Graduate Studentstephanie.hankinson@seattlecolleges.edu CV (235.84 KB)Fields of Interest Caribbean Drama Ecocriticism Environment Film/Cinema Postcolonial Transnational Natural DisasterBackground and ExperienceSummaryPh.C., English, University of Washington, 2016M.A., English, California Statue University, Sacramento, 2012B.A., English & Film Studies, University of California, Davis, 2009A.A., English, Bakersfield College, 2007Stephanie Hankinson is a PhD Candidate in English and former Assistant Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Washington. Her primary areas of expertise are the imagination of natural disaster in 20th-century cultural productions of the American South and Caribbean, comparative black diaspora studies, and environmental aesthetics. She is currently working to finish her dissertation titled “Natural Catastrophe in Hemispheric American Cultures”. This project rethinks catastrophe by analyzing cultural and historical dimensions as a point of ecological transition, as a crucible for literary innovation, and on a scale of human costs in four contexts (earthquakes, hurricanes, deforestation, and rising tides). She served as co-editor for the composition textbook Writer/Thinker/Maker: Approaches to Composition, Rhetoric, and Research (2017). She has published book reviews in recent issues of The Black Scholar as well as Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. She contributed a book chapter to the collection EcoCulture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse on the chronologies of disaster and narrative possibility of adaptive politics in contemporary American film (Lexington 2017). She is tenure-track Humanities, Drama, and English faculty at South Seattle College. She is also a founding member and contributor to Seattle-based performance critique collective: DeConstruct. DeConstruct is dedicated to intersectional analysis and peer-review of cross-disciplinary performance to foster increased equity in the arts in the Puget Sound region. She served as the founding Managing Editor of Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship. Research Publications, Book Chapters “Chronologies of Disaster in Beasts of the Southern Wild: Narrative Possibility and Adaptive Politics”, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, ed. Robert Bell & Robert Ficociello, Lexington 2017. “Performing Rhetorical Analysis” & "Strategic Organization", Writer, Thinker, Maker: Approaches to Composition, ed. Stephanie Hankinson, AJ Burgin, Candice Rai, Bedford/St. Martin 2017. “Adapting Natural Disaster: The Problem of Magical Realism in Beasts of the Southern Wild”, Adaptation as a Collaborative Art – Process and Practice, ed. Bernadette Cronin & Nikolai Preuschoff, Palgrave MacMillan 2017. [in progress] Publications, Reviews K. Merinda Simmons. Changing the Subject: Writing Women Across the African Diaspora for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 35.1. Lynnell L. Thomas. Desire & Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory for The Black Scholar 45.3. Caroyln Finney. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors for The Black Scholar 46.3. Courses Taught Winter 2018 ENGL 111 B: Composition: Literature Autumn 2017 ENGL 108 E: Writing Ready: Preparing For College Writing ENGL 111 M: Composition: Literature Spring 2017 ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms: New Visions: Young Black Women Writing the World Winter 2017 ENGL 244 A: Reading Drama Autumn 2016 ENGL 200 D: Reading Literary Forms: Acts of God: Natural Disaster in American Cultures Autumn 2015 ENGL 207 AB: Introduction To Cultural Studies ENGL 207 AD: Introduction To Cultural Studies Spring 2015 ENGL 131 O: Composition: Exposition Winter 2015 ENGL 131 A6: Composition: Exposition Autumn 2014 ENGL 131 Q: Composition: Exposition Additional CoursesHumanities 105: Intercultural Communication (South Seattle College), Humanities 110: Introduction to American Film (South Seattle College), Humanities 130: World Cinema (South Seattle College), Drama 125: 20th/21st Century US Theater & Race (South Seattle College), Drama 105: Introduction to World Theater (South Seattle College), English 99+101 Composition I with support (South Seattle College), English 102: College Composition II (south Seattle College), Multilingual Writers (CSUS - TA); English 50B Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present (CSUS - TA); English 4M Fundamentals of English Grammar and Writing (CSUS); English 40A Introduction to Early British Literature (CSUS - TA); English 30/Theater 55 Shakespeare as Literature (Bakersfield College); English 70 20th Century American Literature (Bakersfield College) News Related News Graduate Student Awards and Achievements Nov 30, 2018 Awards / Graduate Students Nov 16, 2017 English Department Student Success May 30, 2017 Share: Print PDF