Courtney D.

Marshall Assistant Professor Department of English and Womens Studies Program University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 603.531.3711 courtney.marshall@unh.edu

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2010- Assistant Professor, English and Womens Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 2009-2010 Lecturer, English and Womens Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH EDUCATION 2000-2009 University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. in English Graduate Certificate in Womens Studies Sisters in Crime: Black Femininity, Law, and Literature in American Culture Committee: Arthur Little (chair), Caroline Streeter, Jenny Sharpe, and Devon Carbado MA in English, 2005 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey BA, Summa cum laude, in English and Womens Studies Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey AA, Highest Honors, Liberal Arts

1997-2000 1995-1997

BOOK PROJECT Apprehending Black Womanhood: Gender and the Carceral State (currently in progress) My book project argues that the language and politics of the American penal state have informed black womens literary production. I document these cycles primarily in previously unstudied literature produced by African-American women writers from 1860-1945, an era in which defining black womens relationships to law became a national obsession. I argue that black women writers use tropes of imprisonment to signify the ways that they are simultaneously caged in yet kept out of American citizenship. PUBLICATIONS Articles in Edited Collections

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 2 Barksdale Women: Crime, Empire, and the Production of Gender. Down To The Wire: Television and Urban Decay. Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall, eds. New York: Continuum, 2009. 149-161. Newsletter Articles A Rage in Harlem: Gender, Crime, and Migration. Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. UCLA. October 2008. Rhodessa Jones: Saving Lives through Song and Story. Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. UCLA November 2006. Reference Entries The American Dream, Race, and Family in A Raisin in the Sun General Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc. 2011 Gender, Justice, and Sex in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. General Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc. 2011 The Prisoner's Wife. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Hip-Hop Literature. Ed. Tarshia Stanley. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2008. Gladys Bentley Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Eds. Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. New York: Routledge, 2004. 2 vols. pp. 113-114. AWARDS Professional Faculty Scholar, Summer Writing Academy Faculty Scholar, Research and Engagement Academy Course Development Award, Liberal Arts and Sustainability Participant, Cornell School of Criticism and Theory UNH Faculty Development Grant CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS But Some Of Us Are Dead: Archiving The Execution of Wanda Jean Allen. National Womens Studies Association. November 2013 Diasporic Black Feminist Thought and The Life of the Law: Building Theory at the Crossroads. Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. October 2013 Fugitive Motherhood: Punishing Parenthood in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. State of Black Writers Symposium: Activism in the 21st Century. October 2013 Abolition Pedagogy: Bringing Antiprison Movements into Womens Studies. Rethinking Prisons. May 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 3 Seminar Organizer. Prisons and Punishment in American Culture. Northeast Modern Language Association. March 2013 Abolition Pedagogy: Bridging Prison Studies and Womens Studies. National Womens Studies Association. November 2012 The Prison as the Big House: Theorizing Race and Rehabilitation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Teaching Womens Prison Literature and Gendering the Prison-Industrial Complex Society for the Study of American Women Writers. October 2012 Darky Damsels and Cheeky Wenches: Segregation, Testimony and the Construction of Black Ladyhood. New England Womens Studies Association. March 2012 Unsilencing the 'Irate Negress': Zora Neale Hurston and the Trial of Ruby McCollum. Race, Sexual Identity, and African American Literature, Penn State University. September 2011 Moderator, Ah Got The Law In My Mouth: Black Women Writing Justice. Northeast Modern Language Association. Montreal. April 2010. The Sweetest Things on the Block: Prostitution in Ann Petry's The Street. Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities. Brown University. March 2010 Off-center, Blurry Background Figures: Reading Black Womens Legal Fictions. Critical Race Studies Symposium. Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics & Transforming Movements. UCLA Law School. March 2010

INVITED TALKS Full Length Mothering From Prison. New Hampshire Department of Corrections. April 2014 New Hampshires Little-Known Black Daughters. Dover Public Library. March 2014 Apprehending Black Womanhood: Criminality and Citizenship in African-American Womens Literature. Antioch College. September 2013 The School To Prison Pipeline. Antioch College. September 2013 Orange Is The New Oz: Why We Love Seeing People Behind Bars. UNH Center For The Humanities First Monday Series. September 2013 21st Century Abolition: Imagining A World Without Prisons. UNH Honors Program. April 2013 Domestic Violence in Alice Walkers The Color Purple. Post-film discussion. Red River Theater. Concord, NH. February 2013 The Humanities and Civil Society. New Hampshire Humanities Council. Regional Forum of the American Academy's Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. July 2012

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 4 Why College? Discover UNH Program. UNH Admissions Office. November 2010 Race and Suffrage in Iron-Jawed Angels. Post-film discussion. Red River Theater. Concord, NH. August 2010 The Brothel and the Block: Sex (as) Work in Ann Petrys The Street. Emerging Scholars Speaker Series. Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University. February 2009 The Challenge of Black Feminist Prison Studies. UCLA Center for African-American Studies Brown Bag Talk, October 2006. Brother to Brother: Mapping a Queer Genealogy in the Harlem Renaissance. Revisioning the Harlem Renaissance (panel held in association with a screening of Brother to Brother). November 2004 Guest Lectures Discussion of race and domestic violence in The Color Purple. Thinking For The Future Series. Red River Theatre. Concord, NH. February 2013 Discussion of Prison Abolition, Justice Studies Documentary Series, October 25, 2011 Discovery Author Lectures (2010-2011) Colorblindness and Technology Cyber Activism: Technology as a Tool to Spark Social Movements and Change Digital Native, Immigrant, or Native?

