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Curriculum VitaeMaxine L. Montgomery

General Information

University address: EnglishCollege of Arts & SciencesWILLIAMS BUILDING 0433Florida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida 32306-1580Phone: 850.644.4230; Fax: 850.644.0811

E-mail address: [email protected]

Web site: www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/mmontgomery

Professional Preparation

1986 Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Major: English. African-American Literature. Supervisor: Professor Richard K. Barksdale.

1982 M.A., Florida State University. Major: English.

1980 B. S., Florida State University. Major: English Education, with a minor in French.

Professional Experience

2014-2016 Frances Cushing Ervin Professorship, Florida State University

2011–present Professor, English, Florida State University.

1993–present Overload Adjunct Professor, Ctr for Acad Retention & Enhnc, Florida State University. Responsibilities included teaching, mentoring, and graduate student supervision as part of the CARE Program.

1993–2011 Assoc Professor, English, Florida State University.

1988–1993 Asst Professor, English, Florida State University.

Vita for Maxine L. Montgomery

1986–1988 Asst Prof, English and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Responsibilities include teaching and administration with English and the Ethnic Studies Institute.

TEACHING

Honors, Awards, and PrizesTeachingNominee, Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Florida State University (2010). Nominee, University Graduate Distinguished Teaching Award, Florida State University (2010). Nominee, University Graduate Distinguished Teaching Award, Florida State University (2009). Nominee, University Graduate Distinguished Teaching Award, Florida State University (2008). Nominee, University Graduate Distinguished Teaching Award, Florida State University (2003). Recipient, University Teaching Award, Florida State University (2003). ($1,500). Teaching Incentive Program Award, Florida State University (1995). ($6,000). Recipient, University Teaching Award, Florida State University (1995). ($1,500).

Research COFRS Grant, Florida State University (2011). ($8,500). COFRS Grant, Florida State University (2004). ($6,000). University Sabbatical (One Semester), Florida State University (2003). Faculty Research Grant, Florida State University (2002). ($2,000).

Faculty Research Grant, Florida State University (1994). ($2,500).

Service Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Service, Florida State

University (2010). ($1,000).

W. E. B. DuBois Outstanding Faculty Member, DuBois Honor Society (2003). Gold Key Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Gold Key Honor Society (1994).

Courses Taught

Introduction to African-American Literature (AML2600)Introduction to the Short Story (LIT2020)The African American Literary Tradition (AML5608)Major Women Writers (LIT4385)Studies in Ethnic Literature (AML4680)The African-American Literary Tradition (AML4604)American Multi-Ethnic Literature (AML3682)Senior Seminar in Literature (ENG4934)Topics in English (ENG5933)Studies in Women's Writing (LIT5388)

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Critical Reading and Writing (ENC 1905)American Authors Since 1875 (AML 3041)

Supervision of Clinical Practice

Center For Academic Retention and Enhancement Summer Enrichment Program (1993 to present)

New Course Development

Hip Hop Feminism (2009)African American Authors and The South (2004)The Fiction of Gloria Naylor (2002)The Harlem Renaissance (1995)Introduction to African American Literature (1990)The Fiction of Toni Morrison (1990)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Janelle Jennings Alexander. (2014). “Black Women’s Writing.”Wholuba, A., graduate. (2006). "Bearing Witness: Revisions of the Neo Slave Narrativ in

Contemporary African American Fiction". Okonkwo, C., graduate. (2001). "The Spirit Child as Idiom: Reading Ogbanje Dialogic as a

Platform of Conversation". Powell, Hankerson, Stephanie, graduate. (1999). "Using the Sense God Gave Ya': Mother-Wit

in the Fiction of African American Southern Women Writers". Winfield, D. D., graduate. (1999). "Wholeness is No Trifling Matter: An Intertextual Study of

Black Women's Psychic (Dis)eases in Novels by Contemporary Pan African Women". Adams, Yon, Veronica, graduate. (1998). "Seeing is Believing: Memory, Perception, and Self-

Identity in the Fiction of Ernest Gaines". King-Pedroso, N., graduate. (1996). "Post-colonial Polyphonous Voices: Toni Morrison's Tar

