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Educational Background:<\/em><\/strong> Shoval Center Grant to support Faculty-Community Historical Research: The \u201cU.S. Moving Picture Corporation\u201d Silent Film Project. Summer 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shoval Center Departmental Civic Engagement Grant to support commitment to civic engagement learning in the Professional Writing Program. Summer 2010. (Grant writer and faculty member)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuition awards, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2003, 2004, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cosmos Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid to Junior Scholars: grant to support dissertation research at the Huntington Library on the collected papers of Mary Annette Beauchamp Russell (Elizabeth von Arnim), 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Columbian Women\u2019s Scholarship, 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduate Teaching Award for outstanding teaching to undergraduates in English at George Washington University, May 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n University Fellowship, George Washington University 1994-1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n Distinguished Graduate Student Award, San Francisco State University, 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n Board member, Institutional Review Board, King\u2019s College. 2022-24<\/p>\n\n\n\n President, Elizabeth von Arnim Society, 2019-present; Vice President 2015-19. (Founded fall 2015.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vice President, Pennsylvania AAUP State Conference, 2024-2026 term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conference co-organizer, \u201cWomen Writers and Comedy\u201d conference, Online, hosted by Misericordia University and The Open University, September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faculty Adviser, The Crown <\/em>(Student Newspaper), King\u2019s College, 2014-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Academic and Professional Affairs Faculty Committee Chair, King\u2019s College, 2020-21 and 2022-2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conference co-organizer, \u201cElizabeth von Arnim & Katherine Mansfield<\/a>: Literary Connections, Friendships, and Influence\u201d conference, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n Editorial Board Member, Academe<\/em>: Publication of the American Association of College Professors<\/em>. 2008-2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Editor, Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal<\/em>. Vol. 6, 2015; Vol 7 and 8 double issue 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Editor, Elizabeth von Arnim Society web site. Founded fall 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n King\u2019s College Honors Program Board, 2013-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pennsylvania AAUP, At-Large Representative 2015-2016, Secretary 2016-2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Editorial Board Member, Academe<\/em>: Publication of the American Association of College Professors<\/em>. 2008-2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President, The Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA, 2000-2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delegate Assembly Member, Mid-Atlantic regional representative, the MLA, 1998-2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n King\u2019s College:<\/em> Georgetown University:<\/em> The George Washington University: <\/em> Mount Vernon College: <\/em> Johns Hopkins University:<\/em> Instructor, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Catholic University of America: <\/em> San Francisco State University: <\/em>
Ph.D., English Literature, The George Washington University, 2007
Dissertation: \u201cNarrative Symptoms: Cultural Trauma, Gender, and Modernism after the First World War
Psychoanalytic Theory for Scholars Program, Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, 2004-7
M.A., English Literature, San Francisco State University, 1993
B.A., English, University of California Irvine, 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Academic Employment:<\/em><\/strong>
King\u2019s College: Professor of English, 2020-present; Associate Professor of English, 2014-2020;
Assistant Professor of English, 2008-2014
Georgetown University: Lecturer in English, 1999-2000
The George Washington University: Lecturer in English and Honors, 1995-2001
Mount Vernon College: Lecturer in English, 2000-2001
The Catholic University of America: Lecturer in English, 1996
San Francisco State University: Lecturer in English, 1992-1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected Professional Awards and Honors:<\/em><\/strong>
The Honorable Max and Tillie Rosenn Award for Faculty Excellence, King\u2019s College, 2023.
Project Narrative Summer Institute on Narrative, Medicine, and Disability, Summer 2020.
NEH Summer Institute Grant Recipient. \u201cCity of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.\u201d New York City College of Technology (CUNY), Brooklyn, New York. June 14-26, 2015.
U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Program to study in Uganda (focus on educational and medical education systems), Summer 2014.
Edith Wharton Essay Prize, for \u201cConsumer Culture and Jazz Age Discontents: Edith Wharton in Pictorial Review<\/em>.\u201d Edith Wharton Society, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected Professional and Committee Service:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community Service<\/em><\/strong>
Peace and Justice Center, Wilkes-Barre: Steering Committee Coordinator 2018-present. Board Member 2015-18. Pro-bono web redesign 2017-present. Summer Camp Volunteer Faculty 2009-present.
League of Women Voters, Board member. 2019-present
Volunteer for Girl Scouts of the Heart of Pennsylvania, as troop leader for a Junior Scout troop in Back Mountain, 2012-20.
Board member and judge, the \u201cPoetry in Transit\u201d project, 2013-2017. Poetry chosen is displayed on Luzerne County buses each year.
WRKC volunteer producing radio\/podcast programming for student and community writers. I have also hosted a weekly music program, 2011-2024.
Local School Restructuring Team, Ross Elementary Public School, 2007-2008.
