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Chair, History of Art,
Cornell University, 2006-2009
Acting Chair, History of Art,
Cornell University, 2005-200
Professor, English,
Cornell University, 1998-present
H. Fletcher Brown
Professor of the Humanities,
University of Delaware, 2000-2001
Director, Women's
Studies Program,
Cornell University, 1996-2000
Visiting Associate
Professor,
English, Brandeis University, Spring 1996
Associate Professor,
English,
Cornell University, 1992-98
Assistant Professor,
English,
Cornell University, 1986-1992
Assistant Professor,
English,
Princeton University, 1985-1986
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Ph.D.,
English,
University of California, Berkeley, 1986
M.A.,
English,
University of California, Berkeley, 1981
B.A.,
summa cum laude, English,
University of California, Berkeley, 1977
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Books:
Facing America: Iconography and the Civil
War (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865
(editor). (Blackwell, 2004).
Romances of the Republic: Women,
the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American
Nation (Oxford University Press, 1996).
The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender,
and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America (editor).
(Oxford University Press, 1992).
In Progress:
"Reading the American Novel, 1780-1865"
(book under contract, Blackwell)
“Thomson Anthology of American Literature,” Editor, Volume Two, 1800-1865.
"The Limits of Translation: Women and
Nations in Late 20th Century Culture"
Articles:
“Facing West,” in War Narratives, ed. Giles Gunn (2006) (revised from Facing America).
"The American Novel, 1790-1840," (with Elizabeth
Barnes), History of the Book in America, volume 2, ed.
Mary Kelley and Robert Gross (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
"Women at War," The Cambridge Companion
to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing, ed. Philip
Gould and Dale Bauer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 143-156.
"Lincoln’s Body," in the online
version of The Mickle Street Review (2001).
"National Gender: American Iconography
and the Civil War" in Gender Studies: Feminist Methodology,
ed. Irina Zherebkina (Ukraine: 1999), pp. 92-101 (in Ukrainian).
"Miscegenated America: The Civil War," American
Literary History (Fall 1997), 482-501. Slightly different
version in Kennedy Institut Essays, Free University of Berlin,
1997, and, abridged, in The Construction and Contestation of
American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period
edited by Udo Hebel (Universitatsverlag, Heidelberg, Germany,
1999). Reprinted in National Imaginaries, American Identities:
The Cultural Work of American Iconography, edited by Gordon
Hutner and Larry Reynolds, Princeton University Press 2000.
"The Identity of Slavery," in The Culture
of Sentiment, 157-171.
"The Mother Tongue," in Asian Americans:
Collages of Identities, ed. Lee C. Lee (Ithaca, New York:
Proceedings of Cornell Symposium on Asian American Identity, 1992)
117-122.
"Generation Through Violence: Cooper's Making
of Americans," in New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans,
ed. Daniel Peck, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
87-114.
"Wieland: Alien and Infidel," Early
American Literature (Fall 1990) 25, no. 2, 46-66.
"Infidelity and Contagion: The Rhetoric of
Revolution," Early American Literature (Fall 1987) 22,
no. 2, 183-191.
"The Family, the State, and the Novel in the
Early Republic," American Quarterly (Fall 1986) 38, no.
3, 381-395.
"Plague and Politics in 1793: Arthur Mervyn,"
Criticism (Summer 1985) 27, no. 3, 225-246.
Reviews:
Betsy Erkkila, Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars, Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2006).
Carolyn Sorisio, Fleshing Out America:
Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature,
Nineteenth-Century Literature, Spring 2005.
Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation:
Women’s Writing and the Civil War, JEGP 101 (1),
January 2002, 151-153.
Mary Louise Kete, Sentimental Collaborations:
Mourning and Middle-class Identity in Nineteenth-century America
and Lori Merish, Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity
Culture, and Nineteenth-century American Literature, Legacy
18 (2), Fall 2001, 240-242.
Julie Ellison, Cato’s Tears and the
Making of Anglo-American Emotion, Modern Philology,
100 (2), Fall 2001, 290-293.
Grantland Rice, The Transformation of Authorship
in America, Modern Philology vol. 98, no. 3 February
2001, 503-506.
Michele Burnham, Captivity and Sentiment,
Journal of American History 86 (4), March 2000, 1765-6.
Gregg Camfield, Necessary Madness: The
Humor of Domesticity in 19th-Century American Literature,
JEGP 98 (4), October 1999, 601-3.
Philip Gould, Covenant and Republic: Historical
Romance and the Politics of Puritanism, Novel 31 (2),
Spring 1998, 266-7.
Gary Ebersole, Captured by Texts: Puritan
to Post-Modern Images of Indian Captivity, American Literature
69 (4), December 1997, 844-5.
Steven Watts, The Romance of Real Life:
Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture,
William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1), January 1996, 239-240.
