AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Victorian literature and culture; English Romanticism; Modernism; gender studies; literary theory; visual studies; cultural studies; world literature; rhetoric and composition.
PUBLICATIONS
"The Professionalization of the Woman Painter in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall." Forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2003).
"East Lynne, The Turn of the Screw and the Female Doppelganger in Victorian Fiction."
Forthcoming in Nineteenth Century Studies (2003).
"Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual Reading in Charlotte Brontë's
Fiction and Nineteenth Century Painting." Forthcoming in Reading Women:
Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Eds. Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia, forward by Kate Flint.
"Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë." British Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles
Scribners Sons, 2002.
"Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos," with Brenda Risch. In Bodies Out Of Bounds: Interrogating Constructions of Fat and Corpulence. Eds. Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
"A Preference for Vegetables: The Travel Writings and Botanical Art of Marianne
North." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26 (1997).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"A Space of Her Own: Women, Spatial Practices and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway"
MLA annual convention, New York, December 29, 12:45pm.
"The Small College Experience." Invited lecture for "The Junior Faculty Experience,"
Cornell University, April 6, 2001.
"Painting the New Woman," MLA annual convention, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2000.
"Persuasion and the 'enigma of pastness'," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, New Orleans, November 19, 2000.
"Painting in the Parlour: The Disorder of Art in the Domestic Realm," Victorian Literature Panel, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 29-31, 2000.
"Painting, Feminism and Virginia Woolf," Invited lecture, Cornell Adult University, July 13, 2000.
"Disfigurements: Aesthetics and the Woman Painter in Charlotte Yonge and Dinah Craik Mulock," Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 26-29, 1998.
"The Art of Traveling Under Imperialism: the travel writing and botanical art of Marianne North," Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, University of Florida, March 13-15, 1998.
"Nobody's Picture: The Victorian Woman Painter and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," Women's Studies Conference, UVA, 21-22 March, 1997.
"(Ad)Venture Capitalism: Mrs. Seacole and Mary Kingsley at Work in the Colonies," Victorian Studies Group Graduate Student Conference, NYU, 14-15 Feb, 1997.
"Visualizing the Vulva," Constructing Queer Cultures Conference, Cornell University, Feb 9-12 1995.
"Venus Doesn't Do Squats: Exercise Videos and Fixing the Female Body," with Brenda Risch. Women's Studies in the Triangle: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. UNC-Chapel Hill, 25-26 March, 1994.
"Hiding Women in the Nineteenth Century," Comparative Literature Graduate Symposium, UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb 26, 1994.
"The Bioblurb: Biography and Book Bindings" South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, Tenn. April, 1993.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Arthur Vining Davis Fellow, 2001-2, 2002-3.
Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University, Spring 1999.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Cornell University, 1998-1999.
Shin Yong-Jin Graduate Fellowship in English (a full-year award for excellence in scholarship and teaching,) Cornell University, 1997-1998.
J.S. Knight Writing Assignment Sequence Award, Cornell University, June 1997.
Beatrice Brown Award, Cornell University Women's Studies Program, Spring 1998.
Sage Graduate Student Travel Grant, Cornell University, Spring 1998.
Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, Fall 1996.
Graduate Fellowship in English, UNC-Chapel Hill 1991-1992.
Departmental Award for Excellence in English, Boston University, May 1989.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
"Victoria's Secrets: The Darker Side of 19th century Literature," Spring 2002.
"Senior Seminar: Cultural studies, Canon Formation and Literary
Aesthetics," Spring 2002.
English Comprehensive Course, (an intensive winter term
course required of all senior English majors), Winter 2002.
"English Romanticism: Revolution and Empire," Fall 2001.
"Interpretation of Literature," Fall 2001 (writing intensive).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
"Literature and the Visual Arts," Fall 2000 (First-year writing course).
"Reading Women's World Literature," Fall 2000.
"19th Century Novel: Colonialism and History" Spring 2000.
"Interpretation of Literature," Spring 2001; Spring 2000; Fall 1999 (writing intensive).
"English Romanticism: Poetry and Painting," Spring 2001; Fall 1999.
English Comprehensive Course, Winter 2000, 2001.
Instructor, Cornell University Writing Seminars:
(Seminars in Cornell's Writing Program combine introductory work in a particular field of study with rigorous training in expository, creative and analytic writing.)
"Haunted by History: Contemporary Revisions of Nineteenth-century Fictions," Spring, 1998.
"Women and Writing" Spring, 1997.
"The Practice of Prose," Spring, 1996.
Teaching Mentor, J.S. Knight Writing Program (assisting new teachers in the program with lesson plans, observing their classes, problem-solving, etc.), Fall 1997.
Teaching Assistant (including lecturing and leading small-group seminars), Cornell University, "The Modern Tradition," Fall 1998, Fall 1997, Fall 1996.
Teaching Assistant (including lecturing), Cornell University, "The Female Literary
Tradition," Fall 1995.
Writing Center Tutor, Cornell University, Summer 1996.
Section Leader, Cornell University, "Folklore and Literature," Fall 1995.
ESL Tutor, Cornell University, Summer 1995.
Instructor, UNC-Chapel Hill:
English 12 (Freshman Composition), Spring, 1994.
English 13 (Advanced Composition), Fall 1993.
English 11 (Freshman Composition), Fall 1993.
Writing Tutor, UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center, 1993-1994.
Teaching Assistant, Technical Writing, University of Florida, Summer 1990.
COMMUNITY SERVICE TEACHING
Writing Group Leader, Literacy Volunteers of America, Ithaca, NY, 1997.
GED & ABE Instructor, Roslindale Community Education Center, Roslindale, MA. 1992-1993.
ABE & ESL Tutor, The Family Learning Center, Boston, MA. 1986-1989.