Credentials

Karen Schneider                                           Karen.Schneider@wku.edu 1626 Ogden Way                                                       270-782-3037 (home) Bowling Green, KY 42101                                           270-745-5714 (work) EDUCATION: Ph.D. (1991), British and American Literature, 1870-present. Indiana University.         Dissertation:  "Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War"             (Susan Gubar and James Naremore, directors) M.A. (1984), Literature, Colorado State University.         Thesis: "Over the Edge of the Future: The Female Hero in the Contemporary             Science Fiction Novel." A.D.N. (1974), Nursing (R.N.), Galveston College B.A. with honors (1969), English, North Texas State University DISTINCTIONS: Western Kentucky University Teaching Award, 2000 Potter College Teaching Award, 2000 Dissertation Year Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1990-91. Honorable Mention, Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1990. William Riley Parker Prize (1987): Outstanding teaching by an associate instructor,        Department of English, Indiana University. Mary Gaither Prize (1987): Outstanding essay in British literature, Department of       English, Indiana University. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University, 1992- Classes Freshman Composition Junior English Honors Junor English Introduction to Literature Honors Introduction to Literature Literature of the Two World Wars English Literature Survey, 1798 to present Twentieth-Century British Novel/Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory Modern British Fiction Modern British Poetry (grad) Modern British Literature (three-genre survey) British Masterpieces in the Classroom (grad) Women Writers (three-genre survey) Women's Fiction     Contemporary Fiction:  Twice-Told Tales     Contemporary Fiction by American Women of Color     Women's Fiction and the Canon     Writing from/on the Margins     Trio: Woolf, Morrison, and Atwood Speculative Fiction Literature and Film Film Genres      Film Noir, the Western, Horror, the Musical Gender and Genre in Film Additional Teaching Activities --Thesis director in literature and/or cultural theory. --Examiner, M.A. orals in literature and English Education. --Director, Independent Studies. --Reader for honors theses. Other --faculty advisor, independent student creative writing group, 1995 Adjunct Professor, Indiana University, 1991-92.     Introduction to Literary Interpretation     Introduction to Fiction     Twentieth-Century British Fiction     Advanced Composition Assistant Coordinator, Groups Program, Indiana University, 1989-90.        Co-administered writing component of campus-wide program for educationally         disadvantaged entering freshmen (mostly minority), including course design         and teacher supervision. Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 1984-89.        Guest Lecturer, Contemporary Women Writers, "Women and Speculative          Fiction," Indiana University, 1988.     Instructor, Groups Program, summer 1986.         Basic composition in conjunction with readings in multi-cultural studies. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University, 1980-82. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY: Publications Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War. U P of Kentucky, 1996. "Unexpected Resistance in Postmodern Cinema:  Parodic Satire in Mars Attacks!"        Submitted to Cinema Journal. "Celluloid Presidents:  A Religious Revival."  Arizona Quarterly 59.4 (2003): 137-58. "With Violence If Necessary: Rearticulating the Family in the Contemporary        Action-Thriller." Journal of Popular Film and Television 27.1 (1999): 2-11. "Gloria Naylor's Poetics of Emancipation: (E)merging (Im)possibilities in Bailey's        Cafe."   In Gloria Naylor's Early Novels. Ed. Margot Kelley. University of        Florida P, 1999. "Women, Narrative, and Hollywood Cinema: Re-Shooting World War II."        Forming and Reforming Identity (Genders 21). Ed. Carol Siegel and       Ann Kibbey. New York University P, 1995. 58-79. "A Different War Story: Doris Lessing's Great Escape." Journal of Modern        Literature 19 (Fall 1995): 259-72. "Of Two Minds: Virginia Woolf, the War and Between the Acts," Journal of        Modern Literature 16 (Summer 1989): 93-112. Reviews The White Turtle by Merlinda Bobis (2000).   FemSpec 3.1 (2001). Women of Other Worlds: excursions through science fiction and feminism      (1999), Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams. FemSpec 2.2 (2000). Women's Fiction between the Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Writing (1998),        by Heather Ingman, and British Women Writers of World War II:        Battlegrounds of Their Own (1998), by Phyllils Lassner.  In Albion 31.2        (1999): 355-57. Conference Papers "The Return of the Repressed: American Beauty and Fight Club as Contemporary Horror Film". The popular Culture Association Conferences Atlanta, GA (April 2006). "Unexpected Resistance in Postmodern Cinema:  The Parodic Satire of Mars      Attacks!"  Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of      Louisville.  (February 2003). "Celluloid Presidents:  A Religious Revival."  Twentieth Century Literature       Conference, University of Louisville.  (February 2002). "The Matrix: Millennial Anxiety, Ideological Critique, and the Postmodern        Dilemma."  Literature and Film Conference, Florida State University (January        2000). "With Violence If Necessary: Rearticulating the Family in the Contemporary Action-       Thriller." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville,        February 1998. "Gloria Naylor's Experimental Poetics: (E)merging (Im)possibilities in Bailey's         Cafe."  American Women Writers of Color Conference, Salisbury State         University,  October 1995. "Reproducing the 'Real': Paradox and the Ideology of Conflict in 'Anti'-War        Narrative."  MMLA Conference, Chicago, November 1994. "The Post-Vietnam World War II Film: Still For the Boys."  Twentieth-Century        Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1994. "Seeing Through Shining Through: Pseudo-Revisionism in Recent World War II        Film."  Women's Studies Conference, Western Kentucky University,        September 1993. "The Golden Notebook as war story: Lessing's great escape," Twentieth-Century        Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1992. "Men, Women and War Stories: Discerning the Plots." Women and War: An        Interdisciplinary Conference, The University of Texas, October 1991. "Prisoners of War: Stevie Smith's Wartime Trilogy," Twentieth- Century Literature        Conference, University of Louisville, February 1990. "Of Two Minds: Virginia Woolf, the War and Between the Acts, Graduate        Symposium, Indiana University, April 1987. "The Feminist Dystopian Vision," George Orwell Conference, Colorado State        University, 1984 (by invitation). Other Member editorial board, Fem Spec  (an interdisciplinary feminist journal        dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of sf, fantasy,        magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres),       1999-2002. Presenter, "Screening Novels: Ideological Shenanigans from Frankenstein to        Howard's End, WKU English Colliquia Series, September, 1995. Moderator, "Gender and Popular Culture," Women's Studies Conference, Western        Kentucky University, October 1995. Moderator, "Women and Film," Women's Studies Conference, WKU, October        1995. Moderator, "The Films of Jane Campion," Women's Studies Conference, WKU,        September 1994. Moderator, "Women and Technology in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,'"        Women's Studies Conference, WKU, September 1994. Moderator, "Private Worlds: Women Survivors of Vietnam War Veterans,"        Women's Studies Conference, WKU, September 1993. Moderator, "The Female Dick in Cinema," Women's Studies Conference, WKU,        September 1992. ACADEMIC SERVICE:      University Cultural Enhancement Committee, 2001- Faculty Scholarship Committee, 2001-03 Athletic Committee, 2001-03 Academic Council, 1999-21 Program Assessment Committee, 1998- Graduate Council, 1997-99 Ad hoc General Education Writing Committee, 1998 Faculty Senate, 1995-97 Search Committee (asst. dean, Potter College), 1997 Faculty Advisor, Lambda Society, 1996-98 Speaker, "Feminisms" Panel, for WKU's Women's Alliance, April, 1996 Dean's Advisory Committee, 1993, 1995-96      Women's Studies Program Search Committee (full time instructor), Spring 2002 WS Film Series Committee, 1999-  (chair, 2001-  ) WS Publication Relations, 1995-99  (chair, 98-99) Program Committee, WS Conference, 1993-95 Curriculum Committee, WS Minor, 1993-94 Registration Chair, WS Conference, 1994-95 Film Series Chair, WS Conference, 1994 Interim Director, Women's Studies Minor, Spring 1993 Women's Studies (general) Committee, 1992-95      English Department Interim Dept. Head 2003-04 Head, Search Committee (Comp. Director), 2002-03 Search Committee (seven full time instructor positions), Summer 2002 Search Committee (World Lit.), 2001-02 Graduate Committee, 2001- Travel Committee, 2000- Executive Committee, 1998-2000 Assessment Committee (co-chair), 1998- Search Committee (Victorian), Spring 1997 Curriculum Committee, Fall 1996-     --chair, ad hoc committee for revision of literary theory offerings, Spring 1996         (course proposals submitted)     --chair, ad hoc committee for design/implementation of capstone course, Spring         1996- (course proposal submitted) Honors Committee, Fall 1994-96 Library Committee, Fall 1994- Search Committee (World Lit.), 1994-95 Graduate Faculty, 1992- English Literature Committee, 1992- Search Committee (English Ed.), 1992-93      Other Women's Studies Representative, Anti-Violence Coalition of Kentucky, 1996-98 Reader for Women's Studies Conference (literature proposals) at Middle Tennessee        State University, summer 1996. Discussion leader, 12th grade English class, Leitchfield High School: What to        Expect in College/English, Spring 1996 and 1997  (by invitation) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Society for Cinema Studies American Association of University Women Midwest Modern Language Association Modern Language Association