Natalie A. Strobach, Ph.D.

410 S. Third St., River Falls, WI

natalie.strobach@uwrf.edu
Office: (715) 425-4252
Cell: (847) 828-2564

Administrative Experience
Director and Principal Investigator of the McNair Scholars Program, University of
Wisconsin River Falls, 2015-present.
Assistant Director of the McNair Scholars Program, University of California Davis, 200913.
Education
Postdoctoral Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis,
2014-15.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California Davis, 2015.
Critical Theory Designated Emphasis.
Dissertation: Time of Death: Writing in the Wake of the Moving Image.
Co-chairs: Peggy Kamuf and Juliana Schiesari.
B.A., French, English, and Womens Studies (triple major cum laude), New Mexico State
University, 2006.
Universit Panthon-Sorbonne and Universit de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris,
France, 2003-2004.
Grant Initiatives
Grants Administered
Federal TRIO Grant, McNair Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin River Falls
(multi-year, continual renewal)
Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of California Davis:
Grant 1: To redesign Comparative Literature core curriculum, 2011.
Grant 2: To provide pedagogy workshops and outcomes assessment for incoming
Comparative Literature instructors, 2011.
Spencer and Teagle Foundation Grant for Visual Literacy and Outcomes Assessment,
Teaching Resource Center, 2009.
Federal TRIO Grant, McNair Scholars Program, University of California Davis (multiyear, continual renewal)
Grants Authored
University of WisconsinRiver Falls 2017-21 McNair Scholars Program Grant
(Submission: 2017).
Capacity Building Grant for U.S. Undergraduate Study Abroad for Underrepresented

Students through the US Department of Education (Submission: Spring 2016).

First in the World Program Development Grant for Innovative Teaching of
Underrepresented Scholars through the US Department of Education (Submission:
Spring 2016).
University of California Davis 2012-16 McNair Scholars Program Grant (Submission:
2012).
Honors and Awards
Dissertation Fellowships
Provosts Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, UC Davis, 2013.
Dissertation Development Grant, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Davis, 2010.
Travel Awards
International Travel Award, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Davis, 2011.
McNair Travel Award, NMSU McNair Scholars Program, 2006.
Teaching Awards
Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Davis Academic Senate, 2010.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Associated Students of UC Davis, 2008.
Academic Honors
Crimson Scholar, New Mexico State University, 2006.
McNair Scholar, New Mexico State University, 2004-06.
Publications
Invited Review of A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, edited by
Laura Marcus and Ankhi Mukherjee, for Revue internationale de philosophie.
Forthcoming Spring 2017.
An End to the Magic Lantern: Prousts Reconstruction of Memory through Cinema,
Cinematic Strategies in XX Century Narratives, Cambria Press. Forthcoming 2017.
On Laughter and Other Sacrifices, Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18.2,
June 2013.
De-Composed Theory: Hlne Cixous Re-Pairing of the Aporia Between Idea and
Theory, McNair Scholars Journal, New Mexico State University. 2007.
Conferences
National Conferences
Invited moderator. University of California Berkeley McNair Scholars Symposium,
Berkeley, August 2016.
On Teaching Psychoanalysis and Ambivalence, ACLA Annual Conference, Harvard

University, March 2016.

Mental Health from Symbolism to the Signifying Chain: The Irrelevance of
Understanding, ACLA Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2015.
Discussant. Student Research Skills Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Stout.
December 2015.
To Blossom Beside a Deconsecrated Tomb: A Derridean Reading of Diffraction and the
Narrative Frame, ACLA Annual Conference, New York University, March 2014.
Exile, Death, Sacrifice: The Poetics of Suffering in the work of Hlne Cixous, MLA
Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2014.
Flipping Goan Atom: Binding and Idolatry in Bergvall and Cixous, ACLA Annual
Conference, Brown University, April 2012.
Playing Platos Child: Derridas Education from Antiquity, ACLA Annual Conference,
Harvard University, April 2010.
If knaves should tempt you:' Amor Intellectualis and the Writer's Play Between the Sheets,
UC Irvine Annual Comparative Literature Conference, April 2009.
The Terminal Body: A Passage and Platform to the Writer," ACLA Annual Conference,
Long Beach, April 2008.
De-Composed Theory: Hlne Cixous Re-Pairing of the Aporia Between Idea and
Theory, University of California Berkeley McNair Scholars Symposium, 2006.
International Conferences
A Fish with a Fig: A Narrative Time of Possibility. The International Conference on
Psychology and the Arts, Universit de Reims, June-July 2016.
Lacking Strength, Beauty Hates Understanding for Asking of Her What It Cannot Do,
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citt de Castello, Italy, July 2011.
Beside Ourselves: Re-pairing the Image of the Human Animal, 20th/21st Century
French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, San Francisco, April 2011.
Training Conferences
Council for Opportunity in Education TRIO Grant-Writing Conference and Workshop,
New Orleans, August 2016.
Council for Opportunity in Education TRIO Grant-Writing Conference, Chicago, May
2016.

