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Laurie Champion

English Department

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182

e-mail: champion at mail dot sdsu dot edu

Education

Ph.D. in English, August 1994

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

M.A. in English, August 1992

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

M.A. in Humanities, August 1991

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

B.A. in Psychology (Minor in English), December 1987

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

Academic Employment

Professor of English, San Diego State University (2005-present)

Associate Professor of English, San Diego State University (2002-2005)

Assistant Professor of English, San Diego State University (1999-2002)

Assistant Professor of Languages & Literature, Sul Ross State University (1994-1999)

Teaching Fellow in English, University of North Texas (1990-1994)

Teaching Assistant in Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas (1988-1990)

Teaching/Research Interests

Twentieth-Century Ethnic American Literature

Feminist Studies

Short Story Theory

Creative Writing

Courses Taught

American Literature, Beginnings to 1860

American Literature, 1800-1860

American Literature, 1860-1920

American Literature, 1920-1950

American Literature, 1950-present

Contemporary American Literature

Contemporary American Literature (graduate)

Contemporary American Short Stories and Short Story Tradition (graduate)

U.S. Short Story (graduate)

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The American Memoir (graduate)

Misery Lit

Contemporary Southern Writers

Texas Literature

Film and Literature

Introduction to Women’s Studies

Women in American History

Contemporary American Women Writers

African American Women Writers

Ethnic Literature

Mexican American Literature

African American Literature (graduate)

Children’s Literature

World Literature

Literary Types

Literary Study

Creative Writing: Short Fiction (graduate)

Creative Writing: Short Fiction

Creative Writing: Novel

Creative Writing: Screenplay

Creative Writing: Poetry (graduate)

Creative Writing: Poetry

Creative Writing: Short-Short Story/Prose Poetry (graduate)

Creative Writing: Short-Short Story/Prose Poetry

Creative Writing: Creative Essay (graduate)

Developmental Writing

Composition & Rhetoric I

Composition & Rhetoric II

Technical Writing

Desktop Publishing

Civilization Through Travel: Exploring England, Ireland, and France

Civilization Through Travel: Exploring England and Italy

Civilization Through Travel: Exploring France and Spain

Civilization Through Travel: Exploring Costa Rica

Publications

Books

Ed. Texas 5 X 5: Twenty-Five Stories by Five Texas Writers. Stephen F. Austin State

University Press. 2014.

Ed. Texas Told’em: Gambling Stories. Intro. Doyle Brunson. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press,

2011.

and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds. Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of

Anita Scott Coleman. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 2008.

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and Rhonda Austin, eds. Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z

Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

Ed. American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.

Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.

and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds. The African American West: A Century of Short Stories.

Boulder, CO: UP of Colorado, 2000.

and Bruce A. Glasrud, comps. Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience: A Bibliography of

Secondary Sources About Black Texans. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend Studies, 2000.

and Billy Bob Hill, eds. Texas Short Stories II. Dallas: Browder Springs, 2000.

Ed. The Critical Response to Eudora Welty’s Fiction. Critical Responses in Arts

and Letters Ser. 12. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

Ed. The Critical Response to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Critical Responses in

Arts and Letters Ser. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991.

Essays/Review Essays

Essays in Refereed Journals

“True Stories Are Lies: Postmodern Signifying in John Edgar Wideman’s Short Fiction.”

Short Story 19 (2012): 60-80.

“‘Passing It Along in the Relay’: Struggles for Economic Equality in Toni Cade Bambara’s

‘Raymond’s Run’ and ‘The Lesson.’” Short Story 13 (2005): 69-82.

“Search for Identity in Reginald McKnight’s Short Fiction.” Short Story 12 (2004): 79-90.

“‘I Keep Looking Back to See Where I’ve Been’: Bobbie Ann Mason’s Clear Springs

and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.” Southern Literary Journal 36.2 (2004): 47-58.

“So Much Whisk(e)y So Far From Home: Misogyny, Violence, and Alcoholism in

Raymond Carver’s Where I’m Calling From.” Studies in Short Fiction 36 (1999):

235-49. (Although dated 99, actually appeared in 03)

“Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.” Explicator 61 (2003): 234-36.

“Social Class Distinctions in Dorothy West’s The Richer, the Poorer.” Langston Hughes

Review 16.1&2 (1999-2001): 39-49. (Although dated 99-01, actually appeared in 02)

“Socioeconomics in Selected Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston.” Southern Quarterly

40.1 (2001): 79-92. (Reprinted in Zora Neale Hurston: Bloom’s Modern Critical

Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2008: 181-96.)

