Lindsay Vreeland, Ph.D.

• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee Member, NIU Department of English (2020-2023)
• English Department Chair Search Committee Member, NIU (2021-2022)
• Anti-Racism Collective, NIU (2021-2022)
• Essay Reader & Judge - When They Call You a Terrorist Essay Contest, NIU Department of English (2021)
• BIPOC Student Support Statement Writer & Committee Member, NIU Department of English (2020)
• Guest Camp Counselor - NIU Middle School Creative Writing Camp (2019)
• Proposal Writer & Committee Member - NIU First-Year Composition Committee Student Laptop Computer Lab Program (2019)
• Graduate Student Representative - NIU CSWGS Scholarship Committee (2017)
• Graduate Student Representative - NIU CSWGS Sexuality Governance Council (2017)
• Panel Chair - Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, & Media (2017)
• Committee Member - NIU Violence Against Women Act University Task Force (2015)
• Officer - NIU English Graduate Student Association (2015)
• Student Volunteer - International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2014)
• Chief Editor - The Mill Literary Magazine (2013)
• Assistant Chief Editor - The Mill Literary Magazine (2011)
• Committee for Safety and Sexuality - Adrian College (2010)
• Co-founder, Collaborator, and Tutor - Adrian Middle School Writer’s Club (2010)

• Popular Culture Association
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

• “Lord, I hate a nasty woman’: Gendered Violence and Black Communities in Toni Morrison’s Home and Paradise". In Women Writing Trauma in Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022)
• “Filling the empty spaces with silhouettes’: Trans Women’s Friendship and Healing in jia qing wilson-yang’s Small Beauty”. postScriptum Journal (2022)
• “Nobody told me’: Chicana Women’s Madness and Mourning in Sandra Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?”. [Inter]Sections Journal (2021)
• “To change her at last into a calculable woman’: Eros, Agape, and Philia in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ and Their Eyes Were Watching God”. In Women: Exclusion and Inclusion, Yking Books (2017)

Conference Presentations

• Linh Nguyen and Lindsay Vreeland, "Belonging in Higher Education: Using Positionality Statements to Counter Imposter Syndrome". The Real Talk Conference: Bridging Race, Identify, and Community. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL. (October 27, 2023).
• “Teaching Through Trauma: Methods for Student Success and Creating a Healing Space in the Virtual Classroom”. 2021 Online Teaching Symposium. Northern Illinois University. Virtual. (2021)
• “Community Vs. Convenience: Teaching in the Asynchronous FYCOMP Virtual Classroom”. Allerton English Articulation Conference. Virtual. (2021)
• “‘Filling the empty spaces with silhouettes’: Trans Women’s Friendship and Healing in jia qing wilson-yang’s Small Beauty”. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Virtual. (2021)
• “‘Nobody told me’: Chicana Women’s Madness and Mourning in Sandra Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?”. Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, & Media. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL (2019)
• “Homing and Healing in Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls: Towards a Native-feminist Homing Narrative”. Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Denver, CO. (2018)
• “‘To change her at last into a calculable woman’: Eros, Agape, and Philia in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ and Their Eyes Were Watching God” · South Atlantic. Modern Language Association Conference. Durham, NC. (2015)
• “When you asked me to speak”: Identifying Women’s Oral Tradition in Woolf and Morrison”. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. (2015).
• “Reclaiming Oral Traditions: Orality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves”. 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Loyola University. Chicago, IL (2014)
• “‘Forget the haters ’cause somebody loves ya’: Passing Moral Judgment on Popular Culture in the Teaching of Argumentation” · Allerton English Articulation Conference. Monticello, IL (Co-presenter) (2014)
• “Heterosexism in Material Culture” · Ribbons of Excellence. Adrian College. Adrian, MI. (Co-presenter) (2011)
• “Project Safety”. Women’s Diversity Conference Adrian College. Adrian, MI (Copresenter) (2011)

Guest Lectures and Presentations - Northern Illinois University

• “Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy in WGSS 240: Storytelling by Women of Color”. CSWGS Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop Symposium. (2022)
• “Mistake Recovery in the Classroom”. English Department Brownbag Roundtable. (Co-presenter). (2022)
• “Forming Intersectional Identities in Creative Writing”. Middle School Writers Camp. (2019)
• “Literary Analysis in Cross-Disciplinary Feminist Research Projects”. WGSS 610 (2018)
• “Women’s Work: How Writing, Research, and Pedagogy is Influenced by Women”. English Department Brownbag Roundtable. (Co-presenter) (2018)
• “Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Literary Analysis”. WGSS 610 (2017)
• “Insecurities and Assets: How We Internalize Gender Policing”. WGST 101 (2017)
• “Toward a New Resource for the WGS Student”. CSWGS Student Symposium (2017)
• “Revisions of Southern Womanhood in Beyoncé’s Visual Album Lemonade”. WGST 202 (2017)
• “Women’s Literature as Feminist Activism and Theory". WGST Brownbag Series (2017)
• “The WGS Student: Insights and Reflections from GenEd Instructors”. CSWGS Student Symposium (2016)
• “Gendered Approaches to Literary Analysis”. WGSS 610 (2016)
• “Dominant Beauty Culture and Intersectionality”. WGST 202 (2015)
• “An Unlikely Story: Orality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves” · Virginia Woolf Symposium (2013)

• Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop. Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. NIU. Fall 2022. (2022)
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award. Graduate School. NIU. (2019)
• Travel Grant. Graduate School. NIU. 2018-2019 (2018)
• Mothers Memorial Scholarship. Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. NIU. (2017)
• Junior Schriber Scholar Award. Department of English. NIU. (2017)
• Travel Grant. Graduate School. NIU. (2015)
• Travel Grant. Graduate School. NIU. (2014)
• Travel Grant. Graduate School. NIU. (2013)
• Sigma Tau Delta. International English Honor Society (2011)