 | "Matthew Arnold’s Guerilla in the Glade: the
Politics and Poetics of Tourism," in Tourism
and Literature: Explorations between Tourism, Writers and Writings.
Ed. Mike Robinson (London: Cassell, 2002).
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| "Tourism and the Contest for Cultural Authority in Clough’s
Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich," Victorian Poetry 37:1 (Spring 1999):
71-98.
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| Principal contributor to How
Can You Tell if a Spider is Dead and More Moments of Science. Ed. Don Glass
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).
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| "England 1859: Teaching the Social Text" (co-authored with Cannon Schmitt) in Teaching
Theory to Undergraduates (New York: Modern Language Association, 1994).
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| "Policing Nomads: Discourse and Social Control in Early Victorian England"
(co-authored with Patrick Brantlinger). Cultural Critique. 25 (1993) 33-63.
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| "A Clerisy of Worms in Darwin's Inverted World," Victorian Studies 35
(1992) 294-308.
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| Editor, Sing Me a Story of History: An Integrated Arts Curriculum
Guide, Massachusets Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1986.
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| "'A prettyish kind of a little wilderness': the Power of the Great
Outdoors in Pride and Prejudice," Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment, June 2003, Boston, Mass. |
| "Romantic Revisions: Reading Historically in the Undergraduate
Survey," for special session on "Teaching Romanticism and
History," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, London,
Ontario, August 2002 |
| "‘Thou great Republican Conservative!’: Wordsworth among the
Radicals," "Wordsworth's ‘Second Selves’: The Poetic
Afterlife, 1798-2002," Lancaster University, U.K., July 2002. |
| "Voyages at Home: Wordsworth, Rural Life, and the Rhetoric of
Exploration," Association for the Study of Literature and the
Environment, June 2001. |
| "Assuming Wordsworth’s Mantle: William Howitt and the Landscape of
National Heritage," Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, New
York, April 2000. |
| "Guerilla in the Glade: Countryside and Class in Matthew
Arnold," Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999. |
| "Understanding the Culture of the Teaching College" (Invited
speaker), Preparing Future Faculty Conference ("The First Five
Years"), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1999. |
| "A Savage in the Thunderstorm: Darwin Among the Natives of England's
Lake District," Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal,
Quebec, April, 1996. |
| "Darwin's Worms and the Problem of Organic Culture: Aestheticizing
Nature and Naturalizing Aesthetics," Society for Science and
Literature, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sept. 1989. |
| "Vagrancy and Disciplinary Institution in Edwin Chadwick's Efficient
New Police Force," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Conference, Long Beach, California, March 1990. |
| "A Clerisy of Worms in Darwin's Inverted World," Brown-Bag
Seminar, Fishbein Center for the History of Science, University of Chicago,
January 21, 1991. |
With the assistance of a generous grant from the University of Pittsburgh, I
am currently compiling, editing, and commenting on the journals and
correspondence of English emigré Emma Alderson (1809-1847) to her sisters in
England. Parts of the journals were edited and published in 1849 by her sister,
the highly popular author Mary Howitt, but the originals and the correspondence
have only recently been made available, offering fresh insight – that of a
woman, a Quaker homesteader, and recent immigrant – on some of the major
issues of the day, including abolition, northern racism, the Mexican war, and
ethnicity in the new world. The book suggests new possibilities for
transatlantic nineteenth-century studies and a fascinating look at the United
States in the English imagination and vice versa.
Although my grant for the Alderson project has engaged most of my time, I am
also working on another book-length project about the rise of a myth of rural
national identity in 19th-century England. Challenging the thesis that English
fascination with rural life represented a rejection of modern, bourgeois values,
I argue that during this period, the countryside is re-imagined as the scene of
mass tourism, a distinctly bourgeois form of leisure through which the middle
class was able to enact a new identity as the dominant class. Drawing on
selected works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose from William Wordsworth
through Thomas Hardy, I show how changes in the nation’s relationship to its
landscape challenged literary conventions for representing rural life even as
literary writers refashioned those conventions in response to that changing
relationship.
