Sharon P. Holland

Curriculum Vitae

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Sharon Patricia Holland

Professor

Department of American Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

210 Greenlaw Hall

CB #3520

Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3520

Office: 227 Greenlaw Hall;

(919) 962-4062 (direct line)

Curriculum Vitae

Academic History:

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Department of English Language and Literature, granted August 1992.
  • A.B. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. English and Afro-American Studies, granted June 1987.

Employment History:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Spring 2014-present. Professor.
  • Duke University, Departments of English and African and African American Studies. Associate Professor Fall 2008-fall 2013.
  • Northwestern University, Department of African American Studies. Associate Professor. Fall 2006- spring 2008.
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Departments of African American Studies and English. Associate Professor. Fall 2000-Summer 2006.
  • NEH, Division of Public Programs (Film & Media). Humanities Administrator. Winter 2000. Declined.
  • State University of New York, Albany, Department of English. Assistant Professor. Fall 1999. Tenured, Spring 2000.
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California, Department of English. Assistant Professor. Fall 1993-Spring 1999.
  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Program in African American Studies. Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 1992- Summer 1993.

Post-degree Honors and Awards:

  • Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies. Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain (Winter/Spring 2006).
  • Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for Raising the Dead from the American Studies Association (ASA). November 2002.
  • Dean’s Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, California. Fall 1997-Spring 1998.
  • Sinclair Drake Teaching Award, Black Community Services Center, Stanford University. 1997 and 1999 Recipient.
  • Center for Chicano Research, Research Grant, Stanford University. Summer 1996.
  • Program in Feminist Studies, Curriculum Grant, Stanford University. Winter 1995.
  • Irvine Foundation, Multicultural Curriculum Grant, Stanford University. Spring 1994.
  • Wesleyan University, Pew Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in African American Studies 1992-1993.

Public and Professional Service:

  • Committee on Literatures of People of Color (CLPC), MLA. 2010-2013.
  • Program Committee, ASA (American Studies Association) 2007-08; Executive Committee to the President of the Association.
  • Nominating Committee, 2006-2009; Chair, 2007 & 2008.
  • Executive Committee, Division of Gay and Lesbian Literature, MLA (Modern Language Association), 2008-2011.
  • Advisory Board, American Quarterly (2006-12).
  • Editorial Board Member, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2005-2012.
  • Board Member, FC2 (Fiction Collective Two), 2004-2006.
  • Acting Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and the First Year Experience (UIC, Spring/Summer 2005).
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English (UIC, 2002-05).
  • Executive Committee of the MLA Southern Literature Discussion Group (2001-05).
  • Board Member, CLAGS, The Graduate Center @ CUNY, New York (2000-03).
  • MLA Executive Committee member, Twentieth Century Literature Division (1999-04).

Publications:

Books:

  • The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, Spring 2012).
  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, co-edited with Tiya Miles (Duke University Press, Fall 2006), 2nd printing.
  • Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, Duke University Press (2000). Awarded the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association (2002).

Journal Articles:

  • “Introduction: ‘On the Visceral,’” with Marcia Ochoa and Kyla Tompkins, special double issue of GLQ (20.4 & 21.1).
  • “(Black) (Queer) Love,” Callaloo, Summer 2013.
  • “Leaving WAS Behind,” African American Review, special issue, “MLA Roundtable: What Was African American Literature?” Winter 2011.
  • “On the Beached Whale,” GLQ Special Issue on (Re) Thinking Sex. Winter 2011.
  • “Afterword,” GLQ Special Issue on Settler Colonialism. Winter 2010.
  • “The Apostate,” Minnesota Review. Spring 2009.
  • “When Characters Lack Character: A Reading of Pamela Lu’s Pamela,” PMLA 123 (5): 1494-1502. Fall 2008.
  • “Death in Black and White: A Reading of Marc Forster’s Monster’s Ball,” Signs, special issue on visual culture 31 (3) (Spring 2006).
  • “The Last Word on Racism: Toward a New Critical Race Theory,” SAQ (South Atlantic Quarterly) 104 (3) (Summer 2005).
  • “Everyday Mo(u)rning,” Theatre Journal: Special Issue on Tragedy, 54 (1)(March 2002).
  • “Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur and the (Queer) Art of Death,” Callaloo 23 (1) (Winter 2000).

Essays in Edited Volumes:

  • “Is There an Audience for My Play,” Shakesqueer, ed. Madhavi Menon (Duke University Press, 2011).
  • “’No Atheists in the Fox Hole’: Toward a Radical Queer Politics,” A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (Blackwell, 2007).
  • “An/Other Case of New England Underwriting” with Jennifer D. Brody in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds, Tiya Miles and Sharon Holland, eds.
  • “'If you know I have a history, you will respect me:' A Perspective on Afro-Native American Literature,’” in When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote, Jonathan Brennan, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).
  • “(Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts: Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits and its Revival of James Baldwin’s Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni’s Room,” in James Baldwin Now, Dwight McBride, ed. (New York University Press, 1999).
  • “Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated’s Business of Punishment,” in Beyond the Binary, Timothy Powell, ed. (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
  • “The Communities and World(s) of Beloved" with Michael Awkward, in Toni Morrison, Nellie Y. McKay, series ed. (MLA Publications, 1997).
  • "[White] Lesbian Studies," in The New Lesbian Studies. Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. (The Feminist Press, 1996).
  • "To Touch the Mother's Country: Siting Audre Lorde's Erotics," Lesbian Erotics: Practices and Critiques, Karla Jay, ed. (New York University Press, 1994).
  • "Humanity is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing,"Tilting the Tower, Linda Garber, ed. (Routledge, 1994).