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Vanessa Osborne

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing
Vanessa Osborne
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email vosborne@usc.edu Office JEF 150 Office Phone (213) 740-1980

Biography

Vanessa Osborne is an Associate Professor in The Writing Program at the University of Southern California.  She has also been affiliated with USC’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity and the General Education Program.  She currently also serves as the Writing Faculty member for USC’s Geographic Information and Spatial Sciences Institute.  Her areas of interest include celebrity, food studies,  media culture, twentieth-century American literature, composition pedagogy and visual rhetoric. 

Education

  • Ph.D. American Literature, University of California, Irvine, 9/2007
  • M.A. English, UC Irvine, 2002
  • B.A. English, UCLA, 6/1996

  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Associate Professor (Teaching), USC, 2022-2024
    • Assistant Professor (Teaching), USC, 2019-2022
    • Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2008-08-2019-08
    • (Spring 2023) FSEM 100. Freshman Seminar – Cuisine Critiques–Food Studies, W, 02:00pm – 03:50pm, WPH107

  • Book Chapters

    • Osborne, V. G. (2024). “’Not So Bad a Dad after All’ Phineas & Ferb’s Super Villain and Super Dad. Father Figures in Kids’ Animated Cartoon Shows McFarland and Company.
    • Osborne, V. G. (2011). Marx on the Mountain: Pleasure and the Laboring Body in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. The Brokeback Book Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
    • Osborne, V. G. “”The Logic of the Mannequin: Shop Windows and the Realist Novel”. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 London: Routledge, 2008.186-199

    Book Review

    • Osborne, V. G. (2023). The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading by Ellen C. Carillo. Teaching English in the Two- Year College.
    • Osborne, V. G. (2023). Review of Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality. Composition Studies.
    • Osborne, V. G. (2017). Review of The Slow Professor. Currents in Teaching and Learning.

    Encyclopedia Article

    • Osborne, V. G. “Meridel Le Sueur” and “The Girl”. 2021.

    Journal Article

    • Osborne, V. G. (2016). The Pregnant Body and Utopian Social Organization in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl. Tusla Studies in Women’s Literature. Vol. 35 (2)

  • Review Panels

    • Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Peer Reviewer, 2016 –
    • Undergraduate Writing Contest, Contest Judge, 2015 – 2016

    Other Service to the University

    • Undergraduate Writing Conference Panel Moderator, 2014 – 2017
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