Lisa M Logan

Department of English

Associate Professor

LMLogan@ucf.edu

Campus Location

Trevor Colbourn Hall 253G

Office Hours

W 2-5

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of Rochester (1993)

Research Interests

Early American literature; literature by women; personal narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir; early American captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing narratives; feminist theory; American novel; historical and material culture approaches. Newer teaching specialty in Native American literature and contemporary women's literature of social justice.

Recent Research Activities

Logan is working on recovering 18th-century literary manuscripts by women using archives in the U.S., UK, and Ireland.

Publications

Books

Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008. Rev. 2nd ed., 2014.

Articles/Essays

“Reconsidering the Place of Women in Transatlantic Quaker Studies.” (Review essay) Early American Literature 55.3 (2020): 821-34.
Forthcoming "Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space, Place, and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston." Women's Narratives and the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire. Ed. Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato. New York: Palgrave, 2016. 215-228.
“Thinking with Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” (A Response to “Remembering the Past: Toni Morrison’s Seventeenth Century in Today’s Classroom”). Early American Literature 48.1 (2013): 193-99.
“The Difference Teaching Equiano Makes: Notes on Teaching The Interesting Narrative in the Undergraduate American Literature Survey.” Teaching Equiano’s Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives. Ed. Eric LaMore. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2012. 255-274.
“Blogging the Early American Novel.” Transformations: A Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. 22.1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 119-123.
"The Importance of Women to Early American Study." Early American Literature. 44.3 (2009): 641-48.
“Columbia’s Daughters in Drag; or, Cross-Dressing, Collaboration, and Authorship in Early American Novels.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Literature. Ed. Mary Carruth. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama P., 2006. 240-252.
“’Cross-Cultural Conversations’: The Indian Captivity Narrative.” Blackwell Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Ed. Ivy T. Schweitzer and Susan Castillo. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 464-79.
“’And the Ladies in particular’: Constructions of Femininity in The Gentleman and Ladies Town and Country Magazine and Ladies Magazine, and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge.” Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Sharon M. Harris and Mark L. Kamrath. Knoxville, Tennessee: U of Tennessee P, 2005. 277-306.
“’Dear Matron—‘: Constructions of Women in Eighteenth-Century American Periodical Advice Columns.” Studies in American Humor. 3.11 (2004): 57-62.
“Race, Romanticism, and the Politics of Feminist Literary Study: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “’The Amber Gods.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (2001). 35-51.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domesticity.” Approaches to Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco Smith. New York: MLA, 2000. 46-56.
“The Anxieties of Authorship: Gender, Agency, and Textual Production in Eighteenth-Century America.” Review 21 (1999): 257-64.
“Encouraging Feminism: Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale in the Introductory Women’s Studies Classroom.” Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies: Expectations and Strategies. Ed. Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma. Westport: Bergin, 1999. 191-200.
"'There is no home there': Captivity and Restoration in Spofford's 'Circumstance.'" Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing. Ed. Julie Tharp and Tomoko Kuribayashi. Albany: State U of New York P, 1997. 117-30.
Introduction. Critical Essays on Carson McCullers. Ed. Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin Friedman. New York: Hall, 1996. 1-16.
"Nobody Knows Best: Carson McCullers' Plays as Social Criticism." Southern Quarterly 33. 2-3 (1995): 23-34. [Co-author: Brooke Horvath]
"Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and the 'Place' of the Woman Subject." Early American Literature 28.3 (1993): 255-77. [Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize for Best Essay in EAL 1993]

Miscellaneous Publications

“Domestic Fiction.” American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover, Robert D. Sattelmeyer. New York: Charles Scribners Sons (Thomson Gale), 2006.
“American Women’s Autobiography: Early Diarists and Memoirists.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Ed. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin. Greenwood Press, 2005. 32-42.
“Bodies in Space: Reading Gender and Race in Context.” Early American Literature 38.3 (2003): 521-26.
"Mary Lewis Kinnan." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford, et al. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 217-20.
"Julia Ward Howe." American Travel Writers, Volume II, 1851-1901. Ed. Donald Ross and James Schramer. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 189. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998: 166-71.

