EDUCATION:
Tufts University
Ph.D. English Literature, May 2002
Dissertation: Rediscovering the Americas: Women Travel Writers from 1821-1843
M.A. English Literature, 1996

Appalachian State University
B.A. Major: English Literature, Minors: Women's Studies and Psychology, 1995, Magna Cum Laude, Honors in English
Senior Honors Thesis: "La Voz de mi Familia"

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Allegheny College, Department of English, Fall 2002-present

Full-time Instructor, Tufts University, Department of English, 2005-2006

Fall 2005
English 1:
Developed and taught first year expository writing course around topics of education and media literacy and focusing on argumentation and research skills.

Spring 2006
Writing From the Border: Latino/a Literature in the 20th Century:
Developed and taught contemporary literature course about Latino/a literature structured around the concept of the "border" and all its literal and metaphorical connections to the developing canon of authors in the field.

Spring 2005
Topics in Postcolonial Literature:
Developed and taught upper level English seminar course focusing on the African novel in English, themes include cannon formation, colonial education, gender and sexuality in a postcolonial context, authors include Nngugi Wa'Thionga, Ama Ata Aidoo, theoretical approach structured around Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skins/White Masks.

Technical and Professional Writing:
Taught writing focused course specializing in business and professional writing for students across disciplines, emphasizing peer work, collaborative writing, groups projects, and web-design, assignments include summary of discipline specific article, persuasive letter, and community outreach via collaborative projects that serve the campus and Meadville community.
Reading Literature: Masculine and Feminine Desire:
See description of Reading Literature below.

Fall 2004
Reading Literature: Masculine and Feminine Desires: see description of Reading
Literature below.
Studies in Later British Literature: The Country and the City: see description of
Studies in Later British Literature below.

Spring 2004
Topics in Postcolonial Literature:
Developed and taught interdisciplinary, co-taught course with colleague in Theater and Communication Arts focusing upon literature and media of postcolonialism, themes and issues included globalization, diaspora communities, and postcolonial theory, authors included Jamaica Kincaid, Chinua Achebe, theorists included Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Lisa Bloom, and Homi Bhabha.
Junior Seminar/The Thrills of Reading: Gothic Literature in the Romantic Period
Developed and taught upper level seminar structured around the late eighteen and early nineteenth century explosion of Gothic-Romance Revival British literature, concepts included masculine and feminine manifestations of gothic literature, violence and desire and its connection to the novel, and the romance of the family in the context of the period, authors included Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and John Keats.
Reading Literature: Masculine and Feminine Desires: see description of Reading
Literature below.

Fall 2003
Writing 100: Expository Writing:
Developed and teaching the remedial expository writing course for students who need extra assistance with writing skills, specifically focused upon argument and critical thinking.
Studies in Later British Literature: The Country and the City: see below.
FS 201: Sophomore Seminar: Representing Class
Developed and taught the English specific, theme structured general college course requirement for all sophomores at the institution focusing upon critical thinking and writing skill, in particular those skills necessary in the major, authors include Mary Wollstonecraft, John Keats, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys.

Spring 2003
Reading Literature Romance and Representation: see below.
FS 201: Sophomore Seminar: Representations of Class
Developed and taught the English specific, theme structured general college course requirement for all sophomores at the institution focusing upon critical thinking and writing skill, in particular those skills necessary in the major.
Junior Seminar: Mobile Bodies: Nation, Gender, and Travel in the Romantic Period:
Developed and taught advanced seminar for majors and minors structured around the idea of "revolutions" of culture and literary production in the period, specifically focused upon the idea of nation building and gender identity; authors include Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen.

