LINDA J. HOLLAND-TOLL, PH.D.
Associate Professor of English
Mount Olive College
Mount Olive College, North Carolina 28365
919-658-7845
Education:
Ph.D. in English Literature,
University of Nevada, Reno, 1999
M.A. in English Literature,
University of Nevada, Reno, 1991
B.S. in English Education, cum laude
Minor in History
Southern Illinois University, 1972
Areas of Teaching Proficiency:
Areas of Specialty:
American Literature
Genre Studies
Humanities
Areas of Competence:
Composition
British Literature
Professional Experience:
Mount Olive College
Department of English
Associate Professor of English (2005- )
Associate Professor of Education (2006- )
Coordinator, Heritage Program (2004-05)
Chair, Honors Committee (2007- )
Advisor, English Education (2006- )
Newberry College
Department of English
Assistant Professor, August (2000-2004)
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of English
Teaching Fellow, August (1993-1999)
Adjunct Faculty, January (1999-2000)
Western Nevada Community College
Department of English
Communication Skills Center Director (1988-91)
Department Liaison (1989-90)
Instructor (1991-93)
Adjunct Faculty (1998-2000)
Truckee Meadows Community College
Adjunct Faculty (1999-2000)
Teaching Experience:
Literature Courses:
Survey of American Literature Through the Civil War
Survey of American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
World Literature: The Major Authors
Survey of World Literature through the Renaissance
Survey of World Lit Through the Twentieth Century
African-American Literature
American Literature & Culture: Native American, African-American & Asian-American Voices
American Literature and Culture: The Immigrant Experience in Fiction
Studies in Classic American Literature
British Literature: The Major Authors
Survey of British Literature Through the Eighteenth Century
Survey of British Literature From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Chaucer and the Medieval Period
Victorian and Modern Literature
Themes of Literature: Horror Fiction
Themes of Literature: Serial Killers in Film and Reality
Themes of Literature: Community and Horror **
Special Topics: Detective Fiction: Evolution of a Genre **
Special Topics: Survey of Detective Fiction
Special Topics: Women & Literature
Special Topics: The Changing Faces of Monstrosity
Special Topics: Fantasy Fiction
Topics in Modern Literature: Gothic Literature
Topics in Modern Literature: Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Mythology, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Popular Literature Genres: Adventure
Popular Literature Genres: Bestsellers
Popular Literature Genres: Contemporary Faerie Tales
Popular Literature Genres: The Epic in Book and Film
Popular Literature Genres: Detective Fiction
Popular Literature Genres: Extremely Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
Popular Literature Genres: Fantasy Fiction
Popular Literature Genres: Historical Fiction
Popular Literature Genres: Horror
Popular Literature Genres: Science Fiction: Time Traveling
Popular Literature Genres: Women in Literature
Senior Thesis/Portfolio
Linguistics:
History of the English Language
Introduction to Language
Honors Program
Great Ideas
Great Books
Issues & Forums
Oral History Project
Study & Travel
Senior Departmental Honors
Humanities:
Western Traditions Core Curriculum Sequence:
The Foundations of Western Culture
The Modern World
The American Experience
Masterworks of Western Civilization I & II
Composition Courses:
Composition and Rhetoric
Composition and Literature
Composition II: Cities, Cultures & Conversations
Advanced Composition and Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures
Freshman Composition and Introduction to Library Research
Introduction to Literature and the Research Paper
Communications Courses:
Public Speaking (ENG 241)
Developmental Courses:
Individualized Communication Skills
Basic Writing Improvement
How To Succeed in College
Basic Reading Improvement
Power Reading
How to Succeed in College and the Fundamentals of English
** graduate level courses
Publications:
Books:
As American As Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.
Articles:
“Cherchez Les Femmes: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Charlotte: Classic Detective Fiction, Victorian Womanhood, and the Private Sphere in Anne Perry’s Charlotte Pitt Series.”
Accepted for Publication, Journal of Popular Culture
Early View, Blackwell-Wily
“We’re All Bankrupt Now”: The Calculus of Expediency in The Day of the Triffids and No Blade of Grass.” Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror, #6 http://www.simegen.com/writers/dissections/index.html
“Unleashing the Gremlins in the Crypt: Teaching Horror Fiction.”
Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror, # 5 (http://www.simegen.com/writers/dissections/
“Ghosts, Demons, or the DTs?: The Supernatural in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux Series,” A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke.
Boone: McFarland P, May, 2010.
“Fiat Lux!”: Multi-Generic Functionalities in Stephen King’s Bag of Bones.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming
(En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Co-authored with Angela Mullis. Teaching African-American Women’s Writing. Ed. Gina Whisker.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Forthcoming
“What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Salvage, and Survival.”
Femspec 8:1-2, 2007.
“Sharon Kay Penman, the Plantagenets and the Detective Connection.”
