Endeavors
Interests and Foci:
Ms. Stuller has experience writing Opinion, Real Estate, Urban Architecture, Profiles & Interviews, Lifestyles, and her speciality, critiques of popular culture. She’s particularly interested in a full or part-time position as a television critic for print and/or web publications and is currently writing a book that addresses representations of mythic women in television, film, and comics.
Undertakings:
- Contributed entry to the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society;
a 2-volume reference project covering the major theories, research, people and issues in contemporary gender studies (SAGE Publications, forthcoming 2008).
- Reading Comics Focus Group:
Winter Quarter 2007, Ms. Stuller co-instructed a credited focus group on Reading Comics, through the UW’s Program in Comparative History of Ideas. The course included a history of comics — with special attention given to issues of diversity, a section on panels and narrative, and a look at how sequential art has influenced other media.
- Presented “Singing the Body Imaginative: The Elemental Flesh in Alan Moore’s Promethea”
at the annual Comics Art Conference, a component of San Diego’s International Comic-Con. July, 2006.
- Presented “Where Do We Go From Here?”
at the Second Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. May, 2006.
- Thesis Project
With the help of her mentors Kate Noble, Ruby Blondell, and Phillip Thurtle, Ms. Stuller wrote her undergraduate thesis on the topic of the female hero in modern mythology in the form of a book proposal. Thesis project completed Fall, 2005.
- Presented “Buffy and the Amazon Princess”
at University of Melbourne’s “Holy Men in Tights” Superhero Conference. Summer, 2005.
- Radio Interview; Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
Interviewed regarding superheroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the “Holy Men in Tights conference,” by Radio National Breakfast’s own Fran Kelly. Summer, 2005.
- UW Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities:
“Singing the Body Imaginative: The Elemental Flesh in Alan Moore’s Promethea,” August, 2005.
- University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium
Juried participant, Spring, 2005.
- Reading Between the Frames; Panel Participant:
Exciting New Directions in Comic Book Scholarship. February, 2005. A wine & cheese social event and panel discussion dedicated to comic book scholarship. This event was part of the CHID Salon series and was sponsored by the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas and the DIALOGUE Project.
- Bi-weekly opinion column
for UW’s Daily newspaper for academic year. Fall, 2004-Spring, 2005, & Fall, 2005.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Focus Group:
Co-created and co-facilitated this class; combined textual analysis of episodes of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer with selected readings of theoretical perspectives on human nature.
- Reader for Ruby Blondell’s Classics 322 course,
“The Intellectual History of Greece” — a paid position within the Classics department.
Acadaemic achievements:
- Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Magna Cum Laude
University of Washington; Fall, 2005
- Transferred to the University of Washington
Comparative History of Ideas program; Spring of 2003
- Associate of Arts Degree
Seattle Central Community College; Fall of 2002
Awards:
- Mary Gates Scholar
- College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, 2005
- Undergraduate Research Travel Award