Who is Stephanie?
Dr. Stephanie Lance is a full-time English Instructor at Hillsborough Community College, Tampa FL. She earned a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of South Florida in 2019 and a M.A. and B.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University. She has been teaching college composition and literature courses for over 15 years. Dr. Lance’s current research explores slaughterhouse imagery in twentieth and twenty-first century texts. She primarily focuses on the shared bodily oppression that exists between humans and other animals. Research interests also include Composition Studies, Feminist Theory, Environmental Ethics, Food Studies, along with Working-Class Literature, and Critical Animal Studies.
What is your good news?
Dr. Lance is published in the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction and her most recent article, “Fabricant, It’s What’s for Dinner: Tracing Industrialized Slaughter through Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio: From the Thirties, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas,” is published in the fall 2023 issue of Studies in the Fantastic.
Why did you join FCEA? How has membership in this organization had an impact on you and/or your career?
My first graduate conference was at the 2009 FCEA conference in Boynton Beach, FL. I was in the M.A. Program at FAU. The conference was exciting and filled with lots of friendly faces. As a young scholar and graduate student, I appreciated the feedback and support I received at the conference. Because of this pleasant experience, along with publishing and presenting at recent FCEA conferences, I am thrilled to continue as a member of the FCEA board in the role of secretary, and as part of the conference committee team. I couldn’t think of a better way to give back to the warm community of scholars who gave a young graduate student the confidence and support at her first conference.
Stephanie’s LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/in/steph-lance-ph-d
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