Baby and Derek Walcott's Omeros". Davis, S., doctoral candidate. (2012). "Talking Back to the Master: Classical Paradigms in the

Fiction of Gloria Naylor". Bryant, C., graduate. (2012). "Folklore and Fiction in the Novels of Zora Neale Hurston". Littler, C. R., graduate. (2011). "American Exceptionalism, the Exodus Narrative, and the

African American Novel Tradition". McCray, A. L., doctoral candidate. (2011). "Til Death Do Us Part: Marriage, Slavery, and

Romance in the Novels of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor". Surrency, J. K., graduate. (2011). "The Supernatural in the Fiction of Tina McElroy Ansa". Thaxton-Simmons, A., graduate. (2011). "The Ties That Bind: Motherhood in Contemporary

Black Women's Fiction". Seymore, T., doctoral student. (2012).

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Shaw, R., graduate. (2012). "The Fiction of Gloria Naylor".

Doctoral Committee Member

Garnes, L., graduate. (2009). Reynolds, A., graduate. (2009). Holmes, B., graduate. (2008). Henry-Boston, G., graduate. (2000). Alexander, A., graduate. (1999). Nixon, R., graduate. (1999). Vickers, L., graduate. (1999). Love, M., graduate. (1998). Stover, J., graduate. (1997). Fager-West, G., graduate. (1995). Standley, M., graduate. (1995). Haimes-Korn, K., graduate. (1994). Moore, C., graduate. (1994). Henderson, D., graduate. (1990). Hudson, J. S., doctoral candidate. Livingston, J. R., doctoral candidate. Barnett, R. N., doctoral student. Carr, D., graduate. (1996).Cory, C., doctoral student. McKinnie, B. E., doctoral student. Missick, L., doctoral student. Morian, K., doctoral student.

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Richards, R., graduate. (2010). Larsen-Walker, M., graduate. (2006). Berry, K., graduate. (2004). Mikkleson, V., graduate. (2004). Carpenter, M., graduate. (2003). Figgers, M., graduate. (2003). White, R., graduate. (2003). Brannon, J., graduate. (2000). Robbins, P., graduate. (2000). Black-Parker, K., graduate. (1999). Davis, R., graduate. (1999). DuBois, H., graduate. (1999). Broughton, L., graduate. (1998).

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Watts, E., graduate. (1998). Pierre, A., graduate. (1995). Bird, R. B., doctoral candidate. Day, C. S., doctoral candidate. Gordon, Y. N., doctoral candidate. Hutchinson, J. D., doctoral candidate. McLeod, C. A., doctoral candidate. Sheppard, D. E., doctoral candidate. Willis, D. J., doctoral candidate. Cope, R., doctoral candidate. (2011). Dorsey, A., graduate. (2011). Sheppard, D., doctoral candidate. (2011). Willis, D., doctoral candidate. (2011). Oliver, A. L., doctoral candidate. (2010). Brown, M., graduate. (1996).Tillman, G., graduate. (1993).

Master's Committee Chair

Buzelli, L., graduate. (2008). Seanor, S., graduate. (2008). Mayfield, J., graduate. (2005). Commander, M., graduate. (2004). Speller, C., graduate. (2001). Streeter, A., graduate. (2001). Wholuba, A., graduate. (2001). Davis, S., graduate. (2000). Surrency, J., graduate. (2000). Thaxton, A., graduate. (2000). Powell, S., graduate. (1999). Herbert-Jones, T., graduate. (1998). Hinton, T., graduate. (1998). Yon, V., graduate. (1997). Duncan, L. K., student. Carr, A., student. (2011). Pratt, K., student. (2011). Scott, T., student. (2011).

Master's Committee Member

Grantham, M., graduate. (2010). Boykins, B., graduate. (2008). Green, D., graduate. (2005). Ford, N., graduate. (2002).

