H. Louise Davis : Curriculum Vitae

 

Curriculum Vitae

H. Louise Davis, PhD

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

Agricultural Activism, Ecofeminism, & Transnational Grassroots Movements

Consumerism, Charity Cultures, & Celebrity Activism

Critical Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, & Visual Culture Studies.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. American Studies, Michigan State University, 2008

Dissertation: Compassionate Consumerism: Mass Movements, Youth Markets, and The Evolution Of An Ethic From Band Aid to Idol Aid.Committee Chair: Ann Larabee 

Areas of Specialization: Youth, Gender Studies, Film, Charity Studies

M.A. Literatures in English, Michigan State University, 1999

Thesis: High Heeled Sexualities: Femininity and Masculinity in Four Films by Pedro Almodovar

Areas of Specialization: American Literature & Theatre, European and American Film

B.A.  English Literature, Roehampton Institute London, 1996

Thesis: Gender and Sexuality in the Plays of Arthur Miller and John Osborne

Areas of Specialization: Twentieth Century British and American Literature & Theatre                            

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor of American Studies/Global & Intercultural Studies and Chair, Department of Integrative Studies

Miami University Ohio, Regional Campuses July 2015 - present

Chair a department with 400+ enrolled majors in 4 distinct degree programs (2 self-designed programs): Integrative Studies, Liberal Studies, Health Communication, & Applied Communication; advise and schedule courses in the Global and Intercultural Studies co-major and interdisciplinary programs (Asian American Studies, American Studies, Black World Studies, International Studies, Latin American Studies, & Woman and Gender Studies)

Devise and develop curriculum, design and implement assessment plans, devise and develop Governance reflective of structural changes to the institution

Manage daily running of the department including: oversee departmental budget, facilitate departmental meetings and workshops, create course schedules, assign service tasks to faculty, supervise administrative assistant, liaise with marketing and Service-Learning offices

Mentor and evaluate 6 fulltime faculty members; compile annual review reports; run teaching and service workshops for probationary faculty

Participate in divisional council and chair meetings, divisional curriculum committee meetings, annual leave and course release discussions, and regional campus restructuring debate sessions

Design and teach seminar courses and independent studies in Global American Studies, Integrative Studies, & Film Studies; review per semester over 100 self-designed degree plans; and advise per semester 30+ Integrative Studies & Liberal Studies majors; monitor student progress and retention.

ACADEMIC TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Director, Department of Integrative Studies & Assistant Professor of American Studies

Miami University (Regional Campuses), July 2013- July 2015

Ran a department with between 350-550 majors enrolled in self-designed interdisciplinary degree program in Integrative Studies (IS)

Managed daily running of the department including: oversaw departmental budget, facilitated departmental meetings and workshops, created course schedules, assigned service tasks to faculty, supervised administrative assistant, liaised with marketing and Service-Learning offices

Devised and developed new concentrations and core seminars in Integrative Studies, designed and implemented IS assessment plans, oversaw Service-Learning curriculum/ placements

Devised and developed governance to account for the structural change from program to department and accommodate the addition of the first tenure line faculty to the unit

Mentored and evaluated 6 fulltime faculty members; compiled annual review reports; ran teaching and service workshops for probationary faculty

Designed and taught seminar courses in Global American Studies, Integrative Studies, Film, diversity, and consumer cultures; designed and taught online courses in Films Studies and Liberal Studies; mentored independent studies students in Film Studies and Integrative Studies

Reviewed per semester over 100 self-designed degree plans; and advise per semester 30+ Integrative Studies & Liberal Studies majors; monitor student progress and retention

Director, Bachelor of Integrative Studies Program & Assistant Professor of American Studies

Miami University (Regional Campuses), August 2010-June 2013

Served as director and chief departmental advisor to over 500 enrolled students per semester (advised students, reviewed degree audits, performed graduation checks, assisted with graduation ceremony planning)

Managed daily running of the department including: facilitated departmental meetings and workshops; created course schedules; liaised with advising, service-learning coordinators, and marketing

Devised and developed new concentrations and core seminars in Integrative Studies, designed and implemented IS assessment plans

Devised and developed governance for the program (housed neither in a department of division)

Recruited affiliate faculty to teach core seminars

Mentored one lecturer and over 20 affiliates in Integrative Studies; led faculty development workshops in teaching Integrative/Interdisciplinary Studies and self-designed program development

Designed and taught a range of courses and independent studies in interdisciplinary fields including: American Studies, Film Studies, and Integrative Studies

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies

SUNY Empire State College, July 2009-August 2010                                                                                                     

Co-designed with students and guided a range of independent studies and small group class sessions in: American Studies, Film, Literature, Women and Gender Studies, and Writing

Effectively utilized Learning Management System (Blackboard) to disseminate information, post resources, facilitate discussion boards

Served on regional, departmental, and college-wide curriculum committees

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Michigan State University, August 2008-June 2009

Designed and taught courses in English and American Studies, including: Introduction to English Literature, Introduction to American Studies, Film and Literature, Popular Literary Genres, Women’s Literature. Designed and Taught an Integrated Arts and Humanities (IAH) course in Censorship in C20th American Literature and Hollywood Film.