Board Member, Friends of Fillmore Arts Center, 2006-2008
Board Member and Grant Writer, Dakshina Dance Company, Washington, DC, 2006-7
Washington DC PTA Executive Committee, Ross Elementary School, 2004-2005
Grant Writer and co-chair for $70,000 grant award for Low Impact Development of the John Wiebenson Memorial Playground, DC Dept. of Health Watershed Protection Division, 2004-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected Publications:<\/em><\/strong>
\u201cWomen Who Take to the Sofa: Family Limitation and Respectability in Elizabeth von Arnim\u2019s The Pastor\u2019s Wife<\/em>\u201d and \u201cIntroduction: The Unexpected Modernist.\u201d Eds. Noreen O\u2019Connor and Jennifer Shepherd. Elizabeth von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist. <\/em>Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 2025.
\u201cWriting Toward a New World: Awakenings in Katherine Mansfield\u2019s \u2018Bliss\u2019 and Elizabeth von Arnim\u2019s The Enchanted April.\u201d Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim: Katherine Mansfield Studies<\/em>, vol. 11. Eds. Isobel Maddison, Gerri Kimber, and Todd Martin. Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 2019.
\u201cFrom Alienation to Community: Sylvia Townsend Warner\u2019s Utopian Modernism.\u201d Communal Modernisms: Teaching Literature and Culture in the Twenty-first-Century Classroom<\/em>. <\/em>London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
\u201cConsumer Culture and Jazz Age Discontents: Edith Wharton in Pictorial Review<\/em>.\u201d Edith Wharton Review<\/em>. 28.1 (Spring 2012): 1-12.
\u201cMaking a List, Checking It Twice: The Santa Claus Surveillance System.\u201d Co-written with Richard Hancuff. Christmas – Philosophy for Everyone: Better Than a Lump of Coal.<\/em> New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
\u201c\u2018Thinking Peace into Existence\u2019: Narrating Trauma and Mourning in Freud, Woolf, and Morrison.\u201d The Theme of Peace and War in Virginia Woolf’s Writings: Essays on Her Political Philosophy. <\/em>New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
\u201cTheory into Practice: An Interview with Barbara Foley.\u201d Co-written with Richard Hancuff. Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003<\/em>. Ed. Jeffrey Williams. New York: NYU Press, 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected Conference Papers and Presentations:<\/em><\/strong>
\u201cInexpressible Mourning in Katherine Mansfield\u2019s The Aloe<\/em>.\u201d \u201cReconsidering the Great War in Light of Women\u2019s Voices and Experiences\u201d Panel. Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, March 7, 2024
\u201c\u2018It really is everybody’s<\/em> duty to know at least something of what’s being done in the world\u2019: Transnational Networks and Speaking up for Birth Control.\u201d The American Interwar Magazine Market Panel. Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, Jan 4, 2024.
\u201c\u2018I, Too, Am America\u2019: Desegregating the Modernist Manifesto.\u201d Modernist Forms: Langston Hughes and his Contemporaries. Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, Jan 5-8, 2023.
\u201c\u2018Pa, I have runned off with the boarder\u2019: Early film and the feminist comedy of women who run away.\u201d No Laughing Matter? Comedy and Feminist Politics Panel. Women Writers and Comedy, 1890-1950 International Conference. Online 17-18 September 2022.
\u201cReading Vera at 100\u201d discussion panel with Isobel Maddison, Jennifer Shepherd, and Juliane Roemhild. Online Webinar sponsored by The Elizabeth von Arnim Society, 18 November 2021.
Zora Neale Hurston: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick\u201d <\/em>Invited keynote speaker. 7 August 2021. Literature Cambridge, \u201cWomen Writers Season.\u201d
\u201cA Pedagogical Guide to Writers’ Homes and Archives in the Northeast.\u201d Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, March 5-8, 2020.
\u201c\u2018In the Quarter of the Negro\u2019: Performing Harlem\u2019s Presence in Langston Hughes\u2019s \u2018Ask Your Mama<\/em>.\u2019\u201d Public, Performance, and Politics: Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries <\/strong>Panel. Modern Language Society Conference. <\/em><\/strong>Seattle, January 9-12, 2020.<\/em>
\u201cWomen Who Take to the Sofa: Family Limitation and Respectability in Elizabeth von Arnim\u2019s The Pastor\u2019s Wife.\u201d <\/em>Elizabeth von Arnim: Identities Conference. Toulon, France. July 2-4, 2019.<\/em>
\u201c<\/em>Spectres of Paris: Conjuring and Countering Nostalgic Modernism in Hemingway\u2019s City.\u201d <\/em>Hemingway in Paris: XVIII International Hemingway Conference. <\/em>American University of Paris, July 2018.
\u201cRivers, Mountains, and Gardens: Traumatic Narratives and Mourning in Hemingway, Mansfield, and von Arnim.\u201d Hemingway and War Panel. Modern Language Association Conference, New York City, New York, January 2018
\u201c\u2018Warner Bros. Studio and the Critique of Anti-Semitism in Mr. Skeffington<\/em>.\u201d Elizabeth von Arnim & Katherine Mansfield<\/a>: Literary Connections, Friendships, and Influence conference, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2017.
\u201cLove <\/em>and the Modern Woman: Elizabeth von Arnim and Mature Female Desire in Good Housekeeping.<\/em>\u201d Modernism in Mass Market Magazines panel, 48th<\/sup> Annual Northeastern Modern Language Association Conventionconference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2017.
