presented at the annual meeting of College<br />
Language Association, New York, April 7-10, 2010.<br />
“Place, Displacement, and Healing in Efua Sutherland’s Edufa,” presented at the biannual<br />
convention of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora<br />
(ASWAD), Accra, Ghana, August 2009.<br />
“The Price of Freedom: Coming Out of the Closet in Alice Childress’ Those Other<br />
People,” presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association,<br />
Cambridge, Maryland, March 27, 2009.<br />
“Race, Gender and Social Politics in Alice Childress’ A Short Walk,” presented at CLA,<br />
Charleston, South Carolina, April 11, 2008; and presented at CLA at MLA, San<br />
Francisco, December 2008.<br />
“Confronting the Silence: Researching, Teaching, and Producing Alice Childress’ Plays,”<br />
presented at the annual conference held by the Women in Theatre Program, a Focus<br />
Group of the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE), Denver, Colorado,<br />
July 30, 2008.<br />
“Making Space for Race: Staging Difference at Historically White Universities,”<br />
presented at the annual conference held by the Black Theatre Association, a Focus Group<br />
of the Association for Theater in Higher Education, Denver, Colorado, July 31, 2008.<br />
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“Confessions of Love: Separation, Loss, Spirituality, and Healing in Alice Childress’<br />
Mojo,” presented at MLA, Chicago, December 29, 2007.<br />
“When My Lady has had Enough: Performances of Freedom in Alice Childress’ Copra:<br />
A West Indian <strong>Dr</strong>ama” to be presented at the conference “Trajectories of Freedom:<br />
Caribbean Societies—Past and Present,” to be held at the <strong>University</strong> of the West Indies,<br />
Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 23-25 May, 2007.<br />
“Confessions of Love: Separation, Loss, Spirituality, and Healing in Alice Childress’<br />
Mojo,” presented at CLA, Miami, Florida, April 2007.<br />
“Black European Performances of Nostalgia: Place and Displacement in Black British<br />
Playwright Trish Cooke’s Running <strong>Dr</strong>eam,” presented at the 2 nd<br />
International<br />
Interdisciplinary BEST Conference: Black European Studies in Transnational<br />
Perspective,” Berlin, Germany, July 29, 2006.<br />
“Love in Black and White: Performing Activism and Staging Freedom in the Film and<br />
Stage Versions of Alice Childress's Wedding Band, presented at CLA, Birmingham,<br />
Alabama, April 7, 2006.<br />
“Place and Displacement in Djanet Sears’ The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of<br />
God,” presented at MLA, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2005.<br />
“Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Plays,” presented<br />
at the bi-annual convention of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African<br />
Diaspora (ASWAD), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 5, 2005.<br />
“‘Why Talk About That?’: Ironic Discourse in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind,”<br />
presented at MLA, Philadelphia, December 29, 2004.<br />
“Hoodoo Blues: Conjuring, Redefinition, and Healing in Alice Childress’ Wedding Band:<br />
A Love Hate Story in Black and White,” presented at CLA, Nashville, Tennessee, April<br />
15, 2004.<br />
“Writing Outside the Mainstream: Healing Rituals in Black British Women’s Plays,”<br />
presented at MLA, San Diego, California, December 29, 2003.<br />
“Urban Spaces and Lost Voices in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women,” presented at<br />
CLA, Washington, D.C., April 25, 2003.<br />
“Urban Spaces and Lost Voices in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women,” presented at<br />
“African Urban Spaces,” an international conference held in Austin, <strong>Texas</strong>, March 28-30,<br />
2003.<br />
“Rituals in Zulu Sofola’s Plays,” presented at CLA, Memphis, Tennessee, April 25, 2002.<br />
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“Navigating Taboos in Nigerian Culture: Suppression of Women’s Desires in Zulu<br />
Sofola’s Plays,” presented at “Nigeria in the Twentieth Century,” an international<br />
conference held in Austin, TX, March 31, 2002.<br />
“Staging Exile in Caribbean Women’s <strong>Dr</strong>ama,” presented at MLA, Washington, D.C.,<br />
December 27, 2000.<br />
“Caribbean Women’s <strong>Dr</strong>ama: Staging Exile in Maryse Conde’s Tropical Breeze Hotel,”<br />
presented at CLA, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2000.<br />
“Migration and Identity in Rebecca Njau’s The Scar, presented at MLA, Chicago,<br />
December 29, 1999.<br />
“Performances of Resistance in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women,” presented at the<br />
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Detroit, Michigan,<br />
October 7, 1999.<br />
“Migration and Identity” in Tess Onwueme’s A Hen Too Soon,” presented at CLA,<br />
Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 1999.<br />
