Valerie Lee

Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The Ohio State University

Professor of English and Women's Studies
102 Bricker Hall, 190 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1358
e-mail: lee.89@osu.edu

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. English, 1976, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 4.0/4.0 scale
M.A. English, 1973, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
B.A. English and French, magna cum laude, 1972, Atlantic Union College, South
Lancaster, MA

ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
April 2010 - Current: Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer

Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Ohio State University
1 Assistant Vice Provost; 7 Directors; over 80 FTE staff

2002 – 2009: Chair, Department of English, Ohio State University (elected position)

Faculty: 102 tenured and tenure track: 30 fulls; 43 associates; 28 assistants; 1 tenured lecturer; 12 annual appointments (6 senior lecturers; 5 auxiliary faculty; 1 Visiting Professor)
Staff: 16 Civil Service and Administrative and Professional Staff persons
Chair’s Cabinet: Vice Chair; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Director of Graduate Program and Policies; Director of Graduate Admissions; Director of Creative Writing; Vice-Chair for Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy; Director of Digital Media Studies
Graduate Students: 55 M.A.; 90 Ph.D; Undergraduate Majors: 1200
Number of students taught in departmental courses each year: 22,000

2000-02: Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, Ohio State University, 2000- 2002 (elected position)

Faculty: 15 FTE
Staff: 5 Civil Service
Graduate Students: 17 M.A.; 12 Ph.D.; Undergraduate Majors: 120; Minors: 120

1999-2000: Vice Chair, Department of English, Ohio State University
Winter 1998: Acting Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, Ohio State University
Winter 1988: Acting Chair, Black Studies, Denison University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
The Ohio State University (Promoted to Full Professor, Autumn 1998; Associate Professor, Autumn 1991-Summer, 1998)

Courtesy Appointments: Department of African American and African Studies; Department of Comparative Studies; Center for Folklore Studies. Center for Law and Public Policy

Specialties: African American Literature and Theory, Women’s Literature and Feminist Theory, Folklore, Critical Race Studies, Multicultural Pedagogy

Courses Taught for the Department of English
H167: 1st Year Writing Seminar; 398: Critical Writing; 561: Modern/Postmodern Slave Narratives;
592: Women in Literature; The Harlem Renaissance; 757.02: Introduction to Graduate Studies in African American Literature; Toni Morrison; 854: Speaking and Writing the Other; 870: Seminar in Folklore: The Oral Tradition andBlack Women's Narratives; 890: Critical Theory: Black Feminist Criticism; 890N: Critical Race Narratives (team-taught with Vincene Verdun, College of Law)

Courses Taught for the Department of Women’s Studies
H367.1: U.S. Women Writers; 367.4: Black Women Writings; 540: Women Writing the Civil Rights Movement; 550: The History of Western Feminist Thought; 620: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; 620: Feminist Neo-Slave Narratives; 740: Theorizing Gender Representation; 775.03: Feminism and Black Political Thought; 890: Critical Race Feminism/Womanist Theory

Denison University (1998-1999), Laura C. Harris Visiting Distinguished Chair; Courses Taught: Women’s Studies 101: Issues in Feminism; Women’s Studies 390-01: Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions

Denison University (1976-1991) Assistant Professor – Full Professor

SCHOLARSHIP:
Scholarly Monographs/Textbooks/Manuals:
The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women’s Literature. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2005.

Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. (hardback and paperback)

Women’s Studies Directors’ Handbook, co-editor, E. Buker, Program Administrators and Directors Advisory Council, NWSA, 2001-2002, Summer 2002.

Invisible Man’s Literary Heritage: Benito Cereno and Moby Dick. Published in the literary series, Costerus: Essays in English and American Language and Literature, (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1978). American distributor: Humanities Press, New Jersey.

Manuscript In Progress:
SisterLocking Discourse: Writing Law, Race, and Gender for the 21st Century

In Press:
"Sisterlocking Power: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look? in Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline, eds. Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson, SUNY Press.

