Lydia McDermott
Ph.D Candidate
Rhetoric and Composition
Office: Ellis 344
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
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: College English Association of Ohio, 2006 “The Erotic Mother: Pregnancy As Embodied Pedagogy”
CEAO 2007, panel: “Kapow!: Exploding Pop Culture Boundaries in the Writing Classroom”
Second Place Jack Matthews Fiction Award, 2007: “Doing Something”
OU nominee for AWP award in poetry, 2007.
Assistant to the Director of Special Programs 2007-2008
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)
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 womens studies and gender studies