Pamela Demory
- Lecturer
367 Voorhies
Davis, CA 95616
Office Hours: T 3:15-4:15, R 10:00-11:00, F 9:00-10:00
Davis, CA 95616
Office Hours: T 3:15-4:15, R 10:00-11:00, F 9:00-10:00
Email:
phdemory@ucdavis.edu
Phone:
(530) 752-9535
Education:
- Ph.D.,University of California, Davis, 1990
- M.A., University of California, Davis, 1986
- B.A., University of Southern California, 1979
Biography:
Dr. Demory began teaching at UC Davis in 1987, as a Ph.D. student, and has been a full-time lecturer since 1990. She is currently a continuing lecturer in the University Writing Program. Her teaching interests include advanced expository writing, writing in the sciences, research writing, travel writing, Modernism, 20th-century English literature, the short story, the novel, film studies, and adaptation studies. She is currently editor of Prized Writing, an anthology of award-winning UCD student writing.
Conference Presentations:
Numerous papers in the areas of
- film adaptation
- travel literature
- the work of Joseph Conrad
- documentary film
- ethics and literature
- composition and writing
- autobiography
- detective fiction
Chair of sessions in the areas of
- film and literature
- ethics and literature
- autobiography
Workshops Program, UC Davis:
For undergraduate and graduate students (as a member of the Writing in the Disciplines Workshop Program), numerous workshops on- writing research papers
- writing abstracts and executive summaries
- writing dissertations
- writing grant proposals
- writing the personal statement for graduate school or medical school.
- revising sentence structure for clarity and concise
- documentation
- teaching with Prized Writing
- teaching research
- teaching the personal statement
- preparing lectures
- grading papers
Honors and Awards
- Teaching Resources Center, Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program grant, 2004.
- Educational Technology Grant, "Creating Custom DVDs to Illustrate Concepts in Film Narrative/Theory", 2003.
- Academic Federation Professional Development Leave, Fall Quarter, 2000.
- Academic Federation Research Travel Award, November 1999.
- Academic Federation Research Travel Award, November 1996.
- Post-Doctoral Lectureship, University of California, Davis, 1990-91.
- Humanities Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 1989-90.
- Pass with Distinction, Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations, Spring 1988., Spring 1988.
- Regents' Fellowships, University of California, Davis, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87.
- Distinguished Scholar Research Award, University of California, Davis, 1984-85.
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Southern California, 1979.
Publications
- "Into the Heart of Light: Barbara Kingsolver Re-reads Heart of Darkness ," Conradiana (2002).
- "'It's About Seeing . . .'-Representations of the Female Body in Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Raymond Carver's Stories," Pacific Coast Philology (1999).
- "Faithfulness vs. Faith: John Huston's Version of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood," Journal of Southern Religion (1999).
- "Ambivalence in Joseph Conrad's A Personal Record : The Anti-Autobiographical Autobiography," Pacific Coast Philology (1997).
- "Violence and Transcendence in Pulp Fiction and Flannery O'Connor," The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and Society. Selected papers, Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (1995).
- "Intertextuality," Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts (1994).
- " Nostromo : Making History," Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Fall 1993).
- " Nostromo and Don Quixote: The Fiction of True History," Nostromo . Ed. Jean-Paul Pichardie and Jean Kempf. Spec. issue of Cercle (January 1993).
- " Nostromo and The Great Gatsby," Etudes Anglaises (1988) (co-authored with Peter L. Hays).
FBI Special Agent is Guest Speaker in Stephen Magagnini's Journalism Class
Writing on the Edge and Prized Writing 20th Year Publication Celebration