October 6, 2018
DIANA YORK BLAINE
EDUCATIONPh.D., English, UCLA, 1995.
M.A., English, UCLA, 1989.
B.A., English, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1986.
ACADEMICMellon Mentoring Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Students,
HONORSUniversity of Southern California, Spring 2014
Panhellenic Council Recognition for Excellence, University of Southern California, Fall 2013
Professor of the Year. Gamma Sigma Alpha. University of Southern
California, 2007.
Remarkable Woman Award, University of Southern California March, 2005.
Top 10 Faculty/Staff Mentor. Office for Residential Education, University of Southern California, 2005.
Advanced Writing Teaching Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2003-4.
University Forum on Teaching and Learning Pursuit of Excellence
in Teaching Award, University of North Texas 1998.
Professing Women Award, University of North Texas, 1997, 1998,
1999.
GRANTS ANDLarger Faculty Development Award, 2018-19
FELLOWSHIPS
Larger Faculty Development Award, 2017-18
SHURF Grant, Dornsife College, Summer 2017
Larger Faculty Development Award, 2014
URAP Grant, University of Southern California, Summer 2014
GE Course Development Grant, Dornsife College, 2014
NTT Faculty Development Grant, Dornsife College, 2013
URAP Grant, University of Southern California, Summer 2013
NTT Larger Faculty Development Grant, Dornsife College, 2012
NTT Larger Faculty Development Grant, Dornsife College, 2011
Next Level Initiative, The College, University of Southern California, 2010
Research Grant, The College Commons, University of Southern California, 2010
Course Enhancement Grant, The College Commons, University of Southern California, 2010
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North
Texas, 2000.
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North
Texas, 1999.
NEH Institute, "History of Death in America," Columbia
University, June 1998.
Bradford Booth/Majl Ewing Dissertation Fellowship Department of
English, UCLA, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS“When the Political Becomes Personal: Representations of Abortion in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Juno,” in Mad, Bad, and Dangerous: The Politics of Reproduction in the age of Neoliberalism, Thompson, Mary and Modhumita Roy, eds. Columbus: Ohio State Press, (forthcoming)
“Mainstream Representations of Yoga: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Control of the Female Body,” in Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis, Berila, Klein, Roberts, eds. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
“The Topless Professor in the Digital Age,” inScandal in the Digital Age, Hinda Mandell and Gina Chen, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
“Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit,” in The Power of Death: Perceptions of Death in the Western World, Maria-Jose Bianco and Ricarda Vidal, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Press, 2014.
“’We Are Going to See the King’: Christianity, Capitalism and Celebrity at Michael Jackson’s Memorial,” in Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle. Christopher Smit, ed. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012.
“’Tell Me, Does She Talk During Sex?’: The Gendering of Permissible Speech on Dr. Phil.” Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, October 2010.
"Death and the Crying of Lot 49," in Thomas Pynchon: Reading From the Margins, ed. Niran Abbas. London: Associated University Presses, 2003.
"The Abjection of Addie and Other Myths of the Maternal
in As I Lay Dying," William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. (reprint). East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003.
Review of The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison. Pynchon Notes 50-51, Spring-Fall 2002.
Forward. Where Have All the Smart Women Gone? By Alice Rowe.
Seattle: Hara Publishing, 2001.
"Death and the Novel: An Introduction," Studies in the Novel 32:2
(Summer 2000),107-111.
"Necrophilia, Pedophilia, or Both?: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the
JonBenet Ramsey Murder," Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives
on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity, ed. M. Carstarphen and S.
Zavoina. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 51-62.
"The Abjection of Addie and Other Myths of the Maternal
in As I Lay Dying," Mississippi Quarterly 47 (1994), 419-39.
Review of Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology, ed. J. Tabbi and M. Wutz. Pynchon Notes 40-41(1997), 218-220.
"Coming Out of the Closet: Teaching Women's Studies in Non-
Women's Studies Classrooms," Women in Higher Education:
Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference
(1997) 568-73.