The Detective as Historian, vol. 2. ed. Ray Browne. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007
“Bridges Over and Bedrock Beneath: The Role of Ballads in Sharyn McCrumb=s Ballad Series.”
The Journal of American Culture 29:3 (September, 2006)
“Bluestockings Beware: Cultural Backlash and the Re/Configuration of the Witch in Nineteenth
Century Literature.”
Femspec. 6:2, 2005 32-54.
“Readers As Cyborgs: Constructing Reading Experiences in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter”
Diagesis. Journal of the Research of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 7:
(Summer 2004):40-50.
“Harder than Nails, Harder than Spade: Anita Blake as ‘the tough guy’ Detective.”
The Journal of American Culture 27:2 (June 2004): 175-89.
“From Disturbance to Comfort Zone: Cross Generic Strategies in Dean R. Koontz.”
The Journal of Popular Culture 37:4 (May 2004) 662-83.
“Hrim-Cealde Anglo-Saxons Vs. Ice-Bound Swans: Birds in Old English, Early Irish, and Early Welsh Poetry.”
Celtic Cultural Studies, <http:www.cyberstudia.com/celtic-cultural-studies>.
“From Haunted Rose Gardens to Lurking Wendigos: Liminal and Wild Places in M.R. James= and Algernon Blackwood=s Fiction.”
Studies in Weird Fiction, 25 (Summer 2001): 2-12.
AAnne Perry: Victorian `Istorian and Murdermonger.@
The Detective as Historian, ed. Ray Browne, Bowling Green: Bowling Green S U Popular P, 2000, 265-283.
“Bakhtin's Carnival Reversed: The Shining as Dark Carnival.”
The Journal of Popular Culture 33:2 (Fall, 1999): 131-46.
“Holmes the Prole, Or, A Marxist Definitely Manqué.”
Clues: A Journal of Detection, 20:1 (Summer, 1999): 37-49.
“Absence Absolute: A Recurring Pattern in Faulknerian Tragedy.”
The Mississippi Quarterly, LI:3 (Summer, 1998): 435-52.
“Ligeia: The Facts in the Case.”
Studies in Weird Fiction, 21 (Summer, 1997): 10-17.
“Community in Horror Fiction: As American as God, Mother and Apple Pie.”
Studies in Weird Fiction, 17 (Summer, 1995): 12-18.
“Contemporary Tragedy: Stephen King's Pet Sematary.”
Studies in Weird Fiction, 16 (Winter, 1995): 1-7.
Works in Progress
Derailing the Reader: Generic Multiplicity in Popular Fiction.
A book length study on reader response/ reception theory analyzing reader expectations and coping strategies in texts which deliberately deploy mutually exclusive genres, i.e., the supernatural in detective fiction or realpolitik in epic fantasy fiction.
Conferences:
Panel Chair
Moderator: “From Vampire Killer to Succubus. The evolution from human to monster in Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake Series”
Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA, St. Louis, 2010)
Fairy Tales:
Family Stories and Fairy Tales (PCA/ACA St. Louis, 2010)
Fairy Tales and the Forging of National Identities (PCA/ACA St. Louis, 2010)
Fairy Tales
The Importance of Archetypes in Fairy Tales (PCA/ACA New Orleans, 2009)
Potpourri (PCA/ACA New Orleans, 2009)
Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales: An Ubiquitous But Elusive Form (PCA/ACA, 2008)
Critical Views of Fairy Tales (PCA/ACA, 2008)
Fairy Tales and Films (PCA/ACA, 2008)
Fairy Tales and the Media (PCA/ACA, 2008)
Fairy Tales and Education (PCA/ACA, 2008)
Professional Development Panels
Area Chair, Popular Culture (PCA/ACA, 2007
Professional Placement I: Graduate Student Welcome Meeting (PCA/ACA, 2007)
“Thou Shalt NOT: Tips on Successful Presentations” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
“Workshop on Letter Writing and Curriculum Vitae Editing” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
“Tricky Positions, Slippery Questions, Downright Unethical Situations and How to Handle Them”(PCA/ACA, 2007)
“You Got the Job! You Finally Got the Job!": Survival Tips for the New Kid on the Block” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
“The Department Chair: Teacher, Scholar, Administrator” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
“Using and Teaching Power Point” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
Stephen King IV:
Power, Inner Realms, and Intertexuality” (PCA/ACA, 2007)
Professional Development Panels
Area Chair, Popular Culture, (PCA/ACA, 2006)
“What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U” (PCA/ACA, 2006)
“Thou Shalt Not: Notes on Presenting Conference Papers” (PCA/ACA, 2006)
“The Job Search” (PCA/ACA, 2006)
“Workshop on Letter Writing and Curriculum Vitae” (PCA/ACA, 2006)
Professional Development Panels
Area Chair, Popular Culture, (PCA/ACA, 2005)
“What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U” (PCA/ACA, 2005)
“Thou Shalt Not: Notes on Presenting Conference Papers” (PCA/ACA, 2005)
“The Job Search” (PCA/ACA, 2005)
“Workshop on Letter Writing and Curriculum Vitae” (PCA/ACA, 2005)
Gender I
Popular Culture of the South, New Orleans, 2004
