Curriculum Vitae:
JULIE A. SHAFFER
Dept of English
University of Wisconson Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901

e-mail: shaffer@uwosh.edu

 Education, Academic Employment, Courses Taught, Publications, Conference Papers,
Other Conference Activities, Other Professional Activities,
Honors, Memberships in Professional Organizations

EDUCATION 

Ph.D.

University of Washington

Summer 1989

 

Dissertation: Confronting Conventions of the Marriage Plot: The Dialogic Discourse of Jane Austen's Novels
Director: Susan Jeffords 

 

 

Major Areas of Coursework: 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Narrative Theory; Modern British and American Literature; the History of Theory and Criticism

 

 

Major Exam Areas: Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, John Milton; Narrators and the Novel as a Genre; the History of Criticism; Modern British Literature  

 

M.A.

University of Washington

Winter 1982

 

Master's Essay: Language and Linguistic Skepticism
in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

 

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University of Oxford

Summer 1981

B.A

University of California, Santa Cruz

Spring 1977

 

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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

1996-pres

Assistant Professor

Illinois State University

1994-1996
1990-1992

Assistant Professor and Research Faculty

University of Paderborn

1992-1994

Teaching Assistant

University of Washington

Wtr 1988
1985-1986
1981-1983

Instructor

Colorado State University

1986-1987
Spr. 1985

Instructor

University of Colorado

Aut. 1984

Instructor

University of Alaska, Anchorage

Aut. 1983

Instructor

Alaska Pacific University

Sum. 1983

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COURSES TAUGHT

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Assistant Professor (1996-present)
Eighteenth-Century British Novel: see sample syllabus
Nineteenth-Century British Novel:
 see sample syllabus
Literary Study Tour: Jane Austen:
see class materials
British Literature, 1800-present:
see sample syllabi: fall 1995, spr 1998
Introduction to English Studies: 
see sample syllabus
Women and Literature
Freshman Composition

Illinois State University - Assistant Professor (1990-1992, 1994-1996)
Women and Literature:
 see sample syllabus
The History of Literature by Women: 
sample syllabi: fall '94, spr '95
Introduction to Narrative for English Majors
Introduction to Poetry and Drama for English Majors
Freshman and Intermediate Composition (computer-aided)

University of Paderborn - Research and Teaching Faculty (1992-1994)
Feminist Linguistic Theory and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers:

see sample syllabus

Multi-Cultural American Literature

University of Washington - Teaching Assistant (Winter 1988, 1985-1986, 1981-1983)
Introduction to Literature
Writing about Special Topics
Freshman Composition

Colorado State University - Instructor (1986-1987, Spring 1985)
Freshman and Intermediate Composition (computer-aided)

University of Colorado - Instructor (Fall 1984)
Freshman and Intermediate Composition (computer-aided)

University of Alaska - Instructor (Fall 1983)
Freshman Composition

Alaska State University - Instructor (Summer 1983)
English as a Second Language: Reading and Conversation

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PUBLICATIONS

"Familial Love, Incest, and Female Desire
in Late Eighteenth-Century Women's Novels."

Criticism 41 (1999): in press.

"Non-Canonical Women's Novels of the Romantic Era:
Romantic Ideologies and the Problematics of Gender and Genre."
Studies in the Novel 28.4 (1996): 469-492.

"Romance, Finance, and the Marketable Woman:
The Economics of Femininity in Late Eighteenth-
and Early Nineteenth-Century English Novels."

Bodily Discursions: Essaying the Body. Eds. Deborah Wilson and Christine Laennec.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 39-56.

"Challenging Conceptions of Proper Femininity
and Women Novelists' Relation to the Romantic."

Literatur und Erfahrungswandel 1789-1830:
Beiträge des zweiten Internationalen Corvey-Symposions, 8.-12. Juni 1993
.
Eds Rainer Schöwerling, Hartmut Steinecke and Guenter Tiggesbäumker.
Munich: Fink, 1996. 231-247.

"The Ideological Intervention of Ambiguities in the Marriage Plot:
Who Fails Marianne in Austen's Sense and Sensibility?"

A Dialogue of Voices: Approaches to Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin.
Ed. Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 128-151.

"Illegitimate Sexualities in Romantic-Era Woman-Penned Novels in Corvey."
Corvey Journal 5.2/3 (1993): 44-52.

"The High Cost of Female Virtue:
The Sexualization of Female Agency in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Texts."

Misogyny in Literature: An Essay Collection. Ed. Kathy Ackley.
New York: Garland, 1992. 105-142.

"Not Subordinate: Empowering Women in the Marriage Plot -
The Novels of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen."

Criticism 34 (1992): 51-73.

Rpt in Reading with a Difference:
Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity
.
Eds. Arthur Marotti, R.R.M. Wasserman, Jo Dulan and Suchrita Mathur.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. 21-43.

"Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters."
Lewd and Notorious Women. Ed. Katharine Kittredge.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (in press).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

"Gender and the Limits of Masquerade
in Sophia Lee's The Two Emilys and Mary Robinson's Walsingham."

Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Europe. Ed. Chris Mounsey.
Under consideration at Bucknell University Press.

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CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Sex?"
National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999.

"Erectio Interrupta/Prophylactic Tales:
Desexualizing Europe and Domesticating Male Sexuality."