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McGillis, J., graduate. (2002). Valentine, T., graduate. (2001). Lessor, E., graduate. (2000). Scott, M., graduate. (2000). Benton, J., graduate. (1998). DiCesare, E., graduate. (1998). Seymore, T., graduate. (1998). White-West, C., graduate. (1998). Langford, C., graduate. (1997). Von Ammon, J., graduate. (1996). Nixon, R., graduate. (1995). Watts, E., graduate. (1994). Matthews, D., graduate. (1993). Toler, A., student. (2013). Owens, F., student. (2012).

Bachelor's Committee Chair

DeGuzman, K., graduate. (2010). "Sam Selvon's Moses Ascending as Modernist Creole Text". Leeper, N., graduate. (2008). "Higher Ground: A Post-Katrina Memoir". Katz, E., graduate. (2004). "Silence and Invisibility in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman

Warrior". Brooks, R., graduate. (2003). "African Religious Rituals in Paule Marshall's Praisesong For

the Widow".

Bachelor's Committee Member

Boyer, S., graduate. (2000).

Fellowship(s)

McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship (1989–1990).

RESEARCH AND OTHER CREATIVE WORK

Program of Research and/or Focus of Original Creative Work

My research program focuses on African American Fiction, Contemporary Black Women's Novels, and Critical Race Studies. Primarily, my scholarship involves an interrogation of the relationship between the vernacular tradition and Contemporary Black Women's Fiction.

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Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Montgomery, M. L. (2014). “Bearing Witness to Forgotten Wounds: Toni Morrison’s Home and the Spectral Presence.” (forthcoming in South Carolina Review, summer 2014), 26 mss. pp.

Montgomery, M. L. (2014). “Walking on the Wild Side: The Idea of Florida in the Fiction of Heidi Boehringer.” (forthcoming, summer 2014), 22 mss. pp.

An investigation of Boehringer’s novels with regard to her fictionalization of the South Florida landscape.

Montgomery, M. L. (2011). "Language, Memory, and Self-Identity in Toni Morrison's A Mercy." Journal of Black Studies, 42, 627-37.An interrogation of Morrison's inventive use of language in re-figuring colonial inscriptions of time, space, and identity. Argues that Morrison's contribution to the Critical Race Studies conversation centers on her attempts to re-inscribe the moment of race consciousness in ways that encourage a critique of W.E.B. DuBois' concept of double-consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk.

Montgomery, M. L. (2010). "Don't Look (B)lack: Spectatorship in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby". Zora Neale Hurston Forum, 8, 37-49.Draws upon Feminist film criticism and post-colonial theory in examining proscribed scopic arrangements in Morrison's fourth novel. Argues that Morrison's construction of a feminine psychic zone re-figures a heterosexual male gaze.

Montgomery, M. L. (2008). "Finding Peace in the Middle: Authority, Resistance, and the Legacy of Sapphira Wade in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day". College Language Association Journal, LII, 2, 153-169.Examines Naylor's third novel in terms of its engagement with Black slave historiography and tales of trickery and conjure.

Montgomery, M. L. (1995). "Authority, Multi-vocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe". African American Review, 29: 1, 27-33.Examines the close, ambivalent relationship between Naylor's fourth novel and oral and written antecedent sources. African American Review is the premiere journal in the field. Reprinted in The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor, Eds. M. Loris and S. Felton (Westport: Greenwood P, 1977): 187-194. Also reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 156 (2002).

Montgomery, M. L. (1994). "Rewriting the Apocalypse: The Image of the End of the World in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place." The Literary Griot, 6: 2, 46-53.Analyzes Naylor's debut work of fiction as a conscious revision of the apocalypse through a focus on the vernacular tradition as well as Twentieth-Century political movements.

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Montgomery, M. L. (1992). "The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Trope in The Women of Brewster Place". College Language Association Journal, 36: 1, 42-48.Offers an interrogation of Naylor's first novel in terms of her re-inscription of the descent trope. Reprinted in The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor, 42-8. Also reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 156: 8 (2002).

Montgomery, M. L. (1991). "Racial Armageddon in Richard Wright's Native Son". College Language Association Journal, 34: 4, 453-466.An analysis of Richard Wright's appropriation of apocalypse as a rhetorical strategy.

