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- Sarah Appleton
- Lecturer
- English
- 5000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3991
- sappleto@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Connecticut,
1995
- Major: English
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Rhode Island,
1991
- Major: English
- Degree: M.A.
- Rhode Island College,
1989
- Major: English
- Degree: B.A.
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Research Interests
- Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Speculative Fiction, Women's Studies, Archetypal Theory
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Books
- Appleton, S. (2008). Once Upon a Time: Myth, Fairy Tales, and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Appleton, S., and Howe, M. (2001). He Said, She Said: An RSVP to the Male Text. Fairleigh-Dickinson/AAUP.
- Appleton, S. (2001). The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature. SIU Press.
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Book Chapters
- Appleton, S. Duck’ing and Weaving: Unraveling Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. Forthcoming in Margaret Atwood: Text and Context.
- Appleton, S. (2008). Myths of Distinction; Myths of Extinction in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake in Once Upon a Time: Myth, Fairy Tales, and
Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Appleton, S., and Raschke, D. (2007). And They Went to Bury Her’: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride. In Adventures of the Spirit: the Older
Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other contemporary Women Writers.. Ohio State UP.
- Appleton, S. (2005). No Sanctuary’: Reconsidering the Evil of Cathy Ames Trask. In The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck.
- Appleton, S. (2001). (Dis)Obedient Daughters: (Dis)Inheriting the Kingdom of Lear. In He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text.
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Articles
- Appleton, S. (2007). Canadian Characters at King Arthur’s Court: Arthurian Legend and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. Margaret Atwood Studies, 2 (2), (pp. 3-10).
- Appleton, S. (2004). Passing On’ Death: Stealing Life in Toni Morrison’s Paradise. African American Review
- Appleton, S. (1997). Conflict and Consensus in Portfolio Evaluation. The Kentucky English Bulletin
- Appleton, S. (1997). Good Girls and Evil Twins: Constructing Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. The Margaret Atwood Newsletter, 19,
- Appleton, S. (1996). "Listening to the Mother's Voice in Toni Morrison's Jazz. The Journal of Contemporary Thought
- Appleton, S. (1995). Gathering the Tribes (Carolyn Forche). Women's Literature Series / Salem Press
- Appleton, S. (1995). `Everywhere and Nowhere': Beloved's `Wild' Legacy in Toni Morrison's Jazz. Notes on Contemporary Literature, 15,
- Appleton, S. (1993). Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: Body Politics & The Handmaid's Tale. Postscript 1.1 (pp. 49-63).
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Presentations
- • Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood. Roundtable Discussion
- Conference Name: MAL
- Sponsoring Organization: MAL
- Location: Philadelphia
- Date: December 28, 2009
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- Margaret Atwood and “Corp(SE)ocracy.”
- Conference Name: MLA
- Sponsoring Organization: MLA
- Location: Philadelphia
- Date: December 27, 2009
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- Political Empowerment for Writing Students: A Multifacted Project
- Conference Name:
- Location: Virginia Beach
- Date: 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- The Letter of Love: Toni Morrison’s Love
- Conference Name:
- Location: Louisville
- Date: 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Duck’ing and Weaving: Unraveling Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
- Conference Name:
- Location: Tuscon
- Date: 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Brainfrizz or Paradice Thawed?: A Parable of Psychoanalysis in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
- Conference Name:
- Location: Coeur D’Alene
- Date: 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Dear John: Feminism, Prositution, Literature
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boulder
- Date: 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Reconsidering Cathy Ames Trask
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boston
- Date: March, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Tainting the Narrative: Sleight of Pen in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin
- Conference Name: U of Louisville
- Sponsoring Organization: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Canadian Characters at King Arthur’s Court: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and the Arthurian Legends
- Conference Name:
- Location: Cleveland
- Date: November, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Ordinary Mothers
- Conference Name:
- Location: Louisville
- Date: February, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- (Dis) Inheriting the Kingdom of Lear: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: December, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- The Season of the Bitch: Revising Archetypal Feminine Evil in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
- Conference Name:
- Location: Oxford University
- Date: March, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Revising Literary History: Wuthering Heights and Alice Hoffmann’s Here on Earth
- Conference Name: U of Louisville
- Sponsoring Organization: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Getting Away with Murder: Violence and Power in ‘Chick-Flicks
- Conference Name:
- Location: Middle Tennessee State University
- Date: February, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Getting Away With Murder: Movie Violence and Women
- Conference Name:
- Location: MSU
- Date: November, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- The Paradox of the Postmodern Feminist Subject: Anti/Essentialism and Plurality
- Conference Name:
- Location: Houston
- Date: March, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- The Bitch Is Back: Wicked Women in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
- Conference Name:
- Location: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Women's Studies Programs: Past, Present, Future
- Conference Name: Murray State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Murray State University
- Date: March, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Chair, Masculine Icons in Film
- Conference Name:
- Location: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Conflict and Consensus in Portfolio Evaluation
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans
- Date: January, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Good Girls and Evil Twins: Constructing Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride
- Conference Name:
- Location: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Listening to the Mother's Voice in Toni Morrison's Jazz
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- Location: Baltimore
- Date: May, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Intersections at the Peripheries: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Women Poets
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boston
- Date: April, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- The Art(ifice) of Fashion in The Piano
- Conference Name:
- Location: Maine
- Date: October, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Thorstein Veblen and the Economy of Feminist Fiction: Validating the Kill
- Conference Name:
- Location: New York
- Date: February, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Anne Rice and the American Gothic Tradition
- Conference Name:
- Location: Maine
- Date: October, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Collecting ‘Traces’ & ‘Violent’ Splits: Postmodern Subjectivity in Toni Morrison's Jazz
- Conference Name: U of Louisville
- Sponsoring Organization: U of Louisville
- Date: February, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: Body Politics & The Handmaid's Tale
- Conference Name: SUNY Buffalo
- Sponsoring Organization: SUNY Buffalo
- Date: March, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Appleton, S.
- 1996: CISR Summer Research Grant, MSU
- 2001: CISR Summer Research Grant, MSU
- 1995: Dissertation Fellowship, UConn
- 1995: Excellence in Teaching Award, UConn
- 1991: Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, J&WU
- 2000: Presidential Research Fellowship, MSU
- 2005: Sabbatical
- 1994: UConn Research Foundation Grant
- 1993: UConn Summer Fellowship Award
- Teaching Merit Award, MSU
- Nominee for Max Carmen Teaching Award
- Nominee for Board of Regents University Teaching Award, MSU
- Elizabeth College Fellow, MSU
- UConn Teaching Assistantship
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research