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Employment, Courses
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Ph.D. |
University of Washington |
Summer 1989 |
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Dissertation:
Confronting
Conventions of the Marriage Plot: The Dialogic Discourse of
Jane Austen's Novels |
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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 |
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Major Exam Areas: Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, John Milton; Narrators and the Novel as a Genre; the History of Criticism; Modern British Literature |
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M.A. |
University of Washington |
Winter 1982 |
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Master's Essay:
Language and
Linguistic Skepticism |
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University of Oxford |
Summer 1981 |
B.A |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Spring 1977 |
Assistant Professor |
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
1996-pres |
Assistant Professor |
Illinois State University |
1994-1996 |
Assistant Professor and Research Faculty |
University of Paderborn |
1992-1994 |
Teaching Assistant |
University of Washington |
Wtr 1988 |
Instructor |
Colorado State University |
1986-1987 |
Instructor |
University of Colorado |
Aut. 1984 |
Instructor |
University of Alaska, Anchorage |
Aut. 1983 |
Instructor |
Alaska Pacific University |
Sum. 1983 |
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh - Assistant
Professor (1996-present) |
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Illinois State University
- Assistant
Professor (1990-1992, 1994-1996) |
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University of Paderborn
- Research
and Teaching Faculty (1992-1994) |
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University of
Washington - Teaching
Assistant (Winter 1988, 1985-1986,
1981-1983) |
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Colorado State University
- Instructor
(1986-1987, Spring 1985) |
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University of Colorado
- Instructor
(Fall 1984) |
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University of Alaska
- Instructor
(Fall 1983) |
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Alaska State University
- Instructor
(Summer 1983) |
"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.
"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.
University
of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant for |
1999 |
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant
for |
1998 |
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant for |
1997 |
Stipend for NEH Summer
Seminar for College Teachers: |
1995 |
Grant from DAAD (Deutscher
Akademische Austauschdienst) |
1992 |
Stipend for NEH Summer
Seminar for College Teachers |
1991 |
Grant from English Speaking Union for Study at Oxford |
1981 |
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
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 |
Reader, Re-visioning
Romanticism: British Women Writers 1776-1837, |
1993 |
Translator, "What Racism?
Which Violence? |
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, |
1982 |
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
German and French
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