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CURRICULUM VITAELydia R. CooperCreighton UniversityDepartment of EnglishEmail: lydiacooper@creighton.eduDegrees earned:Ph.D. in Literature at Baylor University, August 2008M.A. in Literature at Baylor University, August 2005B.A. in English at The University of Akron, Spring 2001Certifications:Graduate certificate in Ignatian Spirituality at Creighton University, 2018Professional Employment:Fall, 2011-present: Creighton UniversityRank and job field: Tenured Associate Professor of 20th and 21st-centuryAmerican and Native American literature2008-2011: Monmouth CollegeRank and job field: Visiting Assistant Professor of 20th and 21st-century Americanand Native American literatureAdministrative Leadership Positions:Fall, 2017-present:Fall, 2016:Timms Endowed Professor, Director of the Magis CoreCurriculumInterim Director of the Honors ProgramPublications:(a) Scholarly BooksCormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature. Contemporary American and CanadianWriters Series, edited by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith. Manchester UniversityPress, forthcoming.Masculinities in Literature of the American West. Global Masculinities Series. Eds. MichaelKimmel and Judith Kegan Gardiner. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy. Southern LiteraryStudies Series. Ed. Fred Hobson. Louisiana State University Press, May 3, 2011.(b) Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals“The Problem of Trans-Figuration: Gender, the Jesuits and the Ojibwe in Louise Erdrich’s The

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 2Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and GayStudies, Forthcoming.“Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as Apocalyptic Grail Narrative.” Special Issue, Studies in theNovel, 50th anniversary edition, vol. 51, iss. 1, Spring 2019. Orig. published in Studies inthe Novel 43.2 (Summer 2011): 218-236.“Straight Talk: Two Spirit Erasure as the Price of Sovereignty in James Welch’s The Heartsongof Charging Elk.” Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 30, iss. 3, fall, 2018, pp.96-117.“Diamonds, Drugs, and the Digital Age: Global Capitalism in Cormac McCarthy’s TheCounselor.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 38, iss. 2, Jan., 2018, pp. 114. ting at the Empire Table: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Anglo-Irish Gothic.”Modern Fiction Studies vol. 63, iss. 3, September, 2017, pp. 547-570.“Barracuda: Cars and Trucks in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction.” Southwestern AmericanLiterature 41.2 (Spring, 2016): 7-18.“Beyond 9/11: Trauma and the Limits of Empathy in Sherman Alexie’s Flight.” Studies inAmerican Fiction. 42.1 (2015): 123-144.“‘The Sterility of their art’: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.”Western American Literature 49.3 (Nov., 2014): 267-292.“The Gospels of Frank: Theatrical Salvation in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.” The Explicator 71.4(Winter, 2013): 240-43.“‘No One here is torn’: Religious Symbolism in David Treuer’s Little and The Hiawatha.” TheCanadian Journal of Native Studies 32.1 (2012): 101-118.“‘A Howling void’: Beckett’s Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited.” TheCormac McCarthy Review 10.1 (Spring, 2012). 1-15.“‘Woman Chasing Her God’: Ritual, Renewal, and Violence in Linda Hogan’s Power.”Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18.1 (Winter, 2011): 143-159.“The Critique of Violent Atonement in David Treuer’s The Hiawatha and Sherman Alexie’sIndian Killer.” Studies in American Indian Literature 22.4 (Winter, 2010): 32-57.“Bone, Flesh, Feather, Fire: Symbol as Freedom in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet ofJesus.” Critique 51.4 (Summer, 2010). 366-377.“Human Voices: Language and Conscience in Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’sCourt.” Canadian Review of American Studies 39.1 (2009): 65-84.“‘He’s a psychopathic killer but so what?’: Folklore and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s NoCountry for Old Men.” Papers on Language and Literature 45.1 (Feb., 2009): 37-59.“‘Do You See This?’: Meaning and Relationship in the Judeo-Christian Imagery of McCarthy’sCities of the Plain.” Special Issue on Cormac McCarthy. Journal of the American StudiesAssociation of Texas 36 (2004): 13-28.(c) Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books“‘A Strange equality’: Approaches to Teaching Gender in Cormac McCarthy.” Approaches toTeaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy. Eds. Stacey Peebles and Ben West. MLA.Forthcoming.“The Southwest.” Cormac McCarthy in Context. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,2018. Pp. Forthcoming.

