Andrea Ivanov-Craig. Part-time Faculty, East Los Angeles College, Spring 1995 Courses taught: English 101 (Composition and Literature)

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1 Andrea Ivanov-Craig Department of English Azusa Pacific University 901 E. Alosta Avenue, P.O. Box 7000 Azusa, CA (626) , x3491 Education: Ph.D., English, University of Southern California, 1994 M.A. English, University of Southern California B.A. English, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Redlands Teaching Experience: Professor, Department of English, Azusa Pacific University, Fall 2013 to Present; Associate Professor, Department of English, Azusa Pacific University, Fall 2008 to 2013; Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University, Fall 1995 to Spring Courses Taught Regularly: Freshman Writing Seminar, Introduction to Literature, Introduction to Literary Analysis; World Literature To the Renaissance; World Literature Since the Renaissance, Contemporary Literary Criticism, The American Novel, American Literature to 1865; American Literature Since 1865; Composition: Theory and Practice (APS); Significant Authors: Whitman, Dickinson and Others; Catholic Writers of the 20 th Century (Dubus, Percy, O Connor, Greene); Film and Literature, Literary Critical Strategies, Independent Studies on a Variety of Topics Humanities 222 and 322: Masterpieces in World Literature; Team Taught with Professor Tom Dunn, High Sierra Program, Bass Lake, CA Fall 2005; ESL/EFL Instructor in Kaiping City Spoken English Intensive Training Program for Middle School English Teachers, July 16-28, 2001, Kaiping, Guangdong, China (Missions component sponsored by Evangelize China Fellowship, Monterey Park, CA) Part-time Faculty, East Los Angeles College, Spring 1995 Courses taught: English 101 (Composition and Literature) Part-time Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program, University of Southern California, Spring 1995 Courses taught: Composition 102 (Expository Writing) Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program, University of Southern California, Fall 1994 Courses taught: Composition 102 Assistant Lecturer, Thematic Option Honors, University of Southern California, Courses taught: "Writing and the Literature of Western Civilization," "Literature of the Mad and the Fantastic" (19th to 20th Century British, American and World Literature), "Women and Spirituality in American Literature," "Re-visioning the Short Story" Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Composition, University of Southern California,

2 Ivanov-Craig 2 Publications: Moving Toward Redemption: Spirituality and Disability in the Late Writing of Andre Dubus ( ). New York: Peter Lang Publishers, Inc Cervantes, Don Quixote. Twelve Great Books That Changed the University and Why Christians Should Care. Ed. Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, Print. Andre Dubus s Christian Aesthetic of Disability. Andre Dubus/Andre Dubus III. Spec. issue of Xavier Review 30.2 (2011): Print. Andre Dubus Encyclopedia of Christian Literature. Ed. George T. Kurian and James Smith, III. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, Print. Doing Penance in the Old West: Sisters as Andre Dubus s Last Word on Suffering Rape. Renascence 60.3 (Spring 2008): Print. Back to Bach, Review of Bach's Passion: The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by RuthAnn Ridley, in Christianity and the Arts Online, Summer 2000, Avail: Being and Dying as a Woman in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker, in Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts, edited by Shannon Hengen, Studies in Humor and Gender, Vol. 4, series edited by Regina Barreca and Nancy Walker, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Reprint in The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Print. "Mae West Was Not A Man: Sexual Parody and Genre in the Plays and Films of Mae West," in Look Who's Laughing: Studies in Gender and Comedy, edited by Gail Finney, Studies in Humor and Gender, Vol. 1, series edited by Regina Barreca and Nancy Walker, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Print. What's So Funny About Sensation Fiction: Constructing Gender and Genre in Lady Audley's Secret," The Dickens World, no. 7 (Summer 1991): Print. Review of Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives (Jacqueline Taylor), Journal of Modern Literature (Spring 1993): Print. Review of Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, 1990 (Ed. Sue-Ellen Case), Journal of Modern Literature (Spring 1993): Print. Various encyclopedic and dictionary entries in publications such as The Dictionary of British and American Literary Characters, and Salem Press s Identities and Issues in Literature series: Print.