“Aishah Rahman and Suzan-Lori Parks: Cultural Connections in Diasporic <strong>Dr</strong>amatic<br />
Literature,” presented at MLA, San Francisco, California, December 28, 1998.<br />
“Adrienne Kennedy and Sonja Sanchez: Black Women’s Revolutionary <strong>Dr</strong>ama of the<br />
1960s,” presented at MLA, San Francisco, California, December 30, 1998.<br />
“Theorizing Black Women’s Theatre Tradition,” presented at the annual meeting of the<br />
College Language Association, Tallahassee, Florida, April 1998.<br />
“Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Migration in Black Women’s Theater,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc., New Orleans, La,<br />
February 1998.<br />
“Marita Bonner: Communities in Transition in Black Women’s Theater,” presented at<br />
MLA, Toronto, Canada, December 1997.<br />
“Alice Childress and her Contemporaries: Black Women Playwrights on the American<br />
Stage,” presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Atlanta,<br />
Georgia, April 1997.<br />
“White Men/Black Women: Raising a Ruckus in Alice Childress’ Wedding Band,"<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Winston-Salem,<br />
North Carolina, April 1996.<br />
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“Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics in Alice Childress' A Short Walk,”presented at the<br />
annual meeting of the College Language Association (CLA), Baton Rouge, Louisiana,<br />
April 1995.<br />
“From Novel to Screenplay: Black Reality in Alice Childress' A Hero Ain't Nothin But A<br />
Sandwich,” presented at MLA, Chicago, December 29, 1995.<br />
“Twentieth-Century Black <strong>Dr</strong>ama: Mothers and Daughters in a Genderized, Sexualized,<br />
and Racialized World,” presented at the annual meeting of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on<br />
Afro-American Studies, (SCAASI), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 1995.<br />
“Inspiriting Influences: Just a Little Mark as a source for Creating Change,” presented at<br />
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, Illinois, July 27-30, l994.<br />
(Director Aileen Hendricks organized a panel to discuss the April 27-30, 1994 <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> production of Just a Little Mark.)<br />
“The Black Arts Movement: The Relevancy of Amiri Baraka and Alice Childress,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada,<br />
December 29,1993.<br />
“The Conjunction of the Historic and the <strong>Dr</strong>amatic in Plays by African-American<br />
Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present,” presented at the annual meeting of<br />
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Philadelphia, August 4-7,<br />
1993.<br />
“The Healing Language of Black Males in Alice Childress’ novel A Hero Ain't Nothin<br />
But a Sandwich,” presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association,<br />
Daytona Beach, Florida, March 31-April 3,1993.<br />
“Mother-Women and Self Discovery in Alice Childress’ Rainbow Jordan,” presented at<br />
the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 10,<br />
1992.<br />
“The Social Politics of the Black <strong>Southern</strong> Woman in Alice Childress’ A Short Walk,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Columbia, South<br />
Carolina, April 19,1991.<br />
“The Social Politics of the Black <strong>Southern</strong> Woman in Alice Childress' A Short Walk,”<br />
presented at the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on Afro-American Studies, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
February 22, 1991.<br />
“Langston Hughes and Alice Childress’ Visions of the South,” presented at MLA,<br />
Chicago, December 27, 1990.<br />
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“Spirituality and Womanism in Alice Childress’ Wedding Band,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the College Language Association, Ohio State <strong>University</strong>, Columbus, Ohio,<br />
April 19,1990.<br />
“Spirituality and Womanism in Alice Childress' Mojo,” presented at the annual meeting<br />
of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on Afro-American Studies, Memphis, Tennessee, February<br />
23, 1990.<br />
“A Black Woman Playwright in the 1980s: Recollection of a Journey in Progress,” MLA,<br />
New Orleans, December 28, 1988.<br />
“Fashioning Powerful <strong>Dr</strong>ama: Remembering and Healing” presented at “The First<br />
International Women Playwrights Conference,” SUNY/Buffalo, New York, October 20,<br />
1988.<br />
“The Voice of the Black American Playwright,” presented at the National Black Theater<br />
Conference, <strong>University</strong> of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 1, 1987.<br />
“Networking in Black Theater Programs across the Country,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the Black Theater Network, Baltimore, Maryland, April 11, 1987.<br />