Series Editor:
(Co-editor with E. Patrick Johnson, Black Performance and Cultural Criticism, The Ohio State University Press, 2007 - present)

Books published in the series:
L.H. Stallings, Mutha’ is half a word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (2007); 

Peter Caster, Prisons, Race, and Masculinity: In Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (2008)
 
Articles/Essays:
“Pearl was shittin’ worms and I was supposed to play rang-around-the rosie?”: An African American Woman’s Response to the Politics of Labor” in Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces, eds. Michelle Masse and Katie Hogan, Feminist Theory and Criticism Series, SUNY Press, 2010.

"Anthologizing and Theorizing Black Women's Studies." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 35:4, Summer 2010, 788-796.

"The Reality of Climate Change: The Global Warming of Classrooms, in Talking About Teaching, ed. James Phelan. The Ohio State University Academy of Teaching, May 2010.

“Our Capacious Caper: Exposing Print-Culture Bias in Departmental Tenure Documents” (co-authored with Cynthia L. Selfe) ADE Bulletin, Number 145, Spring 2008, 51-58.

“Affirmative Activism: Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English.” ADE Bulletin. Nos. 141-142, Winter-Spring 2007, 770-74.

“Paul Laurence Dunbar,” “Lorraine Vivian Hansberry,” “Richard Wright” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest, eds. Andrew Cayton, Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007.

“Biblical Characters,” “Caul,” “Colorstruck,” “Double Dutch,” “Granny Women, ” “Seventh-day Adventists” in Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad.  Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Smarts: A Cautionary Tale” in Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender and Culture, eds. Jacqueline Jones Royster and AnnMarie Mann Simpkins. SUNY Press, 2005, 93-105.

Lee Valerie et al. “Andrea’s Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education.” Eds. Gloria Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating. This Bridge We Call Home. New York: Routledge, 2002, 403-415.

“The Body: Power and Politics.” Reading Women’s Lives, 3rd Edition. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002.

“Harlem Renaissance.” Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. Eds. Brown, Mary Ellen and Bruce A. Rosenberg. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1998, 286-288.

“The Body.” Reading Women’s Lives. Compiler, Lee, Valerie. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998, 1-5.

"African American Writers and the Shaping of Journalism." The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Eds. Andrews, William, Francis Smith Foster, Trudier Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 410-414.

"African American Writers and Their Newspaper Columns." The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Eds. Andrews, William, Francis Smith Foster, Trudier Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 537-539.

"Testifying Theory: Womanist Intellectual Thought." Women: A Cultural Review 6.2 (1995), London: Oxford University Press. Special Edition:"Thinking Women/Women Thinking," 200-206.

"Folklore." In The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Eds. Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner-Martin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 325-327.

"Strategies for Teaching Black Women's Literature in a White Cultural Context." SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Vol. VI, No. 1 (Summer 1989).

"Responses of White Students to Ethnic Literature." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, No. 15, (Spring 1986), 24-33.

"Black Women's Studies: The Curricular Cement of the Academy." Looking Back: A Celebration of Sources, Great Lakes College Association (GLCA), (Spring 1986), 85-88.

"Lucille Clifton: Black Feminist Poet." Toward a Feminist Transformation of the Academy, GLCA II (Spring 1982), 17-23.

"The Use of Folktalk in Novels by Black Women Writers." College Language Association (CLA), 23, No. 3, (March 1980), 266-272.

"The Spiritual Leader of Modern Black Poetry: The Black Mother." Christianity & Literature: A Search for Spiritual Values in Twentieth Century American Literature (March 1979), 207-216.

"The Female Voice in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Poetry." UMOJA: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies, 3, No. 3 (Fall 1979), 175-184.

Reviews:
Review Essay: Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Intervention in Paula Allen Gunn, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde, by AnaLouise Keating; Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women, by Anne E. Goldman; Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives, ed. Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis and Michele Foster. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Autumn 1999), 275-279.

Rev. of Jamaica Kincaid, by Diane Simmons. Research in African Literatures, 27.2 (Summer 1996), 222-223.

Rev. of Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall. Research in African Literatures 27.2 (Summer 1996), 224-225.

Rev. of The Myth of Aunt Jemima: Representation of Race and Region, by Diane Roberts. Research in African Literatures, 26.4 (Winter) 1995, 232-234.

Rev. of Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee--An African American Herbal Leader, by Arvilla Payne-Jackson and John Lee. Journal of American Folklore, 108.429 (Summer 1995), 372-373.

