Education:
1986     Ph.D. in English, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.
1981     M.A. in English, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.
1978     B.A., Phillips University, Enid, OK.

Publications:
Books:
Women, Work, and Representation:  Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature.  Ohio University Press, 2003.

Critical Editions:
John Halifax, Gentleman. By Dinah Mulock Craik.  Broadview Press. 2005.

The Slaughter-House of Mammon: An Anthology of British Social Protest Literature. Eds. Sharon A. Winn and Lynn M. Alexander. Locust Hill Press, 1992.

in progress:
Subversive Sentiments: The American Social Narrative by Women, 1820-1920, with Kay B. Meyers.

Articles:

“Unsexed by Labor: Middle-Class Women and the Need to Work.”  ATQ 22.3.  Fall 2008.

“‘Shadows Uplifted’: Gender and Race Perspectives in the Works of Stowe and Harper.”  The Language of Diversity: Restoration Toward Peace and Unity.  Eds. Mary Alice Trent, Trevor Grizzle, Andrew Lang, Elsa Rogers.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

“Creating a Symbol: The Seamstress in Victorian Social Protest Fiction.” (1999) Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 160. 2006. Introduction. The Slaughter-House of Mammon: An Anthology of British Social Protest Literature. (1992) Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 160. 2006.

“Victorian Illustrators and Illustration.” Victorian Literary Cultures: A Critical Companion to the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Eds. William Baker and Kenneth Womeck. Greenwood Press. 2002.

"Victorian Illustrators and Illustration." A Companion to the Victorian Novel.  Eds.  William Baker and Kenneth Womack.  Greenwood Publishing, 2002.

“Signifying Sex: Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe and Western Biblical Tradition."  He Said, She Said:  RSVP to the Male Text.  Eds. Sarah Appleton Aguiar and Mica Howe.  Farleigh Dickenson UP, 2001.

"Creating a Symbol: The Seamstress in Victorian Social Protest Fiction." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.  18.1. Spring 1999.  29-38.

Entries for Edwin Abbott, Julia Kavangh, Eliza Meteyard, Francis Paget, Charles Rowcroft, Camillia Toulmin. New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1999.

"Ethel Sidgwick." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, 1890-1918. Vol. 197. 1998. 264-268

"Creating a Hero: The Male Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century British Women's Novels." Pre-Text. Fall 1997.

Entries for Maria Edgeworth and Frances Trollope. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe. Eds. Katharina M.
Wilson and Paul and June Schlueter. Garland. 1997.

"End of the Domestic Idyll: Slop Workers in Victorian Literature." Keeping the Victorian House. Ed. Vanessa Dickerson. Garland. 1995.

"Ruth Rendell." British Women Mystery Writers. Ed. Kathleen Klein. Greenwood. 1994.

"Transcending Gender: Industrial Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Women." Studies in the Humanities, Fall 1993. 107-14.

"Following the Thread: Dickens and the Seamstress." Victorian Newsletter, Fall 1991. 1-7.

"Seamstresses, Dressmakers, and Milliners." Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Sally Mitchell. Garland, 1988.

Entries for Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, GeorgeEliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Frances Trollope. British Women Writers. Eds. Paul and June Schlueter. Garland, 1988.

"Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction in the Factory House Library." Women Writers in McFarlin, First Series. University of Tulsa, 1985.

Book Reviews:

Kestner, Joseph. Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1964-1913. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Summer 2005.

Deborah Anna Logan, ed. Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales by Harriet Martineau. Broadview Press, 2004.

Claudia Orazem, Political Economy and Fiction in the Early Works of Harriet Martineau.  Albion. Spring 2000.  134-35.

Ellen Harding, ed., Reframing the Pre-Raphaelites: Historical and Theoretical Essays. Victorian Review. Spring 1998.

Susan Meyer. Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Fall 1997.

Patricia Okker. Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors. Victorian Periodicals Review. Fall 1996.

Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle, ed., Harriet Martineau in the London Daily News: Selected Contributions, 1852-1866. Nineteenth-Century Prose. Spring 1996.

