Licia Morrow Calloway

Associate Professor

Department of English

The Citadel

171 Moultrie Street

Charleston, SC 29409-6310

120D Capers Hall

843-953-5138

Education

· 1999 Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

· 1993 M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

· 1991 A.B., English, Duke University, Durham, NC

· 1990 Duke/Oxford Summer Program in 19th Century British Literature, Oxford University

Publications

Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2003.

Contributor, Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color, Elizabeth Beaulieu, ed., forthcoming April 2006 from Greenwood Press. (Subjects: Maud Cuney-Hare, Class)

Contributor, American History through Literature, 1870-1920, Thomas Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, eds., forthcoming 2006 from Charles Scribner's Sons. (Subjects: Blacks, Civil Rights)

Contributor, The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, Lorna Sage, ed., September 1999. (Subjects: Maud Cuney-Hare, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Fannie Hurst, Margaret Sanger, Anne Spencer, Mary Church Terrell)

Presentations

“Conciliating the New South: Reconceptualizing the Medium of Racial Reconciliation in Dori Sanders’ Her Own Place,” American Culture Association/ Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

“Unconventional Narratives: Reaffirming the Authenticity of Black Elite Culture [in Dorothy West’s The Living Is Easy],” American Women Writers of Color Tenth Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2004.

“Recollection and Regeneration: The Restorative Function of Memory in [Dori Sanders'] Her Own Place,” Reading Today's Southern Writers Lecture Series, Beaufort, SC, January 2004.

“Nature or Nurture: Constructing Racial Identity in [Charles] Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C.,” American Literature Association Thirteenth Annual Conference on American Literature. Long Beach, CA, May 2002.

Let’s Talk About It. Charleston County Library Discussion Series. Moderated discussion of Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. February 2002.

“Sycophantasy.” Presentation to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Avery Research Center, Charleston, SC, May 2001.

“Isolation and Integrity: Urban versus Rural Black Cultural Conflict in Contemporary Films,” Real to Reel: Black Life in Cinema Symposium, Chapel Hill, NC, April, 2001.

Panelist on the connection between Denmark Vesey and the establishment of The Citadel, and Vesey’s place in recorded institutional history and corps folklore, Symposium on the Legacy of Denmark Vesey, Charleston, SC, March 2001.

“Reclaiming the Mammy: Leona Gray’s ‘Mammy Sue’ and the Anglo-American Sentimentalization Effort,” The Black Atlantic Community: Struggle, Survival, and New Perspectives Conference, Wilberforce, OH, April 2000.

“Rethinking the Tragedy of Being Mulatto in the Novels of Jessie Fauset,” CIC Fellows Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 1998.

“Conceiving Class and Culture: Images of Maternity by Harlem Renaissance Era Women Writers,” English Graduate Group Annual Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1998.

“Maternity, Race, and Class: Revising the Victorian Maternal Ideal in Jessie Fauset’s There Is Confusion,” Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR) Graduate Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, February 1998.

Dissertation

“Conceiving Class and Culture: Motherhood and the Domestic in Harlem Renaissance Era Women’s Fiction”

The project explores the representational strategies employed by women writers affiliated with the African-American literary movement in 1920s and 1930s Harlem. Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst reassessed the role of maternity and the domestic realm in the effort to reform the collective image, social stratification, and system of class division obtaining in the black community.

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Research Grants

· Research Grant, The Citadel Foundation, 2002-03

· Research Grant, The Citadel Development Foundation, 2001-02

· New Faculty Research Grant, The Citadel Development Foundation, 2000-01

· Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1992-99

· Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Predoctoral Fellowship in the

Humanities, University of Michigan, 1992-94

· Department of English Summer Funding, University of Michigan, 1998

· Department of English Supplementary Stipend, University of Michigan, 1992-96

· Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship, Duke University, 1987-91

· National Achievement Scholarship, Duke University, 1987-91

· Bank of America Leadership Award in Liberal Arts, Duke University, 1987

Research Interests

Harlem Renaissance/Jazz Age Literature

Race, Class, and Gender in Film

19th-20th C. African-American Literature

Racialism in American Fiction

19th-20th C. Black Elite Culture

Feminist Issues in Literature

Ethnic American Literature

Courses Taught

African American Fiction (graduate), African American Drama (graduate), World Literature (graduate), African American Literature (for majors), Revisiting the Roaring Twenties (Honors seminar), Virtue and Vice in British and American Fiction (Honors), Social Deviants (Honors), World Literature II, Major British Writers, Composition and Literature I & II, Citadel 101

Service

· The Citadel Gospel Choir, Faculty Advisor (2002-present)

· Academic Advisor to First Battalion Staff, secondary advisor to Delta Company (2001-present)

· Faculty Council Representative (2004-present)

· Faculty Development Committee (2006-present)

· Scholarship Committee (2001-06)

· Campus Affairs Committee (2004-06)

· Athletic Advisory Committee (2003-04)

· English Department Graduate Committee (2001-05)

· English Department Search Committee and Interview Team (2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06)

· English Department Curriculum Committee (2000-01)

· Black History Month Committee (2000-01)

· The Citadel African American Society Faculty Advisor (Spring 2002)

· Campus Human Affairs Committee (2001-02)

· Fine Arts Committee (2001-02)

· Cadet Talent Show Judge (2003)

· Who's Who Among American College Students Selection Committee (2003-04)

· Faculty Participant in The Citadel Foundation Humanities Seminar (Spring, Fall 2002)