Curriculum Vitae
MARIA CYNTHIA H. TOLENTINO
Department of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1286, USA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS As of Sept 2009 University of Oregon, Associate Professor Department of English
Sept 2002 - Sept 2009 University of Oregon, Assistant Professor,
Department of English
2001-2002 Vassar College, Post-doctoral Fellow,
Department of English
Spring 2001 University of Pennsylvania, Adjunct Lecturer,
Asian American Studies Program
Spring 2000 - Fall 2000 Columbia University, Adjunct Lecturer,
Department of English
Fall 1999 New York University, Adjunct Lecturer,
Asian Pacific American Studies Program
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Brown University, American Civilization, 2001
Dissertation: “The Liberal, The Sociologist, and the Novelist: Narratives of
Race and National Development in 1940s American Fiction”
Committee: Nancy Armstrong (Chair); Daniel Y. Kim,
Robert G. Lee, Leonard Tennenhouse
PUBLICATIONS Book
America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology
(In press; University of Minnesota Press; Fall 2009. 203 pages MS)
Refereed Journal Articles
“In the `Training Center of the Skillful Servants of Mankind’: Carlos Bulosan’s
Professional Filipinos in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy.” American Literature, 80, 2 (June 2008): 381-406.
“The Road Out of the Black Belt: Sociology’s Fictions and Black Subjectivity in Richard Wright’s Native Son.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 33,3 (2000): 377-405.
Book Chapters
“`A Deep Sense of No Longer Belonging’: Ambiguous Sites of Empire in Ana Lydia Vega’s Miss Florence’s Trunk.” Strange Affinities: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Comparative Racialization. Eds. Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson. Durham: Duke University Press. Accepted; forthcoming in 2009. 29 pages MS.
“Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert.” AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. Eds. Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon M. Steen. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 34-49.
Book Reviews and Other Writing
Solicited Review of Wendy Walters, At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Special Issue on Postcolonial Disjunctions, 39, 2 (Spring 2006): 295-298.
Solicited Review of Not Home, But Here: Filipino Writing in the Diaspora (Anvil Press, 2003). MELUS: Journal for the Society of the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States, 29,1 (January 2004): 300-302.
Entries for “Jessica Hagedorn” and “Japanese American Novel.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 899-901; 1124-1128.
Work in Progress
“That Old Ambiguous Space? Filipino NonCitizens in the MidCentury Metropole.” (journal article)
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS University of Oregon
Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship Winter 2010 Instructional Technology Award 2004 and 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award, Office of Multicultural Advising 2003 Junior Professorship Development Award 2003-2004 New Faculty Summer Research Award 2002-2003
Other
Minority Scholar-in-Residence Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002 Vassar College
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Finalist 1996 Five College Dissertation Fellowship Finalist 1996
Brown University
Salomon Research Grants 1996 Salomon Teaching Grants 1995-1996 Brown University Fellowship 1992-1993
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COURSES TAUGHT
University of Oregon Graduate Seminars
ENG 660 Post-World War II U.S. Autobiography, Fall 2008 ENG 660 Theories of the Novel, Fall 2004 ENG 660 Colonialism and Culture, Fall 2002
Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate Courses
ENG 466/566 Cultures of U.S. Empire, Winter 2009 ENG 468/568 Documentary Fiction, Fall 2007
ENG 467/567 American Literature, 1900-Present, Winter 2006 COLT 462/562 Comparative Colonialisms, Winter 2004
ENG 410/510 U.S. Ethnic Literatures and Social Science, Winter 2003
Senior Seminar
ENG 407 Race and Sexuality in Asian American Literature, Winter 2004
Introductory and Service Level
ENG 364 Comparative Ethnic American Literature, Winter 2008 ENG 362 Asian American Writers, Winter 2006
ENG 245 Race and Citizenship in Asian Pacific American Literature, Winter 2005,
Fall 2005,Winter 2008, Winter 2009
ENG 245 African American Migrations, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 ENG 399 Introduction to Asian American Literature, Winter 2003 ENG 360 Introduction to African American Literature, Fall 2003 ENG 151 Introduction to African American Literature, Fall 2002
Vassar College
Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Spring 2002 Asian American Women’s Writing, Fall 2001
University of Pennsylvania
Filipino American Cultural Studies, Spring 2001
Columbia University
Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture, Spring 2000 Gender and Asian American Literary Identity, Fall 2000
New York University
Introduction to Asian Pacific American Literature, Fall 1999
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES 2009 Invited Panelist. “Cold War Commonwealths: Duty and Development
in the Philippines and Puerto Rico.” Panel Title:
“Palimpsestic Belonging: Anticolonialisms of that day and
Neocolonialisms of Today in the Asia/Pacific/Caribbean Nexus.”
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