Colleen G. Eils Department of English and Philosophy United States Military Academy 607 Cullum Road, West Point NY 10996 colleen.eils@gmail.com (302) 670-3555 EDUCATION The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., 2015, English Dissertation: Narrative Privacy: Keeping Secrets in Contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American Metafictions Graduate Portfolio, Mexican American Studies The University of Texas at Austin, M.A., 2010, English Clemson University, B.A., 2008, English (Honors) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS United States Military Academy (West Point, New York) Assistant Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, 2016-present Course Director, The Novel, Department of English and Philosophy, 2016-present Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2015-16 The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) Assistant Director, Department of English Lower-Division Literature Program, 2013-15 Graduate Research Assistant Domino R. Perez, Center for Mexican American Studies, 2014-15 Heather Houser, book project: Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (Columbia UP), 2013 James H. Cox, book project: The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico (Minnesota UP), Summer 2011 Assistant Instructor, Department of English, 2012-14 Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2010-12 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 2008-10, 2014 PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles (Refereed) Narrative Privacy: Evading Ethnographic Surveillance in Fiction by Sherman Alexie, Rigoberto González, and Nam Le. Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 42.2 (Summer 2017). The Politics of Make-Believe: Dissimulation and Reciprocity in David Treuer s The Translation of Dr. Apelles. Studies in American Indian Literatures, 26.4 (Winter 2014). Interview (Refereed) You re Always More Famous When You Are Banished : Gerald Vizenor on Citizenship, War, and Continental Liberty, with Emily Lederman and Andrew Uzendoski. American Indian Quarterly, 39.2 (Spring 2015).
Eils C.V. 2 Interview An Interview with Gerald Vizenor with Emily Lederman and Andrew Uzendoski in E3W Review of Books, Coloring Outside the Lines: Development, Deviance, and the Domestic, vol. 14 (Spring 2014): 28-30. Book Reviews Thadious M. Davis. Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, & Literature, in E3W Review of Books, Literary Indictments: Bodies on Trial, in Prison, & Out of Bounds, vol. 13 (Spring 2013): 61-62. Julia H. Lee. Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937, in E3W Review of Books, Year of Seven Billion: Population Growth, Population Control, and Popular Movements, vol. 12 (Spring 2012): 25-27. Janet A. Flammang. The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society, in E3W: Review of Books, Broken Paradigms: Towards Sustainable Strategies & Timely Tactics, vol. 11 (Spring 2011): 29-30. Leslie Marmon Silko. Almanac of the Dead, in E3W Review of Books, Human Interests, Historical Investments, vol. 10 (Spring 2010): 35-36. Works in Progress Narrative Privacy: The Politics of Evasive Form in Contemporary Native American, Latina/o, and Asian American Metafictions. Book manuscript in preparation. Genre Bending in Texas: Stephen Graham Jones and the Politics of Paratext. Article in preparation. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Professional Development Award, 2010, 2014, 2015 The University of Texas at Austin Department of English Excellence Award, Spring 2014 MELUS President s Graduate Student Travel Award (one of two awarded annually), 2014 Maureen Decherd Excellence Fellow, Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin, 2013 Summer Fellowship, Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin, 2011 Clemson University National Scholar, 2004-08 Phi Beta Kappa, 2007 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Organizer, Subversive Spaces: Progressive Action Through Literary Archives. New England Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2018. Upcoming Be All That You Can Be : Teaching Humanities at the United States Military Academy. Humanities at a Professional School. Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference. New York, New York, January 2018. Upcoming Privacy as Self-Care in Charles Yu s Metafictions. Panelist and Chair. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) National Conference. Portland, Oregon, April 2017 Literature as Surveillance Technology in Salvador Plascencia s The People of Paper. Confronting the Reader in Ethnic American Literature. Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2017
Eils C.V. 3 Genre Bending in Texas: Stephen Graham Jones and the Pseudo-Memoir. Western Literature Association National Conference. Reno, Nevada, October 2015 Fiction and Lies in Sherman Alexie s Dear John Wayne and Stephen Graham Jones s Growing Up Dead in Texas. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) National Conference. Washington, D.C., June 2015 Formal Departure: Evading Textual Captivity in Monique Truong s The Book of Salt. The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) National Conference. Athens, Georgia, April 2015 The Limits of Literature in Salvador Plascencia s The People of Paper. The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) National Conference. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 2014 I was looking for a book: Audience and Translation in The Translation of Dr. Apelles. 