Lisa Roney

Associate Professor

lcroney@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30, W 4:30-6:00, and by appointment
Campus Location: CNH307E

Education

Ph.D. in English: American Literature from Penn State University (2001)
M.F.A. in English: Creative Writing, Fiction from Penn State University (1994)
B.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College (1981)

Research Interests

Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, literature of illness, marginality, mind-body dualism, cultural representations of health and illness; images and physical aspects of home and place; the impact of digital media on narrative; the relationships between genres (e.g., architecture and narrative, painting and digital art, fiction and nonfiction); and twentieth-century American literature and women's studies.

Selected Publications

Books

Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes (memoir). New York: Henry Holt: 1999. Paperback, Owl Books: 2000.

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming "The Dying Professor Is Killing Me: The Media, Morality, and the Pubic Patient." The Patient. Ed. Maria Vaccarella and Aleksandra Pytko. Inter-Disicplinary Press eBooks, 2009. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/idp/ebooks.htm.
Forthcoming "Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: An Interrogation of Eugenics." Papers on Language and Literature.
"The Extreme Connection Between Bodies and Houses." M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture 10:4 (August 2007). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0708/03-roney.php.
"The Double Vision of Clarence Major, Painter and Writer." African American Review 28.1 (Spring 1994): 65-75. Reprinted in Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist, ed. Bernard Bell. UNCP, 2001, 161-73.

Creative Publications

Forthcoming "The Difference Between Fingers and Toes" (poem). The Hiram Poetry Review.
Forthcoming "Animal Rites" (story). Red Rock Review.
"Diagnosis 1972" (poem). The Healing Muse 8.1 (Fall 2008): 90-91.
"Listen to This" (personal essay). Writing on the Edge 19.1 (Fall 2008): 83-91.
"Easter Baking" (poem). Ruminate 6 (Winter 2007): 9.
"Panic Hardware" (story). the new renaissance 39 (Fall 2007): 41-55.
"On Giving Yourself a Shot" (memoir excerpt from Sweet Invisible Body). You&Me: America's Medical Magazine 1.1 (Fall 2007): 60.
"Good Credit" (story). So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art 15.1 (Winter/Spring 2006): 13-18.
"Fugitive Home" (memoir). Sycamore Review 17.2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 66-72.
"Pound Cake" (story). RE:AL 30.1 (Summer 2005): 72-77.
"Nothing by Comparison" (story). Harper's August 1996: 70-73.

Book Reviews

Review of Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997), by Jackie Stacey. Journal of the Medical Humanities 21.1 (Spring 2000): 48-50.

Conference Papers/Presentations

"The Dying Professor Is Killing Me: The Media, Morality, and the Pubic Patient." First Annual Conference on the Patient, a program of Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Salzburg, Austria, October 2008.
"The J in Literary Journalism." Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. New York. February 2008.
"Layers of Collaboration in Folkvine.org." Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia. December 2006.
"Physical Difference in Ship of Fools: An Interrogation of Eugenics." American Literature Association Conference. Boston. May 2005.
"The Narrative Link: Stories in Medicine, Psychoanalysis, and Creative Writing." Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. February 2004.
"Disease Awareness and Risk: An Argument for the Power of Narrative." Colloquium Series 2002 (invited presentation). Center for the Social Study of HIV/AIDS, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. June 2002.
"Observing My Bionic Body: An Essay about the Personal and the Abstract in Medicine and Literary Studies." Society for Literature and Science Conference. Buffalo, NY. October 2001.
"Biology, Psychology, and Performativity: The Case of Carson McCullers." Society for Literature and Science Conference. Atlanta. October 2000.
"Tuberculosis and Changing Views of Illness in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction." American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 1999.

Miscellaneous Publications

Forthcoming "Flannery O'Connor," "Carson McCullers," and "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." The Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Ed. Susan Burch. New York: Facts on File.

Awards

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Arts and Humanities, UCF, 2007.
Resident fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, "Medicine, Literature, and Culture," Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medidine, Hershey, PA, 2002.