CURRENT PROJECTS

“Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Grace King, and the Politics of Ethnicity in New Orleans.” Conference paper in preparation.

“In Domestic Service: Representing Working Women, Immigrant Labor, and Racial Politics in Late-Nineteenth Century California.” Article in preparation.

“Madness and the Mulâtre-Aristocrate: Negotiating the Tangle of Racial, Class, and Gender Hierarchies in Marie Chauvet’s Amour.” Article in preparation.

“Working Matters: Women’s Work and Culture in the United States, 1868-1918.” Book project in progress.

PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED

"Madness and the Mulâtre-Aristocrate: Haiti, Decolonization, and Women in Marie Chauvet's Amour." Forthcoming in Callaloo.

“'Scholarship automatically reminds me of grant money': Reconsidering and Revaluing Undergraduate Students and Scholarship.”Reading, Writing, and Research: The Undergraduate Student as Scholar in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Laura Behling. Forthcoming.

"Civilizing Violence: "The Haunted Valley." The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal 2.1 (Fall 2006). www.ambrosebierce.org

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review of DRIVEN OUT: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. By Jean Pfaelzer. (New York: Random House, 2007). Southern California Quarterly 90.2 (2008): 209-211 .

Book Review of Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Compiled and edited by Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Southern California Quarterly 88.4 (2006/7): 477-479.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Edwidge Danticat” and “Paule Marshall.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Eds. Patrick O’Donnell, David W. Madden, and Justus Nieland. Forthcoming.

“Stenio Vincent,” “Tonton Macoutes,” and “Caribbean Literature.” Ed. John Garrigus. Caribbean Encyclopedia. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming.

“Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” Women in American History: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Hasia Diner. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming.

“All I Asking For Is My Body.” Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007: 11-12.

“Milton Murayama.” Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature.
Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007: 204-205.

“Ronyoung Kim.” Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature.
Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007: 149-150.

Introduction to “Chapter 6: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?).” PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project. Paul Reuben, ed. <http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/bierce.html>

OTHER

“Daniel Libeskind Papers, 1968-1992.” Finding Aid for Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Accession no. 920061. August 1999. Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.

THESIS AND DISSERTATION

Working Matters: Women’s Work and Culture in the United States, 1868-1898 (2006) submitted in fulfillment of requirements for Doctor in Philosophy in Literature at University of California, San Diego. Director: Shelley Streeby.

“Spectator Sport in Nineteenth-Century Paris” (1999) submitted in fulfillment of requirements for Master of Arts at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Directors: Howard Holter and Marilyn Garber.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

“‘But why aren’t we reading American literature in this class?’:  Learning to Teach Multi-Ethnic  Literatures.” The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, April 2009.

“In Domestic Service: Representing Working Women, Immigrant Labor, and Racial Politics in Late-Nineteenth Century California.”California American Studies Association, Aliso Viejo, CA, April 2008.

"Sex and Sewing in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.

“Regulating the ‘Social Evil’: Representing Racialized Labor in San Francisco, 1868-1872.” American Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2006.

“‘Her Transparent, Needle-Pricked Fingers’: Sewing, Racial Politics, and Social Mobility in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Grace King.” College English Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2006.

“A Part of and Apart From: Race, Gender and Labor in Alice Dunbar Nelson’s ‘Little Miss Sophie’ and Grace King’s ‘Bonne Maman.’” American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, Oct. 2003.

“Sex (Work) and the Single Girl: Reading for Racialized and Gendered Work in Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Haunted Valley.’” Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

“Writing Gender, Writing Violence in Haiti, 1915-1968: Marie Chauvet’s Amour.” African Literatures Association Annual Meeting, University of California, San Diego, April 2002.

“M/OTHER—Other Forms of Mothering in Toni Morrison’s Beloved." Southern California Women’s Studies Association, University of California, Irvine, May 1993.

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

On a research trip:
overlooking the Mississippi River
New Orleans, Pre-Katrina

Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Arnold Genthe. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 2005.

Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Lola Montez, Caroline Churchill’s Counterbill, Rev. A.W. Loomis’s articles on Chinese in California, and Dr. Holland’s Social Evil Bill. Special Collections, Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California, January to May 2005.

Grace King papers and Arthur Bedou photographs. Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2004.

Original newspaper articles by Rodolpe Desdunes and photographs by Arthur Bedou. Special Collections Division, Xavier University Library, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

Middle-class Creole of Color families. Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

Storyville and prostitution. Hogan Jazz Archives, Special Collections, Tulane University, LA, September 2004.

Prostitution and police mugshots. Louisiana Collection, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

Storyville, prostitution, Arthur Bedou. William Russell Photographic Collection, Historic New Orleans Collection, Williams Research Center, New Orleans, LA, September 2004.