Paula Anca Farca, PhD student,
English Literature

MA English Literature, Oklahoma State University
MA British and American Studies, West University of Timisoara, Romania
BA English and Romanian Literatures and Languages, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Contemporary Literature
• Postcolonial and Indigenous Literature
• 19th-Century American Literature

Publications

Textbook:

Nature and Human Values. Co-authored with Cortney Holles and Shira Richman. Hayden-McNeil Publishing (forthcoming 2010).

Edited Book:

Speculations: An Anthology for Reading, Writing, and Research. Co-edited with Matthew Sivils and Constance Squires. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2006.

Book Chapters:

“Going Places, Going Native: Doris Pilkington’s Caprice.” Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (forthcoming).

“Creatie si Vindecare in Spatiul Multietnic din Solar Storms de Linda Hogan.” Heterocosmosuri/Heterotopii: Spatiul in Romanul Anglo-Saxon Contemporan (in Romanian). (forthcoming).

Articles:

“Land as Mediator: Violence and Hope in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise” –The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing (forthcoming).

 “Writing from the Margin about the Body of Slavery: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Diary and Mattie Griffith’s The Autobiography of a Female Slave.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2009.

“’And, You, Miss, Are No Lady’: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, Spring/Summer 2007, Vol. XIV, Number 1, pages 73-90 (journal article).

“Foucault Informs Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction.” Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring 2007, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pages 120-24 (journal article).

“White, Straight Lady Savannah of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Notes on Contemporary Literature, 37.3, May 2007 (journal article).

“Whistling the Blues and Washing the Language in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 36. 5, November 2006 (journal article).

Contributor:

The Dictionary of Literary Characters; entries on the characters from Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (forthcoming summer 2009).

Honors and Offices

• English Graduate Student Association Service Scholarship given for service to the English Department and University (2008)
• Clinton Keeler Fellowship in English Studies for the Department’s Outstanding Doctoral Candidate (2007)
• Audre Chapman Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching Composition and Curriculum Development (2007)
• Leonard J. Leff Film or Media Studies Award (2006)
• Nobel Laureate Scholarship offered by The Association of Women in Communications (2005)
• Award for Outstanding Essay in Contemporary Studies (2005)
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2005-)
• Audre Chapman Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching Composition (2004)

Conference Presentations

“Writing from the Margin about the Body of Slavery: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Diary and Mattie Griffith’s The Autobiography of a Female Slave.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2009.

“Borderline Indians, Places, and Traditions: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, October 2008.

“Biting Blacks, Women, and Homosexuals: Racial and Gender Stereotypes in Vivienne Cleven’s Bitin’ Back.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Memphis, November 2007.

“Oh, Jiminy, the Aqua Trim Is Lovely!: Cathy Whitaker’s Ornamental Individuality in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Boston, April 2007.

“The Land Writes Back: Violence and Hope in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Dallas, October 2006.

“Sex and the City: Leopold Bloom’s Pathological Performances in Public Spaces.” International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 2006.

“Autobiographical Harriet Jacobs Fictionalized by the I/eye of Linda Brent.” Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2004.

Current Research/Articles in Progress

• Dissertation in progress: Routes to Roots: Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

• Article under review: “Disunions in the City: Leopold Bloom’s Treatment of Women in Public Spaces.” (scheduled to appear in the Proceedings of the 2006 International  James Joyce Symposium)

Why OSU?

I crossed an ocean and moved from exciting Europe to quiet Stillwater. Was it worth it?

Absolutely. The faculty of the English Department taught me how to become a scholar and a better teacher and I met warmhearted people who became my friends for life.

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
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