Review Essay: Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, by Gloria T.Hull. Shadowed Dreams: Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Maureen Honey; Black Female Playwrights An Anthology of Plays Before 1950, ed. Kathy A. Perkins; How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature, by Margaret Walker. For National Women’s Studies Association Journal (NWSA) 4.2 (Summer 1992), 253-58.

ACADEMIC HONORS:
Teaching:
2002: Finalist, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award; Also, 1997, 1995
2000: The Millennium Award of Excellence, The Education Committee, Columbus, Ohio
1998: Laura C. Harris Distinguished Visiting Professorship (1998 - 1999), Denison University
1998: Faculty Recognition: Mortar Board and Sphinx Senior Class Honoraries
1996: Finalist, Ben M. Jones III Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in the College of the Humanities
1993: Charter Member, Academy of Teaching
1993: OSU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award
1991: Juanita Barkstall Outstanding Educator Award
1987: Excellence in Teaching Award--The Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio

Scholarship and Service Awards/Fellowships:
2006: University Distinguished Service Award
2005: 2005 YWCA Woman of Achievement Award
2005: “Walkin’ the Walk Certificate of Excellence” from the Latino/a Studies and Ethnic Studies Programs
2003: Multicultural Center Academic Service and Outreach Award/Council on Diversity
2002: Multicultural Center & Women Student Services: Outstanding Cultural Activism Award
2000: The College Fund James Stamps Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to Historically Black Colleges
1997: CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow
1996: Center for African Studies Fellow to South Africa
1995: Elizabeth E. Gee Award for Research on Women
1994: Council of Honor Award, African American Students' Services
1993: Special Research Assignment
1993: College of Humanities Grant-in-Aid
1993: University Mentoring Program Distinguished Service Award, 4-27-93
1992: OSU Research Seed Grant
1990: Robert C. Good Research Fellowship, Denison University
1987: Summer Course Development Grant (also, in '81)
1985: Summer Faculty Development Grant (also, in '78)
1979: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers; Director: O.R. Dathorne; "Caribbean Literature & Languages"
1976: Dissertation Fellowship; Cumulative OSU GPA: 4.0 on 4.0 scale
1973: OSU University Fellowship
1972: Charles E. Weniger Fellowship, Andrews University
1969: Honors Exchange Student, Collonges, France; Alliance Française Diploma with Highest Honors

ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Invited Lectures:
“Women and Minorities in Academic Leadership: Challenges and Solutions” CIC Diversity Conference. University of Iowa, October 7-9, 2004.

“Rise to the Occasion.” Keynote Address. NAACP. 25th Anniversary Celebration. Newark, Ohio, September 17, 2004.

“Black Exodus: The Great Migration in African American Art and Literature.” The Columbus Museum of Art, June 13, 2004.

“Doing Diversity: People, Places, and Policies.” Plenary Speaker. Ohio Association of College and University Business Officers, Ohio State University, April 26, 2004.

“‘Can’t I Have Nothing’: Race, Gender, and Law in Feminist Neo-Slave Narratives,” St. Louis University, February 23, 2004

“Leading for Diversity.” CIC Diversity Forum 2003, Ohio State University, October 9, 2003.

“‘Talkin’ the Talk and Walkin’ the Walk’: Making Diversity Work.” The President and Provost’s Lecture Series, Ohio State University, October 8, 2003.

“Literacy Matters.” CMACAO Professional Development Day, August 29, 2003.

“African American Literature and Law: Negotiating Nationhood.” Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science, OSU, March 18, 2003

Plenary Speaker: "Double-Dutched Encounters and the Academy." A National Symposium: Black Women's Studies and the Academy: Purdue University, February 27, 2003.

Moderator and Presenter. “The Inner City--or As We Call it ‘Home.’” "Away from Home" Symposium. Wexner Center for the Arts and The Columbus College of Art & Design, February 18, 2003.

"Contemporary African American Literature and Folk Medicine." Ohio State University Community Extension Center, February 13, 2003.

“Laying Bare the Body: Gendered and Racialized Representations. Wittenberg University. October 29, 2002.

“Interrupting Americanness: Narrative, Law, and Culture.” Parallel Lines (with Professor Ileana Rodriguez), College of Humanities, January 16, 2002.

