Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cRedefining \u2018The Glory of a Woman\u2019: Short-Hair Heroinism in the Victorian Novel,\u201d \u201cOdd Bodies\u201d:\u00a0 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Philadelphia, March 16-19, 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Almost like a room in a Victorian novel\u2019:\u00a0 Barbara Pym\u2019s Refashioned Domestic,\u201d 48th\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017.<\/p>\n\u201cFashioning the Unconventional Victorian: Conduct, Costume, Coiffure,\u201d 48th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017.\u00a0 Panel organizer and moderator.<\/p>\n\u201cFrom the Experiential to the Expository:\u00a0 A Roundtable,\u201d 47th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Hartford, CT., March 17-20, 2016.\u00a0 Roundtable Organizer and Chair.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2019Your Paranoia is Real\u2019:\u00a0 The Death of the Amateur in Domestic Terrorism Films,\u201d 47th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Hartford, CT., March 17-20, 2016.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2019Murderous-Headed Statues\u2019: Domestic Violence and Murder in\u00a0Little Dorrit<\/em>,\u201d 56th\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Toronto, April 30-May 3, 2015.<\/p>\n\u201cRunning Toward Paradise:\u00a0 Neo-Noir\u2019s Movement Away from the City,\u201d 56th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Detroit, Michigan, November 13-16, 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019The Last Look\u2019:\u00a0 Clairvoyance and Domestic Disintegration in Rhoda Broughton\u2019s Supernatural Fiction,\u201d 45th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 3-6, 2014.<\/p>\n\u201cApparitions and Illusions:\u00a0 The Spectral in the Victorian Cultural Imagination,\u201d 45th\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), \u00a0Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 3-6, 2014.\u00a0 Panel Organizer and Moderator.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2019The treasure house of science\u2019: Sir Philip Sidney, Poetry, and Today\u2019s Humanist,\u201d Rethinking the Liberal Arts through Core Texts: Science, Poetry, Philosophy, and History, 19th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada, April 22-April 25, 2013.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2018Literary Fig-Leaves\u2019 and \u2018Masquerading Things\u2019: Adornment in the Victorian Cultural Imagination,\u201d44th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston, March 21-March 24, 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cT.S. Eliot and Canon Formation: Tradition and Originality for Today\u2019s Undergraduate,\u201d Liberal Arts Education and the World: Inquiring into, Preparing for, and Living in the Real World through Core Texts, 18th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Milwaukee, March 29-April 1, 2012.<\/p>\n\u201cWorldly Experience and Superior Wisdom:\u00a0 Odd Women and Shades of Masculinity in \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rhoda Broughton\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Twilight Stories<\/em>,\u201d Symposium \u2013 Haunted Men: Masculinity in the Ghost Stories of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras, Tremough Campus, University College Falmouth, Penryn, England, September 5, 2011.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2019A Balance of Culture and Fun\u2019:\u00a0 Teaching the Great Texts via Martin McDonagh\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>In Bruges<\/em>,\u201d The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) 17th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Annual Conference \u2013 The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts and Core Texts, New Haven, April 14-17, 2011.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2019My God!\u00a0 I have seen it!\u2019:\u00a0 Specters and Subjectivity in Rhoda Broughton\u2019s Fiction,\u201d 52nd<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference, Chicago, November 4-7, 2010.<\/p>\n\u201cChristina Light\u2019s Interior Design: Corruption in Henry James\u2019s House of Fiction,\u201d 39th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Annual\u00a0 NeMLA Conference, Buffalo, N.Y., April 10-13, 2008.<\/p>\n\u201cNewspapers and the Common Reader in Thomas Hardy\u2019s House of Fiction,\u201d Print Culture and the Novel, Oxford University, Oxford, England, January 20, 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cAffirmations of Identity and Experience:\u00a0 The Western Canon and Today\u2019s Diversified Student Body,\u201d Educating Heart and Mind: The Theory and Practice of Character Education, Two-Day Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character Academy, School of Education at Boston University, Boston, April 6-7, 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn \u2018Abuse of Visibility\u2019:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>What Maisie Knew<\/em>, Henry James\u2019s Victorian Novel,\u201d The Twentieth Century and the Victorians, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, England, July 11-13, 2005.<\/p>\n\u201cAdaptations\/Rewritings in Literature,\u201d The Twentieth Century and the Victorians.\u00a0 Panel Chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Sensational Control:\u00a0 The First Wife in Mrs. Henry Wood\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>East Lynne<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(1861),\u201d Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, April 14th<\/sup>-17th<\/sup>, 2005.<\/p>\n\u201cWe all Scream for Ice Cream: The Semiotics of Food in\u00a0<\/span>Monster\u2019s Ball<\/em>,\u201d Third Annual Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts,\u201d University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, February 26-28, 2004.<\/p>\n\u201cPolitics, Pedagogy, and Great Books: Legitimizing the Western Canon for Today\u2019s University Student,\u201d Nashr-e Tari Keh Books, Tehran, Iran, July 8, 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen of Letters: Letter-writing, Female Autonomy, and Authorship in Elizabeth Gaskell,\u201d Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 8-10, 2002.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Nothing more\u2019 and \u2018Nothing definite\u2019: First Wives in Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Wives and Daughters<\/em>,\u201d Tenth Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th- Century British Women Writers, Madison, Wisc. April 19-21, 2002.<\/p>\n\u201cUnsolved Mysteries: Statue Brides in Charles Dickens\u2019\u00a0<\/span>Little Dorrit<\/em>,\u201d Fourth Annual Dickens Society of America Conference, Boston University, Boston, November 5-7, 1999.<\/p>\n\u201cGender and the Semiotics of Sewing in Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Ruth<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eighth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Millennial Crossroads: Navigating the Future of Our Past, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, September 24-26, 1999.<\/p>\n\u201cFashion Fictions: Clothing Identities in Gaskell, Oliphant, and Braddon,\u201d Eighth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.\u00a0 Panel moderator.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictorian States of Mind: Political, Ethical, and Philosophical Narratives,\u201d 23rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago, April 23-24, 1999.\u00a0 Panel moderator.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Hemmed In\u2019: Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Ruth<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and the Semiotics of Sewing,\u201d Fifth Annual Women\u2019s Studies Conference: Women and Creativity, Marquette University, March 25-27, 1999.<\/p>\n\u201cDefining Feminism at the Small Liberal Arts Women\u2019s College,\u201d 19th Annual Conference of the New England Women\u2019s Studies Association, University of Connecticut, April 22, 1995.\u00a0 Coordinator and moderator of undergraduate roundtable presentation.<\/p>\n
\u201cPornographic Serial Fiction: Refurbishing the Bourgeois Home,\u201d 18th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Victorian Studies Association, Rutgers University, April 24-26, 1992.<\/p>\n
Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/h3>\n
Curran Fellowship, from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2019<\/p>\n
Co-Editor,\u00a0<\/span>The Latchkey:\u00a0 The Journal of New Woman Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\nDr. Ismail Sensel Award, Boston University, 2008.<\/p>\n
Junior Fellow in the Boston University Humanities Foundation Society of Fellows, Boston University, 2005-2006.<\/p>\n
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