Lydia McDermott
Ph.D Candidate
Rhetoric and Composition
Office: Ellis 344 and Lindley 09
Office Phone: 740-593-2785
Email: lm346095@ohio.edu
Degrees
B.A., English, Ohio University, 2000
M.A., English, Creative Writing/Poetry, Ohio University, 2007
Publications
Here is a collaborative webproject called Erratic Poeticomic that myself, Dave Wanczyk and Brett Pransky authored.
Her poetry has appeared in Kalliope: A Journal of Women’s Art and Literature,
The Iowa Review and Shemom.
Her reviews and interviews have appeared in Quarter After Eight and Rattle.
Article: “Transcending the Human Monster in Claire Bateman’s Poetry” Twenty-First Annual Spring Literary Festival tabloid, OU, 2006.
Curriculum Vitae
Conferences:
AWP, 2009: Poetry Pedagogy forum, “Write What You Don’t Know, or Epistemic Privilege and Systemic Privilege in the Workshop”
Expanding Literacy Studies, 2009: “Old Breadcrumbs in New Bread: Constructing New Literacies from Familiar Materials”
CEAO 2007, panel: “Kapow!: Exploding Pop Culture Boundaries in the Writing Classroom”
College English Association of Ohio, 2006 “The Erotic Mother: Pregnancy As Embodied Pedagogy”
Second Place Jack Matthews Fiction Award, 2007: “Doing Something”
OU nominee for AWP award in poetry, 2007.
Assistant to the Director of Special Programs 2007-2010
Instructor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ohio University, 2008-present
Editorial Assistant for Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 2006-2008 (Volumes 37 and 38)
TA leader of recitation sessions for American Literature survey 253 (fall 2007)
TA leader of recitation sessions for English Literature before 1688 survey 251 (fall 2008)
Member Phi Beta Kappa
Courses
English 151: Writing and Rhetoric I
English 306J: Women and Writing, women mystery authors
Englsh 306J: Women and Writing, images of bodies and body image
English 153: Writing and Rhetoric 1, special topics: writing and contemporary poetry
English 202: Critical Approaches to Poetry
English 308j: Writing and Rhetoric II
WS100: Introduction to women's studies and gender studies
English 306J: Women and Writing, women writing desire