Associate Instructor, Indiana
University; English Department 1978-1979, 1983
Lost Saints: Silence,
Gender and
Victorian Literary Canonization. University Press of
Virginia, 1996.
"Publishing and Reading 'Our EBB': Editorial Pedagogy,
Contemporary Culture, and The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point."
Victorian Poetry 44 (2006).
"Bengal, Britain, France: The Locations and Translations
of Toru Dutt." Victorian Literature and Culture 34
(2006).
"New Criticism and New Classrooms: Teaching Felicia
Hemans." European Romantic Review 17 (2006).
"Teaching Emily Brontë's Poetry and Wuthering
Heights
in a
First-Year Composition Course." In MLA Approaches to Teaching
Wuthering
Heights. Ed. Sue Lonoff and Terri A. Hasseler. New York: Modern
Language
Association, 2006.
"Between Treasuries and the Web: Compendious Victorian
Poetry Anthologies in Transition," Victorian Studies 47
(Summer 2005).
"'Whose Hand Was I Holding?': Familial and Sexual Politics
in Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House. [Reprint.] In
Shirley
Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy. Ed. Bernice M. Murphy. London:
McFarland, 2005.
"Alien Homelands: Rudyard Kipling, Toru Dutt, and the Poetry
of Empire," in The Fin-de-Siècle Poem, ed. Joseph
Bristow, (Athens: Ohio University Press), 2005.
"Anna Jameson, Englishness, and the 'Triste Plaisir' of Italy,"
2003 Special Issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies, ed.
Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler.
"Fear of Furniture: Commodity Gothicism and the Teaching of Victorian
Literature," for MLA Approaches to Teaching the Gothic,
ed. Diane Long Hoeveler. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003.
"Canonization Through Dispossession: Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and the 'Pythian Shriek.'" [Reprint.] Modern Critical Views:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House,
2002.
"Patriotism in Victorian Poetry." Cambridge
Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed. Joseph Bristow. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
"Receiving the Legend, Rethinking the
Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess Tradition." In Romanticism
and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, ed. Stephen Behrendt
and Harriet Kramer Linkin, University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
"Hemans and her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century
Women's Poetry and National Identity." In Women's Poetry, Late Romantic
to Late Victorian, ed. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain. Macmillan
Press, 1999.
"Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine
'Internal Enemies,' and the Domestication of National Identity." [Reprint.]
In Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, 71, ed. Janet Witalec.
Gale Research, 1999.
"Hemans and Home: Victorianism, 'Internal
Enemies,' and the Domestication of National Identity." [Reprint.] In
Victorian Women Poets, ed. Angela Leighton. Blackwell, 1996.
"Hemans and Home: Victorianism, 'Internal
Enemies,' and the Domestication of National Identity." PMLA.
March 1994.
"'Whose Hand Was I Holding?': Familial
and Sexual Politics in Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House,"
in Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost
Stories by American Women, ed. Lynette Carpenter and Wendy Kolmar.
University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
Review of Timothy Morton's The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism
and the Exotic. European Romantic Review 13 (2002): 115-18
Review of Joan Wylie Hall's Shirley
Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction. South Atlantic Review.
January 1994.
Review of Lynne Pearce's Woman, Image,
Text, and Wendy Lesser's His Other Half. Victorian Studies,
Winter 1993.
Review of Christine Crosby's The
Ends of History, Victorian Studies, Spring 1992.
"Shirley Jackson." Oxford Companion
to Women's Writing in the United States, ed. Cathy N. Davidson and
Linda Wagner Martin. Oxford, 1995.
Forthcoming:
"States of Exile: American Patriotism and Felicia Hemans's 'The
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,'" in The Traffic in Poems:
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Translatlantic Exchange, ed. Meredith
L. McGill.
"Whose King Shakespeare? Gender, Nineteenth-Century Patriotism,
and the Case of Poet-Lore," in Re-Placing KingShakespeare in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Christy Desmet and
Robert Sawyer.
** Invited papers.
** Victorians Institute Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry Conference,
Keynote, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Spring, 2005.
** "Hemans's Heritage: Abolitionism, National Sentimentality,
and the mid-Century Poetess," Guest Lecture, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Spring, 2005.
** "Elephants in the Parlor: Racialization and the Poetess,"
Guest Lecture, UCLA Nineteenth-Century Studies Group, Spring, 2005.
** "Victorian Poetry, Abolitionist Sentimentality, and the Haunting
of the Second Wave," Guest Lecture, University of California at
Davis, Spring, 2005.
