Olivia Wood

Lecturer

(she/her)

Main Affiliation

English

Building

NAC

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Olivia Wood

Education

  • Ph.D. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2024
  • M.Phil. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2021
  • M.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018
  • B.A. in English and Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016

Courses Taught

ENGL 11000: Freshman Composition
ENGL 21001: Writing in the Humanities
ENGL 21200: Intro to Language Studies/Language, Identity, and Power
ENGL 36904: Rhetoric of Social Movements -- Queer Liberation

Publications

Beyond Freddy’s Revenge: Wes Craven’s Slasher Films as Queer Texts”
Co-authored with E. Brain, in The Critical Companion to Wes Craven, eds. Fernando Pagnoni and John Darowski, Lexington Books (2023)

It Cost $1,700 To Feel Like I’m Allowed to Write this Essay”
Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Special Issue on Carework and Writing, December 2022

Rhetoric of the Invisible (Or, How Bisexual People Demand To Be Seen)”
In Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetorics, eds. Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander (2022)

“LGBTQ Memoir and Life Writing”
In LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook, eds. Deborah Amory and Allison Brown, SUNY Press (2022)

"Underground Hellos: Signaling Welcome to Marginalized Writers in the South"
Co-authored with Leia Eller; The Peer Review, September 2019

“A Diamond and a Tropic Gale: Reexamining Bisexuality in Mrs. Dalloway
Journal of Bisexuality Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, December 2018

“Time, Place, and Mrs. D: Uptake from Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours
Virginia Woolf Miscellany Issue 93, Spring/Summer 2018