| Central Research and Development Fund, Small Grants
Program, University of Pittsburgh ($11,462) |
| University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Chairs’ Teaching
Award, 2003 |
| Innovations in Education Award, Office of the Provost and the Advisory
Council on Instructional Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, 2002-2003 |
| Hewlett International Grant, University Center for International
Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2002 |
| Chancellor’s Diversity Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 1999 |
| Four internal faculty development grants for research and/or conference
presentation |
| Remak Fellowship, Indiana University, September 2000 |
| Faculty Development Grant, Summer 2000 |
| Chancellor’s Diversity Seminar Fellow, May 1999 |
| First runner-up Edwards Fellowship (for "superior scholastic ability, good
citizenship, and community service"), Indiana University, 1996 |
| I.U. Fellowship, Indiana University, 1987-1988 |
| 1998-Present |
Associate
Professor (2004 to Present) Assistant
Professor (1998-2004), English, University of Pittsburgh at
Bradford
Duties: Full-time instruction in all areas of British Literature as
well as some literary theory and general-education courses; student
advising; service on departmental and university committees; curriculum
development
Courses taught:
| Conduct research, deliver conference
papers, and publish in the field of
19th-century British literature and culture. |
| Teach British literature with a concentration on 19th
century as well as courses in critical theory and other areas for the
English major and the general education curriculum. (See below for a Click
here for a complete list of
courses, many with links to syllabi and other materials.) |
| Serve as needed on and perform various other services for the
department and the university. (Click here
for details of service. )
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2000 to
Present |
Program Director for English
| In addition to general faculty responsibilities, I advise all English majors,
advise the Humanities Chair on matters relating to the English major and general education offerings; participate in long-term curriculum planning for the university; led
a revision of the English major to accommodate more diversity and more
interdisciplinarity.
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1988-1989;
1991-1996 |
Associate Instructor, English Dept.
Indiana University
| Teach literature, composition, and technical writing. |
| Rewrote L204 Introduction to Fiction for I.U. School of Continuing Studies |
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| Fall 1985 |
Tutor, Environmental Science Department, University of
Massachusetts
| Assisted Environmental Science students with research and written reports. |
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| 1985-1986 |
Writing Tutor, Tutor Supervisor, Southwest Writing
Center,
Univ. of Massachusetts Writing Program
| Worked in and helped run a writing center open to the university community. |
| Hired as assistant supervisor spring semester
(note: the program no longer hires undergraduates in this capacity) |
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| 1986-Present |
Freelance writer/editor specializing in education and popular science (details) |
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| 1989-1996 |
Science Writer, "A Moment of Science"
WFIU,
Bloomington, IN
| Researched and wrote an internationally syndicated science radio program. |
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| 1984-1986 |
Editor, Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Newsletter
| Edited and wrote articles for a bimonthly publication (circulation 250) |
| Oversaw layout and production of Newsletter |
| Co-authored a successful grant for $20,000 to produce a curriculum
guide for integrating traditional music and art into the elementary school curriculum |
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| 1985-1987 |
Reporter, Daily
Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts
| Covered general news and provided public interest features from Hampshire and Franklin
Counties. |
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Graduate Coursework
|
British and
American Literature |
Literary
Theory |
Paul Strohm |
Chaucer |
R. Rhadakrishnan |
Seminar: Counter-memory* |
| Linda Charnes |
Seminar: Shakespeare |
Brooke Thomas |
Seminar: New Historical Approaches (audit) * |
| Richard Nash |
British Fiction to 1800 |
Patrick Brantlinger |
Literary Theory |
| Brian Caraher |
20th Cent. British fiction (audit) |
David Bleich |
Modern Approaches to Lit. |
| Kenneth Johnston |
Seminar: Romantic Lit. |
Susan Gubar |
Feminist Criticism |
| William Burgan |
Seminar: Dickens (audit) |
Milton Fisk |
Post-structuralism |
| Mary Favret |
Seminar: Gothic fiction |
Willis Barnstone |
Theory & Practice of Translation |
| Andrew Miller |
Seminar: Commodity Culture & Vict Fiction |
Science Studies & Interdisciplinary Courses |
Wallace Williams |
American Lit. 1609-1800 |
Lee Sterrenburg |
Darwin |
| John McCluskey |
Contemp. American Black Writing |
Patrick Brantlinger |
Vict. Crime & Sexuality |
| Jules Chametzky |
American Realism* |
Lee Sterrenburg / Dan Willard |
Colloquium: Environmental Ethics (American Studies) |
| *These courses taken at University of
Massachusetts |
Anne Carmichael / Frederick Churchill |
Germs and Genes
(Hist. and Phil. of Science) |