Montgomery, M. L. (1989). "A Pilgrimage to the Origins: The Apocalypse as Structure and Theme in Toni Morrison's Sula". African American Review, 23: 1, 127-137.Interrogates Morrison's second novel in terms of the ambivalent relationship between oral and written discursive modes that gesture toward tropes of apocalypse. African American Review is the premiere journal in the field.

Refereed Books

Montgomery, M. L. (2010). The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance. Knoxville: U P Tennessee. Examines Naylor's first four novels within a historic and discursive context involving black female insurgence. Includes a personal interview with the author.

Montgomery, M. L. (1996). The Apocalypse in African American Fiction. Gainesville: U P Florida. An interrogation of apocalypse as a trope in representative novels by African American authors, from Charles W. Chesnutt to Gloria Naylor.

Edited Books

Montgomery, M. L. (Ed.). (2013). Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison. Forthcoming 2013 from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Includes eight original essays on Morrison’s fiction and an introduction.

Montgomery, M. L. (Ed.). (2004). Conversations With Gloria Naylor. Jackson: U P Mississippi. Includes an introduction and fourteen interviews with Naylor, dating from 1988 until 2000.

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Invited Book Chapters

Montgomery, M. L. (2004). "Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance". In M. Georgiez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (pp. 145-166). New York: Taylor Francis.

Montgomery, M. L. (1998). "The African American Novel". In P. Shellinger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Novel (pp. 211-230). Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn.

Refereed Book Chapters

Montgomery, M. L. (2007). "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places: Same Sex Love in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor". In C. Daileader, R. Johnson, & A. Shabazz (Eds.), Women and Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire (pp. 98-115). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Offers an analysis of Naylor's five novels in terms of her treatment of gay/lesbian relations.

Montgomery, M. L. (2000). "The Fire This Time: Apocalyse and the African American Novel". In V. Wimbush (Ed.), African Americans and the Bible (pp. 108-131). New York: Continuum International. Examines re-inscriptions of the apocalypse as a trope in representative African American novels.

Montgomery, M. L. (1999). "Good Housekeeping: Domestic Ritual in the Novels of Gloria Naylor". In M. A. Kelley (Ed.), Gloria Naylor's Early Novels (pp. 55-69). Gainesville: U P Florida. Examines Naylor's engagement with domestic space and ritual in her first four novels.

Refereed Reviews

Montgomery, M. L. (2012). “Toni Morrison’s Home: A Review Essay.” Journal of Black Masculinity, 2: 3, 81-7.

Montgomery, M. L. (2001). "Margaret Early Whitt, Understanding Gloria Naylor". African American Review, 35: 1, 27-29.

Montgomery, M. L. (2000). "Gloria Naylor, The Men of Brewster Place". African American Review, 34: 1, 176-178.

Montgomery, M. L. (1993). "Gloria Naylor, Bailey's Cafe". Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, 22: 6, 111-115.

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Nonrefereed Reviews

Montgomery, M. L. (1993). "Earl Braggs, Hat, Dancer, Blue". The Tallahassee Democrat.

Montgomery, M. L. (1989). "Conversations With James Baldwin". The Tallahassee Democrat.

Presentations

Invited Papers at SymposiaFor invited papers presented at symposia, 100.0% were international in scope.

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2006, March). "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places: Same Sex Love and the Space of Otherness in Gloria Naylor's Fiction". In Gary Taylor (Chair), Signs of Race. Symposium conducted at the meeting of University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama. (International)

Refereed Papers at ConferencesFor refereed papers presented at conferences, 7.1% were international, 71.4% were national, 7.1% were regional, 14.3% were state in scope.

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2013, February). “Re-Membering the Forgotten War: Memory, History, and the Body in Toni Morrison’s Home. Paper presented at Southern American Studies Association Convention, Charleston, South Carolina. (National).

