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Janice Doane | Interests | Scholarship
Education:
- Ph.D. English, SUNY at Buffalo, February 01, 1981
- M.A. English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 1979
- B.A. English, SUNY at Buffalo, 1972
Teaching Experience:
- Professor, Department of English - St. Mary's College of California (1996 - Present)
- Associate Professor, Department of English - Saint Mary's College of California (July 1989 - 1996)
Full-time appointment - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership - Saint Mary's College of California (1984 - 1989)
Full-time appointment - Instructor, Department of Humanities - Medaille College, Buffalo (1981)
Part-time appointment - Instructor, Department of English - State University College, Buffalo (1980 - 1983)
Part-time appointment - Instructor, Department of English - Canisius College, Buffalo (1980 - 1982)
Part-time appointment - Teaching Fellow, Department of English - SUNY Buffalo (1975 - 1979)
Professional Experience:
- Chair, Department of English - Saint Mary's College of California (1993 - 1996)
Assistantships:
- Research and Teaching Assistantships, Department of English - SUNY at Buffalo
(1975 - 1980)
Fellowships:
- Post-doctoral - Pembroke Center, Brown University (1983)
- SUNY Inter-campus - CUNY Graduate Center, N.Y. (1979)
Grant:
- SUNY Graduate Student Association Grant - SUNY Graduate Student Association (1979)
to study Gertrude Stein's manuscripts at Beinecke Library, Yale, 1979.
Honor:
- Honors in English, Cap and Gown Society - Phi Beta Kappa, SUNY at Buffalo (1972)
for outstanding achievement and service to the academic community
Scholarship:
- Non-Resident Scholarship - UW, Madison
(1973 - 1975)
Presentations:
Selected Presentations
- Gertrude Stein's "Blood on the Dining Room Floor" and the Gothic Mystery: Revitalizing Old Forms. Doane, Janice (talk, speech or lecture)
International Gothic Association, Aix-en-Provence France
(June 29, 2007) - Gertrude Stein's Pleasing Writing. Doane, Janice (talk, speech or lecture)
International Narrative conference
(April 2006) - “Elective Normalcy: Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
MLA Convention
(December 2004) - “Not Stein’s Style at All: Bourgeois Autobiography as Transgression”. Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Narrative Conference
(April 2004) - “Gertrude Stein and Faded Friendships”. Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Narrative Conference
(April 2002) - “’Dismissed, trivialized and misread’: Reading the Bluest Eye'". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Twentieth Century Literature Conference
(February 2001) - “Teaching Stories: Sapphire’s Push". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges
Narrative Conference
(April 2000) - “Teaching Stories: Sapphire’s Push". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Narrative Conference
(April 2000) - “Madwomen in the Mainstream: Women’s Trauma Memoirs”. Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Narrative Conference
(April 1999) - “Surviving Success: Incest Narratives and The Bluest Eye”. Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Women’s Study Conference
(March 1998) - “A Thousand Acres and the Myth of the Family Farm". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Southern American Studies association
(March 1997) - "Negotiating Psychoanalysis and History". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Twentieth Century Literature
(February 1994) - "The Tell-tale Baby: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and the Horror of the Past in Morrison's Beloved". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
Soundings: A Conference on American Life, Literature, and Interpretation
(May 06, 1993) - "Women Under the Influence of Motherhood". Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges (talk, speech or lecture)
MLA Convention
(December 1989)
Publications:
- Doane, Janice and Hodges, Devon. 2010. The Gothic Mystery and "Blood on the Dining Room Floor": How Gertrude Stein Cured Her Writing Block, Genre, vol. XLIII, issue Spring/Summer 2010, pg.91-113
- Doane, Janice and Hodges, Devon. 2007. Review of "Literary Couplings: Writing couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship," ed. Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. Forthcoming (Fall 2007)
- Doane, Janice. 2004. Review: “Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction, by Laurie Vickroy.”, Modern Fiction Studies,, vol. 50, issue 2
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 2003. “Rethinking Women’s Collaborative Writing: Power, Difference, Property. By Lorraine York", Tulsa Women’s Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 22, issue 1, pg.209-11
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 2001. Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering From Stein to Sapphire, Univ. of Michigan Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 2000. In Love with Consumption: From Anne Rice's Novels to Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire, Towards a New Feminism in Film: Adapting Works by Contemporary American.
- Doane, Janice. 1996. Women, ed. Lupack, Barbara, Bowling State University's Popular Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1996. “In Love with Consumption: From Anne Rice’s Novels to Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire", Towards a New Feminism in Film: Adapting Works by Contemporary American Women, ed. Lupack, Barbara, Bowling State University Popular Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1995. "Writing from the Trenches: Women's Work and Collaborative Writing, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 14, issue 1, pg.55-57
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1992. From Klein to Kristeva; Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1991. Undoing Feminism in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Modernity and Mass Culture, pg.158-175, eds. Narremore, JamesBrantlinger, Patrick, Indiana University Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1990. "Undoing Feminism: From the Preodipal to Postfeminism in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles", American Literary History, vol. 2, issue 2, pg.422-442
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1989. "Demonic Disturbances of Sexual Identity: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr/s Hyde", Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 23, pg.63-74
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1989. "Risky Business: Familialism, Ideology, and the Case of Baby M", Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 1, pg.67-81
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1987. Nostalgia and Sexual Difference: The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism, New York and London: Methuen
- Doane, Janice. 1986. Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1986. "Women and the Word According to Garp", Gender Studies: New Directions in Feminist Criticism, ed. Spector, Judith, Bowling Green State University Press
- Doane, Janice and Devon, Hodges. 1982. "Looking for Mrs. Goodmother: D.W. Winnicott's Mirror-role of Mother and Family in Child Development", Enclitic, vol. 6, pg.51-56
- Doane, Janice and Claire, Kahane. 1981. "The Subversion of Q.E.D.: Psychoanalysis and American Fiction", Studies in American Fiction, vol. 9, pg.185-93
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