“Lorraine Hansberry as Visionary: The Polemics of The <strong>Dr</strong>inking Gourd,” presented at<br />
the annual conference of the College Language Association, Norfolk, Virginia, April 16-<br />
19, 1986.<br />
“Fine Wines in the Wilderness: Alice Childress and her Unsung Heroines,” presented at<br />
the “Black Woman Writer and the Diaspora” conference, Michigan State <strong>University</strong>, East<br />
Lansing, Michigan, October 27-30, 1985.<br />
“Contemporary Black Women Playwrights: A View From the Other Half,” presented at<br />
the “Black Woman Writer and the Diaspora” conference, Michigan State <strong>University</strong>, East<br />
Lansing, Michigan, October 27-30, 1985.<br />
“The Artistic and Political Lorraine Hansberry: Missy and Mammy as Symbiotic Links in<br />
The <strong>Dr</strong>inking Gourd,” presented at the “<strong>Southern</strong> Women: Portraits in Diversity"<br />
conference, Tulane <strong>University</strong>, September 26-28, 1985.<br />
“Insecurity, Militancy, and Anonymity: Images of Black Men in Plays by Black<br />
Women,” presented at the annual meeting of the <strong>Southern</strong> Conference on Afro-American<br />
Studies, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1985.<br />
Regional<br />
“Reaching Back and Pulling Forward: Recent Plays by Black Women on Broadway and<br />
Off-Broadway—Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop and Lydia<br />
Diamond’s Stick Fly,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern<br />
Language Association, San Antonio, TX, November 8-10, 2012.<br />
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“Warring Souls: Interracial Love, World War I, and Identity Formation in Alice<br />
Childress’ Wedding Band,” presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern<br />
Language Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 27-30, 2011.<br />
“<strong>University</strong>/School Partnerships: Back to Basics Summer Institute—A New Initiative,”<br />
presented at the annual retreat of the <strong>Texas</strong> Council of Chief Academic Officers, Austin,<br />
<strong>Texas</strong>, January 25, 2011.<br />
“Beacon Hill (a short story),” presented on the Regional Fiction Writers Group panel,<br />
SCMLA, Memphis, November 2, 2007.<br />
“‘Why Talk About That?’: Performances of Intolerance in Alice Childress's Trouble in<br />
Mind,” presented at SCMLA, Fort Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 27, 2006.<br />
“Place and Displacement in Black British Playwright Trish Cooke’s Running <strong>Dr</strong>eam,<br />
presented at SCMLA, Houston, TX, October 28, 2005.<br />
“The Power is in the Tongue: Healing Rituals in Black British Women’s Plays,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New<br />
Orleans, La., October 29, 2004.<br />
“Hoodoo Blues: Conjuring, Redefinition, and Healing in Alice Childress’ Wine in the<br />
Wilderness,” presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language<br />
Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 31, 2003.<br />
“Middle Passages: Healing Rituals in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women,” presented at<br />
the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
November 2, 2002.<br />
“Nicole Werewere Liking’s Misovire in The Power of Um,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma,<br />
November 2, 2001.<br />
“Migration and Identity in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Dilemma of a Ghost,” presented at the<br />
annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
October 31, 2000.<br />
“Intersections between Teaching and Research,” presented at the annual meeting of the<br />
South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, Tennessee, October 28, 1999.<br />
“Migration and Identity in plays by South Africans Fatima Dike and Phyllis Klotz,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association,<br />
Memphis, Tennessee, October 30, 1999.<br />
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“Race, Passion, and Discourse in Alice Childress’ Wedding Band,” presented at the<br />
annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans,<br />
Louisiana, November 13, 1998.<br />
“‘We gonna make you wish you were dead:’ Alice Childress’ A Portrait of Fannie Lou<br />
Hamer,” presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language<br />
Association, Dallas, <strong>Texas</strong>, October 1997.<br />
“Ancestral Voices,” (performed excerpts from Just a Little Mark on a creative writers’<br />
panel), at the annual meeting of the College Conference Teacher of English, South Padre<br />
Island, <strong>Texas</strong>, April 4, 1997.<br />
“Mentoring: Building Bridges for the Twenty-First Century,” (the SCMLA Presidential<br />
Address) presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language<br />
Association, Houston, October 27, l995.<br />
“Alice Childress as Cultural Critic in Those Other People,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, October<br />
1994.<br />
