Dr. Alison Van Nyhuis Assistant Professor   Office:    Williams Hall 214 Phone:   (910) 672-2506 Fax:       (910) 672-1425 Email:    avannyhu@uncfsu.edu
EDUCATION		University of Florida (Gainesville, FL).  Alumni Fellowship, 2003-2007.  Ph.D. in English, 2007. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL).  Teaching Assistantship, 2001-2003.  M.A. in English, 2003.  Northwestern College (Orange City, IA).  B.A. in humanities (English emphasis), cultural studies minor, and sociology minor, 2001. Central College Abroad: Granada, Spain, Spring 2000. Central College Abroad: London, England, Fall 1999.
PUBLICATIONS		Rev. of Teaching Literature and Language Online, ed. Ian Lancashire.  Modern Language Studies (Forthcoming Summer 2012). Print. "Teaching Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven in a Postcolonial Context." Radical Teacher 93 (2012). Print. "American Dreams and Nightmares: Migration and Myth in Claude McKay's Twentieth-Century American Poetry." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses  62 (2011): 31-42. Print. "Negotiating Colonial Roots and Gendered Places: Machismo and Feminism in Esmeralda Santiago's América's Dream." Ometeca 16 (2011): 32-56. Print. "Example of a Well-Designed Course." Designing Better Learning Experiences. Nov. 2010. Web. “Revolution and Modern American Poetry: Genevieve Taggard’s Calling Western Union.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 52 (2006): 129-35. Print.  “Moving Beyond Black and White Issues: Jewishness and Symbols of Womanhood in Abeng.” Journal of West Indian Literature 13.1-2 (2005): 176-95. Print.  Rev. of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies, by Mimi Sheller. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 35.3-4 (2004): 207-09. Print. “The Genevieve Taggard Effect: Producing Poetic Narratives and Literary Misfits.” How2  2.1 (2003): n. pag. Web. “Anthologies Containing Genevieve Taggard’s Work,” compiled with Julia Lisella. How2  2.1 (2003): n. pag. Web. 25 entries on Caribbean authors and a literary movement for the Encyclopedia of World Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. Marie Josephine Diamond. New York: Facts on File, 2003. Print. “Nationalistic Myopia: Pocomania’s Reflection and Projection of the Jamaican Nation.” Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture 2 (2002):115-127. Print. Articles and photographs for the Northwest Iowa Review, Summer 2001. Print.
TEACHING COURSES		Bibliography and Methods of Research: Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature Online (ENGL 507D) Senior Seminar: Caribbean-American Migration Literature (ENGL 470) Technical Writing Online (ENGL 345D) Business and Professional Writing Online (ENGL 344D) Business and Professional Writing (ENGL 344) World Literature II Online (ENGL 212D) World Literature II (ENGL 212) World Literature I (ENGL 211) English Composition II (ENGL 120) English Composition I Learning Community: Stories of the Modern World (ENGL 110LC) English Composition I (ENGL 110)
RESEARCH INTERESTS		Modern and Contemporary Literature, especially Caribbean, American, and British Postcolonial Theory Gender Studies
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