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1 Karen S. Sloan Dept. of Literature and Languages - The University of Texas at Tyler University Boulevard EDUCATION 1998, Ph.D. Texas A&M University, English Dissertation: The Territorial Unconscious: Human Territoriality as Metanarrative in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. 1978, M.A. California State University, Fullerton, English 1967, B.A. LeTourneau College summa cum laude, English TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2006-present Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler Adjunct Instructor in English, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas Lecturer in English, Texas A&I University-Kingsville Adjunct Instructor, Texas A&I University, Kingsville Adjunct English Instructor, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas 1980 Adjunct English Instructor, LeTourneau University Special Lecturer, California State University-Fullerton RESEARCH

2 Research Emphasis: Developing and testing a paradigm that draws from contemporary theories of territoriality and the self to explore artistic representations of the semiotic relationship between ownership and self-construction, particularly in nineteenth-century texts. PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles "Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Explicator 63 (2005): "The Nineteenth-Century Church Music Controversy: A Possible Referent for Cooper's 'Manifestly Impossible' Singing-Master in The Last of the Mohicans. ANQ 19.1 (2006): "Reterritorializing Cooper's Marginalia in The Last of the Mohicans: Authorial Commentary as Rhetorical Borderland." ANQ 19.2 (2006): Encyclopedia Entries "Farmer, Nancy." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P "McDonald, Janet." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P "Derricotte, Toi." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P "Drumgoold, Kate." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P

3 "Josannie's War." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File "The Map of Who We Are." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File Electronic Media "How to Cite Electronic Sources." The Learning Page. United States Library of Congress. < Invited contributor. Published online 03/14/06. Conference Papers "Identities in Health Care: Toward a Model of Human Territoriality." Refereed Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, Junior author. Senior author: John H. Sloan "Doctoring Images: Literary Subversion of Male Medical Authority in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Refereed Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, Senior author. Junior author: John H. Sloan. Surveying Moral Territory in The Wide, Wide World: The Gerrymandered Kitchen. Refereed. Twenty-third Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association International Conference. New Orleans, March 6-8, Reterritorializing Pudd nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: Gothic as the Voice of Moral Outrage." Refereed. American Literature Association Symposium, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 5-8, 2002.

4 America at the fin de siecle: The Specter of Human (non)emergence in The Awakening. Refereed. Narrative: An International Conference. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, April 11-14, Conference Panels Sloan, Karen. Panel Chair. "Out of Her Sphere: American Suffrage Literature " Society for the Study of American Women Writers: Second International Conference. Fort Worth, September 24-27, SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University Graduation Committee Member, Women and Minorities Committee Member, University Faculty Research Committee (Chair, ) Faculty Board Member, UT-Tyler Literacy Center 2002 Bylaws Subcommittee, UT-Tyler Literacy Center University Library Committee (Chair, ) College of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum Subcommittee Core Curriculum Committee Member, College of Arts and Science Governance Committee 2002, 2003, 2004 Freshman Orientation 2002 Moderator, "Women's Ways of Knowing" Seminar 2002, 2004, 2005 I.S. Master's Comprehensive Exam, Bibliography & Methods of Research

5 2002 Presenter, Dean's Brown Bag Luncheon 2001, 2002 Department representative, UT-Tyler Freshman Orientation Information Fair 2001 Host, Student Transfer Day Department 2009-present Chair, Scholarship Committee 2009-present Chair, Sophomore Literature Assessment Committee 2008-present Member, Graduate Committee 2009 Faculty Search Committee, Tenured Department Chair, Literature and Languages 2008 Session moderator, 4th Annual Medieval Conference 2007 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Composition Specialist/Writing Center Director 2007-present 3 master s thesis committees; 2 completed, 1 pending 2005, 2006 Hospitality Coordinator, 1st and 2nd Annual Medieval Conference 2005 Invited Speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Career Day Conference 2005 Assessment Team Member, Core Writing Program Master's Thesis Committee: David Pinnell Title: How to Increase Your Holdings and Subvert Your Friends: Territorialism in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale" present Undergraduate student advisor Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Kathleen Dunsavage Title: No Alibi in Existence: Silencing the Dialogic Voice in John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Pamela Clark

6 Title: Ernest J. Gaines: An Annotated Bibliography, New Course Proposal: Engl 4365 Special Topics in American Literature (approved, 2003) 2002 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Faculty: Rhetoric & Composition 2001 Faculty Search Committee, Tenure Track Faculty: American Literature 2001 Co-writer, Proposal for Three-Track English Major (accepted and implemented) 2001 Co-Chair, Master's Thesis Committee (Karen Garner) Title: Territorial Tug-of-War: Ownership Disputes and Solutions in University Writing Centers TAAS II Objectives Committee, Chair GRANTS AND AWARDS 2001 President s Summer Research Grant, The University of Texas at Tyler 2001 Dean s Summer Research Grant, The University of Texas at Tyler 1993 Inductee, Phi Kappa Phi