Kari Winters, Subjects of Slavery, Agents
of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives,
1790-1865, American Literature 65 (4), December 1993,
780-81.
Hortense Spillers, ed., Comparative American
Identities, American Literature 65 (3), September 1993,
598-600.
James Wallace, Early Cooper and his Audience,
Resources for American Literary Studies 17 (2), Fall 1991,
284-6.
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Recent invited talks:
“Death and Photography,” Pennsylvania State University, April 2006.
"Race in the National Body," Florida
State University, October, 2004.
"Facing the Nation," Vassar College,
September, 2004.
"Facing America," War Narratives
Conference, UC Santa Barbara, May 2002; Library Company of Philadelphia,
July 2001.
"Lincoln’s Body," 19th-Century
Colloquium, University of Delaware, April 2001.
"American Women Write the Civil War,"
University of Delaware, April 2001.
"Women at War," Rutgers University,
March 2001.
"Whitman and the Face of the Nation,"
University of Delaware, February, 2000; University of Wisconsin,
Madison, December, 1998; and Cultural Studies Program, University
of California, Santa Cruz, October 21, 1998.
"American Feminism," Kharkov Gender Studies
Institute, Ukraine, June 1998.
"The Face of the Nation: Gender and Representations
of the American Civil War," American Studies Program, University
of Munich, June 1998.
"20th-Century American
Women Writers," University of Regensburg, Germany. June 1998.
"Miscegenated America," University of Washington,
April 1997, Free University of Berlin, January 1997, and Texas
A and M University, October 1996.
Keynote address, "The Construction and Contestation
of American Cultures in the Early National Period," conference
at University of Potsdam, Germany, January 23, 1997.
"American Violence," UCLA and UC Riverside,
February 1996, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December
1995.
"Feminist Criticism and Nineteenth-Century
American Women," Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, November
20, 1989.
"The Identity of Slavery," Feminist Colloquium,
English Department, Harvard University, December 1988 and English
Department, Tufts University, December 1988.
"Early Abolitionist Literature," American
Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1988.
"Charles Brockden Brown and Revolution," English
Department Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, Fall
1984.
Recent invited talks and conference work at
Cornell:
“Death and Photography,” Africana Studies conference "Strange Fruit: Lynching, Visuality, Empire," March 2006, and Law and Humanities colloquium, April 2006.
Conference organizer and roundtable chair,
"Race, Sexuality, Culture, and Politics in the Literatures of
the United States." April 1-2, 2005.
Respondent, "Humanism at the Crossroads:
Cultures of Death and Dying in America," Society for the
Humanities, February 19, 2004.
Keynote address, "The Face of American
Slavery," for the Kroch Library exhibition on Abolitionism
in America, June, 2003.
"Facing America: Visual Iconography and
the Civil War," History of Art, March 2003.
"The Significance of Alexander Gardner,"
Kroch Library, March 2003.
"Facing West," Comparative History
Colloquium, November 2002.
Conference organizer and opening address,
"Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women and Revolution,"
April 2-5, 1998.
Respondent, "Politics on the Page," Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference: "The Politics of Culture, The Culture
of Politics," November 1997.
Respondent, "Overlooked and Undercover," Constructing
Queer Cultures, February 1995.
"Eighteenth-Century Political Cartoons,"
Women's Studies, January 1993.
"Picturing America," Goodbye Columbus conference.
April 4-6, 1992.
Conference organizer and opening address,
"Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America."
March 29-April 1, 1990.
"The Language of Identity," Symposium on Asian-American
Identity, 1990.
Recent conference talks:
“Contracts: Women and Blood in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, September 2006.
"Killing Lincoln," American Studies
Association, Washington D.C., November 2005.
"The Blackness of Fall River,"
American Literature Association, Boston, May 2005.
Roundtable, "Rewriting American Fiction
Before 1865," American Literature Association, San Francisco,
California, May 26-30, 2004.
"Mourning Mexico: Girls and Death in The
Hidden Hand and Who Would Have Thought It?" Narrative
Conference, Berkeley, California, March 27-29, 2003.
"Southworth Heads South," American
Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Dec. 12-14, 2002.
"Bird’s War," American Literature
Association, Long Beach, California, May 30, 2002.
"Reconstruction: Women and War,"
American Literature Association, Boston, May 2001.
"Women at War," conference on "Pairing
Empires: Britain and America, 1857-1947" The Johns Hopkins
University, November 10-12, 2000.
"The Female Recruit," special session
on "Literary Representation and the Civil War," Modern
Language Association, San Francisco, California, December, 1998.
"The Face of the Nation: Whitman and the Civil
War," conference on the American Renaissance, American Literature
Association, Cancun, Mexico, December 1997.
"Stowe and Twins," American Literature Association
conference: "Influences, Friendships, and Rivalries: Male
and Female Writers of the U.S.," Cancun, Mexico, December
13, 1996.