** Panel Chair, "Social Renovation," University of California
Dickens Project Graduate Student Winter Conference, UC Davis, Winter
2005.
"Corinne's Shakespeare: Bardic Cosmopolitanism and National Fantasies
of Feminine Identity," North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism "Romantic Cosmopolitanisms" Conference, Boulder,
Colorado, 2004.
** "Bodies, Culture, and the Racialized Poetess: Dilemmas of
Ethnic Nationalism in Felicia Dorothea Hemans, George Eliot, and Frances
E.W. Harper." Keynote, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British
Women Writers Conference, Spring 2003.
"Pedagogy, Poetics, and Prose," Old Lamps, New-Lit: The
Future of Victorian Poetry Conference, London, Ontario, Spring 2003.
** "Aurora Leigh, 'Performing Heroinism,' and the Myths of Corinne,"
Clemson University, Spring 2003.
** "Casuarina Trees and 'Frail Exotic Blossoms': Toru Dutt and
the Poetries of Empire," Colonial Victorianism Conference, New
York, Spring 2003.
** "Poetesses, Critics, and Anthologists," Modern Language
Association Conference, Winter 2002.
** "States of Exile," The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century
Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange Conference, Rutgers University, Fall
2002.
** "Alien Homelands: Rudyard Kipling, Toru Dutt, and the Poetry
of Empire," Fin de Siècle Poetry Conference, UCLA, Clark
Library, Los Angeles, January 2002.
"The Translations of Toru Dutt," Women's Poetry and the
Fin de Siècle Conference, University of London Institute for
English Studies, in conjunction with the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century
Studies and the University of Birmingham, London, Summer 2002.
** "States of Exile," The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century
Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange Conference, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, Fall 2002.
** "Poetesses, Critics, and Anthologists," Panel title:
Victorian Poetics and Politics III: Responses to Isobel Armstrong ,
Modern Language Association Conference, New York City, Winter 2002.
Moderator, "Ruins and Relics" Panel, Northeast Victorian
Studies Association, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Spring 2002.
** "Reviving the Program: The Late 1980s ," Twenty-five
Years of Women's Studies at UGA Anniversary Celebration, Fall 2002.
** "Teaching Hemans." Modern Language Association, Winter
2001.
** "Shakespeare, King of What? Gender, Nineteenth-Century Patriotism,
and the Case of Poet-Lore." Modern Language Association,
Winter 2001.
"Killing Casabiancas: Hemans, Bishop, and the Poetess in the
Public Sphere," Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Conference, Spring 2001.
"Lady Poets, Lady Lazarus, Lady Oracle:
Hemans and the Heroines of Second-Wave Feminist Criticism." Midwest
Modern Language Association, Fall 2000.
** "Victorianism, Patriotism, and the
Poetess." Guest Lecture. Drew University, Spring 2000.
"Frances Harper and George Eliot's The
Spanish Gypsy." Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago,
Winter 1999.
"Drama and Monologues: Pre-Victorian
Performance in the Writing of Letitia Landon." North American Society
for the Study of Romanticism Conference. Summer 1999.
"Hemans' Revolution, Feminist Revolution,
and the Changing Nineteenth Century." Dickens Project "Victoria Redressed"
Conference. Summer 1999.
** "'A People with No Home, Even in
Memory': Ethnic Nationalism, the Poetess Tradition, and Frances E. W.
Harper's Radical Reading of George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy."
Guest Lecture. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Spring 1999.
"Corinne; not Italy: Hemans, Jameson,
Landon, and the Deracination of Feminine National Identities." University
of Colorado "Romantic Women Writers" Conference. Spring 1999.
"Spanish Gypsies and African-American
Intellectuals: Ethnic Nationalism in George Eliot and Frances E. W.
Harper." Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference. Spring
1998.
"Anna Jameson and the Romantic Limits
of Corinne." Modern Language
Association Conference. Winter 1998.
"Not so Ennuyee: Anna Jameson and the
Limits of Romantic Feminine Melancholy." American Conference on Romanticism.
Winter 1998.
"Corinne without a Country: Letitia
Landon and Femininity as National Exile." Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century
British Women Writers' Conference. Spring 1997.
"Spiritual Seductions: Mid-Victorian
Worries and the Connelly v. Connelly Case." Northeast Victorian
Studies Conference. Spring 1997.
"Georgia on Our Minds: Position and
the Study of Victorian Prose." Victorians Institute Conference. Fall
1997.
"Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry:
Transatlantic Connections and the 'Nightingale's Burden.'" Plenary Speech.
University of Edmonton Orlando Project Conference. Fall 1997.
"Satire and the Brompton Sappho: Letitia
Landon and Feminine Performances of Sincerity." Modern Language Association
Conference. Winter 1996.
"Hemans and America: National and Feminine
Poetic Identities." Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women
Writers' Conference. Spring 1996.
"Hemans's American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century
Women's Poetry and National Identity." Birkbeck College "Rethinking
Women's Poetry" Conference. Summer 1995.
"Critics, Saints and Statues: The Forms
and Authorities of Victorian Literary Canonization." Midwest Victorian
Studies Association "Canons and Anti-Canons" Conference. Spring 1995.
"Sacred Specimens: Anna Jameson's Models
of Shakespearean Womanhood." Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British
Women Writers Conference. Spring 1995.
"Sanctity and Scandal--The Case of Cornelia
Connelly." Modern Language Association, Winter 1994.
"Grassroots Feminist Education: Twenty-five
Years of Journalism at OOB." Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication. Summer 1994.
"Revering Legitimate Romance: the Sonnets
from the Portuguese as Texts and Relics." Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
An International Conference. Armstrong Browning Library Conference.
Fall 1993.
"Melancholy Modes: Felicia Hemans and
the Establishment of Feminine National Identities." Hallam-Sheffield
University's "Romantic Boundaries: Gender and Genre" Conference. Summer
1993.
"Developing Character(s): Shakespeare's
Heroines and Nineteenth-Century Literary Study." Midwest Modern Language
Association, 1992.
"Hemans and Home: Romanticism, Victorianism,
and the Domestication of National Identity." Modern Language Association,
1991.
Advisory Board, Victorian Literature and Culture.
Representative, Division on the Victorian Period, Modern Language
Association Delegate Assembly
Reader, Nineteenth-Century Contexts,
PMLA, Signs, South Atlantic MLA Award, Tulsa Studies
in Women's Literature, Victorian Studies, Women's Studies
International Forum, Broadview Press, Cambridge University Press,
Fairleigh Dickinson Press, Princeton University Press.
Reviewer: W.W. Norton, University of
Chicago Press, University Press of Virginia
General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship, 2002-
Member, University of Georgia Teaching Academy, 2001
Howard Teaching Award, 1997
Russell Teaching Award, 1996
Special Sandy Beaver Teaching Award, 1994
University of Georgia Lilly Teaching Fellowship, 1990-91
Women's Studies Course Development Grant, 1989
Undergraduate:
ENG 102, Freshman Composition
ENG 102 CAI Freshman Composition, Computer Assisted
ENG 105H, Honors Freshman Composition
ENG 232G, English Literature, 1700 to the Present (Standard, Writing-Intensive,
and Large-Section)
ENG 330, Women in Literature (Topics. Most recent: Twentieth-Century
Writer-Critics and Risk-Taking")
ENG 330H, Women in Literature, Honors
ENGL 3530, Victorian Literature and Culture
ENG 452T, Victorian Novel
ENG 452TH, Victorian Novel, Honors
ENG 452SS, Victorian Novel, Senior Seminar
ENG 4530, Victorian Literature
ENG 453, Victorian Poetry
ENGL 4590, Special Topics: Victorian Gothicism; Victorians and the
"Woman Question"; Victorian Prose; Research Methods in Victorian
Literature
ENG 496H, Honors Directed Readings (Most recent: George Henry Lewes
and the Receptions of George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare; Matthew
Arnold's Poetry, Poetics, and Reception)
ENGL 4970, Undergraduate Thesis Research
HONS 3020, Honors Undergraduate Research Seminar
WS 201, Introduction to Women's Studies
Graduate:
ENG 652T, Nineteenth-Century Novel
ENG 653T, Victorian Poetry
ENG 6530, Victorian Literature, Part One
ENG 660, Women and Literature (Topics: Most recent: five-person, team-taught
colloquium on conflicts in feminist criticism)
ENG 855T, Seminar (Topics: Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry; Feminist
Literary Criticism and the Nineteenth Century)
ENG 896, Directed Readings
ENG 886, Seminar (Topic: Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies: Reading
Romances)
ENG 850, Seminar (Topic: Women's Poetry of the Romantic Period)
ENG 855T, Seminar (Topic: Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Women's
Poetry)
WS701/8010, Core Seminar: Women and the Construction of Knowledge