“The Conjunction of the Historic with the <strong>Dr</strong>amatic in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association in<br />
Memphis, Tennessee, October 29-31, 1992.<br />
“Dismantling the Veil in Alice Childress’ Like One of the Family,” presented at the<br />
annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Fort<br />
Worth, <strong>Texas</strong>, November 1, 1991.<br />
“Emerging Voices in the American Literature Canon: New Handles on Old Pitchers,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English, <strong>Texas</strong><br />
A&M, College Station, <strong>Texas</strong>, March 2, 1990.<br />
“Spirituality and Womanism in Alice Childress’ Wine in the Wilderness,” presented at<br />
the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans,<br />
October 28, 1989.<br />
“Tonal Form in Plays by Contemporary Black Women Playwrights,” presented at the<br />
annual meeting of the Philological Association of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana,<br />
March 11-12, 1988.<br />
“Female Imperatives in Plays by Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake<br />
Shange,” presented at the annual meeting of the Philological Association of Louisiana in<br />
New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6-7, 1987.<br />
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“African Continuum in Contemporary Plays by Black American Women,” presented at<br />
the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
October 29-31, 1987.<br />
“Lorraine Hansberry’s Kaleidoscopic Vision: The Controversial The <strong>Dr</strong>inking Gourd,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New<br />
Orleans, Louisiana, October 30-November 1, 1986.<br />
“Alice Childress: Surviving Whole in Wine in the Wilderness,” presented at the annual<br />
meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma,<br />
November 7-9, 1985.<br />
Local<br />
“The Making of a Scholar”, presentation to the Thomas F. Freeman Honors College<br />
students, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland Building (Rm. 114), <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
November 24, 2009.<br />
“Real Life <strong>Dr</strong>ama: Finding the Turning Points in Your Life,” led a conversation at Great<br />
Conversations, the annual fundraiser for the UH Honors College, Houston Country Club,<br />
April 1, 2009.<br />
“Agents of Change: MLK, Obama, UH, and HTI,” keynote address at Houston Teachers<br />
Institute’s Fall Convocation, January 20, 2009.<br />
“Life Writing—Through Personal Essays, Short Stories, and Playwriting”, led a<br />
conversation during Table Talk, the annual fundraiser hosted by the UH Women’s<br />
Studies Program, March 3, 2009.<br />
Invited panelist, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, (delivered remarks about the<br />
book and the staged excerpt), a program produced by the Ensemble Theater, The Strand<br />
Theatre, and Galveston County Reads, Galveston, January 13, 2008.<br />
“Beacon Hill,” featured short story writer, presented to teachers participating in Common<br />
Ground Teachers Institute, at UH Honors College, July 14, 2004.<br />
“Storytelling Men and Voiceless Women in August Wilson’s Jitney,” presented at the<br />
Alley Theater’s “Between the Lines” series for high school teachers, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>,<br />
February 19, 2002.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: Monologue from Just A Little Mark,” featured performing artist,<br />
Houston Teacher’s Institute, <strong>University</strong> of Houston, April 3, 2001.<br />
“Lessons to Die For” and “Madame C. J. Walker: I Got My Start by Giving Myself a<br />
Start,” featured performing artist, NEH-UH funded Common Ground Project, <strong>University</strong><br />
of Houston, June 24, 1998.<br />
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“Black Women Playwrights and Their Vision,” lecture, NEH-UH funded Common<br />
Ground Project, <strong>University</strong> of Houston, June 12, 1996.<br />
“Ancestral Voices: A Performance Piece,” featured performing artist, NEH-UH funded<br />
Common Ground Project, <strong>University</strong> of Houston, June 18, 1996.<br />
“Rewarding Good Teaching,” presented at the <strong>University</strong> of Houston HFAC College<br />
Retreat, September 30, 1994.<br />
“The Unusual, the Unlikely, and the Unexpected in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes<br />
Were Watching God,” invited presenter at a UH Honors College forum, April 25, l994.<br />
“Black Women Playwrights: Their Place on the American Stage,” presenter and<br />
discussion leader at the “UH Honors College Great Conversation” (fundraiser), Houston<br />
Country Club, April 5, 1994.<br />
“Recurrent Themes in African-American Literature,” lecture, NEH-UH funded Common<br />
Ground Project, <strong>University</strong> of Houston, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, June 1990.<br />
“Bayou Relics,” “Snapshots of Broken Dolls, and “Mam Phyllis,” featured performing<br />
