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Academic and Professional Training
Teaching Experience
Administrative Experience
Books
"Sexing the Text: Narrative Drag As Feminist Poetics and Politics in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry. Forthcoming Narrative. Fall 1996, 17 ms pages.
"Holding the Line: The Idea of the Faculty in an Age of Downsizing." Forthcoming ADE Bulletin. Fall 1996, 16 ms pages.
"The Future of Graduate Education; or, Which Graduate Programs Have a Future?" ADE Bulletin. No. 111 (Fall 1995), pp. 28-32.
"Dialogue, Discourse, Theft, and Mimicry: Charlotte Brontë Rereads William Makepeace Thackeray," in Understanding Narrative, Eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994, pp. 246-271.
"Inventing Reality: The Ideological Commitments of George
Eliot's Realism," Narrative. Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1994),
pp. 87-111.
"A Feminist and Formal Reading of Pride and Prejudice," in
Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Ed. Marcia Fulsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 1993,
pp. 140-47.
"Becoming a Man in Hardy's Jude the Obscure," in
The Sense of Sex: Feminist Approaches to Hardy. Ed.
Margaret Higonnet. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 1993, pp. 32-48.
"The Voicing of Feminine Desire in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," in Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Literature and Art. Eds. Antony Harrison and Beverly Taylor. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992, pp. 111-123.
"Body Politics: Gender, Race, & Class in Wilkie Collins' Woman in White," in Gender, Race, & Identity. Eds. Craig Barrow, Katherine Frank, John Phillips, Reed Sanderlin. Chattanooga: Southern Humanities Press, 1993, pp. 151-157.
"Nobody's Angels: Domestic Ideology and Middle-Class Women in the Victorian Novel." PMLA. Vol. 107, No. 2 (March 1992), pp. 290-304.
Gesturing Toward an Open Space: Gender, Form and Language in E. M. Forster's Howards End," in Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism. Eds. Laura Claridge and Elizabeth Langland. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990, pp. 252-267.
"Image of Woman: A Literary Perspective," in Foundations for
a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines. Eds.
Michele Paludi and Gertrude Steuernagel. New York and London:
Harrington Park Press, 1990, pp. 69-97.
"Pop Goes the Canon," ADE Bulletin, No. 89 (Spring
1988), pp. 24-28.
"Patriarchal Ideology and Marginal Motherhood in Victorian Fiction," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 19 No. 3 (Fall 1987), pp. 381-394.
"Blake's Feminist Revision of Literary Tradition in "The SICK
ROSE," in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of
Method, eds. Donald Ault, Mark Bracher, and Dan Miller.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1987, pp. 225-243.
"Dialogic Plots and Chameleon Narrators in the Novels of
Victorian Women: The Example of Charlotte Brontë's
Shirley, " Papers in Comparative Studies,
Special Issue on Narrative Poetics, Vol. 5 (1987), pp. 23-37.
"Promises Not Kept: Sexual Infidelity and the Vengeful George
Eliot," Postscript, No. 3 (1986), pp. 53-60.
"The Social Dialectic in Zola's Germinal," rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986; 1992.
"Society Anatomized in Dreiser's An American Tragedy," rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1985.
"'They Shared a Laboratory Together': Feminist Collaboration in the Academy," with Elizabeth Abel and Marianne Hirsch, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1983), pp. 165-167.
"Society as Formal Protagonist: The Examples of Nostromo and Barchester Towers," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Winter, 1982), pp. 359-378.
"Female Stories of Experience: Alcott's Little Women in Light of Work," in The Voyage in: Fictions of Female Development. Eds. Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, Elizabeth Langland. Dartmouth: University Press of New England, 1983, pp. 112-127.
"Women's Studies at Vanderbilt: Towards a Strategy for the Eighties," Stepping off the Pedestal: Academic Women in the South. Eds. Irene Thompson and Pat Stringer. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982, pp. 41-47.