COURSESSWMS 219: Introduction to Feminist Theory (2018)
DEVELOPEDSWMS 301:Advanced Gender Theory (2018)
SWMS 311: Gender Studies and the Community Internship (2018)
SWMS 392:Junior Seminar in Gender and Sexuality Studies (2018)
SWMS 499: Death and Gender in New York (Maymester) (2018)
SWMS 499: Death and Gender in Los Angeles (Maymester) (2018)
SWMS 212: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality (2017)
GSEM 120: Death and Gender in Media (2016)
SOCI 499: Dead Los Angeles (Maymester) (2013)
ARLT 100: Fatal Fantasies (2012)
EVENTS“A Will for the Woods” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
ORGANIZEDDavis School of Gerontology, February 2015
“Facing our Final Failure: How to talk about Dying.” Dornsife Commons,
USC, October 2011
“Signs of Life: Decoding the Dead Body.” Dornsife Commons, USC, October 2011. Discussion with Thomas Laqueur.
“Transgressing Mortal Boundaries.” Panel discussion on the science of Near Death Experiences. The College Commons, USC, March 2011.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Field Trip Tour Guide, The College Commons, USC, October 2010.
“Are Celebrities Mortal?” Panel Discussion with Leo Brody and Ann Porter. The College Commons, USC, October 2010.
INVITED“Love Your Body,”guest speaker, Birnkrant Residential College, Fall 2016
TALKS
“The Mainstreaming of Yoga,” Interfaith Council, USC. October 2016
Queer and Ally Student Assembly guest speaker, USC. November 2013
“Whose Body is it, Anyway?” Women’s Leadership Retreat, Center for Women and Men, USC. Malibu. March 2013.
Queer and Ally Student Assembly guest speaker, USC. September 2012.
“Dykes We Like.” GLBTA and WSA, October 2011.
Images of Women in the Media, Women’s Leadership Retreat, Center for Women and Men, USC. Malibu, March 2011.
“Dykes We Like.” GLBTA and WSA, University of Southern California
April2010.
“What’s Your Fantasy?” Women’s Student Assembly, March 2010.
Pro-Anorexia Websites: A National Eating Disorders Week Discussion. Women’s Student Assembly, USC, February 2010.
“Media, Women and Leadership.” Women’s Leadership Retreat, University of Southern California. Running Springs. March 2009.
Guest Faculty Speaker. Associated Trustee and Presidential Scholars Retreat.
University of Southern California. March 2008.
“The Myths of Sisterhood.” Women’s Leadership Workshop. Center For Women and Men. University of Southern California, January 2008.
“What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?: Making Ethical Life Choices.” LEADership Week. University of Southern California. January 2008.
Trans/Feminist Luncheon, Guest Panel Member. University of Southern California, November 2007.
“Feminism and Gay Rights: Conflicts and Correspondences.” Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization, University of Southern California, September 2007.
“What Matters to Me and Why.” Office of Religious Life, University of
Southern California, Spring 2007.
“Women and Spirituality,” featured speaker, Women’s Student Assembly, University of Southern California, Spring 2007.
“Dinner With Diana Blaine,” Women’s Student Assembly, University of Southern California, September 2006.
“To Thine Own Self Be True.” Gamma Phi Beta Scholarship Dinner,
University of Southern California. November 2006.
“Speak Out.” USC Undergraduate Student Government's Diversity Affairs, University of Southern California. October 2006.
“The F Word.” Women’s Student Assembly, University of
Southern California. January 2006.
“Are We Feminazis?” Women’s Student Assembly, University
of Southern California. November 2005.
“The Social Context of Plastic Surgery.” Feminist Majority
Leadership Alliance. University of Southern California. April 2005.
“Why I Won’t Get Breast Implants.” Women Artists/Altered Bodies. ArtsBridge Salon, University of Southern California. February 2005.
