CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Jes Battis
1555 rue de la Visitation Montreal, QC H2L-3C2
Email: jbattis@gmail.com
Current Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, City University of New York
Education
BA (English/History): University of the Fraser Valley, 1997 - 2001
MA (English): Simon Fraser University, 2001 - 2003.
PhD (English): Simon Fraser University, 2003 - 2007
Publications
Books
Unnatural Resources. Ace, forthcoming July 2010.
Homo-Files: LGBT Graduate Students Reading Culture. Editor. Lexington, forthcoming (with forward by Jay Prosser), late 2009.
A Dragon Wrecked My Prom: Teen Wizards, Mutants, and Heroes. Editor. Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington), forthcoming late 2009.
A Flash of Hex. New York: Ace, forthcoming June 2009.
Night Child. New York: Ace (Penguin), 2008.
Investigating Farscape : Uncharted Territories of Sex and Science Fiction. London, UK: IB Tauris, Mar 20 2007.
Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co Publishers, 2005.
Refereed Articles
"A Passion For Patterns: Living (and Dying) in the Queer Markets of Samuel Delany's Nevèrÿon Sequence." Science Fiction Studies, Special Issue on Sexuality, November 2009 (accepted with revisions).
"Gandalf Is Burning: Wizardry and Drag Performance." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, forthcoming 2009.
"Your Tax Dollars: The State of LGBT Youth Studies." English Studies in Canada, Special Issue. Ed. Julie Rak. Spring 2008.
"Ryan is Being Beaten: Incest, Fanfiction, and The OC." Refractory, Special Issue: Serial Television Narratives. Ed. Lucian Chaffey. Winter 2008.
"Captain Tightpants: Firefly and the Science-Fiction Canon." Slayage 7.1 (Special Issue, Wilcox and Cochran, eds.), Winter 2008.
"'I Am the Molten Heart of the World': Language and Metamorphosis in Diane Duane's Young Wizards Series." Mosaic, Sept 2007 40:3.
"Transgendered Magic: The Radical Performance of the Young Wizard." The Looking Glass, Vol 10, Issue 1, Jan 2006.
"What the Hezmanah Are You Talking About?: Alien Discourses in Farscape." Refractory, Vol 8, No 1, Fall 2005: 1-28.
"The Kryptonite Closet: Silence and Queer Secrecy in Smallville ." Jump Cut, Vol 1, No 48, January 2006.
"Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred, and the Puzzle of Illyria." Reprinted in Slayage, Vol 1, Issue 18, Sept 2005. From Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005: 112-133.
"Gazing Upon Sauron: Elves, Hobbits and the Queering of the Postcolonial Optic." Modern Fiction Studies. Special Tolkien issue, Ed. Shaun Hughes: Vol. 50, Issue 4, Winter 2004: 908-926.
"'She's Not All Grown Yet': Willow as Hybrid/Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage, Vol 1, Issue 8, March 2003: 25-43.
"'Dangling Inside the Word She ': Confusion and Gender Vertigo in Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red." Canadian Literature, Vol 1, Issue 176, Spring 2003: 197-205.
Book Chapters
"Queer Break-Ins: Erotic Service in the Novels of Chaz Brenchley and Lynn Flewelling," in Are You Being Served? Ed. Jennifer Lokash, Columbia University, forthcoming 2009-10.
"The Killer In Me: Haunted Disasporas and Queer Forensics in the Work of Eden Robinson," in Cultural Grammars of Nation, Eds. Sophie McCall and Christine Kim. Wilfred Laurier University (TransCanada Series), forthcoming 2009-10.
"Boy Meets Gayboy: Queer Adolescence in the Work of David Levithan," in Mediated Boyhood, Ed. Annette Wannamaker. Peter Lang, forthcoming 2009.
"Transgendered Magic: The Radical Performance of the Young Wizard." Reprinted in Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's Literature, Ed. Kenneth Kidd. University of Michigan, forthcoming 2009.
"My So-Called Queer: Ricky Vasquez and the Performance of Teen Exile in My So-Called Life." Eds. Michele Byers and David Lavery. Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Sept 2007.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Farscape." Ed. David Lavery. Encyclopedia of Cult Television. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, forthcoming 2009.
"Transgressive TV." Ed. Stacey Abbott. The Cult TV Book. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris, late 2008.
Book Reviews
“Fluid Arguments," Nicole Brossard. Canadian Literature, forthcoming Dec 2007
"Organic Re-Membering: Blessings (Bernice Lever); Bones About to Bloom (Shari Andrews); Concrete and Wild Carrot (Margaret Avison); Snow Formations (Carolyn Marie Souaid)." Canadian Literature, Vol 1, Issue 184, Summer 2005
"Melting the Snow: Terry Goldie's Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction." Canadian Literature Vol 1, Issue 183, Spring 2005.
"How Should I Review This?: Shadowing the Subject in Helen Hoy's How Should I Read These? " Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol 1, Issue 9, 2003.
Work In-Progress
Queer Future: LGBT Adolescent Narratives; monograph surveying queer teen literature, including original creative and autobiographical work (written by teens, for teens), from 1974-present. Ongoing postdoctoral project.
Queering the Fantastic: Gay and Lesbian Fantasy Literature. Ed. with Robin Anne Reid.