9th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, October 2012 If it Weren t for Tequila and Pretty Señoritas : Eating the Other in Country Music. Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W) Annual Sequels Conference. Austin, Texas, April 2011 Colors, Maps, Artifacts: Imagining Alternative Literary and Publishing Environments in Caramba! Annual Meeting of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NAACS). Seattle, Washington, April 2010 Anarchy Arrives: Robert Kaplan and the Rhetoric of Dehumanization. Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Annual Conference. Austin, Texas, March 2009 CAMPUS & LOCAL TALKS Omniscient Surveillance: Salvador Plascencia, Nam Le, and Narrative Privacy in a Post-9/11 World. Plática, The Center for Mexican American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, April 2015 Workshop. The Americas Project, Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, February 2015 Alumni Panel. Undergraduate Scholars Program Administrators Association National Conference. Austin, Texas, May 2013 Teaching in the Department of English. Supervised Teaching in English Practicum, the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas, November 2013 INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD United States Military Academy (West Point, New York) Freshman Literature, Department of English and Philosophy, Spring 2017 Freshman Composition, Department of English and Philosophy, Fall 2016 Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) Literature of the Asian Diaspora, Department of English, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 21st Century Ethnic American Literature, Department of English, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) Asian American Literature and Culture, Department of English, Fall 2013 Native American Literature and Culture, Department of English, Fall 2012 The Rhetoric of Food, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Rhetoric and Writing, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010
Eils C.V. 4 TEACHING DISTINCTION Outstanding Assistant Instructor, Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin, 2012-13 OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Department of English, the University of Texas at Austin Young Adult Fiction and Film, Fall 2014 Interwar U.S. Literature, Summer 2011 Life and Literature of the Southwest, Spring 2010 Masterworks of American Literature, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Summer 2010 Masterworks of British Literature, Spring 2009 Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center, the University of Texas at Austin, 2010-13 EDITING EXPERIENCE Section Editor, Contested Legacies: Globalizing the American South, E3W Review of Books, Literary Indictments: Bodies on Trial, in Prison, & Out of Bounds, vol. 13 (2013): 53-66 Review Editor, E3W Review of Books vols. 9-13, 2009-13 Associate Editor, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 2012 Co-Editor, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 2010-11 Co-Curator, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Primp My Book: a Brief History of the Customized Reading Experience. Winter 2010-11 SERVICE National Manuscript Reviewer, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, 2016-present Site Committee, El Mundo Zurdo 2015 National Conference, Austin, Texas, Spring 2015 Graduate Assistant, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) National Conference, Austin, Texas, Spring 2014 The United States Military Academy Director, Andrew Holden, Senior Thesis, expected completion 2018 Coordinator, Department Trip to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 2017 Judge, Hoy Prize for Outstanding Plebe Essays, 2017 Judge, John Calabro Night of the Arts, 2017 Faculty Council Junior Faculty Representative, 2016-17 Duty Officer, 2016-17 The University of Texas at Austin Member, English Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English, 2014-15 Judge, Outstanding Assistant Instructor Committee, Department of English, 2013-14 Teaching Assistant Mentor, Department of English, 2012-14 Graduate Student Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of English, 2013 Author, Winter in the Blood Study Guide for the Texas Institute of Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS), Summer 2013 Professional Development Group Leader, Undergraduate Writing Center, 2012-13 Clemson University Interviewer, National Scholars Program Selection Weekend, 2013-15, 2017 Reader, Selection Committee, National Scholars Program, 2010-17
Eils C.V. 5 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Multi- Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Western Literature Association, Association for Asian American Studies, North Eastern Modern Language Association REFERENCES James H. Cox, Professor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin jhcox@austin.utexas.edu (512) 232-7804 Domino Perez, Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin drperez@austin.utexas.edu (512) 471-4557 Allison Hobgood, Associate Professor, Department of English, Willamette University ahobgood@willamette.edu (503) 370-6211 Julie A. Minich, Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin minichja@utexas.edu (512) 471-4991 Patrick Query, Associate Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, The United States Military Academy patrick.query@usma.edu (845) 938-4363 Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Chair, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin ngh24@austin.utexas.edu (512) 471-232-6313