Paige Gray

160 Riverview Dr.

Durango, CO 81301
blankpaige@gmail.com
765.969.4964

Education
Doctor of Philosophy English The University of Southern Mississippi, 2016
Dissertation: Cub Reporters: American Childrens Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age
Research Areas: Childrens and Young Adult Literature; Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Journalism and Media Studies
Master of Arts English The University of Southern Mississippi, 2012
Thesis: Bloom in the Moonshine:Imagination as Liberation in Anne of Green Gables
Master of Arts Journalism Columbia College Chicago, 2008
Thesis: Walking Around in CIRCLES: A Look into Chicagos Chinese Mutual Aid Association and the
Restructuring of Immigrant Nonprofits
Emphasis Area: News Writing and Reporting
Bachelor of Arts English Honors Indiana University, 2005
Thesis: Theres No Place Like Home:Reconstructing Domestic Ideology in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
Winters Tale and A Cyborg Manifesto
Degree minors: Spanish; Dance

Academic Positions
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
English and Communications, Fort Lewis College
(Durango, CO), 2016-

Composition and Literature Instructor,

Department of English, The University of Southern
Mississippi, 2011-2015

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of

English and Philosophy, The United States Military
Academy at West Point, 2015-2016

Professional Media Experience

Freelance writer/journalist, 2006 Publications include: Humanities; Mississippi
Magazine; Sense (Mobile, Ala.); LocalFlavor
(Santa Fe, N.M.); Compass Media (Alabama
and Mississippi Gulf Coast region);
CenterstageChicago.com (a Chicago Sun-Times
property); Huerfano County World newspaper

(Colo.); Cairn online magazine (Denver, Colo.);

Chicago Journal; Mint Magazine (Chicago)

Freelance manuscript copy editor, 2014 Recent works include How Robert Frost Made
Realism Matter by Jonathan Barron (U of Missouri
P, 2015) and The International Law of Youth Rights
edited by William Angel (Brill, 2015)

Special Sections Editor

The Taos News Taos, N.M., 2009-2010
Both The Taos News and my individual sections
received first place recognition and honors by
the New Mexico Press Association and the
National Newspaper Association.
Copy editor/page designer
Summit Daily News Frisco, Colo., 2008
Assistant Editor
ChicagoTalks.org Chicago, IL, 2008
Working under Suzanne McBride, Columbia
College Chicago's Assocaite Chair of Journalism,
I helped chose, edit, and publish article for the
Chicago neighborhood news site partially funded
by the Knight Foundation.
Editorial Assistant
Crain Communications Chicago, IL, 2008
In this position, I compiled, organized and
edited data for the nationally recognized, awardwinning weekly magazine Modern Healthcare. This
role also included contacting key publication
sources regarding articles, surveys and special
projects.

Writer/Intern
CenterstageChicago.com Chicago, IL, 2007-2008
As part of the team for the Chicago Sun-Times'
online city guide, I maintained and updated
the site with fresh, accurate information about
Chicago restaurants and entertainment. I also
profiled dining, music and theater venues and
generated content and headlines for special
projects and features.
Marketing manager, graphic designer,
reporter, columnist
Indiana Daily Student Bloomington, IN, 2001-2005
The Indiana Daily Student continually garners
state and national honors, and has repeatedly
won the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker
Award and the Society of Professional
Journalists Mark of Excellence, including 20012005.

Academic Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Join the Club: African American Children's
Literature, Social Change, and the Chicago
Defemder Jr. Childrens Literature Association Quarterly
(Forthcoming)
A Different Sunshine: Writing Jamaican
National Identity Through the Girls Comingof-Age Story in Paulette Ramseys Aunt Jen
Bookbird: A Journal of International Childrens Literature
53.2 (2015)

Bloom in the Moonshine:Imagination as

Liberation in Anne of Green Gables Children's
Literature 42 (2014)
Interviews & Reviews

Review: Dargers Resources by Michael Moon

The Journal of American Culture 36.4 (2013)
Interview with Actor Gordon Clapp The Robert
Frost Review 22 (2012/2013)

Essay Collections
A Spectacle of Girls: L. Frank Baum, Women
Reporters, and the Man Behind the Curtain
in Early Twentieth-Century America Girls
Series Books and American Popular Culture. Ed. LuElla
L. D'Amico. Lanham, MD: Lexington-Rowman &
Littlefield, March 2016.
Finding Our Timeless Neverland:
Reconstucting Age Identity through
Imagination Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan: Studies in
Contemporary Myth. Ed. Alfonso Muoz Corcuera and
Elisa T. Di Biase. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars, 2012.
Editorial Positions
Managing Editor and Graphic Designer, The
Robert Frost Review, The University of Southern
Mississippi, 2010-2015

Community Work & Mentoring

Hattiesburg Teen Book Club Facilitator and
Co-Founder, partnership between the local public
library and the USM Dept. of English, 2012-2015
Camp Quidd-Lit Instructor and Coordinator,
The University of Southern
Mississippi, 2014 & 2015
Summer youth camp focusing on children's
and young adult literature.

Journalism Mentor, Columbia College Chicago,

2007-2008
Adult Literacy, ESL, and Writing Tutor, 20042009
Instructor, Purdue University Gifted Education
Resource Institution, 2005
Storytelling and Book-making

Selected Honors and Awards

Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American
Literature The University of
Virginia, 2014
Childrens Literature Association Graduate
Student Honor Essay Award 2013
The Not Unmusical Cries of a Peculiar Class
in America: The Evolution' of Horatio Alger,
Jr.s Newsboys and Print Journalism in the Late
Nineteenth Century
Alternate for the National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute Program 2013
Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in
Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893-1955
James Sims Essay Award The University of
Southern Mississippi, 2013
The Not Unmusical Cries of a Peculiar Class
in America: The Evolution' of Horatio Alger,
Jr.s Newsboys and Print Journalism in the Late
Nineteenth Century
Helen Bahr Graduate Research Award The
University of Southern Mississippi, 2013, 2015

AAUW Hoffman Scholarship 2012-2013

Financial award given to graduate of Richmond
High School (Richmond, IN) pursuing English
graduate studies
First Place English Graduate Organization
Essay Award, The University of Southern
Mississippi, 2012
Big Chief Tablets Caught in Spider Webs:
Delusion, Academia, and the Southern Past in A
Confederacy of Dunces and All the Kings Men
English Graduate Organization Travel Grant
Award, The University of Southern Mississippi,
2011-2014
Teaching Assistantship, The University of
Southern Mississippi, 2010Distinguished Graduate Columbia College
Chicago, 2008
Graduate Opportunity Award Columbia College
Chicago, 2007