Sweet Briar College
EDUCATION
Princeton University. M.A., Comparative Literature, 1979
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. B.A., History. Phi Beta Kappa. Magna cum laude. 1971
TEACHING / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE- Professor of English, 1995-date
Associate Professor of English, 1989-95
Chair, Department of English, 1991-94; 2004-2007
Assistant Professor of English, 1982-89
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - Visiting Scholar, 1988-89
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Research Assistant, Criminal Justice Division,
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,1981-82
Lecturer, Departments of English and Romance Languages and Literatures,1980-81
Assistant in Instruction, Departments of English and Romance Languages and Literatures, 1975-80
Contemporary International Writers; Modern Poetry; Contemporary Poetry; Women Poets as Visionary Inheritors; Modernism and Modern Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Modern Irish Literature and Culture; 20th-Century Women Writers; Virginia Woolf seminars; D. H. Lawrence seminar; European Civilization: The Origins of the Modern World; English Composition
SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
"Framing DeLillo's Falling Man." Paper presented at the Novel and Its Borders conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
"'The Strangled, Difficult Music of the Present.'" In Virginia Woolf: Voyages Out, Voyages Home, ed. Jane de Gay. (forthcoming)
"The Making of Woolf's America." In Virginia Woolf and the Art of Exploration. Ed. Helen Southworth and Elisa K. Sparks. Clemson University, 2006.
"Woolf and the American Imaginary." In Woolf and the Real World. Ed. Karen V. Kukil. Clemson University, 2005.
"'The Burning Ground of the Present: Woolf and Her Contemporaries." In Virginia Woolf and the Essay. Eds. Beth Rosenberg and Jeanne Dubino. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 117-36.
"Reading Proust: Woolf and the Painter's Perspective." In The Multiple Muses of Virginia Woolf, ed. Diane Gillespie. (Expanded version of 1989 article.) University of Missouri Press, 1993. 58-89.
"Woolf's Reading of Proust." In Reading Proust Now, eds. Mary Ann Caws and Eugene Nicole. Peter Lang, 1990.
"Reading Proust: Woolf and the Painter's Perspective." Comparative Literature XLI: 4 (Fall 1989): 327-359.
"The Making of Woolf's America." Paper presented at the 15th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 2005.
"Woolf and the American Imaginary." Paper presented at the 13th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2003.
"'The Strangled, Difficult Music of the Present': Woolf on Identity and Difference." Paper presented at the 11th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, University of Bangor, Wales, 2001.
Outside Reader for Blackwell's of England, 1999.
"Beauty and the Beast: Assessing Pat Barker's Great War Trilogy." Paper presented at the 1997 Great War Symposium, University of South Carolina.
"'We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers': Narcissism and the Failure of Theory in Barker's Trilogy." Paper presented for special session, 1996 MLA Convention, Washington, D.C.
"Women Looking (and Women Looking at Men) in DeLillo's Libra." Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, 1995.
"A Walk on the Wild Side with Woolf and Proust." Paper presented at the Comparative Literature Session, 1993 SAMLA Convention, Atlanta.
[Selected Papers and Publications Pre-1989]
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
"The Celtic Tiger Revisited." CIEE Faculty Seminar. Dublin, 2008
Chaired session on War Trauma, the Novel, and the Holocaust at the Novel and Its Borders conference,
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008
Chaired session on Re-envisioning Woolf with (Other) Modernist Writers at the 18th Annual International
Virginia Woolf Conference, Denver University, Denver, Colorado, 2008
"A New Britain: The Disunited Queendom." CIEE Faculty Seminar. London, 2006
15th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 2005
MLA Convention, Philadelphia, 2004
"Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland." CIEE Faculty Seminar. University of Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 2003
13th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2003
Computer Technology Workshops (Dreamweaver II; Power Point), Sweet Briar College, 2002
MLA Convention, New York City, 2002
MLA Convention, New Orleans, 2001
Research at National Library in Dublin, Ireland, 2001
11th Annual International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, University of Bangor, Wales, 2001
MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., 2000
Summer Study at Oxford University with the University of California, Berkeley Program, 2000
NCTE Summer Institute - "African American Autobiography," Karla Holloway, et al., Seminar Leaders, 2000
Tenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Maryland, 2000
Southern Circuit Screening Sessions, Columbia, S.C., 1999
Logic Workshop, Margaret Hartman, Director, Sweet Briar College, August 1999
Culpeper Advanced Faculty Technology Workshop, Sweet Briar College, January, May 1999; Culpeper Computer Technology Workshop, Randolph Macon Women's College, January 1998
Designed English Department website, with Elizabeth Botea, 1998; maintain site with student assistants, 1998-present
Conference on College Composition and Communication - Annual Convention, Chicago, 1998
NCTE Summer Institute - "Literature and the New Technologies," John Slatin, Seminar Leader, 1997
Penn State Summer Institute on Theory and Culture - "Performance Theory," Eve Sedgwick, Seminar Leader, 1996
SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Gilpin Grant, Interdisciplinary Studies Grant - Faculty Grants Committee, 1993, 2001-2006
Louise Garrard Davis Blanchard Memorial Fund award for Summer Study at Oxford University, 2000
NCTE Summer Institute: African-American Autobiography, Gilpin Grant, Faculty Grants Committtee, 2000
Special Curriculum Initiative Grant, Faculty Grants Committee, 1998
NCTE Summer Institute: Literature and the New Technologies, Gilpin Grant, Faculty Grants Committee, 1997
Penn State Summer Theory and Culture Institute, Faculty Grants Committee, 1996 Research & Course Development Grants, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 1989-94
Course Development Grants, Honors Program, 1989, 1993
Dupont Summer Institute Grant, 1992
NCTE Summer Institute on Critical Theory and Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Studies Grant, 1991
Program Development Grants, 1989
Sweet Briar College Faculty Fellowship, 1988-89
Mellon Grant, Faculty Development Seminar, College of William & Mary, 1988
Excellence in Teaching Award, Student Government Association, 1987
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
South Central MLA
International Virginia Woolf Society
Modernist Studies Association
Don DeLillo Society
American Conference for Irish Studies