“The Dream Keepers.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation, The Columbus School For Girls, January 12, 2001.

“Women Who Work Magic.” The Midwives’ Alliance of North America (MANA), Clearwater Beach, Florida, November 2001.

“Nursing Tales and Tots: Black Women‘s Maternal Discourse.” LaMaze International Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, September 22, 2000.

“‘They Shoot the White Girl First’: Feminism’s Contribution to Critical White Studies.” Plenary Address, Great Lakes Colleges Association Women’s Studies Conference, Denison University, April 7, 2000.

“Ginger Tea, Goose Grease, and God: How Granny Midwives Birthed and Healed a Nation.” Keynote Address, The Midwives’ Alliance of North America (MANA), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 14, 1999.

“Smarts.” Inaugural Lecture in the Humanities. The Ohio State University, May 4, 1999.

“Hands of Iron and Hands of Flesh: White Men’s Forceps and Black Women’s Forces,” Plenary Address. The Midwives’ Alliance of North America (MANA), Smith College, March 5, 1999.

“Outing Whiteness: The Emerging Field of Critical White Studies,” Convocation Address, Denison University, January 26, 1999.

“Body Politics: From Beulah to Barbie,” Laura C. Harris Lecture, Denison University, November 12, 1998.

“Speaking and Writing the Other: Problematizing Identity, Experience, and Knowledge,” Laura C. Harris Lecture, Denison University, October 22, 1998.

“Goose Grease, Ginger Tea and Rosewater: How Black Women Birthed and Healed the Nation,” Women and Knowledge Luncheon Series, Columbus, Oh, April 8, 1998.

“Feminist Neo-Slave Narratives: Writing Race and Gender for the 21st Century,” Laura C. Harris Lecture, Denison University, September 17, 1998.

“Black Women Delivering the World and Writing the Word.” Black History Month Lecturer. Ohio Bureau of Employment, Columbus, OH, February 28, 1997.

“A High & Holy Calling: Subversive Black Midwives in Life and Literature.” Goodspeed Lecturer, Denison University, February 10, 1997.

"Teaching, Publishing, and Community." Invited Lecture. Operation Reachback, Dallas, Texas, October 31, 1996

"Sister Conjurers: Black Women's Literature and Folk Medicine." Invited Lecturer. Beck Fund and Women's Studies, Denison University, October 28, 1996.

"Affirming Curricula." International Conference on Affirmative Action in Employment and Education." Invited Lecture, The University of Fort Hare, South Africa, Sept. 25-27.

"Jewish Women in African American Women's Narratives." Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization, Columbus, May 5, 1996.

"Multi-Culturalism as Process, Diversity as Pedagogy." Dublin School System, February 29, 1996.

"Girlfriends, 'Spress Yo'selves: The Importance of Black Women's Literature for all Women." The College of Humanities and The Center for Women's Studies Lecture Series. April 12, 1995.

"Mistaking Backpacks for Parachutes." Faculty Address for President Gee's Opening Convocation, September 18, 1995.

"Living the Legacy." Keynote Address, Black History Month Symposium, OSU, February 15, 1995.

"Commitment to Excellence: The Academy and The Scholar." Keynote Address, 25th Annual Graduate and Professional Schools Visitation Day, The Ohio State University, October 31, 1994.

"Oral Traditions and African American Texts. Keynote Address. Phyllis Johnson Jones Lecture Series, Ohio Wesleyan University, November 11, 1993.

"The Role of Literary Arts in Education." Featured Lecturer. Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in Education, Columbus, Ohio, March 4, 1993.

"Womanist Neo-Slave Narratives." Convocation Speaker, Earlham College, February 24, 1993.

"Contemporary Female Slave Narratives." Wexner Center Lecture Series: Cultural Diversity in the Arts and Education, October 21, 1992.

"Black Women Writers: Sisters Who Conjure, Signify, and Heal," The African Heritage Student Association, June 4, 1992.

"Midwives, Root Workers, and Folk Healers: Women Who Work Magic,” The College of Humanities Lecture Series, April 7, 1992.

"Poetry and Politics: An Agenda for the 90's," Columbus Metropolitan Club, February 18, 1992.

Conference Presentations:
“Jumping and Reading Double-Dutch: Womanist Theory as Cultural Performance.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 19, 1999.

