Curriculum Vitae for Mark L. Lilleleht - Updated 10 August 2004.

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Mark L. Lilleleht
3821 St Clair St.
Madison, WI 53711
608.238.6458
Email

Personal Born 26 July 1969 in Albemarle County, Virginia.

United States citizen.

Education Dissertator. Department of African Languages and Literature,

University of Wisconsin-Madison. January 1999 - present.

Dissertation Topic: "Artistry, African Literature and the Critical

Response: An Entertainment."

Minor: Library and Information Studies.

Expected Date of Degree Completion: December 2004,
Ph.D.

M.A. African Languages and Literature. University of

Wisconsin-Madison. December 1998. Thesis: "Writing Within: The
Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka and Breyten Breytenbach."

B.A. Anthropology and Foreign Affairs, both with an African

studies concentration. University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia. September 1987 - May 1991.

Additional post-baccalaureate course work completed at

Georgetown University (Liberal Studies), the University of Nevada,
Reno (Archaeological Field School and History of Anthropology)
and Northern Virginia Community College (Linear Algebra and
Differential Equations).

Honors and University of Wisconsin: Vilas Travel Fellowship (2002), Vilas

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Awards Graduate Fellow (1999-2000), Foreign Language Area Studies

(Title VI) fellowship recipient (1996-1997).

Georgetown University: Summer Scholarship (Summer 1994).

University of Virginia: Virginia Scholar, Echols Scholar,

Intermediate Honors, Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science
Honor Society, Spring 1990), Dean's List each semester.

Teaching Workshop Leader. African Studies Program, University of

Experience Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Education.
Structured and led session on the use of the Internet in the
classroom at the "Teaching West Africa Through the Senses:
Images, Music, and Textiles" workshop for K-12 educators. 29
February 2000.

Lecturer. Department of English, Marquette University.

Responsible for teaching two sections of English 001: Expository
Writing, the first of two introductory composition courses required
of all Marquette students. Approximately twenty students in each
class. August - December 1999.
Click here to view (archived) course website prepared for class.

Workshop Leader. Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-
Madison). Structured and led two sessions at the "A Window on the
World: Using Technology to Make Global Connections in the
Classroom" workshop for K-16 educators interested in integrating
global studies and technology into their classrooms. 24 April 1999.

Teaching Assistant. Department of African Languages and

Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Course: African 211:
The African Autobiography taught by Prof. Edris Makward. Led
five discussion sections every week of 15-31 students each.
Summary of student evaluations available upon request. September -
December 1998.
Click here for summary of student evaluations.

Instructor, College for Kids. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Designed and taught workshop ("Growing Up in Africa") to rising

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fifth and sixth-graders. Workshop sessions lasted one-week each

and involved basic Swahili instruction, game-playing, different
foods from across the continent and general introduction to the
history and contemporary environment of Africa to classes of 10
and 11 students each. Summary of student and facilitator
evaluations available upon request. June - July 1998.
Click here for summary of student and facilitator evaluations.

Teaching Assistant. Department of African Languages and

Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Course: African 201:
Introduction to African Languages and Literature taught by
Prof. Linda Hunter. Led five discussion sections every week of 17-
33 students each. Summary of student evaluations available upon
request. January - May 1998.
Click here for summary of student evaluations.

Guest Lecturer. African 201: Introduction to African Languages

and Literature. Department of African Languages and Literature,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topics included the politics and
problems of language choice in African literature (4 & 6 March
1996); Dambudzo Marechera's short story, "Thought-tracks in the
Snow" (19 March 1997); and the music, art and life of Fela
Anikulapo Kuti (4 March 1998).

Publications: Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 1999 African Literature Association

Books, Conference: Continental North-South and Diaspora Connections
Chapters and Linkages. Eds. Edris Makward, Mark L. Lilleleht and Ahmed
and Journal Saber. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, with publisher).
Articles
"Ukcombekatsini and the Fantastic" in Comedy, Fantasy and
Colonialism. Ed. Graeme Harper (New York and London:
Continuum, 2001).
Click here for copy of article (pdf).
Click here for copy of the Ukcombekatsini tale discussed in the chapter
(pdf).
Click here for a review published in Janus Head 7.1 (Summer 2004) (pdf).
Click here for a review published in Research in African Literatures 35.3
(Fall 2004) (pdf).
Click here to purchase a copy of the book through Big Daddy's Bookstore.

