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Curriculum Vitae
BRIDGET HARRIS TSEMO
Business Address: Department of Rhetoric,160 EPB
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
E-mail: bridget-tsemo@uiowa.edu
HIGHER EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Chicago 1999 – 2005 English Ph.D. 2005
University of Illinois at Chicago 1997 – 2000 Secondary English MA 1999
University of Illinois at Chicago 1987 – 1997 English BA 1997
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric
and African American Studies August 2004 – Present University of
Iowa
HONORS AND AWARDS
Grants and Fellowships:
Obermann Humanities Symposium (with colleague;
titled From Bourgeois to Boojie: Performances of the Black Middle Class) Fall, 2007
Ford Fellowship funds for NWSA Pre-Conference Fall, 2006
Outstanding Thesis Dissertation Award (UIC) 2006
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Old Gold Grant,
University of Iowa Summer, 2005
SCHOLARSHIPS
Humanities Iowa (with colleague for a documentary titled Black
American Gothic) 2006-2007
Iowa Arts Council Award (with colleague) 2006-2007
Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Summer, 2006
MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
National Women Studies Association (NWSA)
TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Semester Course # and Title Students/Advisees
Spring 2011 129:162 Foundations in
African American Studies
14
Fall 2010 10:003:437 Rhetoric 19
Fall 2010 10:003:438 Rhetoric 19
Spring 2010 045: 030: 001; 129: 061:
001Introduction to African
American Culture
26
Spring 2010 008: 162: 001; 129: 162: 001 24

Fall 2009
Midwest African American
Literature and Culture
10:006:60 Speaking and
Reading
20
Fall 2009 10:006:72 Speaking and
Reading
21
Fall 2009 Advising Teaching Assistants 9
Spring 2009 10:006:20 Speaking and
Reading
12
Spring 2009 Advising Teaching Assistants 11
Fall 2008 8/129:162:001 Midwest
African American Literature
and Culture
15
Fall 2008 10:350: A02 Colloquium
Teaching Rhetoric
9
Spring 2008 Flex Leave: Independent
Studies w/Nicole Gainyard
1
Summer 2008 10:060:002; 8:181:002; 36:
146:002; 48:160:002;
16:160:002
Issues in Rhetoric and
Culture:
Photographs, Class, and
Politics: Making American
Identities
18
Fall 2007 Speaking and Reading 22
Fall 2007 Advising Teaching Assistants 20
Spring 2007 8:162:SCA Midwest African
American Literature and
Culture
6
Spring 2007 10:003:033 Accelerated
Rhetoric
22
Spring 2007 Advising Teaching Assistants 10
Spring 2007 Writing Center Tutor Multiple
Fall 2006 8: 160:001; 10:130:001
African-American
Literary/Rhetorical Criticism
I: Black Social Actors From
Slavery to Freedom
8
Fall 2006 10:350:A04 Colloquium:
Teaching Rhetoric
6
Spring 2006 Advising Teaching Assistants 12
Fall 2005 10: 132:; 12:116:001
African-American Literary
and Rhetorical Criticism
8
Fall 2005 10:350:A02 Professional
Development Program (PDP)
10
Spring 2005 10:002:062 Rhetoric II 21

Spring 2005 Advising Teaching Assistants 10
Fall 2004 Rhetoric I 22
Students Supervised
Degree Objective Student Name Years Outcome
Ph.D. Candidate in Eve Rosenbaum 2007-2008 Served on
English
Comprehensive Exam
Committee (Passed);
Serving on
Dissertation
Committee
Ph.D. Candidate in Joanna Davis-
Served on
English
McElligatt
Fall 2007 Comprehensive Exam
Committee (Passed)
Ph.D. Candidate in Nicole Gainyard 2007-2009 Preparing for
English
Comprehensive
Exam; Independent
Study to complete
comprehensive
Essay(Spring 2008)
Ph.D. Candidate in Nicole Gainyard 2009-Now Invited to serve on
English
Dissertation
Committee Fall 2011
Ph.D.Candidate in Charlene Aaron Fall 2010 Served on
Nursing
Comprehensive Exam
Committee (Had to
Revise)
Ph.D. Candidate in Darius Carter 2011 Invited to serve on
American Studies
Dissertation
Committee 2011
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Under Review and Forthcoming (Spring 2011): Recentering Power in Pedagogy: From
Feminism to “Feminisms.” Feminist Studies.
Forthcoming (April 2011): From Bourgeois To Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances.
Co-Edited. Collection with Vershawn Young. Wayne State University Press.
"The Politics of Self-Identity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods." The Southern
Literary Journal 41.2 (2009): 21-37. Peer Reviewed
“Gwendolyn Brooks.” African American Women Writers: An A-Z Guide. Ed, Yolanda Williams
Page. Greenwood Press, 2006: 49-55. Encyclopedia Entry