“When Whiteboys Become Homeboys and Whitegirls Become Sistas: Critical White Studies and Black Studies Forming Alliances.” Great Lakes Colleges Association, Black Studies Conference. College of Wooster, April 16, 1999.

“Bridging Theories, Territories, and Testimonies,” Great Lakes Colleges Association, Black Studies Conference, Earlham College, September 25, 1998.

"Sistah Conjurers in Literature and History." College Language Association. Atlanta, Ga., April 17, 1997.

"Jumping Double-Dutch in Mississippi: Fieldwork and Womanist Theory." Folklore Symposium, Ohio State University, April 12, 1996.

"Graduate Education and the Problem of Community." Moderator and discussant, CIC Conference on Graduate Education, Indianapolis, April 7, 1995.

"Testifying Theory: Womanist Theory in the Academy." College Language Association Conference, North Carolina, April 25, 1994.

"Daughters of the Diaspora and the Grafting of Genres." African Literatures Conference, Guadeloupe, April 21,1993.

"Black Literature and the Black Community." Guest Speaker, Black Studies Broadcast Journal, WOSU Radio, March 21, 1993.

"Feminist Neo-slave Narratives: The Genre that Keeps Rewriting Itself,” Kenyon College (GLCA Conference), April 24, 1992.

"Contemporary African-American Women's Literature and Theory," Fan the Flames Feminist Bookstore, January 26, 1992

"From Soweto to Harlem: Connectedness in African Communities, Denison University, Fall 1990.

"Black Writers: The Universal and the Particular" and "Race and Gender in Black Women's Texts," Nov. 28-29, 1989, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

"Women Who Work Magic: Midwives, Folkcurers, and Rootworkers'", GLCA Women's Studies Conference, Fall 1989, Dayton and Depauw University, April 13, 1991.

"Toni Morrison's Afro-Centric Vision," Great Lakes Colleges Association Black Studies Conference, The College of Wooster, Spring 1989.

Workshop Presentations:
"Everything I Learned About Chairing I Learned From Cartoons." Workshop. CIC Executive Officer Seminar. Chicago, IL 5 April 2003.

“The 2002 Educators’ Workshop: “Exploring Identity, Diversity, and Tolerance.” The Contemporary American Theatre Company (CATCO), August 14, 2002.

“Diversity and Difference.” Faculty Development Workshops. Loyola College of Maryland, May 14 –15, 2002.

“Racial Legacies & Learning: Moving the Nation’s Diversity Agenda Forward.” Grand Conversation Moderator. 8th Big 10, Statewide & Beyond Conference, OSU, May 7, 2002.

“The Value of Diversity in a Research Work Environment: Overcoming Challenges,” Panelist with OSU Professors Hastings, Yang, and Tirado-Muniz, May 2, 2002.

“Memory and Exodus: Black and Jewish Relations,” (with Dr. Mitchell Snay), February 17, Denison University, 1999.

“Metaphors & Institutions: Public vs. Private Teaching.” Committee for Academic Excellence for Women (CAEW), February 7, 1997.

“’Touch Me on the Inside Part and Call Me By My Name’: Relationships in African American Women’s Fiction,” Xeta Phi Beta, Columbus, Ohio, November 13, 1997.

"Multiculturalism in the Liberal Arts Classroom and Curriculum." Annual Faculty Workshop. Hiram College, September 15-1, 1992.

"Theorizing Difference in the Liberal Arts." Three-Day Faculty Workshop. Mt. Union College, Aug. 16-18, l993.

"Men of the Cloth With Sins of the Flesh: The Preacher in Literature" for Denison's Cleveland Alumni Association, May 2, 1988 and for the Chicago Alumni Association, May 3, 1989.

Media Presentations:
“Bringin’ in da Spirit: History of the African-American Midwife.” Special Consultant and Interviewee. Producer and Director: Rhonda L. Haynes; Narrator: Phylicia Rashad., Lou Productions, New York, New York. Premiere, June 29, 2003.

“Tavis Smiley NPR Talk Show.” Special Guest, “Diversity and the Academy,” May 7, 2002.

“The Department of Women’s Studies.” Special Guest, Connections, Channel 3, January 17, 2001.