“Decentered Transnational Dialogues in Edith Wharton\u2019s The Book of the Homeless<\/em>.” \u201cFighting the Great War in Print: Poetics, Propaganda, and Position\u201d panel, Modern Language Association conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2017.
\u201cFilm Criticism from Little Magazines to Small Media.\u201d The Afterlives of the Modernist Little Magazines panel. 18th<\/sup>International Modernist Studies Association conference, Pasadena, California, November 2016.
\u201cLondon as a Modernist City of Exiles: The Creole Native and Jean Rhys\u2019s Voyage in the Dark.\u201d Literary London Society conference, Institute for Advanced English Studies, London University, London, July, 2016.
\u201cSerializing Africa: Hemingway and Wharton in American Magazines.\u201d Wharton in Washington: Edith Wharton Society Biennial Conference. June 2016.
\u201cShattering the Marriage Plot: Elizabeth von Arnim\u2019s Vera and \u201cJane.\u201d Re-Evaluating Elizabeth von Arnim: The Inaugural Conference of the Elizabeth von Arnim Society. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, England. September 2015.
\u201cMultiple Crossings: Transatlantic and Transhistorical Voices in the Pogues\u2019 If I Should Fall from Grace with God<\/em>.\u201d Transatlantic Ireland Panel. 129th<\/sup> Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Chicago, January 2014.
\u201cTeaching Communal Modernism: Sylvia Townsend Warner as an Antidote to Modernist Alienation.\u201d Communal Modernisms: Teaching Women\u2019s Literature in the 21st-Century Classroom Panel. 44th<\/sup> Annual Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, March 2013.
\u201cFemale Friendship and Modernist Community: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.\u201d Patronage, Women Writers and Artists, and the Making of Modernism Panel. 13th<\/sup> Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Buffalo, October 2011.
\u201cFor Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em> and Hemingway\u2019s Anti-Fascist Battles with Hollywood.\u201d Hemingway and Hollywood Panel. 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Los Angeles, January 2011.
\u201cConsumer Culture and Jazz Age Discontents: Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep<\/em>, The Children <\/em>and the Pictorial Review<\/em>.\u201d Edith Wharton on Rodeo Drive Panel. 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Los Angeles, January 2011.
\u201cSylvia Townsend Warner\u2019s Utopian Modernism.\u201d Communal Modernisms Panel. 41st Annual Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention. Montreal, April 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching Experience\u2014courses designed and taught:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sickness and Health: Introduction to Medical Narratives (Core 164)
Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights (Inst 492\/Soc 492\/Eng 325)
Peace and Justice: What are the Alternatives to Violence? (Core 100)
Societies in Conflict: Short-term Study Abroad, India 2015-16 (Inst 300)
Globalization and Its Discontents: Short-term Study Abroad, India 2012 (Inst 300)
Modernist Literature (English 356)
American Realism (English 363)
Literary Nonfiction (English 325)
Writing for New Media (English 323)
Writing for the Arts (English 327)
Honors Modern and Contemporary Literature (Honors 204)
Honors Medieval to Renaissance Literature (Honors 203)
Editing (English 329)
Advanced Writing (English 241)
Introduction to Professional Writing (English 222)
Introduction to Film Studies (Core 179)
British Literature: Romantics, Victorians, Moderns (Core 164)
Literary Monsters (Core 164)
Comedy (Core 164)
Detective Fictions (Core 164)
Writers and the Golden Age of Hollywood (Core 164)
Effective Writing (Core 110)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transnational Modernism (English 260)
Women Novelists and Modernism (English 264)
The Twentieth Century Novel: History, Identity and Narrative (English 258)
The Nineteenth Century Novel: Transatlantic Connections (English 190)
Writing in an Interdisciplinary Environment (Liberal Studies 120)
Texts and Contexts (English 022)
Critical Reading and Writing (English 011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction to British Literature, Medieval to 18th Century (English 51)
Introduction to British Literature, 19th and 20th Century (English 52)
Comedy (English 62)
Medieval Roots of Western Culture (Honors 16)
Ideas in Western Society and Culture (Honors 72)
Composition: The Research Paper (English 11)
Composition: Language in the Arts and Sciences (English 10)
Technology TA, African American Literature Web Site Project (English 73)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women and Power: Women in Historical Perspectives (English 15)
Composition: Researching Women in the 1920s (English 11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction to the Middle Ages (gifted 5th<\/sup>-6th<\/sup> graders)
World Folklore and Mythology (gifted 2nd<\/sup>-3rd<\/sup> graders)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction to Literature and Composition (English 102) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Junior English Composition (English 116)
Freshman Basic Skills Writing Workshop (English 50)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other Relevant Work:<\/em><\/strong>
Blackdiamondcomedies.org, Editor, 2012-present. Editing, research, and writing for the blog dedicated to engaging the college and community together to recover history and stories related to the first Paramount comedies, Black Diamond Comedies, which were filmed in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area.
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Director of Web Communications, 2001-2008. Responsible for the association\u2019s Web communications strategy, and Web site development, and training staff in content writing and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n