“How God Made Butterflies” and “Lester and Hurston.” Tell Me a Story: Folk Tales Then and
Now. Hall, James C., consulting editor; Baker, Charles F. and Rosalie F. Baker, eds.
2006. Invited to write the Essay
“How to Write a Memorable Speech.” Footsteps: African American Heritage. Peterborough,
NH: Cobblestone, 2006. Invited to write the Essay
Critical Summary: “Contending Forces.” Footsteps: African American Heritage. Peterborough,
NH: Cobblestone, 2005: 6-9. Invited to write the Essay
Book Review on Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive
Narratives in French by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. African American Review, Vol.
35, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 314-315.
“CultureWise: Narrative as Research/Research as Narrative.” With Jennifer Cohen, Paula
Mathieu, James Sosnoski, and Vershawn Ashanti Young. Works and Days 17, 2000.
Written to fulfill a Grant Requirement
Reprinted as: “CultureWise: Narrative as Research/Research as Narrative.” With
Jennifer Cohen, Paula Mathieu, James Sosnoski, and Vershawn Ashanti
Young. Re-Mapping Narrative:Technology’s Impact on the Way We Write.
Panucci, Gian S. and Nicholas Mauriello, eds. New Jersey: Hampton Press,
2004, 2008.
Works In Progress:
Monograph: Confronting An Unwashed Democracy: Black Racial Uplift at the Nadir
Conference Presentations
“Theorizing Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Crossroads of the Popular and the Profane”
Chair and Commenter—Invited by Colleague; Introduced and Responded to the panel
Competitive—Reviewed by a Subcommittee and chosen by Rank
American Studies Association, October 2008
“The Difference Difference Makes: Building and Sustaining Racial and Generational Diversity
in Research Networks and Women’s Studies”
Invited without Review
Panelist
The National Council for Research on Women 25 th Anniversary Annual Conference , June 2007
“’I Have Paid First-Class Fare’: The Black Middle Class Performing Full Citizenship”
Invited without Review—Talk to University of Iowa Colleagues
POROI Seminar, November 2007
“Spike Lee’s Politics & Aesthetics” on the panel titled “Ocular Proof”
Conference Presentation
Competitive—Reviewed by the African American Studies Department at Northwestern
New Directions, Northwestern University, April 2007

“Women of Color Writing: Negotiating Gender and Ethnicity”
Panel Discussion
Women’s Studies Program Event, “64 Days of Nonviolence”
Invited without Review
Southern Connecticut University, March 2007
“Critical Race Theories: An Examination by M. Jacqui Alexander and Andrea Smith”
Moderator—Introduced Alexander, Formally responded to her presentation, Conducted Q and A
National Women’s Studies Association, June 2006
“’Black as Universal in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poetry” on the panel titled “Rhetoric, Literature and
the Contemporary Black Experience,” Organizer and Chair—Constructed and Proposed the
Panel, Introduced the Panelists, and Served as Formal Respondent
Competitive—Panel was Peer Reviewed and Ranked
Conference Presentation
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), March 2006
“The Penalties of Black Masculinity in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods” on the panel
titled “From Bourgeoisie to Boo-jie: Mapping the Economics of Identity and the Black Middle-
Class,” Organizer and Chair—Constructed and Proposed the Panel to MLA
Competitive---Panel was Peer Reviewed and Ranked
Conference Presentation
Modern Language Association (MLA), December 2005
“Performing Heteronormativity in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me” on the panel titled “E/racing the
Black/Brown Female Body: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Movement between Nationalism
and Transnationalism in Contemporary Film”
Competitive—Panel was Peer Reviewed and Ranked
Conference Presentation
National Women Society Association (NWSA), June 2005
“Hypersexualities in Spike Lee’s Movies”
Competitive—Panel was Peer Reviewed and Ranked
Conference Presentation
National Communication Association (NCA), November 2005
Talks to University of Iowa Colleagues
"’Good and Bad Hair’: Hair Racial Uplift in Spike Lee's Early Films”
Rhetoric Seminar
POROI, November 16, 2010
“Maps Matter: Iowa City Boundaries and ‘Neighborhood Imaginaries’ Media, Space and Race:
The Case of the ‘Southeast Side’ of Iowa City”
Invited without Review—Presentation to the Public and General Academic Community
POROI, March 2010
“Corporeality and Capitalism in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me”
Featured Speaker
Invited without Review

American Studies Speaking Series, “Thinking Outside the Box,” University of Iowa, November
2006
“The Politics of Self Identity in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods”
Featured Speaker
Invited without Review
POROI, University of Iowa, January 2006
“Performing Black Masculinity in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Prose Pieces”
Featured Speaker
Invited without Review
CLASS, November 2005
SERVICE
Professional
Reader, Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA)
Reader, African-American Review, 2007-Present
Midwestern Regional Delegate member, NWSA 2005-Present
Regional Delegate, MLA 2006
Midwestern Regional Delegate member, NWSA 2005-Present
Co-Chair for Women of Color Leadership Project, NWSA 2005-2007
Midwestern Regional Delegate Assembly Member, Modern Language Association,
2004-2006
College
Advisor for Rhetoric Graduate Instructors, 2010-2011
Co-Facilitator. From Bourgeois To Boojie: A Symposium
Chair. Research Committee Chair, in charge of bringing Dr. Valerie Smith,
chair of Center of African American Studies at Princeton University
Member. African American Studies Committee, 2005-2006
Department
Executive Committee, Rhetoric 2010-2011
Undergraduate Committee, African American Studies 2009-Present
Founder and Facilitator. Rhetoric Public Forum
“Gulf States Underwater: America Uncovered,” September, 2005
Member. Executive Committee, Rhetoric 2004-2005
Founder and Facilitator. Faculty Colloquium, Rhetoric 2004-2006