Stacie McCormick, Ph.D.
s.mccormick@tcu.edu817-257-6245Sadler Hall 313 F
Program Affiliations
Biography
Stacie McCormick, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the Co-Director of the African American and African Studies Minor/Emphasis. She is the author of Staging Black Fugitivity (Ohio State University Press 2019) which examines how contemporary Black drama represents and engages with slavery. In addition to her work in Black drama and performance, she researches and writes on corporeality, visuality, and life-writing in Black women’s expressive culture. She recently edited the special issue “Toni Morrison and Adaptation” for College Literature and she is developing a manuscript in process entitled, Notes on Creating Livable Futures: Black Motherhood, Medical Inhumanity and Reimagining Care which takes up Black women’s critical engagement with obstetric racism and the medical industrial complex.
Education
Ph.D., English - The Graduate Center CUNY, 2011
MA, English, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2003
BS, English Education, Mississippi State University, 1999
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Literatures of the Global African Diaspora
Introduction to Drama - The Body in Performance
Introduction to Literature - The Body in American Literature and Culture
American Drama Survey
African American Literature Survey
Toni Morrison
Feminisms of Color
Graduate:
American Stagings
The Literary Afterlives of Slavery
Areas of Focus
20th and 21st-century American Literature
Race and Ethnic Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Literatures of the African Diaspora
Performance Studies
Body Studies
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“Introduction: Toni Morrison’s Artistic Cosmology and Enduring Legacy.” Toni Morrison and Adaptation Special Issue – Co-Edited with Rhaisa Williams. College Literature, 47(4), 2020. -
“Birthrights and Black Lives: Narrating and Disrupting Perverse Inheritances.” Women Studies Quarterly, 48(1&2), 2020, pp. 201-217. -
Staging Black Fugitivity. Black Performance and Cultural Criticism. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. 2019. -
"'Stories that Never Stop': Fugitivity and Neo-Slave Performance" Modern Drama, 62(4), 2019, 517-538. -
“August Wilson and the Anti-spectacle of Blackness and Disability in Fences and Two Trains Running.” College Language Association Journal, vol. 61, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 65-83. -
“Witnessing and Wounding in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US (MELUS) – Special Issue: Visual Culture and Race. 39.2 (2014): 188-207. -
“Holler if Ya Hear Me – Book by Todd Kriedler, Lyrics by TuPac Shakur. Directed by Kenny Leon. Palace Theatre, Broadway. New York City (Review) 21 June 2014.” Theatre Journal. Volume 61.1 (2015):124-127. -
“Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond.” Directed by Kenny Leon. Cort Theatre, New York City. (Review) 7 December 2011.” Theatre Journal. Volume 64.3 (2012): 441-444. -
“Navel-erasing: Androgyny and Self-Making in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.” Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture. Ed. Carol Henderson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. 145-161.
- “‘Stories that Never Stop’: Fugitivity and Neo-Slave Performance.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA (January 2020)
- “A Future Beyond Death: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Era of Black Lives Matter.” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA (November 2018).
- “‘The Interval of the Captive’s Redemption’: The Cultural Resonance of Nat Turner.” Northeast MLA, Pittsburgh, PA (April 2018).
- “Staging Black Geographies of Slavery in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.” “Reckoning With Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement.” The Lapidus Center/Schomburg Center, New York, NY (November 2017).
- “Upending the Familiar Spectacle of Slavery in Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection and Antebellum.” Performance Studies Focus Group/Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Las Vegas, NV. (August 2017).
- Roundtable panelist on Blackness and Disability. Celebrating African American Literature and Language Conference. Penn State University. State College, PA (October 2016).
- “Mothering from the Boundaries: Mothers of the Movement and the Politics of Grief.” Black Women and Girls Symposium, Providence College. (September 2016).
- “Trans-formations: Black Women and Gender Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth -Century.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. (January 2016).
- Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship (2021-2022)
- "Podcast Action Research" Co-Investigator - Inclusive Excellence Research Award - TCU Research Office (2021-2023)
- Michael R. Ferrari Award for Distinguished Faculty Service Finalist, Texas Christian University, 2020
- Graduate Faculty of the Year, Texas Christian University, 2019
- Teaching Award, English Department, Texas Christian University, 2019
- AddRan Diversity Research Award, Texas Christian University, 2018
- Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2017-2018
- Junior Faculty Summer Research Program, Texas Christian University, Summer 2015
- Research and Creative Activities Fellowship, Texas Christian University, May 2015
- Emory University Manuscripts and Rare Books Library Fellowship, May 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American and African Diaspora Literature, Rutgers University, 2014. (Declined)
- Alternate, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2014.
- Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize for Outstanding Feminist Dissertation in the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2011
- Modern Language Association
- National Women’s Studies Association
- Northeast Modern Language Association
- American Studies Association
- Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US
Last Updated: September 05, 2024