Brinda Roy
Teaching Experience
COURSES TAUGHT AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (2000-present)
English 1301: Composition I
English 1302: Composition II, Liberal Arts Gateway courses on "Introduction to Women and Gender Studies" and "Identity Formation and the Power of Storytelling"
English 2322: British Literature, Anglo-Saxon to the 18th c
English 2323: British Literature, the 19th c to the Present
English 2327: American Literature I, Beginnings through Civil War
English 2333: World Literature, 18th c. to the Present
English 2342: Forms of Literature (discontinued)
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT
Designed and taught English 213: Introduction to World Literature, Fall 2000. Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas.
Designed and taught English 101.1: Freshman Seminar, Fall 1998. “Representations of Sex and Violence in Literary and Other Texts”.
English 251: Major British Writers: Chaucer to 1800, Fall 1996. Teaching Assistant, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
English 363: Contemporary American Fiction, Spring 1996. Teaching Assistant, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Professional Publications
"Expressing Humanity Through Storytelling," TLED Blog, Austin Community College, February 2020.
“Imperial Mimic Men Speaking 'Other'wise: Anxious Performances of Identity in Colonial Espionage Fiction”, Antithesis 10 (1999): 65-83.
“Late-Victorian Spectacles of ‘Allegoresis’: History, Narrative and the Staging of Empire in the Fin-de-Siècle”, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 2.1 (Fall 2000): 67-86.
Conference/Workshop Presentations
“The Stories We Tell (Share): Globalizing English 1302,” Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference: Arts and Education without Borders, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, January 17-18, 2025.
"(Re)Defining Student Success with Embedded Tutoring in an Asynchronous Liberal Arts Gateway ENGL 1302 Course," Co-Presenter with Catherine Wadbrook, Academic Support Services Conference, August 22, 2024.
"(Re)Defining Student Success with Embedded Tutoring in an Asynchronous Liberal Arts Gateway ENGL 1302 Course," Co-Presenter with Catherine Wadbrook, CLS Curriculum Conference, March 1, 2024.
“Studying Disruptors and Trailblazers: Inside an English 1302 Women and Gender Studies Classroom,” Women’s History Panel on Global Storytelling about Women: Empowerment and Disruption, Austin Community College, Austin, TX, March 28, 2023.
Global Faculty Learning Communities - Bringing the World into Your Courses, Spring Development Day, Austin Community College, Austin, TX, January 2022.
“The Stories We Tell: Lessons Learned from Globalizing English 1302,” Global Studies Symposium in International Education at Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, December 2021.
“Performing the Weird: Deploying Voice, Body, and Persona in the Classroom," Two Year College English Association Southwest Conference, Austin TX, November 2013.
“Anxious Passings in Colonial Espionage Fiction,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington DC, December 2000.
“Retrieving the Family of (Wo)Man: Colonial Domesticity and Feminine Self-Fashioning in Sara Jeannette Duncan and Flora Annie Steel," Midwest Modern Language Association meeting, Kansas City, November 2000.
“Narrating Empire: History, Theater and the Spectacle of ‘Allegoresis’ in the Colonial (Con)Text,” International Conference on Narrative, Atlanta, April 2000.
“Imperial Mimic Men Speaking 'Other'wise: Anxious Performances Between the Visible and the Articulable,”' Subjects of Culture Conference, University of Rochester, March 1999.
“Colonial Discourses of Sexuality in the Fin-de-Siècle: A Historical Perspective Via Kipling,” Making History/Constructing ‘Race’ International Conference, University of Victoria, Canada, October 1998.
“(Un)Making Histories as Allegories,” Making and Unmaking History Conference, University of Southern California, February 1998.
College Service/Honors
Hiring Committee member, Director of International Programs, Austin Community College, 2024.
Hiring Committee member, Composition and Literary Studies department, Austin Community College, 2023.
Riverbats Bravo Award, February 2022
Teaching and Learning Champions, January 2022, https://instruction.austincc.edu/tledupdates/2022/01/12/teaching-learning-champions-brinda-roy/
Hiring Committee member, Business, Government, & Technical Communications Department, Austin Community College, 2022.
Global Education Faculty Learning Community, Facilitator, 2021-present
Liberal Arts Gateway, Level 1 Fellow and Committee Member, 2020-present
CLS Faculty Evaluation Committee, Member, 2021-22
CLS Assessment Committee Holistic Grading Scorer, 2021-22
Global Gender and Women's Studies Faculty Learning Community, Participant, 2019-20
Faculty Mentor, 2010-present
Rice University Graduate Fellowship 1994-1998.
Jadavpur University (India) Governor’s Gold Medal for English Literature, 1994.
Jadavpur University (India) Department of English Medal for Shakespeare, 1994.
Ranked first in the Presidency College, English Department B.A. exam, 1992.
Published: January 01, 2025