Angela Fulk, Buffalo State College SUNY:
I am an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Buffalo State and
Canisius College, both located in Buffalo, NY, where I teach a variety of
courses in English, Classics, and writing.
My Ph.D., from Miami University in Ohio, is in medieval British literature,
with a secondary field in nineteenth-century British literature. In this Fall 2014 semester, which is a fairly
typical one for me, I am teaching five different courses that range from basic
writing to first-year Latin to a graduate seminar in medieval literature. I have presented twice at NeMLA, once in 2008
on Harry Potter and fan fiction, and most recently in 2013, when I received a
C.A.I.T.Y. travel award to present a paper entitled “Earthly and Heavenly Kings
as War Leaders in the Anglo-Saxon Genesis
Poem.”
At the
2008 NeMLA conference, I attended an academic employment workshop. When I explained my status as the spouse of a
tenured faculty member seeking a tenure-track or at least full-time academic
position that would not require me to live in a separate city from my husband, the
workshop leader told me, “You don’t need job counseling—you need crisis
counseling!” Well, the crisis continues for many of us, but I am hoping that by
volunteering to serve on the NeMLA board, I can help alleviate the crisis for
others like me.
Regional
conferences like NeMLA are especially important venues for contingent and
adjunct faculty who do not receive travel funds from their employers, and whose
salaries rarely allow them to travel far from home for professional activities. I am eager to help NeMLA in a Professional
Development capacity to do all I can to help these scholars, who may only have the resources to
attend one professional conference every two or three years, to benefit as much
as possible from coming to NeMLA.
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