Fall 2002
Reading Literature: Romance and Representation:
Developed and taught gate-way course for the major focusing upon textual analysis and critical reading skills in order to introduce students to the basics of reading literature, recognizing figures of speech, and learning to engage with literary genres including novels, short stories, plays, and critical articles in the field of literary studies, authors include Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, and Christina Rossetti.
Studies in Later British Literature: The Country and the City:
Developed and taught mid-level British literature course focusing upon the various representations of the space of the country and that of the city beginning with the Romantic period, and including authors such as Jane Austen, Mary Robinson, and William Wordsworth and moving into the Victorian period and including authors such as Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, and Robert Browning.
Topics in Romanticism: The Gender of Empire, the Empire of Gender: Developed and taught upper level course for majors and minors focusing upon British Romanticism and engaging with various authors' ideas of nationhood, womanhood, and empire during this period of British expansion, beginning with ideas of the sublime and beautiful and working through these concepts in authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Full-time Visiting Instructor, Bridgewater State College, Department of English, 2001-2002

Spring 2002
Writing 2:
Continuation of Writing 1. Developed and taught a research based writing course focusing on argument formation, research and library skills, and critical thinking skills.
Major British Writers since 1800:
Developed and taught a literature survey course focusing upon British culture, prose and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including selections from William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, T.S Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
Women's Literature: "The Female Tradition since 1900."
Continuation of fall women's literature course. Developed and taught a course that focuses upon the American and British women writers' canon including selections from Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, and Margaret Atwood.

Fall 2001
Writing 1:
Developed and taught two intensive writing courses for first-year students, focusing on argument formation, grammar, critical thinking and writing skills.
Literary Themes: "Love and Sexuality."
Developed and taught a general requirement literature course attempting to de-naturalize given assumptions about both of these terms and interrogating understandings of "deviant" and "normative" sexualities as well as expectations of romantic love. Texts included Pride and Prejudice, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Women's Literature: "The Female Tradition to 1900."
Developed and taught an upper level literature course examining the American and English canon of women writers and studying women's poetry and prose recognizing their power and oppression within larger political and social contexts. Authors included Margery Kempe, Phillis Wheatley, Charlotte Smith, Charlotte Bronte, and Kate Chopin.

Graduate Student Lecturer, Tufts University, Department of English, 1996-2000
English 1: "Expository Writing."
Developed and taught four writing intensive courses for first-year students, focusing on critical thinking and writing skills.
English 2: "Love and Sexuality."
Developed and taught two courses that considered representations of sexuality and love in our culture, focusing on critical thinking and writing skills. Texts included Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, A Boy's Own Story, and Like Water For Chocolate.
"Parents and Children."
Developed and taught a course that considered representations and definitions of families and the parent-child relationship, focusing on critical thinking and writing skills. Texts included Pride and Prejudice, Pigs in Heaven, Bastard Out of Carolina, and Thunderheart.

Course Assistant, Tufts University, Department of English, Fall 1997
"Girls' Books." Assisted in grading for an upper-level undergraduate English class.

Teacher, English Language Center, Boston, MA, Summer 1998
Taught English as a Second Language (ESL) to international students. Courses
included focus on intensive grammar, conversation, and writing skills for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students.

PUBLICATIONS:
"'For the Honour of Our Country:' Maria Dundas Graham and the Romance of Benign Domination" in Studies in Travel Writing. Forthcoming, Summer 2005.

"Gothic Routes: Travel Writing and Anthropology in Frances Calderon de la Barca's Life In Mexico" in The Gothic Other. Editors Ruth Anolik and Douglas L. Howard, McFarland & Company Publishers, Jefferson, NC, Summer 2004.

Biographical entry on Frances Calderon de la Barca in The Literature of Travel and Exploration Encyclopedia, ed. Jennifer Speake, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, September 2003.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS:
"Two Tales to Tell: Maria Dundas Graham and Captain Basil Hall's "travels" with San Martin," at International Society for Travel Writing, Milwaukee, WI, Fall 2004.

"Telling Tales: 'History' in Maria Dundas Graham and Captain Basil Hall's Travel Journals," at North American Association for the Study of Romanticism, Boulder, CO, Fall 2004.

"Travel, Gender, and Empire." Panel Chair at NEMLA, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2004.
"Traveling Women, Women Travel Writers," guest speaker at The Twentieth Century Club, Pittsburgh, PA, Winter 2004.

