DRAFT Curriculum Vitae

Margaret E Wright-Cleveland

Last Revised: May 29, 2024

General Information

University address:	Director, Office of Faculty Recognition
Office of the Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement
Office of the Provost
Westcott 115B
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1281
Phone: 850-645-8202

E-mail address:	mwrightcleveland@psinvalid.fsu.edu
	mwrightc@fsu.edu

Web site:	ofr.fsu.edu

Professional Preparation

2009	Doctor of Philosophy, Florida State University. Major: English. 

1994	Master of Arts, University of Louisville. Major: English. 

1983	Bachelor of Arts, Florida State University. Major: Humanities. 

Professional Experience

2007–present	Director, Office of Faculty Recognition, Office of the Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement, Florida State University. Facilitate faculty in the application and nomination for external awards; develop resources for award research and information.

2009–2011	Adjunct Instructor, English, Florida State University. 

2008–2009	Adjunct Instructor, Humanities, Florida State University. 

2003–2008	Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities, Florida State University. 

2004–2007	Program Assistant, American Studies, Florida State University. 

Language Proficiency

French - rudimentary in speaking; intermediate in reading and writing.
Spanish - none in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Funding Agency Travel Grant, Florida State University (2013). ($1,000). 
Choice 2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (2012). 
Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowship, Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society (2012). ($1,000). 
Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University (2007). 
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Florida State University, American and Florida Studies (2004). 
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Florida State University, English (2004). 
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Louisville, English (1986). 

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

College Language Association 
Modern Language Association 
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 

Teaching

All teaching since 2007 was completed through an overload adjunct appointment while employed in a 12-month administrative position. 

Courses Taught

Princesses Heroes & Villains (WST4930)
Honors (IDS2676)
Topics in Women's Studies (WST5934)
Princesses Heroes & Villains (WST4931)
Introduction to Editing and Publishing (ENC5216)
Major Figures in American Literature (AML3311)
The American Short Story (LIT2020)
American Modernism (AML3041)
Senior Seminar in Literature (ENG4934)
Senior Seminar in American Studies (AMS4935)
The Southern Renaissance (AML4261)
American Women Between the Wars (AMS3310)
Life of the American Mind (AMS3810)
Freshman Composition and Rhetoric (ENC1101)
Freshman Writing, Reading, and Research (ENC1102)

Research and Original Creative Work

All publications since 2008 were completed while employed in a 12-month administrative position with no research assignment. As of August 1, 2012, my position holds a 5% research assignment. 

Program of Research and/or Focus of Original Creative Work

My research focuses on the presentation of race in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. I am particularly interested in how Hemingway and Faulkner interrogated whiteness as a racial construction. In 2015 I began translating the poetry by Ivorian poet Bernard Binlin Dadie into English as part of a larger project investigating the influence of West African poets on American Black Arts poets. Additionally, I am researching the Celtic and African tales Faulkner inherited in his native South and the African tales Hemingway sought during his travels to Kenya to better understand influences on each author's articulation of race. 

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2011). Mentoring American Racial Identity: Sherwood Anderson's Lessons to Ernest Hemingway. MidAmerica, XXXVIII, 28-40. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5760

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2010). Sherwood Anderson: Mentor of American Racial Identity. MidAmerica, XXXVII, 46 - 62. doi:479854tuy456

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2008). Oscar Micheaux. Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History, 12. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.012001

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2007). Gone with the Wind (1936) novel; (1939) film. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, 220-223. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1630

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2007). Intolerance (1916). Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, 264-265. doi:5.72940176636906013939686829835859806516

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2007). Showboat (1936) film. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, 461-462. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)00668-0

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2007). Within Our Gates (1919) film. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance And Rebellion, 576-578. doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00101-0

Invited Book Chapters

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2012). Cane and In Our Time: A Literary Conversation about Race. In Charles Scruggs, & Gary Holcomb (Eds.), Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (pp. 151 - 176). Kent State UP. 

Refereed Reviews

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2011). War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914. By Cynthia Wachtell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 240 pages. $35.00 (cloth). Studies in American Culture, 34.1, 189-191. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4043

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (2011). Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott. Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pennsylvania Literary Journal, 3:1, 35. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.63.012001

Presentations

Nonrefereed Papers at Conferences

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2012). Hemingway's Disparaged Spring in Michigan. Paper presented at Biennial Conference, International Hemingway Society, Michigan. (International)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2011). Hemingway's Racial Education. Paper presented at Annual Convention, Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA. (National)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2011). No Buddies Here: Friendship in In Our Time. Paper presented at Annual Convention, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA. (Regional)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2010, April). Seraph On the Swanee and the American Dream: The Need for Hard Times in the American South. Paper presented at Everybody Loves You When You're Down and South: Cultural Capital in Hard Times, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL), New Orleans, Louisiana. (International)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2009, October). The Dangers of a growing thing ripened too soon Sensuality and Race in the American South of Jean Toomer and William Faulkner. Paper presented at Southern Studies Forum Conference, Southern Studies Forum for the European Association of American Studies, University of Versailles, St. Quentin, France. (International)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2008, June). Jean Toomer and Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Conversation About Race. Paper presented at International Hemingway Conference, International Hemingway Society, Kansas City, KA. (International)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2007, November). Half-Breeds, Niggers, Wops, and Dead Looking Whiteness: Hemingway's In Our Time Converses with the Southern Renaissance. Paper presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Regional Conference, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA. (Regional)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2007, April). Jake's Improvisation: Redefining Masculinity and Jazz in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA ACA) National Conference, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA ACA), Boston, MA. (National)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2005, November). The Eugenics Movement and American Letters: Constructions of Whiteness in Fitzgerald, Schuyler, Steinbeck, and Hurston. Paper presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Regional Conference, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA. (Regional)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2005, June). Discussion Boards in the Literature Classroom: Are They Effective? Paper presented at Computers and Writing Conference: New Writing and Computer Technologies, Computers and Writing, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (National)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2005, February). America's Shifting Planter Figure. Paper presented at Southern American Studies Association (SASA) Bi-annual Meeting, Southern American Studies Association (SASA), LSU, Baton Rouge, LA. (Regional)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2004, November). George Schuyler's Black No More: Where is the urge toward whiteness? Paper presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Convention, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Roanoke, VA. (Regional)

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (presented 2004, March). Zora Neale Hurston's Janie and Arvay: Are They Really as Different as Black from White? Paper presented at Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) Bi-annual Conference, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL), UNC, Chapel Hill, NC. (National)

Nonrefereed Presentations at Conferences

Wright-Cleveland, M. E., Fruscione, J., Holcomb, G. E., Marshall, I., Miller, D. Q., Ott, M. P., & Parker, J. (presented 2013, January). Hemingway and the Black Renaissance. Presentation at Annual Conference, Modern Language Association, Boston, MA. (International)

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Pending

Wright-Cleveland, M. E. (Sep 2011). NEH Summer Stipend - From the Beginning: The Racial Education of Ernest Hemingway. Submitted to National Endowment for the Humanities. Unspecified award amount. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Organizer, Marathon Reading of Bleak House (2012–present).

Organizer, Marathon Reading of Moby Dick (2011–present).

The Profession

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

PMLA (Jan 2013).

The Community

Member, Board of Directors, Cornerstone Learning Community (2012–2014).

Leader, Book Club, Fairview Middle School Pre-IB Program (2013).

Consultation

UNICEF. (2014–present).