Jennifer Drake, M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton Associate Professor Director, Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows Program Contemporary Literature and Culture, Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Women Writers E-mail: jdrake@uindy.edu Office: Esch 244 N

Education

• Ph.D., American Literature and Culture, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996
• M.A., Literature and Creative Writing, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1992
• B.A., Interdisciplinary Concentration in Religious Studies, Brown University, 1987

Congratulations to Dr. Drake for receiving a U of I Summer Research Grant for a book project about third wave feminist writers and their work, tentatively entitled The Misfits of Women's Lit.

Publications

Book:

Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Co-edited with Leslie Heywood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Encyclopedia Entries, and Interviews:

• “African American Literature and the Post-Soul Aesthetic: Teaching the Poetry of Kevin Young and Elizabeth Alexander.” New Voices: Critical Essays on Emerging African American Writers, edited by Eva Tettenborn and Stephanie Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 11-35. Forthcoming, Fall 2008.
• "Jayne Cortez," "Tom Dent," "Mari Evans," "Michael Harper," "Ted Joans," and "Bob Kaufman." African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. London and New York: Oxford U P. Forthcoming.
• "Third Wave Fiction," "Third Wave Music," "Lauryn Hill," "Tricia Rose," and "Hybridity." The Women's Movement Today, edited by Leslie Heywood. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2005. Forthcoming.
• "It's All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism." Co-authored with Leslie Heywood. Third Wave Feminism, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford. Basingstoke, England and New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• "Cultural Detritus, Funk Music, and the Accessible Poem: A Conversation Between Allison Joseph and Jennifer Drake." Quercus Review #3 (Spring 2003): 38-46.
• "The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Third Wave Feminism and Popular Culture." Growing Up Postmodern, edited by Ron Strickland. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 181-204.
• "Variations on Negation: Breaking the Frame with Lorna Simpson and Adrian Piper." Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 211-239.
• "The Theater of New World Borders: Performing Cultural Criticism with Coco Fusco, Guillermo Goméz-Peña, and Anna Deavere Smith." Women of Color: Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Janet K. Boles. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. 159-173.
• "Looting American Culture: Bharati Mukherjee's Immigrant Narratives." Contemporary Literature 40.1 (Spring 1999): 60-84.
• "Variations on Negation: Breaking the Frame with Lorna Simpson." The Literary Griot: International Journal Of Black Expressive Culture Studies. 11.1 (Spring 1999): 1-17.
• "Reviewing Third-Wave Feminisms: Listen Up and To Be Real." Feminist Studies 23.1 (Spring 1997): 97-108.
• "Silence Is Not Without Voice: Including Deaf Culture Within Multicultural Curricula." Co-authored with H-Dirksen L. Bauman. Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard Davis. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Selected Conference Papers, Readings, and Talks

• "The Misfits of Women's Lit: Trends in Third Wave Feminist Fiction." American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2005.
• "Life After Landing the Job: Remarks on Surviving and Thriving." Preparing Future Faculty Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2005.
• "Post-Soul Poetics, Fugal Aesthetics: Elizabeth Alexander's Antebellum Dream Book." Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival and Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH, September 2003.
• "Experimentalism, Free Verse, New Formalism, and Slam: A Presentation and Discussion of Contemporary American Poetry." Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, April 2003.
• "Tracing Amnesia: Terre Haute Poems." Dewey Institute for Learning in Retirement. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, March 2003.
• "It's All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism." Keynote address. Women's Studies Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 2002.
• "The Literature of Amplification: Third Wave Feminist Consciousness-Raising at the Rock and Roll Crossroads." Women and Creativity 3: Women as Artists and Subjects, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, March 2000. Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2001.
• "Variations on Negation: Breaking the Frame with Lorna Simpson and Adrian Piper." Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, New York, NY, October 2000.