COURSES TAUGHT Graduate English Department African-American Literature and the Law (Fall 2009) Black Feminist Theory and Criticism (Spring 2013) The Literature of Segregation and Civil Rights (Fall 2014) Undergraduate English Department Playing in the Dark: Race and Sex in American Literature (Spring 2012) Introduction to African American Literature (Fall 2011) Contemporary American Literature (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014) American Literature from the Civil War to the Present (Spring 2010) Womens Studies Program Feminist Thought (Spring 2014) Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice (Spring 2013) Cyborgs, Avatars and Feminists: Gender in the Virtual World (Spring 2012) Cyberbodies: Race, Gender, and Technology (Fall 2010)

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 5 Race Matters (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012) Women in Prison (Fall 2009, Fall 2014)

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE California State University Long Beach, Womens Studies Department Women of Color in the United States Winter Session, Spring Semester 2008 University of Redlands, Womens Studies Department LGBTQ Campus Activism Fall 2008 Gender, Crime, and American Prisons Spring Semester 2008. Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Fall Semester 2007. University of California, Los Angeles Slavery and American Women Writers Spring 2008. Black Women Writers and the 1960s, Spring 2007. American Prison Literature, Winter 2007. Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Summer 2006, Summer 2007. Race and Sexuality in American Literature and Culture, Spring 2006. Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing: Introduction to Literature, Summer, Spring, and Fall 2002. Winter and Spring 2003, Summer 2004, and Summer 2005. Teaching Assistantships Interracial Dynamics in American Literature, Culture, and Society (GE Cluster Program), Fall-Winter 2005-6, with Professors Ali Behdad, Jeffrey Decker, Robert Hill and Vilma Ortiz Introduction to Womens Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society, Fall 2007, with Professor Esha De The American Novel Winter 2002, with Professor Deborah Banner Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Fall 2001, with Professor James Schultz ADVISING Graduate: Dissertation Committee Member Eden Wales-Freedman, This Thing We Have Done Together: Witnessing Race, Gender, and Trauma in Postbellum American Literature Thesis Co-Chair Lava, Asaad, Muslim American Feminism: The Cultural and Political Aspects of Islam around Arab Americans and Black Muslim Women in Mohja Kahfs The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. 2013 Thesis Committee Member Diana Araujo, MFA (Nonfiction), 2014

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 6 Qualifying Exam Committee Member Tamsin Whitehead (2013) Undergraduate: Thesis Director The Production and Consumption of Hip Hop Music, Brooke Luro, Women's Studies (2012) The Technological Embodiment of the Incarcerated Female, Sarah Turner, Womens Studies (2010) Thesis Examiner Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of English and American Cultural Studies, Bates College (2011) Research Mentoring: McNair Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, with LaToya Tufts (2011) PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE National/International Participant. The Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Working Group. Northeastern University. 2013-present Abstract Reviewer, National Womens Studies Association (2010, 2013, 2014) Regional Participant. New England Black Scholars Collective. 2012-present University Founder, UNH Critical Race and Gender Studies Working Group (2010-present) Departmental English Department Undergraduate Committee, 2011-2012 Chair, Womens Studies Awards Committee, 2011-2012 Co-Chair (with Holly Cashman), Womens Studies Graduate Committee, 2010-present Interim Chair, Womens Studies Pedagogy Committee, 2011-2012 Community Book Discussion Facilitator at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility. New Hampshire Councils Connection Program. 2011-present Big Sister, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Seacoast, 2010-present RELATED ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICE Volunteer, UCLAs Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Program. 2006-2008

Courtney D. Marshall/ Curriculum Vitae/ 7 Co-Organizer, Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference. 2006, 2007. Program Assistant, UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. 2006-2008 Graduate Student Representative, Advisory Board for the LGBT Center at UCLA. 2005-2006 Editorial Assistant for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2004-2005 Editorial Intern for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2002-2004 Research Assistant for Professor Devon Carbado. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. 2002 Graduate Student Mentor. Academic Advancement Program. 2001-2002 Conference Planning Committee Member. UC Transnational & Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group. 2001 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Studies Association MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Modern Language Association National Womens Studies Association New England Womens Studies Association Society for the Study of American Women Writers Society for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities