| Education: |
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| December 1983 |
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| June 1974 |
A.B., Oberlin College |
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| Honors, Fellowships, Grants: |
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| 1991-1996 |
Principal Investigator, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Residence Fellowship Program, "Feminism and Visual Culture," University of Rochester ($250,000) |
| 1987-1988 |
Mellon Fellowship, University of Rochester |
| 1980-1981 |
Regents Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley |
| 1978-1979 |
Regents Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley |
| 1974 |
The Meachum Prize for the Study of English Literature, Oberlin College |
| 1973 |
Phi Beta Kappa, Oberlin College |
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| Teaching and Administration: |
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| 1996- 2003 |
Chair, English Department, University of Rochester |
| 1992-1996 |
Director of Graduate Study, English Department,
University of Rochester |
| 1990-1991 |
Director, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies,
University of Rochester |
| 2000- |
Professor of English, University of Rochester |
| 1990-2000 |
Associate Professor of English, University of Rochester |
| 1984-1990 |
Assistant Professor of English, University of Rochester |
| 1986- |
Associate, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies,
University of Rochester |
| 2000- |
Associate, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies |
| 1983-1984 |
Acting Instructor, U.C. Berkeley |
| 1979-1982 |
Teaching Associate, U.C. Berkeley |
| 1977-1978 |
Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley |
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| Publications: |
| Books: |
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| The Appropriated Voice: Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990) |
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| Writing Double: Women’s Literary Partnerships (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) [named a "Choice Book of the Year," 1999] |
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| Articles: |
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| "Wuthering Heights and the Text Between the Lines," Papers on Language & Literature 24 (Winter 1988), 34-52 |
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| "Reading Race and Gender in Conrad's Dark Continent," Criticism 31 (Summer 1989), 235-252; rpt. in Reading With a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity, ed. Arthur F. Marotti et al. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993), 269-286 |
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| "The Pleasures of Submission: Jane Eyre and the Production of the Text," ELH 58 (Spring 1991), 195-213 |
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| "Guerrilla in Petticoats or Sans-culotte?: Virginia Woolf and the Future of Feminist Criticism," diacritics 21 (Fall-Summer 1991), 11-29 |
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| "Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity," PMLA 108 (March 1993), 253-267 |
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| "Reply," PMLA Forum, "Frankenstein: Fact and Fantasy," PMLA 108 (October 1993), 1173-1174 |
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| Essays in Books: |
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| "Of Mimicry and English Men: E. M. Forster and the Performance of Masculinity," A Passage to India, eds. Tony Davies and Nigel Wood. Theory in Practice Series (Buckingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994): 90-120 |
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| “Secretary to the Stars: Mediums and the Agency of Authorship,” in Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, eds. Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell (Ashgate, 2005) |
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| Ed. and Introduction, “Mediumship, Automatism and Modernist Authorship,” in Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, ed. Bonnie Kime Scott (University of Illinois P, 2007), 623-73 |
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| Reviews: |
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| Rev. Elizabeth A. Meese, Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism, in The Eighteenth Century: A Cumulative Bibliography ns 12 (1986) |
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| "Postmodern Woolf," rev. of Pamela L. Caughie, Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism; Patricia Ondek Lawrence, The Reading of Silence. In NOVEL 26 (Winter 1993), 237-241 |
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| Rev. Linda Kaufmann, Express Delivery. In NOVEL (Fall 1994) |
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| Papers: |
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| “Dead Poets Society: World War I and the Resurrection of Posthumous Authorship,” International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 2006 |
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| Panelist, MLA Pre-Convention Workshop for Jobseekers, Washington, DC, December 2005 |
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| “The Author Business,” Seminar participant, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Loyola of Chicago, October 2005 |
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| “Afterlife Writing: Mediumship, Collaboration, and the Biographical Subject,” Seminar on Collaboration, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Rice University, October 2001 (Invited participant) |
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| “Gender of Modernism II: A Roundtable Discussion,” Panelist. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Rice University, October 2001 (Invited participant) |
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| “Afterlife Writing: Mediumship and the Biographical Subject,” International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Emory University, Atlanta, GA (April 2000) |
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| “The Secret Writing of Georgie and W. B. Yeats.” Seminar on “Modernism and the Occult.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Penn State University, University Park, PA (October 1999) |
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| “Romancing the Medium: The Silent Partnership of Georgie Yeats,” International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Northwestern University, Evansville, IL (April 1998) |
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| "Secret Writing: The Brontë Juvenilia and the Myth of Solitary Genius," Invited Lecture for the Brontë Society of the U.S. and Canada, Buffalo, NY, October 1997; extended versions of this paper were presented at University of Rochester, English Department Critical Theory Colloquium, October, 1997 and as an invited lecture at SUNY Buffalo in March 1998 |
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| "The Lady and the Scribe: Automatic Writing and the Trials of Authorship," International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), University of Florida, Gainseville, FL (April 1997) |
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| "At Home with the Savages: Seance Performance as Drawing-Room Spectacle," Victorian Spectacle Conference, The Dickens Project, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (August 1996) |
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| "The Hand(s) that Hold the Pen: Gender, Collaboration, and the Visibility of Authorship," International Conference on Narrative, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (April 1996) |
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| "Between Mediums: The Secret Lives of Writing Women," International Conference on Narrative, University of Utah, Park City, UT (April 1995) |
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| "Just Good Friends: The Family Romance of Women's Literary Collaboration," MLA, San Diego, CA (December 1994) |
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| "At Home with the Savages: Spiritualist Sensations and the Extension of the Victorians," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (October 1994) |
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| "The Jewish Joke and the Victorian Punch Line: Nativity and Narrativity in Daniel Deronda," International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia (April 1994) |
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| "Other-worldly Victorians: Mediumship and the Production of Out-of-Body Writing," The Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, "Centuries Ends, Narrative Means Conference," Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (March 1994) |
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| "Two of a Trade: The Double-Authored Book and the Professionalization of the (Woman) Writer," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Inaugural Conference, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY (June 1993) |
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| "Secret Writing: The Brontë Juvenilia and the Myth of the Solitary Genius," International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Rensseler Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY (April 1993) |
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| "Gender, Collaboration, and Women's Creative Agency," Women's Studies in Language and Literature Panel, MLA, San Francisco, CA (December 1991) |
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| "Gender, Collaboration, and the Question of Feminist Authority," Critical Theory Colloquium, Dept. of English, University of Rochester (October 1991) |
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| "Gender, Collaboration, and the Production of Marketability: The Example of the Brontës," Masterpieces in the Marketplace Conference, The Dickens Project, Santa Cruz, CA (August 1991) |
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| "Narratives of Collaboration and the Production of the Other Woman," International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (April 1990) |
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| "Guerrilla in Petticoats or Sans-culotte?: Virginia Woolf and the Future of Feminist Criticism," Critical Theory Colloquium, Dept. of English, University of Rochester (September 1989) |
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| "Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity," Conference on Narrative Literature (SSNL), University of Wisconsin, Madison (April 1989) |
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| "Positioning the Feminine: Heart of Darkness and Conrad's Sexual Politics," Joseph Conrad Society Panel, MLA, New Orleans, LA (December 1988) |
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| "The Pleasures of Submission: Jane Eyre and the Production of the Text," International Conference on Narrative (SSNL), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (April 1988) |
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| "Virginia Woolf: On Not Speaking Out," Susan B. Anthony Center Faculty Research Seminar, University of Rochester (December 1987) |
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| "Anglo-American vs. French-Feminist Theory," Critical Theory Colloquium, Dept. of English, University of Rochester (April 1987) |
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| "Feminist Theory and the Case of Virginia Woolf," NEMLA, Boston, MA (April 1987) |
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| "Wuthering Heights and the Text Between the Lines," Western Association of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (March 1986) |
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| "E.M. Forster and the Art of Protective Mimicry," Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Faculty-Graduate Student Research Group, University of Rochester (Fall 1985) |
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| "Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Brown," University of California, Riverside (January 1984) |
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| "E.M. Forster and the English Character: Identity in Disguise," Dept. of English, University of California, Berkeley (Fall 1982) |
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| Academic Service: |
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| English Department: |
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| Chair (1996-2003) |
| Director of Graduate Studies (1992-96) |
| Graduate Studies Committee (1986-1989; Chair 1992-1996) |
| Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair (1992-1996) |
| Undergraduate Studies Committee (1984-1988; 1989-1991; 1997-2000; 2004-06) |
| Sub-Committee on Appointments (1986; 1987-1988; 1991-92; 1992-93; 2004-05; 2005-06; Chair, 1993-94; 1997-2003; 2004-2006) |
| Chair, Strategic Planning Committee (2005-06) |
| Website Committee (2005-06) |
| Chair, Plutzik Series Committee (2000-2003) |
| Advisory Committee to the Theater Program (2000-03) |
| Chair, Sub-Committee on the Writing, Media, Communication Track for the English Major (2004-06) |
| Sub-Committee on Carnegie Foundation Initiative on the Doctorate (2002-03) |
| Conference Planning Committee, 2004 |
| Committee on Committees, (Chair, 1991-1993; 1993-1996) |
| Writing Committee (1991-92) |
| Critical Theory Colloquium Committee (1986-1988) |
| Internship Committee, Chair (1984-1987) |
| Schimmel Prize Committee, Chair (1985-1987) |
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| College and University: |
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| Humanities Working Group for College Strategic Planning (2005-06) |
| Faculty Focus Group for Appointment of Director of College Admissions and Financial Aid (2002-03) |
| College Commencement Committee (2002 - ) |
| Faculty Handbook Committee (1998) |
| Part-time Studies Committee (1998- 1999) |
| Standing Committee for Promotion to Associate Professor with
Limited Tenure (1994-1997) |
| Graduate Council (1992-1996); Graduate Council Steering Committee (1994-1996) |
| Task Force for Rochester College Committee (Spring 1991) |
| College Committee on Graduate Studies (1987-1990) |
| College Internship Committee (1985-1987) |
| College Committee on Cultural Diversity (1990-1991) |
| Iota Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Vice-President (1989-1991) |
| Iota Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Nominating Committee
(1986-1991; 1999- 02) |
| Iota Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Executive Board (2001- 03) |
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Associate, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies |
| Susan B. Anthony Chair Search Committee (1993-1994) |
| Susan B. Anthony Center, Steering Committee (1988-1993; 1994-1996) |
| Susan B. Anthony Institute Kafka Prize Committee (2002-03) |
| Susan B. Anthony Center, Rockefeller Grant Proposal and Selection Committee, Chair (1990-1993) |
| Susan B. Anthony Center, Curriculum Committee(1986-1990); Chair (1988-1990) |
| Susan B. Anthony Center, Post-Doc Committee (1987-1988) |
| Women's Studies Program Committee (1985-1986) |
| Women's Studies Cluster, Member (1984-1986) |
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| Associate, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies (2000- ) |
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| Advisory/Steering Committee for VCS (2002-03) |
