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Biography

Jennifer Ballengee is the chair of the Languages, Literatures, and Culture Department at Towson University and the author of The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture (SUNY 2009). Her publications address questions of the body, politics, rhetoric, and representation. She is currently finishing a monograph on ruins, tragedy, and national ideology. She teaches courses in literary theory, mythology, rhetoric, Ancient Greek, and cultural studies.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture.  SUNY Press, 2009.

Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization (Routledge 2021).

Articles:

"Death, Catastrophe, and the Significance of Tragedy," NANO:  New American Notes Online, Issue 2, May 2014.

鈥淭orture, Modern Experience, and Beauty in Poe鈥檚 鈥楾he Pit and the Pendulum鈥�,鈥� Modern Language Studies, Fall 2008.

鈥淢ourning the Public Body in Sophocles鈥� Antigone,鈥� Colloquy, Summer 2006.

鈥淏elow the Belt:  Looking into the Matter of Adventure-time,鈥� Ancient Narrative, Spring 2005.

鈥淭he Wound that Speaks:  the Figure of Suffering in Prudentius鈥� Peristephanon Liber,鈥� Crossings: A Counter-disciplinary Journal, Winter 2004.

鈥淭he Figure of the Invisible,鈥� Literary Imagination 3.3, Fall 2001.

鈥淎n Interview with Geoffrey Hartman,鈥� Yale Journal of Criticism 14.1, Spring 2001.

鈥淎hmed-Zahra:  Resisting the Split, Exploring the Wound,鈥� Litt茅rature et Cruaut茅:  Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Graduate Conference in French, Francophone and Comparative Literature. Vincent Desroches, ed.  Columbia University, 1996.

Reprint:

鈥淭he Figure of the Invisible,鈥� Poetry Criticism.  Gale Publications, 2013.

Reviews, etc.:

鈥淭he Rhetoric of Torture, Expanded,鈥� Faculty Voice. (30.2, Dec. 2014).

Review of Literature, Rhetoric and Values: Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011, in Present Tense (4.1, Fall 2014)

鈥淪tate faculty treated unfairly:  Decreased support for public university professors hurts all Marylanders,鈥� Baltimore Sun, Nov. 4, 2010.

Review of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, in Journal of Cultural Geography, Volume 27 Issue 2, 229 (Summer 2010)

Review of Baltimore Alley Houses:  Homes for Working People Since the 1780s, in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Volume 92, Issue 2 (June 2010)

Review of Steal this University, in MLS (Modern Language Studies), Fall 2005.

鈥淐ost-cutting imperils quality of colleges,鈥� Baltimore Sun, Oct. 23, 2004.

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: MLA, ACLA, SCLA

Service in the Discipline:

Editorial Board, Proto:  An Undergraduate Humanities Journal (Stephenson University, Baltimore).

University Service:

Faculty Advisor, TigerTHON (SGA-sponsored student organization), 2013-present.

Provost鈥檚 Ad Hoc Workload Committee, 2014-2015.

President, Towson University AAUP, 2008-2011.

Presidential Recruitment Advisory Committee, 2011.

Provost Recruitment Advisory Committee, 2009.

Resource Planning Advisory Committee, 2008-2011.

Academic Senate, 2003-2011.

Vice-President, Towson University AAUP, 2007-2008.

Assistant and Associate Provost Recruitment Advisory committee, 2007.

Treasurer, Towson University AAUP, 2004-2007.

Secretary, Academic Senate, 2005-2007.

Vice-Chair, Academic Senate, 2004-2005.

College of Liberal Arts Representative, Academic Senate, 2003-2011 and 2015-present.

General Education Curriculum Revision Committee, 2007.

Chair, AAUP Junior Faculty sub-committee, 2004-2005.

Classical Studies Program Advisory Committee, Towson University, 2001-present.

Towson University Leadership Institute, 2004-2005.

Moderator, Honors College Presidential Debate series, Fall 2004.

Freshman Learning Communities Faculty, Towson University, Fall 2002.

College Service:

CLA PTRM Committee, 2013-present.

Departmental Service:

Assistant Chair, August 30 2011-June 30, 2014.

Member, Steering Committee, 2013-2014.

Coordinator, English Department Hiring Search Committees, 2010-2014.

Standards Chair, English Department PTRM Committee

Chair, English Department Assistant Professors Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-2011.

Chair, English Department Hiring Search Committee, 2005-2010.

English Department Hiring Search Committee, 2003-2014.

Interdisciplinary Service:

Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, 2010-August 2013.

Associated Faculty, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, 2001-present.

Director, Cultural Studies Program, 2007-2009.

Co-Director, Cultural Studies Program, 2005-2007.

Advisory Board, Cultural Studies Program, 2005-present.

Associated Faculty, Cultural Studies Program, 2001-present.

Chair, Cultural Studies Curriculum Revision Committee, 2007.