Academic Credentials, Honors & Awards

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Department of English, Full Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature

Modern Language Association Regional Delegate, 1998-2001

Search Committee, Senior African-Americanist, 1999-2001

Graduate Admissions Committee, l992, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002

Senator, Univ. of Maryland Faculty Senate, l994-96

Academic Senate, Committee on Committees, l995-98

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs' Advisory Committee l995-96

Search Committee, U.S. Ethnic Lit. Post, 1995-96

Chair, Appointments, Tenure, & Promotion Committee, l994

Chair, Critical Theory Discipline Group, l993-95

Graduate Teaching

Eng. 631 Postmodern American Fiction
Eng. 758A/Comp. Lit. 702 The Cultures of Theory
Eng. 759/Women's Studies 698 Transgression and Taboo
Eng. 759 Body Criticism: Science, Literature, Aesthetics
Eng. 759 Visual and Other Pleasures: Theory and Practice
Eng. 899 Preparing for a Life in Academia: Dissertation & Beyond
Eng. 668 Feminist Theory
Eng. 758a Advanced Feminist Theory
Eng. 60l and 602 Intro. Literary Theory
Women's Studies 698 Feminism, Film, Psychoanalysis
Women's Studies 698 Feminism/Postmodernism & Visual Culture

Undergraduate Teaching

Honors 208X The Body Politic: Culture, Scandal, Spectacle
Eng. 348 Feminist Literature, Theory, Popular Culture
Eng. 437 Contemporary American Fiction
Eng. 453 Literary Criticism and Theory: Plato to the Present
Eng. 444 Feminist Theory
Eng. 250 Women in Literature
Eng. 399 Senior Seminar "Arresting Images: Art and Censorship"
Eng. 399 Senior Seminar "American Feminist Thought"

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Distinguished Senior Fellowship
Walt Whitman Chair of American Culture
Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands, Fall 2001.

University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, 2000-2001

Research & Travel Grant, Africa in the Americas Committee, l995

External Fellowship, "Minority Discourse Project," U.C.Irvine, l993

External Fellowship, U.C. Davis Humanities Institute, l99l-92

Winner, Florence Howe Prize for Best Feminist Essay of the Year,
MLA Women's Caucus, l988

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, l987-88

National Humanities Center Fellowship, 1983-84

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University, 1980-82

Contact:
linda@lindakauffman.com