“Confronting Internal Sexism,” Workshop Session, Women’s Leadership Retreat, University of Southern California. Malibu, January 2005.
“Confronting External Sexism,” Workshop Session, Women’s Leadership Retreat, University of Southern California. Malibu, January 2005.
“The Beautiful Death: Female Corpses in Art and Advertising.”
Institute for the Humanities Fall Colloquium Series. University of Manitoba, November 2004.
“Using Corpses to Sell Coats: Dead Women in Advertising.” Parkside International Residential College Speaker Series. University of Southern California, November 2004.
“’I did it for me’: Why Smart Women Get Breast Implants.” Center for Feminist Research. University of Southern California, April 2004.
“The Only Good Woman is a Dead One: The Beautiful Female Corpse in Art and Advertising. University of Southern California, December 2003.
“Thinking for Yourself.” Kappa Kappa Gamma. University of Southern California. March 2003.
"A Beautiful Death?: Dead Women in Literature and Popular
Culture." American Association of University Women,
Lewisville, TX. October 1999.
"The Role of Women's Studies in the Non-Women's Studies
Classroom," Featured Speaker, Women's History Month,
Longwood College, VA, March 1997.
INTERVIEWS“The Kenny Jones Show,”radio interview on gender politics, KUCI, July 2017
Female Bodybuilding article, featured expert, Rockford Register Star, 2016
News segment on yoga and body image, Annenberg Television, Nov 2013.
“After the End: A Documentary About Loss,” Michael Ross, Director. February 2013.
“The Toast,” featured guest. USC Trojan Vision. October 2012.
GlobalGirl Media, body image expert. April 2012.
“Birth of the Independent Woman, Part 1 and Part 2.” Mad Men Season Two. DVD. 2009
Etiology of Eating Disorders, USC Newstation, November 2009.
Rita Cosby Live and Direct. MSNBC. 2006
CONFERENCE“Death and the Maiden, Literally: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the JonBenet
PAPERSRamsey Case 20 Years On.” Death and the Maiden: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Women and Death. The University of Winchester, England. July 2017.
“Capitalism and the Commodification of the Female Body in the
Marketing of Yoga.” California Sociological Association. Riverside, November 2014.
“Yoga, Capitalism and the Scapegoating of the Fat Body.” ACA/PCA
Southwest Conference. Albuquerque, February 2014.
“Vampires and the Undead in Twilightand She Said Yes.” Pacific and Modern Language Association, San Diego, November 2013.
“Dead Like Me?: Constructions of Subjectivity at the ‘Mummies of the World’Exhibit. The Carnival of Death: Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas. Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. February 2011.
“’Man Up’: The Rhetoric of Dominant Masculine Sexuality on Dr Phil.”
The Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City, April 2009.
“Please Like Me: The Politics of Codependent Grading.”
Writing Programs Conference, University of Southern California, Spring 2002.
“Should We Teach Our Students There Are More Than Two Sexes?”
Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA. December 2001.
"Memento Mommy: The Dead Female Body in As I Lay Dying."
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville KY,
February 2000.
"The Link Between Women and Death in Art and Advertising." The
Female Principle: Eclipses and Re-Emergences. Arlington,
TX. March 2000.
"The Recalcitrant Female Corpse in American Literature,"
International Narrative Conference, Hanover NH, May 1999
"Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Sexual Rhetoric in the
JonBenet Ramsey Case," CCCC, Atlanta GA, March 1999.
"Death and The Crying of Lot 49," International Pynchon
Conference, University of London, June 1998.
"Women's Studies and the Job Market: Voices from the Front," South
Central Women's Studies Association, Houston, March 1998.
"Love and Death in Member of the Wedding," Twentieth Century
Literature Conference, Louisville KY, February 1998.
"'Thank Heaven for Little Girls': JonBenet Ramsey and Our Cultural Obsession with Dead Women's Bodies," Women's Studies
Colloquium, University of North Texas, February 1998.
