Cari  M. Carpenter

Department of English			
1503 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6296
Morgantown, WV 26506-6296
 (304) 293-9709

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor, West Virginia University 
Core Member of the Native American Studies Committee
University Affiliate of the Center for Women’s Studies

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (2004-2010)
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Kalamazoo College (2002-2004)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies, 2002
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: Seeing Red: Anger, Femininity, and the American Indian of Nineteenth-Century
	         Sentimental Literature
Chair:           Betty Louise Bell, English, American Culture, and Women’s Studies
Committee:  June Howard, English, American Culture, and Women’s Studies
         Sandra Gunning, English, American Culture, and Center for AfroAmerican and   
		    African Studies
	         Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, American Culture and History
			
M.A. in English, 1998
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.A. (summa cum laude) in English and Psychology, 1995
University of Colorado, Boulder
Honors Thesis: “Mary Shelley’s Problem Child: Monstrous Subversions of Sex and Gender in 	Frankenstein” (directed by Katherine Eggert)

PUBLICATIONS
Carpenter, Cari M. and Carolyn Sorisio. The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca 	Hopkins’s Public Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891 (forthcoming from 	the University of Nebraska Press).
Carpenter, Cari M. Review of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native 
American Literature. Legacy 31.1 (2014): 145-148.
Carpenter, Cari M. and K. Hyoejin Lee. “Rethinking Alternative Contact in Native American 
and Chinese Encounters: Juxtaposition in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers.” College Literature Special Issue Native/Asian Encounters 41.2 (Winter 2014): 7-42.
Carpenter, Cari M. “Fancydancing through the Minefield: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, 
Racism, and Anger.” transformations 22.2 (2011/2012): 132-143.
Penelope Kelsey and Cari M. Carpenter. “‘In the end, our message weighs’: Blood Run, 	NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity.” American Indian Quarterly 35.1 (2011): 56-	64.
Carpenter, Cari. “An Hour Inside.” Stateville Speaks (May 2011): 8.
Carpenter, Cari M., ed. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and 	Eugenics. Lincoln: U 	of Nebraska P, 2010. Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American 	Women Writers Series.
Carpenter, Cari M. Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians. Columbus: The 	Ohio State UP, 2008. (Honorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize)
Carpenter, Cari M. “Sarah Winnemucca and the Re-Writing of Nation.” Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity. Ed. Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2009: 112-127. (Invited contribution)
	Podcast interview: http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/243/id/460441/wed-11-11-09-origin-stories-native-notions
Carpenter, Cari M. “Prestamped.” Eds. Tony Christini and Andre Vltchek.  Liberation Lit. 	Mainstay Press, 2010. 416. <http://liblit.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/prestamped-by-cari-	carpenter/>
Carpenter, Cari M. “Through the Eye of the Deer.” Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 361.
Carpenter, Cari M. “To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1923-1839.” Legacy 24.1 (2007): 132-133.
Carpenter, Cari. “Detecting Indianness: Gertrude Bonnin’s Investigation of American Indian 
	Identity.” Wicazo Sa Review 20.1 (2005): 139-159.
Carpenter, Cari M. Review of Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West. 	Modern Language Studies 35.1 (2005): 108-109.
Carpenter, Cari M. “Offering, in Return.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.2 
(2005): 81-82. 
Carpenter, Cari M. Review of Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life. Legacy 21.2 (2004): 254-255.
Carpenter, Cari M. Review of The Dirt is Red Here: Art and Poetry in Native California. SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures 16.1 (2004): 78-80.

Carpenter, Cari M. “Tiresias Speaks: Sarah Winnemucca’s Hybrid Selves and Genres.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.1 (2002): 71-80. 
Carpenter, Cari M. “Feminist Technologies and the Women’s Studies Classroom.” Spec. Issue of Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 7.2 (2002).  <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos>. 