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Texas As a Foil: Racism in Chester Himes’s 1940s Writings.”

Southwestern American Literature 27.1 (2001): 9-19.

“Bobbie Ann Mason’s (Open-Ended) Marriages.” Midwest Quarterly 43 (2001): 95-111.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “‘No Land of the Free’: Chester Himes Confronts California

(1940-1946).” CLA Journal 44: (2001): 391-416.

“The Balance of Effects: An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason.” Dark Horse Literary

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Review 2.1 (2000): 33-40.

“A Bobbie Ann Mason Bibliography.” Dark Horse Literary Review 2.1 (2000): 41-44.

“Assimilation Versus Celebration: James McPherson’s ‘The Story of a Dead Man’

and James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues.’” Short Story 8.2 (2000): 94-106.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “A House Divided: Short Stories and the Western Civil Rights

Movement.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 31 (2000): 1-18.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “‘The Fishes and the Poet’s Hands’: Frank Yerby, a Black Author

in White America.” Journal of American Culture 23.4 (2000): 15-21.

“‘So Within Him His Mother Was Battling His Mother’: John Updike’s (M)other Olinger

Stories.” Journal of the Short Story in English 33 (1999): 105-19.

“‘What’s to Say?’: Silence in Raymond Carver’s ‘Feathers’.” Studies in Short Fiction

34 (1997): 193-201. (Although dated 97, actually appeared in 99)

“‘When You Finally See Them’: The Unconquered Eye in To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Southern Quarterly 37.2 (1999): 127-36.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “African Americans in the West: A Short Story Tradition.”

Journal of Big Bend Studies 10 (1998): 221-42.

“What We Talk About When We Talk (‘About Love’): Carver and Chekhov.” Journal of

the Short Story in English 28 (1997): 24-36.

“Jones’s From Here to Eternity.” Explicator 54 (1996): 242-44.

“Allen’s ‘The Kugelmass Episode.’” Explicator 51 (1992): 61-63.

“Black and White Christs in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”

Southern Literary Journal 24.1 (1991): 47-52.

Review Essays in Refereed Journals

“From Cowboys to Intellectuals: West Texas Tales,” review essay of A West Texas

Soapbox and El Camino del Rio, by Jim Sanderson. Southwestern American

Literature 24.2 (1999): 108-110.

“Telling a Life: A Review Essay,” review essay of The Confession of Dorothy Danner:

Telling a Life,” by Richard A. Pride. Southern Quarterly 36.2 (1998): 133-36.

“Elizabeth Spencer: The Development of a Writer,” review essay of Self and

Community in the Fiction of Elizabeth Spencer, by Terry Roberts. Mississippi

Quarterly 49 (1995-96): 33-36.

“Review Essay of Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and To Kill a Mockingbird:

Threatening Boundaries,” by Claudia Durst Johnson. Diversity 3.1 (1995): 123-26.

Essays in Books

“John Irving.”The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. New York:

Oxford UP. Forthcoming.

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“The Short Story in America.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed.

Jay Parini. New York: Oxford UP. Forthcoming.

“Barry Hannah.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement 26.

Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s., 2018. Forthcoming.

“Flannery O’Connor.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies.

Retrospective Supplement III. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2017.

207-21.

“Mona Simpson.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement 25.

Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2017.

“Tony Parsons.” British Writers Supplement 15. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles

Scribner’s, 2010. 227-41.

“Nick Hornby.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Fourth Edition. Ed. Carl Rollyson.

Pasadena: Salem, 2010. 2265-69.

“The Life of Amy Tan.” Women’s Issues in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Ed. Gary

Wiener. New York: Greenhaven, 2008. 16-24.

“Amy Tan.” Asian American Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Deborah L.

Madsen. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 288-98.

“Afterword.” The Perfect Sonya, by Beverly Lowry. Fort Worth: Texas Christian

University Press, 2004. 242-49.

“Terry McMillan.” Twenty-First Century American Novelists. Dictionary of Literary

Biography. Ed. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 245-

51.

“The Short Story in America.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay

Parini. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 11-20.

“John Irving.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. New

York: Oxford UP, 2004. 267-69.

“The Fixer.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places. Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen. Pasadena: Salem,

2003. 410-11.

“The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places. Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen.