Mentored a McNair/SROP fellow

Led 5 independent studies in literature and film

SCHOLARSHIP

Journal Articles:

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Commodity Substitution: The Charity Music Video as Effective Fundraising Tool” Journal of Popular Culture. January 2016. Peer-Reviewed.

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Feeding the World a Line?: Celebrity Activism and Ethical Consumer Practices From Live Aid to Product Red.” Journal for Nordic Studies in English. Vol 9: No. 3, 2010. Invited & Peer-Reviewed.

  • Karyn Pilgrim & Davis, H. Louise. “More Crucial’ Matters: Reclaiming ‘Sustainability’ and Transcending the Rhetoric of ‘Choice’ Through Eco-Feminist Pedagogy” Ethics and the Environment. June 2015. Peer-Reviewed.

Edited Book Collection

  • Davis, H. Louise, Karyn J. Pilgrim & Madhu Sinha. Ed. The Ecopolitics of Food: Commodities and Trading. Rowman and Littelfield. Publish date: Dec. 2016.

Published Book Chapters:

  • Davis, H. Louise. ““He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You”: Food Sovereignty Versus the Free Market.” 2016. Peer-Reviewed.

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Concerts for a Cause” History of Social Protest in Music. Ed. Jonathan Friedman. New York: Routledge, 2013. Peer-Reviewed.

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Watch Them Suffer, Watch them Die: Depictions of African Mothers & Motherhood in Famine Footage & in Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener.” Mediating Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Podniek. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen University Press, 2012. Peer-Reviewed.

  • Davis, H. Louise & Jeffrey K. Johnson. “One Nation Invisible: Unveiling the Hidden War Body on Screen.” War Bodies on Screen. Ed. Karen Randell & Sean Redmond. New York: Continuum Press, 2008. Peer-Reviewed.

  • Davis, H. Louise. “All is Full of Pleasure: Björk’s Music Videos as Feminist Texts.” Singing for Themselves: Essays on Women in Popular Music. Ed. Patricia Spense Rudden. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Natural Resistance: Margaret Atwood, Eco-Feminist or Post-Apocalyptic Visionary.” Women Writing Nature: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Barbara Cook. Lexington MA: Lexington Press, 2007.

Book Chapters—Forthcoming:

  • Davis, H. Louise. “Purchasing Change: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Biofuel Consumption on the World’s Poor.” Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism in North America. Ed. Louis Hyman & Joseph Tohill. Toronto: Between the Lines Press (accepted spring 2013). Peer-Reviewed.

Book Proposal in progress:

  • Davis, H. Louise. Food and Fuel: Ethical Consumption in the Neo-Liberal Era

Selected Presentations:

  • “Gen X” Roundtable, invited participant. Popular Culture Association, Seattle WA, Mar. 2016.
  • “Beyond Seven Billion: Finding Alternative Ways to Feed the World,” delivered at the Fifth International Conference on Food Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, Sept. 2015
  • “The ‘F’ Word: One Celebrity Chef’s Campaign to “Get Women Back in the Kitchen” delivered at the Fourth International Conference on Food Studies, Monash University, Prato Italy. Oct. 2014
  • “Generation X,” invited round-table participant at the Popular Culture Association, Chicago IL. Apr. 2014
  • “Purchasing Change: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Biofuel Consumption on the World’s Poor” delivered at the American Studies Association, Washington DC. Nov. 2013
  • “Greening Screens Across Geo-Political Borders: Technology and The Evolution of Eco-Charity Rock From Rainbow Warriors to Live Earth” delivered at the Popular Culture Association, Washington DC. Apr. 2013
  • “Feminist Sustainability Pedagogy: Radical Earth Science as a Model for Sustainable Higher Ed Curriculum in the New Millenium” delivered at the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, Kelowna BC. Aug. 2012
  • “The Black Madonna of Catastrophe: Suffering African Women in Fiction Film and Non- Fiction Footage” delivered at the Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA. Mar. 2012
  • “Recording Relief: The Charity Music Videos as Activist Tool, 1984-2010” delivered at the American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore MD. Oct. 2011
  • “From ‘Technological Extravaganza’ to ‘Global Spectacle’: Screens and Sites of Subversion in Satellite Linked Benefit Concerts, Live Aid, Live 8, and Hope for Haiti Now”delivered at the International Committee for the History of Technology 38th Annual Conference, Glasgow University, Glasgow UK. Aug. 2011
  • “Africa as Empty Space: Contested Land and Violated Bodies in Three Western Films that Depict the ‘Dark Continent’” delivered at the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Jun. 2011
  • “Unhealthy Habits: Creating Sterile Spaces at the Expense of Women, Animals, and the Global Environment,” delivered at Environmental Change, Cultural Change Conference (ASLE--UK). University of Bath, UK. Sept. 2010
  • “Global Activism, Localized Fear: The Unintended Consequences of Popular and Virtual ‘Eco-Activism’ in the US,” delivered at Inaugural Conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada. Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia. Aug. 2010 
  • “Pedagogical Models of Sustainability: Rethinking Curriculum in the New Millennium,” delivered at the College English Association (CEA), San Antonio TX. Mar. 2009



