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Eve Raimon |
December 2006
Eve Allegra Raimon, associate professor of University of Southern
Maine's Arts & Humanities program, will take over as president of the New England chapter of the American Studies Association (NEASA) in January 2007.
NEASA serves the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont. As a chapter of the American Studies Association, NEASA seeks to foster the study of the culture and history of New England; to bring together practitioners of the various disciplines that examine American and New England culture; and to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship, publication, and teaching in these areas at all levels and at all types of institutions. Its membership includes such constituencies as community college, college, and university faculty; secondary school teachers; undergraduate and graduate students, independent scholars; public historians, archivists, and museum curators.
In September, NEASA hosted its annual conference at USM titled "Homeland (In)security: Race and Citizenship in the United States," which Raimon organized with Professor Donna Cassidy of USM's American and New England Studies Program. The conference theme for September 2007 is "Sex/Changes: Historical Transformations of Sex, Gender, and Sexualities."
Professor Raimon received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in 1995. Her book, The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisted: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Antislavery Literature, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2004. She teaches courses at USM's Lewiston-Auburn campus in ethnic studies, gender studies, popular culture, critical thinking, literary theory, and expository writing. She has also taught in the American and New England Studies Program and the Women's Studies program in Portland. Professor Raimon has published on the political history of U.S. miscegenation, on service learning and adult students, on the interdisciplinary teaching of race, and on student transference and resistance in the feminist classroom. She is co-editor of Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region, forthcoming from the University Press of New England with a forward from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
