Belinda L. Walzer. Ohio Wesleyan University B.A. in English Literary Studies and Environmental Studies, Cum Laude awarded May 2003.

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1 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Belinda L. Walzer Department of English Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue, 405 Lake Hall Boston, MA (fax) Full-time Lecturer, English Department s Writing Program, Aug 2014-Present Northeastern University; Boston, MA Assistant Teaching Professor, English Department; Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Research Associate, Civilization Series, American University of Beirut; Beirut, Lebanon Lecturer, Women s and Gender Studies Program, 2014 Graduate Instructor, English Department and Women s and Gender Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ph.D. in English awarded August Dissertation: Rhetorical Approaches to Gender and Human Rights in Contemporary Transnational Literature and Cultural Studies. Director: Dr. Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Readers: Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly and Dr. Mark Rifkin. Areas of Focus: Rhetoric and Composition, Human Rights Discourse, Postcolonial Literature, Transnational Gender Studies Certificate in Women s and Gender Studies awarded May M.A. in English Rhetoric and Composition awarded May Ohio Wesleyan University B.A. in English Literary Studies and Environmental Studies, Cum Laude awarded May RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Rhetoric and composition; rhetorical theory; transnational and comparative rhetorics; human rights discourse; visual rhetorics; writing studies; contemporary global literature; transnational gender studies; postcolonial studies; cultural studies; graphic narrative; writing program administration. PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT

2 Walzer 2 of 7 Kairos and Comics: Reading Human Rights Intercontextually in Joe Sacco's Graphic Narratives. Co-authored with Rose Brister. Human Rights and Cultural Forms. Spec. issue of College Literature (Summer 2013): Print Rev. of Inventing Human Rights, by Lynn Hunt. Human Rights and Literary Forms. Spec. issue of Comparative Literature Studies 46.1 (2009): Print. English N: A Guide to English 101 and 102 for Non-Native English Speakers. Writing Matters 4 th ed. Kendall/Hunt: Print PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING AND UNDER REVIEW Rhetorical Approaches to Teaching Human Rights: The Pedagogy of Speak Truth to Power. Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series. Forthcoming. Resources for Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Co-authored with Alexandra Moore. Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series. Forthcoming. Tracing Normativity: World War II, the UDHR, and the Rise of Rights. Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Eds. Sophia McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Volume under contract. Inventing Forms: (Il)legibility and Normativity in Human Rights Discourse Victims and Agents: Aesthetic, Legal, and Political Framings of Human Rights and Humanitarianism. Editors: Jonas Ross Kjærgård, Karen- Margrethe Simonsen. Accepted for publication. Review Essay of Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights by Arabella Lyon. Philosophy & Rhetoric. Forthcoming. WORKS IN PROGRESS Writing Rights: The Normativity of Universal Human Rights. Proposal awarded Wake Forest University 2013 Sponsor for NEH summer stipend. Anticipated book proposal submission, Spring Beyond Revolution: The Fiction of Individual Sovereignty in Marjane Satrapi s Persepolis For submission to Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Fall The "Violent Gift" of Rights: Transnational Feminist Solidarity in The Road to Wanting For submission to SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Fall GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS NEH Summer Stipend submission nomination, Wake Forest University, 2013 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award, UNCG, 2011 English Department Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, UNCG, 2011 Sally and Alan Cone Graduate Student Travel Grant, Women s and Gender Studies, UNCG, 2011