artists, "International Recital: A Cross Cultural Encounter," sponsored by Hispanic and<br />
Classical Languages Department, Dudley Recital Hall, <strong>University</strong> of Houston, March 10,<br />
1989.<br />
“Early Plays by Black Women: Recovering the Heart of the Harlem Renaissance,”<br />
presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, Long Beach,<br />
Mississippi, January 30-31,1987.<br />
“The Progressive Pig,” a short story, presented at Borsodi's Coffeehouse, New Orleans,<br />
Louisiana, March 1985.<br />
SERVICE<br />
AWARDS/HONORS<br />
2005-2006: President, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (UH Chapter 54)<br />
2004-2005: President-Elect, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (UH Chapter 54)<br />
2003-2007: Elected to a five-year term to serve on the Modern Language Association’s<br />
Executive Committee of the Black American Literature and Culture Division<br />
1992-1995: Elected to a five-year term to serve on the Modern Language Association’s<br />
Executive Committee of Women's Studies Languages and Literature Division.<br />
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1995: Outstanding Service Award presented by the UH Council of Ethnic Organizations<br />
1995: President of the South Central Modern Language Association<br />
1994: Vice President of the South Central Modern Language Association<br />
HONOR SOCIETIES<br />
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society<br />
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society<br />
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> Conference on African American Studies, Inc. (SCAASI)<br />
College Language Association (CLA)<br />
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)<br />
Modern Language Association (MLA)<br />
American Literature Association (ALA)<br />
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)—Women in Theatre Program<br />
Focus Group; Black Theatre Association Focus Group; Playwrights and Creative<br />
Teams (PACT) Focus Group; Performance Studies Focus Group<br />
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)<br />
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. (ASAALH)<br />
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)<br />
Black Theatre Network (BTN)<br />
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)<br />
Black European Studies in Transnational Perspectives (BEST)<br />
African Literature Association (ALA)<br />
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)<br />
<strong>Dr</strong>amatist Guild (DG)<br />
International Women’s Writers Guild (IWWG)<br />
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)<br />
Playwrights Forum<br />
Theatre Communications Group (TCG)<br />
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE<br />
National<br />
External Reviewer for Visual and Fine Arts programs at Chicago State <strong>University</strong>, 2012.<br />
External Reviewer for undergraduate and graduate degree program in English at Florida<br />
A&M <strong>University</strong>, 2012.<br />
Outside promotion and tenure evaluator for Louisiana State <strong>University</strong>’s Department of<br />
English, 2008.<br />
Reviewer, <strong>Texas</strong> Tech <strong>University</strong> Press, 2007.<br />
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Executive Committee Member, MLA, Black American Literature and Culture Division,<br />
2003-2007.<br />
Fall 2005: Juror for FY2006 Artists Fellowship Program sponsored by the Illinois Arts<br />
Council (IAC)<br />
2004-2005: Selected as a specialist on playwright Suzan-Lori Parks for a series titled<br />
“Contemporary American Playwrights,” which was produced by the Modern Language<br />
Association’s What’s the Word? (The interview was taped on May 10, 2004 and aired on<br />
NPR in Spring 2005.)<br />
Chair, Darwin T. Turner (best essay) Award, sponsored by the African American Review<br />
(the premiere journal for African American Literature scholars), 2003.<br />
Reviewer, Social Sciences Quarterly, 2003.<br />
Advisory Board Member, The Project on the History of Black Writing, <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Kansas, 2000-2003.<br />
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities Education Projects, December 1999.<br />
Consultant, NEH-funded American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC)<br />
“Exploring America's Communities: In Quest of Common Ground” project, 1996-1997.<br />
Reviewer, National Textbook Company (NTC), 1996.<br />
Senior Judge, national playwriting contest sponsored by the College Language<br />
Association, 1996.<br />
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities Higher Education Projects, May<br />
1994.<br />
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects, May 1993.<br />
Executive Committee, MLA Delegate Assembly, MLA's Women's Studies, Languages<br />
and Literature Division, 1992-1995.<br />
Reviewer, Greenwood Press, 1991-1992.<br />
