The University of St. Thomas

College of Arts & Sciences | Department of English

PawlowskiLucia

PawlowskiLucia

Lucia Pawlowski

Assistant Professor of English

pawl9569@stthomas.edu
Phone: (651) 962-5619

Office Location: JRC 317

Faculty Website

Courses taught in Spring 2013
ENGL 121-02
21460		 Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing 1215-1320 M W F OEC 209

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 12 pages of formal revised writing.
ENGL 121-03
21461		 Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing 1335-1440 M W F JRC 247

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 12 pages of formal revised writing.
ENGL 304-01
23249		 Analytical/Persuasive Writing 0935-1040 M W F OEC 319

4 Credit Hours

Rhetoric teaches us that writing is not just about expressing ourselves in script; writing can also do something in the world. In this course, we will use our writing to do something in our world. Students will choose a service learning site and collaborate for the second half of the semester (an average of one hour a week) with members of that community on a writing project that works towards some "action item" for that site, whether it be the establishment of a new community center or park, the enforcement of a law, the nomination of a candidate, or the start of a public health awareness campaign, a newsletter, or a blog. Throughout the semester, students will write short analyses of scholarly work about similar efforts to do community work through persuasive writing, culminating in a final project at the end of the semester which will require the synthesis of several scholarly articles. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 and/or ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204.
Courses taught in Fall 2013
ENGL 121-20
41462		 Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing 1335-1440 M W F OEC 307

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 12 pages of formal revised writing.
GENG 513-01
40165		 Issues in Criticism 1800-2100 W JRC 481

3 Credit Hours

An introduction to the principal theoretical issues and questions in the discipline of literary studies. The course explores the major contemporary approaches to literary studies in the context of various traditions of literary theory and criticism. It encourages students to assess constructively some of the key controversies in contemporary critical theory and apply their learning to the interpretation of literary texts. This required course must be taken as one of the first three courses in the program.

Academic History

Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A. St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA)
At St. Thomas since 2012

Dissertation

“High Theory, the Teaching of Writing, and the Crisis of the University”

Specialties / Interests

Rhetoric and Composition
Post-Structuralism
Critical University Studies 

Developing Interests

Queer Theory
Marx
Radical Pedagogy

Courses Taught

English 300: Theory and Practice of Writing
English 121: Critical Thinking (Theme: Work). 

Selected Presentations

“Forging Teacher Community: What Works?” 3rd Annual Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Conference Brooklyn Park, MN (March 2011)
“Queer Theory and Academic Discourse” Modern Language Association Annual Conference Los Angeles, CA (January 2011)
“Pedagogy of the Drop-Out“ Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference Minneapolis, MN (May 2010)
“Experimental Research Papers: Problems and Possibilities” Annual First-Year Writing Symposium, Writing Studies Department University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (May 2010)
“The Anti-Personal Statement” 2nd Annual Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Conference St. Paul, MN (April 2010)
“Queering Academic Discourse: Re-inventing the (Neo-liberalized) University--in Drag” Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Louisville, KY (March 2010)
“Queering Academic Discourse in Freshman Composition” “Reworking the University: Actions, Strategies, Demands” Conference University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (April 2009)
“Community in the No-Grades Classroom” 1st Annual Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Conference Minneapolis, MN (April 2009)
“Language and Textuality Games” First-Year Writing Orientation, Writing Studies Department University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (August 2009)
“The Aural as Politicized Resistance to Translation in Sebald’s The Emigrants” Graduate Conference, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature University of Iowa (February 2007)
“Consuming the Black Spirit: Theorizing the Role of the Black Shaman in Popular Film” American Folklore Society Conference Albuquerque, NM (October 2003)
“Revising Anorexia Through Feminist Ethnography: Letting Other Readings Besides the ‘Pathological’ Speak” American Folklore Society Conference Rochester, NY (October 2002)
“Wendy Rose’s Living Bones: Reversing the Discourse of the Dead Indian” Annual 20th Century American Literature Conference University of Kentucky at Louisville (May 2002)
“Ballet: an Ethnography at the Intersection of Gender, Aesthetics, and the Body” English Graduate Student Association Annual Conference University of Missouri-Columbia (April 2002)
“Incompleteness as Pedagogy and Scholarly Practice” English Department Colloquium “Writing in Graduate School” University of Missouri-Columbia (October 2002)
“Cracking the Egg: Decoding as an Ethical Step Backwards in Interpretive Folkloristics” American Folklore Society Anchorage, AK (October 2001)
“When the Blues Bleeds Over: Sermonic Discourse in Contemporary Women’s Pop Music” American Folklore Society Columbus, OH (October 2000)
“Morrison’s Beloved and the Possibilities of Folkloric Literary Criticism” American Folklore Society Nashville, TN (November 1999)
“Community and Technology in the Graduate Seminar” English Department Colloquium “Re-conceiving the Graduate Seminar” University of Missouri-Columbia (May 1999)

Community Engagement and Activism

Co-Founder, U of MN chapter of the Experimental College of the Twin Cities http://www.excotc.org/ (Fall 2007-2009)

  • A free, progressive university where anyone can teach and anyone can learn
  • Offers hundreds of classes every semester throughout the Twin Cities
  • Collaborates with dozens of Twin Cities organizations like Sibley Bike Coop, the Brian Coil Center, Youth Against Police Brutality, and Minneapolis Free Space
  • Classes include: Bike Maintenance for Girls; Web Design for Your Community Org
  • One of five grassroots organizers to start our chapter within one academic year with a budget of less than $200
  • Went from offering 8 classes in Fall 2007 to offering 40 classes in Spring of 2008
  • My Primary Roles: web design and maintenance; document writer
  • Other tasks: grant-writing, budget management, inreach/outreach; composition of social media, newsletter and other public relations materials; course assessment tools.
  • Collaborated with the then one-year old Macalester chapter EXCO in 2008; went on to add 3rd, branch, Academia Communitaria
  • Co-taught course “Theorizing the U” in Spring 2009

Communications Committee and Press Contact, Graduate Student Workers United
University of Minnesota (August 2008-August 2010) Within a committee of five other graduate students across several departments, wrote press materials and gave interviews to the press about the actions of this coalition dedicated to workplace issues.

Grants and Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota (2010-2011)
University fellowship that required a departmental nomination. Two fellowships were awarded to English graduate students and 115 across the university
Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award in Composition, University of Minnesota (2006)
Nomination is by students Also nominated: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Two graduate instructors honored per academic year
Charles Christensen Library Acquisition Prize, University of Minnesota (2007)
One of two yearly $2500 prizes awarded to English graduate students to build an academic library in a department-wide essay competition with nearly a hundred applicants

Membership in Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association
Rhetoric Society of America
National Council of Teachers of English