Terri Pantuso

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Academic Interests: Women Writers, Critical Discourse Analysis, Maternal Studies, 19th and 20th Century American Literature, World Literature, Womens Studies, English Education and Student Teacher Supervision.

 

Current Research Project(s):

I am currently writing my dissertation on silence as an active, cross-racial, rhetorical strategy in contemporary women’s novels.  Additionally, I am the Managing Editor for the Journal of Research on Women and Gender which is sponsored by Texas State University – San Marcos where I am an Instructor for the Department of English.  

 

Refereed Publications:

“Daughter-Centricity.”  Encyclopedia of Motherhood.  Ed. Andrea O’Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson.  Thousand Oaks: SAGE.  (forthcoming)

 

“Motherself.”  Encyclopedia of Motherhood.  Ed. Andrea O’Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson.  Thousand Oaks: SAGE.  (forthcoming)

 

“’He my shiny brown boy:’ Maternal Vernacular as a Language of Struggle in Sapphire’s Push.”  PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: Considering Sapphire's Works for Scholarship and Pedagogy.  Doveanna Fulton, et al, Ed.  (forthcoming)

 

“Who is Left to Mother Me?  Mothering Fore and Aft While Riding the Waves.”  Mothers Movement Online August, 2006.  http://mothersmovement.org/essays/06/07/pantuso_1.html

 

Service and Fellowships:

Managing Editor for the Journal of Research on Women and Gender, an on-line, peer-reviewed journal established by the Women’s Research Collaborative of Texas State University, February 2009 – May 2011

 

Invited Reviewer for African American Review December, 2008. 

 

Recipient of the Brackenridge Endowed Chair in English Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship, January 2007 through September 2008

 

Graduate Council College of Liberal and Fine Arts Student Representative, September 2007 through May 2008. 

 

Recipient of a Student Travel Award to attend the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference in November, 2006.

 

Recipient of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant Fellowship, August 2005 through December 2006

 

Conference Experience:

December, 2009          Modern Language Association                    Philadelphia, PA

                        Linguistic Approaches to Literature Division (Topic: The Language of Dialogue)

We Can Hear You: Cross-Racial Maternal Dialogues and the Role of Active Silence in Ellen Douglas’s Can’t Quit You, Baby, and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose

 

November, 2009          National Women’s Studies Association                           Atlanta, GA

Recovering Motherhood and the Voice of the Disenfranchised in Contemporary Novels by American Women Writers

Invited Moderator for a literary panel focusing on the works of Octavia Butler.

 

May, 2009                    American Literature Association                        Boston, MA

We Can Hear You: Cross-Racial Maternal Dialogues and the Role of Active Silence in Ellen Douglas’s Can’t Quit You, Baby, and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose.**Invited but unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts.

 

February, 2009                        Northeast Modern Language Association                        Boston, MA

Maternal Silence as a Rhetorical Strategy in Contemporary American Women’s Novels

 

February, 2007   PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire  Tempe, AZ

‘He my shiny brown boy:’ African American Maternal Vernacular in Sapphire’s Push

 

November, 2006          Society for the Study of American Women Writers                     Philadelphia, PA

Following the Condition of the Mother: American Mother Language in Sapphire’s Push

 

October, 2006              Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association               Tucson, AZ

‘Language is a Place of Struggle’: Speaking the ‘Mother’ Tongue in Sapphire’s Push

 

June, 2006                   National Women’s Studies Association                           Oakland, CA

Agency and Ownership Through Motherhood in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Sapphire’s Push

Who is Left to Mother Me?  Mothering Fore and Aft While Riding the Waves

 

December, 2005          Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies                         San Antonio, TX

The Heretic Reclaimed: The Reemergence of the Miltonic Narrator from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained

 

May, 2004                    College of Liberal and Fine Arts Research Competition    San Antonio, TX

The Heretic Reclaimed: Milton’s Presence and Evolution from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained

 

 

Hometown: Houston, Texas

 

Previous degrees: MA in English Language and Literature, UTSA 2008; BA in Political Science, Texas A&M University, 1990; Lifetime Teacher Certification in Texas for Secondary English 6-12

 

Current Hobbies: When/If I have free time, I enjoy spending it with my three daughters either playing, cooking, reading, or simply watching them grow.

 

Favorite Authors: Ellen Douglas, Edwidge Danticat, Zora Neale Hurston, Kaye Gibbons, Sue Monk Kidd, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Shirley Anne Williams

 

Ultimate Vacation: Greece, Martinique, St. Lucia, or any island with beautiful beaches and silence.

 

Email: terripantuso@sbcglobal.net