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2010, April). "Got On My Traveling Shoes: Toni Morrison's A Mercy as Migration Narrative". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Brooklyn, New York: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2008, April). "Finding Peace in the Middle: Writing, Resistance, and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Charleston, South Carolina: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2007, April). "The Religion of MuDear: The Spirit-Goddes in Tina McElroy Ansa's Ugly Ways". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Miama, Florida: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2006, October). "The Religion of MuDear: Refiguring the Spirit-Goddess in Tina McElroy Ansa's Ugly Ways". Paper presented at Florida College English Association Convention, Lakeland, Florida: Florida College English Association. (State)

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Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2006, April). "Performing Blackness: Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place as Screenplay". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Birmingham, Alabama: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2004, January). "Writing Back to Empire: Reading Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills as Postcolonial Narrative". Paper presented at Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii. (International)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2000, April). "Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe, Toni Morrison's Jazz, and The Harlem Renaissance". Paper presented at MELUS Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana: Society for the Study of American Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1993, May). "Just as Bad as You Please: Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition as a Rewriting of the Badman Hero Tale". Paper presented at American Literature Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland: American Literature Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1993, April). "Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Daytona Beach, Florida: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1992, October). "Rewriting the Apocalypse: The Image of the End of the World in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor". Paper presented at Florida College English Association Convention, Daytona Beach, Florida: Florida College English Association. (State)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1992, April). "Spectatorship in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Knoxville, Tennessee: College Language Associaton. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1990, October). "The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye". Paper presented at Conference on Literature and Film, Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1990, October). "Ovid's The Metamorphosis and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon". Paper presented at Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland: Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. (Regional)

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Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1989, March). "The Return to the Womb: Myth and Ritual in Recent Black Women's Fiction". Paper presented at Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature Convention, Greenville, North Carolina: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature. (National)

Nonrefereed Papers at ConferencesFor nonrefereed papers presented at conferences, 71.4% were national, 28.6% were state in scope.

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 2009, October). Session Chair, "Bridging the Divide: Pedagocial Theory and Practice in the Compositon Classroom". Paper presented at Florida College English Convention, Boynton Beach, Florida: Florida College English Association. (State)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1998, April). Session Chair, "Mimesis: Africa in Caribbean Culture and Literature". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Tallahassee, Florida: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1997, January). Session Chair, "Images of Blacks in Film". Paper presented at Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1993, January). Session Chair, "The Power of Female Performance". Paper presented at Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1992, October). Session Chair, "New Directions for African American Literary Studies in the Twentieth Century". Paper presented at Florida College English Association Convention, Daytona Beach, Florida: Florida College English Association. (State)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1990, April). Session Chair, "Religion and African American Fiction". Paper presented at College Language Association Convention, Columbus, Ohio: College Language Association. (National)

Montgomery, M. L. (presented 1989, January). Session Chair, "Voices of Black Women in American Literature". Paper presented at Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University. (National)

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Invited Lectures and Readings of Original WorkFor invited lectures and readings of original creative work, 40.0% were regional, 10.0% were state, 50.0% were local in scope.

Montgomery, M. L. (2012). Lecture on the Gendered Self in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Delivered at Florida Humanities Council “The Big Read” Event, Jacksonville, Florida (State)

Montgomery, M. L. (2011, March). Writerly Re-Inscriptions of the Spirit-Goddess in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Delivered at Department of Language and Literature, Gulf Coast Community College. (Regional)

Montgomery, M. L. (2011, March). Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff: Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Euf and the Tradition of Black Women's Writing. Delivered at Florida Humanities Council, Jacksonville, Florida. (State)

Montgomery, M. L. (2010, October). Mirrored Subjects: Erzulie and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. Delivered at Lambda Iota Tau Literary Honor Society, Florida State University. (Local)

Montgomery, M. L. (2008, February). "Finding Peace in the Middle: (Re)Writing the Legend of Sapphira Wade in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day". Delivered at Thomas University, Thomasville, Georgia. (Regional)

Montgomery, M. L. (2005, February). "Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe". Delivered at Thomas University, Thomasville, Georgia. (Regional)

Montgomery, M. L. (2003, November). "A Bone of Contention: The Relationship Between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston". Delivered at MaClay Preparatory School, Tallahassee, Florida. (Local)

