Curriculum Vitae
Marcia B. Gealy
803 Milburn Street
Evanston, Illinois 60201
Education:
A.B. with honors in English, summa cum laude, Howard College,
Birmingham, Alabama, 1961
M.A. with honors in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
University, New York, New York, 1965
Ph.D. in English with a special field in Modern Jewish History, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1976. Dissertation: The
Hasidic Tradition in the Work of Bernard Malamud.
Teaching Experience:
1966-1970 Instructor in English, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas. Freshman English, Introduction to Literature,
Humanities, Upward Bound composition and literature courses.
1970-1974 Lecturer in Comparative Literature, The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio. Comparative Literature:
Social and Individual Man, Rational and Passionate Man;
Modern Jewish Literature.
1974-1979 Assistant Professor of English and Director of
the Writing Clinic, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio.
Required freshman, sophomore, and junior composition
and literature courses. Modern Jewish Literature.
1979-1980 Assistant Professor of English, Ohio Weslyan University,
Delaware, Ohio. Reading and Writing: the American Short Story. Modern Jewish Literature.
1980-1984 Lecturer in English, Northwestern University.
Freshman Seminar: “The Search for the Self.” Writing
the Essay. Writing Fiction. Fundamentals of Literary
Study. Modern Jewish Literature.
1984- Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program,
Northwestern University. Freshman Seminars. Intermediate Composition. Time and Chance, Modern Jewish Literature: an Introduction.
Storytelling in American Jewish Literature
Northwestern Teaching and Advising Awards:
Mortar Board Faculty Honor Roll, 1986
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (7 times since 1984)
Women’s Residential College Most Dedicated Faculty Award (1994-2011)
Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Lecturer, 2002
Modern Jewish Literature course recommended as 1 of the “12Classes You Should Take Before Leaving NU: Northwestern Daily: 2008 Orientation Issue
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Northwestern University Ph.D and M.A. Committees:
Robin Goldberg, “Imaging the Feminine: Storying and Re-storying Womanhood Among Lubovitch Hasidic Women,” awarded the Ph.D. in 1991.
Amy Rosenbaum, “Uncommon Ground: Using Martin Buber’s Philosophy to Set the Parameters of Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” awarded the Ph.D. in 1997.
Kristina Kerber, “Representing the Holocaust in Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. M.A. (2000)
Northwestern Advising and Service:
WCAS Freshman Seminar Adviser
Advise Freshman Seminar instructors on the writing component of their seminars
Advise students in the Women’s Residential College in weekly meetings
Advise students applying for Elie Wiesel essay prizes and British Scholarships
Serve as co-chair of the Organization of Women Faculty (1988-1989); chair of lecturer’s committee (1990-1997); steering committee (1995-1997).
Serve on GFC Sub-committee on Faculty Development for Women and Minorities
(1995-1997).
Serve as Reader for the NU Press (since 1999).
Serve on the Writing Program Intermediate Composition prize committee
Serve on the Jewish Studies Writing Prize Committee (since 1988)
Serve on the British Scholarship Committee (since 2000)
Publications:
“Lonely at the Front of the Room” in The New Teachers, ed. by Don Flournoy and Associates, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1972. (This article is concerned with my work in the Upward Bound Program.)
“A Reinterpretation of Malamud’s The Natural, Studies in American
Jewish Literature, 4 (Spring 1978): 24-32.
“Malamud’s Short Stories,” Judaism 28 (Winter 1979): 51-61. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (1981) and in Short Story Criticism (1994).
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Presentations:
“An Old World Voice in the New World: I.B. Singer.” The Melton Center for
Jewish Studies, OSU, Nov. 15, 1979.
“The Lilith-Shekhinah Figure in Bernard Malamud.” The Melton Center for
Jewish Studies, OSU, Oct. 30, 1981.
“The Baal Shem Tov: Legend or Biography.” NU Summer Institute for High
School Teachers, June 27, 1986.
“Integrating Multicultural Students in the Classroom.” Conference for
Improved University Teaching, Haifa University, Israel, June 30, 1987.
“American Jewish Writers.” NU Hillel, April, 1995.
“Portraying the Holocaust in Fiction.” Northern Illinois Art Museum,
March 9, 1997.
Grants:
Project on Institutional Renewal Through the Improvement of Teaching (1976):
Chairperson of Committee to Improve Academic Advising at Otterbein College. Sponsored by the Society for Values in Higher Education
Ford Foundation Grant (1977): to improve writing instruction and placement at
Otterbein College. Involved developing a testing and placement program
for incoming freshmen, holding workshops for teachers of freshman
composition, and writing a booklet, On the Teaching of Writing.
B’nai B’rith Faculty Fellowship (1984): to study Jewish history and culture in Israel as part of an intensive summer academic seminar that included lectures at Hebrew University and visits to important archeological sites.
Illinois Humanities Council Grant (1986): to participate in the NU Summer Humanities Institute for high school teachers. The purpose was to reinvigorate practicing teachers of humanistic subjects in area high schools
Northwestern CAS Hewlett Endowment Grant (1990): to develop a new 300 level course in Storytelling in Modern Jewish Literature. This course has been offered yearly since 1991.