"A Patriotic Education: George Lippard's Revolution,"
American Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November
1993.
"Picturing America: 'Britania and Her Daughter,'"
American Studies Association, Costa Mesa, California, Nov. 5-8,
1992.
"Fraternal Violence: George Lippard and Revolution,"
American Literature Association, San Diego, California, May 27-31,
1992.
"The Age of Romance," Eighteenth-Century American
Studies Division, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Seattle, Washington, March 26-29, 1992.
"Beyond the Heart of Women: Postrevolutionary
Sentiment," Eighteenth-Century Comparative Studies Division, Modern
Language Association, Chicago, December 1990.
"American Women and the Slavery Question,"
session on Sentimentality and American Culture, American Studies
Association, Miami, November 1988.
"Sentimental Violence," "The Esthetics of
Sentiment: Creating 19th-Century American Women's Culture," (session
organizer) American Studies Association, New York, November 1987.
"Violence Between Women," Division meeting
on Feminist Theory, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston,
April 1987.
"Cooper's Spies," special session "The Limits
of Historical Knowledge: 19th-Century America," (session organizer
and chair), Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986.
"Infidelity and Contagion: the Rhetoric of
Revolution," Early American Literature Division, Modern Language
Association, Chicago, December 1985.
"'One Political Family': The Early American
Historical Novel," special session on Women and War, (session
organizer) American Studies Association, San Diego, October 1985.
"Revolutionary Language," New England American
Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, May 1985.
Recent responses, and other conference work:
Chair, “Women and Religion,” American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2006.
Interview, Civil War Book Review, Fall
2004, http://www.cwbr.com/
Chair, "Homeland Insecurity: Policing
the Boundaries of Citizenship Through Domestic Terror(isms)"
American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October 2003.
Chair, "Mourning Dickinson," Modern
Language Association, New Orleans, December 2001.
Chair and Respond, "Violence in 19th-century
American Women’s Writing," Society for the Study of
American Women Writers, San Antonio, Texas, February 14-18, 2001.
Respondent, "Marriage, Property, and
Violence," American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada,
October 30, 1999.
Chair, "Spiritual Edges in the Nineteenth
Century," California American Studies Association, Santa
Cruz, April 30, 1999.
Chair, "Comparative Sentimentalities,"
18th-Century Comparative Studies Division
Meeting, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December,
1998.
Chair, "Nation and Deformation: Violence
and National Narrative Before 1898," American Studies Association,
Seattle, November, 1998.
Respondent, "Standing on Whose Ground: Law
and Nation," 19th-Century American Women Writers Conference, Hartford,
May 1996.
Respondent, "An American History of the English
Novel," Eighteenth-Century Comparative Studies Division, Modern
Language Association, San Diego, California, December 1994.
Chair, "Sentimentalism's Darker Side," American
Studies Association, Nashville, October 1994.
Chair, "Crossing the Other River: Uncle
Tom's Cabin," American Studies, November 1990.
Respondent, "American Utopias,"
American Studies Association, Toronto, November 1989
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McLean Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia,
Summer 2001
Visiting Fellow, Cultural Studies, University
of California, Santa Cruz, 1998-99
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
for University Teachers, 1993-94
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Spring
1994 (voted life member)
Fulbright to Uppsala University, Sweden, 1993
(declined)
Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell
University, Fall 1991
Northeast Modern Language Association fellowship
at American Antiquarian Society, Fall 1988
Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Fall 1988
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship,
Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., Spring 1988
Humanities Summer Research Grant, Cornell University,
1987
Regents Fellow, University of California, Berkeley,
1981-1983
Phi Beta Kappa, 1977
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History of Art: Chair, 2006-2009, Acting Chair, 2005-2006
English Department:
Appointments, Curriculum, Freshman Seminar and Writing, George Harmon
Coxe Prize, Moses Coit Tyler Prize, Graduate Policy and Curriculum,
Honors, Lecture, Placement Officer (1989, 1990, 2001, 2002)
Women's Studies:
Director (1996-2000); Associate Director (1995-96); Graduate Field
Representative (1992-93); Executive Board (1987-2000); Committees:
Curriculum, Graduate Affairs, Honors, Political Liaison, Steering
American Studies:
Acting Chair (1989)
Field member: American Studies, Asian-American Studies, Feminist,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Visual Studies
Society for the
Humanities: Humanities Council (1992-95, 2004-2007)
Faculty Council
of Representatives: Executive Committee (1987-90), Retirement
Committee
FACTA (Advisory committee to the Provost on
tenure decisions) 2003-2005