Horror Fiction
Chair, Popular Culture Association, San Antonio 2004
Strategies for A Successful Job Hunt
Professional Development Panel, Popular Culture Association, San Antonio 2004
The Dark Side of Feminist Fantasy
International Conference for the Fantastic in Literature, Ft. Lauderdale, 2003
>Ms. Mentor Sez=: Strategies for A Successful Job Hunt
Professional Development Panel, with Emily Toth, author of Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2003
Turning Your Dissertation Into A Book
Sole Presenter, Professional Development Panel
Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, 2001, Chair
Horror and Cinema
Chair, Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, 2001
Problems in Thomas Harris= Trilogy
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2000
Surviving Your Dissertation: ‘Living on Reds, Vitamin C and Cocaine’
Invited Chair, Professional Development Panel
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2000
Bad Melodrama But Good Advice: Ms. Mentor=s Advice for the Job Market Returns
Invited Chair, Professional Development Panel, with Emily Toth, author of Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2000
Women Detectives and A Sense of Place
Western Literature Association, Sacramento, 1999
Re-Envisioning the Witch: The Changing Role of Witches in American Popular Culture
Popular Culture Association, San Diego, 1999
Bad Melodrama But Good Advice: Ms. Mentor=s Advice for the Job Market
Invited Chair, Professional Development Panel, with Dr. Emily Toth, author of Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.
American Culture Association, San Diego, 1999
Mapping the Vampire: New Readings of the Role of the Vampire
Chair, International Conference in the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, 1999
Women Writers' Strategies of Resistance
Chair, Border Crossings: The Space Between, SUNY New Paltz, 1998
Mass Culture: Popular Reflectors
Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997
Pushing the Envelope: Genre Boundaries Between the Wars
Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997
World War I Poets Re/Readings
Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997
Conference Presentations:
“Mothers, Daughters and Stories as Denial in ‘Breadcrumbs And Stones’”
Popular Culture, St. Louis, 2010
“From Helpless Jackie to Plucky jack: Evolving the Hero in Charles de Lint’s Jack of Kinrowan”
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2009
“Disturbing Gramaryë: Discrepant Engagement in Contemporary Tales of Faërie”
Popular Culture Association, San Francisco, 2008
“Textual Intercourse: Other Books, Other Authors in King’s Work”
Popular Culture Association, Boston, 2007
“Pitfalls of Southern Living: A Yankee Point-of-View, or What Are These People Saying?
Popular Culture of the South, Savannah, 2006
“What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U”
Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, 2006
AWe=re All Bankrupt Now@: The Calculus of Expediency in The Day of the Triffids and No Blade of Grass
Popular Culture of the South, Atlantic Beach, Florida, 2005
“>Open Your Books to Page . . .=: Harry Potter and Pedagogy:”
Popular Culture of the South, New Orleans, 2004
AThe Changing Faces of Monstrosity@
Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, 2004
ALegal Beagles, Publicity Hounds, Society Poodles, and Pit Bulls: Undercutting Liberals in Law & Order@
Popular Culture Association of the South, Jacksonville, 2003
AThe Jack=s a Jill, the Serpent=s a Feminist, and Little Red=s No Victim: Feminist Subversion at Work@
International Conference for the Fantastic in Literature, Ft. Lauderdale, 2003
ARats in the Walls and Something Nasty in the Garden@: Class Markers in Early Twentieth Century Horror Fiction@
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2003
AHonor, Obligation and Ownership: Jamie Fraser=s Women@
Popular Culture Association of the South, Charlotte, 2002
AHard-headed Detectives, Plate Tectonics, and Appalachian Wisewomen: The Role of the Psychic in Sharyn McCrumb=s Ballad Series@
Popular Culture Association, Toronto, 2002
“Political Constructions of the >Other= in Laurel K. Hamilton=s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series”
Popular Culture of the South, Jacksonville, 2001
“Preparing for the Job Market at a Small Private College”
Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, 2001
“Multi-layered Reading Strategies in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series”
Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, 2001
“A Song of Colliding Genres: George R. R. Martin=s A Song of Ice and Fire”
International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, 2001
“Class, Clarice and Krendler: A Cornpone Who Just Wants to What!?!”
