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Lemke CV 9-14-18
Lemke CV 9-14-18
Lemke
EDUCATION
Dissertation Title: “Imagining Reparations: Early African American Utopias and the
Visions for a Just Society.”
M.A. English Literature, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND, 2013.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS
“Debt as Freedom: The Production of Black Subjectivity in Richard Wright’s Lawd Today!”
Currently under second-round review at Mediations.
“The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation.”
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society, Edward Chan and Patricia Ventura
(eds.), Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming in 2019.
PRESENTATIONS
“Neoliberal Utopias,” Seminar: The State as/of Utopias, American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 29, 2018.
“Frederick Douglass and the Search for the Space of Black Emancipation,” Seminar: Race and
Utopia, Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Memphis, TN, November 8, 2017.
“Utopia and Praxis: Rethinking Possibilities for Intellectual Labor,” American Comparative
Literature Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, March 17, 2016.
“Freedom From What?: Milton Friedman’s Utopias,” Society for Utopian Studies Conference,
State College, PA, November 5, 2015.
“Working Together: Leadership and Community and Eric Gansworth’s Smoke Dancing,” Native
American Literature Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, March 22, 2013.
“‘It’s the end of the world as we know it’: Reading A Canticle for Leibowitz as a Critical
Dystopia,” Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, ON, October 5, 2012.
“Yossarian’s Lonely Fight: Catch-22 and Cultural Hegemony,” Midwestern Conference for
Language, Literature and Media, DeKalb, IL, March 30, 2012.
“Through the Eye of the Beholder: Examining Utopian Dialogue in Oryx and Crake and A
Canticle for Leibowitz Through Benjamin the Old Jew and Jimmy the Snowman,” Society for
Utopian Studies Conference, State College, PA, October 20, 2011.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
American Literature II: Revolutions in Race, Class, and Gender from 1860 to Today – Fall 2018
American Literature I: Land, Property, and the American Frontier – Summer 2017
University Writing: Writing as Art, Writing as Skill – Fall 2016 and Spring 2017
Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities (responsible for designing and
teaching small discussion sections of a large lecture course, and grading student written
work for the course)
Writing for the Liberal Arts: Reading and Writing in a Non-Critical World (3 sections) – Spring
2014
Graduate Instructor, North Dakota State University (responsible for designing and
teaching courses as sole instructor)
First Year Writing: Learning Leadership Through Writing (2 sections)– Fall 2011, Spring 2012,
Fall 2012
Student Mentor, Fargo XO Sugar Labs (One Laptop per Child Project), 2011
Tutored and taught simple programming and computer design in Madison Elementary in
Fargo, ND as a part of the Fargo XO Sugar Labs project—a faculty designed initiative to
help spread computer literacy to underprivileged and immigrant communities in North
Dakota.
LANGUAGES
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
REFERENCES
Timothy Brennan, Professor of English and Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature,
University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities
brenn032@umn.edu
Karen Ho, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of RIGS (Race, Indigeneity, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies) Program, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities
karenho@umn.edu