HONORS AND AWARDS
Outstanding Service in Native American Studies (WVU)				2014
John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award	2012
Research Fellowship, Sequoyah National Research Center				2011
Book Preparation Stipend, West Virginia University (WVU)			2011
Outstanding Researcher Award, WVU						2009
James and Arthur Gabriel/Gabriel Brothers Faculty Award, WVU			2009
Honorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award (NWSA)			2008
Senate Research Grant, WVU								2007
Outstanding Contribution Award, Native American Studies Committee, WVU	2007
Riggle Research Fellowship, WVU							2005
Lannan Summer Institute Fellowship; Dir. Fred Hoxie; Newberry Library		2003
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship						2002
Michigan Arts and Humanities Council Grant (Volume Summer Institute)		2002
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, U of Michigan			2002
Thevenet Summer Research Grant, U of Michigan					2001
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, DVP SAFE House, Ann Arbor, MI	2001	
Graduate Student Prize for Best Paper at the SSAWW Conference			2001
Honorable Mention, NEMLA 2000 Graduate Caucus Paper Competition		2001
Sweetland Writing Center Junior Fellowship, U of Michigan			2001
Newberry Library Short-Term Research Fellowship					2000
Teaching Fellow, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)		2000
Finalist, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, U of Michigan			2000
Michigan Society of Fellows Associate Fellowship, U of Michigan			2000
Mellon Candidacy Fellowship							1999
Winner of Diversity Narrative competition (CRLT), U of Michigan			1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Current Graduate Committees, West Virginia University
	Cara Snider		PhD		Member	2010-present		English
	Andrea Bebell		PhD		Member	2010-present		English
	Yvonne Hammond     PhD		Member	2013-present		English
	James Holsinger	PhD		Member	2013-present		English
	Rachel Luckenbill	PhD	Outside Member	2914-present		English

Courses Taught, West Virginia University
	Studies of a Major Author (Louise Erdrich)
	Special Topics in American Literature: Narratives of the Nation (graduate seminar)
	Special Topics in American Literature: Sovereignty, Gender, and American Indians
		(graduate course)
	Nations Within (graduate seminar; teaching exchange at University of Szeged, Hungary)
	Literature of Native America
	Special Topics in Women’s Literature (Amizade course in Cochabamba, Bolivia)
	American Studies Special Topics: Nations Within (graduate seminar)
	American Literature I, Beginnings to 1865 
	Multiethnic Literature 
	Images of Women in Literature: Technology, Race, and Women’s Bodies
	Topics in Women’s Literature 
	Emotion and American Literature, 1865-1915 (graduate course)
	American Literature 1865-1915 
	Short Story and Novel		
	Senior Capstone
	Independent Studies: James and Transatlantic Literature (graduate)
		Victoria Woodhull (graduate)
		Late Henry James (graduate)
		Multiethnic Literature (undergraduate)
		Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (undergraduate)
		Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (honors undergraduate)

Courses Taught, Kalamazoo College
	Literature of Women: Modern Voices 
	Reading the Novel 
	Studies in U.S. Ethnic Literature 
	First-Year Writing Seminar, “Literature of the Renegade” 

Courses Taught, University of Michigan
	Writing and Literature 
	The Man-made Woman: Technology, Race, and Women’s Bodies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century U.S. (Women’s Studies)
		<www.umich.edu/~womenstd/courses/253-003>
	College Writing 
	
Other Pedagogical Experience
Workshop Coordinator, Writing Place: A Creative Writing Workshop for American Indian High School Students (2004)
I co-organized this week-long creative writing workshop for American Indian high school students from across the country. In addition to coordinating program details, I specialized in the recruitment of students and the instruction of American Indian literatures.

Co-Director and Facilitator, Volume Summer Institute (2002)
I co-organized this week-long poetry workshop of nearly 50 high school students, teachers, and graduate students. I specialized in the recruitment of students of color and the instruction of Native American literature.

Junior Fellow, Sweetland Writing Center (2001-2002)
The Gayle Morris Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan is dedicated to improving student writing skills as well as writing instruction. As a Junior Fellow I attended weekly pedagogical seminars directed by specialists in composition, rhetoric, and writing across the curriculum. These seminars helped me prepare for the second component of the fellowship: a writing-intensive first-year course that I taught in the winter term.