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 3“Inside ‘La Periquera’: Prisons and Power in All the Pretty Horses.” Beyond Borders: CormacMcCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in CormacMcCarthy, Vol.3. The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2014. 251-263.“Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee, and the Southern Gothic.” The Cambridge Companion toCormac McCarthy. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 41-53.“‘The Sculptor’s art’: Mystery and the Material Body in Suttree.” You Would Not Believe WhatWatches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville. Ed. Rick Wallach. CasebookStudies in Cormac McCarthy, Vol.1. The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2012. 190-197.“Novelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Never Let MeGo.” Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels. Eds. Sebastian Groes and BarryLewis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 106-117.(d) Book Reviews and Scholarly Reviews“Lee Clark Mitchell’s Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre.” American Literary HistoryOnline Review. Oxford University P. June 7, 2019. ic/site/alh/document/Alh Online Review Series 19/19Lydia R. Cooper.pdf?node 08be241441a5bf4cf669&version 9144:54440f05e77874714147“Stacey Peebles, Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen, and Michael LynnCrews, Books are Made out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s LiteraryInfluences.” Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming.“Brief Review: Drugs, Diamonds, and the Digital Age: Global Capitalism in CormacMcCarthy’s The Counselor.” The Journal of Drug Abuse, vol. 4, no. 1:7, 2018, pp. 1-2.DOI: 10.21767/2471-853X.100074“Review of Companion to James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk, edited by ArnoldKrupat.” American Indian Quarterly, 41.2 (Spring 2017): 182-3.“Review. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West. Ed. Steven Frye.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.” Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du mondeanglophone. 2016. ew. The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen.London and NY: Routledge, 2016.” Studies in American Indian Literature 28.3 (2016):113-116.“Jones, Karen R. Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in theNineteenth-Century American West.” Western American Literature 51.3 (2016): 363-365.“Leslie Harper Worthington. Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn.” The CormacMcCarthy Journal 10.1 (Spring, 2013): 97-99.(e) Fellowships and Grants:2019201820152012George F. Haddix President’s Faculty Research Fund ( 4,025)Co-authored with Dr. Matthew ReznicekWilliam J. Hill Visiting Researcher Travel Grant ( 1,200)CCAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ( 10,000)CCAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ( 4,300)(f) Artistic/creative publications

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 4i.Fiction, bookMy Second Death. Tyrus Books, 2013.ii.Fiction, short story“My Brother, the Snakes, and Me.” Fiction Prize Issue. Storyglossia 36 (Fall, 2007).iii.Poetry“The Flame” and “A Bird Fell Out of Its Nest.” The 2RiverView 11.4 (Summer, 2007): 6-7.“December in Akron, Ohio.” The Innisfree Poetry Review (Fall, 2007).iv.Poetry, award“Repentance.” Winner, Poetry in the Arts Award. Judged by Rosanna Warren. BaylorUniversity, 2008.v.Popular scholarly workReflection on Shusaku Endo’s Silence. Reflecting Silence: Perspectives on Shusaku Endo’sMasterpiece. The Clapham Group. Picador Modern Classics. 2017. ilence-reflections.pdfScholarship—Professional Conference Presentations:----, Maya Khanna, and Sarah Ball. “Moving Towards Excellence: Designing and Implementinga Faculty Driven, Experiential Learning-Oriented Core Curriculum.” Panel presentation.Association of General and Liberal Studies. Orlando, Florida. Sept. 20-22, 2019.Type of conference: National“Nomadism and the Making and Unmaking of the World in The Crossing.” The CormacMcCarthy Conference. Austin, TX. Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2019.Type of conference: National“Queer Digital Nationalisms in Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer.” Native Americanand Indigenous Studies Conference. Hamilton, New Zealand. June 26-29, 2019.Type of conference: International“Queer Digital Nationalisms in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed and full-metalindigiqueer.” You are Here: A Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Sponsoredby the Department of English and the Kingfisher Institute. Creighton University. March15-16, 2019.Type of conference: Regional“Teaching Gender in Cormac McCarthy’s Works.” American Literature Association. SanFrancisco. May 24-27, 2018.Type of conference: National“Bloody Diamonds: Anti-Semitism and Global Capitalism in The Counselor.” AmericanLiterature Association. May 25-27, 2017.Type of conference: National.“Straight Talk: Two-Spirit Erasure as the Price of Sovereignty in James Welch’s The Heartsongof Charging Elk.” Listening to Trauma: Second Washington Conference on Trauma.Washington, D.C. Oct. 21-23, 2016.

