About:
I am an Assistant Professor of English at Bronx Community College and
currently live in the Washington Heights area of New York City. Five years
ago I returned to my hometown after ten years in New Mexico, Arizona, and
California. My great loves are travel, people who take risks in the interest of
social justice, books and all arts, animals, deserts, beaches, and cities. Most
of all I love my son Theo, my family, and friends.
My professional interests include the intersections of critical pedagogy, cultural
studies, and 19th and 20th Century American literatures. I have special interest
in contemporary American Indian, Latino, and African American literatures. I am
also interested in theories of hybrid identies, and non-traditional "texts" of dissent,
including animal rights. In short, my areas are literature, theory, and praxis of social
activism and global justice.
Julie Bolt, Ph.D.
juliethebolt@gmail.com
Office Home
English Department
Bronx Community College 736 West 187th Street #601
University and 181 Street New York, NY 10033
New York, NY
718-289-5100 212-923-4159
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EDUCATION
2003 Ph.D. Individualized Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies,
The University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Border Pedagogy for Democratic Practice. Chair: Richard Ruiz
1999 M.A. American and Postcolonial Literatures,
New MexicoStateUniversity.
Thesis: Towards Emancipation: Education and “The Other”
in American Literature. Chair: Chris Burnham
1992 M.Ed. Teacher Education, TempleUniversity, College of Education.
Specialization: English Composition and Literacy Education.
1989 B.A. Creative Writing with a Minor in Film Studies, BardCollege, 1989.
Senior Project: The Moon Was an Umbrella: A novella. Chair: Robert Kelly
HONORS AND AWARDS
· Graduate College Fellowship, The University of Arizona: 1998
· Verna Newman Rule Scholarship for the Most Outstanding
Graduate Work in English, New Mexico State University: 1996.
TEACHING
Assistant Professor, BronxCommunity College
Courses taught: Developmental Writing 1: "The Active Writer and the World;
Developmental Writing 2: "Writing, Citizenship, and Change"; Composition
and Rhetoric 1: "The Paradox of Freedom; Composition and Rhetoric 2:
"Actvism, Arts, and Social Change"; Writing About Prose:
“Crossing Borders in the Americas.” 2005 – present. In the Fall of 2009, I will teach
the course, "The Black Writer in American Life."
Full-time Instructor, The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles.
Courses taught: English Composition, World Literature,
American Indian Literature, The Arts in Society,
The Novel: Rebel Women, Creative Writing. 2000 – 2005.
Adjunct, AntiochUniversityLos Angeles, Department of Education.
Courses taught: Education, Class, and Constructions of Difference
(M.Ed. students); Child Development (undergraduate). 1999 – 2001.
Adjunct, Santa MonicaCollege, English Department.
Courses taught: English 1, English 2, Developmental English. 1999 – 2001.
Teaching Assistant, The University of Arizona, Department of English.
Course taught: First Year Composition. 1998-1999.
Full-time Instructor, The Art Institute of Philadelphia.
Courses taught: Composition and Language, World Literature,
Sociology, Culture & Thinking, Film History, Feature Writing,
Developmental Writing, Developmental Reading,
Served as Director of Peer Tutoring Program and seved a year
as Department Chair. 1991—1998 (hiatus for MA).
Student Teacher, New MexicoStateUniversity.
Courses taught: Rhetoric and Composition, Advanced Composition,
Non Fiction Writing, Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
"Equality, Opportunity, Economy: Education in America" and
"Education and Identity in the Americas."
Served as Assistant Director of the WritingCenter. 1995 – 1997.
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, BOOK CHAPTERS
* “Hybid Positioning and Student Agency in the Postcolonial Americas:
Why Teaching American Indian Literature Matters.”
Radical Teacher: a Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the
Theory and Practice of Teaching. Volume #82. Center for Critical Education, Inc. 2008.
" "The Paradox of Freedom: The Tension Between Representation and Canonization
in the Classroom."
The Scholarship of Teaching: Faculty Development Through Cross-campus Collaboration. 2008.
" "Teaching Notes: Walt Whitman’s ‘I Sing the Body Electric.” Radical Teacher: a Socialist,
Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching.
Volume #78. Center for Critical Education, Inc. 2007.
“Teaching Notes: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Radical Teacher: a Socialist,
Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching. Volume #75.
Center for Critical Education, Inc. 2006.
“The Beatnik Poets.” The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century American
Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Facts on File Press. 2005.
“Teaching Notes: Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World. "
Radical Teacher: a Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice
of Teaching, Volume #72. Center for Critical Education, Inc. 2005.
“Seeking an Active Utopia: Truth-making in Menchu, Stoll, and the Classroom.”
The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. November 1999.
“Literacy Love or How We Came to Love the Independent Study.”
(with C. Ulmann,et al.) Southern Arizona Review. University of Arizona Press.
Fall 1999.
"Bordercrossings: Seeing the Hemisphere Whole in a New Anthology about
the U.S./Mexican Border.” Puerto del Sol. New MexicoStateUniversity Press. 1997.
FICTION AND POETRY
“Precipice,” Slow Trains Literary Magazine. Online journal. Volume #7.
Summer 2007.
Two Poems: “Put Down Your Bugle O Bard” and “If Walt Whitman Was
a Woman in the 21st Century. Slow Trains Literary Magazine. Online journal.
Volume #6. Spring 2007.
“The Strangling Vine.” The Beat. Online journal. 2007.
“Part and Parcel.” Syntax: A
Denver Review. Juried online journal. Issue 6.
Fall 2006.
“My Window, My Threshold,” Poetic Diversity. Online journal. August 2006.
“A Reoccurring Question,” The Taj Mahal Review: Cyberwit’s International
Journal Devoted to Literature, Poetry, and Culture.” Cyberwit. Volume 5. Issue 1.
Pages 153-158. June 2006.
“Tourism: A Poem.” Zygote in My Coffee. Online journal. Issue 55. December 2005.
“Appetite of a Dead Connoisseur,” The Red River Review. Online journal. Fall 2005.
“Sages: A Poem.” Zygote in My Coffee. Online journal. Issue 54. December 2005.
“Open the Door.” The Sidewalk’s End. Online journal. Volume 7, Issue 2. Fall 2005.
“The Riverbed.” Thieves Jargon. Online journal. 2005.
“My Name is Valenza Will,” The Lampshade. Online journal. (Out of print.) 2004.
“The Offering,” Flash Me Magazine: an Online Journal for Flash Fiction. 2003.
“Willies,” Slow Trains Journal. 2003.
“The Offering,” Flash Me Fiction: An Online Literary Journal. 2003.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Teaching Notes: Howard Zinn's The History of American Empire: A Graphic History Novel.”
Radical Teacher: a Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of
Teaching. Center for Critical Education, Inc. Forthcoming 2009.
“Teaching Notes: Luis Valdez’s Teatro Campesino.” Radical Teacher: a Socialist,
Feminist, Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching. Forthcoming 2009.
(Proposed) Co-editor: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sherman Alexie.