“African American Women’s Literature.” Today’s Life Choices: I Am Woman: Voices of Power, Golden Dome Media, Autumn 1999.

"Black Women's Literature." Interview. WOSU Radio Station, April 6, 1995.

"African-American Women's Literature." Special Guest: Public Access Cable Television (ACTV 21), December 1, 1994. Televised Feb. 7, 9, 14, and 16 (1995).

Moderator and Presenter, "The Writers, The Stories, The Legacy." Satellite Video Conference, Washington D.C., February 3, 1992.

OSU COMMITTEES/SERVICE:
University:
Provost's Executive Council, 2010 – present
President's Council, 2010 – present
Health Plan Oversight Committee, 2010 – present
OSU ADVANCE, Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State project, 2010
Evaluation of Central Administrators Committee, 2009
University Senate Diversity Committee, 2007 – present
Chair, University Senate Compensation Committee: 2006
Ohio State University Press Editorial Board 2000 – 2006
University Diversity Council, 2000 – present; Chair, 2002 - present
Dean’s Search Committee, College of Humanities, 2003-2004
Office of Diversity and Inclusion Review Team, Spring 2004
Faculty Club Board of Control, 2003 - present
Institutional Research & Planning Advisory Group, 2003 – present
The President’s Council on Women’s Issues, 2001 – 2005
University Distinguished Scholar Award Selection Committee- 2002 – 2004
Faculty Professional Development Committee, 2000-2001 (co-chair with Nancy Rudd)
University Advisory Council on Women, 2000 – 2004
Office of Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board, 2001 - present
Graduate School Fellowship Selection Committee, 2000
University Departmental Teaching Enrichment Award Selection Committee, 2000
Faculty Selection Committee, STARS (Student Achievement in Research and Scholarship), 1999
New Faculty Orientation Panelist, l999
Search Committee, Vice-Provost for Minority Affairs, 1997-98
Honors Faculty Advisory Committee, 1996-98
Provost's Faculty Salary Appeals Advisory Committee, 1995-97.
Committee for Academic Excellence for Women (CAEW), 1992-96
University STARS Program, Faculty Mentor, 1995
Summer Research Opportunities Program Advisor (SROP) 1992-2002
Summer Research Opportunities Program Selection Committee: 1997-2000

Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Committees:
College of Arts and Sciences Search Committee, Chief HR Officer
Arts and Sciences Faculty Leadership Committee (2004 – 2008)

Convener, Grants Review Subcommittee

Film Studies Steering Committee

Moritz College of Law
Advisory Board, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies (2003 – present)

College of Humanities:
Chair, Steering Committee, Program for Arts and Humanities Development, 2007 – present)
African American and African Studies Search Committee, 2006 – 2007; 2007 – 2008
College of Humanities Executive Committee, 2000 - present
Evaluation of Chairs/Directors, Chair, 2002
Interdisciplinary Committee, 2000 - 2001
Rodica Botoman Undergraduate Awards Committee, 2001- 2003; Chair, 2002 - 2003
College of Humanities Library Committee, 1991-93; Chair, 1992-93.
College Graduate Recruitment Committee, 1994-96.

Department of English:
Chair, 2002 – 2009
Vice Chair, 1999 – 2000
Undergraduate Committee, 1997
Executive Committee, 1994 – 1996
New Personnel Committee, 1992 – 1993; Oversight Chair, 1999 – 2000
Chair, Social Committee, 1996 – 1997
Course Director: English 270 (Folklore), 1996 – 1998; English 281 (African American Lit.), 1999

Department of Women’s Studies:
Chair, 2000 – 2002
Acting Chair, Winter 1997
Research Committee, 2000-02
Undergraduate Studies Chair, 1997-98; 1999- 2000
Search Committee for New Chair, 1999
Visual Arts Search Committee, 1997
Women’s Studies/Black Studies Search Committee, 1994
Chair, Theorizing Diversity Search Committee, 1996-971
Budget Committee, 1997; 1999; 2000 – present
25th Anniversary Committee, Winter 1997
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996 – 1997
Graduate Studies Committee, 1991 – 97; Graduate Studies Chair, 1994 – 96
Women's Studies/ Black Studies Search Committee, 1992 – 1994
Advisory Council, 1996 – 1998
Awards Committee, 1991– 1992; 1992 – 1993; 2000 – 2002

