Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD English, Washington University, St Louis, MO, May 2002

M A. English, Washington University, St Louis, MO, December 1998

B A. Summa cum laude, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, December 1994

Dissertation

The Arts of Reproducing: Photographers, Sculptors, and American Literary Realists

A study of literary representations of the visual arts, as responses to the development of photography, in works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Henry James.

Committee: Vivian Pollak (advisor), Wayne Fields, Robert Milder, Rafia Zafar. Completed: May 2002.

Research and Teaching Interests

19^th and 20^th Century American Literature

Rhetoric and Composition

Literature, Photography, and the Visual Arts

American Culture Studies

Minor fields: 18^th and 19^th Century British Literature

Teaching Experience

University of California, Davis English Department

Advanced Composition with Computer Aided Instruction. Winter 2003 - Present

Washington University English Department and American Culture Studies Program

Chief American Writers. Summer 2000

Special Focus in Composition: Technology and Society. Fall 2002

Special Focus in Composition: Text and Tradition. Fall 1999

Special Focus in Composition: Lewis and Clark and the American Experience. Fall 1998

Advanced Expository Writing. Fall 2001

Practice in Composition. As instructor and private tutor. Summer 2001

Freshman Composition. Fifteen classes. 1996 - 1999; 2001 - 2002

Smarthinking, Inc. On-line tutoring service, Washington, DC. http://www.smarthinking.com.

On-Line Tutoring in the Smarthinking Writing Lab. Spring 2002 - Present

Maryville University, St Louis, Missouri. Evening and Weekend College Program

Composition: Theme-Writing. Adjunct teaching, Summer and Fall 2002

Publications

Performing the "Unnatural" Life: The Autobiography of Claude Hartland
     Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Volume 25 Number 4, Fall 2002.

Painting, Photography and Fidelity in The Tragic Muse
     The Henry James Review, Volum 23 Number 4, February 2003.

"Singularly like a bad illustration": The Appearance of James's "The Real Thing" in the Pot-Boiler Press
      Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 45 Number 2, Summer 2003 .

Harriet Beecher Stowe
      Encyclopedia of American Cultural Studies. Kurian and Orvell, Editors, Grolier, 2001

Forthcoming

Shaping a Body of One's Own: Rebecca Davis's Life in the Iron-Mills and Waiting for the Verdict
      Forthcoming in The Arizona Quarterly in 2003 - 2004.

U.S. Literatures of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
      Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America. Gale, 2003.

In Progress

Staging Photography's Dramatic Debut: Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon

"Merely a pictorial subject": The Turn of the Screw

On Teaching Dave Eggers

Presentations

MLA panel presentation
"Merely a pictorial subject": The Turn of the Screw
Henry James Society panel, "James and the Visual Arts." San Diego, December 2003

Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel presentation
Color, Class, and Family in Stowe's Second Anti-Slavery Novel
Harriet Beecher Stowe Society panel, "Stowe and the Family." Fort Worth, September 2003

English Department colloquium
"Performing the 'Unnatural' Life: The 1901 Autobiography of a Gay St Louisan"
Washington University English Department colloquium series, October, 2002

Guest lecture
"A Lost Voice, a Usable Past: Researching Claude Hartland"
Washington University graduate course: Life-Writing in the 19^th Century. September 2002.

Panel presentation
"'Singularly like a bad illustration': The Appearance of 'The Real Thing' in the Pot-Boiler Press"
Northeast MLA Convention: The Short Stories of Henry James. March 2001.

Panel presentation
"Hawthorne and the Revisions of Photography"
Washington University Graduate Symposium: The Dynamics of Revision. March 2000.

Guest lecture
"The Masculinity of Genius in Henry James's Roderick Hudson"
Washington University undergraduate course: American Masculinities. November 1999.

Panel moderator
"Early Modern Exotica"
Washington University Graduate Symposium: Other Times, Other Places. March 1998.

Activities and Honors

Post-Doctoral Lecturer
Washington University, Fall 2002. UC Davis English Department, Winter & Spring 2003.

Mellon Foundation Fellow
Dissertation Seminar, "Composing a Place: Finding a Language for Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America," American Culture Studies Program, Summer 2001

Member
Critical Forum, a graduate planning committee for presentations and English department events

Student Editing Assistant
The Erotic Whitman by Vivian Pollak. University of California Press, 2000

Student Archivist
Modern Literature Collection and James Merrill Papers, Olin Library, 1995 - 1998. Volunteer Tutor, Adult Literacy League of Central Florida. 1993 - 1995

Volunteer and Employee
We Care Crisis Center and Suicide Prevention Hotline, Orlando, FL. 1991 - 1995

Member
Modern Language Association, Northeast MLA, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Harriet Beecher Stowe Socety, Herman Melville Society, Henry James Society.

References

Vivian Pollak, Professor of English, Washington University. vrpollak@artsci.wustl.edu. (314) 935 5190

Wayne Fields, Professor of English, Washington University. wdfields@artsci.wustl.edu. (314) 935 5216

Amy Pawl, Director of Composition and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Washington University. ajpawl@artsci.wustl.edu. (314) 935 5190

Mailing address for the above: English Department, Box 1122; One Brookings Dr.; St Louis MO 63130

Dossiers available upon request from Washington University Career Center