Katherine Montwieler

Katherine Montwieler

Director

Women’s Studies and Resource Center

And Associate Professor of English

211 Bear Hall

University of North Carolina -- Wilmington

601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403

(910) 962-3328

Education

Ph.D., English (May 2000). University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Dissertation

Collecting Power: Writing a Tradition of Women’s Verse

Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies (May 1999). University of Georgia.

M.A., English (May 1994). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

B.A. with honors, English/Spanish (May 1992). College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,

Massachusetts.

Professional Experience

·  Chair, English, UNCW (July 2014-July 2016).

·  Assistant Chair, English, UNCW (July 2008-June 2010).

·  Associate Professor, English, UNCW (August 2006-present).

·  Assistant Professor, English, UNCW (August 2000-July 2006).

Professional Development

·  BRIDGES Academic Leadership for Women, Chapel Hill, NC, September 2015-November 2015.

·  Association for the Departments of English and Departments of Foreign Languages and

Literatures Summer Seminar, Arlington, VA, June 2015.

·  Academic Chairs’ Conference, Austin, TX, February 2015.

·  UNC Department Chairs’ Workshop and Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2015.

·  UNCW Academic Leaders’ Workshops, Wilmington, NC, August 2014, February 2015.

·  Association for the Departments of English and Departments of Foreign Languages and

Literatures Summer Seminar, Seattle, WA, June 2014.

·  Leadership Enhancement and Administrative Development Series, Wilmington, NC, various

dates.

·  Center for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Leadership Workshops, Wilmington, NC, various

dates.

Refereed Publications

·  “Neglect and Childhood Trauma in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights Writing the Domestic

(Abuse) Novel.” Critical Insights: Mary Shelley. Ed. Virginia Brackett. Ipswich: Salem

House, forthcoming 2016, 17 pages in manuscript.

·  And Mark Edelman Boren. “Critical Tipples: Or, a Nip into George Eliot Criticism, Then and

Now.” Critical Insights: George Eliot. Ed. Katie Peel. Ipswich: Salem House, forthcoming 2016, 21 pages in manuscript.

·  And Mark Edelman Boren. “Hybridity, Anxiety, and Wombs of Destruction in Edgar Allan Poe’s

Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.” PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, August 2015, 30 pages in manuscript. http://www.psyartjournal.com

·  “Building a Learning Community.” Best Practices in University Teaching: Essays by Award-

Winning Faculty at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Second Edition.. Ed. Diana Ashe and Caroline Clements. Wilmington: Center for Teaching Excellence, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 2014. 231-240.

·  “An American Haunting: The Specter of Memory in Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.” Short

Story 20.2 (Fall 2012): 73-82.

·  “Women’s Place: Home, Sanctuary, and the Big House in Jane Eyre.” Critical Insights: Jane

Eyre. Ed. Katie Peel. Ipswich: Salem House, 2013, 113-127.

·  And Mark Edelman Boren. “The Pathology of the Romantic Subject and Mary Shelley’s Cure for

Melancholia in Frankenstein and Mathilda.” PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, December 2012, 34 pages in manuscript. http://www.psyartjournal.com

·  “Embodiment, Agency, and Alienation in Frankenstein and Ourika.” The CEA Critic 73.3

(Spring-Summer 2011): 69-88.

·  “Teaching French Women Writers in a World Literature Survey.” Approaches to Teaching

Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: MLA, 2011. 326-331.

·  “Reading, Sympathy, and the Bodies of Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual 41 (2010): 237-263.

·  “Domestic Politics: Gender, Protest, and Barrett Browning’s Poems before Congress.” Tulsa Studies

in Women’s Literature 24.2 (Fall 2005): 291-317.

·  “Reading Disease: The Corrupting Performance of Edgeworth’s Belinda.” Women’s Writing 12.3

(2005): 347-368.