Pasadena: Salem, 2003. 500.

“Reflections in a Golden Eye.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places. Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen.

Pasadena: Salem, 2003. 976-77.

“Where I’m Calling From.” Cyclopedia of Literary Places. Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen.

Pasadena: Salem, 2003. 1171.

“Frederick Bartheleme.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies.

Supplement 9. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002. 25-41.

“Lucille Clifton.” Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to -Z

Guide. Ed. Catherine Cucinella. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 75-79.

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“Ana Castillo.” Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to -Z

Guide. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

46-51.

“Cynthia Ozick.” Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to -Z

Guide. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

278-85.

“Bobbie Ann Mason.” Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to -Z

Guide. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

223-29.

“Elizabeth Tallent.” Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to -Z

Guide Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

351-55.

“Jessie Fauset.” Encyclopedia USA. Ed. Donald W. Whisenhunt. Gulf Breeze, FL:

Academic International Press, 2002. Forthcoming.

and Bruce Glasrud. “Zora Neale Hurston: Folklorist and Storyteller.” The Human Tradition

in America Between the Wars, 1920-1945. Ed. Donald W. Whisenhunt. Wilmington,

Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002. 21-31.

“Equality for African American (Wo)Men: Quests for Masculinity in Ernest Gaines’s

Bloodline.”Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Ed. Suzanne

Disheroon Green and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. 153-62.

“Harper Lee.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement 8.

Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2001. 113-31.

“Anne Rice.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement 7.

Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2001. 287-306.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Zora Neale Hurston.” American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A

Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 2000. 162-72.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Anita Scott Coleman.” American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A

Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 2000. 77-81.

and Richard J. Williamson. “Louise Bogan.” American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A

Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 2000. 39-44.

“Dorothy West.” American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical

Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 357-62.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Zora Neale Hurston.” African American Authors, 1745-1945: A

Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 2000. 259-69.

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“Afterword.” Dark Thicket, by Elmer Kelton. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University

Press, 1999. 183-88.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Chester Himes.” Contemporary African-American Novelists: A

Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 1999. 201-10.

“Reginald McKnight.” Contemporary African-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical

Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 314-

18.

“Shena Mackay.” An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Ed. Paul Schlueter and

June Schlueter. Rev. ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998. 413-14.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Ebony.” Encyclopedia USA. Ed. Donald W. Whisenhunt.

Vol. 25. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1998. 139-43.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Fiction.” African Americans in the West: A Bibliography of

Secondary Studies. Comp. Bruce A. Glasrud. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend

Studies, 1998. 155-74.

“The Ballad of the Sad Café.” Issues and Identities in Literature. Ed. David Peck.

Pasadena: Salem, 1997. 142-43.

“Bobbie Ann Mason.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition. Ed. Frank

N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs: Salem, 1997. 1372-73.

“Carson McCullers.” Issues and Identities in Literature. Ed. David Peck.

Pasadena: Salem, 1997. 623-24.

“Daniel Corkery.” Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Alexander

G. Gonzalaz. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 58-63.

“Reflections in a Golden Eye.” Issues and Identities in Literature. Ed. David Peck.

Pasadena: Salem, 1997. 805-06.

“Susan L. Mitchell.” Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Alexander

G. Gonzalaz. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 227-31.

“Critical Views on Adaptations of Huckleberry Finn.” The Critical Response to Mark

Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Ed. Laurie Champion. Critical Responses in Arts and

Letters Ser. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991. 238-45.

Essays in EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center

“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Sweat.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Novels: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Bobbie Ann Mason’s ‘Shiloh.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Lorrie Moore’s ‘You’re Ugly Too.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘The Lesson.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Raymond Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We

Talk About Love.’” (2006)

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“Literary Contexts in Short Stories: John Cheever’s ‘The Swimmer.’” (2006)

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Short Stories

“The Real Story.” Short Story 21.2 (2013): 9-15. (Actually printed in 2015)

“I’m Her(e).” Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song. Ed. Donna Walker-Nixon, Cassy

Burleson, Rachel Crawford, and Ashley Palmer. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2015.

316-19.

“How to Listen to Country Music.” Texas Soundtrack. Ed. Terry Dalrymple. Temple, TX:

Ink Brush Press, 2011. 119-29.

“Queen of Hearts.” Texas Told’em: Gambling Stories. Ed. Laurie Champion. Intro. Doyle

Brunson. Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2011. 209-14.