Robyn R. Warhol, Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel, and Adrienne Auslander Munich, Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Spring 1991.

Margaret Holman, Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Spring 1987.

Presentations/Conferences:

“Breaking the Bonds:  Alcott and Blake on Women and Work.”  Politics and Literature Session, South Central Modern Language Association.  San Antonio, TX, November 2008. 

Session Chair, South Central Dialect Society, SCMLA.  San Antonio, TX, November 2008. 

“‘Shadows Uplifted’:  The Trope of the Maternal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Iola Leroy.”  Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.  Miami, FL, April 2008.

“Matriarchal Power in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Iola Leroy.”  Tennessee Philological Association.  Clarksville, TN, February 2008.

“Sociological Stylistics:  The Politics of Dialect in Early Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.”  South Central Dialect Society, South Central Modern Language Association.  Memphis, TN, November 2007

Session Chair, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, SCMLA,  Memphis, TN, November 2007

“Stowe, Harper, and Abolition.”  Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America.  Tulsa, OK, November 2006.

“Glorious Satisfaction: Victorian Deathbed Scenes.” Nineteenth-Century British Culture Session, SCMLA. Dallas, TX, October 2006.

“Contesting Dimensions: Flatland as Social Commentary.” Literature and Politics Session, SCMLA. Houston, TX, October 2005.

Session Chair. North American Victorian Studies Association. Charlottesville, VA. September 2005

"Christian Archetypes in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning.'" Christianity and Literature Session, South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

"The New Man: Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman." Annual Conference of Canadian Teachers of English, Winnipeg, CA, May 2004.

"Joyful Release: Victorian Deathbed Scenes." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Iowa City, IA, April 2004.

"Laboring Fathers: Parenthood, Class, and Gender." Tennessee Philological Association. Columbia, TN, February 2004.

"Creating a Leader for the Industrial World: Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman." Politics and Literature, SCMLA. Hot Springs, AR, October 2003.

"Unsexed by Labor: Middle-Class American Women and the Need to Work." SCMLA. Austin, TX, November 2002.

"Women's Work: Women in Mid-Century Industrial Fiction."  North American Conference on British Studies.  Toronto, Canada, November 2001.

"Myth and Archetype in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning.'" Short Fiction, SCMLA.  Tulsa, OK, November 2001.

"'Fashion's Slaves': Nineteenth-Century Needlewomen."  Locating the Victorians.  Science Museum, London, UK, July 2001.

"Laboring Fathers:  Working-Class Fathers in Dickens, Gaskell, Faed, and Fildes."  SCMLA.  San Antonio, TX, November 2000.

"Pictures of Adversity:  Portrayals of Sweated Labor at Century's End."  MVSA.  Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 2000.

"'The Stone of History Skipping Over the Water':  The Postmodern British Narrative."  Politics  and Literature, SCMLA.  Memphis, TN, October1999.

"Signifying Sex: Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe and Western Religious Tradition."  Special Session:  Gloria Naylor's Revisions, MLA.  Chicago, December 1999.

"Escaping the Wallpaper:  Teaching Women's Literature On-Line."  CEA Roundtable, MLA.  Chicago,  December 1999.

"Salvation or Sacrifice:  The Emigration Debate in Victorian Periodicals."  Research Soceity in Victorian  Periodicals.  September 1999.

"Escaping the Wallpaper: Teaching Women's Literature On-Line." Tennessee Philological Society. Union University, Jackson, TN, February 1999.

"Finding the Common Denominator: Edwin Abbott's Flatland and Social Protest." Nineteenth-Century British Literature: The Textuality of Victorian Culture, SCMLA. New Orleans, LA, November 1998.

"Taking Back Language: Naylor's Bailey's Cafe." Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature. Louisville, KY, February 1998.

"Adapting Austen for the '90s: Austen on Film." SAMLA. Atlanta, GA. November 1997.

"Is there a 'Classic' in this Classroom? Teaching Morrison's Song of Solomon." South Central CEA, SCMLA. Dallas, TX, October 1997.