·  “Laughing at Love: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the Embellishment of Eros.” Romanticism on the

Net 29-30 (February-May 2003). www.ron.umontreal.ca Rpt. In Poetry Criticism. Ed. Lawrence

J. Trudeau. Vol. 163. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. 168-178. Print.

·  “Hemans and Home-Schooling: History, Literature, and Records of Woman.” Nineteenth-Century

Feminisms 1.2 (Summer 2000): 10-31.

·  “Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and Consumer Culture.” Mary Elizabeth Braddon in

Context. Ed. Marlene Tromp, Pamela Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie. New York: SUNY Press, 2000.

43-61.

Other Publications

·  “The Mystery Behind the Name: Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. Los

Angeles Review of Books, 25 January 2016, 7 pages in manuscript.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/

·  “The Value of a Personal Education.” Editorial. The Wilmington Star News 19 June 2015: 11A

Print. And online:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20150620/ARTICLES/150629997?Title=Katherine-Montwieler-The-value-of-a-personal-education

·  “For Most Workers, No Fairy Godmothers.” Editorial. The Raleigh News and Observer 22

March 2015: 17A. And online:

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article15524411.html

·  Review of The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by

Laura E. Thomason. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 33.2 (Fall 2014): 242-244.

·  “Our Affinity for Good Stories.” Editorial. The Wilmington Star News 20 December 2013: 13A

Print. And online: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20131220/ARTICLES/131229956/0/search

·  “Rebuilding Our House.” Editorial. The Wilmington Star News 18 October 2013: 9A Print. And

online: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20131017/ARTICLES/131019709/-1/editorial?Title=Katherine-Montwieler-Women-still-chasing-Friedan-s-vision

·  “50 Years After The Feminine Mystique, Exchanging Chains for Handcuffs.” Editorial. The

Raleigh News and Observer 10 March 2013: 21A. Print. And online: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/09/2735664/50-years-after-the-feminine-mystique.html

·  “Turning Point: Appreciating the Breath.” Integral Yoga Magazine Fall 2010. 40-41.

·  “Felicia Hemans.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts

on File, 2010. 171-172.

·  “Letitia Elizabeth Landon.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York:

Facts on File, 2010. 230-232.

·  “Records of Woman.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts

on File, 2010. 363-364.

·  Review of Fatal Women of Romanticism by Adriana Craciun. Essays in Criticism 54 (2004): 188-

196.

·  Review of Jack the Ripper and the London Press by L. Perry Curtis. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26

(2004): 289-291.

·  Review of Queen Victoria’s Secrets by Adrienne Munich. Women’s Studies International Forum 22.5

(September-October 1999): 580-581.

·  “Constructing Womanhood in Contemporary American Magazines.” Discourse Studies 1.1 (Spring

1997): 23-34.

·  “Marleen Gorris’s Laugh of the Medusa.” The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and

Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, 1995. 236-41.

Conference Presentations

·  “Practicing Femininity: Unnatural Bodies and the Controlled Verse of Letitia Elizabeth Landon.”

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, March 11, 2016, Asheville, NC.

·  “Women’s Work: Lessons on Labor and Love from Jane Eyre.” National Women’s Studies

Association Annual Conference, November, 14, 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

·  “Engendering Violence in the Work of Mary Shelley.” International Gender and Language

Association Conference, June 6, 2014, Vancouver, CA.

·  “An American Haunting: The Specter of Memory in Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.”

American Literature Association Conference, May 23, 2013. Boston, MA.

·  “Mourning Marks: Barrett Browning’s Poetics of Maternity.” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-

Century British Women Writers Conference, June 9, 2012. Boulder, CO.

·  “Situating the Subject: Frankenstein, Ourika, and Alienation.” North American Society for the Study

of Romanticism Conference, May 23, 2009. Durham, NC.

·  “Reading Compassion: The Bodies of Bleak House.” College English Association Conference, April

13, 2007. New Orleans, LA.

·  “Recollecting Sensibility: Letitia Landon and the Body of Poetry.” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-

Century British Women Writers Conference, March 26, 2006. Gainesville, FL.

·  “The Poetics of Protest: Gender, Politics, and Barrett Browning’s Poems before Congress.”

