Eve A. Raimon, Ph.D.
Professor, Arts & Humanities
Lewiston-Auburn College
Office: 162S
51 Westminster St.
Lewiston, ME 04240
Office Phone: 207 753-6591
Email:
raimon@usm.maine.edu
Home Department: Arts & Humanities
Eve Raimon's research interests intersect American studies
and gender studies. She is co-editor of Harriet Wilson's New
England: Race, Writing, and Region, published by the
University Press of New England with a forward from Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. (2007). 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 in ethnic studies,
gender studies, creative nonfiction, literary theory,
critical race theory, critical thinking, and expository
writing. In addition to teaching at the Lewiston
campus of USM she has offered courses in the American
and New England Studies Program as well as the in the
Women and Gender Studies Program. Other subjects she
has published on include authenticity and memory in
Cheryl Dunye's mockumentary The Watermelon Women, the
political rhetoric of education reform, the political
history of U.S. miscegenation, service learning and
adult students, the interdisciplinary teaching of race,
and on student transference and resistance in the
feminist classroom.
Her current project is a work of creative nonfiction
that examines the difficulty of historical recovery
from a personal perspective in the textual traces left
by her own mother after her death when Raimon was two.
The primary source available is an archive that
consists of a 1949 Master's thesis on Jane Austen along
with class and teaching notes from graduate school.
Education
Brandeis University, English and American Literature, Ph. D. (1995)
University of Vermont, English Literature, M.A. (1988)
Cornell University, Comparative Literature, B.A. (1980)
Courses Taught
Women Writing Across the Color Line
Women's Sentimental Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
Sexualities in Literature and Film
Motherhood: Political Institution, Cultural Icon, Defining Experience
Select Publications
Books
Co-editor, Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing,
and Region, (University Press of New England) 2007.
The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisted: Race and Nationalism in
Nineteenth Century Antislavery Literature,
(Rutgers University Press), 2004.
Articles
"Making Up Mammy: Representing Historical Erasure and
Confounding Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The
Watermelon Woman, in Too Bold for the Box
Office: A Study in Mockumentary, Wayne State
University Press, forthcoming.
Rose Cleary and Eve Allegra Raimon, "Whose 'Greater
Expectations, Anyway': Exposing Tensions in
Educational Reform Rhetoric," forthcoming in Liberal
Education.
"Miss Marsh's Uncommon School," in JerriAnne Boggis,
Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White, eds., Harriet
Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region, with
a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr., University Press of
New England, 2007.
"Teacher as Trickster, Teaching as Mirror:
Student-centered Classroom Dynamics and the Spirit of
Teaching," with Rose Cleary, Spirit of Teaching, eds.
E. Michael Brady and Desi Larson. Portland: University
of Southern Maine, 2001.
Raimon, Eve Allegra and Jan. L. Hitchcock, "'Civic
Character' Engaged: Adult Learners and Service
Learning," The Practice of Change, Washington, D.C.:
AAHE, 2000.
"Miscegenation, 'Melaleukation,' and Public
Reception," Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined
in American Culture, Purdue University Press, 1999.
David E. Harris and Eve Allegra Raimon. "'What is Race?':
A Transdisciplinary Course, A Pedagogical Challenge,"
College Teaching, 46.2 (Spring 1998).
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