Nicole Reynolds
Assistant Professor
English and Women's Studies (joint appointment)
British Romantic Literature and Culture, Feminist Literature and Theory
Office: Ellis 318
Office Phone: 593-2797
Email: reynoldn@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. English, University of Georgia, 2001
Graduate Certificate of Achievement in Women's Studies, University of Georgia, 1997
M. A. English, University of Connecticut, 1995
B. A. English, Boston University, 1989, Cum Laude
Publications
“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.
Works in Progress:
“Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (monograph).
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:
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:
“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 Eighteenth-Century Culture, 2005, 2007.
Reader for Broadview Press. 2005.
Reader for Ohio University Press. 2004.
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 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"
Women's Studies:
WS 100: Introduction to Women's Studies
WS 200: Issues in Feminism, topic: "Sex, Gender, and the Postmodern"
WS 460/560: Gender, Sexuality, and Culture