"Bringing Down the House: The Fatal Feminine in Poe's Fall of the
House of Usher," Modern Language Association, Toronto,
December 1997.
"Better Read Than Dead: The Colonized Female Corpse in American Literature," South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, October 1997.
"The Male Author's Use of Dead Women as Inspiration for
Literature," South Central Women's Studies Association,
College Station, March 1997.
"Isn't She Lovely? Representations of Dead Women in Literature,"
American Culture Association, San Antonio, March 1997.
"Coming Out of the Closet: Teaching Women's Studies in Non-
Women's Studies Classrooms," Women in Higher Education
Conference, Fort Worth, January 1997.
"'The Disruptive Return of the Excluded': Thomas Pynchon's V.,"
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville,
February 1997.
"Beloved: Morrison's Reinscription of the Dead Woman as Muse,"
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville,
February 1995.
TEACHINGProfessor, Teaching
EXPERIENCE University of Southern California, 2015-present
SWMS 499: Death and Gender in Los Angeles (Maymester)
SWMS 499: Death and Gender in New York (Maymester)
SWMS 212: Intro to Gender and Sexuality
SWMS 301: Intro to Feminist Theory
GESM 120: Death and Gender in Media and Culture
WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for the Arts and Humanities
Associate Professor, Teaching
University of Southern California, 2008-2015
WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for the Arts and Humanities
WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences
SWMS 301: Introduction to Feminist Theory
SOC 499: Dead Los Angeles (Maymester)
ARLT 100: Fatal Fantasies: Representations of Death in Contemporary America
Senior Lecturer
University of Southern California, 2003-2008
WRIT 340:Advanced Writing for the Arts and Humanities
WRIT 340:Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences
SWMS 301:Introduction to Feminist Theory
ENG 212:Literature and Society
Visiting AssistantProfessor of English and Writing
University of Southern California, 2000-2003
Advanced Writing for the Arts and Humanities
Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences
Introduction to Feminist Theory
Survey of American Literature
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas, 1996-2000
American Literature Survey to 1870
American Literature Survey from 1870 to the present
Modern American Fiction
Feminist Literature and Theory Since Beauvoir
Death, Mourning and Suicide in Literature
Transgressive Literature
Influential Writing by Women
Feminism and Academia: An Interdisciplinary Study
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Redlands, 1993-96
Images of Women in Literature
Feminism: Literature and Theory Survey
French Feminist Theory Seminar
Critical Thinking and Writing
Intermediate Composition
Introduction to Short Fiction
Instructor of Literature
Claremont McKenna College, 1993-96
By and About Women: Literature and Theory
Literary Composition and Analysis
Teaching Assistant, Associate and Fellow
UCLA, 1987-92
English Literature, 1660-1832
English Literature, 1832 to the Present
Rhetoric in Modern American Culture
Approaches to University Writing
English Composition, Rhetoric and Language
Critical Reading and Writing
TEACHINGMedia Literacy; Women’s and Gender Studies; Thanatology;
INTERESTSFeminist Theory; Rhetoric and Composition; American Culture in a Global Context
ACADEMICAt USC:
SERVICEAdministrative Positions
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Gender Studies Department, 2018- 2020
Committee Work:
Joint Senate Provost Mentoring Committee (2017-2019)
University Committee on RTPC Promotions (2017-9)
Curriculum Review Committee, Gender Studies (2017-19)
Personnel Committee, Writing Program (2017-8)
Merit Review Committee, Writing Program (2017-8)
Merit Review Committee Co-Chair, Writing Program (2016)
Faculty Tenure & Privileges Appeals Committee (2015-2018)
University Committee on Academic Review (2014-2016)
Curriculum Committee, Gender Studies Program, (2015-2016)
Personnel Committee, Writing Program (2009-2011; 2015-2016)
Committee to Evaluate Faculty Review Procedures, Writing Program, Chair (2015-16)
Trustees Committee on Student Affairs Faculty Observer (2013- 2015)
Member-at-Large, Executive Board, Academic Senate (2012- 2014)
NTT Promotions Committee, Dornsife (2010-2015)
Faculty Environment Committee (2011-2013)
Senate Committee on Non-Tenure Track Affairs, (2011-12)
Faculty Council, Dornsife (2009-2012)
Secretary, Faculty Council (2011-12)
Faculty Caucus, Dornsife (2009-2012)
Faculty Merit Review Evaluation Appeals Committee. College (2010)
Academic Senate, University (2009-2014)
Executive Board Nominating Committee, Academic Senate (2010)
Other Service:
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Gender Studies Program, (2016-17)
RTPC Promotions Mentorship Panel, Dornsife, (2017)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Jeff Solomon (2017)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Leah Pate (2107)
Faculty Advisor for defrACT student organization (2017-8)
Gender Chair Selection Consultation Committee (2017)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Karen Sternheimer (2016)
Faculty Supervisor, Capstone Project, Ashley Seruya (2016)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Karina Eileraas (2016)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Indra Mukhopadhyay (2015)
Faculty Evaluation Committee for Erin Moore (2015-16)
Faculty Mentor, Leah Pate (2015-2018)
Part Time Faculty Mentoring Panel, Fall 2015
NTT Mentorship Panel, Dornsife College, Fall 2015
Promotion Panel, Writing Program, Spring 2015
Directed Study, Capstone Project, Sarah Marson, Dornsife, Fall 2014
Directed Study, Monica Ramsey, Dornsife, Summer 2014
NTT Mentorship Panel, Dornsife College, May 2014
Beyond Books, Faculty Table Host, October 2013
Directed Study, Doctoral Research, Phoenix Delgado, Thornton. 2013.
UndergraduateWriter’s Conference Panel Moderator, March 2013
Directed Research, URAP funds: Breanna Betts, 2013
Scholarship Dinner, Sorority, April 2013
Moderator, Thematic Option Research Conference, 2012
Director, Undergraduate Research Project, Cassandra Stover, 2012
Doctoral Committee Member, Marika Piday, Cinema, 2012
Faculty Mentor, Parkside International Dorm event, September 2012
Scholarship Dinners, Sororities, October, November 2012
Scholarship Dinners, Sororities, September, October 2011
Beyond Books, Faculty Table Host, 2008, 2010, 2011
Guest Lecture, Dr. Amy Parish, Human Sexuality, September 2011
Moderator, Thematic Option Research Conference, April 2011
UndergraduateWriter’s Conference Panel Moderator, March 2011 UndergraduateWriter’s Conference Panel Moderator, March 2010
Dinner with International Students, November 2010
“Lesbian X-Rated” Panel Moderator, November 2009
GBLT Forum Moderator, October 2009
Getting Into Graduate School, Presenter, Parkside Dorm October 2009
Faculty Fellow, Parkside Dorm, 2008-present
Summer Bridge Program, Guest Lecturer 2007
Parent’s Dinner Table Host Spring 2007
Guest Lecturer, Dr Parish’s SWMS Spring 2007/Fall 2007
Mellon Mentoring Program Steering Committee, 2004
Faculty Advisor, Democracy Matters, 2004-
Faculty Fellow, Birnkrant Dorm. 2004-5
Faculty Fellow, Parkside Dorm, 2003-4
Remarkable Women Awards Committee, 2004
Empowering Women Guest Speaker, 2004
Moderator, Take Back the Night 2004
Moderator, “The F Word” Panel, 2003
Feminist Majority Leadership Association Banquet, 2002
At UNT:
Guest Editor, Studies in the Novel 32:2 (Summer 2000).
Acting Editor, Studies in the Novel, Fall 1997.
Book Review Editor, Studies in the Novel, Fall 1997-2000
At UCLA:
Teaching Assistant Peer Consultant, UCLA, 1990-1.
Field Studies Coordinator, UCLA, 1991-2.
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