Executive Committee Member, Women's Caucus of MLA, 1990-1992.<br />
Chair, The Florence Howe Award, a contest sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of MLA,<br />
1990.<br />
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Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Association for<br />
Community Colleges (AACC), Community Colleges Humanities Association (CCHA),<br />
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, 1996-1997.<br />
Editorial Board Member, Carlson Publishing Company, 1994, Black Women in America:<br />
An Historical Encyclopedia, (a two-volume project).<br />
Editorial Board Member, Collegiate Press, 1999, 1998, 1992, A Turbulent Voyage:<br />
Readings in African American Studies.<br />
Regional<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s African Literatures Session,<br />
forthcoming in 2012.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s African/African American<br />
Literature Session, 2009.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Gender and Race in Twentieth<br />
Century Literature Session, 2008<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s African/African-American<br />
Literature Session, 2008.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women of Color Session, 2007.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s Gender and Race in Twentieth<br />
Century Literature Session, 2007<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women’s Caucus Session and<br />
Women’s Caucus Breakfast, 2005.<br />
Nominating/Screening Committee member for the election of SCMLA officers and<br />
representatives, 2004.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women’s Caucus Session and<br />
Women’s Caucus Breakfast, 2004.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women of Color Session, 2004.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s African/African-American<br />
Literature Session, 2003.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women of Color Session,<br />
2003.<br />
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Acting Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women of Color Session,<br />
2002.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s African/African American<br />
Literature Session, 2002.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Modern <strong>Dr</strong>ama Session, 2001.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women of Color Session, 1998.<br />
President, South Central Modern Language Association, 1995.<br />
Vice President, South Central Modern Language Association, 1994.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s African/African American<br />
Literature Session, 1993.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Special Session: “Women of<br />
Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth Century Literature,” 1992.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association's African/African American<br />
Literature Session, 1992.<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s Special Session: "Women of<br />
Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth Century Literature, 1991.<br />
Chair, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women’s Caucus, 1990 (arranged<br />
Women’s Caucus panel of scholars, Women’s Caucus Forum, and Women’s Caucus<br />
Breakfast with keynote speaker, bell hooks).<br />
Secretary, South Central Modern Language Association’s Women’s Caucus, 1989-1990.<br />
Chair, Special Session: “Women of Color: Mother Daughter Relationships in Twentieth-<br />
Century Literature,” South Central modern Language Association, 1987 (conceived and<br />
organized this session).<br />
Local<br />
Consultant, DeBakey High School for Health Professions (winner of an Annenberg A+<br />
Challenge Grant to infuse Fine Arts in DeBakey’s curriculum), 2004-2009.<br />
Judge, <strong>University</strong> Interscholastic League (a certified one-act play adjudicator for the state<br />
of <strong>Texas</strong>), 1994-1996.<br />
Evaluator, Cultural Arts Council of Houston (CACH), 1994-l995.<br />
Theater critic, Houston’s Public News, 1993-l994.<br />
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE<br />
<strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>—See description listed earlier for achievements since 2009<br />
as Associate Provost/Associate Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Houston (twenty-one years of employment, 1988-2009)<br />
Special Service Honor<br />
Participant, UH $5 Million Image Campaign. Featured in the UH Office of <strong>University</strong><br />
Advancement/Media Relations’ “Round Table,” a television commercial designed by<br />
Wendy Adair, to enhance the image of the university. The commercial was filmed on<br />
October 20, aired in November 2001, and ran for 18 months. The commercial may be<br />
viewed at http://www.class.uh.edu/english/EnglishDept/<strong>Elizabeth</strong>_<strong>Brown</strong>-<strong>Guillory</strong>.html.<br />
Campus-wide Service<br />
