Nancy Grayson,Professor
E-Mail: NG01@swt.edu
Phone: (512)245-2163
Fax: (512)245-8546

Research Interests

• Dorothy Wordsworth
• Mary Shelley
• Literary Theory
• Children's Classics on Film

Selected Conference Papers

• "Teacher-Scholar, Critic, Memoirist: Jane Tompkins Speaks to Student Teachers," NCTE/CEE, Albuquerque, 1998.
• "The Pleasure of the Intertext: A Dash of Semiotics for Arnold Lobel's Mouse Soup," Popular Culture Association in the South (PCA/S), Columbia, S.C., 1997.
• "Breughal, Auden, and Icarus: Encouraging Spontaneous 'Visual Imaging,'" NCTE, Chicago, 1996 .
• "Not Quite 'Methodized': Images of Nature in Children's Films, 1937-1996," American Popular Culture Association in the South (ACA/S), Savannah, 1996.
• "Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa' and Wilbur's 'The Writer': Access to Poetry, Diversity, and Metacritical Thinking," NCTE, San Diego, 1995.
• "Making Multicultural Reading an Experience for Writing," NCTE, San Diego, 1995.
• "Helping Students Read and Write from an International Perspective," NCTE, Orlando, 1994.
• "After Jane Tompkins's West of Everything: The Status of Language in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove ," Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association, Waco, Texas, 1994.
• "A 'Self-Reflexive Habit of Mind' for Student Teachers," NCTE/CEE, Washington, D.C., 1992.
• "'Hell on Women and Horses': Weather and Landscape in The Last Picture Show and Texasville," Conference on The Spirit of Place, San Marcos, Texas, 1992.
• "Roland Barthes' Theory of the Photograph, II: Channel to Narrative Art--and Metacritical Thinking," CCCC, Seattle, 1989.
• "Roland Barthes's Theory of the Photograph, I: Prism for Narrative Art," NCTE, Philadelphia, 1985.
• "Surviving the Camera Age: The Function of Metaphor in Michael J. Arlen's TV Criticism," Western Humor and Irony Movement, Phoenix, 1983.
• "Perrine and Rosenblatt: Eclectic Reading for Teachers of Literature," NCTE/CEE, Seattle, 1983.
• "Montage and Celebration: Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'A Day of Pleasure,'" Rocky Mountain MLA, Salt Lake City, 1982.
• "Doris Lessing's Place in a Survey of Literary Criticism," MLA, New York City, 1981.
• "Yesterday's Error, Today's Strategy: Carl Sandburg's 'Prayers of Steel' as Indeterminate Text," NCTE, Boston, 1981.
• "How Does a Poem Teach? Gregory Corso's 'Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway' and the Process of Critical Reading," College English Association, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 1981.
• "From Brooks and Warren to Rosenblatt and Fish: Changing Emphasis in Teaching Poetry," Program for Improving Basic Skills Instruction in the Secondary Schools, San Marcos, Texas, 1981.
• "Distinguishing Between Efferent and Aesthetic Reading to Improve Writing Skills," SWT Center for the Study of Basic Skills Spring Conference, San Marcos, Texas, 1980.
• "Necessary and Possible--Teaching Literary Criticism Systematically in English Courses," MLA, San Francisco, 1979.
• "Using and Demystifying the Formalist Approach to Children's Poetry," Rocky Mountain MLA, Albuquerque, 1979.

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