WiscAMP Conference, Methods for Diversifying the Campus Through Technology,

May 2015.
Conference Panel Organization
After Freud and Lacan: Methods for Engaging with Contemporary Psychoanalytic
Theory. Organizer for a panel at the Annual ACLA Conference at Harvard University,
March 2016.
Post- :Remembering, Binding, Afterness. Co-organizer (with Michael Graziano) for a
panel at the Annual ACLA Conference at Brown University, April 2012.
Antiquitys Body in Pre to Post Modern Literature and Culture. Co-organizer (with
Megan McMullen) for a panel at the Annual ACLA Conference at Harvard University,
April 2010.
Service
Advising and Student Outreach
International Fellowship Program Partner. Global Connection, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, 2015-2016.
Graduate Mentor, Graduate Academic Achievement and Advocacy Program, University of
California Davis, 2011-14.
Theses Supervised
Daniel Davila, The Color of Affect in Kieslowskis Three Colors Trilogy. Senior Thesis,
2016.
Rodolfo Davila, The Third Adam: Filmic Representations of Artificial Intelligence.
Senior Thesis, 2016.
Committees, Community Outreach, and Fundraising
Co-Organizer, Lydecker Fund Feminist Speaker Series (ongoing), Fall 2016
Committee Chair, McNair Scholars Program Student Support Specialist Search
Committee, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, Spring 2016.
Committee Member, Chief Faculty Technology Liaison, University of WisconsinRiver
Falls, Spring 2016.
Committee Member, Honors Program Advisor Search Committee, University of
WisconsinRiver Falls, Spring 2016.
Committee Member, University of WisconsinRiver Falls TRIO Student Support
Specialist/Assistant Director Search Committee, Spring 2016.
Campus Representative, Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP), 2015.
Committee Member, Women and Gender Studies Committee, University of Wisconsin
River Falls, 2015-present.
Co-Organizer, Womens History Month Programming and International Womens Day
Symposium, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, 2015-present.
Committee Member, Student Support Services Advisors Search Committee, University of
WisconsinRiver Falls, Fall 2015.
Member, Chancellors Leadership Assembly, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, 2015

present.
Member, Academic Affairs Directors Group, University of WisconsinRiver Falls, 2015present.
Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 2015-16.
Committee Member, Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis Education Committee, 2014.
Committee Member, Modern Language Association Committee on the Status of Graduate
Students in the Profession, 2014-16.
Co-Founder, Modern European Thought Research Cluster, University of California Davis
Humanities Institute, 2010-13.
Representative, Graduate Student Union, UC Davis, 2011-13.
Faculty-Graduate Liaison, UC Davis Comparative Literature Program, 2009-10.
Research Assistant, NMSU McNair Scholars Program, 2006.
Founder, NMSU Feminist Majority Foundation, 2004-06.
Founder, Feminists Reinventing Equality Everywhere, 2004-06.
Committee Member, NMSU Womens Studies Steering Committee, 2002-03.
Columnist, National Organization for Women, 1999-2001.
Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin River Falls Honors Program
HON 399, Honors Independent Study: On Terrorism. Spring 2016.
HON 190, Honors Seminar: From Global Engagement to Community Engagement.
Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016.
University of Wisconsin River Falls McNair Scholars Program
McNair Scholars Graduate Research Writing Seminar, Spring 2015, Summer 2015,
Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016.
University of California Davis, Department of French
FRE 2, Elementary French, Spring 2012, Winter 2012.
FRE 1, Elementary French, Fall 2011.
University of California Davis, Department of Comparative Literature
Associate Instructor and Course Designer:
COM 4: Major Books, 1945-Present:
On the Possibility of Perversion in Western Literature Spring 2011.
Re-membering Trauma in Contemporary Literature, Winter 2011.
Imaging Literature: From Mallarm to Digital Poetics, Spring 2010.
COM 3: Major Books, Late 18th to Mid-20th Century
Contingency in Contemporary World Literature, Summer 2010.
Literature and the Concept of Presence, Winter 2010.
The Lure of Antiquity in Contemporary Literature, Fall 2009.
COM 10: Master Authors
The Witness and the Watcher in Contemporary Literature, Spring 2009.
Sex and Revolt in 20th Century Poetry Winter 2009.
Modernist Intersections of Art and Literature, Fall 2008.
Teaching Assistant:

