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Education Ph.D. in English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Greensboro, NC
Areas: 20th Century American Literature, Magical Realism, and
Postmodernism
Dissertation: Strange Changes: U.S. Magical Realism's
Transformative Power
M.A. in English
University of Northern Iowa; Cedar Falls, IA
Areas: Creative Writing and 20th Century American Literature
Thesis: Reflections of Satin & Sanity: A Collection of Short
Fiction & Poetry
B.A.
Wartburg College; Waverly, IA
Majors: Communication Arts, emphasis Print Journalism & English,
emphasis World
Literature
Publications Publications
• “Still Afloat.” Academic Apartheid: Waging the Adjunct War. Ed.
Sylvia DeSantis.
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
• “N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn.” Encyclopedia of Themes in
Literature. Vol.
2. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Facts on File, 2010.
• “Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey.” Encyclopedia of Themes
in Literature.
Vol. 2. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Facts on File, 2010.
• "Sounds Like a Good Idea." Extracts 1 (2009) 31-39
• “Strange Changes: Cultural Transformation in U.S. Magical Realist
Fiction.” LiCuS:
Journal of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies 2.3 (2007): 45-61.
• “The Supernatural and Cultural Agency.” Perforations 29:
Hauntology. July 2007.
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• “Faulkner in the 21st Century (review).” Symploke. 13.1-2 (2005):
362-63.
• “The Evolution of White Voodoo in Alejo Carpentier, Lewis Nordan,
and Sean Stewart.”
American@ 1.2 (2003): 133-64.
• “Summer Breathes.” The Parchment 2 (2002): 15.
• “Answering Id.” The Parchment 2 (2002): 16.
• “So It Goes.” The Parchment 1 (2001): 45-46.
• “Sensitivity.” The Parchment 1 (2001): 47.
• "Feeding on Mindless Entertainment" Poetry Now (2001).
• "Woman Listening to Blues" Soujourn 14.1 (2000): 10.
• "Alter Ego." The Castle 51 (1997): 10-11.
• “Please.” Dry Run Reader 19 (1992): 92-93.
• "Hell." Dry Run Reader 19 (1992): 93-96.
Conferences
• "Postcolonial Attitudes in Contemporary Travel: The Cruise Ship
Industry's Portrayal of
Native Culture" Popular Culture Association: Travel and Tourism
Segment— April 2003.
• "Grotesque Religion in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction." University
of Mississippi Graduate
Student Conference: Southern Writers, Southern Writing—July 2003.
• "Carnivalesque Spectacle and Grotesque Bodies: Indications of
Humanity's Monstrosity in
Eudora Welty's 'Petrified Man' and Jonathan Swift's 'Part Two: A Visit
to Brobdingnag.”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Eudora Welty Session on
"Sideshow Wonders:
Carnivals, Parades, Pageants, and Fairs in Eudora Welty's Works”—
November 2003.
• “The Evolution of White Voodoo in the Magical Realist Fiction of
Alejo Carpentier, Lewis
Nordan, and Sean Stewart.” LSU: Beyond the Islands: Extending the
Meaning of Caribbean
Cultures—April 2004.
• “Magical Realism’s Debt to Don Quixote.” Villanova University: Don
Quixote at 400: A
Celebratory Encounter – March 2005
• “Indigenous Magic and Non-Natives in John Updike’s Brazil and
Kathleen Alcalá’s Spirits
of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes.” Purdue University: Border
Crossing: From
Oppression to Nation—April 2005.
• “Transforming Gender: The Blurring of Binaries in Philip Roth’s The
Breast.” 20th
Century Literature and Culture Conference: Philip Roth Society Session
on “Philip Roth and
the Varieties of Literary Experience”—February 2006.
• "The Magic of Gender: Metamorphosis and Performativity in Philip
Roth, Doug Rice, and
Angela Carter." Northern Illinois University: Midwestern Conference
on Literature,
Language, & Media—March 2007.
• “Self-Deprecation, Satire, and Renewal in Bill Bryson.” East
Carolina University:
HumorFest—November 2007.
• "From Ancient Evil to Postmodern Perfection: Reflecting Posthuman
Concerns through the
New, “Softer” Vampire." South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Convention. Science
Fiction and Fantasy Discussion Circle —November 2008.
• "Silent Women: 'Speaking' from the Margins in Susan Power’s The
Grass Dancer and
Kathleen Alcalá’s Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes.'
Georgia Philological
Association Conference —May 2011.
Courses English 1101: Composition I
English 1102: Composition II
English 2122: British Lit II
English 2132: American Lit II
Biography Dr. Bro’s specialty is Postmodern American literature, particularly
multiethnic and magical
realist fiction. Her publications include articles such as “The
Supernatural and Cultural
Agency” in the journal Perforations and “Strange Changes:
Cultural Transformation
in U.S. Magical Realist Fiction” in LiCuS: Journal of Literary
Theory and Cultural
Studies. Her most recent essay “Still Afloat,” appears in the
book Academic
Apartheid, and she has also published poetry in such journals as
Poetry Now
and Sojourn. Currently, Lisa is working on an article
exploring women’s
marginalization through silence in several postmodern novels, and
posthuman ideals in
contemporary, vampire fiction. She also serves on the Executive
Committee of the Georgia
Philological Society. In her spare time, she maintains a blog
exposing her ineptitude at simple
home projects and all things domestic.
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