“Where Has Your Lover Gone?” Callaloo 32 (2009): 361-65. (Special Issue: Celebrating

Texas Writers)

“Step Right Up.” Texas Review 27 (2006): 47-66.

“Lisa and Her Brothers.” Writing on the Wind. Ed. Lou Rodenberger, Laura Payne Butler,

and Jacqueline McLean. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 2005. 224-31.

“Stick to Your Story.” Short Story 11 (2003): 9-14.

“Infield Fly.” Amarillo Bay 1.1 (1999). www.amarillobay.org.

“A Good Restaurant Is Hard to Find.” New Texas 1999. Ed. Donna Walker-Nixon and

James Ward Lee. Belton: U of Mary Hardin-Baylor P, 1999. 63-70.

“All I Have to Offer You Is Me.” New Texas 1998. Ed. Donna Walker-Nixon and James

Ward Lee. Belton: U of Mary Hardin-Baylor P, 1998. 17-23.

“Another Man’s Bet.” Texas Short Stories. Ed. Billy Bob Hill. Dallas: Browder Springs,

1997. 404-08.

“Thinking About It.” Texas College English 29.1/2 (1996/1997): 25-29.

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“Little Blue Boy.” Echoes: The Magazine for Creative Communication 3.1 (1996):

5-15.

“How to Listen to Country Music.” Texas Short Fiction: A World in Itself II. Ed.

Mike Hennech and Billy Hill. Redmond, WA: ALE, 1995. 141-50.

“Billy and Me.” New Texas ’93. Ed. James Ward Lee and Chris Kibbie Sisk.

Denton: Center for Texas Studies, 1993. 50-54.

“How to Divorce Your Husband.” North Texas Review (1993): 11-14.

Book Reviews

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, by Lucy Corin. Flash: The

International Short-Short Story Magazine. 7.2 (2014): 104-05.

Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman,

ed. Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell. Resources for American Literary Study 33

(2010): 338-40.

Elvis Presley: A Penguin Life, by Bobbie Ann Mason. Southern Quarterly 42.1 (2003):

138-40.

Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore. Dark Horse Literary Review 1.2 (2000): 134-36.

The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880, by D. G. Myers. South Central

Review 17.2 (2000): 127-28.

Mosquito, by Gayl Jones. African American Review 34 (2000): 366-68.

Clear Springs: A Memoir, by Bobbie Ann Mason. Southern Quarterly 38.2 (2000): 161-62.

The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, ed. Jan Norby Gretlund & Karl-Heinz Westarp.

Southern Quarterly 37.3-4 (1999): 294-95.

Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, by Laurie Foos. Texas Writer’s Newsletter 73

(1998): 9.

Don’t Erase Me, by Carolyn Ferrell. Texas Review 19.1-2 (1998): 109-13.

White Boys: Stories, by Reginald McKnight. Texas Review 19.1-2 (1998): 106-09.

Texas Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own, ed. Sylvia Ann Grider & Lou Halsell

Rodenberger. Texas Books in Review 17.4-18.1 (1997-98): 3.

Interior Designs, by Sherill Jaffe. Review of Contemporary Fiction 27.3 (1997): 231.

Need, by Nik Cohn. Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.2 (1997): 287-88.

The Night in Question, by Tobias Wolff. American Literary Review 8.1 (1997):195-98.

Persona and Humor in Mark Twain’s Early Works, by Don Florence. Studies in the

Novel 29 (1997): 252-54.

Players, by Clay Reynolds. Texas Books in Review 17.2 (1997): 23.

Readin’ Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars, ed. Cecelia

Tichi. South Central Review 14.2 (1997): 73-74.

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Can You Get There from Here?, by Donley Watt. Texas Review 17 (1996): 107-09.

The Family Saga in the South: Generations & Destinies,” by Robert O. Stephens.

American Literature 68 (1996): 265-66.

Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times, by Janis P. Stout. Southern Quarterly 34.3

(1996): 161-62.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, by Lorrie Moore. American Literary Review 7.1

(1996): 175-77.

Daughters of Canaan: A Saga of Southern Women, by Margaret Ripley Wolfe. Southern

Quarterly 34.1 (1995): 147-48.

Semi-Private Rooms, by Jim Sanderson. RE: Arts & Letters 20.2 (1995): 32-34.

Playing in the Dark, by Toni Morrison. Diversity 2.1 (1994): 145-47.

Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, by Shelley Fisher-Fishkin.

Diversity 1.2 (1993): 113-15.

Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain’s Creative Process, by Victor Doyno. American

Literature 64 (1992): 825-26.

Interview

“One to Watch.” Carve Magazine (Summer 2014): 46-52.

Under Consideration

“‘In a Manner Less Direct but More Commendable’: Narrative Strategies in the Enveloping

Frames of Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories.”

Conferences

Presentations

“Conversation Panel.” Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers, College Station, TX. Sponsored by

Callaloo, March 2009.

“Step Right Up.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

San Angelo, TX. Sponsored by the Texas Association for Creative Writers

Association, September 2006.

“Pick a Number.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Fredericksburg, TX. Sponsored by the Texas Association for Creative Writers

Association, September 2003.

“The Real Story.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Beaumont, TX. Sponsored by the Texas Association for Creative Writers

Association, September 2002.

“The Politics of Cultural Identity Presented Through Folklore in Castillo’s Fiction.”

Congress of the Americas International Conference, Puebla-Cholula, Mexico.

Sponsored by the University of the Americas, October 2001.

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“The Good Times.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Lubbock, TX. Sponsored by the Texas Association for Creative Writers

Association, September 2001.

“True Stories Are Lies: Postmodern Signifying in John Edgar Wideman’s Short Fiction.”

Looking Back With Pleasure II: A Celebration, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sponsored by the

African American Literature and Culture Society, October 2000.

“‘Passing It Along in the Relay’: Struggles for Economic Equality in Toni Cade Bambara’s

‘Raymond’s Run’ and ‘The Lesson.’” American Literature Association Annual

Conference, Long Beach, CA. Sponsored by the American Literature Association,

May 2000.

“I’m Her(e).” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Huntsville, TX. Sponsored by Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers,

February 2000.

“Like This.” University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival, Belton, TX. Sponsored

by University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, January 2000.

“Lisa and Her Brothers.” University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival,

Belton, TX. Sponsored by University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, January 1999.

“Feminist Literary Criticism and the American Literary Tradition.” Keynote Address.

Big Bend National Park, Big Bend National Park, TX. Sponsored by the National Park

Service (in observance of Women’s History Month), March 1999

“So Much Whisk(e)y So Far From Home: Degrees of Alcoholism in Raymond

Carver’s Where I’m Calling From.” South Central Modern Language Association

Convention, New Orleans, LA. Sponsored by South Central Modern Language

Association, November 1998.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “Chester Himes Confronts California: Work, War, and Racism.”

Western Social Science Association Conference, Denver, CO. Sponsored by Western

Social Science Association, April 1998.

“Women and Academia.” Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Conference, Houston, TX.

Sponsored by South Central Women’s Studies Association, March 1998.

“Texas Editors.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Richardson, TX. Sponsored by Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers,

February 1998.

“All I Have to Offer You Is Me.” University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival,

Belton, TX. Sponsored by University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, January 1998.

“Short Fiction Editors.” University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival, Belton,

TX. Sponsored by University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, January 1998.

and Bruce A. Glasrud. “African Americans in the West: A Short Story Tradition.”

Center for Big Bend Studies 4

Annual Conference, Alpine, TX. Sponsored by Center

for Big Bend Studies, November 1997.

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“‘You Were a Little to the Right’: Black/White and Right/Left Dualisms in To Kill a

Mockingbird.” South Central Modern Language Association Convention, Dallas, TX.

Sponsored by South Central Modern Language Association, October 1997.

“Teaching Texas Women.” Western Social Science Association Conference,

Albuquerque, NM. Sponsored by Western Social Science Association, April 1997.

“Go West, Young Woman: Female Liberation in Doris Betts’s Heading West.”

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Albuquerque NM.

Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 1996.

“How to Read at a Literary Conference.” Keynote Address. University of North

Texas Conference on Language & Literature, Denton, TX. Sponsored by University of

North Texas Graduate Studies in English and University of North Texas Student

Association, February 1996.

“Writing and Publishing the Literary Short Story.” Texas Mountain Trail Writers

Wroundup Conference, Fort Davis, TX. Sponsored by Texas Mountain Trail Writers

Association, February 1996.

“Writing and Publishing the Literary Personal Essay.” Texas Mountain Trail Writers

Wroundup Conference, Fort Davis, TX. Sponsored by Texas Mountain Trail Writers

Association, February 1996.

“The Scary Parts.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference,

Houston TX. Sponsored by the South Central Modern Language Association, October

1995.