3 Walzer 3 of 7 American Comparative Literature Association Graduate Student Travel Award, 2008 English Department Travel Award, UNCG, 2008 SELECT CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS Capitalizing on the Moment: (Il)legibility and Normativity in Rights Discourse Cultural Capital of Human Rights Texts. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York City, NY, March 2014 Discovering Words : WWII, the UDHR and Tracing Normativity in Human Rights, Negotiating Human Rights: Aesthetic, Cultural, and Political Framings, Aarhus, Denmark, January Beyond Revolution: The Fiction of Individual Sovereignty in Persepolis, The Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January The Time(ing) of Rights: Akairos and Normativity in Antjie Krog s There Was This Goat, Society For Comparative Literature, Greensboro, NC, October A Time for Rights: Kairos and Temporal Concerns in the Human Rights Graphic Narrative Feminisms and Rhetorics, Palo Alto, CA, September Re-Orienting the Critical Moment: Disruption in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Presented with Sue Spearey. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, April The "Violent Gift" of Rights: Transnational Feminist Solidarity in The Road to Wanting, Trafficking: Bodies, Cargo, Texts. The Modern Language of America Conference. Boston, MA, January Narrative Possibilities: Rhetorical Approaches to Gender and Human Rights in Contemporary Transnational Literature and Cultural Studies. Rhetorical Questions of Human Rights Discourse. Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Transnational Subject In The Road To Wanting. Women s Rights and / as Human Rights. Presenter and Panel Chair. The International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities. American University of Beirut, Lebanon, May Placing Rights: Rhetorical and Literary Approaches to Space/Place in Joe Sacco s Palestine. Presented with Rose Brister. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Providence, RI, March Reading Between The Lines: Narrative possibilities in Human Rights Discourse and the Transnational Feminist Graphic Narrative. Graphic Narrative and Feminist Methodology: Reading Human Rights Locally and Transnationally. Presenter and Panel Chair. Feminisms and Rhetorics, Mankato, MN, October Human Rights and Narrative Potentials. Dissertation Chapter. Biennial Summer Institute Workshop: The Possibility and Limits of Human Rights Discourse. Rhetoric Society of America, Boulder, CO, June Human Rights and Narrative Potentials: Narrative Voice, Subjectivity and Reading as Enablement. To Embrace or to Unmask: The Role of Scholarship on Human Rights in Literature and the Arts. American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, Canada, April Go Well. Remember Me: Animal s People, Human Rights and Rhetoric. Animal Rights. Presenter and Panel Chair. Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.

4 Walzer 4 of 7 Alternative Agencies: A Case for Post-Sovereign Subjectivity in Human Rights Discourse Human Rights Literary Culture Within/Against Globalization. American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, MA, April Transitional Justice Translated From Nation to City. (Re)signifying November 3 rd, 1979: Language Performance and Social Action in Greensboro, North Carolina. Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May The Act of Speaking Truth to Power: The Pedagogy and Promotion of Human Rights in Speak Truth to Power. Human Rights and/in Global Literary Production: Pedagogical and Theoretical Perspectives. American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, April Engaging Justice: Service Learning and Truth and Reconciliation. Just Common Space. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA, April (Re)Creating the Truth: The Public Intellectual s Role in the Truth and Reconciliation Process. Reception Theory: Media and Reception. Midwest Modern Language Association. Cleveland, OH, November INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS Rethinking America s Global Engagement From an Ethical Perspective. R.A.G.E.: Rethinking America's Global Engagement Conference. The Arch Society, the Euzelian Society, and the Roosevelt Institute, Wake Forest University, May Narrative Possibilities: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, Rhetoric and Subjectivity. Center for Behavioral Research (CBR), American University of Beirut, April Simone De Beauvoir s Legacy. Civilization Series, American University of Beirut, December Locating Subjectivity: Post-Sovereign Subjectivity and Human Rights Discourse in Marjane Satrapi s Graphic Narratives. Making and Remaking Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies MERGE Interdisciplinary Workshop, UNCG, September Consumerism and Commodity Fetish: Globalization and Economies in Jessica Hagedorn s Dogeaters. English 315: Postcolonial Literatures, UNCG, April Panel Moderator following director s screening of Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, Human Rights Research Network. UNCG, November SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE Northeastern University: Writing About Writing: The Theory and Practice of Writing By gaining literacy in the field of writing studies, students can apply what they learn by using their own writing as a source of analysis and reflection. Assignments encourage multimodal composition, reflection and revision. Writing Rights: Genre Conventions in Human Rights Discourse This themed course considers the conventions embedded in different genres of human rights discourse so as to encourage students to recognize the politics and power dynamics of rhetorical