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 26, 2004. Athens, GA.

·  “Reading Disease: The Corrupting Performance of Edgeworth’s Belinda.” Eighteenth- and

Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 22, 2003. Fort Worth, TX

·  “Hemans and Home-Schooling: History, Literature, and Records of Woman.” Midwest Modern

Language Association Annual Conference, Nov. 3, 2000. Kansas City, MO.

·  “La comida y la cocina: las opciones para feministas.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture

Association Annual Conference, Oct. 2, 1999. Puebla, Mexico.

·  “Re-Discovering ‘Corsica.’” American Conference on Romanticism, Jan. 23, 1998. Athens, GA.

·  “That Obscure Subject of Desire: L.E.L., Femininity and Erotic Politics.” Eighteenth- and

Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 29, 1997. Davis, CA.

·  “Romantic Constructions.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Nov. 16, 1996.

Boston, MA.

·  “Eyeing Women in The Female Spectator.” Aphra Behn Society Annual Conference, Oct. 26, 1996.

Athens, GA.

·  “Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and Consumer Culture.” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-

Century British Women Writers Conference, March 21, 1996. Columbia, SC.

·  “Marleen Gorris’s Laugh of the Medusa.” The Image of Violence: Society for the Interdisciplinary

Study of Social Imagery, March 11, 1995. Colorado Springs, CO.

·  “The Mysterious Erasure of Marian Erle.” Victorian Studies Group, Feb. 24, 1995. New York, NY.

·  “‘Rattigan Glumphoboo’: Orlando as Intersubjective Investigation.” Virginia Woolf Conference,

June 10, 1994. Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY.

Grants and Honors

·  Discere Aude Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2011).

·  Mini grant, Internship and Service Program, New Hanover High School. University of North

Carolina at Wilmington (2011).

·  Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2010).

·  Distinguished Teaching Professorship, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2009).

·  Significant Impact Statement Recognition. (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007,

2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001).

·  Research Reassignment Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2007).

·  Summer Pedagogy Development Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2007).

·  Summer Research Initiative Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2005).

·  Cornerstone Learning Communities Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2004).

·  Cornerstone Learning Communities Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2003).

·  Summer Research Initiative Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2001).

·  Excellence in Scholarship, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

(2001).

·  Dissertation Assistantship, Board of Regents, University of Georgia (1999-2000).

·  Mayers Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (July 1999).

·  Center for Humanities and Arts Dissertation Research Grant, University of Georgia (Jan. 1999).

·  Board of Regents Grant, University of Georgia (1994-1996).

·  Oxford University Grant, University of Georgia and Oxford University (Summer 1995).

Courses Taught

·  Introduction to Composition

·  Advanced Composition

·  Introduction to Literature

·  Introduction to Literary Studies

·  British Literature to 1700

·  British Literature Since 1700

·  British Literature to 1800

·  British Literature Since 1800

·  Revolutionary Traditions

·  World Literature Since 1600

·  Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

·  British Romanticism

·  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

·  The Novels of Jane Austen

·  Love and Power Nineteenth-Century Style (Nineteenth-Century British Novel)

·  Studies in Poetry: Harlots, Heroines, and Wise Women (Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry)

·  European Literature to 1900

·  Victorian Literature

·  The Gothic Novel

·  Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction

·  Literary Passions (Twentieth-Century Fiction)

·  Critical Theory and Practice: Feminist Literary Theory

·  Sex, Power, and the Modern Subject (Interdisciplinary Seminar)

·  Victorian Secrets (Senior Seminar)

·  Romantic Genders (Senior Seminar)

·  Nineteenth-Century Forms and Femininity (Senior Seminar)

·  Multicultural Perspectives on Women in the U.S.