"A Perspective of One's Own: Thomas Hardy and the Elusive Sue Bridehead," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 12-28.
"Marriage and Divorce in Contemporary Literature," in
Marriage-Divorce: A Humanistic Perspective. Ed. Beverly
A. Asbury. Nashville: Tennessee Committee for the Humanities,
1978, pp. 62-83.
Reviews
Review of Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women
Writers and the Novel of Development. The Wordsworth
Circle, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 250-51.
Review of Christine L. Krueger, The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse. The Women's Review of Books. Vol. X, no. 12 (September 1993), pp. 23-24.
Review of Martin Gaskell, Ed. Slums. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Vol. 13, No. 3 (Spring 1992), pp. 219-21.
Review of Huang Mei, Transforming the Cinderella Dream: From Frances Burney to Charlotte Brontë. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 504-506.
Review of Joseph Wiesenfarth, Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 223-26.
Review essay of Eric Sigsworth, ed., In Search of Victorian
Values; of David Trotter, Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and
the Economics of the Novel; and of Jennifer Wicke,
Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social
Reading. Dickens Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 1 (June 1989), pp.
71-76.
Review of Ann Messenger, His and Hers: Essays in
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature. South Atlantic
Review, Vol. 53, No. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 125-27.
Review of Evelyn Hinz, Ed. For Better or Worse: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Literature. Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 230-32.
Review of Margaret Homans, Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing. The Arnoldian, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1986-87), pp. 43-46.
Review of H.M. Daleski, Unities. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall, 1986), pp. 322-23.
Review of Karl Miller, Doubles. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 448-50.
Review of Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in
Gissing, Dreiser, and Zola. Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 93, No.
3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 686-88.
Review of Ross Posnock, Henry James and the Problem of Robert
Browning. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring,
1986), pp. 102-104.
Papers Presented
"Sexing the Text: Narrative Drag as Feminist Poetics and
Politics." International Society for the Study of Narrative
Conference. April 27, 1996. Columbus, Ohio.
"Queen Victoria and the Developing Narrative of Englishness," April 21, 1995. International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Park City, UT.
"Which Graduate Programs Have a Future?" December 30, 1994. MLA
Convention, San Diego, CA.
"The Future of Graduate Education," November 12, 1994. SAMLA
Convention, Baltimore, MD.
"Hannah Cullwick: The Diary Narrative of a Home-Grown
Native," April 30, 1994. Society for the Study of Narrative
Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British
Columbia.
"The Ideological Commitments of George Eliot's Realism."
April 2, 1993. Society for the Study of Narrative Conference,
RPI, Troy, NY.
Panel, "Multiculturalism vs the New Orthodoxy." Nov. 13, 1992.
SAMLA Convention, Knoxville, TN.
"Becoming a Man in Jude the Obscure." April 10, 1992.
Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Vanderbilt U,
Nashville, TN.
"Wayne Booth, the Feminists, and Feminist Criticism." Dec.
29, 1991. MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA.
"Gender, Race, and Ideology in Wilkie Collins's Woman in
White." March 2, 1992. Southern Humanities Conference,
Chattanooga, TN.
"Whiting Out the Body in Wilkie Collins's Woman in
White." December 29, 1990. MLA Convention, Chicago, IL.
"The Voicing of Feminine Desire in Anne Brontë's The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall." April 6, 1990, Society for the
Study of Narrative Literature Conference, Tulane University, New
Orleans, LA.
"Ideological Inscriptions: Charlotte Brontë's Revision of
W. M. Thackeray." April 6, 1989. Society for the Study of
Narrative Literature Conference, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI.
Response, "Is There a Female Bildungsroman?" December 29, 1988. MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Panel, "Exploding Binary Oppositions in Gender Theory." December 30, 1988. MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA.
"E. M. Forster's Right Rhetoric: Gender, Form, and Silence in Howards End." April 9, 1988. Conference on Narrative Poetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
"Pop Goes the Canon." June 5, 1987. ADE Summer Seminar, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
Chair and respondent, "Authority in the Humanities." February 26, 1987. Southern Humanities Conference, Belmont College, Nashville, TN.