National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998

"Bastards."
Seventh Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 1998

"Incest, Familial Love, and Female Desire in Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novels."
Third annual conference of the International Gothic Association
Twickenham, England, July 1997

"Visionary Hybridization: Mrs Ross's The Woman of Genius."
Sixth Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Davis, California, March 1997

"Fraternité and Other Bonds:
The Reign of Terror in Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter."

Annual Convention of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1996

"Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter; or, the Illegitimacy of the Solitary Woman."
National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Austin, Texas, March 1996

"Transvestism, Class Hopping, and Rebirth:
Masquerade and Identity in Sophia Lee's The Two Emilys."

Annual Conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1995

"Mrs Ross's The Woman of Genius:
Gothicism, Visionary Romanticism, and the `Masculine' Female Romantic's Romance Plot."

Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Romanticism
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 1995

"Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters:
(Subversive) Female Sexuality and Questions of Class
in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Novels by Women."

Fourth Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Notre Dame, Indiana, March 1995

"`We Are All of One Family':
Familialization, or, from Figural to Literal Incest in 18th- and early 19th-Century Novels."

Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Rochester, New York, November 1994

"Forming Friends, Family and Lovers:
The Sexual Problematics of Sentimental Bonds
in Non-Canonical late 18th-Century Woman-Penned Novels."

Annual Conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies
Normal, Illinois, October 1994

"Challenging Conceptions of Proper Femininity
and Women Novelists' Relation to the Romantic."

Second International Corvey Symposium
Paderborn, Germany, June 1993

"Conservative Attitudes and Problematic Youths:
Late Eighteenth/ Early Nineteenth Century Narrative Conventions
for Negotiating Ideological Compliance."

International Conference on Narrative
Albany, New York, April 1993

"I Once Was Lost But Now I'm Found:
Challenging the Canon with Rare Women-Penned Novels from the Corvey Collection."

National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Providence, April 1993

"Sad Endings for Bad Girls:
Female Growth as Always Already Criminal in Thelma and Louise."

National Convention of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Louisville, March 1992

"Romance Without Finance Just Don't Make Sense:
The Conflation of Monetary and Moral Discourses in Burney's Camilla."

Aphra Behn Conference
New Orleans, February 1992

"Female Self-Betrayal:
Verbal Self-Silencing and the Body's Treacherous Eloquence in the Late Eighteenth Century."

The Annual M/MLA Conference
Chicago, November 1991

"Women's Self-Silencing: The Higher the Price, the Higher the Value of Self-Subjection."
International Conference on Narrative
Nice, France, June 1991

"Discourses of Femininity: Silence, Virginity, and the High Price of Female Virtue."
Annual Conference of the South Central Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Texas A&M University, February 1991

"Teaching Natural Femininity: Exhorting Women to Learn to Be Themselves."
Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s
University of Oklahoma, October 1990

"Empowering Women in Marriage:
Dialogically Confronting Conventions in Novels by Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen."

International Conference on Narrative
New Orleans, April 1990.

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HONORS

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant for
"Masculinity and Britishness"

1999

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant for
"Domestic Ideals: Female Community and Monogamous Sexuality"

1998

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant for
"Improprieties in Romantic-Era Women's Fiction"

1997

Stipend for NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers:
"Feminism and Enlightenment: Women Writers and the 1790s"
Director: Mary Jacobus

1995

Grant from DAAD (Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst)
for Research in the Corvey Collection, Paderborn, Germany

1992

Stipend for NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
"Political and Religious Romance in the English Novel"
Director: Judith Wilt

1991

Grant from English Speaking Union for Study at Oxford

1981

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OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Convened and will moderate Session, "Contested Masculinities I," for the Annual Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

1999

Convened Session, "Contested Masculinities II," for the Annual Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century

1999

Organized Session on Mary Robinson, for the Annual Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

1996

Convened Session, "Illegitimacy and Miscegenation," for the Annual Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

1996

Discussant for "Domesticating the Prophet: From Albany in Cecilia to Edgar in Camilla" on panel "Absence and Presence in the Writings of Fanny Burney" at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association

1995

Moderated Session, "Staging Cross Dressing" for the Annual Convention of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

1995

Convened and Moderated Session, "Gender, Sex, and Ideology: Narrative Negotiations from the 18th to the 20th Century," For the International Conference on Narrative

1993

Convened Session, "Constituting the Female: Discourses of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain," for Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s

1990

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chair, Social Committee, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

1997-pres

Reader, Broadview Press

1997-1998

Chair, Professional Growth Committee, Illinois State University

1995-1996

Professional Growth Committee, Illinois State University

1994-1996

Reader, Studies in the Novel

1995

Critical Theory Reading Group, Illinois State University

1994
1990-1992

Reader, Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers 1776-1837,
eds. Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner; Pittsburgh:
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

1993

Translator, "What Racism? Which Violence?
Questions towards the New Feminist Movement in Germany,"
by Irmgaard Kloenne

1993

Reader, Senior Honors Thesis, Illinois State University

1991-1992

Committee, Women in Literature Courses, Illinois State University

1991-1992

Women's Studies Reading Group, Illinois State University

1990-1991

Feminist Colloquium, University of Washington

1991-1992

Critical Theory Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students,
University of Washington

1982

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association

International Gothic Association

Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Modern Language Association

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

 

LANGUAGES

German and French

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