ANNE DONLON Ph.D. Program in English CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY

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1 ANNE DONLON Ph.D. Program in English CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY EDUCATION The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY English, Ph.D. Candidate American Studies Certificate Program Orals Exam, with distinction, February present Dissertation: Archives of Transnational Modernism: Tracing Networks of Writing and Activism, Committee: Jane Marcus (chair), Jerry Watts, Robert Reid Pharr, and Ashley Dawson The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 2011 English, M.Phil. Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York 2006 English, B.A., summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas & Caribbean Fellow Graduate Assistant A Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY Dissertation Year Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative Archival Research Award in Africana Studies 2013 Graduate Center Doctoral Research Grant Program Competition # Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY Emory University Manuscript and Rare Book Library Fellowship 2012 Mellon Institute for Historical Research Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 2011 UCD Clinton Institute of American Studies Summer School Scholarship 2011 Graduate Center Doctoral Students Research Grant Program Competition # Certificate for Guidance and Encouragement of Dean s List Students, John Jay 2010 Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel and Research Grant 2008, 2009 Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College 2006 Centennial Scholars Program, Barnard College

2 PUBLICATIONS Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, and Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics, and Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. Anne Donlon, Editor. Lost and Found: CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative, Introduction to S.N. Ghose, The Man Who Came Back (1923). Under review for the Out of the Archives section, Modernism/modernity. REVIEWS Review of Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, edited by Emily Hinnov, Laurel Harris, and Lauren M. Rosenblum, for Woolf Studies Annual. (forthcoming) Review of Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan, for Modernism/modernity. (forthcoming) Recovering the Black Cultural Front, review of Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation, by Brian Dolinar, Graduate Center Advocate, April Running with Scrapbooks, review of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, by Ellen Gruber Garvey, Graduate Center Advocate, February AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST African-American Literature; Modernism; American Studies; Women s Studies; Protest Literature; Black British Literature ACADEMIC POSITIONS Journal for Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Managing Editor, Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY Brooklyn College, City University of New York Writing Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program Presented and developed mini-lessons on writing for students Consulted with faculty to create assignments and lessons Led faculty workshops on Writing in the Digital Age, Teaching Composition,

3 and a three-day intensive workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum Created the Student Guide to the WAC Writing Benchmarks website John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Graduate Teaching Fellow, English Department Literature 233: American Literature Designed syllabuses including My Fellow Americans: Speaking Out in American Literature and American Literature: Narratives of Captivity and Freedom. Full responsibility for seven sections. English 101: Composition I: Exploration and Authorship Designed syllabus for The Isle is Full of Noises : Music, Society and Composition. Full responsibility for four sections. English 201: Composition II: Exploring Writing across the Disciplines Designed syllabus for Revolution: Making and Defining Change across Disciplines. Full responsibility for two sections. Other Teaching Guest instructor on Virginia Woolf s Jacob s Room, Professor Jane Marcus's graduate course Virginia Woolf, City College, City University of New York. April Guest instructor on Langston Hughes, Professor Jane Marcus s graduate course British Writers and the Spanish Civil War, City College, City University of New York. April PRESENTATIONS Dark Gestures: Rebecca West s Gaze and the Black Atlantic. Rebecca West Conference, New York, New York. September Cosas de España, : Nancy Cunard s Spanish Scrapbook. Modernist Studies Association Conference. University of Sussex, Brighton, England. August Merry-Go-Round: Circuits of Race and Empire in Rebecca West s Letter to a Grandfather. Space Between Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois. June Don t You Want To Be Free?: Questions of Emancipation in 1930s African American Theatre. American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts. May Looking (elsewhere) for Langston: Women s Archives and the Spanish Civil War. Sex, Gender, and Representation in the Spanish Civil War. Friday Forum, The Graduate Center, CUNY. March Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Friday Forum, The Graduate Center, CUNY. November We See Them Differently: The Radical Scrapbooking Strategies of Woolf, Gumby, and Wright. Space Between Society Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. June

4 2012. Dear Sis: Women Activists, Spain, and the Epistolary Poetics of Langston Hughes. American Literature Association, San Francisco, California. May A Note from Spain: Women Activists and the Epistolary Poetics of Langston Hughes. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Rochester, New York. March Looking (elsewhere) for Langston: Spain and the Epistolary Poetics of Langston Hughes. Clinton Institute of American Studies Summer School Symposium, Dublin, Ireland. July Mr. Scrapbook: Alexander Gumby and the Public Potential of Scrapbooks. British Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Kent, UK. July We Will Consult the Newspapers: Mass Media and the Politics of Photomontage. The International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fordham University. June Want to Write about Both Moors and Colored People: Internationalism and Langston Hughes s Spanish Civil War Journalism. The 10 th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. June Workers, See Yourselves as Spain: Langston Hughes and the Spanish Civil War. Annual English Student Association's Graduate Student Conference, Graduate Center, CUNY. February Make Me a Wrack as I Come Back: Emily Dickinson s Musical Crossings. International Vocal Arts Workshop, Symposium, Jeunesses Musicales International, Groznjan, Croatia. June Anti-Colonial Nationalism and the Institutionalization of Music in Ireland and India. International Vocal Arts Workshop, Symposium, Jeunesses Musicales International, Groznjan, Croatia. June SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Assistant Managing Editor, Harvard Desk, Modernism/modernity Manuscript Editor, Review Board, Frame: Journal of Visual & Material Culture Coordinator, Acousticity: A Symposium on Sound, Space, and Practice, International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia, Groznjan 2010 Co-Coordinator, Africana Studies Summer Reading Group 2009 Panel Chair, Displacing Empire panel at The Space Between Conference 2008 INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE English Program Faculty Membership Committee Executive Committee

5 Student Academic Appeals Officer Course Evaluation Committee English Program Student Mentor Doctoral Students Council Co-Chair for Communications Executive and Steering Committees 2011-present Representative at Large Parental Leave Working Group Constitution & Bylaws Committee Governance Task Force University Faculty Senate Liaison Ad hoc Committee on Student Health and Insurance English Program Representative Representative at Large Grants Committee Media Board Adjunct Project Hiring Team OpenCUNY Hiring Team 2010 Graduate Center Chair, Curriculum & Degrees Committee, Graduate Council Curriculum & Degrees Committee, Graduate Council Executive Committee, Graduate Council Committee on Committees, Graduate Council Doctoral Students Council Representative, Graduate Council Secretary, College Association PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Purposeful Pedagogy Workshop, The Graduate Center, CUNY February 2013 New Texts and New Approaches to African American Literature, led by Werner Sollors, Clinton School of American Studies, University College Dublin July 2011 Writing in the Disciplines Workshop, Hostos Community College, CUNY October 2011 Writing Across the Disciplines Orientation, City College, CUNY August 2011 English Adjunct Literature Faculty Development Workshop, John Jay College April 2011 English Adjunct Literature Faculty Development Workshop, John Jay College October 2010 English Adjunct Workshop, Grading and Feedback, John Jay March 2010 English Adjunct Composition Faculty Development Workshop, John Jay College Fall 2009

6 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Modern Language Association (MLA), American Studies Association (ASA), American Literature Association (ALA), Space Between Society, Modernist Studies Association (MSA). REFERENCES Available on request.