Resume

• 2010

  Adult Education

  Writing

  Grant Writing

  Proofreading

  Education

  Editing

  Creative Writing

  Instructional Design

  E-Learning

  Publications

  Research

  Copy Editing

  Curriculum Development

  Social Media

  Blogging

  Publishing

  Literature

  Curriculum Design

  Higher Education

  Student Affairs

  Tatum

  Karen

  UTSouthwestern

  Self-Employed

  Department Of English

  The University of Texas at Arlington

  Old Dominion University

  Ethnic

  Cultural Minority

  Gender

  and Group Studies

  University of Oxford

  Digital Marketing for Writers and Other Creatives

  Writers League of Texas

• 2007

  Norfolk State University

  Norfolk State University

  UTSouthwestern

  Dallas

  TX USA

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and BioMed Ethics

  moving from VA to TX soon

  The common denominator in all my research is an examination of the ways that people with marginalized skin conditions (race

  class

  gender

  mark

  scar

  disease) express their experiences. My current academic book project

  Eczema and its Discontents in Art

  examines chronic skin diseases and their co-morbid psychological and social effects. Many writers suffer skin conditions whose flare-ups frequently interrupt their work. Among these are Karl Marx

  Frida Kahlo

  Flannery O-Connor

  Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

  Elizabeth Bishop and John Updike. In the book I examine each artist

  applying feminist-psycholinguistic theory--in addition to the newly emerging fields of psycho-dermatology

  skin studies

  and disability studies--to my analyses of what I call the eczema aesthetic

  the ways in which artists portray their experiences with skin disease in their works. \n\nThe Journal of Medical Humanities published an article based on this research

  ‘Drawing the Eczema Aesthetic: The Psychological Effects of Skin Disease in the Works of John Updike

  Elizabeth Bishop

  and Zelda Fitzgerald.”\n\nIn addition to Eczema and its Discontents in Art

  I also plan to publish my memoir

  Eczematic

  which chronicles my own experiences with chronic eczema

  its treatment

  and discontents

  and my own rendering of this aesthetic. I am now querying agents to help me secure a traditional publishing contract for this work. I hope that both the monograph and memoir will be ready for publication within the year. I’m also submitting chapters from both to journals for publication.

  Memoir and Narrative Non-Fiction Writer

  Self-Employed

  Teaching Literature and Medicine

  Old Dominion University

• 1996

  The University of Alabama

  The University of Alabama

  Department Of English

  The University of Texas at Arlington

  Arlington

  TX

  Writing

  Editing

  Teaching

  Advising

  and Mentoring diverse clients in diverse settings across disciplines and genres

  specifically

  Academic

  Technical

  Business and Professional

  Scientific

  Medical

  Literary

  Narrative Medicine

  Bioethics

  Narrative Non-Fiction. Academic work in Women's Studies

  Victorian Studies

  and Medical Humanities published in peer-reviewed journals from the fields of Popular Culture to Psychoanalysis. Creative Non-Fiction Writing forthcoming. Also experienced in curriculum development

  academic and career advising and coaching

  and

  very well-versed in the usual computer programs (Microsoft

  Adobe

  Blackboard) in addition to program management and performance evaluation. I work very well collaboratively and individually with great self-discipline and efficiency. I derive a great deal of career satisfaction in helping others find their voice and means of expression.

  English Professor and Freelance Writer and Editor

  Old Dominion University

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  women's literature

  medical humanities

  University of Alabama

• 1990

  Spanish

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  English Literature (British and Commonwealth)

  University of Houston