·  Introduction to Women’s Studies

·  Sexuality and Gender (Women’s Studies)

·  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers (Graduate Seminar)

·  The Early Romantics (Graduate Seminar)

·  Romantic Genders (Graduate Seminar)

·  Romantic Women Writers (Graduate Seminar)

·  The Mary Shelley Circle (Graduate Seminar)

·  Romantic Gothic (Graduate Seminar)

·  Lyrical Femininities (Graduate Seminar)

·  Nineteenth-Century Novel Empires (Graduate Seminar)

·  The City, Sexuality, and the Novel (Graduate Seminar)

·  Sex, Power, and Victorian Secrets (Graduate Seminar)

·  The Shelley Circle (Graduate Seminar)

·  An Introduction to the Gothic (Graduate Seminar)

·  Gothic World Literature (Graduate Seminar)

·  Studies in European Literature in Translation: Feeling, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

(Graduate Seminar)

·  Modern Literary Theory (Graduate Seminar)

Master’s Theses, Director

·  JoAnna Wright, “‘I’m Not His Date!’: Sherlock Holmes and the Evolution of the Homosocial

Narrative.” Spring 2014.

·  Amanda Easton, “The Nips and Tucks of Female Aging in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market,’

Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames.” Spring 2011.

·  Amanda Perry, “Love Bites: An Exploration of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight as a Gothic Retelling of

“Beauty and the Beast.” Spring 2010.

·  Kristine Jennings, “Translating The Devil and His grandmother: an introduction to the life and work

of Lou Andreas- Salomé.” Spring 2008.

·  Aimee Wilson, “Holding hands with Virginia Woolf: a map of Orlando's functional subversion.”

Spring 2008.

·  Jessica Jones, “The masquerade and bisexuality in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride.” Spring

2007.

·  Matthew Rickard, “Finding a rhythm: how tribalism creates identity in Erdrich's The painted drum.”

Spring 2007.

·  Heather Brown, “‘I gained his secret’: narrating desire in Mary Shelley's Matilda.” Spring 2006.

·  Johanna Stevens, “‘The prettiest little actress’: performance theory and Frances Burney's Evelina.”

Spring 2006.

·  Rebekah Costin, “Rejecting the myth: characterizations of emerging adulthood in three contemporary

novels.” Fall 2005.

·  Kimberle Brown, “‘When I kissed her cheek’: theatrics of sexuality and the framed gaze in Esther's

narration of Bleak House.” Spring 2005.

·  Jeffrey Grissett, “‘His love is real, but he is not’: examination of reality in Spielberg's AI: artificial

intelligence.” Spring 2005.

·  Gena Walker, “A language of sign: obtaining power in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story.” Spring

2005.

·  Anna Maria Cancelli, “The androgyny of an angel: death as liberator in George Sand's Gabriel.”

Spring 2003.

·  Jennifer Parrack-Rogers, “Dissolving the doctrine of the separate spheres: a Mellorian reading of

Anna Letitia Barbauld's ‘The Baby-House.’” Spring 2001.

Undergraduate Honors Theses, Director

·  Jeffrianne Gutsin, “Mamma Sara: Representations of Victorian Maternity in Frances Hodgson

Burnett’s A Little Princess.” Spring 2013.

·  Nicole Herbert, “Rereading literary legacies: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Emily Brontë's

Wuthering Heights.” Spring 2007.

·  Heather Lucking, “Moral mythology: Oscar Wilde's use of classical mythology and idealism in The

Picture of Dorian Gray.” Spring 2004.

Master’s Theses, Reader

·  Mitchell McInniss, “Flaubert in Reverse.” Fall 2014.

·  Katja Huru, “Wild, Well-Behaved Women and the Power of Self Sacrifice.” Spring 2014.

·  Quinn Tooman, “‘If It Looked Like Something He'd Practiced Before It Was’: The Practice of

Fate in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Fall 2013.

·  Zach Tooman, “'Here is a weird one for you': David Foster Wallace and Medial Fiction.” Fall

2013.

·  Lisa Graham, “Powerful Mirrors: Neo-Victorian Doubling in the Novels of Libba Bray, Cassandra

Clare, and Kady Cross.” Spring 2013.

·  Shauna Maragh, “Learning Femininity: Gender Performance and Clothing in Tamora Pierce’s Song

of the Lioness quartet and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy.” Spring 2012.