“Where Has Your Lover Gone?” South Central Women’s Studies Association, Denton,

TX. Sponsored by South Central Women’s Studies Association, March 1995.

“Seven X Seven.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference,

Waco, TX. Sponsored by Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers

Association, February 1995.

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Personal Narrative.” South Central

Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. Sponsored by the South

Central Modern Language Association, November 1994.

“How to Listen to Country Music.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association,

Waco, TX. Sponsored by Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and the

SW/TX American Culture Association, February 1994.

“Billy and Me.” Center for Texas Studies Fall Literary Festival, Fort Worth, TX.

Sponsored by Center for Texas Studies, October 1993.

“How to Divorce Your Husband.” Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San

Angelo, TX. Sponsored by Fort Concho Museum Press, Concho River Review, San

Angelo Cultural Affairs Council, and Center for Texas Studies, August 1993.

Laurie Champion / 13 of 16

“Queen of Hearts.” Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX.

Sponsored by Fort Concho Museum Press, Concho River Review, San Angelo

Cultural Affairs Council, and Center for Texas Studies, August 1992.

“Queen of Hearts.” University of North Texas Conference on Language & Literature,

Denton, TX. Sponsored by University of North Texas Graduate Studies in English and

University of North Texas Student Association, April 1992.

“Symbol and Myth in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.” University

of North Texas Conference on Language & Literature, Denton, TX. Sponsored by the

University of North Texas Graduate Studies in English and the University of North

Texas Student Association, April 1992.

“Psychological Contrasts in Anne Tyler’s Characters.” University of North Texas

Conference on Language & Literature, Denton, TX. Sponsored by the University of

North Texas Graduate Studies in English and the University of North Texas Student

Association, March 1991.

Sessions Moderated

Chicana/o Culture: Literature, Film, Theory, Chair. Congress of the Americas

International Conference, Puebla-Cholula, Mexico. Sponsored by the University of the

Americas, October 2001.

Morning Session, Panel A, Chair. Center for Big Bend Studies 4

Annual Conference,

Alpine, TX. Sponsored by Center for Big Bend Studies, November 1997.

Regional Fiction Writers’, Chair. South Central Modern Language Association

Convention, Dallas, TX. Sponsored by South Central Modern Language Association,

October 1997.

Short Fiction: Theory and Criticism, Chair. South Central Modern Language

Association Convention, San Antonio, TX. Sponsored by South Central Modern

Language Association, October 1996.

Regional Fiction Writers, Secretary. South Central Modern Language Association

Convention, San Antonio, TX. Sponsored by South Central Modern Language

Association, October 1996.

Short Fiction: Theory and Criticism, Secretary. South Central Modern Language

Association Convention, Houston, TX. Sponsored by South Central Modern

Language Association, October 1995.

Invited Short Story Readings, Chair. Center for Texas Studies Fall Literary

Festival, Fort Worth, TX. Sponsored by Center for Texas Studies, October 1993.

American Literature, Chair. University of North Texas Conference on Language &

Literature, Denton, TX. Sponsored by University of North Texas Graduate Studies in

English and University of North Texas Student Association, April 1993.

Laurie Champion / 14 of 16

Academic and Community Service

Member, San Diego State University, English Dept. Retention, Tenure, and Promotion

Committee, 2017-present

Member, San Diego State University, English Dept. Personnel Committee, 2017-present

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, International Programs

Committee, 2007-present

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Diversity and Equity

Committee, 2006-present

Imperial Valley Campus Representative, California Faculty Association, San Diego State

University, 2000-2003; 2013-2015

Chair, Division of Arts & Sciences, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus,

2012-2014

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Personnel Committee,

2005-2006; 2010-2011

Chair, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Post-Promotion Increase

Committee, 2008

Chair, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Personnel Committee, 2007-

2008

Chair, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Post-Tenure Review

Committee, 2007-2008

Title V Writing Consultant, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus,

2002-2006

President, California Faculty Association, San Diego State University, 2003-2005

Ex Officio Member, San Diego State University Senate Executive Committee, 2003-2005

Ex Officio Member, San Diego State University Senate, 2003-2005

Member, San Diego Labor Council Executive Board, 2004-2005

Delegate, San Diego Labor Council, 2003-2005

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Instructional Related

Activities Grant Proposal Committee, 2002-2004

Advisor, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, English Club, 2000-2005

Chair, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Diversity and Equity

Committee, 1999-2006

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Dean Search Committee, 2004

Chair, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Research/Grants/Publications

Committee, 1999-2003

Imperial Valley Campus Representative, California Faculty Association, San Diego State

University, 2000-2003

Secretary, California Faculty Association, San Diego State University, 2001-2003

Imperial Valley Campus Representative, San Diego State University Center for Teaching and

Learning Faculty Fellow, 2001-2003

Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, Faculty Merit Increase

Committee, 2000-2001

Laurie Champion / 15 of 16

“American Women As Victims of Paid and Unpaid Labor Practices.” Keynote Address.

