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Tracy M. Caldwell

Excelsior Title:  

Program Director

Degrees:  

BA, English, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
PhD, English, specializing in 19th Century British Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Film and Women's Studies, Stony Brook University

Programs and Courses

ENG 360 Children’s Literature: Developed and have taught
ENG 350 Modern Literature: Developed and have taught
MLS 500 Graduate Research and Writing: Developed and have taught
 


Research and Publications

  • Paper Presentation "Dangerous and Unnatural: Female Desire and Female Threat in H. Rider Haggard's She and Bram Stoker's Dracula, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland College, October, 2004.
  • Paper Presentation  "Voyages, Voyeurism and Validation: 19th Century Travel Writing and Cannibal Encounters in Africa."  International Society for Travel Writing Biennial Conference: The Voyage Out. October 21-24, 2004. Paper accepted for publication.
  • "Identity Making from Soap to Nuts: the Role of Abjection in David Fincher's Fight Club." M/C Media Culture Journal, March, 2003.
  • "Tales at the Borders: Fairy Tales and Maternal Cannibalism."  Reconstructionwww.reconstruction.ws  Spring, 2002.
  • "Situated Spaces: Visual Appropriation of the Body, Science Fiction Parallelisms of Inner/Outer Space."  City University of New York Conference - Y(OUR) Body Is a Battleground:  Fleshing Out Power, 1995.

Published by Whitston Publishing, January 2006 in EBSCO's Literary Reference Center online database.

Author of the following:
In the series Understanding Literature:  Literary Contexts in Novels:

  • Kate Chopin's The Awakening
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
  • H. Rider Haggard's She
  • Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
  • Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time

In the series Understanding Literature:  Literary Contexts in Poetry and Short Stories:

  • John Updike's "The A & P"
  • Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
  • James Joyce's "The Dead"
  • Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
  • William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"
  • Max Apple's "Vegetable Love"
  • Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?"
  • Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

In the series Understanding Literature:  Major Literary Themes:

  • "The Damaging Effects of Social and Racial Bias"
  • "Difficult Adult and Child Relationships"
  • "The Dangers of Playing God"
  • "The Limitations Imposed by Social Class"
  • "The Negative Effects of Parent and Child Conflict"
  • "Coming to Terms With Oneself"
  • "Refusing to Accept Death"

Development and/or publication of educational materials

Published by Whitston Publishing, January 2006 in EBSCO's
Literary Reference Center online database.

Editor of the following:

  • Guide to Understanding Literary Themes.
  • Guide to Understanding Literature in Context: Novels.
  • Guide to Understanding Literature in Context: Poetry and Short Stories.
  • Guide to Understanding Plays Essays and Memoirs

 


Research and Publications

NACADA award Outstanding New Faculty Advisor 2008

Who’s Who of American Teachers 2000
Teaching Assistantship, Women’s Studies Dept. SUNY Stony Brook 1995
Teaching Assistantship, English Department SUNY Stony Brook 1994-1996
Marilyn Brown Fitzpatrick Award for Excellence in Literary Study 1992
Alumni Scholarship, Nazareth College 1988-1992
Founder’s Scholarship, Nazareth College 1988-1992
Phi Ro Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta 1991