NARIN HASSAN
School of Literature, 777 Grant St SE
Communication and CultureAtlanta, GA 30315
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
Education:
University of Rochester, Ph.D. English, October 2003
(Areas of focus: British Literature 1780-1900, Feminism and Postcolonial Studies)
Dissertation: “Foreign Bodies: Medicine, Gender and Colonialism in Nineteenth Century British Culture” (Directed by Bette London)
University of Rochester, M.A, English; Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies, 1997
University of Rochester, B.A. English/Art History, May 1990
Academic Experience:
Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2003-present.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA2001-2003
Instructor, University of Rochester
Departments of English, Women’s Studies and Medical Humanities1995-2000
Fellowships and Awards:
Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellowship, Center for the History of Medicine and theArchives for Women in Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard University, 2009
Nominated for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009
Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Summer 2007
ISERF Summer Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004/2006/2007/2008
WST (Women, Science and Technology) faculty/student partnership grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellow, 2000-2001
Teaching Fellowship, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, 1996/ 2000
Teaching Fellowship, Department of English 1993-1998
Susan B. Anthony Research grant recipient, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001
University of Rochester Office of Minority Student Affairs Award in Recognition of Commitment to the Students and Mission of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, 2000
NYCEA (New York College English Association) Award for best graduate student conference paper, Spring 1996
Publications:
Book Projects:
“Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge and Colonial Mobility” (forthcoming Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
Consuming Culture: Narratives of Consumption in the Long Nineteenth Century (co-edited with Tamara Silvia Wagner; Lexington Books, March 2007)
Articles and Proceedings:
“Milk Markets; Technology, The Lactating Body and New Forms of Consumption.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, November 2010
“Jane Eyre’s Doubles: Colonial Progress and the Tradition of New Woman Writing in India.” Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years” ed. Annette Federico, University of Missouri Press, December 2009.
“Female Prescriptions: On Lucie Duff-Gordon and Isabel Burton Doctoring Empire” Nineteenth Century Gender StudiesIssue 5.3 Fall 2009
“Botanical Brews: Tea Drinking and the Exotic in Lady Audley’s Secret and Behind a Mask” (forthcoming in the collection “Transatlantic Sensations” eds. Jennifer Phegley and John Barton, Ashgate).
“The Productive Pillbox: Women in the Colonial Medical Market” (invited paper submitted for book collection, “Women and Economics in Nineteenth Century British Culture” eds. Lana Dalley and Jill Rappoport under review at Ohio State University Press)
“The Nineteenth-Century,” Women, Science and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present (ed. Sue Rosser), Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, June 2008
“Health” (co-authored with Cindy Klestinec). Women, Science and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present (ed. Sue Rosser), Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio June 2008
“Reading the Garden in M.E. Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife. Mosaic. Special Issue: The Garden (38.4) December 2005.
“Authorizing Access/Sustaining Desire: Montagu’s Visible Harem.” Public 16. Special Issue: Entangled Territories. Imagining the Orient, ed. Deborah Root and Walid Ra’ad. (1997), 87-95.
“Bodies, Homes and Nations: Figuring Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” South Asian Review Vol 21 (2000), 86-87 (conference proceeding)
Book reviews:
Review, The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia. A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures. by Ralph Pordzick. (New York: Peter Lang, 2000),Utopian Studies, 2002 (Co-authored with Edward Chan, Wabash College).
Review, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century by Janis McLarren Caldwell (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Journal of British Studies, v 46 n2 April 2007.
Articles Under Review and in progress:
“Spaces Elsewhere: Sensational Romance in the Hothouses of Victorian Fiction” (article submitted to Victorian Review, special issue on Victorian Natural Environments, ed. Dennis Denisoff).
“Body and Landscape in Flora Annie Steel’s Colonial Fictions” (in progress)
Presentations:
“’Our Indian Daughters’: Medical Women and the Family Dramas of Empire” INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies) Family/Resemblance conference. Spring 2010
“Milk Markets: Feminism and the Global Politics of Breastfeeding and Milk Sharing” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference, Fall 2009
“The Productive Pillbox: Women Travelers and the Domestic Objects of Empire” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Fall 2008
“Symbolic Economies of Consumption: Breast-milk” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Fall 2007
“Female Remedies: Writing Medical Reform in India” Victorians Institute Conference, Fall 2006
“Translucent Borders: Conservatories and Sensational Romance in Victorian Fiction” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (NAVSA), Fall 2005
“’Suffering Sisters’ and ‘Indian Daughters’: Motherhood, Medicine, and the Rise of the Female Doctor in Empire” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference, Spring 2005
“Gender Studies and the Future of Graduate Studies in English” (invited talk at the University of Rochester), Fall 2004
“The History of Gynecology Project” (invited talk with Cindy Klestinec), Georgia Institute of Technology Science and Technology Studies seminar series, Spring 2004
“Spaces Elsewhere: Botanical Conservatories and Sensation in Victorian Novels” Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), Spring 2004
“Victorian Kitsch: Sensation and Mass Production in Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 2003
“Seeing through Skin: Female Observation, Medical Knowledge and Nineteenth-Century Travel.” Modern Language Association (MLA), 2002
“Fictional Inoculations: Women Writers, Colonial Disease and Sensation Fiction.” Eighth Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Rochester, Spring 2001
“Bodies, Homes and Nations: Reading Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” Modern Language Association (MLA), 2000
This paper was also presented at the South Asian Literary Association (SALA) conference, 2000
“Female Prescriptions: Travel Writing and Colonial Medicine” University at Buffalo Graduate British and Commonwealth Culture Symposium, 2000
“Gender and the Growth of Medical Authority: Mary Scharlieb’s Reminiscences of India.” Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC),1999
“Public Anatomies: Women, Travel and Victorian Medicine” Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, 1999
“Memoir and Postcoloniality in Suleri’s Meatless Days.” Cultural Survival/Surviving Culture Conference, 1995
“Masks from the Orient: Roxana’s Turkish Disguise.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) Conference: Colonialism and Eighteenth Century Culture, 1996.