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2000
“When Narratives Collide: Naturalism and Fantastic Fiction”
International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, 2000
“Haunted Towns, Un-Haunted Woods: The Gothic, Communal Contagion, and Bag of Bones”
South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, 1999
“Sacramento Gothic: Kat Kijewski=s Kat=s Cradle”
Western Literature Association, Sacramento, 1999
“Bluestockings Beware! Cultural Backlash and the Reconfiguration of the Witch in
Mid-Nineteenth Century American Popular Fiction”
Popular Culture Association, San Diego, 1999
“Scared Straight: De-Voiced Stories, Mina and Dangerous Liaisons”
International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, 1999
“The Natives Are Restless: Post-Colonial Discourse, Empire, and >Otherness=”
Border Crossings: The Space Between, SUNY New Paltz, 1998
"Rending the Veil, Exposing the Wounds: The Function of Horror Fiction?"
International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, 1998
“The Infected Wilderness: Man or Monster?: The Discourse of the Howling Wilderness in Pet Sematary”
North American Interdisciplinary Conference for Community and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno, 1998
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Her Place: Women, Exclusion and Containment in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy”
Western Literature Association, Albuquerque, 1997
“De-Vamp/ing the Vill: Mrs. Amworth and Contagion in the Body Politic”
Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, 1915 - 1945, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997
“The Infected Detective: The Contagion of the Human Monster”
Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, 1997
“Tradition Sabotaged, Subverted and Slain: The Traditional Martial Canon and Post-
Somme War Poetry”
World War I Conference, Fort Hays State University, Kansas, 1996
“Truth At the Bottom of the Well: Legend and Myth in Braveheart and First Knight”
Popular Culture Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1996
Professional Activities:
Mount Olive College
Faculty, Language & Literature 2004-
Chair, Honors Committee (2007-10)
Coordinator, Heritage Program, 2004 -05
Academic Curriculum Council, 2004-05
Departmental
Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society 2004-7
Advisor, English Education, 2006 -
Quality Enhancement Program Committee/SACA Reaffirmation, 2010-
Panel Chair for Fahrenheit 451, Wayne County Reads, 2010.
Panel Chair for The Killer Angels, Lincoln Lectures, 2010
Newberry College
Fine Arts & Lectures Committee
Admissions and Retention Committee
Scholarship Committee
Early Alert Retention System
Off Campus Housing Appeals
SACS Committee on Athletics
SACS Committee on Institutional Effectiveness
Communication Across the Curriculum Program, Reader, 2000 -
Founder=s Scholarship, Participant and Reader, 2001 -
Speech and Theater Festival, Judge 2001 -
Departmental:
Comparative Report on South Carolina English Programs (2001-02)
NCATE Accreditation (2002-04 )
Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society
Majors Recruitment and Advisement
University of Nevada, Reno:
Portfolio Assessment, Freshman English, 1999
Assessment Committee, 1998-99
Teaching Assistant Mentor, Workshop Leader-Evaluator at University-wide Orientation (1998)
Graduate Assistant, Shakespeare Variorum Project 1994-5.
Western Nevada Community College:
English Department Liaison (equivalent of Chair) to Dean, 1989-90
Disability Committee, 1990-93 (Co-Authored Disability Handbook, 1992)
Catalog Committee, 1991-92
Assessment and Retention Committee, 1988-93
Accreditation Committee, 1990
Academic Skills Center Committee, 1988-93
Open House Committee, 1988-93
Editorial Boards
Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror
Editorial Board, 2009 -
The Journal of Popular Culture
Editorial Board, 2005-
The Journal of American Culture
Reader, 2004-
Editorial Board, 2006-
The Popular Culture Association
Chair, Emily Toth Award (2007)
Professional Associations:
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Area Chair, Professional Development (2002 - 07)
Area Chair, Fairy Tales (2008-)
The Society for the Study of Literature and Culture Between the Wars, Founding Member (inactive)
American Association of University Professors
Community Organizations:
Daisy Street Waifs & Strays, Chief Operating Officer (2006-)
Wayne County Humane Society (2005 -)
Wayne County Friends of the Library (2005-)
List of References
Dr. Sarah (Dee) Vaughan Clere,
Chair, Dept. of Language and Literature
Mount Olive College
919-658-7848
Dr. Kenneth D. Hines
Dean, College of Arts & Science
Mount Olive College
919-658-7783
Dr. Alan Lamm.
Chair, Department of History & Social Studies
Honors Program
Mount Olive College
919-658-7779
919-922-7574 (cell)
Dr. Tommy Benson,
Chair, Department of Education
Mount Olive College
919-658-7699
Dr. Angela Mullis
Associate Professor, Dept. of Language & Literature
Mount Olive College
919-658-7849
Dr. Richard Hunt
Assistant Professor
Potomac State University
Keyser, WV 26726
304-788-7117
304-778-6408 (h)
Dr. Gary Hoppenstand
Editor of The Journal of Popular Culture
Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures
Michigan State University
235 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824