5 Walzer 5 of 7 conventions in any discipline or conversation. Assignments include writing in multiple genres, including advocacy and multimodal critique. Wake Forest University: What is Language? Rhetoric and Representation This writing and speaking intensive course considers the representative capabilities of language from a rhetorical and post-structural perspective, encouraging students to question the relationship of language to reality, ethics, and knowledge production. It culminates in a final portfolio. The Response-ability of Rights: The Rhetoric of Human Rights This writing and speaking intensive course asks students to interrogate the rhetoric of the normative language of rights. It requires a scaffolded research assignment and heavy reflection and revision. Rhetorical Approaches to Transnational Feminism and Human Rights in Contemporary Literature and Film. Women s and Gender Studies (cross-list with Communications, Film, International Studies, American Ethnic Studies), course accepted and scheduled. This course interrogates hegemonic western feminism with a focus on narrative, subjectivity, and the future of feminism in a globalized world by engaging directly with women s rights as human rights from a rhetorical perspective The Rhetoric of Reconciliation, course linked with a writing course in South Africa, course accepted and scheduled. The power of words to help or harm frames this writing course on the concept and rhetoric of trauma and reconciliation. Reconciliation has long been a part of justice and this course investigates the rhetoric of reconciliation in the aftermath of human rights violations throughout the world. The course will be split into four major sections with a different international focus of violation and subsequent reconciliation for each. University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Topics in Non Western Literature, ENG 209: Human Rights Literature: Witness, Representation, Mourning This course explores the role of literature in human rights discourse from violation to postviolation responses by examining literary modes of witnessing, representation, and mourning. Students consider how literature offers alternatives to the problems of human rights discourse as a central project in the course. World Literature, ENG 110: Global Subjectivity This course examines issues of subjectivity and representation in world literature and film from a postcolonial and human rights perspective by introducing students to problems of imagining the other, representations of pain and the implicated reader. Gendered Worlds, WGS 333: Narrative In(ex)clusions: Human Rights Discourse, Gender, Subjectivity This upper level elective course in the Women s and Gender Studies program interrogates hegemonic western feminism with a focus on narrative, subjectivity and the future of feminism in a globalized world by engaging directly with women s rights as human rights from a transnational feminist perspective. Feminist Theory, WGS 350: Theories of the Self A required course for majors, this course focuses on postmodern feminist theories enabling students to acquire sufficient vocabulary and familiarity with key texts to understand and critique theories of postmodern subjectivity. Freshman Seminar, FMS 116: The Rhetoric of Rights: The Politics of Human Rights Discourse This speaking intensive first-year course encourages students to interrogate the rhetoric of contemporary Human Rights discourse through legal documents, literary texts and film. Freshman Composition I for non-native English Speakers, ENG 101N: Rhetoric and Inquiry

6 Walzer 6 of 7 This introductory writing course introduces students to the foundations of rhetoric, introductory rhetorical theory, research and academic discourse; it culminates in a final portfolio. Freshman Composition II for non-native English Speakers, ENG 102N: Can the Subaltern Speak? The Problem of Representation This speaking intensive course challenges students to consider issues of representation in a global context using rhetorical and postcolonial theory. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Human Rights Research Network, Center for Critical Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, UNCG, 2009 Assisted in developing and facilitating Human Rights Film Series: The Spectacle of Race and Rights. Provided administrative support for the film series and organized and led panel discussion on film Greensboro Closer to the Truth. Provided research assistance and annotations for Dr. Alexandra Moore s edited collection on theoretical approaches to Human Rights and/in Literature. Ras Al Khaimah Language Institute, United Arab Emirates, 2008 Certificate in intensive month-long Arabic Study Service Learning Reflection Facilitator, Communications, UNCG, 2007 Worked with Greensboro Police Department to advise a project on identity theft and helped host a conference titled Concerned Students for Truth and Reconciliation Conference. SERVICE Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society reader, 2013-Present Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement reader, 2012-Present Wake Forest University: piloting Bedford St. Martin s eportfolio service fall 2013 Wake Forest University: First Year Composition committee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: English Graduate Student Association Board Member, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Graduate Student Conference co-organizer, Writing into the Profession, Fall 2007 MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Rhetoric Society of America National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition National Women s Studies Association American Comparative Literature Association REFERENCES Dr. Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (336)

7 Walzer 7 of 7 awschult@uncg.edu Dr. Erik Doxtader, Professor, Department of English; Director, Speech Communication & Rhetoric Program; Director, USC African Studies Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town English Department, Humanities Office Building, Columbia, SC (803) erik.doxtader@gmail.com Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly, Professor, Department of English; Linda Carlisle Professorship in Women s and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (336) roskellh@uncg.edu Dr. Spoma Jovanovic, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (336) s_jovano@uncg.edu Dr. Mark Rifkin, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (908) m_rifkin@uncg.edu