Chair: Literary Theory: Gender Criticism, SCMLA. Dallas, TX, 1997.

"Of Primrose Sweet: City/Country Dichotomies in Industrial Literature and Illustration." RSVP. Chicago, IL, September 1997.

"Creating a Cultural Symbol." The Victorian Record of Protest: Conference on Language and Literature. Baylor U. Waco, TX, April 1997.

"A Symbol of the Working Poor: The Seamstress in Victorian Literature." British Women's Writing/ Political Discourse, 1640-1867. Comparative Literature Symposium. University of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK, March 1997.

"The Forgotten Icon: Nineteenth-Century Women, Work, and Social Protest." Literary Criticism, SAMLA. Savannah, GA, November 1996.

"Ivory to Celluloid: Pride and Prejudice from Novel to Miniseries." South Central CEA, SCMLA. San Antonio, TX, October 1996.

"The Illusion of Symmetry: Form and Balance in Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent." Literary Theory, SCMLA. Houston, TX, October 1995.

Chair: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, SCMLA. Houston, TX, October 1995.

"'If only for one short hour': City/Country Iconography in Seamstress Art and Literature." British Comparative Literature Association, Cities/Gardens/Wildernesses. Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995.

"Suffering to Speak: Women and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century Novel." Women's Caucus, CEA. Cleveland, OH, April 1995.

Chair: Women's Connection: Women's Texts I Love to Teach. CEA. Cleveland, OH, April 1995.

"Points of View, Pairings, and Possibilities: Ideas for Teaching Fiction." Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Nashville, TN, September 1994.

"Creating an Icon: Representations of Needlewomen in the Illustrations of Punch." RSVP. Tampa, FL, September 1994.

"A Symbol for the Working Poor: The Seamstress in the Victorian Novel." Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers. East Lansing, MI, April 1994.

"(Re)Discovering the 'Lost': Industrial Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Women." CEA. Orlando, FL, April 1994.

"Change and Resistance Thereto: Problems with Adding to and Deleting from College Reading Lists." Women's Connection, CEA. Orlando, FL, April 1994.

"An Earlier Realism: Industrial Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Women." Tennessee Philological Association. Nashville, TN, February 1994.

"Sinner or Sacrifice: The Drowned Woman in Victorian Literature and Art." Nineteenth-Century English Literature, SCMLA. Austin, TX, October 1993.

"Transcending Gender: Industrial Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Women." American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, LA, April 1993.

"In a Different Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers." MMLA. St. Louis, MO, November 1992.

Chair, "Echoes of Eco." Special session, MMLA, St. Louis, MO, November 1992.

"Soccer to Semiotics: The Realities of Hyperreality." Echoes of Eco, MMLA. St. Louis, MO, November 1992.

Chair, Literature and Politics. SCMLA. Memphis, TN, October 1992.

"Author, Editor, Social Scientist: Charlotte Elizabeth Who?" MMLA. Chicago, IL, November 1991.

"Tripping through the Mine Field: Feminist Criticism in the '90s." Literary Theory, SCMLA. Fort Worth, TX, October 1991.

"Team Teaching, Computers, and Advanced Composition." TCEA. Jackson, TN, September 1991.

"Charlotte Elizabeth and the Crusade for Reform." North American Conference on British Studies. Santa Clara University, CA, April 1991.

"Breaking Down Barriers: Politics and Dialect in Early Nineteenth-Century British Fiction." Dialogue in Literary Narration II, MLA. Chicago, IL,December 1990.

"Reloading the Canon." Politics and Literature, SCMLA. San Antonio, TX, 1990.

"Publishing for Women: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and the Christian Lady's Magazine." RSVP. Baylor University, Waco, TX, September 1990.

"Tracing the Thread: Dickens and the Seamstress." TPA. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 1990.

"Reevaluating Nineteenth-Century American Social Protest Fiction." The Radical Caucus, MLA. Washington, D.C., December 1989.

