DR. CARINA EVANS HOFFPAUIR

American River College ∙ 4700 College Oak Drive∙ Sacramento, CA 95841
HoffpaC [at] arc.losrios.edu

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009

M.A. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002

B.A. with Honors in English, University of Wyoming, 2000

Academic Positions

Dean of English, American River College, 2023-Present

Professor of English / Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator, American River College, 2016-2023

Assistant Professor of English, Southwestern University, 2008-2016

Interim Director of the Debby Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University, 2013-2015

Graduate Research Fellow, UCSB American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, 2007-2008

Teaching Assistant, UCSB Writing Program and Department of English, 2001-2007

Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

Southwestern University Athletics Program Faculty Special Recognition, 2015

Southwestern University Faculty-Student Research Grant, 2012-2013

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Integrated Scholarly Community Grant, 2010-2011

Southwestern University Teaching Award Finalist, 2011

UCSB Office of Residential Life Outstanding Educator Award, 2005

UCSB Pearl Butler Evans Award for Scholarship on African-American Literature, 2003

University of California Regents Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, 2000-2005

Phi Beta Kappa, 2000

TRIO McNair Scholar, 1998-2000

Publications

“The Voice of the Sea”: The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in The Awakening.” Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans’s Literary History. Edited by Leslie Petty and Nancy Dixon. University of Mississippi Press, 2025.

Review: “Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend.” The Journal of Southern History, November 2016.

“‘You-all in this together’: Feminist Alliances in Dessa Rose.” Meeting Points in Black/Africana Women’s Literature.  Edited by Helen O. Chukwuma and Preselfannie W. McDaniels. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2016.

“Fictive Imaginings: Constructing Biracial Identity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia.”  Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide. Edited by Marc Coronado et al.  Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2005.

Conference Presentations

“Texas WPA Slave Narratives and the Regional Imaginary.” The Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, 2016.

“‘Under the Guise of Fiction’: Postmodern Fantasies of Transatlantic Slavery in Mat Johnson’s Pym.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Charleston, SC, 2016.

“‘The Voice of the Sea’: The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in The Awakening.” American Literature Association Symposium, New Orleans, LA, 2015.

“Slave Narratives in American History and Literature.” Invited Seminar Participant. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, 2015.

“A Kind of Family: Interracial Female Relationships in A Mercy.”  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Claremont, CA, 2011.

“Teaching Black Sexual Politics: African American Literature and the Liberal Arts.” Associated Colleges of the South Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, Richmond, VA, 2011.

“‘Alien Procedures’: Science Fiction and Slavery in Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2010.

“‘this / a Harlem done / took / a beating’: Urban Pathology in Sapphire’s Push.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Scranton, PA, 2010.

“‘You-all in this together’: The Neo-Slave Narrative Friendship Plot in Dessa Rose.”  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2009.

“‘An Uncommon Affinity’: Queer Interracial Desire in Ann Allen Shockley’s ‘The Mistress and The Slave Girl.’”  Associated Colleges of the South Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, Memphis, TN, 2009.

“Parchmentcolored Fiction: Ambiguity and Multiracial Narratives in Light in August.” Backwoods, Backwater: Bartering Social Identities in Faulkner’s South, Santa Barbara, CA, 2008.

“Revising Romance: Cultural Trauma and Love in Beloved.”  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Riverside, CA, 2006.

“Fictive Imaginings: Constructing Biracial Identity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia.”  Crossing Lines Conference on Multiethnic Identity, Santa Barbara, CA, 2002.

Teaching

Composition:

Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking (Spring 2019)

College Composition (Fall 2002-Fall 2019)

College Composition and Literature (Fall 2016)

Technical Writing and Research for Engineers (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)

Writing in the Disciplines: Composing Essays in English (Fall 2017-Fall 2019)

Literature:

African-American Detective Fiction (Summer 2004)

American Literature (Fall 2009-Spring 2016)

American Ethnic Literature (Spring 2010- Spring 2016)

American Neo-Slave Narratives (Summer 2003-Fall 2008)

Black Women Writers (Fall 2009-Spring 2015)

First-Year Seminar (Fall 2010-Fall 2013)

Introduction to Literature (Fall 2004-Spring 2010)

Literary Analysis and Methods: American Modernisms (Fall 2013)

Representing Slavery (Fall 2015)

Senior English Capstone: Theorizing Identity in Postmodern American Literature (Fall 2011-Fall 2014)

Texas Slavery (Spring 2011)

Service

Curriculum Committee, American River College, 2024-current

Workload Committee, American River College, 2023-current

Academic Senate, American River College, 2019-2023 (Senator 2019-2021, Vice President 2021-2022. President 2022-2023)

Los Rios Community College District Academic Senate, 2021-2023

Student Success Council, American River College, 2020-2024

English Division Integrated Reading & Writing Committee, American River College, 2018-2023

English Division Literature Committee, American River College, 2016-2019

English Division Equity Committee, American River College, 2016-2018

Academic Advisor, Southwestern University, 2009-2016

Strategic Planning and Budget Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2014-2015

Feminist Studies Program Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2013-2015

Race & Ethnicity Studies Program Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2013-2014

Diversity Enrichment Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2011-2014

Humanities Area Appointee to Honor Code Council, Southwestern University, 2011-2014

Humanities Area Appointee to the Admission Committee, Southwestern University, 2009-2011

Hatton W. Sumners Scholarship Committee, Southwestern University, 2009-2011

Discipline Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2010-2011

Parking Committee Member, Southwestern University, 2010

Phi Beta Kappa Theta of Texas, Southwestern University, 2010-Present (Historian 2010, Vice President 2011, President 2012)

Writing Program Engineering Sequence Committee Member, UCSB, 2006-2007

Writing Program Academic Communities for Excellence (ACE) Committee Member, UCSB, 2002-2003

Department of English Diversity Working Group, UCSB, 2002-2004