"An Interview with Rob Nixon" in Wisconsin African Studies

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News & Notes 55 (Summer/Fall 2001): 9-10.

Click here for copy of article in pdf or html.

Publications: Contributor to Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry. Eds.

Book Mark Willhardt and Alan Michael Parker (London: Routledge,
Reviews and 2000): 63, 237-8, 305-6. Prepared entries for Syl Cheney-Coker,
Encyclopedia Christopher Okigbo and Wole Soyinka.
Entries Click here for copy of article in pdf or html (Cheney-Coker), html (Okigbo),
or html (Cheney-Coker).

Contributor to Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment.

Ed. Jonathan F. Vance (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000):
277-8. Suggested and prepared entry for Wole Soyinka.
Click here for copy of article in pdf or html.

Contributor to the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th

Century. Ed. Steven R. Serafin (Farmington Hills, MI: St. James
Press, 1999): 479-80. Prepared entry for the Sierra Leonean poet
and novelist, Syl Cheney-Coker.
Click here for copy of article in pdf or html.

Review of Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by

Makuchi (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1999). Reviewed for
the email list, H-Afrlitcine <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~aflitweb/>.
Appeared 4 November 1999.
Click here for copy of article in pdf or html.

Review of Crackle at Midnight: Poems by Lupenga Mphande

(Ibadan: Heineman Educational Books (Nigeria) Plc, 1998) and
Make It Sing & Other Poems by Marjorie O. Macgoye (Nairobi:
East African Educational Publishers, 1998). Reviewed for Voices:
The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures 2 (Fall 1999): 82-6.
Click here for copy of article in pdf or html.

Additional book reviews are currently with editors awaiting

publication in the following journals: African Literature Today,
Africa Today, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and Voices: The
Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures.

Conferences African Literature Association Annual Conference (University of

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and Lectures Wisconsin-Madison, 14-18 April 2004). Organized and chaired

roundtable discussion: "Field Work: Finding Employment in African
Literary Studies."

African Studies Association Annual Conference (Washington, DC,

5-8 December 2002). Presented paper: "In Defense of Literary Art:
African Writers on Writing." Served as panel chair.

African Literature Association Annual Conference (University of

California, San Diego, 3-7 April 2002). Presented paper: "Another
Diaspora, an Imagined Africa: The Non-African Writer and Fiction
'Abroad'." Also served as a member and chair of the Graduate
Student Caucus-sponsored panel, "Getting Involved in the Field:
Graduate Studies Outside the Classroom."

Graduate Colloquium (Department of African Languages and

Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1 November 2001).
"The Trouble with Commitment; Or, In Defense of Literary Art ."

Graduate Colloquium (Department of African Languages and

Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4 May 2000). "A
Workshop on Getting Published."

African Literature Association Annual Conference (Michigan State

University, East Lansing, 16-19 April 1997). Presented paper:
"Reading Across Cultures and Across Continents: Hyènes and the
Adaptation of European Drama into African Film."

Across Languages and Cultures: Creative Writing in English by

Non-Native Speakers (West Chester University (PA), 24-26 October
1996). Presented paper: "Writing Their Way Where? The Writer as
Character in Contemporary African Literature."

Graduate Colloquium (Department of African Languages and

Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4 April 1996).
"'Bolekaja' and the Vanderbilt Agrarians: An Exercise in
Comparative Literary History."

Attended the 1997 Zimbabwe International Book Fair in Harare,

Zimbabwe (2-9 August 1997). Prior to conference, spent two weeks
traveling throughout Zimbabwe and Botswana.
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Professional Project Assistant. Global Studies Program, University of

Experience Wisconsin-Madison. Developed, designed, implemented and
maintain Go Global! The International Careers Website, providing
an on-line gateway to local and worldwide resources available to
students interested in pursuing international careers. Responsibilities
also include coordination and cooperative work with the various
career centers in developing additional relevant resources and
planning campus career-related events and presentations. January
2003 - present.