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 5Type of conference: International“The Road and the Ango-Irish Gothic Tradition.” Crossroads and Transgressions: CormacMcCarthy Between Worlds. Annual International Cormac McCarthy Symposium. July 79, 2016.Type of conference: International“Barracuda: Cars and Trucks in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction.” American Literature AssociationSymposium. San Antonio TX. Feb. 25-27, 2016.Type of conference: National“Savages and Citizens: Revisions of the Indian Captivity Narrative in James Welch’s TheHeartsong of Charging Elk.” American Comparative Literature Association. Seattle,WA. March 27-29, 2015.Type of conference: National---- and Jeff Hause. “Empathy and Religious Transformations in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisitedand Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” American Academy of Religion—Rocky MountainsGreat Plains Region. Creighton University, Omaha, NE. March 20-21, 2015.Type of conference: RegionalType of presentation: co-authored, co-presented“The Death of a Cross-Dressing Bear: Gender, Sex, and Violence on the Western Frontier inBlood Meridian.” Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Landscapes. University of WesternSydney. Sydney, Australia. July 23-25, 2014.Type of conference: International“Inside La Periquera: Prisons and Power in All the Pretty Horses.” Cormac McCarthy Society20th Anniversary Conference. Berea, KY. Mar. 5-8, 2013.Type of conference: National“The Un-Punishing of Anton Chigurh: Failures of Justice in McCarthy’s No Country for OldMen.” “Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and Their Traditions.” AmericanLiterature Association Symposium. New Orleans, LA. Oct. 4-6, 2012.Type of conference: Special meeting of the national ALA“Rethinking the National Catastrophe Narrative: Betrayal and Reconciliation in Alexie’s Flight.”Presentation at the Northeast Modern Language Association. Rochester, NY. March 1518, 2012.Type of conference: Regional/National (National NeMLA)“Sadistic Love: The Critique of Redemptive Violence in David Treuer’s The Hiawatha.”Presented at the College English Association Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 2527, 2010.Type of conference: National“‘Woman Chasing Her God’: Ritual, Renewal, and Violence in Linda Hogan’s Power.”Presented at the Southern American Studies Association Conference. George MasonUniversity. Feb. 12-15, 2009.Type of conference: National“A Strange Beauty”: Heroism and Prophetic Narrative in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.”Presented at “In Search of the Peaceable Kingdom: Studies in the Literature of Conflict,Struggle and Hope.” The South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature.LeTourneau University. Feb. 21-22, 2008.Type of conference: Regional“The Evolution of the Trickster and Native Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Novels.” Presented at

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 6“The 7th Native American Symposium,” Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Nov.1-3, 2007.Type of conference: Annual symposium“Revealing Souls: Ethical Philosophy in Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.”Presented at “Ishiguro and the International Novel” at Liverpool Hope University, U.K.June 1-2, 2007.Type of conference: Special international symposium“Blood Redemption: A Linguistic Analysis of Subjectivity in Cormac McCarthy’s All the PrettyHorses.” Presented at The Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference. New YorkUniversity. July 25-28, 2004.Type of conference: International“Tricksters: Native Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Presented at the Conference ofCommunity of College Teachers of English. University of Houston. March 6-8, 2004.Type of conference: NationalScholarship—OtherInvited Talks, Keynotes, and Panels Chaired:Co-panelist with Dr. Matthew Reznicek, “Literature and Economics.” Humanomics: What itMeans to be Human. Sponsored by the Institute for Economic Inquiry, CreightonUniversity. April 13, 2019.Chair, “Articulating Identity” and “When Conflict Crosses the Hearth” panels at You are Here:A Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Sponsored by the Department ofEnglish and the Kingfisher Institute. Creighton University. March 15-16, 2019.Type of conference: RegionalIntroduction for keynote speaker, Mishuana Goeman. You are Here: An InterdisciplinaryConference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar.23-25, 2018. Type of conference: Regional“Reading Native American Religions.” Scholar Roundtable. Creighton University Law School.Aug. 31, 2017.“The Faces of Christ and the Silence of God in Shusaku Endo’s Silence.” “Silence” Panel: ADiscussion of Scorcese’s Film. Sponsored by the Honors Program and the Kripke Center.Feb. 13, 2017.Chair, “Aesthetic Crossroads.” Panel. Crossroads and Transgressions: CormacMcCarthy Between Worlds. Annual International Cormac McCarthy Symposium. July 79, 2016.Type of conference: InternationalKeynote Address. “Outlaw Geography: Place and Masculinity in Ron Hansen’s Westerns.” Youare Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. CreightonUniversity. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016.Type of conference: Regional, graduate.Chair, “Geographic Stories from Washington to the Great Plains.” Panel.You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment.Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016.Type of conference: Regional, graduate.