3 Ivanov-Craig 3 Presentations Literature and Disability: Representation in the Works of Andre Dubus, Fuller Seminary s Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, June 6, 2017; Christian Approaches to Disability in Literature and Art: Potentials and Pitfalls, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, California Baptist University, CA, May 14, 2016; Andre Dubus s Fathers Stories: Paternity, Identity and Primal Fatherhood. South Eastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Montreat College, Montreat, NC, April 29, 2016; Towards a Christian Pedagogy of Adaptation. Literature, Film, and Religion in an Interdisciplinary Age: Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, May 23, God and the (Dis) Abled Writer: Andre Dubus s Disability Aesthetic. American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Writer. San Antonio, TX, February 28, Life of Pi: Narrative Aesthetics and Divine Longing, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, May 17, 2014; Aesthetic Desire: The Divine and (Lacanian) Longing in Contemporary Fiction, South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, LA, March 7-9, 2014; Leading With Our Strengths, Keynote/Invited Seminar, Red Rocks Leadership Retreat, Sigma Tau Delta at Dixie State University, St. George, UT, October 19, 2013; Pitch and Carry: The Rhetoric of Abandonment and Influence in the Life Writing of Andre Dubus ad Andre Dubus III, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, May 18, 2013; Beauty, Banality and Beyond: Contemporary Fictional Representation of Aesthetic Experience, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2012 Aesthetic Openness in A Secular Age: A Response to Charles Taylor and Simon During, Paper and Participation in the Seminar: Religion, Pluralism, Secularism in American Literature, The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion and Literature, Notre Dame Centre, London, UK, 14 to 16 July, Transforming Disability in the Late Fiction of Andre Dubus ( ), Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA, April 7 9, 2011;

4 Ivanov-Craig 4 I Sing of Those Who Cannot: Andre Dubus s Christian Aesthetic of Disability, Symposium on Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III, St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 8 10, 2010; When You Can t Turn the Other Cheek: The Problem of Rape in the Late Writing of Andre Dubus, Symposium on Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III, St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 8 10, 2010; Carrying Our Fathers: Paternity, Identity and Disability in the Essays of Andre Dubus, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Cal Baptist University, Riverside, CA, March 25 27, 2010; Sacraments and Grace: A Catholic and Protestant Discussion, Facilitator and Presenter, Common Day of Learning, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, March 3, 2010; Iconography in the Coming of Age Fiction of Andre Dubus, Southern Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, May 22-23, 2009; When the Woman Runs from the Room: Iconography and Dissent in Andre Dubus, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, George Fox University, Newberg, OR, April 16-18, 2009; Cleansing Fire and Other Secular Sacraments In Andre Dubus s Short Fiction, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, May 16, 2008; The Priesthood of All Believers: Secular Uses of the Sacred In Andre Dubus s Short Fiction, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 22, 2008; Doing Penance in the Old West: Sisters as Andre Dubus s Last Word on Suffering Western Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, Trinity Western University, Fort Langley, BC, Canada, May 10, 2007; Performative Gender Theory in C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces: Can or Should We Read Jack Using Judy? Western Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, March 10-11, 2006; A Dorothy Parker Valentine (poem); APU Writer s Read, Azusa, CA, April 7, 2005; Parody as Pedagogical Tool: Or, The Problem with Neighbors in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Homer s The Odyssey, Western Regional Conference of Christianity and Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, January 20-23, 2005; Walt Whitman s Lyrics to Dona Nobis Pacem. Invited Lecture/Program Notes. The University Orchestra of Azusa Pacific University Performs Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Citrus College, Glendora, CA, April 2002;

