University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., English Literature, 1985
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Zonana
Joyce Zonana
209 Lincoln Place, Apt. 8F
Brooklyn, NY 11217
347-223-4878
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., English Literature, 1985
University of Pennsylvania, M.A., English Literature, 1979
City University of New York Summer Latin Institute, Certificate, 1978
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A., English Literature, 1977
EXPERIENCE
Teaching:
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Associate Professor of English 2006 -
Rowan University, Visiting Associate Professor of English, Spring 2006
U. of New Orleans, Asst. – Assoc Prof. of English and Women’s Studies, 1990-2006
University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, 1986-1990.
Academic Administration:
U. of New Orleans, Dir. Women’s Studies, Fall 2003; 1998-2001; Spring 1994 - Spring1995
University of Pennsylvania, Coordinator, Penn/Cigna Program, 1982-84
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Tee,’ ‘Cyn-Cyn,’ ‘Cynthia,’ ‘Dou-Dou’: Remembering and Forgetting the ‘True-True Name’ in
Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey.” Middle Passages and the Healing Places of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006. 139-154.
“‘I was cryin’, all the people were cryin’, my mother was cryin’: Aboriginality and Maternity in
Sally Morgan's My Place.” Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth
Century Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. Austin: U of Texas P, 1996. 57-73.
“Feminist Providence: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century
Hermeneutics.” Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination.
Ed. John C. Hawley. New York: Fordham UP, 1996. 228-49.
“The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre.” Signs: The
Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18.3 (Spring 1993): 592-617.
“‘They Will Prove the Truth of My Tale’: Safie's Letters as the Feminist Core of Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein.” Journal of Narrative Technique 21.2 (Spring 1991): 170-84.
“Swinburne's Sappho: The Muse as Sister-Goddess.” Victorian Poetry 28.1 (Spring 1990): 39-50.
“The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics.” Tulsa
Studies in Women's Literature 8.2 (Fall 1989): 241-262.
“Matthew Arnold and the Muse: The Limits of the Olympian Ideal.” Victorian Poetry 23.1 (Spring
1985): 59-74.
Creative Nonfiction
“Ahlan Wa Sahlan.” International Sephardic Journal 1.1 (2004): 101-115.
“Yom Tov.” Jewish Women's Literary Annual 5 (2003): 94-106.
“Chez les Arabes.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 4.1 (2003): 39-54.
“All My Relations.” Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant
Women. Ed. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. New York: Hyperion, 2000. 222-32.
“Nell and I.” Hudson Review 50.4 (Winter 1998): 573-90.
“A New Covenant.” Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together.
Eds. John Preston and Joan Nestle. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
“A Daughter's Journey.” Womanspirit 10 (November 1983): 29-30.
Reprints
“The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre”
In Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship 1990-2004. Ed. Mihoko Suzuki and Roseanna Dufault. New York: MLA, 2006. 33-55.
In The Brontes. Ed. Patricia Ingham. London: Pearson Education, 2003.
In Edward Said. Ed. Patrick Williams. New York: Sage, 2000.
In Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.
In Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Eds. VeVe Clark, Madelon Sprengnether, and Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
“The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics”
In Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader Ed. Angela Leighton. London: Blackwell, 1996.
In Aurora Leigh: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. New York: Norton, 1995.
“Swinburne’s Sappho: The Muse as Sister-Goddess”
In Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Vol. 67. Ed. Jelena Krstiovic. Gale,
2004.
Book Reviews
Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce by Jane M. Ford. James Joyce Literary
Supplement 14.2 (Fall 2000).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God by Linda M. Lewis.
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1999).
Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Lynne Vallone.
South Central Review (1998).
Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books About Southeast Asia by
Susan Morgan. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.2 (Fall 1996): 369-71.
Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, ed. Thais E. Morgan;
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith
R. Walkowitz; Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender, ed.
Linda M. Shires; Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart by Angela Leighton. Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20.2 (Winter 1995): 436-41.
Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens by Suvendrini Perera. Studies
in the Novel 25.3 (Fall 1993): 363-65.