COM 7, Literature of Fantasy and the Supernatural, Winter 2008, Spring 2008.
COM 6, Myths and Legends, Fall 2007.
University of California Davis, McNair Scholars Program for Underrepresented Scholars
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Critical Interpretation and Comparative
Analysis, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Research and Grant Writing, Winter 2009,
Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Graduate-Level Writing, Fall 2008, Fall 2009,
Fall 2010, Fall 2011.
ENG 198, Senior Scholars Seminar: The Revision Process, Fall 2010, Fall 2011.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: GRE and Qualitative Skills, Summer Session I
2008, Summer Session I 2009, Summer Session I 2010, Summer Session I 2011,
Summer Session I 2011.
ENG 198, Junior Scholars Seminar: Literary Analysis, Summer Session II 2008,
Summer Session II 2009, Summer Session II 2010, Summer Session II 2011,
Summer Session II 2012.
University of California Davis, School of Law
King Hall Pre-Law Outreach Program: The History of the Essay from Montaigne to
the Courtroom, Summer 2010.
University of California Davis Extension Center
English as a Second Language, Introductory Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Intermediate Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Advanced Grammar, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Modern American Literature, Summer 2009.
English as a Second Language, Early American Literature, Summer 2009.
Ministre de l'ducation Nationale, Andr Malraux Lyce t College, Paris, France
La littrature anglaise, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
La grammaire anglaise, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
Guest Lectures
Building your graduate school application: a comprehensive overview, SURRP/ICE Cube
Summer Research Series, University of Wisconsin River Falls, Summer 2015
The Anxiety of Writing, UC Davis Law School Outreach Program, Spring 2011.
Freuds Uncanny and the Supernatural, UC Davis, Spring 2009.
Circus Freaks: Historical Framework of Kafkas Hunger Artist, UC Davis, Winter 2009.
Fostering Classroom Diversity, NMSU, 2006.
Supervised Student Ph.D. Program Offers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dairy Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physical Therapy

University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Mechanical Engineering

University of Missouri, Sociology
Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, Sociology
University of Maryland, Physics
Rutgers University, Physics
University of Arizona, Optical Science
Michigan State University, Physics
Michigan State University, Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physics
University of California San Diego, Latin American Studies
University of California Santa Cruz, Anthropology
University of California Santa Barbara, Chicano Studies and Black Studies
Cornell University, Fiber Science
Cornell University, Fiber Science
Yale University, Microbiology
University of California Davis, Mechanical Engineering
University of California Berkeley, History
University of California Berkeley, Psychology
University of California Davis, Mechanical Engineering
University of California Davis, Geography
University of California Davis, Native American Studies
University of California Santa Barbara, Chemistry
Boston College, History
University of California Los Angeles, Education
University of Pennsylvania, History
Michigan State University, Psychology
University of South Carolina, Mathematics
University of South Carolina, Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago, Sociology
University of California Davis, Spanish and Portuguese
Villanova, History
University of Connecticut, Physics
Vanderbilt, Physics
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, History
Supervised Student Masters Program Offers
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Clinical and Mental Health
Villanova University, History
James Madison University, History
University of WisconsinRiver Falls, Educational Psychology
Mills College, Public Policy
University of California Davis, Childhood Development
Sam Houston State University, Clinical Psychology
Professional Affiliations

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP)

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Humanities, Art, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)
References
Chancellor, Dr. Dean Van Galen, University of Wisconsin River Falls. 410 S Third St,
River Falls, WI 54022. Email: dean.vangalen@uwrf.edu. Phone: (715) 425-3202.
Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Fernando Delgado, University of
Minnesota Duluth. 1049 University Dr, Duluth, MN 55812. Email: vcaa@d.umn.edu.
Phone: (218) 726-7104.
Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French, Dr. Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern
California. 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0353. Email:
kamuf@usc.edu. Phone: (213) 740-0101.