CATHERINE RESTOVICH
Courses Taught:
English 101
English 101 Fast Track
English 102
Lit 105: Poetry
Lit 115: Introduction to Fiction
Lit115 Learning Community with History ("The Sixties")
Lit 223: Minority Literature
Eng102 Learning Communities with History ("The Short Century: 1900-1945" and "The American Civil
War")
Lit 250: "Black and White in America: THEN and NOW"
Background:
PhD, Saint Louis University, 2000
MA, University of St. Thomas, (St. Paul, MN) 1995
BA, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, 1992
Dissertation: "Negotiating Identity in the Waters of the Atlantic: The Middle Passage Trope in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing"
Interests:
20th-Century American Literature
African-American Literature
Literary Theory
Latino(a) Literature
Literature of Civil Rights Era
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Harper Faculty Lecture Series: "Between Two Lands: Defining African-American Female Identity Through the Atlantic Slave Trade"
Co-presented with History Professor Tom DePalma, "Murder in Mississippi: The Death of Emmett Till in History and Literature," Harper College Faculty Retreat, 2006
Co-presented with History Professor Tom DePalma, "A Civil Rights Curriculum in American History and Literature 1954-1972" at the 12th Annual National Learning Communities Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2007
Produced video/documentary entitled "Unfinished Business: A New Generation Looks at Civil Rights" with History Professor Tom DePalma and Media Production Specialist Tom Knoff, 2008