Black Leadership Network—a coalition of African American faculty and staff who work<br />
to support the mission of the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Planning Committee Member and Honorary Chair of “The Event”—A College<br />
Readiness Conference, Fall 2008/Spring 2009<br />
Committee Member:<br />
Office of the President (at UH):<br />
Accompanied <strong>Dr</strong>. Renu Khator to a VIP meet/greet with <strong>Dr</strong>. Maya Angelou, Hobby<br />
Center, January 31, 2009<br />
<strong>Dr</strong>. Khator’s Investiture—2008:<br />
Roles played:<br />
(1) President’s/Chancellor’s Investiture Planning Committee, Summer/Fall 2008<br />
(2) Organized and moderated “Defining Moments in the Lives of Ordinary People<br />
taking on Extraordinary Challenges” (arranged for high profile business and<br />
professional leaders to participate on this panel with UH faculty, which included<br />
<strong>Dr</strong>. Khator), Summer/Fall 2008<br />
(3) Organized and moderated “Inspiring Creative Artists: An Arts Town Hall<br />
Showcasing UH Faculty and the Houston Arts Community” (arranged for over 25<br />
of Houston’s top artists and arts institutions to join this forum), Summer/Fall/2008<br />
(4) Co-Grand Marshal for Investiture Ceremony, Fall 2008<br />
Presidential appointment to the Houston Teachers Institute (HTI) Faculty Advisory<br />
Board, 2002-present<br />
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“Conversations at the Wortham House” series, invited guest, April 26, 2006<br />
President’s/Chancellor’s Inauguration Planning Committee, 2004<br />
Houston Teacher’s Institute (HTI) Search Committee for a Director, 2004 and 2006<br />
President’s Commencement Committee, spring 2003<br />
President’s UH Honorary Degree Advisory Committee, spring 2002<br />
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 1999-2002<br />
President’s Legislative Relations Committee, 1990-1991<br />
President’s Search Committee for Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs,<br />
1991<br />
Office of the Provost at UH:<br />
Selected (one of eight faculty chosen by the Office of the Provost and Alumni Office) to<br />
deliver a lecture to alums during the first Annual Alumni College Weekend, May 20,<br />
2006.<br />
Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee for Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority<br />
Faculty, 1998-2003<br />
Provost’s Task Force to Revise Academic Honesty Policies/Procedures, spring 2001<br />
Undergraduate Council, 2000-2001<br />
Associate Provost’s Committee to Recruit Highly Qualified Students, 2000-2001<br />
Associate Provost’s Search Committee for an Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate<br />
Studies, 2000<br />
Provost’s Search Committee for Dean of the College of Social Sciences, 1999-2000<br />
Provost’s Ad Hoc Committee for the Institutionally Designated Option, 1998<br />
Associate Provost’s Moores <strong>University</strong> Scholars Review Committee, 1996<br />
“Committee of Inquiry,” appointed by Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Faculty<br />
Affairs, 1996<br />
Provost’s UH Writing Proficiency Examination Committee, 1996<br />
Provost’s Celebrating Diversity Planning Committee, 1991-1993<br />
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Provost’s Search Committee for Women’s Studies Director, 1991<br />
COLLEGE<br />
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (formerly HFAC/SOS at UH))<br />
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) Co-Faculty Marshal (including<br />
delivering the invocation), Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008,<br />
Fall 2008, Spring 2009<br />
Member, Faculty Senate, elected for a three-year term, December 2005-December 2008<br />
Member, CLASS Ad Hoc Committee for the Selection of Student Speakers for<br />
Commencement, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008,<br />
Fall 2008, Spring 2009<br />
Member, CLASS Teaching Excellence Award Committee, Spring 2006<br />
Member, Search Committee for School of Theatre dance faculty, Spring 2004<br />
Member, CLASS Religious Studies Meeting Group, 2000-2002<br />
Associate Dean of CLASS, 2000-2001<br />
Chair, Search Committee for the Director for African American Studies Program, 2000-<br />
2001<br />
Member, HFAC Faculty Council, 1999-2000<br />
Member, African American Studies Program Post-doctoral Search Committee, 1999 and<br />
2001<br />
Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1992-1995<br />
Member, Faculty Senate 1991-1993 (representing HFAC)<br />
Director, African American Studies, 1990-1991<br />
DEPARTMENT (at UH)<br />
Committee Member:<br />
English Department Elections, Rules, and Grievance Committee, 2005-2006<br />
English Department Martha Gano Houstoun Committee, 2003-2004, Fall 2004<br />
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English Department Personnel Committee, 1989-1991, 1992-1994, 1995-1997, 1998-<br />
2000, Spring 2002, 2006-2008<br />