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, ed. Katharina M. Wilson. Analytic &
Enumerative Bibliography n.s. 6 (1992): 39-40.
Reading and Writing Women's Lives: A Study of the Novel of Manners, eds. Bege K. Bowers and
Barbara Brothers. Victorian Periodicals Review 25.3 (Fall 1992): 137-39.
An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, eds. Paul Sclueter and Jane Schlueter. Analytic &
Enumerative Bibliography n.s. 4.4 (1990): 186-89.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist by Helen Cooper. Tulsa Studies in Women's
Literature 9.1 (Spring 1990): 160-63.
Webster's Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language by Mary Daly. Labyrinth: The
Philadelphia Women's Newspaper (April 1988).
The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott and "Pretty Good for a Woman": The Enigmas of
Evelyn Scott by D.A. Callard. Labyrinth: ThePhiladelphia Women's Newspaper
(August 1986).
The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter.
Philadelphia Inquirer 6 April 1986.
Encyclopedia Entry
“Images of Women: Literary Images of Human and Divine Women.” Encyclopedia of Women and
World Religion. Ed. Serenity M. Young. New York: Macmillan, 1999.
Other
“Chez les Arabes.” Hedgebrook Journal. February 2001.
“Grandmother Rose.” Kinesis. April 2000.
“Chez les Arabes.” Ivrinasawi News 1999.
“‘A Wide Fellow-Feeling With All That is Human’: George Eliot and The Mill on the Floss.”
Interview. Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities. Summer 1987.
The New York Underground Gourmet. 2nd ed. Editor, with Jerome Snyder and Milton Glaser.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
The Underground Gourmet Cookbook. Editor, with Jerome Snyder and Milton Glaser. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1976.
Forthcoming
Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an exile’s journey. New York: Feminist Press, 2008.
Works-in-Progress
Critical essay on Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Critical essay on memoirs and novels by Egyptian Jewish émigrés
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“‘I, If I Perish, Perish’: Esther and the Moment of Choice in Nineteenth-Century British Women’s
Writing.” British Women Writer’s Conference. Lexington, KY. April 2007.
‘‘Good life, good people, good country, no camps’: Fiction and Memoir of the Egyptian Jewish
Diaspora.’’ New Jersey College English Association. South Orange, NJ. March 2007
“Digesting Nails: Hunger in Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” New Jersey College
English Association. South Orange, NJ. March 2007.
“The Narrative Adaptation of Folk Drama: Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” Society
for the Study of Narrative Conference. Washington, D.C. March 2007.
“‘I have nothing to do with history’: Memory and History in Egyptian Jewish Narratives.” 37th
Annual Comparative Literature Symposium. Texas Tech U, Lubbock TX. March 2004.
“The State of Language and Literary Studies: Global Perspectives.” Pre-Convention Roundtable,
South Central Modern Languages Association. Austin, TX. October 2002.
“Intersection between Personal and Professional Lives.” Pre-Convention Roundtable,
South Central Modern Languages Association. Memphis, TN. November 1999.
“So You Have Tenure, Now What?” South Central Modern Languages Association. San Antonio,
TX. November 1996.
“So You Have Tenure, Now What?” Louisiana Women's Studies Consortium. Hammond, LA.
March 1996.
“The Duty of Disobedience: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century
Hermeneutics.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Williamsburg,
VA. April 1994.
“Negotiating Difference in the Women's Studies Classroom.” South Central Women's Studies
Association. New Orleans, LA. March 1994.
“The Queens of Persia: The Book of Esther in Nineteenth-Century England and America.”
American Literature Association Women Writers Symposium. San Antonio, TX.
October 1993.
“‘This First Stand for Women's Rights’: The Book of Esther in Nineteenth-Century England and
America.” South Central Modern Languages Association. Austin, TX. October 1993.
“Feminist Orientalism: The Harem and Nineteenth-Century Western Women.” Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Phoenix, AZ. April 1993.
“The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre .” Invited paper
presentation. South Central Women's Studies Association. Fayetteville, AR. March 1993.
Moderator, session on “Women and Writing,” South Central Women's Studies Association.