Participant, Making American Literatures Program (MAL) (2000-2002)
This collaborative program, which is directed by Anne Ruggles Gere, brings secondary teachers and graduate students of American literature together to discuss pedagogical issues and strategies. As part of this program, I taught a lesson in Native American literatures for the Southfield High School Honors English classes in May of 2001. In August of 2001 I gave a presentation to MAL participants on the teaching of Native American literatures.

Teaching Fellow, Rackham Graduate School / CRLT Seminar on College Teaching (2000)

PRESENTATIONS
Invited Commentator, “Masculinity, Domestication, and the Visual Apparatus of the 
Settler State.” NAISA Conference: Austin, TX; May 2014.

Presenter, “The Pedagogy of Sovereignty.” ALA Conference: Washington, DC: May 2014. 

Invited Presenter, “Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull.” SSAWW Mid-Atlantic Study 
Group; Washington, DC; September 2013.

Presenter, “Sarah Winnemucca Goes to Washington: Rhetoric and Resistance in the Capitol City.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA); Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; June 2013.

Presenter, “Challenges (and Rewards) of Archival Silence: the Case of Sarah Winnemucca.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW); Denver, CO; October 2012.

Invited Presenter, “Legacies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Nineteenth Century.” SSAWW Conference; Denver, CO; October 2012.

Presenter, “Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Future of a Nation.” Native American Literature Symposium (NALS); Albuquerque, NM; March 2012.

Presenter, “The Measure of Civilization in Native and Asian Representations: Afong Moy and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.” MLA; Seattle, WA; January 2012.

Presenter, “Difficult Dialogues.” Teaching Roundtable at National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference; Denver, CO; November 2010.

Invited Presenter, “Pathways through the Joint PhD Program and Beyond.” University of Michigan Women’s Studies Program Event; Ann Arbor, MI; October 2010.

Moderator and Presenter, “Blood Run, NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity.” NALS; Albuquerque, NM; March 2010.

Moderator and Presenter, “Sarah Winnemucca and the Western Newspaper.” SSAWW Conference; Philadelphia, PA; October 2009.

Presenter, “Madame President: Contemporary Receptions of Victoria Woodhull and Hillary Rodham Clinton.” NWSA Conference; Cincinnati, OH; June 2008.

Moderator and Presenter, “Representations of Sarah Winnemucca in West Coast Newspapers.” NALS; Albuquerque, NM; February 2009.

Presenter, “Princess Pissy Willow Meets Princess Pocahontas.” NALS; Minneapolis, MN; March 2008.

Presenter, “Erdrich’s and Alexie’s “Captivity”: Re-writing Rowlandson in the Classroom.” NALS; Mount Pleasant, MI; March 2007.

Presenter, “The Race for Pedagogy: Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Teaching about Race and Ethnicity.” SSAWW Conference; Philadelphia, PA; November 2006. 

Presenter, “Generations: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching American Indian Literatures and American Indian Studies.” NALS; Mount Pleasant, MI; April 2006.

Presenter, “Strategies of Indigenous Print Cultures: Te Ao Hou and the American Indian Magazine.” NALS; Mount Pleasant, MI; April 2006.

Presenter, “The ‘Real’ Costumes of E. Pauline Johnson.” Midwest MLA Conference; Milwaukee, WI; November 2005.

Presenter, “Is There an Indian in this Text? Betsey Chamberlain and Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature.” RMMLA Conference; Boulder, CO; September 2004.

Presenter, “ ‘An Indian woman roused was a woman to let alone’: Pauline Johnson and the Performance of Anger.” Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference; Miami University, OH; February 2004.

Presenter, “Playing Angry: The Politics of Reform in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema.” SSAWW Conference; Fort Worth, TX; September 2003.

Presenter, “Detecting Indianness: Zitkala-Ša’s Pursuit of a National Native Identity.” NALS; Mystic Lake Casino, MN; March 2003.