Consultant. African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-

Madison. Charged with investigation into the feasability, means and
preliminary establishment of an endowment fund on behalf of the
ASP. September 2002 - present.

Associate Editor. Journal of Cultural Studies (African Cultural

Initiatives, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria). Also serve as the North American
& European distributor of the journal. 2001 - present.

Project Assistant. International Studies Program, University of

Wisconsin-Madison. Hired to coordinate the implementation of the
new EELIAS (Evaluation for Exchange, Language, International,
and Area Studies) system among the seven Title VI areas studies
programs on campus. Included attendance at Department of
Education Title VI meetings (Washington, DC) in October 2000 and
February 2002. September 2000 - August 2002.

Coordinator. Summer Cooperative African Language Institute

(1998 & 2000). African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-
Madison. SCALI is a cooperative venture of Title VI African
Studies programs, pooling available resources to offer intensive
instruction in numerous African languages during the summer on a
single campus. Responsibilities included initial planning, publicity,
coordinating with participating Title VI institutions regarding
faculty and monetary contributions, as well as being the point of
contact for all interested students and community members and
primary author of the Institute's summary report. Coordinated both
the 1998 and 2000 Institutes (hosted on the campus of the

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University of Wisconsin). August 1997 - August 1998; October

1999 - August 2000.

Media Officer. Graduate Student Caucus of the African Literature

Association. Responsible for publications, electronic and otherwise,
of the Caucus and the promotion of Caucus' goal of enhancing
graduate scholarship in African and African Diaspora studies.
March 1999 - present.

Project Assistant. African Studies Program, University of

Wisconsin-Madison. Assisted in the organization and
implementation of the 1999 African Literature Association's Annual
Conference (10-13 March 1999; Fez, Morocco), including on-site
coordination of the conference. Also assisted in daily administrative
workings of the West Africa Research Association (WARA). Tasks
included interacting with members and fellowship applicants and
assisting in coordinating fellowship programs. January - May 1999.

Web Manager. African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-

Madison. Responsible for designing and maintaining Program's
website, including initiating "Opportunities in African Studies"
postings, as well as a wholesale redesign launched March 2003 and
developing the pages for the 2004 African Literature Association
conference. August 1997 - present.

Member of the Department of African Languages and Literature's

Speakers Committee. Duties included coordinating graduate
colloquium series and assisting with Department's special programs
and guest lectures including the First Annual International
Conference of the African Language Teachers Association (10-12
April 1997, Madison, WI; Convener: Prof. Antonia Schleicher).
January 1997 - May 1999.

Founded the Graduate Student Reading Group of the Department of

African Languages and Literature (University of Wisconsin-
Madison). September 1997 - May 2000.

Review manuscripts for the following journals: Humanities Review

Journal (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) and Voices: The
Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures (UW-

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Madison).

Technical Proficient in:

Expertise
Standard office productivity software, including but not
limited to: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Excel,
Filemaker Pro; Standard web-based utilities and
protocols (e.g. FTP); Acrobat (suite); Dreamweaver;
Fireworks.

Familiar with:

Flash; Frontpage; Photoshop; Web programming

languages: DHTML, Javascript, HTML, PHP.

Professional African Literature Association (since 1995)

Affiliations
Actively involved in ALA business matters, including:

Executive Council (governing body): appointed April

2004;
Ad-hoc committee on employment issues;
Audited 2003/2004 financial statements;
Issues Committee: member since May 2003, chair for
2004/2005.

African Studies Association (since 1995)

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (since 1999)
Modern Language Association (since 1996)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (since 1996)
West Africa Research Association (since 1997)
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (since 2001)

Languages English: Native speaker.

Swahili: Intermediate level (three years of classroom study).
French: Reading knowledge.

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Community Driver. Wisconsin Harvest. 1999 - 2003.

Involvement
Initiated a book donation program. Have shipped books to nine
schools and libraries in Africa. Complete information on recipients,
material sent, and full financial accounting can be found at Big
Daddy's Bookstore.

References Available upon request.

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