English Department Planning Committee, 1991-1993, 1994-1996, 1998-2000, 2006-2008<br />
English Department Recruitment Subcommittee of Planning, 1989-2000, 2001-2002,<br />
2006-2007, 2007-2008<br />
English Department Graduate Studies Committee, 1992-1994, 2001-2002<br />
English Department Upper Division Studies Committee, 1988-1996, 2002-2004, 2005-<br />
2006<br />
English Department Speaker and Colloquium Committee Chair, 2001-2002<br />
English Department Library Committee, 1988-1994, 2004-2005, 2008-2009<br />
COMMUNITY (selected)<br />
Invited radio guest on local NPR, 88.7 KUFT, for the Martin Luther King Celebration. I<br />
commented on <strong>Dr</strong>. King’s legacy and performed excerpts from a personal essay, January<br />
19, 2009.<br />
“MLK’s Blueprint for Change in ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail,’” Featured in a UH<br />
Martin Luther King Celebration Program which was pre-recorded and simulcast on the<br />
UH campus in the <strong>University</strong> Center’s Houston Room during the inauguration of<br />
President Obama, Jan. 20, 2009.<br />
Featured on KHOU-TV, a CBS affiliate, 10:00 p.m. news on October 27, 2008. Served<br />
as expert on blackface minstrelsy, a special on the history of blackface minstrelsy and its<br />
impact on the current resurgence of blackface costumes, Oct. 27, 2008.<br />
Interviewer and moderator of a Q&A with Black British novelist Zadie Smith, Cullen<br />
Theater at Wortham Center (hosted by Inprint, Inc.), Houston, September 17, 2006.<br />
Playwright/Director/Producer of six of my plays—A Little Diversion, The Break of Day,<br />
La Bakair, Saving Grace, Missing Sister, Just A Little Mark—for Houston Metropolitan<br />
Area Schools, 1993-2005.<br />
Interviewer and moderator of a Q&A with American novelist Alice Walker, at <strong>Texas</strong><br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong>, (sponsored by Brazos Bookstore, Inprint, Inc., and TSU), Houston,<br />
April 12, 2004.<br />
Television Interview, Channel 26, Houston Teachers Institute, April 22, 2003.<br />
Judge, annual speech competitions at St. Peter's Catholic School, Houston, 1989-1998.<br />
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Keynote Speaker/Performing Artist, at the annual Mother-Daughter Banquet, Our Mother<br />
of Mercy Church, Rayne, Louisiana, May 10, 1997.<br />
Keynote Speaker, “Choosing a Career that Fosters Self-worth,” Knights of Columbus<br />
Scholarship Awards Night, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, July 11, 1996.<br />
Television Interview, Channel 11 (CBS affiliate) and the Houston Post in January 1995<br />
regarding the censorship of Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by<br />
Conroe ISD administrators.<br />
Radio Interview, KYOK (a fifty-minute interview with Ed Shannon), aired live on<br />
November l5, 1993.<br />
Symposium Panelist, “The History of the African-American in the American Catholic<br />
Church,” St. Peter's Catholic Church, Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, March 20, 1993.<br />
Director, “Writing the Winning Essay” workshop for Top Teens of America, November<br />
21, 1992, <strong>Texas</strong> <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>University</strong> (Humble-Intercontinental Chapter).<br />
Keynote Speaker/Performing Artist, Black Heritage Festival (sponsored by Delta<br />
Sorority), Houston, <strong>Texas</strong>, February 7, 1992.<br />
Keynote Speaker, “Remembering Martin Luther King: His Vision Continues to<br />
Remember Us,” Houston Metropolitan Ministries, South Main Baptist Church, January<br />
21, 1991.<br />
Radio Interview, KLTR (73.7), February 18, 1990 (a thirty-minute feature interview).<br />
Television Interview, Channel 11, Steve Smith’s Morning, aired February 25, 1990.<br />
Radio Interview, KPFT (featured along with playwright Thomas Melancon), aired<br />
October 26, 1990.<br />
Television Interview, Channel 8, Video Workshop, aired January 7, 1990.<br />
Featured Author, book-signing event hosted by Nia’s Art Gallery and Bookstore on July<br />
22, 1989.<br />
Keynote Speaker, “Choosing a Career: A Message of Hope,” “Life’s Choices: A Clinic<br />
for Debutantes,” Rayne Chamber of Commerce, Rayne, Louisiana, March 4, 1989.<br />
Coordinator, visits from Yates High School honor students, Spring 1989.<br />
PROFESSIONAL LISTINGS<br />
Dictionary of International Biography, 35 th Edition, 2009<br />
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Who’s Who in Black Houston, 2007, 2009<br />
Contemporary African American Female Playwrights, 1998<br />
Who’s Who Among Americans in Education, 1996<br />
Who’s Who Among African Americans, 1994, 2004<br />
International Women Playwrights, 1993<br />
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1993<br />
International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, 1989<br />
500 Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays,<br />
1988<br />
References provided upon request<br />
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