Presenter, “Seeing Red: Racing Anger in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.” English Department Works-in-Progress Series; Kalamazoo College; Kalamazoo, MI; February 2003.

Participant, “American Indian Perspectives on the Humanities in the 21rst Century: A National Conference and Conversation.” Newberry Library, Chicago, IL; January 2003.

Presenter, “Can Feminism Resist Market Forces? Feminist Publishing and Bookselling Under Siege.” NWSA Conference; Las Vegas, NV; June 2002.

Invited Speaker, “‘An Indian woman roused, was a woman to let alone’: Pauline Johnson and the Staging of Anger.” Gender and Power: Diverse Paradigms of Representation; Women’s Studies Program Colloquium; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; February 2002.

Invited Session Facilitator, “Structures and Perspectives: Graduate Student Perspectives.” Working Conference on the Ph.D. in Women’s Studies: Implications and Articulations; Atlanta, GA; October 2001.

Presenter, “Tiresias Speaks: Sarah Winnemucca’s Hybrid Selves and Genres.” SSAWW First International Conference; San Antonio, TX; February 2001. (Recipient of Graduate Student Prize for Best Paper)

Presenter, “Savage Sentiments: Anger and Sentimentality in Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter.” Sixth Annual Seminar on Culture and Power; Universidad de Murcia, Spain; September 2000.

Presenter, “Dissertating in English and Women’s Studies: Reflections from the Field.” NWSA Conference; Boston, MA; June 2000.

Presenter, “Playing Angry: Sentimentality and Nationhood in Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok.” 31rst Annual Northeast MLA Conference; Buffalo, New York; April 2000. (Recipient of Honorable Mention, NEMLA 2000 Graduate Caucus Paper Competition)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Executive Board of APBP				2014-present
Faculty Advisor, APBP (undergraduate group)		2014-present
Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, WVU	            2012-2014
Consultant, Legacy						2011-present  
Faculty Advisor, English Club				2010-2011
Faculty Advisor, Organization for Native American 
	Interests (ONAI)					2010-2011; 2012-present
Member, Council for Women’s Concerns			2009-2013
Member, Latino/a Studies Search Committee		2008-2009	
Coordinator, Summer Seminar in Literary and 		
	Cultural Studies (Led by Philip J. Deloria)		2007-2008
Member, Graduate Program Committee			2007-2008
Core Member, Native American Studies Program		2004-present
Faculty Advisor, English Graduate Organization		2006-2010
Coordinator, Undergraduate Literature Symposium		2006-2007
Member, Proseminar Exam Committee			2006-2007
Member, PhD Admissions Committee			2007
Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee			2005-2006
Member, Hiring Committee 					2005-2006
Member, Appalachian Prison Book Project			2004-present
Associate Member, Native American Studies Committee 	2004-2006
Associate Member, Center for Women’s Studies		2004-present
Faculty Advisor, Feminist Research Group			2004-2009
Volunteer, YWCA Mentorship Program, Kalamazoo, MI 	2003-2004
Listserv Moderator, Women’s Studies Ph.D. 		2003-2005
Volunteer, Michigan Battered Women’s Clemency		 
	Project; Ann Arbor, MI				2002
Facilitator, “Raising Strong and Confident			
	Daughters” Workshop; U of Michigan		2002
Co-Coordinator, Women’s Studies Student Speaker Series	,
	U of Michigan						1999-2002	
Coordinator, Women’s Studies Mentorship Program,	
	U of Michigan						1999-2002

Non-residential volunteer, Domestic Violence Project	    
	SAFE House, Ann Arbor, MI				1998-2002
Graduate Student Representative, Women’s Studies      
	Executive Committee, U of Michigan		1998-2000
Editor, Michigan Feminist Studies				1997-1998

SKILLS
Spanish: fluent reading skills; proficient speaking skills (training at the Institute for Central American Development Studies; San Pedro, Costa Rica; Summer 1998)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association; National Women’s Studies Association; NWSA Women of Color Caucus; Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures; Society for the Study of American Women Writers; Native American and Indigenous Studies Association; Phi Beta Kappa.