Jaime Warburton

Before coming to IC in 2007, Jaime taught at Concordia College in Westchester and the Gibbs school in Manhattan; she has also been a flute teacher, writing tutor, lexicographer, and underpaid barista. In 2006, she received the Thomas Lux Grant in recognition of excellence in both teaching and the written word, and in 2007 was nominated as one of the year's Best Emerging Poets.

Her classes include Academic Writing I and II courses, which draw on subcultures, fairy tales, and themes of modern American lives as source material while emphasizing critical thinking, Argument, Writing the Personal Essay, and Introduction to Creative Writing. She also teaches Writing the Application Essay in IC's summer college for high school students.

Jaime has mentored Stillwater, our literary journal, and co-chairs the annual WomenSpeak conference; she also sits on the Diversity Awareness Committee. Her scholarly writing "Her/Me/Draco Malfoy: Tween Fangirl Communities and their Fictions" will next appear as a section of the forthcoming book Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity, and her poetry in Sotto Voce. A chapbook of her poetry, Note That They Cannot Live Happily, is available from Split Oak Press.

Areas

• Poetry
• Cultural/Literary Criticism
• Personal Narrative

Degrees 

• M.F.A. Writing, Sarah Lawrence College
• B.A. Writing, Ithaca College, summa cum laude
•        Minors in Women's Studies and Honors

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association
• Popular Culture Association
• International Writing Centers Association
• Children's Literature Association
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Some Conference Paper Presentations

• Gendering Robot Romances: From Artoo and Threepio to Wall-E and Eve (PCA/ACA National 2009)
• Compulsory Heterosexuality, Compulsory Mediocrity: The Queerness of the Gifted Girl (ChLA International, 2008)
• White Daughters, Native "Fathers": Indian Captivity Narratives in Children's Literature (ChLA International, 2007)
• The Fandom of Christ: Searching for Belief in Christian- and Fan-Fiction (PCA/ACA National 2007)