"Creating Power Women, Politics, and Social Protest Fiction." English Literature II: Nineteenth Century, SCMLA. New Orleans, LA, October 1987.

"Women Working for Women: The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna." Literature and Politics, SCMLA. Houston, TX, October 1987.

"The Politics of Dialect: Edgeworth, Scott, and Gaskell." South Central Dialect Society, SCMLA. New Orleans, LA, October 1986.

"The Plight of the Victorian Seamstress." Women's Caucus, SCMLA. Tulsa, OK, October 1985.

"Myth and Archetype in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning.'" Conference on Christianity and Literature. Enid, OK, November 1984.

forthcoming:

Honors and Fellowships:

2004-08 Who’s Who in America

2007  South Central MLA Historical Literary/Cultural Studies Paper Prize

2005-07 Contemporary Authors; Who’s Who of American Women

2000-07 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers

2005  Reagan Leave

2004  UT System Featured Faculty; SCCEA Scholar/Teacher of the Year; Women’s Studies Lecture Series: “Creating a Symbol: Nineteenth-Century Seamstress Iconography”

2001  Best Practices Showcase:  On-line Learning.  University of Tennessee--Knoxville.

1998  Scholarfest Lecturer, University Scholars Program: "Southern Women in Naylor's Mama Day." University of Tennessee at Martin

1997 Outstanding Educator. University of Tennessee at Martin.

1994 Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecture, Phi Kappa Phi: "The Ghost in the Looking Glass: Women, Work, and Victorian Literature." University of Tennessee at Martin

1992-1994 Plenary Speaker: "Approaches to Frankenstein." Tennessee Governor's School in the Humanities

1990 NEH Summer Institute: "Romantic to Victorian: The Cultural Transition." American University, Washington, D.C.

1988 Visiting Lecturer. University of Keele, Staffordshire, England.

Administrative Experience:

2006-present    Interim Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Tennessee at Martin

2000-present    Chair, Department of English, University of Tennessee at Martin

Teaching Experience:

1999-present    Professor, University of Tennessee at Martin
1993-1999     Associate Professor, University of Tennessee at Martin (tenured)
1989-1993     Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Martin
1988          Visiting Lecturer, University of Keele, Staffordshire, England
1986-1989     Assistant Professor, Upper Iowa University

Graduate Courses Taught:
Class and Gender (Victorian Studies Department, Keele)
The British Novel

Modern/Postmodern Narratives

Women Writers

Dissertation Committee, René O’Brien, Cappella University: “How Emotions Affect Educational Decision Making among Mothers Enrolled in Community College Who also Work.” (defended March 2006)

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

The American Novel Black Writers in America British Literary Tradition I, II The British Novel Freshman English I, II (CAI) History and Structure of English Introduction to Literature  Introduction to Literary Criticism The Modern Novel

Romanticism and the Gothic Novel (Keele) Romantic Poetry and Prose Senior Capstone Shakespeare Technical Writing (CAI) Technical Writing (on-line) Victorian Poetry and Prose Women Writers Women Writers (on-line)

Teaching Interests:
Victorian studies, the novel (British and American), women's studies, literary theory.

University Service:
Student:

2007        University Scholar project reader:  Rachel Hammond, “Tonto and the Redneck Write Back:  Writing from a 

             Perspective of a Culture Dealing with the Aftermath of Defeat: A Study of Why the Satire of Southern and Native American

             Authors Should Be Critiqued with Postcolonialism”

2006        University Scholars Seminar: “Mysteries and Thrillers”

2003        University Scholars Seminar: "Dreams and Nightmares: Fairy Tales to Urban Legends"

2001-2003    Graduate School Workshop, presenter and discussion leader

2002        University Scholar project reader: Amanda Inman, "The Echo of Closed Mouths: A Voice through the Silence"

1990-2001    Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society) sponsor
2001, 2002    Graduate School Workshop, discussion leader
1998-2000    University Scholar mentor: Matthew Jarrett, "The Lord of the Outer Darkness" (fiction)
1995-1999    English Department Writing Awards judge
1990-1998    Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, and English Society
1995         Pre-law advisor
1993         Sponsor of Bean Switch

