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Lisa Roney

• Associate Professor

lcroney@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30, W 4:30-6:00, and by appointment
Campus Location: CNH307E

Education

• Ph.D. in English: American Literature from Penn State University (2001)
• M.F.A. in English: Creative Writing, Fiction from Penn State University (1994)
• B.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College (1981)

Research Interests

Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, literature of illness, marginality, mind-body dualism, cultural representations of health and illness; images and physical aspects of home and place; the impact of digital media on narrative; the relationships between genres (e.g., architecture and narrative, painting and digital art, fiction and nonfiction); and twentieth-century American literature and women's studies.

Selected Publications

Books

• Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes (memoir). New York: Henry Holt: 1999. Paperback, Owl Books: 2000.

Articles/Essays

• Forthcoming "The Dying Professor Is Killing Me: The Media, Morality, and the Pubic Patient." The Patient. Ed. Maria Vaccarella and Aleksandra Pytko. Inter-Disicplinary Press eBooks, 2009. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/idp/ebooks.htm.
• Forthcoming "Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: An Interrogation of Eugenics." Papers on Language and Literature.
• "The Extreme Connection Between Bodies and Houses." M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture 10:4 (August 2007). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0708/03-roney.php.
• "The Double Vision of Clarence Major, Painter and Writer." African American Review 28.1 (Spring 1994): 65-75. Reprinted in Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist, ed. Bernard Bell. UNCP, 2001, 161-73.

Creative Publications

• Forthcoming "The Difference Between Fingers and Toes" (poem). The Hiram Poetry Review.
• Forthcoming "Animal Rites" (story). Red Rock Review.
• "Diagnosis 1972" (poem). The Healing Muse 8.1 (Fall 2008): 90-91.
• "Listen to This" (personal essay). Writing on the Edge 19.1 (Fall 2008): 83-91.
• "Easter Baking" (poem). Ruminate 6 (Winter 2007): 9.
• "Panic Hardware" (story). the new renaissance 39 (Fall 2007): 41-55.
• "On Giving Yourself a Shot" (memoir excerpt from Sweet Invisible Body). You&Me: America's Medical Magazine 1.1 (Fall 2007): 60.
• "Good Credit" (story). So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art 15.1 (Winter/Spring 2006): 13-18.
• "Fugitive Home" (memoir). Sycamore Review 17.2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 66-72.
• "Pound Cake" (story). RE:AL 30.1 (Summer 2005): 72-77.
• "Nothing by Comparison" (story). Harper's August 1996: 70-73.

Book Reviews

• Review of Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997), by Jackie Stacey. Journal of the Medical Humanities 21.1 (Spring 2000): 48-50.

Conference Papers/Presentations

• "The Dying Professor Is Killing Me: The Media, Morality, and the Pubic Patient." First Annual Conference on the Patient, a program of Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Salzburg, Austria, October 2008.
• "The J in Literary Journalism." Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. New York. February 2008.
• "Layers of Collaboration in Folkvine.org." Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia. December 2006.
• "Physical Difference in Ship of Fools: An Interrogation of Eugenics." American Literature Association Conference. Boston. May 2005.
• "The Narrative Link: Stories in Medicine, Psychoanalysis, and Creative Writing." Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. February 2004.
• "Disease Awareness and Risk: An Argument for the Power of Narrative." Colloquium Series 2002 (invited presentation). Center for the Social Study of HIV/AIDS, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. June 2002.
• "Observing My Bionic Body: An Essay about the Personal and the Abstract in Medicine and Literary Studies." Society for Literature and Science Conference. Buffalo, NY. October 2001.
• "Biology, Psychology, and Performativity: The Case of Carson McCullers." Society for Literature and Science Conference. Atlanta. October 2000.
• "Tuberculosis and Changing Views of Illness in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction." American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 1999.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Forthcoming "Flannery O'Connor," "Carson McCullers," and "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." The Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Ed. Susan Burch. New York: Facts on File.

Awards

• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Arts and Humanities, UCF, 2007.
• Resident fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, "Medicine, Literature, and Culture," Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medidine, Hershey, PA, 2002.

Spring 2010 Courses

English Department • College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
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