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- Ph.D., 2000-2004. English, with a certificate in Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Dissertation title: "'Empire Lost': Unstable Terms in the Language of Female Sexuality, Political Conquest, and Literary Authority, 1660 to 1765." Dissertation director: Martine Watson Brownley. Readers: John Sitter and Lee Pederson.
- M.A., 1998-2000. English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Thesis advisor: Elizabeth Kraft.
- B.A., 1994-1998. English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
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| Publications |
- "Triumphant Bodies: Sexual-Political Conquest in British Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).
- “Traces of Aphra Behn in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769),” in Notes and Queries (December 2007).
- “Perfect patterns of conjugal love and duty: The imprint of George Ballard’s domestic ideologies on his representations of Elizabeth Egerton and Margaret Cavendish,” in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 [forthcoming].
- “The Local Popularity of The Concealed Fansyes,” in Notes and Queries (June 2006), 55-59.
- “Genre’s ‘Phantastical Garb’: The fashion of form in Margaret Cavendish’s Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life,” in EMLS: Early Modern Literary Studies 11.3.
- “Frances Brooke’s erotic-didactic garden: Desire, shame, and sensibility in The Excursion,” in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 4 (2005), 139-62.
- “‘The dear Grass...does retain / The print’: The corporeal borders of manuscript and print in Aphra Behn’s A Paraphrase on Oenone to Paris,” in Crossing Borders: Women and Communities of Letters, 1500-1700, edited by Julie Campbell, Gabriella Scarlata Eschrich, and Anne Larsen [forthcoming].
- “Frances Brooke’s environmental vandalism: Carving resistance on trees in The History of Emily Montague,” in Everyday Revolutions, edited by Marta Kvande and Diane E. Boyd [forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press, 2007].
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| Conferences |
- “Uneditable skins and unreasonable marriages in Aphra Behn’s novels of defect, deformity, and difference,” to be presented at the joint Wisconsin Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Conference, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 4-5 April 2008.
- “‘Our print...still remain on the prest greens’: Corporeal intelligibility and the nature of the press in Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister,” delivered as part of Appositions: An Online Conference 15 November 2007.
- “‘Upon this little Globe is Character’d your Fate and Fortune’: Inscription and exteriority in The Rover, parts one and two,” presented at the Aphra Behn Society Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 25-27 October 2007.
- “‘They will take delight to scratch a Coal upon a White Wall’: Margaret Cavendish’s subversive writing surfaces,” presented at the Aphra Behn Society Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida, 27-30 October 2005.
- “In pursuit of a wild hare: Margaret Cavendish as Harriet/Harry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,” presented at the Virginia Woolf Society Conference at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, 9-12 June 2005.
- “‘But Still She Writes in Vain’: Corporeal inscription and narrative authority in Aphra Behn’s The Fair Jilt,”presented at the 13th Annual LSU English Graduate Student Association Mardi Gras Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 27-28 February, 2003.
- “‘What the world will say’: Anne Finch and the conditions of poetic production,” presented at the Aphra Behn Society Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida, Fall 2001.
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| Teaching |
- Lecturer in English and Gender Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, beginning fall 2006. Appointment to teach Freshman Studies, Introduction to Gender Studies, and cross-listed courses on women and literature.
- Courses taught: FRST100, GEST100, and ENG270/GEST250 (“Women’s Literary History”).
- Independent study projects directed: “Aphra Behn’s Poetics” (Spring 2007), “Feminist Literary Theory in Context” (Fall 2007), and “Virginia Woolf and Feminist Theory” (Winter 2008).
- Tutorials designed and directed: “Uneditable Regions of the Body: Disability, Deformity, and Embodiment in Literature before 1800” (Winter 2008) and “Gendered Embodiment” (Spring 2008).
- Visiting assistant professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, spring 2006. Taught ENG220/Women’s Studies 221 (“Women in Early British Literature, 1500-1700”) and ENG110 (“Reading, Writing, and Revising A Room of One’s Own”).
- Graduate teaching instructor and assistant at Emory, fall 2000-spring 2003. Apprenticed for two survey courses (“Drama before 1800”; “British Literature after 1660”) and designed two ENG181 courses (“Bob Dylan and the Literary Tradition”; “Desire in Literature from Aphra Behn to Bridget Jones”).
- Instructor of English at Georgia Perimeter College, summer 1999-summer 2005. Taught core composition courses, ranging from developmental studies courses to English 101 and 102.
- Graduate teaching instructor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Georgia, fall 1999-spring 2000. Taught the freshman composition sequence.
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| Service |
- Faculty advisor for Downer Feminist Council (DFC) at Lawrence University.
- Executive board member of the Aphra Behn Society.
- Speaker for the spring 2007 conference sponsored by the student organization GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, Other, or Whatever) at Lawrence University: “Gendered graffiti: Writing sexual resistance in the first Canadian novel.”
- Proposal reviewer for the twenty-eighth annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference, “Past debates, present possibilities, future feminisms: A women’s and gender studies conference.”
- Brown bag presentation for the Gender Studies program at Lawrence University: “‘I’looke first whether noe soldier or Witch bee crept under my bedd or noe’: Domesticity and war in early modern women’s writing,” delivered 28 November 2006.
- Participant in the Association of Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) FACE Project Women’s and Gender Studies Workshop, 27-28 October 2006 at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.
- Certificate candidate representative for Emory’s Women’s Studies Board, 2002-2003.
- Organizer for the English Department’s biannual graduate student conference at Emory University, spring 2002, and coordinator of the English Department Brown Bag series at Emory, fall 2001-spring 2003.
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