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(Full contact information attached) / Ph. D.English, Tufts University, Medford MA
M. A.English, Tufts University, Medford MA
B. A.Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Bent Victorians: Obsession in Victorian Literature and Culture
Committee: Professors Lee Edelman (Director), Joseph Litvak,
Sheila Emerson, and Andrew Parker
Babson College, Babson Park, MA
Full-Time Lecturer
Part-time Lecturer
Full-time Visiting Instructor
Part-time Lecturer
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Part-Time Lecturer
Boston University, Boston, MA
Adjunct Faculty
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Adjunct Faculty
Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Visiting Lecturer
Course Assistant
Tufts University, Medford MA
Visiting Lecturer
Graduate Student Lecturer
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Bent Novels: Obsession and the Queer Rise of Victorian Realism. Completed.
From The Wonderful to the Wiz and Beyond: Race, Gender, and Sexuality throughout the Oz Mythology. In Progress.
Journals
“All Studies and No Gay: One Homosexual’s Attempt to Queer Gay Studies for the LGBTQ Community”
“Gals will be Gales: Dorothy’s Reproductive Capabilities and the Birth of Murder”
Bent Victorians: Obsession’s Role in the Creation of Victorian Culture
“Quick Tip: Reading Backward for Fluency”. TESOL Connections. TESOL International Connections: Alexandria, VA.
“Villette’s Compulsory Education.” Studies in English Literature 45:4 (Fall, 2005)
“The Agency of the Anus in the Letter or Reason Since Freud.” American Imago 56 (1999): 145-80.
Reference and Reviews
“Queer Theory.” Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Dr. Robert Clark.
“Grotesque,” “Homophobia,” “Homosexuality.” Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Garland Publication. 1999.
“Quentin Crisp.” Gay and Lesbian Biography. Ed. Michael J. Tyrkus. St. James Press. 1998.
Review of Walter Pater, by Laurel Brake. The Pater Newsletter 33 (1996): 3-4.
Advanced Courses and Senior Seminars
Honor Seminar II (Babson)
Haunted Houses, Dangerous Desires: The Victorian Ghost Story (Babson)
Victorian Obsessions (Hampshire)
Intermediate Courses
Literature of Fear (Babson)
Deformity and Conformity: The Grotesque in the Nineteenth-Century (Babson)
Introductory Courses
A & H Foundation (Babson)
Love and Eroticism (Emerson)
Victorian Detective Fiction (Babson, Boston University)
The Philosophy of Originality (Babson)
Utopian Literature (SMFA)
Queer Readings (Tufts)
Love and Sexuality (Tufts)
Other Worlds (Tufts)
Composition Courses
Rhetoric A (Babson)
Rhetoric B: The Oz Mythology (Babson)
Detective Fiction (Boston University)
The Writer’s Guild: First-Year Composition (SMFA)
Expository Writing (Tufts)
Teaching Assistant
Shakespeare (Tufts)
Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology (Tufts)
The Grotesque (Hampshire)
Honors Thesis (Babson College)
Steve Comery.Constructed Language, Constructed Gender: Feminism in the Postmodern Novel
Dipti Anand. Deconstructing Authorship & the Production of Meaning in Literature
Sunil Desai.Aestheticism in the Prescriptivist and Descriptivist Debate
Ashley Albert.Darwinian Evolution and the Victorian Horror Story
Independent Study (Babson College)
Aman Mehta. “Advertising for a More Sustainable World”
Daniel Macumber. “Living with Death: Resolving Freud’s Fort/Da”
Jamie Maguire. “Topian Literature”
Arron Hartman. “Sam May Flower:Gay Identity in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”
Marissa Cara
Jennifer Sanchez.“My Body’s Language Starts with Sex”
Presenter: “Gals will be Gales: Dorothy’s Reproductive Capabilities and the Birth of Murder.” Babson College Faculty Research “Chat”, Babson Park, MA.
Attendee: “The Couch and the Cushion: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism in Clinical Practice.” Sponsored by the Paul G. Ecker Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the New England Foundation for Psychoanalysis. Pine Manor College. Chestnut Hill, MA.
Presenter: “Adapting Your Syllabus for Different Campuses” (workshop).42ndAnnual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Panelist: “Beyond Discipline(s): The Continuing Value of a (Hampshire) Humanities Education.” 40th Anniversary Celebration, Hampshire College. Amherst, MA
Presenter: “TOEFL’s Untold Secrets.” 2010 Annual Meeting and Conference, NEACAC. Salve Regina University. Newport, RI.
Presenter: “Gals will be Gales: Dorothy’s Reproductive Capabilities and the Birth of Murder.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA.
Moderator. “Victorian Perversions” panel. 4thAnnual North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Purdue University. West Layfayette, IN.
Presenter. “Compulsory Education: Melancholic Obsession and Villette.” 33rdAnnual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto Ontario.
Chair. “Monomaniacal Victorians.” 33rdAnnual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto Ontario.
Presenter. “Victorian Obsessions.” AnnualGraduate Student Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge MA.
Chair. “Gay Liberation Theory.” 32ndAnnual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford CT.
Presenter. “Obsessively Bent: Criticism from Stevenson to Freud.” 31stAnnual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Buffalo NY.
Presenter. “Obsessive Nosology: The Taxonomy of Victorian Neurosis.” 4thAnnual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Clark College. Vancouver WA.
Presenter. “‘To Thy High Requiem Become a Sod’: Keats’s Anxiety of Influence.” 2ndAnnual National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca NY.
Presenter. “The Agency of the Letter in the Anus or Desire Since Freud.” 5thAnnual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Graduate Student Conference. USC. Los Angeles CA.
Presenter. “(H)Omo’s-sexuality in My Beautiful Laundrette.” Annual Conference of the Marxist Literary Group. Trinity College. Hartford CT.
Presenter. “(H)Omo’s-sexuality in My Beautiful Laundrette.” 4th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Graduate Student Conference. University of Texas, Austin. Austin TX.
Moderator. “The Dissent of Desire.” 5thAnnual Graduate Student Conference. Tufts University.
Presenter. “Teratology and Dandyism.” 3rdAnnual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Graduate Student Conference. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis MN.
Presenter. “Henry James and the Daisy Chain: Erotic Displacement in Daisy Miller.” 3rdAnnual American Realism Graduate Student Conference. Tufts University. Medford MA.
Presenter. Teacher Training. “Teaching ESL w/ TOEFL in Mind”. Showa Institute. Boston MA.
Presenter. Teacher Training. “Teaching TOEFL”. Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture. Boston MA.
Workshop Facilitator. “TOELF Basics”. Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture. Boston MA.
Presenter. Writing Consultant Training. “ESL in the Rhetoric Classroom”. Babson College Writing Center. Babson Park, MA.
“Lecture Series: Introduction to TOEFL”. Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture. Boston, MA.
“Academic English as a Foreign Language”. Babson College Writing Center. Babson Park, MA.
Presenter. Writing Consultant Training. “The Thesis-less Essay”. Babson College Writing Center. Babson Park, MA.
Presenter. Faculty Research “Chat”. Babson College. “Gals will be Gales: Dorothy’s Reproductive Capabilities and the Birth of Murder”
Teacher Training (To ESL Faculty). “Moving from ESL to Academic English”. Marianapolis Preparatory School. Thompson CT.
Skype PRESENTER (to ESL Students): “What English does College Want”. Winchendon Boarding School. Winchendon, MA.
PRESENTER (to Faculty): “Writing Academically Across the Curriculum.” Marianapolis Preparatory School. Thompson, CT.
PRESENTER (to ESL Students): “What English does College Want”. Babson College. Babson Park, MA.
Nineteenth-century British literature, interdisciplinary studies, literary and critical theory, cultural and material histories, gender studies, queer theory.
“Favorite Faculty”. Annual Faculty & Staff Rankings. Babson Free Press.
“What Faculty Would You Like to Thank”. Your Final Words. Emerson College
Adjunct Development Fund Summer Stipend. Babson College.
Summer Writing Fellowship. Tufts University.
Excellence in Teaching. Tufts University.
Pass with Distinction, Comprehensive Oral Ph. D. Examination.
Representative: Teaching Innovation Fund
Reader: Weissman Award
Representative: Honors Council
Webex Trainer: Babson College
Reader: Studies in English Literature
Member. Foundation Curriculum Committee. Babson College
Member. AHHS Division’s Webpage Committee. Babson College
Director of Courses. English Language Center. Cambridge MA.
Examiner #HF99BK. University of Cambridge Local Exam Syndicate.
President. Tufts Graduate Student Council.
Conference Organizer. 7th Annual Tufts Graduate Student Conference.
Delegate. 10th Annual National Conference of the Association of Graduate and Professional Students. Miami FL.
Co-Coordinator. Tufts English Graduate Student Organization.
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Andrew Parker, Professor of English
Mary Pinard, Associate Professor of English
Julie Levinson, Associate Professor of Film
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Professor Mary Pinard
Division of Arts and Humanities
Hollister Hall
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
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Professor Julie Levinson
Division of Arts and Humanities
Hollister Hall
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
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Division of Arts and Humanities
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Babson College
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