Fayetteville, AR. March 1993.
“The Book of Jane: Charlotte Bronte's Appropriation of Old Testament Narrative.” South
Central Conference on Christianity and Literature. New Orleans, LA. February 1993.
“‘You got to use that power to help others’: Sally Morgan's My Place and the Healing of Mothers
and Daughters.” South Central Modern Languages Association. Memphis, TN.
October 1992.
“The Poet as Daughter, Sister, Mother, Wife: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and the
Concept of the Poet in the Nineteenth Century.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
Studies Association. New Orleans, LA. April 1992.
Moderator, session on “Revolution,” Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association.
New Orleans, LA. April 1992.
“Feminism and Orientalism: Jane Eyre and the Discourse of the Harem in Nineteenth-Century
Britain.” Nineteenth-Century Section, South Central Modern Languages Association.
Fort Worth, TX. November 1991.
“Liberating the Angel in the House: The Goddess in the Woods and the Nineteenth-Century
Imagination.” South Central Women's Studies Association. Denton, TX. March 1990.
Moderator, section on “Women and Language,” South Central Women's Studies Association.
Houston, TX. March 1990.
“Naming and Unnaming: Hearing the Voices of Silence in Recent Writing by Women.” South
Central Women's Studies Association. Norman, OK. March 1987.
PUBLIC LECTURES AND READINGS
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and the Folk Drama.” Borough of Manhattan Community College
English Department Faculty Forum. March 2007.
“Arab and Jew: Personal Reflections on Women Creating Culture and Community in the Middle
East.” Rowan University Women’s History Month presentation, March 2006.
“In the Eye of the Storm: Re-Reading Homer’s Odyssey in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.”
Dartmouth College Humanities Lecture, January 2006.
“Feminist Orientalism.” Dartmouth College Feminist Theory Seminar, January 2006.
“Ocean Avenue.” International Women’s Day Celebration. New Orleans. March 2005.
“Rose.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. New Orleans. June 2003.
“Yom Tov.” Jewish Women’s Resource Center. New York City, March 2000.
“Chez les Arabes.” South Central Modern Languages Association. Memphis, TN. November 1999.
“Autobiography and Literary Criticism.” University of New Orleans, A&S Lecture Series.
Spring 1999.
“All My Relations.” South Central Women's Studies Association. New Orleans. March 1999.
“Heirloom.” South Central Modern Languages Association. New Orleans. November 1998.
“Autobiography and Literary Criticism: The Case of ‘Nell and I.’” University of New Orleans.
April 1998.
“Chez les Arabes.” South Central Women's Studies Association. Houston, TX. March 1998.
Panelist, English Department Brown Bag Series, “Foucault.” University of New Orleans.
November 1995.
“Who is Goddess and What is Goddess Worship? -- Notes from a Pilgrimage on Crete.”
University of New Orleans, October 1995.
“The Book of Esther and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.” University of New Orleans.
October 1993.
“Women’s Stories.” Food and Drug Administration Women's Division, New Orleans, LA.
April 2000.
“The Jews of Egypt: Past, Present, and Future.” Society for the Advancement of Judaism,
New York City, NY. March 2000.
“Esther’s Sisters: Modern Versions of an Ancient Heroine.” Society for the Advancement of
Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. New York City, NY. March 2000.
“The Book of Esther and Modern Women.” Trinity Episcopal Church. New Orleans, LA.
October 1996.
“Full Circle: Women and the Sacred” Unitarian Universalist Church. New Orleans, LA.
March 1996.
“Women, Writing, and Wellness.” Southern Baptist Hospital Women's Life Educational Series.
New Orleans, LA. March 1993.
“Including women's studies materials in the high school literature classroom.” Seton Academy.
New Orleans, LA. January 1992.
“May Sarton's Recovering.” Moore Public Library. Moore, OK. April 1990.
“The French Lieutenant's Woman.” Norman Public Library. Norman, OK. February 1988.
“Oliver Twist: Fact and Fable.” Norman Public Library. Norman, OK. November 1986.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Teaching:
Distinguished Faculty Service Award, UNO Honors Program, 2000.