"Good Men and Gentlemen both at sea and on shore:' Maria Dundas Graham's English Example," at North America Association for the Study of Romanticism, New York, NY, Summer 2003.

"Romantic Imperialism: Maria Graham, Empire, and England," Humanities Lecture Series at Allegheny College, Spring 2003.

"Let My Woman's Wit Bestead Me Here:' Anna Jameson's Rambles," at NEMLA, Boston, MA Spring 2003.

"For the Honour of Our Nation: Maria Dundas Graham's English Example," at 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, TX, Spring 2003.

"'Let My Woman's Wit Bestead Me Here:' Anna Jameson's Women," at In Transit: A Conference on Travel Writing and Travel Writers, Cleveland Ohio, October 2002.

"'For the Honour of Our Nation:' Maria Dundas Graham's English Example," at International Conference on Romanticism, Tallahassee, FL, October 2002.

"'Let my Woman's Wit Bestead Me Here': Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada," at Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Fairfax, VA, April 2002.

"Gothic Routes: Travel Writing and Anthropology in Frances Calderon de la Barca's Life In Mexico," at the Humanities Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.

"'For the Honour of Our Nation': Maria Dundas Graham's English Example," at the North East Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, Spring 2001.

"Women Travel Writers," at the Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA, Winter 2001.

"'I had almost made up my mind to see no more such scenes': The Pains and Pleasures of France Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico," at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY College at Cortland, NY, Fall 2000.

"Writing Her Place: Frances Calderon de la Barca's Journey Through Mexico," at the British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Fall 1999.

"Embodying the Empire: Isabella Fane's Anxieties in India," at the Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, Spring 1998.

"A Room-Sized Empire: Girls' Roles and the 'Adventure' of Empire in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden," at the 5th Annual Simmons College Graduate Student Conference, "Beyond Borders: Redefining Disciplines, Canons, and Theories" Boston, MA, Spring 1997.

TEACHING INTERESTS:
Romanticism, Nineteenth Century Studies, Women's Studies and Feminist Theory, Empire Studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, Eighteenth Century Novel, Gothicism, The Novel, Travel Writing, British Literature Survey, Late Eighteenth Century British Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

ACADEMIC AWARDS:
Academic Support Committee Research Grant, Allegheny College, Summer 2003
New England Board of Higher Education Fellow, Bridgewater State College, 2000-2001
Tufts University Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2000
"Pass with Distinction" on Tufts University Oral Comprehensive Examination, Spring 1998
Bob Allen full Scholarship to Appalachian State University, Spring 1995
Teaching Fellowship to University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 1995
Presidential Scholarship to North Central College, Spring 1995

ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Nomination Committee Chair, International Society for the Study of Travel Writing, Fall 2003 to the present
Political Science Search, Outside Division Faculty Member Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Finance and Facilities Committee, Fall 2004 (three year appointment)
Department Subcommittee to select Senior Project English Prizes, April 2004
Recorded Sergio Vodanovic's El Delantal Blanco for Professor Barbara Riess, Winter 2004
Steering Committee for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Minor, 2003-present
Committee for Diversity Issues (CODIS), September 2002-present
"How Students Learn Workshop," May 2003
"Teaching Circles," Spring 2003-present.
Latin American Studies Minor, Faculty Liaison to student organization Union Latina, 2002-present
"Good Girlfriends' Circle," faculty mentoring program for women students of color at Bridgewater State College, 2000-2001.
Co-President of Tufts English Graduate Organization (TEGO), 1996-1997.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
North American Association for the Study of Romanticism
International Society for Travel Writing

LANGUAGES:
Fluent Spanish: speaking, reading, writing
Beginning French: reading, writing, speaking

REFERENCES:
Sonia Hofkosh, Associate Professor of English, Tufts University
Modhumita Roy, Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Tufts University
Sheila Emerson, Associate Professor of English and Director of First Year Writing, Tufts University
Judith Rose, Assistant Professor of English, Allegheny College