Awards

2018-2019 Davida Deutsch Fellowship in Women's History, Library Company of Philadelphia.
2016-2017. UCF Competitive Sabbatical Award.
2015. UCF Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.

Courses

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
83143	AML3031	American Literature Ⅰ	Web-Based (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
AML 3031 is a literary history course, focusing on broader literary movements in indigenous and British colonial America and what is now the U.S. Literature from this period uses genres and language that are less familiar to modern readers. Early American readers and publishers were suspicious of fiction and wanted “truth and beauty” instead (moral lessons and poetic forms). Poetry was an esteemed formal genre. Sermon, history, poetry, polemic, travel narrative, personal narrative, and origin story proliferated during this time. This course covers three literary historical periods: 1) indigenous, early settlement and colonial literature; 2) the Enlightenment or “Age of Reason”; and 3) the 19th-century American “Renaissance” and “Age of Reform.” The course addresses how specific literary texts produced during these historical periods confront questions which constitute and underpin American culture and history. Thematic focus uses origin stories. Assignments: Weekly readings and quizzes; bi-weekly essay postings; revision of one bi-weekly essay, final exam.
83762	AML3286	Early American Women's Words	Mixed Mode (M)	Tu 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM	Unavailable
Catalog description: PR: ENC 1102. Explores women’s writings in the Americas from the 17th through the mid-19th centuries. Fulfills the following: pre-1850 literary historical course for English majors (LIT and CRW tracks); English diversity course; upper-level elective; Gordon Rule*; Women's and Gender Studies elective. Extended course description: Until the 1980s, anthologies of American literature presented Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson as the only American women authors before 1900. However, many colonial American women wrote and were published, sometimes in genres that are less familiar to us now. We will study poems, letters, petitions, epitaphs, speeches, sampler verses, broadsides, journals, diaries, commonplace books, household manuals, travelogues, captivity narratives, and more by early modern women living in colonial America and the newly formed U.S. Required tasks: Heavy reading, weekly quizzes, midterm essay, final project, bi-weekly postings, one of which will be revised into a formal essay for a grade.

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
19806	AML3643	Cont Native Amer Prose & Poetr	Web-Based (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
POST-1865 and DIVERSITY. Catalog description: Native American prose fiction and poetry since Momaday’s House Made of Dawn (1968). Extended course description: This online upper-level literary history course covers contemporary Native American literature since 1970. Our historical focus starts with the so-called “second wave” of Native American nonfiction, novels, poetry, and short fiction. We will read about six books by Native authors and consider how these works express a range of attitudes about Native presence, history, land, language, and identity. Assignments: Two short papers; midterm; final; weekly discussion postings.
13040	AML4300	Major American Authors	Web-Based (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
POST-1865 (OR MAJOR AUTHOR) and DIVERSITY. (UCF Catalog description): “A comprehensive study of selected major American literary figures.” Detailed course description: AML 4300 is an asynchronous online course focusing on the works of acclaimed contemporary Chickasaw writer and ecofeminist Linda Hogan. We will read Hogan’s poetry, essays, memoir, and three of her novels. Heavy reading and content load consistent with upper-level literature courses. We will study the literature (Hogan’s works) and the literary scholarship about it using research in UCF databases. Three 750-word essays; weekly quizzes; one conference length (10-12 page; 2500-word) essay with research; heavy reading load.

Course #	Course	Title	Session	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
59580	LIT3383	Women in Literature	A	Web-Based (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
POST-1865 and DIVERSITY. This upper-level literature elective covers six novels by six contemporary women in six weeks. Focus is on women and girls facing environmental and social justice challenges as they navigate the process of coming of age. Writers studied: Hegland, Alvarez, Ozeki, Hogan, Morrison, and one graphic novelist. Weekly essay postings, discussions, and quizzes. Final exam.