Building Romanticism @ UMP

Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (Aug. 19 and 26, 2011): 31-32.

Articles:
Edwards, Kaite, Jessica Turchik, Tina Dardis, Nicole Reynolds, Christine Gidycz.  “Rape Myths: History, Individual and Institutional-Level Presence, and Implications for Change.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research (February 12, 2011): n. pag. Web.

“Cottage Industry: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the Cottage Ornee.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51-2 (2010):211-227.

“The Literary Lives of Sir John Soane’s House-Museum.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 41 (2008): 39-74. 

“Phebe Gibbes, Edmund Burke, and the Trials of Empire.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20 (Winter 2007-8): 151-176.

“Boudoir Stories: A Novel History of a Room and Its Occupants.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 15 (2004): 103-130.

Book Reviews:
Review of Robert Miles’s Romantic Misfits.  Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.2 (Winter 2010-11): 443-446. 

Work in Progress:
“Romanticism and Suicide: The Culture of Voluntary Death in Britain, 1770-1822” (monograph).

Curriculum Vitae

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:
2010: Ohio University Research Committee Award, $7,289.
2010: “Sigma Superlative” Award for Best Professor, Sigma Kappa Sorority, Ohio University.
2007: Distinguished Mentor Award, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University.
2005: Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of Nebraska.  Seminar Topic: “Genre, Dialogue, and Community in British Romanticism.”
2003: Colleges of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund Award, Ohio University.
2003: College of Arts and Sciences course reduction for professional development, Ohio University.
2003: College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Endowment Award, Ohio University.
2002: Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Institute Topic: “The Indian Ocean: Cradle of Globalization.”
2000: Fellowship, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (three-month tenure).

Selected Presentations:
--”Suicide, Genre, and Genius in Herbert Croft’s Love and Madness.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Park City UT, August 2011. 
--”Romanticism, Suicide, and the British Woman Writer: The Curious Case of Sati.” British Women Writers Conference, Ohio State University, April 2011. 
--“Death and Debt: the Commodification of Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010. 
--”Suicide and the City.” International Conference on Romanticism, New York City, November 2009.
--”Romanticism and the Culture of Self-Murder.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke University, May 2009. 
--”Keats’s Magic Casements.” Benjamin Robert Haydon, Romanticism, and the Visual Arts: Romantic Painting, Romantic Writing.  University of Cincinnati, November 2008. 
--”Frances Burney’s Suicides; or, the Law of Desire.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland OR, March 2008. 
--”Literary History, Cultural Studies, and Multidisciplinarity.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, February 2007.  Roundtable participant. 
--”’in the guise of an enthusiast’: William Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams and the Architecture of Revolution.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Purdue University, September 2006. 
--”The ‘Ladies of Llangollen,’ Cultural Tourism and the ‘Woman Question’ in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Rutgers University, April 2006. 
--”Cottage Industries.” Women and Material Culture, University of Southampton, July 2004. 
--”Sir John Soane’s Gothic Follies.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Iowa, April 2004. 
--”Romantic Empires.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Fordham University, August 2003.
--”Phebe Gibbes, Edmund Burke, and the Rhetoric of Empire.” Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1830, University of Southampton, July 2003. 
--”The Mysterious Boudoir.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April 2000. 

Professional Activities:
Reader for Studies in the Novel, 2011. 
Reader for European Romantic Review, 2009. 
Reader for Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 2005, 2007. 
Reader for Broadview Press.  2005. 
Reader for Ohio University Press.  2004, 2009. 
Seminar Participant: “Figures on the Margin: The Language of Gender in British Romanticism.” Led by Dr. Susan Wolfson.  West Virginia University Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies.  June 2-8, 2003. 

Courses

English:
ENG 252: English Literature 1689-Present, topic: "Now Voyager."
ENG 306J: Women and Writing, topic: "'burning down the house': Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason and a Women’s Literary Tradition."
ENG 306J: Women and Writing, topic: "Twisted Sisters: Two Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels and Their Twentieth-Century Counterparts."
ENG 299T/377T: Honors Tutorial, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, topic: "Sense, Sensibility, and Romanticism: The Cult of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature."
ENG 314: English Literature 1800-1900, topic: "Enlightenment and its Discontents."
ENG 314: English Literature 1800-1900, topic: "Romanticism and War."
ENG 325: Women and Literature, topic:"'truth[s] universally acknowledged': Jane Austen in Her Time and in Ours."
ENG 464: Major English Authors, topic: "Mary Wollstonecraft and her Circle."
ENG 512/773: Graduate Seminar in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, topic: "Jane Austen and Women's Literary Culture."
ENG 570/773: Graduate Seminar in Romantic Literature, topic: "Fighting Words: British Radicalism, 1785-1805."
ENG 570/773: Graduate Seminar in Romantic Literature, topic: "'Mad, bad, and dangerous to know': Byron, the Shelleys and their Circle."
ENG 570/773: Graduate Seminar in Romantic Literature, topic: "Romanticism and War."
ENG 570/773: Graduate Seminar in Romantic Literature, topic: "Romanticism and Suicide."

Women's and Gender Studies:
WGS 100: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies.
WGS 200: Issues in Feminism, topic: "Sex, Gender, and the Postmodern."
WGS 200: Issues in Feminism, topic: "Women and War: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Militarism."
WGS 460/560: Gender, Sexuality, and Culture.