Faculty Mentor, Minority Summer Research Exchange
Program (1989); Mellon Minority Student Program (1995); Fulbright
(1995-6)
Reviewer, Proposals for President’s Council
of Cornell Women
Faculty Fellow, Balch Hall (1996-2000)
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Editorial Boards: American Literary History,
Early American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, Charles
Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition
Section Editor: American Literature Before 1865,
for Literature Compass, an online journal managed by Blackwell
Press, England (2003-2005)
Reader for American Quarterly, American
Literature, American Literary History, Journal of
American History, PMLA
Reader for various university presses including
Cambridge, Duke, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Johns Hopkins, North
Carolina, Oxford, Princeton, Tennessee, Virginia
Screener for NEH and American Council of Learned
Societies fellowships
Tenure and promotion reviews: Boston University,
Brown, University of California (at Davis, San Diego, and Santa
Barbara), Clark, University of Colorado, Duke, University of Georgia,
Haverford, Loyola, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State University,
Rice, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University
of Wisconsin at Madison, Williams, Yale
Executive Committee, Eighteenth Century Comparative
Studies Association, MLA (1992-95)
Foerster Prize Committee, MLA (chooses best
essay of the year in American Literature) 2004
Member: Modern Language Association, American
Studies Association, American Literature Association, National Women's
Studies Association, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study
Group, Society for the Study of American Women Writers
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Present:
Karen Bourrier, Julie Curry (History), Jennifer Dunnaway (chair),
Hilary Emmett (co-chair), Heather Furnas (History), Michael Garcia
(chair), Susan Hall (chair), Theo Hummer (chair), Toni Jaudon (chair),
Richard Juang, Stephanie Li (co-chair), Jessica Metzler (chair),
Joshua Nelson, Anita Nicholson, Shirleen Robinson, Yuko Shibata
(Asian Studies), Kim Snyder (co-chair), Nick Soodik (chair)
Past:
Amy Blair (chair), Melani Budianta, Carol Acree Cavalier, Mary Chapman,
Susan Choi (chair), Pete Coviello, Lisette Gibson Diaz (Syracuse),
Paul Downes (chair), Susan Lynch Foster (chair), Susan Gilmore,
Elizabeth Graver (chair), Violet Hayes, Rosetta Haynes (chair),
Leslie Horowitz (History), Ya-fen Huang (chair), Jillian Hull (chair),
Dana Luciano, Alice Maurice (chair), Jennifer Mohlenhoff (Comparative
Literature), Naomi Morgenstern, Paula Moya, Cynthia Munroe, Laura
Murray, Chris Nealon, Marie O’Brien, Iyun Osagie, Monique Patenaude
Roache (History), Heather Roberts (chair), Sally Rogers, Francesca
Sawaya, Bethany Schneider (chair), Sam Stoloff, Ed White, Kay Yandell,
Nobuko Yamasaki (Asian Studies), Tim Young
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Cornell University:
English 669: Gift and Contract in the 19th-Century
U. S.: Social and Sexual Constructions of Whiteness, Ethnicity,
and Race
English 665: Race, Gender, and Crossing Water:
Narratives of Mobility and Escape in Nineteenth-Century America
English 663: Photography and the Body in the
American Civil War
English 662/Women's Studies 660: Gender, Race,
and Nation in 19th-Century America
English 661: Finding America: Sex, Race, and
Conquest in Early Narratives
English 646: American Violence
English 491: Hawthorne and His Contemporaries
English 492: Writing the Civil War
English 479: Gender and Visual Culture in
Women's Literature
English 465: American Violence
English/Women's Studies 462: Gender in Nineteenth-Century
America
English 461: Literature of the Early Republic
English 451: Violence, Nation, Myth: The Americas,
1770-1940
English 366: Nineteenth-Century American Novel
English 362: American Renaissance
English 361: Early American Literature
English/Women's Studies 348: The Female Literary
Tradition
English 275: American Literary Tradition
English 270: Study of Fiction
English/Visual Studies 252: Late 20th-Century
Women Writers and Visual Culture
English/Women's Studies 251: Twentieth-Century
Women Novelists
English 158: American Literature and Culture:
"Performing Identity"
English 136: Practical Prose
English 105: Women Writers
Society for the Humanities 474: Violence,
Nation, Myth: The Americas, 1770-1940
Society for the Humanities 408: Romances of
the Republic
University of Delaware:
English 844: Gender, Pictures, Words: The
Civil War
English 480/Women’s Studies 480: Gender,
Race, and Nation
English 340: American Literature Before the
Civil War
Brandeis University:
English 251: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists
English 462: Gender in Nineteenth-Century
America
Princeton University:
English 363: Modern American Novel
English 132: American Literature
American Studies 363: Hollywood and American
History
American Studies 202: Culture and Society,
1890-1940
University of California, Berkeley:
Introductory courses in literature and composition
Presentations on feminist criticism to NEH
summer seminar for high school teachers (1989), NEH summer seminars
for college teachers (1990 and 1993), and Cornell Adult University
(1994
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