Montgomery, M. L. (1998, September). "Contemporary Black Women's Fiction: Voices From the Margins". Delivered at Leon County Public Library, Tallahassee, Florida. (Local)

Montgomery, M. L. (1996, April). "The Fiction of Toni Morrison: Myth, Ritual, and the Journey Home". Delivered at Rickards High School, Tallahassee, Florida. (Local)

Montgomery, M. L. (1995, February). "New Directions for Teaching African American in the Twentieth Century Classroom". Delivered at Panama City Public School System, Panama City Beach, Florida. (Regional)

Montgomery, M. L. (1992, October). "Black Feminism in the Twentieth Century". Delivered at Black Student Union, Tallahassee, Florida. (Local)

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Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Montgomery, M. L. (Aug 2002 - Jun 2003). "The Unpublished Writing of Zora Neale Hurston". Funded by Florida State University. Total award $2,500. The grant permitted travel to the Amistad Research Center, the Special Collections Library at the University of Florida, and the Beinecke Library at Yale.

Montgomery, M. L. (Aug 1995 - Jun 1996). "An Examination of Sea Island Folklife in Southern African American Fiction". Funded by Florida State University. Total award $2,500. The grant enabled travel to the Penn Center for the Study of African Diaspora Culture in Beaufort, South Carolina.

SERVICE

Florida State University

FSU University Committees

Member, President’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (2012 to the present).

Member, President's Retreat Planning Committee (2010, 2011, 2012).

Member, University Committee on Faculty Sabbaticals (2008–2010).

Member, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award Commitee (2001–2003).

Member, Black Graduate Student Orientation Committee (2000–2002).

Member, Doctoral Review Committee For Chemical Engineering (1996).

Member, Secondary School Curriculum Review Commitee for English Education (1996).

Member, El Centro Director Search Committee (1995–1996).

Chairperson, Minority Student Affairs Policy Advisory Board (1993–1997).

Member, Student Academic Relations Grievance Commitee (1990–1991).

Chairperson, Delores Auzenne Graduate Fellowship Committee (1989–1993).

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FSU College Committees

Member, Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee (1995–1996).

FSU Department Committees

Chairperson, Literature Search Committee (2010–2011).

Chairperson, Gifts and Courtesies Committee (2009–2010).

Chairperson, Writing Awards Committee (2006–2009).

Chairperson, African American Literary Studies Search Committee (2004–2005).

Member, Graduate Committee (2002–2005).

Member, First-Year Writing Committee (2000–2003).

Member, Library Committee (2000–2004).

Member, Undergraduate Committee (1999–2008).

Member, Graduate Admissions Commitee (1999–2002).

Member, Evaluation Committee (1998–1999).

Chairperson, African American Literary and Cultural Studies Caucus (1988–2012).

The Profession

Editor for Refereed Journals

College Language Association Journal (2009 to the present).

Editorial Board Membership(s)

College Language Association Journal (2009 to the present).

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

Journal for Black Studies (2010–present).

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African American Review (2006).

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

Florida State University (COFRS Grant) (2009; 2013).

Service to Professional Associations

Judge, Poetry Out Loud State-Wide Competition, National Endowment for the Arts (2010–present).

Executive Board Member, Florida College English Association (1995-1998; 2008 to the present).

Additional Service Not Reported Elsewhere

Montgomery, M. L. (2009). Faculty Mentor, Black Male Institute. Minority Student Affairs.

Montgomery, M. L. (2006). Faculty Advisor. National Council For Negro Women.

Montgomery, M. L. (2005). Guest Lecturer Committee (Gloria Naylor). English Department.

Montgomery, M. L. (2002). Guest Lecturer Committee (Professor Karla F. C. Holloway). English Department; African American Studies Program; Black Student Union.

Montgomery, M. L. (1998). Guest Lecturer Committee (Professor Trudier Harris). English Department; Black Student Union; African American Studies Program.

Montgomery, M. L. (1995). Guest Lecturer Committee (Professor R. K. Barksdale). English Department; Florida A & M; Black Student Union; African American Studies Department.

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

College Language Association Florida College English Association Modern Language Association Toni Morrison Society

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Documents

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