Department:

2001-06      Awards and Scholarships Committee (Chair)

2004-05      Self-Study Committee (Goals)

1997-2003    Bradford Exam Committee (Chair, 1998-2000)

2000-2002    Self-Study Committees (Goals, Curriculum)

1996-2000    Search Committees (Chair, 1997, 1998)
1995-2000    Curriculum Committee
1992-1998    Steering and Tenure/Promotion Committees
1993-1994    Planning Document and Chair Search Committees
1992-1993    Computers in English and Bradford Exam Committees

University:

2002-present   Canadian Studies Committee; BA/BS Committee (BA Subcommittee Chair, 2004-05); BA/BS Curriculum Subcommittee

2008         Publications Committee

2006-08       Honors and Ceremonies Committee

2006          Phi Kappa Phi, President

2005-06       On-Line and University Studies Council;

2002-06       Center for Global Studies Executive Committee

2005         President-Elect, Phi Kappa Phi

2002-05       Honors Council (Chair 2003-04)

2004         Extended Campus/English Search Committee, Chair; Director of On-Line Studies Search Committee; BA Curriculum

             Revision Committee, Chair; Canadian Studies Visiting Delegation; Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee

2002-04       University Council

2003         Canadian Studies Symposium; AVCAA Search Committee; Talking about Teaching presentation

2001-2003     Faculty Development Committee
2002         Ad Hoc Committee on Higher Education Funding; Talking about Teaching presentation

2001        Adjunct Handbook Task Force, Chair.
2000-2001    SACs Committee on Institutional Effectiveness
1998-2001    Faculty Research Committee; Phi Kappa Phi Officer
1998        Modern Foreign Languages/Women's Studies Film Series; Presenter, "Southern Women Writers," Southern Cultures Festival;
            PKP Program Committee, Chair.
1997        Faculty Relations Committee;
            UTM Representative to President Johnson;
            Department of Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, and
            Criminal Justice Five-Year Review Committee, Chair;
            PKP Nominating Committee, Chair.
1992-1997    University Teaching Effectiveness Committee
1996        PKP Nominating Committee
1995        Faculty Research
1991-1995   UTM Learning and Assessment Committee
1989-1994   Member of Arts and Sciences Teaching Effectiveness Committee (1991 Chair)
1992        Department of Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Five-Year Review Committee
1991-1992   Committee on Committees

1990-1992   Faculty Development Committee

Community:

2008        Vice-President, Friends of the Library, Paul Meek Library, UTM; outside reviewer, tenure deceision, Mississippi University

2007        Reviewer, Pearson/Prentice Hall (1 ms)

2006        Reviewer, Ohio UP (1 ms)

2004        Outside reviewer, promotion decision, University of Texas—Permian Basin

2004, 01     Governor’s School in the Humanities selection committee

2003        Reader, Nineteenth Century Studies (1 ms.); Broadview Press (1 ms.)

2001        MLA Nominee for Regional Representative

2000-2001    SCMLA Nomination Committee

2000        SCMLA Nominee for British Literature Representative

1993-2000    Judge, Dyersburg State Writing Awards (1999, Chair)
1990-2000    Board of Trustees, Weldon Public Library
1999        Speaker, AARP: "Keeping the Past Alive" (Women's History Month)
1998        Judge, SCMLA/Women's Studies Prize for best conference paper
1998, 1995   TN Governor's School in the Humanities selection committee
1996, 1997   Reader, Broadview Press (two mss.)
1996        Reader, Tennessee Philology (15 mss., special issue),
            Reader, Victorian Periodicals Review (1 ms.)

Professional Memberships:

Association of Departments of English Midwest Victorian Studies Association Modern Language Association National Women's Studies Association Research Society in Victorian Periodicals

Society for the Study of American Women Writers South Atlantic Modern Language Association South Central Modern Language Association Tennessee Philological Association Victorians Institute

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