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 7Chair, “Speaking Bodies.” Panel. You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place,Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016.Type of conference: Regional, graduate.Chair, “Native American Experiences.” Panel. American Literature AssociationSymposium. San Antonio, TX. Feb. 25-27, 2016.Type of conference: NationalProfessional Development Conferences:Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference, Sept. 20-22. 2019American Writers and Poets Association Conference. Portland, OR. March 29-31, 2019.American Writers and Poets Association. Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. Fall, 2017.Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference. Memphis, TN. Sept. 22-23, 2017.Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 1012, 2017.Interviews and Public Talks:Apr. 12, 2018. Interview for Omaha Channel 6 News. “Organizers Say ‘Take Back the Night’Rally Significant During MeToo Movement.” Channel 6 News, Omaha, -movement-479596573.html?ref 573Apr. 12, 2018 Invited keynote at “Take Back the Night,” St. John’s Cathedral steps, CreightonUniversityOct. 26, 2017 Invited keynote at “Two-Minute Talks: LGBTQ Life at Creighton University,”hosted by the Creighton Student UnionInterview with Jim Engster. The Jim Engster Show. WRKF 89.3. Baton Rouge NPR. 6 June2011.Teaching Awards:Spring, 2018Sept. 20, 2016Winner, IGGY Award for AdvisingPi Beta Phi Sorority nomination as “influential faculty member”Other teaching contributionsa. Research Mentor and Directed Independent StudiesSpring, 2019 Directed undergraduate independent study with Caroline Craig, “CormacMcCarthy: American Authors”Spring, 2019 Directed graduate independent study with Lorna Hummel, “Health, Caregiving,and Tribal Sovereignty in Native American Literature”Spring, 2018 Directed Independent Study with Sujana Maddapati, “Gender and Women’sNarratives from the 19th to the 21st Century”Fall, 2017Directed Independent Study with Taylor Bickel, “Cross-Cultural Comparison ofComing-Out Narratives”Spring, 2017 Directed Independent Study with Lauren Sullivan and Kate Albrecht, “Native

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 8Fall, 2015Summer 2015Summer 2015Spring, 2015Spring, 2014Fall, 2013Fall, 2012Spring, 2012American Literature”Internship Credit with Olivia C. Scott: “Processes of Trade Publication”Directed Independent Study with Lorna Hummel: “Native American Literature”Directed Independent Study with Olivia C. Scott: “Sincerely, G: A Novel”Faculty mentor for Hailey Austin, winner of the Klutznick Chair Holocaust andGenocide Undergraduate Research Award. Project title: “Time Flies:Representation of Intergenerational Trauma in Spiegleman’s Maus I and II.”Directed Independent Study with Olivia C. Scott: “Sincerely, G: A Novel”Directed Independent Study with Kayla Spiel: “Crafting the Novel”Directed Independent Study with Victor Chalfant and Joseph Burgess: “BorderIdentities: Material and Metaphysical Borders in Cormac McCarthy and GloriaAnzaldua”Directed Independent Study with Christina Laubenthal: “Linguistics, Poetics, andWilfred Owen’s First World War Poetry”Graduate Directed Independent Readings with Anne Dimond and Charles Polk:“Contemporary Irish Literature”Directed Independent Study with Mary Kate Gliedt: “Contemporary IrishLiterature”b. Graduate Teaching PracticumsFall, 2017Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Claire MartinSpring, 2015 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Charlotte SpiresFall, 2014Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Bryan BensonSummer, 2013 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Catherine WalshGraduate and Senior Theses:Senior project advisor for Danielle Marshall, “Talking about Rape in ClassicalLiterature”Spring, 2019 Thesis advisor for Lorna Hummel, “Embodied Experiences of Caregiving:Literature as a Lens for the Health Humanities.”Spring, 2019 Thesis reader for Steven Stendebach and for Lauren RzezsutkoSpring, 2019 Senior project advisor for Alyssa Hostert, “Beyond the Body: Exploring theOthered Experiences of Queer and Trans People in Healthcare.”Fall, 2018Senior project advisor for Jaxson SchneiderSum., 2018 Thesis reader for Molly Hammond EngdahlSpring, 2018 Thesis advisor for Claire MartinSpring, 2018 Thesis reader for Chuks MuemeFall, 2017Senior project advisor for Tyler Nelson and Kate AlbrechtSummer, 2017 Thesis reader for Josie Whelan, M.A.Spring, 2017 Thesis advisor for Tierney Scott Powell, M.A.Spring, 2017 Thesis reader for Rachel Nozicka, M.A.Spring, 2017 Senior project advisor for Samantha LauberSpring, 2016 Senior project advisor for Lorna HummelFall, 2015Senior project advisor for Hailey Austin, Claire Martin, and Geoff BrodieFall, 2019

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 9Spring, 2015Fall, 2014Fall, 2014Spring, 2014Spring, 2013Spring 2012Fall, 2011Senior project advisor for Olivia C. Scott and Luke HautzingerThesis committee member for Megan PiernickySenior project advisor for Kayla Spiel, Emily Dowdle, and Lynnea DavisSenior project advisor for Victor ChalfantSenior project advisor for Me

Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 2 Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.”GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Forthcoming. “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as Apocalyptic Grail Narrative.” Special Issue, Studies in the Novel, 50th anniversary edition, vol. 51, iss. 1, Spring 2019. Orig. published in Studies in the Novel 43.2 (Summer 2011): 218-236.

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