Curriculum Vitae
education | grants and awards | publications | conference papers | presentations
service | teaching experience | research and teaching interests | professional memberships
PhD, English. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (2009)
Primary Field: Long Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Secondary Field: History of the Book
Dissertation: "Beginning's Ends: New Senses of Ending and the Rise of the Novel"
Directors: George L. Justice and Devoney Looser
Committee Members: Noah Heringman and Ted Koditschek
MA, Writing Women in Great Britain and North America, 1740-1835. Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, England. (2006)
Dissertation: “'I ought to play deep tragedy next year': A Sample of Trends in Female Characterization in Popular Late Georgian Comedies, 1776-1800.”
Director: Jane M. Moody
BA, English cum laude with departmental honors. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. (2003)
Thesis: “Epistolary Education: Reading in Pamela and its Sequels.”
Director: Peter M. Briggs
National and International
- Visiting Research Fellow, Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT) 2012.
- Visiting Research Fellow, Winterthur Reseacrh Library and Garden (Delaware) 2012.
- Seminar Participant, Project Narrative Summer Institute. The Ohio State University. June 28-July 9, 2010.
- Visiting Research Fellowship, Chawton House Library. February 2-March 27, 2009.
Auburn University
- Semester Non-Competitive Leave, Fall 2012
- Summer Non-Competitive Leave, Summer 2012
- Research Group funding, 2010-12
University of Missouri-Columbia
- Bies Travel Fellowship 2009
- Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship 2008-09
- First Prize, 2008 Research and Creative Activities Forum (for “Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels”)
- Organizational Resource Group (ORG) Travel Grants (2), 2007-2008
- organized for self and groups of nine and three students
- English Department Travel Award, 2007
- Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Fellowship, 2007-08
- Griffiths Leadership Society Scholarship, 2005-06
- TeAchnology Fellowship, Educational Technology at Missouri (ET@MO), Summer 2006
- English Department Fellowship, awarded 2005 (3 year)
- Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship in Seventeenth- or Eighteenth-Century English Literary Studies, Department of English, 2005-06.
Bryn Mawr College
- Dorothy M. Nepper Marshall Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, 2002-03.
"Sir Charles Grandison's Never-Ending Story: Richardson, Closure, and the Rise of the Novel" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. (accepted and forthcoming Summer 2012 (52, 3))
"Austen among the fragments: Understanding the Fate of Sanditon" forthcoming in a special issue of Women's Writing on "Rethinking Influence, 1680-1830" edited by Jennie Batchelor. (accepted and forthcoming 2012)
"'To such as are willing to understand' : Considering Heterogeneity in Fielding’s Imagined Readers" in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, edited by Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010.
"Wanderer’s End: Understanding Burney’s Approach to Endings." The Burney Journal 10. (2010)
"Remarks on Richardson: Sarah Fielding and the Rational Reader" Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Winter 2010, issue 22:2)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Reading Smell in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (book, in progress)
"Schools Before and Beyond Scandal: Contextualizing The School for Scandal, 1732-1800" for Raising the Screen: New Perspectives on Richard Brinsley Sheridan, edited by Dan Ennis and Jack DeRochi (under contract with Bucknell University Press) (due February 15, 2012)
"Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Covent Garden Edits of Guy Mannering, 1815-1834" (article, under review)
"Sarah Fielding." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. (entry, due Fall 2012)
Beginning's Ends: Eighteenth-Century Senses of Ending (book manuscript in progress)
"Eighteenth-Century Puffing by Publisher George Allen"(note)
OTHER PUBLIC WRITING
“The history of the novel as glimpsed through Chawton’s manuscripts.” The Female Spectator. Autumn 2009, Vol 13. No. 4.
"Where Does Grandison End?" Eighteenth-Century Graduate Student Reading Group (ASECS Graduate Caucus). Also served as "guest editor" to the collection of Grandison essays (link)
"'These Aids from Nature, join'd to the Wiles of Art': Some Thoughts (and more questions) on Fantomina's Roles." Eighteenth-Century Graduate Student Reading Group (ASECS Graduate Caucus). (link)
Capsule review of Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees. University of Missouri Department of English. October 19, 2007. (link)
“’The Art of Making Art’: The Power of Money in Adaptations of Jane Austen On (and Off-Off-Off) Broadway” (with Chase Bringardner, Department of Theatre). Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting. Brooklyn, NY, October 6-7, 2012.
"Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Intersecting Lives of Scott's Guy Mannering"
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS), Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-6, 2010.
"Sanditon's Journey: The Fate of Austen's Final Fragment in Context"
British Women Writers Conference. College Station, TX April 8-11, 2010.
"When a good end is hard to find: backmatter, indices, and novel endings"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Albuquerque, NM. March 18-21, 2010.
"Sacred Taboos: Mary Brunton's Posthumous Packaging"
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC-ASECS), Lehigh University, October 8-11, 2009.
"Cataloguing "The End" -- Reconsidering Closure and the Rise of the Novel"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, 27-9 March 2009.
"Jane Austen: End or Beginning?"
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Chicago, IL, October 4, 2008.
“Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels”
South-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Auburn, AL, February 14-17, 2008.
(version of this piece also read at MU's Graduate Professional Council's 2008 Research and Creative Activities Forum, March 8, 2008 where it won first prize)
"Napoleon on the Margins: Creating an End To the Revolution”
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MW-ASECS), Kansas City, MO, October 11-13, 2007.
"Life's Endings: Seeking Closure in Burney's Court Diaries"
Young Researchers Panel, UK Burney Society, Windsor, UK, July 6-7, 2007.
(version of this piece also read at MU's The Body Project as "Producing the Body: Habeas Corpus and Closure in Burney's Court Diaries" April 12, 2008)
"Wanderer’s
End: Understanding Burney’s Approach to Endings"
Frances Burney Society, Tucson, AZ, October 26-8, 2006.
"Introducing Portrait: How Current Editions Construct James and his Heroine"
MU EGSA
Conference, Columbia, MO, February 17, 2006.
"Beyond
Sentimental: Conflicted Sympathies In Late Georgian Comic Opera"
Aphra Behn Society Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, 28-30 October 2005.
"Schools
Beyond (and Before) Scandal: Situating 'The School for Scandal'"
English Graduate Conference. University of York, York, UK, 18 June 2005.
"Text,
Playtext, Promptbook: The Covent Garden Promptbook edits of Guy Mannering,
1815-1834"
Eighteenth-Century Post-Graduate Seminar. University of Leeds, Leeds,
UK, 28 May 2005.
INVITED LECTURES
"On Beyond Endings: Sarah Fielding's Reader Education."
As Chawton Visiting Research Fellow. Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire, UK, 11 February 2009.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
Chair/Organizer, “Reading Richardson in Mid-Century” (Richardson Society Roundtable) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX 2012.
Invited Speaker, Auburn Preparing Future Faculty. December 1, 2011.
Invited Speaker, Auburn English Graduate Association (EGA). October 12, 2011.
Roundtable Participant, "Across Media, Across Genres: Methodologies for Comparing the Novel and the Theater”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.
Roundtable Participant, "From Dissertation to Publication” (Women’s Caucus Roundtable)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.
Chair/Organizer, “Richardson's Corpus: New Research” and “Richardson's Corpus: New Research Working Group” (for Samuel Richardson Society)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 16-19 March 2011.
Chair/Organizer, "Recovering the Performed Eighteenth Century." (Roundtable)
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4-6, 2010.
Chair/Organizer, “Age of Burney: A Roundtable” (for Frances Burney Society)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM, 27-9 March 2010.
Invited Speaker, "Conferencing and Publishing Early in Your Graduate Career.”
Auburn Department of English MA Practicum. February 24, 2010.
Invited Speaker, “Eighteenth-Century Women.”
Auburn Honors College Congress, February 15, 2010.
Roundtable Participant, “Historicizing Jane Austen”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, 27-9 March 2009.
Chair/Organizer, "Beginnings and Endings: Locating Boundaries, Crises, and Turning Points in the (Very Long) Eighteenth Century" (as Graduate Caucus Co-Chair)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, VA, 27-9 March 2009.
Invited Speaker, "Leading an Engaging Discussion"
MU Graduate Assistant Teaching Orientation. August 23, 2008.
Chair/Organizer, "Richardson in the Twenty-first Century: A Roundtable" (for Samuel Richardson Society)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27-9 March 2008.
Chair/Organizer, "Beyond Clarissa: Sir Charles Grandison in Conversation" (for Samuel Richardson Society)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27-9 March 2008.
Panel Chair
(with Dr. Pam Benoit). "Graduate School: Considerations & Possibilities."