"Patriarchal Ideology and Marginal Motherhood in Victorian
Fiction," December 30, 1986. MLA Convention, New York, NY.
"E. M. Forster's Right Rhetoric: The Omniscient Narrator as
Female in Howards End." December 28, 1986. MLA
Convention, New York, NY.
"Dialogic Plots and Chameleon Narrators in the Novels of Victorian Women." April 12, 1986. Conference on Narrative Poetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
"Promises Not Kept: Sexual Infidelity in George Eliot's Novels." March 16, 1985. Philological Association of the Carolinas, Wake Forest University, Raleigh, NC.
"Quality and Equality: Women's Voices in the Literary Canon." December 29, 1984, MLA Convention, Washington, DC.
"Textual Incoherence in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss." November 9, 1984. SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA.
Chair and respondent, "Sexual Politics and the Humanities."
February 3, 1984. Southern Humanities Conference, Chattanooga,
TN.
"Maggie versus Tom in The Mill on the Floss," October 15,
1983. Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Clemson, SC.
"'They Shared a Laboratory Together': Feminist Collaboration in the Academy." With Elizabeth Abel and Marianne Hirsch. December 28, 1981. MLA convention, New York, NY.
Introduced and Coordinated Panel, "The Female Novel of
Development as Genre." May 18, 1980. National Women's Studies
Association Convention, Bloomington, IN.
"George Eliot's Masculine Narrator: The Poser in Janet's
Repentance." December 27, 1979. MLA Convention, San
Francisco, CA.
"Assessing Our Assessors: The Rhetoric of Evaluation." May 31,
1979. National Women's Studies Association Conference, Lawrence,
KN.
"Instruction in Vanderbilt's Women's Studies Program." May 31,
1979. National Women's Studies Association Conference, Lawrence,
KN.
Invited Lectures
"Holding the Line: The Idea of the Faculty in an Age of
Downsizing." ADE-West. July 20, 1996. Snowbird, Utah.
"Canons in a Minor Key." Plenary address. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. March 23, 1996. University of South Carolina.
"Feminist Theories: 1) Originary Streams; 2) Differing Tributaries; 3) New Currents." Lecture series, October 9-13, 1995. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
"Dialogue, Discourse, Theft and Mimicry: Strategic Intertextuality in Women's Novels." April 5, 1993. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
"Victorian Domestic Ideology." September 20, 1992. Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL.
Keynote Lecturer. "Of Canons and Curricula" and "the Opening of The American Mind: Women's Studies in the Curriculum." November 14, 1988. Ohio University, Athens, OH.
The Vinzant Lectures. "Images of Woman: The Stereotypes," "Woman Being and Becoming," "Women: Friends and Lovers, Self and Others." February 16-17. Tift College, Forsyth, GA.
"The Olde Boys Revisited: William Blake's Revision of Literary
Tradition
in 'The SICK ROSE.' " September 20, 1987. Humanities Lecture
Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
L. L. Smith Distinguished Lecturer. "Anne Brontë: The
Other One." November 5, 1986. University of Wyoming, Laramie,
WY.
Memberships and Service in Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights
and
Responsibilities, 1993-96; Chair, 1995-96
International Society for the Study of Narrative
Executive Council, 1992-95
Narrative, Editorial Board, 1992-94
National Women's Studies Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Chair, Section IV, Romantic and Victorian Literature,
1988
Chair, Graduate Studies in English Forum, 1992
Editorial Consulting
Cornell University Press
Ohio State University Press
University of Florida Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Iowa Press
University of Michigan Press
University of North Carolina Press
Southern Illinois University Press
Narrative
SEL
South Atlantic Review
Studies in the Novel
Victorian Studies
Work in Progress
Negotiating Gender in Victorian Fiction.
Book manuscript.