UNO National Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996.
U of Pennsylvania Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student, 1982.
Scholarship:
Florence Howe Award for Feminist Criticism – Women’s Caucus of the MLA, 1994
Creative Writing Residencies:
Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women, 2005, 2002, 1997
Soapstone, 2001
Hedgebrook, 1998
Research and Travel Grants:
UNO College of Liberal Arts Research and Travel Grant, 2002. 1999, 1993.
UNO College of Liberal Arts Summer Stipend, 1999, 1994, 1992.
UNO College of Liberal Arts Research Council Award, 1992.
University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellow, 1989. 1998.
NEH Summer Institute, Yale Center for British Art, "Victorian Culture and Society," 1988.
Program Development:
“Women's Studies: Accessing the New Millennium through Non-Traditional Urban
Education for Non-Traditional Urban Students.” Louisiana Board of Regents
Support Fund Enhancement Grant, 1999-2000 $21,867.00
Funding for Lectures:
“The Birth of Empowered Consciousness: Fierce Compassion and Transformation,” lecture
by China Galland. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2001. $1300.00
“Writing Women’s Lives: Mapping Our 21st Century Selves,” 6-lecture series at UNO
Women’s Center, 2000-01. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, $18,902.00.
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
Composition, Introduction to Literary Studies, Introduction to Poetry and Drama, Introduction to Fiction, The Short Story, Autobiography, Introduction to Women’s Literature, Survey of British Literature II, Greek & Roman Literature in Translation, Greek Literature and Philosophy, World Literature, Victorian Literature, Nineteenth-Century Novel, Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature, Women and Poetry, Women and Ethnicity, Women and Memoir, Women and Crime, Women and the Sacred, Ecofeminism
Graduate:
Victorian Autobiographical Narratives, The Victorian Long Poem, Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Fiction, The Bronte Sisters, Feminist Theory
SERVICE
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Department of English:
Composition Committee
Writing and Literature Committee
Chair, Writing and Literature Degree Program Awards Subcommittee
College:
Middle States Review Committee
Women’s Studies Committee
Advisory Committee, Phi Theta Kappa
Women’s Studies Project
University of New Orleans
Department of English:
Self-Study Committee, Spring 2005
Retention, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, 2004 – 2005; 1997 – 1999.
Graduate Advisory Committee, 2001 – 2005, 1992-94
Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 1994-96.
Freshman English Taskforce, 1991-92.
Women’s Studies:
Wrote Successful Letter of Intent and Proposal for Women's Studies Major.
Women's Center Director Search Committee, 2001 – 2002
Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 2001- 2004.
University:
Courses and Curricula Commitee, Fall 2002 – Spring 2005
Seraphia D. Leyda Award Selection Committee, Spring 2002 – Spring 2004
Provost's Diversity Advisory Committee, 1992-95.
Search Committee for Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Student
Affairs, 1992-93.
College of Liberal Arts Advisory Committee, 1991-93.
Provost's Taskforce on the Status of Women and Minorities, 1991-92.
Professional
Outside evaluator for Program Review, U. of North Texas Women’s StudiesProgram, Spring 2005.
Manuscript reviewer for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Victorians Institute Journal,
PMLA, Oklahoma University Press, Ohio University Press. 1990-present.
British Literature representative. SCMLA ExecutiveCouncil, 2001-04.
Chair, Grants and Awards Committee, SCMLA, 2001-04.
President, South Central Women's Studies Association, 1994-95.
Chair, Women's Caucus, South Central Modern Languages Association, 1994.
Member, Program Committee, South Central Women's Studies Association, 1993.
Chair, Nineteenth-Century Section, South Central Modern Languages Association, 1993.
Secretary, Nineteenth-Century Section, South Central Modern Languages Association, 1992.
Member, Program Committee, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, 1992.
Community
“Everybody Wins,” reading program volunteer, Gentilly Terrace Elementary School.
New Orleans, LA. 2000.
Creative writing workshops for senior citizens. Jewish Community Center. Philadelphia, PA.
1985-86.