"Queer Dogs of War: Sexuality and Mayan Cosmology in Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Almanac of the Dead,'" submitted to GLQ, special issue on Queer Native Issues, Ed. Daniel Heath Justice.
Conferences and Talks
"Boy Meets Gayboy: Queer Teens and the Novels of David Levithan." Invited Talk, University of Wyoming, Department of English, and Spectrum LGBT Student Society. Nov 4, 2008.
"The Writing-Lives of LGBT Youth." CUNY Graduate Center, Friday Forum, March 28, 2008.
"Queer Future: The Writing-Lives of Gay and Lesbian Teens." Popular Culture Association 2008, San Francisco, CA, Mar 19-22.
"Homofiles: Collecting the Work of Queer Graduate Students." Queer-CUNY VIII, Dec 1, 2007, Hunter College.
“Gandalf Is Burning: Wizardry and Drag Performance.” The 2007 Popular Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA, Apr 4-7 2007.
"Ryan is Being Beaten: Incest, Fanfiction, and The OC." Presented at the 2006 Simon Fraser University Graduate Conference, Sexing the Text, Vancouver BC, Nov 3-4.
"'Crichton's Don't Cry...Often': Alienated Masculinities in Farscape." Presented at the 2006 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, When Genres Collide, White Plains NY, Jun 22-25.
"'Willow Doesn't Live Here Anymore': Buffy and the Gothic Pharmakon." Presented at the 2006 ACCUTE Conference, in coordination with the International Gothic Association, Toronto ON, Apr 27-30.
"'This Carpenter Can Drywall You into the Next Century': Xander and Female Masculinity in Buffy." Presented at the 2004 Slayage International Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville TN, May 27-30.
"Politics of the Shire: Hobbits and National Consciousness in The Lord of the Rings." Presented at the 2003 Simon Fraser University Graduate Conference, Brave New Wor(l)ds, Sept 19-20.
Awards
Governor General's Gold Medal, June 2008.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: 2007- 2009 ($82,000)
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship: 2005-2007 ($40,000)
SFU President's Research Award: Fall 2006 ($6000)
SSHRC Travel Grant: Jan 2006 ($700)
SFU English Dept Travel Grant: Jan 2006 ($500)
SFU Graduate Fellowship: Summer 2006 ($6000)
SFU Graduate Fellowship: Summer 2005 ($6000)
SFU Graduate Fellowship: Summer 2004 ($6000)
Award for "Best Essay on Buffy Studies," given at Slayage International Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, May 28 2004; David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox, conference conveners.
Teaching
Fall 2007: Media 371, Gender and Television; CUNY-Hunter College Department of Film and Media Studies. Designed and delivered seminar course with 34 students, one-hour lecture/discussion (x2) per week, plus grading all essays.
Fall 2006: English 387, Studies in Children's Literature; Sessional Instructor, designed and delivered omnibus course with 75 students, one-hour lecture (x2) and two-hour seminar (x3) per week, plus grading all essays and exams.
Spring 2005: English 306, Studies in Chaucer; Teaching-Assistant, two-hour seminar (x2) per week, plus grading essays and exams for 45 students.
Spring 2005: English 1112, Introduction to Children's Literature; External-Marker, Douglas College, responsible for grading the work of 70 students; also gave guest-lecture on The Bridge to Terabithia.
Fall 2004: English 207, Twentieth-Century World Literature; Tutor-Marker, Centre for Distance Education, responsible for grading the work of 65 students.
Fall 2004: English 1101, Canadian Literature; External-Marker, Douglas College, responsible for grading the work of 70 students.
Spring 2004: English 368, Studies in Dramatic Literature; Tutor-Marker, 65 students.
Spring 2004: English 1130, Academic Writing; External-Marker, Douglas College, responsible for grading the composition essays of 70 students.
Fall 2003: English 376, Studies in Literature and Film; Teaching-Assistant, two-hour seminar (x2) per week, plus grading essays and exams for 45 students and screening films.
Spring 2003: English 304, Advanced Medieval Literature; Tutor-Marker, 65 students; also helped revise course-module.
Fall 2002: English 101, Introduction to Prose Genres; Tutor-Marker, 65 students.
Summer 2002: English 204, Introduction to Medieval Literature; Tutor-Marker, 65 students.
Spring 2002: English 204; Teaching-Assistant, 1.5 hour seminar (x3) per week, plus grading essays and exams for 45 students.
Fall 2001: English 103, Introduction to Drama; Teaching-Assistant, one-hour seminar (x3) per week, plus grading essays and exams for 45 students.
Academic Service
Appointments Committee, SFU English Department: 2005-2006
Conference Committee, "Blowing Up The Margins 2005," SFU English Graduate Student's Conference; website design
Conference Committee, "Read 2004," SFU English Graduate Student's Conference; co-designed website with Chris Lendrum; reviewed abstracts.
Fall 2004: SFU Out On Campus Gay and Lesbian Center: a queer collective devoted to gender/sex advocacy, education and awareness around issues pertaining to queer communities, and peer-support.
Aug 2003 - 2004: organized information sessions for English undergraduates at the University College of the Fraser Valley; strategies for applying to graduate schools, thesis planning, publishing
Memberships
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
Cultural Studies Association
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society
International Gothic Association
Modern Language Association
Popular Culture Association
Science Fiction Canada
Science Fiction Research Association
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