5 Ivanov-Craig 5 Humor as Hope In Motherhood: A Reading of Anne Lamott s Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son s First Year, Western Regional Conference of Christianity and Literature, Azusa Pacific University, March, 2002; Andre Dubus and the Realms of the Heart, Western Regional Conference of Christianity and Literature, Seattle Pacific University, October 18-21, 2000; Mything the point: Symbol, Allegory and Myth in C.S. Lewis s The Chronicles of Narnia, Co-presenter with Diana Glyer, Azusa Pacific University, Common Day of Learning, March 1, 2000 Knowing About Mae West: Cultural Literacy and Safe Sex, Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conferences, San Diego, CA, April 1999 Chair, Panel on Literature and Postmodern Philosophy, Calvin College Faculty Summer Seminar Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 1997 Doin Dotty: The Problem of Being and Dying as a Woman in Fiction, Film, and Verse, Spring Literature/Film Association Conference, Ashland, Oregon, April 4-7, 1996 "Funny Seduction: Mae West, Cultural Literacy, and the Rhetoric of Sex," Rhetoric Society of America, 1994 Biennial Convention, Norfolk, VA, May 19-22, 1994 "Mae West: Living Doll or Femme Amoureuse?" Toys in the Attic: Doll Imagery in Literature and Art, California State University, Dominguez Hills, September 1993 "The Dialogic Mae West: Authorship in the Films and Plays," Film & Literature Association Annual Conference, Towson State University, June 1992 "What's So Funny About Sensation Fiction?" The Dickens Project Winter Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 1991 "Unfaithfully Yours: Screwball Comedy's Murder to Music," Far West American and Popular Culture Associations, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 1991 "The Short Fiction of Grace Paley: Inquiries into the Possibility of a Woman's Subjecthood," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, October 1990 "Through the Looking-Glass and Into Duck Soup: Alice Meets the Marx Brothers," Far West American and Popular Culture Associations, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 1990 Awards: Outstanding Faculty Sponsor, Spring 2016 APU Subvention Grant, Fall 2015 CLAS Course Releases for Scholarship in 2013, 2014, 2018 APU Faculty Research Grants, Spring 2010, Spring 2015

6 Ivanov-Craig 6 Sabbatical, Fall 2009 Dean s Accomplished Scholar Awards: 2001, 2002; 2010 Faculty Development/Creative Teaching Grant, Mini-Grant for Community Service Learning, 1997 (For integrating community service learning into current course curriculum) Calvin College Faculty Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship Grant, Summer 1996; (for research on Christian Approaches to Gender Construction and attendance at the seminar, Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought ) Virginia Middleton Fellowship (Dept. of English, USC) USC University Dissertation Fellowship, Dissertation: "Sexual Parody in American Comedic Film and Literature, " This study examines the construction of gender and sexuality in American film and literature, , arguing that the parody of gender and sexual identity shapes comedic genre in the films and texts of Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Mae West and Preston Sturges. Director: Tania Modleski. Academic Service and Professional Activities: Faculty Advisor to Alpha Epsilon Tau chapters of Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society), Spring 2005; co-advisor Fall 2007; full advisor Spring 2008 to present Far Western Regent, Sigma Tau Delta, Spring 2012 Spring 2016 (Board of Directors Position) Faculty Senate, CLAS representative, Azusa Pacific University, , ; ; Member, Western Region of the Conference of Christianity and Literature present Departmental Search Committee GE Council, Fall 2016 Outside Member, Search Committee in Communication Studies, Member, Search Committee for Two Positions in English, Spring 2012 Member, Department Committee on Theory SLOs, Spring 2012 Outside Member, Search Committee in Communication Studies, Spring 2011 Outside Member, Program Review of Communication Studies, January 2009; Outside Member, Program Review of Biology/Chemistry/Physics/Math, May 2006; Outside Member, Search Committee in History/Political Science, Spring 2005; Member, Retention Committee, Azusa Pacific University, 1997 to 2002 Member, Special Task Force on Childcare, ; Revision of English 407: Composition: Theory and Practice Syllabus and Curriculum for Center for Adult and Professional Studies, Summer 2004 Professional Memberships: Christianity and Literature, Modern Language Association References: Dr. David Esselstrom, Ph.D., Department of English, Azusa Pacific University