Women Working Their Way through History Program. Sponsored by The Women’s

Leadership Coalition, El Centro, CA, March 2000

“Feminist Literary Criticism and the American Literary Tradition.” Keynote Address.

Big Bend National Park, Big Bend National Park, TX. Sponsored by the National Park

Service (in observance of Women’s History Month), March 1999

Director, Sul Ross State University Honors Program, 1995-1999

Co-Coordinator, Sul Ross State University Women’s Studies Program, 1996-1999

English Major Advisor, Sul Ross State University, 1994-1999

Member, Sul Ross State University Languages & Literature Graduate Committee, 1994-1999

Faculty Representative, Sul Ross State University Cheerleader Selection Committee,

1995-1999

Member, Sul Ross State University Orientation Committee, 1996-1999

Member, Sul Ross State University Languages and Literature Job Search Committee,

1996-1999

Member, Sul Ross State University Student Publications Committee, 1994-1998

Sul Ross State University Sage Student Journal Advisor, 1994-1998

Member, Sul Ross State University Financial Resources Self-Study Principal Committee,

1996-1998

Chair, Sul Ross State University Search Committee for Director of News and

Information, 1997-1998

Judge, Midland College Creative Writing Contest, April 1995

Member, Sul Ross State University Who’s Who Selection Committee, 1994

Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association, member, 1992-present

South Central Modern Language Association, member, 1992-present

Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, member, 1994-present

South Central Women’s Studies Association, member, 1995-present

Peer Review Reader (Referee) for Southern Quarterly, 1995-present

Board of Directors, New Texas, 1998-present

African American Literature and Culture Society, 1999-present

Awards

Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Contributions Award, 2004

Outstanding Faculty Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, 2004

Outstanding Faculty Member, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus, 2001

San Diego State University Instructional Related Activities Grant ($2,000), 2005

San Diego State University Instructional Related Activities Grant ($2,000), 2002

San Diego State University Faculty Research Grant ($1,300), 2002

San Diego State University Instructional Related Activities Grant ($2,000), 2001

San Diego State University Faculty Research Grant ($1,375), 2001

San Diego State University Faculty Research Grant ($2,400), 2001

Laurie Champion / 16 of 16

San Diego State University Faculty Research Grant ($2,000), 2000

San Diego State University Instructional Related Activities Grant ($1,500), 2000

San Diego State University International Programs Grant ($2,000), 2000

San Diego State University Faculty Research Grant ($646.00), 1999

Sul Ross State University Dean’s Meritorious Award, 1995-1998

Sul Ross State University Research Enhancement Grant ($5,138.00), 1999

Sul Ross State University Research Enhancement Grant ($2,428.00), 1998

Texas Council of Teachers of English Research Grant ($750.00), 1997

Sul Ross State University Research Enhancement Grant ($5,200.00), 1997

Sul Ross State University Faculty Development Grant ($1,624.00), 1997

Included in the 1997 edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

Included in the 1996 & 1998 editions of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers

Sul Ross State University Research Enhancement Grant ($3,100.00), 1996

Sul Ross State University Faculty Development Grant ($1,633.00), 1996

Texas Intercollegiate Press Third Prize Award for Best Short Story, 1994

University of North Texas Mary Patchell Fellowship ($5,000.00), 1993

University of North Texas Mary Patchell Award ($500.00), 1992

University of North Texas Graduate Studies in English Award for Outstanding

Scholarly Essay, 1992

University of North Texas Graduate Studies in English First Prize Award for

Best Short Story, 1992

University of Texas at Dallas Scholarship for Outstanding Graduates of Texas High

School Students, 1988

University of Texas at Dallas Merit Scholarship ($1,000.00), 1988-1990

University of Texas at Dallas Northwood Women’s Scholarship, 1989

Chair, University of Texas at Dallas Graduate Studies in English Organization, 1988-1990