• Ph.D. in English, The University of Florida, May 2008
  Focus: Victorian Studies, Feminist Theory
  Dissertation: A Necessary Influence: The Victorian New Woman and the Middle-Class Family,1868-1897
  Director: Dr. Chris Snodgrass
  Committee: Dr. Pamela K. Gilbert, Dr. Judith W. Page, Dr. Louise Newman
  
  
• Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, The University of Florida, Spring 2003
  
  
• M.A. in English, The University of Florida, August 2001
  Focus: Victorian Studies
  Thesis: "Piecing Together a Gray Patchwork: The Formation of Feminine Identity in George Egerton's Keynotes and Discords"
  
  
• B.A. in English, The University of Georgia, May 1999
  Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Honors
  
  
• Undergraduate Certificate in Women's Studies, The University of Georgia, May 1999

• "'Saving the World Before Bedtime': The Powerpuff Girls, Citizenship, and the Little Girl Superhero." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 33.1 (Spring 2008): 62-78.
  
  
• "Slumming with the New Woman: Fin-de-Siècle Sexual Inversion, Reform Work, and Sisterhood in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina." Women's Writing 14.3 (Winter 2007): 460-475.
  
  
• "A Community of Women: Women's Agency and Sexuality in George Egerton's Keynotes and Discords." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 2.2 (Summer 2006).

• "Ella Hepworth Dixon." The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2006. 118-119.
  
  
• "Producing the Modernist Self." Rev. of Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 by Morag Shiach. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 48:3 (2005): 352-356.
  
  
• "Mid-Century Corporeal Hauntings." Rev. of The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 46.4 (2003): 425-428.
  
  
• Rev. of Representing the "Other": Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing by Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu. Transformations: The New Jersey Project Journal 11.2 (Fall 2000): 135-139.
  
  

• Thomas Hardy, Victorian Novelist and Narrative Cross-Dresser: Narrative and Agency in Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta." The Victorians Institute Conference. The University of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina. 3-4 Oct. 2008.

• "From the Margins to the Center and Back Again: Graduate Student Scholarship and Teaching." Female Marginalia: Annotating Empire. The 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. The University of Indiana. Bloomington, Indiana. 27-30 March 2008.

• "Silencing the New Woman: Mentorship, Money, and Mastery in Ella Hepworth Dixon's My Flirtations." Speaking with Authority. The 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. The University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. 12-15 April 2007.

• "The New Woman in the London Slums: Sexual Inversion and Reform Work in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina." The Victorians Institute Conference. Converse College. Spartanburg, South Carolina. 20 Oct. - 22 Oct. 2006.

• "Passionate Caresses and Vituperative Pamphlets: Sexual Inversion and Reform Work in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. The University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia. 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2005.

• "The 'Shrieking Sisterhood': Sexual Inversion and Sisterhood in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina." Women's Texts and Cultural Contexts. The 18th- and 19th- Century British Women Writers Conference. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Lafayette, Louisana. 14-17 April 2005.

• "The New Woman and Her 'Old' Daughter: The Failure of New Woman Maternity in Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did." Infantuation: Childhood, Youth & Nineteenth-Century Culture. Nineteenth Century Studies Association 26th Annual Conference. Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina. 10-12 March 2005.

• "Sugar, Spice, and Everything Not So Nice: Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls." Comics and Animation: Simultaneity and Sequentially. The University of Florida's Third Annual Conference on Comics. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 29-30 October 2004.

• "Locating the New Woman Utopia: Norway as Liberated Space in George Egerton's 'The Regeneration of Two.'" Location, Location, Location. 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. The University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia. 25-28 March 2004.

• "Not Quite a New Woman: The Workings of Sensation fiction and New Woman Discourse in Ouida's Princess Napraxine." Victorian Legacies. Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. 9-11 October 2003.

• "What Little Girls Are Really Made Of: The Powerpuff Girls and the Crisis of Citizenship." Insatiable Crises: Producing Obsessions, Evils, and Traumas. The 3rd Annual UF English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 3-4 April 2003.

