Laura B.

McGrath
Department of English mcgrat85@msu.edu Michigan State University www.laurabmcgrath.com 619 Red Cedar Road Wells Hall, A 710 East Lansing, MI 48824 ______________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Michigan State University MA, English Literature Taylor University M.A., summa cum laude, Higher Education Administration B.A., magna cum laude, History and English Literature

Expected May 2013 2011 2009

RESEARCH Field: Modernism, Contemporary Literature and Film, Neo-Modernism Areas of Specialization: American Literature and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities Advisor: Justus Nieland PRESENTATIONS Unplottable Plots and Narratives of Movement In/Through Scheduled March 2013 Hemingways Paris. European Narratology Network Annual Conference, Cit Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France. Digital Flneurie and the Mapping of American Narrative of Paris Scheduled March 2013 with Anna Green, Steven Ambrose, and Sarah Panuska. European Narratology Network Annual Conference, Cit Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France. Rear Window: Home Entertainment and the Televisual Gaze. October 2012 Lecture for Introduction to Film, Michigan State University. Woolfs Introspective Activism. Feminism: Activism: Modernisms September, 2012 International Conference, Modernism Research Center, University College Cork, Ireland Desire, Violence and Animality in Streetcar Named Desire. Lecture for April, 2012 Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Michigan State University Building the Beloved Community: Faculty Development and Critical Race February, 2011 Theory. Dalton Institute on College Student Values, Florida State University. DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS Digital Flneurie: An Interactive Map of Americans in Paris 2012- Present A digital, online map of literary Paris, exploring the spatial interrelationships of modernist texts in and about Paris, and promoting the development of digital narrative theory. Developed in collaboration with Anna Green, Steven Ambrose and Sarah Panuska.

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Emerging Modernisms: A Digital Modernism Collective 2012-Present An online collaborative blogging network, administered with Anna Green, that promotes critical conversation, rigorous reading and collaborative discussion, exploring the intersection of literary modernism and the digital humanities with emerging and established scholars. ACADEMIC AWARDS Summer Research Fellowship, College of Arts and Letters, MSU Somers Excellence in Teaching Award, MSU, finalist Graduate Teaching Assistantship, MSU Distinguished Masters Thesis Award, Taylor University Provosts Graduate Fellowship, Taylor University TEACHING EXPERIENCE Calvin College Instructor, ENG 101: Written Rhetoric and Composition Michigan State University Teaching Assistant, ENG 230: Introduction to Film Teaching Assistant, IAH 207: The Autobiographical Self Teaching Assistant, IAH 207: Literature, Culture and Identity Taylor University Instructor, International Service Learning, Indonesia Teaching Assistant, Introduction to International Service Learning MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association UNIVERSITY SERVICE Association of English Graduate Students Executive Board Council of Graduate Students Representative Womens Advisory Council to the Provost REFERENCES Available upon request.

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