“Orientalizing the Harem: The Overlapping Discursive Sites/Sights of Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference, 1994.
Workshops/Panels:
Special Session Coordinator and Chair: Nostalgia and the Exotic. Modern Language Association
(MLA), 2004
Panel Coordinator and Chair, Nostalgia, Literary Criticism Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), 2004
Panel Coordinator and Chair, Victorian and Post-Victorian Constructions of Nostalgia, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 2004
Panelist: Frankenstein and Film, Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2004.
Workshop Co-Leader: Feminism and Differences, Equal Conference, James Madison University, March 2003.
Panel Moderator: Intersections ofGender and Race, Madison Graduate Conference, James Madison University, Spring 2002
Teaching:
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology:
LCC 3202: Studies in Fiction: Gothic and Sensation Fictions (Fall 2010)
LCC3514: Victorian Literature and Culture (Fall 2010)
LCC 2813: Special Topics: Science, Technology and the British Empire (Summer 2010)
LCC 3212: Women, Literature, and Culture (Spring 2010)
LCC 3514: Victorian Literature and Culture (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
LCC 4100: Senior Seminar: Addiction, Consumption and Empire (Fall 2009)
LCC 3225: Gender Studies in the Disciplines (Spring 2009)
LCC 3316: Science, Technology and Postcolonialism (Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004)
LCC 2214: Victorian Literature and Culture (Fall 2008, Spring, 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2004)
LCC 3202: Studies in Fiction: Sensation Fiction Fall 2008
LCC 3202: Studies in Fiction: Victorian Fiction (Spring 2008, Fall 2006)
LCC 3219: Literature and Medicine (Fall 2006)
LCC 2100: Introduction to Science, Technology and Culture (Spring 2006, Spring 2004)
LCC 2813: ‘He Said, She Said’: Cultural Histories of Medicine, Sexuality and the Body (co-taught with Cindy Klestinec Fall 2005)
LCC 3226: Major Author: George Eliot (Fall 2004)
ENG 1101: English Composition (Fall 2003, Spring 2007)
ENG 1102 (Honors Program): Fictions of Monstrous and Illicit Reproduction (Fall 2007)
James Madison University (2001-2003):
Women Writers, Feminist Literary Theory, The Nineteenth Century English Novel, Survey of British Literature II, Special Topics: Gender, Travel, and Empire, Special Topics: Literature and Medicine.
University of Rochester(1994-2001):
Introduction to Women’s Studies (two semesters); Medicine and Victorian Culture (medical humanities program); Global Issues in Medicine (medical humanities program), Women and Medicine (medical humanities program), Composition (several levels), Seminar in Writing
Other Teaching Activities:
Independent Study and Senior Thesis advising:
“India in the Novels of Flora Annie Steel” Bryn Gravitt, (WST, Women, Science and Technology faculty student partnership, Fall 2009)
“Feminism and the Politics of Breastfeeding” (independent study with Amira Pettus, summer 2009)
“Gender, Medicine and Empire in the Nineteenth Century” Bryn Gravitt, (supported by a PURA grant, Fall 2008)
“Representations of Down Syndrome” Annie Ramirez (thesis 2007)
“Gender, Urban Gardens and Healing” Farhana Abdullah (thesis 2007-8)
“Milk Bonds: Wet Nursing and Colonial Spaces” Dean Hunt (supported by a PURA grant, 2007)
Postcolonial Theory (independent study) Dean Hunt (Spring 2007)
Women and Gardens (independent study), Farhana Abdullah (supported by a PURA grant, 2007)
“Consuming Culture” WST Faculty/Student Partnership, Jason Ellis, Spring/Summer 2006)
History of Gynecology Project, Meredith Stroup, Farhana Abdullah and Lindsey Deal (2006)
Gender and Medicine (Independent study) Meredith Stroup (Fall 2005)
Science Fiction, Gender and Race, Kate Sisson (Summer 2004)
Medicine and Literature, Justin Kennon (Fall 2004)
Gender, Race and Visual Culture, Nikki Thomas (Fall 2004)
Service:
Institute Service:
--IAC (Ivan Allen College) Representative to Undergraduate Research Committee, 2009
- --Conference, film series, and library exhibit organizer (with Cindy Klestinec): The Haunted Histories of the Female Body: Gynecology, Obstetrics and Women’s Health, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2006
Departmental Service:
--Elected member of LCC Departmental Executive Committee 2008-9/2009-2010
--Mentor in the Brittain Faculty-Brittain Fellow Mentoring program 2009-present
--LCC Speakers Committee Member, 2010
--LCC Ad-Hoc Curriculum/Survey course committee, 2010
--LCC Representative to the Undergraduate Research Committee, 2009
--Elected chair and member of LCC Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2007-8
- --Faculty discussion leader for STAC Society Coffee House: Race, Ethnicity and the Body, 2005; Haunted Histories of the Female Body, 2006
- --Elected Member and secretary of LCC Curriculum Committee, 2004-5
- --Research colloquium co-coordinator and member, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-4
Professional Service:
--Peer Reviewer for Women’s Writing (2010)
--Panel Moderator, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), 2009
--Peer Reviewer for Journal of Women’s History, 2007
- --Reviewer for Broadview Press, 2005
- --President of the Literary Theory Discussion Circle, SAMLA, 2004
Professional Association Memberships:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCS)