Jill T. Richardson, Curriculum Vitae

JILL TOLIVER RICHARDSON, PH.D.

EDUCATION

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

2008Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature

Dissertation: “Narratives of Displacement: The Evolution of the Caribbean-American Transnational Narrative”
Committee: Barbara Webb (Adviser), Meena Alexander (Reader), Robert Reid-Pharr (Reader)

2003Master of Philosophy in English Literature

2002Awarded Distinction on Oral Qualifying Exams

Examination Fields: Postcolonial Theory and The Black Atlantic, African-American Literature Antebellum to the Present, African Diaspora and Transnational Literature

Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

1999Bachelor of Arts

Honor’s Thesis: “Words of Resistance: The Poetry of Sonia Sanchez”

EMPLOYMENT

Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York

Fall 2016-Associate Professor of English

Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York

2008-presentAssistant Professor of English

CUNY Graduate Center, Office of Educational Opportunities and Diversity Programs

2008 Academic Consultant

Barnard College, First-Year Writing Program

2006 Adjunct Instructor

Hunter College of the City University of New York, Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies

2003-2005CUNY Writing Fellow

Hunter College of the City University of New York, Mellon Mays Fellowship Program

2004-2006Coordinator and Instructor, Summer Research Program

Hunter College of the City University of New York, Department of English

2001- 2003 Graduate Teaching Fellow

John Jay College of the City University of New York, Basic Skills Program

2001-2004 Adjunct Instructor, Summer Preparatory Program for the CUNY ACT Exam (Entrance exam for CUNY colleges)

John Jay College of the City University of New York, Department of English

2000 (Fall)Adjunct Instructor

PUBLISHED WORK

The Afro-Latino/a Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

Afro-Latin@ Diasporas Series, Palgrave Macmillan. (2016)

“Writing Her Legacy: A Conversation with Maria (Mariposa) Teresa Fernández.” CENTRO Journal 28.1 (Fall 2015): 168-179.

“Gendered Migrations: The Migratory Experience in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.”Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production.(March 2011)

WORK IN PROGRESS

“1986: The Rise of the Crack Era and Its Influence on the American National Imagination” article and book chapter

SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS

Summer 2017 Guest Editor, Special Issue: Black and Latin@: Conceptualizing

Afro-Latinidad in Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance, Label Me Latina/o Journal.

2013 – present Referee, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Journal

2012 – presentReferee, Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-

First Centuries Latino Literary Production

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2017-2018CUNY Chancellor’s Research Fellowship

2012-2013 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship

2012-2013 CUNY Scholar Incentive Award

2011CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program

2010UNCF/Mellon Fellows Honoree

TEACHING

Eng 358 Contemporary Urban Writers, BMCC

Eng 338 Latino/a Literature, BMCC

Eng 336 Postcolonial Literature, BMCC

Eng 095 Developmental Intensive Writing, BMCC

Eng 101 Composition I, BMCC

Eng 201 Composition II Writing About Literature, BMCC

Eng 1201 Reinventing Literary History: Legacy of the Mediterranean, Barnard College

Eng 251 Contemporary Black and Latino Literature, Hunter College

Eng 321 African-American Narratives, Hunter College

Eng 220 Introduction to Literature, Hunter College

Eng 101 Writing Composition, Hunter College, John Jay College

Mellon Mays Summer Program Critical and Theoretical Backgrounds and Research Techniques, Hunter College

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION

2016“Memory and Afro-Cuban Identity in H.G. Carrillo’sLoosing My Espanish” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Hartford, Connecticut (Panel Presentation)

2015Symposium: Beyond Authenticity: The Aesthetic and Political Excesses of Hip-Hop Culture, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York (Moderator)

2015 “Walking Without Skin: The Afro-Caribbean Magical Realist Tradition in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints”Latino/a Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, New York, New York (Panel Presentation)

2015“Historical Loss: Slavery, Art, and Teaching” Latino/a Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, New York, New York (Panel Moderator)

2014“The Pleasures and Pains of Hip Hop Listening: New Aesthetic Approaches” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles California (Session Organizer and Chair)

2014 ‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era”Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Susquehanna University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Panel Presentation)

2014 “Teaching Hip Hop as African-American Historical Narrative in the Post-Civil Rights Era and Age of Obama” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Susquehanna University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Roundtable Presentation)

2013 “The Afro-Latino Student in Literature”Beyond Access: Latino Education and the Community College Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY,New York, NY(Panel Presentation)

2013 “Latina/o Hermeneutics: Masculinity, Language, and the Challenge of Reading” Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures Conference, John Jay College CUNY, New York, NY

(Panel Moderator)

2012 “Theorizing Male Desire and the Drug Lord Persona” Modern Language Association Convention, Seattle, Washington (Panel Chair and Paper Presentation)

2012“Theorizing Male Desire and the Drug Lord Persona” National Popular Culture Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

(Panel Chair and Presentation)

2011 “Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot

Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” Afro-Latinos Now:

Strategies for Visibility and Action Conference, The CUNY Graduate

Center, New York, NY (Panel Presentation)

2011“Challenges and Opportunities: Establishing Your Identity as a 21st Century Scholar” UNCF/Mellon Programs Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (Panel Presentation)

2011 New York University Summer Faculty Network Seminar

“Afro-Latino Culture and History”New York, NY (Participant)

2011 “Relocating Postcoloniality: Writing the postcolonial experience in

Edwidge Danticat'sBreath, Eyes, Memory and Junot Diaz'sThe Brief

Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” Northeast Modern Language Association

Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey(Panel

Presentation)

2010“Work/Life Balance” UNCF/Mellon Fellows Retreat

Ritz Carlton, Greensboro, Georgia (Panel Presentation)

2010“Gendered Migrations: The Migratory Experience in Loida Marita Perez’s Geographies of Home” Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Panel Chair and Paper Presentation)

2010“Examination of race, gender and home in Loida Maritza Perez’s novel Geographies of Home”Faculty Forum on Latino/Latina Literature, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York (Paper Presentation)

2008Theorizing Blackness Conference, The Graduate Center CUNY

New York, New York (Panel Moderator)

2006“Alternative Constructs of Race, Home, and Identity in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Geographies of Home, and Soledad” Departures and Definitions of Afro-Latino and Afro-Latin American Identity in the New Millennium Conference, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, New York (Paper Presentation)

2006“Blackness and Latiness: One? None? Both? Between?”Departures and Definitions of Afro-Latino and Afro-Latin American Identity in the New Millennium Conference, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, New York (Panel Moderator)

2005“Preparing for the Qualifying Exams” SSRC/Mellon Mays Doctoral Student Conference, Barnard College, New York, New York (Workshop Leader)

2004 “Dominican Women and Dominicanyork: The Construction of Race, Identity, and Home in the Caribbean-American Transnational Narrative” Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Paper Presentation)

2004“Teaching Peadagogies for the Teaching Assistant” SSRC/Mellon Mays Doctoral Student Conference, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri (Panel Presentation)

2004Black Feminisms Conference, The Graduate Center CUNY

New York, New York (Panel Moderator)

2000“In the Tradition: Sonia Sanchez and Her Use of the Blues” Blues Tradition Conference, Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania(Paper Presentation)

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

2014-2015 Mellon Mays Professional Network Mentor

2011-2013 Planning and Advisory Committee member, Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program, New York, NY

2009-presentLuard Scholarship Committee member, English Speaking Union, New York, NY