ANNE CANAVAN

2048 E. Crystal Avenue

Salt Lake City, UT 84109
anne.canavan@gmail.com
931 529 0300

Department of English
Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, UT

EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D., AMERICAN LITERATURE
Northern Illinois University
Pass with distinction, Modern American
Literature Comprehensive Exam
Graduate certificate in ESL Instruction

2005 M.A., ENGLISH LITERATURE

Tennessee Technological University
2003 B.A., ENGLISH LITERATURE
Tennessee Technological University

PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES/ESSAYS/ CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
They Speak My Language Here: An L2-specific Tutoring Pilot Project in a Midwestern
Regional University. The Writing Lab Newsletter. Forthcoming.
The Gothic Gatsby. The F Scott Fitzgerald Review. 24 pp. Revise and Resubmit.
We Interrupt This Program: Highly Reliable Narrators in Radio Drama. Conference
Proceedings for Narrative and Hypertext, 2012. 35-40.
Southern Tale-Telling Tradition in Daniel Wallaces Big Fish. Storytelling, Self, Society 7.2
(2011): 128-138.
Packrat (Creative non-fiction). Under the Sun 11.1 (2006):103-110.

BOOK CHAPTERS:
Which Came First; Zombies or the Plague?: Colson Whiteheads Zone One as Post 9-11 Allegory.

After 9/11: Complicating the Ideologies of Trauma, Innocence, and Nationalism in

Post-9/11 Literature and Media. ed. Paul Petrovic. Rowman and Littlefield. 41-52.
Tipping the Odds Ever in Her Favor: Katniss Everdeens Narrative Power in The Hunger
Games Book and Film. With Sarah Petrovic. Space and Place in The Hunger Games.
MacFarland Press. 45-58.
Out of the Basement and Into Cyberspace: Possibilities of Equality for Online Adjuncts. Academic
Apartheid. Ed. Silvia DeSantis. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2011. 67-72.

BOOK/CONFERENCE REVIEWS:
Was Daisy an Astor? Book Review of Andrea Olmsteads Who Was F. Scott Fitzgeralds
Daisy? The F Scott Fitzgerald Review. 2013.
Reviews of sessions at 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Kairos.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Working with the WPA: Cross-Campus Coordination for Writing Center Assessment.
International Writing Center Association Conference, Orlando FL, October 2014
The Everyday Supernatural in F. Scott Fitzgerald. Twelfth F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference,
Montgomery, AL, 2013
Grammar logs in a Non-Native Speaker (NNS) Writing Center. Midwest Writing Centers
Conference, Chicago, IL 2013
You Saw What?: The Highly Reliable Narrator in F. Scott Fitzgeralds A Short Trip
Home. Eleventh Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Lyon, France, 2011
In Your Own Backyard: The Localization of Terror in Charles Brockden Browns Wieland and
Edgar Huntley. Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2010
Classy Cars: Automobiles as Representations of Class Tensions in The Great Gatsby.
Tenth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2009
Popeye the Psychopath: A Freudian View of Faulkners Sanctuary.
Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Detroit, 2009
Same Monsters, Different Closets: The Gothic Ancestors of The Great Gatsby.
Ninth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, London, UK, 2007
Intertextuality in the works of W.B. Yeats and the Harry Potter Series.
Prophecy Conference on Harry Potter, Toronto, Canada, 2007
Beyond Competition: Possibilities for Debate in the College Classroom.
National Communication Association National Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2006
Debate and Composition: Strange Bedfellows?
Thinking and Speaking a Better World Conference, Koper, Slovenia, 2006

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(2015-present)
Composition I
ESL Pronunciation

TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY
(2004-2007)
English Composition I and II

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

(2012- 2015)
Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
Survey of Early American Literature
English Composition I &II
English Comp. for ESL students I&II
Director of the ELL Tutoring Lab

VOLUNTEER STATE COMMUNITY

COLLEGE (2006-2007)
Dual Enrollment English I and II
Developmental English I and II
Language Lab Instructor

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

(2007-2012)
Masterpieces of American Literature
Experience of Fiction
Rhetoric and Composition I and II
ESL Lab Instructor

ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

(2007)
English Composition I
US-CHINA CULTURE EXCHANGE
SHANDONG PROVINCE (2004)
Culture, Language, and Writing

AWARDS/ RECOGNITION
Dissertation Facilitation Award, Northern Illinois University, 2011
John C. Kuehl Fellowship (competitive graduate travel fellowship)The F. Scott Fitzgerald
Society. For You Saw What?: The Highly Reliable Narrator in F. Scott Fitzgeralds
A Short Trip Home. 2011
Commendation for tutoring excellence, Smarthinking Online Writing Lab, 2011
John C. Kuehl FellowshipThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. For Classy Cars: Automobiles as
Representations of Class Tensions in The Great Gatsby. 2009
John C. Kuehl FellowshipThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. For Same Monsters, Different
Closets: The Gothic Ancestors of The Great Gatsby. 2007
Service to Debate Award, Tennessee Technological University, 2007

DEBATE EXPERIENCE
TRAINING/SERVICE:
International Debate Education Association, Workshop Trainer/ judge for the Foreign Language
Teaching and Research Press Cup in Beijing, China, 2007
World Debate Institute, University of Vermont (American Parliamentary Debate), College
Parliamentary Camp Faculty, 2007
National Parliamentary Debate Association, Outreach Committee Representative, 2008-2009
COACHING:
Northern Illinois University (American Parliamentary Debate), 2007-2010
Coached 1st place speaker, Pi Kappa Delta Nationals, 2008
Tennessee Technological University (American Parliamentary Debate), 2006-2007
Coached State 1st place novice parliamentary debate team
Tennessee Technological University (Policy Debate), 2003-2005
COMPETITOR:
Tennessee Technological University (Policy Debate), 1999-2003
All American Debate Award, 2003
TN Intercollegiate Forensics Association Award for service and competition, 2003

SERVICE/ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Editorial Board, The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Midwest Popular Culture Association
Student/ New Professional Representative Executive Board Member, Midwest Popular
Culture Association, 2012-2014
Member, Emporia State University Composition Committee, 2012- present
Member, Northern Illinois University Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2011
Research Contributor, Dracula in Visual Media, McFarland and Co, 2010
Southern Literature and Popular Culture Area Chair, Midwest Popular Culture Association,
2009-Present
Executive Committee member, English Graduate Student Association, 2008
Member, Northern Illinois University Assessment Panel, 2008-2010
Outreach Committee member, National Parliamentary Debate Association, 2008-2009
Presenter, First Friday, Developing a Writing Showcase-- Northern Illinois University,
2007
Presenter, First Friday (Faculty Development Workshop) Using Debate to Teach
Composition-- Northern Illinois University, 2007
Adjunct representative, Tennessee Technological University Composition Committee, 2006

MEMBERSHIPS
Midwest Popular Culture Association
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Pi Kappa Delta Speech Honor Society,
Student Lieutenant Governor, national chapter, 2000-02
Student Chapter President, Tennessee Technological University, 2002-05
Sigma Tau Delta
Linguistics Society, Northern Illinois University

REFERENCES
Dr. Mel Storm
Dr. David Gorman
Dr. Timothy Ryan

Dr. Mark Van Wienen

Dr. Betty Birner
Dr. Rachelle Smith