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Guidelines ENC1101 ENC1102 Writing Contest Winning Essays

Degrees Creative Writing Track Literature Track Technical Writing Track Minors Creative Writing Linguistics Literature Technical Writing and Editing Writing Honors Honors In The Major

Degrees Texts and Technology, Ph.D. Creative Writing, M.F.A. Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, M.A. Technical Communication, M.A. Certificates Professional Writing

Research Faulkner Journal Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing Literary Florida Review Cypress Dome

Professional Literary Arts Parnership Student Cypress Dome Society Sigma Tau Delta Future Technical Communicators Engineers Without Borders

Student Faculty

Events Highlights

Lisa M Logan

Associate Professor

lmlogan@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009: On sabbatical
Campus Location: CNH307G

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of Rochester (1993)

Research Interests

Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

Selected Publications

Books

Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

Articles/Essays

"The Importance of Women to Early American Study." Early American Literature. 44.3 (2009): 641-48.
“Columbia’s Daughters in Drag; or, Cross-Dressing, Collaboration, and Authorship in Early American Novels.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Literature. Ed. Mary Carruth. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama P., 2006. 240-252.
“’And the Ladies in particular’: Constructions of Femininity in The Gentleman and Ladies Town and Country Magazine and Ladies Magazine, and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge.” Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Sharon M. Harris and Mark L. Kamrath. Knoxville, Tennessee: U of Tennessee P, 2005. 277-306.
“’Cross-Cultural Conversations’: The Indian Captivity Narrative.” Blackwell Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Ed. Ivy T. Schweitzer and Susan Castillo. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 464-79.
“’Dear Matron—‘: Constructions of Women in Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Advice Columns.” Studies in American Humor. 3.11 (2004): 57-62.
“Race, Romanticism, and the Politics of Feminist Literary Study: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “’The Amber Gods.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (2001). 35-51.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domesticity.” Approaches to Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco Smith. New York: MLA, 2000. 46-56.
“Encouraging Feminism: Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale in the Introductory Women’s Studies Classroom.” Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies: Expectations and Strategies. Ed. Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma. Westport: Bergin, 1999. 191-200.
“The Anxieties of Authorship: Gender, Agency, and Textual Production in Eighteenth-Century America.” Review 21 (1999): 257-64.
"'There is no home there': Captivity and Restoration in Spofford's 'Circumstance.'" Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing. Ed. Julie Tharp and Tomoko Kuribayashi. Albany: State U of New York P, 1997. 117-30.
Introduction. Critical Essays on Carson McCullers. Ed. Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin Friedman. New York: Hall, 1996. 1-16.
"Nobody Knows Best: Carson McCullers' Plays as Social Criticism." Southern Quarterly 33. 2-3 (1995): 23-34. [Co-author: Brooke Horvath]
"Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and the 'Place' of the Woman Subject." Early American Literature 28.3 (1993): 255-77. [Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize for Best Essay in EAL 1993]

Miscellaneous Publications

“Domestic Fiction.” American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover, Robert D. Sattelmeyer. New York: Charles Scribners Sons (Thomson Gale), 2006.
“American Women’s Autobiography: Early Diarists and Memoirists.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Ed. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin. Greenwood Press, 2005. 32-42.
“Bodies in Space: Reading Gender and Race in Context.” Early American Literature 38.3 (2003): 521-26.
"Julia Ward Howe." American Travel Writers, Volume II, 1851-1901. Ed. Donald Ross and James Schramer. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 189. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 166-71.
"Mary Lewis Kinnan." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford, et al. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 217-20.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
10672	AML3031	AMERICAN LITERATURE I	Rdce Time	M,W 3:30PM - 4:20PM
AML 3031: (Counts toward Pre-1865 Literature Requirement) This course surveys texts produced in the United States from the 17th through the mid-19th centuries, a time when concepts of an American nation and its citizens and literature were being consciously formulated. We will study this struggle over definitions of nation and self in works by men and women from different class, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Many of these writers used autobiographies or personal narratives to recount their voluntary or compulsory journeys in new and unfamiliar worlds. Their works record the contest in early America over a dominant national identity and culture, within or against which these writers negotiate their own ideas of "self." Requirements: Midterm, final exam, weekly essay and discussion postings, one formal 5 pp. essay, and class participation. This course is web-mediated and requires daily access to WebCT via your internet browser.
19905	AML3930H	HON SPECIAL TOPIC	Face2Face	W 6:00PM - 8:50PM
AML 3930H/ AMH 3930H:Captivity and the National Imagination Honors Seminar Dr. Lisa Logan (English) and Dr. Rosalind Beiler (History) From Mary Rowlandson's bestselling narrative to 18th-century political cartoons; from 19th-century sculpture to 20th-century King Kong movies; and from the media frenzy around Patty Hearst to contemporary romance novels, captivity has captured the American imagination.On the surface, captivity presents readers with salacious and sensational stories of individuals held against their wills by alien cultures or creatures; beneath the bloodshed lies the story of Americas desire to define itself. Whether responding to Native Americans, French Catholics, the British, African slaves, or disorderly women, America has consistently defined itself in relation to an imagined or perceived "other."Cultural encounters like captivity have shaped American identity since the earliest days of British colonial settlement. This course uses the history and literature of captivity as a lens through which to view the emergence of an American culture and national identity.By examining these specific moments of encounter, we will explore the politics of gender and ethnicity and the concept of American nationhood.Heavy reading; two 3-5 pp. essays; presentation; final 2-3 pp. paper/conference; participation.