Erin Cory

Graduate Student

ecory@weber.ucsd.edu

Education

Ph.D Student, Communication, University of California-San Diego
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
M.A. in English Literature, May 2007

Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
B.A. with honors in English Literature, May 2003

B.A. with honors in Spanish, May 2003

Research

Though my undergraduate and masters degrees are both in English literature, I have been an active musician for most of my life and in recent years have become interested in issues pertaining to popular music. I am particularly interested in questions of gendered performance and identity in the indie rock and emo music scenes, as well as the geography of show spaces.

I believe in the power of the keytar.

Publications

“Queering the Body” panel at the English Department Fall Colloquium, “The Body,” Boston College, November 2006.

“The Candid Uncanny: Toward a Productive Mourning in the Work of Kara Walker” Beyond Revolution or Behind It?: The Politics and Practice of Contemporary Feminism Across Academic and Activist Communities. Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2007

“Dedication and Delusion: An Ecocritical Look at the Work of Timothy Treadwell and Mark Bittner” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conferience at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, June 2007

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Univeristy of California-San Diego - Fall 2007
COGN20 – Introduction to Communication with Professor David Serlin

Teaching Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA - -2006-2007
First-Year Writing Seminar

Spanish Teacher, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, Malden, MA - 2004-2005
Grades 1-7

Assistant Instructor, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN - 2002
20th Century American Literature with Professor Murray Sperber

Co-Instructor, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN - 1999
Q199: Residential Learning Workshop, Collins Living-Learning Center