Griffiths Leadership Society for Women Conference, Columbia, MO, 23
April 2006.
"Epistolary
Education: Reading in Pamela and its Sequels."
D.M. Nepper Marshall Fellowship Talk, Bryn Mawr, PA, 17 April 2003.
National
- President and Founder, International Samuel Richardson Society (affiliate society of ASECS as of 2011)
- Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Caucus (2008-09)
Auburn University
- English Department Job Market Advising Committee (2011-present)
- Women’s Studies Affiliate (2009-present)
- Organizer, Jessica Garratt lecture/visit (Fall 2010, 5 class visits in English and Art, public poetry reading)
- Member, Governance Committee (2010)
- Member, Research Culture Committee (2010-present)
- Assistant, London Research Trip (Summer 2011)
University of Missouri-Columbia
- 18th/19th Century Graduate Student Group (2007-present)
- Founder and Chair
- English
Graduate Student Association (2005-present)
- Webmaster (2005-present)
- Auction chair (2005-07)
- Includes service as prospective student hostess, informational speaker, new student mentor, etc.
- Griffiths
Leadership Society for Women (2005-present)
- Programming
Committee
- Programming
Committee
Bryn Mawr College
- Self-Governing
Association (SGA)
- Includes terms as Songsmistress (Traditions), Chair of the Dean's Advisory Board, Faculty/Student Curriculum Committee, Representative to the Faculty, Alumnae/Student Committee, and various other committees
- English
Department
- paid: research assistant, information technology associate
- volunteer: major representative
- Other
- paid: summer tour guide, department assistant (accessibilities/facilities)
- volunteer: sophomore customs person, admissions hostess
At Auburn University (August 2009-present)
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Undergraduate Courses
- ENG2210: World Literature II
- ENG2217: Honors World Literature II (taught as an epistolary course)
- ENG2230: British Survey I
- ENG3540: British Survey II (now ENG2231)
- ENG4380: Late Eighteenth-Century British Literature (now "Age of Revolutions")
- ENG4510: Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- ENG4520: Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Two Hundred Years Since: Austen's Sister-Novelists in the Literary Marketplace")
- ENG4630: Major British Author: Frances Burney
- Graduate Seminar
- ENG7170: Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature
- ENGL 7790: Literary Theory
At University of Missouri-Columbia (August 2005-December 2008)
- ENG1000:
Argument and Exposition (freshman composition)
- Fall 2005: Science, Technology, and the Art of Evidence
- Fall 2006: Why Read/Write/Learn?
- ENG1210:
Introduction to British Literature (survey, potential prerequisite course)
- Fall 2006 (taught as a general survey)
- Spring 2008: Cultures of the Book
- ENG2100:
Writing About Literature (required course for the major)
- Spring 2006: Writing the Conversation
- Spring 2007: Reading Women
- Fall
2007: Reading True/False
- ENG2200:
Topics in British Literature
- Fall 2007: Lies! False Documents, Fictional Frauds, and Literary Hoaxes
- ENG4996: Honors Seminar in English (Fall 2008, assistant to Professor Alexandra Socarides)
At Bryn Mawr College (2002-03)
- College Seminar: "Playing with Light" (Fall 2002, assistant to Professor Peter Briggs)
- Readings in British Literature 1660-1744 (Spring 2003, assistant to Professor Peter Briggs)
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
Current Students
- Jamie Kinsley, ABD (member, PhD committee)
- Todd Aldridge (member, PhD committee)
- Roberta Hirschbeuhler, MA student (chair)
- Stacey Dearing, MA student (member)
- Ashley Sandlin, MA student (member)
- Kirsten Iden (member, MA and PhD committees)
RESEARCH and TEACHING INTERESTS
Research
Interests
"very long" eighteenth century (1660-1835), history of the book,
print culture, adaptation, closure and endings, correspondence, narrative theory, trans-generic interactions (particularly the drama and the novel)
Teaching
Interests
Eighteenth-Century British and American Literature, Women's Writing/Writing about Women, History of the Book, History of the Novel
MLA
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), as well as SE-ASECS and EC-ASECS
Aphra Behn Society
Frances Burney Society
Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region
Richardson Society(Founder)
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) (Life Member)
British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
REFERENCES
(Full Contact Information Upon Request)
Paula Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University
Devoney Looser, Professor of English, University of Missouri
George
Justice, Vice-Provost of Advanced Studies, Dean of the Graduate School, and Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri