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Rebecca Chapman
Rebecca Chapman
 Center for Teaching
 VU Writing Studio

Title: Lecturer

Department: English

Office: Buttrick Hall 4-37
Phone: (615) 322-6979
Cell Phone: (615) 944-8707
Fax: (615) 343-8028
Email: Rebecca.Chapman@Vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. English, Vanderbilt University, August 2009
  • Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, April 2008
  • M.A. English, Vanderbilt University, August 2005
  • B.A. English and Dramatic Arts, UC Santa Barbara, June 2002

Research Area

  • Theories of identity and subjectivity in early modern British literature (especially Shakespeare) and today; gender and sexuality in early modern England, queer theory, performativity, and mediatized Shakespeares

Current Courses

  • English 102W-13
  • English 118W-03
  • English 118W-07

Previous Positions

  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching, 2007-08
  • Representative-at-large, Graduate Student Council, 2007-08
  • Technology Coordinator, English Graduate Student Association, 2007-08
  • Graduate Writing Consultant, VU Writing Studio, 2005-07
  • Co-founder and Co-coordinator, Queer Theory Graduate Student Reading Group, 2004-07
  • Research Assistant, Professor Colin Dayan (English), 2005
  • Research Assistant, Professor Holly Tucker (French), 2007
  • Advisory Board on Undergraduate Writing, 2005-06
  • English Graduate Student Association, Social Co-chair, 2005-06
  • English Graduate Student Association, Orientation Co-coordinator, 2004-05

Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association
  • Shakespeare Association of America
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies

Professional Honors

  • Dissertation year fellowship, 2008-09
  • Dissertation Enhancement Grant, 2007
  • Arts and Science Summer Research Grant, 2006
  • Department of English Summer Research Grant, 2005

Biography

Rebecca was born and raised in a little-known part of the world that she affectionately refers to as southern California. Remarkably, she is the fifth of nine siblings but displays little to no symptoms characteristic of middle child syndrome. She comes to the Department of English PhD program after an all too short-lived career in nonprofit work (they all closed down; thank you, Gov. Schwarzenegger) and a brief stint in law school (a sore subject for her, fyi).