Karen S. Sloan Dept. of Literature and Languages - The University of Texas at Tyler - 3900 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 2000-2006 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler 1999-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Tyler 1994-1999 Adjunct Instructor in English, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas 1990-1992 Lecturer in English, Texas A&I University-Kingsville 1989-1990 Adjunct Instructor, Texas A&I University, Kingsville 1981-1984 Adjunct English Instructor, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas 1980 Adjunct English Instructor, LeTourneau University 1977-1978 Special Lecturer, California State University-Fullerton RESEARCH
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): 159-64. "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): 33-41. "Reterritorializing Cooper's Marginalia in The Last of the Mohicans: Authorial Commentary as Rhetorical Borderland." ANQ 19.2 (2006): 33-39. Encyclopedia Entries "Farmer, Nancy." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P. 2005. "McDonald, Janet." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Five Volumes. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood P. 2005. "Derricotte, Toi." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P. 2006. "Drumgoold, Kate." African American Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda W. Page. Westport: Greenwood P. 2006.
"Josannie's War." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File. 2006. "The Map of Who We Are." The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File. 2006.. Electronic Media "How to Cite Electronic Sources." The Learning Page. United States Library of Congress. <http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html.> Invited contributor. Published online 03/14/06. Conference Papers "Identities in Health Care: Toward a Model of Human Territoriality." Refereed. 2004 Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004. Junior author. Senior author: John H. Sloan "Doctoring Images: Literary Subversion of Male Medical Authority in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Refereed. 2004 Joint Conference of the National PCA/ACA and the SW/Texas PCA/ACA. San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004. 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, 2003. 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.
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, 2002. Conference Panels Sloan, Karen. Panel Chair. "Out of Her Sphere: American Suffrage Literature 1870-1917." Society for the Study of American Women Writers: Second International Conference. Fort Worth, September 24-27, 2003. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University 2007-09 Graduation Committee 2005-06 Member, Women and Minorities Committee 2002-05 Member, University Faculty Research Committee (Chair, 2003-2004) 2002-03 Faculty Board Member, UT-Tyler Literacy Center 2002 Bylaws Subcommittee, UT-Tyler Literacy Center 2000-202 University Library Committee (Chair, 2001-2002) College of Arts and Sciences 2007-09 Core Curriculum Subcommittee 2008-09 Core Curriculum Committee 2003-05 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
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 2004-2005 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" 2002- present Undergraduate student advisor 2002-2003 Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Kathleen Dunsavage Title: No Alibi in Existence: Silencing the Dialogic Voice in John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra 2002-2003 Chair, Master's Thesis Committee: Pamela Clark
Title: Ernest J. Gaines: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-2002 2002-2003 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 2000-2001 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