Other Departments:
African American and African Studies, Chair Search Committee, 2006 – 07
African American and African Studies, Promotion and Tenure Committee, April 2000
Graduate Representative for Exams in Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Educational Policy and Leadership, Teaching and Learning

Community, Regional, and National Service:
Departmental Program Reviewer: Loyola University, Department of English and University of Missouri, Columbia, Department of English, March 2007
• Association of Departments of English (ADE/MLA) Executive Committee, 2005-07
• Executive Director, Womanist Readers, Inc.1988-present
• Ohio State University Press Editorial Board 2000 – present
• National Women’s Studies Program Administrators and Directors Advisory Board, 2001 – 2002
• Chair, Materials Committee, National Women’s Studies Association, 2001 – 2002
• Promotion and Tenure External Reviewer: University of Missouri, 2002; University of Georgia, 1999; Ohio State University, 1989
• Manuscript Reviewer, NWSA Journal 1999; Bedford Books, 1999; Ohio State University Press, 1999, 1998, 2001; The Journal of Higher Education, 1998 University of Minnesota Press, 1992; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1997; Wayne State University Press, 2001; New York University Press, 2001
• Program Reviewer: Georgia State University, Women’s Studies, 2004; State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2003; Louisiana State University Women’s Studies Program, 2001
• NEH Women’s Citizenship Summer Institute, Summer 2000
• Associated Colleges of the Midwest Minority Scholars Program, 1989
• Summer Instructor: South African Orientation Program (1980-90); SCAP: High School Bridge Program (1987-89);"I Know I Can" Program (1990-92); Upward Bound (1980)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Reader: Essays in Reader Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, 1997 and Collegiate Press, 1989; Lecturer, Alumni College (1987-91)
• Steering Committee, National Summer Institute in Women's Studies, 1980
• Director, TEACH, INC. 1978-1983
• Board of Trustees: Kettering Medical College (2001-03); Mount Vernon Academy(2002- present); Columbus Adventist Academy (2002 – present)

Service on Graduate Students Committees:
M.A Theses: 33; Director of 12
M.A. Examinations: 26; Director of 15
Ph.D. Candidacy Examinations: 39; Director of 10
Ph.D. Dissertations: 33; Director of 10

Graduate Students Committees

(*served as chair)

M.A. Theses

Abbas, Nuzhat (Wm St)*
Adams, Tonya (Wm St)*
Bailey, Lucy (Wm St)
Blackson, Valerie (Wm. St.)
Bristow, Vernell (AAAS)
Burley, Stephanie (Wm St)
Cappeletti, Christiana (Wm St) *
Carpenter, Tracy (Comp St)
Chaudhuri, Sauli   (Wm St)
Chowdry, Elora (Wm St)
Coleman, Lisa Marie (Wm St)*
Franceschini, Norma Juarbe (Wm St) *
Fribble, Leigh Ann (Wm St)
Hindrich, Cheryl (Wm St)
Hoff, Margaret (Wm St)*
Jones, Gerardina Garita (Eng)*
Lester, LaTida Michelle (Wm St) *
Lyons, Robin (Eng)*
Nielsen, Aimee Beth (Wm St)
Parker, Amy (Wm St)
Poindexter, Simone Charice (Eng)
Reeves, Alison (Wm St)
Richards, Constance Sue (Wm St)
Robinson, Crystal (Eng)*
Ruthstrom, Ellyn (Wm St)
Smith, Kerry (Wm St)*
Subramananian, Shobanna (Eng)
Swenson, Staci (Wm St)
Tilman, Danielle (Wm St)
Troka, Donna Jean (Wm St)*
VanHaistma, Pamela (Wm St)
Walker-Canton, Roxanne (Eng)
Woods Angela (Wm St)

