Stasie Harrington
Biography
I grew up in Pennsylvania (New Cumberland), but I have lived in the U.S. states of New York (Rochester), Wisconsin (Madison), Kentucky (Bowling Green), and in Spain (Madrid, Salamanca, and Valencia). My undergraduate studies in Spanish and K-12 education combined with my graduate studies in second language acquisition and language teaching methodology provided me with the training necessary to be able to teach both Spanish and EFL.
While the majority of my experience has been teaching Spanish language and linguistics in institutes of higher education, while living in Spain for six years, I gained hands-on experience teaching English to students at the elementary, middle/high school, and university level. During my time in Spain, I created and taught an intensive Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) preparation course for students at ESIC Business and Marketing School. Also, while working for four years as an English teacher for the British Council, I taught pre-intermediate, intermediate, and advanced English courses and specialized preparation courses for Cambridge's First Certificate in English (FCE) and Advanced Certificate in English (CAE) exams to groups of students who ranged in age from 6 to 60-plus years old, as my daily teaching schedule always included an elementary, middle- or high-school, and adult group of learners.
I have also worked in international education with a focus on academic programming and student success. In my role of Director for International Student Progress at Western Kentucky University, I led the university's commitment to the successful transition and academic readiness of their international student population. Specifically, I directed the WKU Pathway, a first-year academic program that creates a cultural and academic bridge for international students into degree programs. In addition, I began to develop a new university-administered Intensive English Program (IEP).
Book
Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Articles
“In transition: Catholic Overtones in Kay Boyle’s ‘Theme’ and Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” South Central Review 35.2. (2018): 103-116.
“Embodying Conflicted Faith and Questionable Grace: The Women of Robert Stone’s ‘Helping’ and ‘Miserere.’” Literature and Belief 37.1 (2017): 25-47.
“Authorship and Artistry: Zelda Fitzgerald’s ‘A Millionaire's Girl’ and ‘Miss Ella.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 110-29.
“Teaching Incest, the Erotic, and Lesbianism; or, The Troubles Teaching Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Sarah Namulondo, co-author. EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 11 (2014): 94-124.
“Lolita Revisited: Reading Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 43.1 (2014): 52-72.
“‘Naw You Ain’t No Man’: Rereading the Patriarchal Phallocentrism in the Trueblood Episode of Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Feminist Studies in English Literature 21.1 (2013): 39-66.
Book Reviews
Review of The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Deborah Pike. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1 (2018): 223-25. (invited)
Review of Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. RMMLA 61.2 (2007): 127-30.
Forthcoming Articles
“Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter's ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.’” Mississippi Quarterly
“Parker’s Black? A Rereading of Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” Renascence
Presentations
“In transition: Katherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle.” American Literature Association (ALA) Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017
“The Body as Site of Healing in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga.” Co-authored by Sarah Namulondo. RMMLA Convention, Boulder, CO, October 2012
“How Brother Killed the Pregnant Rabbit: Reflections on ‘The Grave’ and ‘How Baby Talked to the Fairies.’” Round Table Discussion on “‘The Downward Path’: Depictions of Childhood in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction.” ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2010 (Invited)
“‘But She Was Too Free’: Aunt Amy’s Mysterious Hemorrhage in Porter’s ‘Old Mortality.’” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2009
“Single and Fabulous?: The Golden Girls of Sex and the City.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco, CA, March 2008
“Daddy’s Girls: Phallic Power and Perverse Paternity in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night and Mailer’s An American Dream.” Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2007
“A Reading of ‘That Tree’: Katherine Anne Porter as Expatriate.” ALA Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007