ACADEMIC SERVICE

Departmental Service

Integrative Studies Department

Miami University, Aug. 2010- present                                                         

  • Department Chair/ Program Director (responsibilities include: departmental administration; facilitating budget; monitoring student recruitment and retention; mentoring and evaluating of tenure-track faculty; scheduling courses; liaising with advising, marketing, development, service-learning coordinators, and alumni organization; devising and implementing assessment plans and departmental governance rules)

  • Chair, Integrative Studies Curriculum Committee

  • Chair, Integrative Studies Core Faculty Committee

  • Member, Integrative Studies Assessment Committee

  • Member, Student Educational Objectives and Petition Review Committee

Department of Global & Intercultural Studies

Miami University, Aug. 2015- present

  • Member of the Global & Intercultural Studies Advisory Board

  • Regional Campuses liaison and academic advisor for interdisciplinary programs: Asian American Studies, American Studies, & International Studies

E-Learning Cohort Member

Miami University, Fall 2014 & Summer 2015

  • Member of Online Course Design Cohort

  • Designer of online version of FST/MAC 206 “Culture and Diversity in American Film” & LST 302 “Principles of Liberal Studies”

Liberal Studies Degree Design Team

Miami University, Summer & Fall 2014

  • Member of Ad-hoc Committee

  • Co-writer of Degree Proposal

Film Studies Program

Miami University, Aug. 2012- present

  • Advisory Board Member

American Studies Program

Miami University, Aug. 2010- present

  • Member of the American Studies Advisory Board

  • Liaison and academic advisor to the Regional Campuses

Bachelor of Integrative Studies Program

Miami University, Aug. 2010-Jun. 2013

·       Program Director

·       Chief Departmental Advisor

·       Facilitator, Regional Campus Coordination and Curriculum Council Assessment Sub-committee for the BIS program

·       Chair, Bachelor of Integrative Studies Curriculum Committee

Service to the University and Division

College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)

Miami University, Aug. 2015-present

·       Member of the CAS Curriculum Committee

College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences (CPSAS)

Miami University, Jul. 2013- present

·       Member of the CPSAS Executive Committee

·       Member of the CPSAS Curriculum Committee

·       Member of Regional Campus/CPSAS Academic Council

College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences (CPSAS)

Miami University, Jul. 2013- May 2015

·       Member of the CPSAS Curriculum Committee

Interdisciplinary Advisory Council

Miami University, Jan. 2012- present

·       Member of the Steering Committee

·       Team leader for interdisciplinary faculty events

·       Co-created concept for I-network online

 

Regional Campus Coordination and Curriculum Council (RC4)

Miami University, Aug. 2010- Jun. 2013

·  Committee Facilitator

College Curriculum

SUNY/ Empire State College, Long Island NY, Jun. 2009- Aug.2010

·       Member of the Downstate Writing Curriculum Group

·       Member of the Urban Environmental Residency Planning Committee

College Governance

SUNY/ Empire State College, Long Island NY, Jun. 2009- Aug.2010

·       Member of the Educational Technology Governance Committee

Service to the Profession

Journal of Popular Culture

Sep. 2011-Present                            

·       Advisory Board Member & Manuscript Reviewer

Journal of Youth Studies

Oct. 2014- Present          

·       Ad-hocManuscript Reviewer

Regis College (MA), Heritage Studies Institute

May 2013-Present                            

·       Advisory Board member

Association of Integrative/Interdisciplinary Studies

Oct. 2012-Nov 2013       

·       Co-organizer of the annual conference held at Miami University of Ohio

Service to the Community

Oxfam America

Columbus Action Corp, Feb. 2015- Present

·       Community Organizer (plan events for and publicize World Food Day & International Women’s Day; plan petition and awareness raising tabling events; meet with members of congress and senate to discuss “The Food for Peace Reform Act” & the Green Climate Fund; liaise with community partners; support and publicize partner events; facilitate monthly volunteer meetings).

Oxfam America

Columbus Action Corp, Aug. 2012-Present

·       Volunteer

Hamilton Downtown Center

Miami University, Fall 2012, 2013,& 2014                 

·       Film Series Coordinator and Speaker

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

·       American Studies Association

·       American Studies Association Environment and Culture Caucus

·       Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly Association of Integrative Studies)

·       Food Studies Association

·       Popular Culture Association