M.A. Examinations

Bell, Sonia (Wm St) *
Benz, Michael (Eng)
Blackson, Valora (Wm St)*
Brown, Monica (Eng)
Burley, Jennifer (Wm St) *
Davis, Sheri (Wm St)*
Eaton, Kalenda (Eng)*
Ellinghausen, Laurie (Eng)
Gilley, Jennifer  (Wm St)
Golden, Nancy (Eng)*
Harris, Ruth Ann (Wm St)
Hasegawa, Kazumi (Wm St)
Hedges, Tim (Eng)*
Higbee, Leslie  (Wm St)*
Johnson, Tonya (Wm St)
Jones, Esther L. (AAAS)
Lakes, Lisa (Eng)*
Lewis, Christopher (Eng)*
Lovelace, Tonya (Wm St) *
McMahon, Elizabeth (Wm St)
Neves, Deborah (Eng)*
Roel, Eulalia (Wm St)
Robyn Robinson (Wm. St.)*
Rushforth, Kristin (Wm St) *
Smith, Maureen (Wm St)*
Washington, Karen (AAAS)
Woodin, Sarah (Eng)*

General Exam Committees

Anderson, Tiffany (Eng)*
Bailey, Lucy (Wm St)
Barnes-Wright, Lenora (Cultural Studies)
Bernish, Kathryn Lenore (Eng)
Blackson, Valora (WmSt)*
Blue, Dionne (Edu)
Camara, Sakile Ka (Com)
Carpenter, Tracy (Comp St)
Clairborne, Corrie (Eng)*
Clyburn, Tiffani (Eng)*
Constable, Susan (Edu)
Davis, Eve (Eng)
Dickerson, Tonya (Spanish Edu)
Dunn, Victoria (Eng)
Eaton, Kalenda (Eng)*
Furuhashi, Yoshie (Eng)
Gough, Donna (Edu)
Harris, John (Theatre)
Hawkins, Alfonso (Eng)
Hinton-Johnson, Kaavonia (Edu)
Johnson, Lakesia (WmSt)
Jones, Esther (Eng)*
Lathan-Blue, Bennnis (Eng)*
Lopez, Riggy (Eng)
Lopez, Veronica (Edu)
Loss, Emma Perry (Eng)
MacDonald-Smythe, Antonia (Eng)*
Mavormati, Eleni (Eng)
McNair, Jonda (Edu)
Moum, Barbara (One-of-a-Kind)
Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi (Eng)*
Peters, April
Pipes, Candice (Eng)*
Raglow-DeFranco, Steve (Eng)*
Raillin, Aneil (Eng)
Richards, Constance Sue (Eng)
Rini, Rosanne (Eng)
Taylor, Elizabeth (Eng)
Thompson, Eva (Eng)*
Wheeler, Durene (Edu)
Yadlon, Susan (Eng)

Dissertation Committees

Anderson,  Tiffany (Eng)*
Bailey, Lucy (Cultural Studies)
Barnes-Wright (Policy and Leadership)
Blackson, Valora (WmSt)*
Blue, Dionne (Edu)
Brown, Monica (Eng)
Clairborne, Corrie (Eng)*
Clyburn, Tiffani (Eng)*
Cochran, Shannon (WmSt)*
Davis, Eve (Eng)
Dunn, Victoria (Eng)
Eaton, Kalenda (Eng)*
Gough, Donna (Edu)
Harris, John (Theatre)
Hinson, Scot (Eng)
Hinton-Johnson, Kaavonia (Edu)
Lakesia Johnson (WmSt)
Jones, Esther (Eng)*
Knee, Anne L (Eng)
Lathan-Blue, Bennis (Edu)
Lopez, Riggy (Eng)
Loss, Emma Perry (Eng)
MacDonald-Smythe, Antonia (Eng)*
Mavormati, Eleni (Eng)
Moum, Barbara (One-of-a-Kind)
Oforlea, Aaron (Eng)*
Peters, April (Edu)
Pipes, Candice (Eng)*
Raillin, Aneil (Eng)
Richards, Constance Sue (Eng)
Ryan, Cathy (Eng)
Spangler, Jodie (Eng)
Thompson, Eva (Eng)*
Wheeler, Durene (Cultural Studies)
Yadlon, Susan (Eng)

Dissertation Advisees: Post-graduation Positions

United States Air Force Academy: Tenure-Track; promoted in rank
University of Colorado at Greeley
University of Nebraska
Kennesaw State University
Emory University
Auburn University
Washington State University
Columbus State Community College
University of Grenada