The University of St. Thomas

College of Arts & Sciences | Department of English

Wilkinson

Wilkinson

Elizabeth Wilkinson

Assistant Professor of English

wilk9056@stthomas.edu
Phone: (651) 962-5632

Office Location: JRC 358

Courses taught in Spring 2013
ENGL 203-05
21795
Games We Play: Sports Lit 0935-1040 M W F OEC 207

4 Credit Hours

What is any sports event, but a story--multiple stories--playing out before our eyes? Sports by definition involve conflict and drama: man versus man; man versus himself; man versus nature; and if we believe it possible, man versus the supernatural. It's no accident that some of our greatest metaphors come from the arena of athletics. Through sports we have a way to look at the values of America--at the best we have to offer, and the worst. In this class, we will read, enjoy, and analyze short stories, articles, drama, poetry, novels, essays, and participant journalism. Potential texts may include the following: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by H.G. Bissinger; A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME: WOMEN'S LITERATURE ON WOMEN'S SPORT by Joli Sandoz (Editor); THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan; and THE PERFECT MILE by Neal Bascomb. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.

ENGL 203-10
21801
Games We Play: Sports Lit 1335-1440 M W F MCH 106

4 Credit Hours

What is any sports event, but a story--multiple stories--playing out before our eyes? Sports by definition involve conflict and drama: man versus man; man versus himself; man versus nature; and, if we believe it possible, man versus the supernatural. It's no accident that some of our greatest metaphors come from the arena of athletics. Through sports we have a way to look at the values of America--at the best we have to offer, and the worst. In this class, we will read, enjoy, and analyze short stories, articles, drama, poetry, novels, essays, and participant journalism. Potential texts may include the following: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by H. G. Bissinger; A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME: WOMEN'S LITERATURE ON WOMEN'S SPORT by Joli Sandoz (Editor); THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan; and THE PERFECT MILE by Neal Bascomb. The writing load for this course is 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.

ENGL 217-01
21909
Multicultural Literature 1215-1320 M W F MCH 106

4 Credit Hours

This course will focus on extensive reading of a broad selection of authors drawn from the literature of one of the following: (a) American communities of color; (b) postcolonial peoples; (c) diasporic peoples. Students will engage in close analysis of literary texts from at least one such literary tradition, with some attention to historical and cultural contexts. This course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement in the core curriculum. Prerequisites: ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204

Courses taught in Fall 2013
ENGL 203-10
43002
Games We Play: Sports Lit 1055-1200 M W F OEC 210

4 Credit Hours

What is any sports event, but a story--multiple stories--playing out before our eyes? Sports by definition involve conflict and drama: man versus man, man versus himself; man versus nature; and, if we believe it possible, man versus the supernatural. It's no accident that some of our greatest metaphors come from the arena of athletics. Through sports we have a way to look at the values of America--at the best we have to offer, and the worst. In this class, we will read, enjoy, and analyze short stories, articles, drama, poetry, novels, essays, and participant journalism. Potential texts may include the following: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by H.G. Bissinger; A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME: WOMEN'S LITERATURE on WOMEN'S SPORT by Joli Sandoz (Editor); THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan; and THE PERFECT MILE by Neal Bascomb. The writing load for this course is 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.

ENGL 203-11
43003
Games We Play: Sports Lit 1335-1440 M W F OEC 210

4 Credit Hours

What is any sports event, but a story--multiple stories--playing out before our eyes? Sports by definition involve conflict and drama: man versus man; man versus himself; man versus nature; and, if we believe it possible man versus the supernatural. It's no accident that some of our greatest metaphors come from the arena of athletics. Through sports we have a way to look at the values of America--at the best we have to offer, and the worst. In this class, we will read, enjoy, and analyze short stories, articles, drama, poetry, novels, essays, and participant journalism. Potential texts may include the following: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by H.G. Bissinger; A WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME: WOMEN'S LITERATURE ON WOMEN'S SPORT by Joli Sandoz (Editor); THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan; and THE PERFECT MILE by Neal Bascomb. The writing load for this course is 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.

Academic History

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A., Virginia Polytechnic and State University
B.A., M.Ed., The Pennsylvania State University at University Park
At St. Thomas since 2008

Expertise/Specialties

Native American and Indigenous Literatures
American Literature before 1900
Women's Literatures
Electric Bass and Lead/Harmony Vocals Wilkinson James Band

Selected Publications

“Gertrude Bonnin’s Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights.” Women Writing Between the Wars. Ed. Anne George. Southern Illinois University Press (forthcoming)

“Ann Rinaldi’s My Heart Is on the Ground as Literary Colonization of Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories.” Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 3.1 (2002): 47-62.

Selected Presentations

“Piute Pedagogy: Rhetorical Connections across Gender, Class, Culture.” A paper written with Bethany Fletcher, UST graduate student in English. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Louisville, KY March 2010

“White Women and the Transrhetorical Agency of Indianism.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Philadelphia, PA October 2009

“Margaret Fuller and the Transrhetorical Agency of ‘Indianism.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference (NAIS), Minneapolis, MN 2009

“I am the mother of men”:  Nan-ye-hi’s Cherokee Rhetoric of Motherhood in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Treaty Negotiations. Southern American Studies Association (SASA) Conference, Fairfax, VA 2009

“Feminist, Indian-Feminist, and Anti-US Indian Policy Sentiments in Texts by Zitkala-Sa, Sarah Winnemucca, and Joy Harjo.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference (NAIS), Athens, Georgia, 2008.

“‘We Are Your Mothers’:  Cherokee Women’s Voices for Land Preservation.” American Literature Association Conference (ALA), Boston, 2007.

“Declaiming and Demarcating: Gertrude Bonnin’s Sentimental Campaign for Native Land.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (SSAWW), Philadelphia, 2006.

“Sarah Winnemucca: ‘Postindian Warrior’ Writing for the Land.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Conference (MELUS),     Boca Raton, 2006.

“Created ‘White’-ness and Hopi Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” New Directions in American Indian Research: A Gathering of Emerging Scholars, Chapel Hill, 2004.

“(Re)Narrative Resistance: The Political Writings of Zitkala-Sa.” International American Women Writers of Color Conference (AWWOC), Baltimore, 2004.

Service

Co-faculty advisor of Iota Psi chapter, Sigma Tau Delta International English Society
Co-coordinator of English Department colloquium series
Co-coordinator of St. Thomas ACTC English Majors Conference  

Membership in Professional Organizations

Native American and Indigenous Studies
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
American Literature Association
Modern Language Association

College Composition and Communication (CCC)