• "'Written in Black Letter to Most': The Female Protagonist and the Other in George Egerton's 'A Cross Line.'" Gendering Philosophy: Body, Mind, and Culture in 18th- and 19th-Century Discourse. 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, Texas. 20- 23 March 2003.

• "What Little Girls are Really Made of: The Powerpuff Girls, Citizenship, and Quantum Mechanics." Cultivating Knowledges. Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research 25th Anniversary Symposium. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 24- 26 October 2002.

• "We Built This Class On the MOO and the Web: Using Public Web and MOO Space in the Writing Classroom." Co-presented with Julie A. Sinn. Many Voices, Many Places. Florida College English Association Annual Conference. Gainesville, Florida. 17-18 October 2002.

• "The Sleeper Has Awakened: Feminine Desire and Subjectivity in Ouida's Princess Napraxine." Evolving Domains of Knowledge and Representation. 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. University of Wisconsin— Madison. Madison, WI. 19-21 April 2002.

• "Monstrous Mixing: Body and Text in/of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl." Theoretical Misfits. The 2nd Annual UF English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 4-6 April 2002.

• "The Land that Time Forgot: The Role of Norway in the Construction of Feminine Subjectivity in George Egerton's 'The Regeneration of Two.'" Looking Forward, Looking Back. Nineteenth Century Studies Association 22nd Annual Conference. The Mulberry Inn. Savannah, Georgia. 7-9 March 2002.

• "'And Still I Rise': Unearthing Woman in George Egerton's 'An Ebb Tide.'" Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2000. Kansas City, Missouri. 2-4 November 2000.

• "Getting in Touch With the Feminine Side: The Male Body and Blindness in Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho!" Centers and Peripheries. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. 7-8 April 2000.

• "The Legacies of Sensation Fiction and New Woman Fiction: British Women Writers of the Forgotten 1870s and 1880s." Victorian Legacies. Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. 9-11 October 2003.

• "Histories of the Present: Genre, Audience, and the Shifting Status of Children's Literature." Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults' and Children's Culture. The 3rd Annual UF English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 21-23 October 2004 .

• "Mary Elizabeth Braddon." Gendering Philosophy: Body, Mind, and Culture in 18th- and 19th-Century Discourse. 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, Texas. 20-23 March 2003.

• "Gender and Advertising." Souths: Global and Local: An Interdisciplinary Conference. The 1st Annual UF English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 5-7 April 2001.

• Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Constructed and taught courses in written, oral, verbal, electronic, and non-verbal (WOVEN) communication.
  Fall 2008-present.
  
• Instructor, The Department of Distance, Continuing & Executive Education, The University of Florida
  Graded student essays and responded to student queries for correspondence courses in literature.
  Fall 2006-present.
  
• Teaching Assistant, The AIM (Assisting students, Improving skills, Maximizing potential) Program, The University of Florida
  Taught a remedial course in composition for rising freshmen.
  Summer 2007; Summer 2008.
  
• Teaching Assistant, The University Writing Program, The University of Florida
  Constructed and taught courses in freshman composition.
  Summer 2005; Spring 2007.
  
• Teaching Assistant, The Department of English, The University of Florida Constructed and taught courses in composition and British literature.
  Fall 1999-Spring 2002; Fall 2003-Spring 2004; Fall 2003-Fall 2006.
  
• Student Lab Assistant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Florida
  Assisted instructors in the use of the Instruction, Media, and Graphics Environment (IMAGE) Lab and the Networked Writing Environment (NWE). Summer 2002-present.

• “Transatlantic Feminisms: The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature,” senior-level literature special topics course
  Explored the nuances of the Woman Question in a transatlantic context and considered American and British authors in terms of this pressing social question so as to get a sense of the larger conversations taking place. Final project required students to read an entire issue of a Victorian periodical and connect its articles and advertisements to the Woman Question in nineteenth-century Anglo-American culture.
  (UF, Fall 2005)

• "Survey of Victorian Literature," junior-level literature survey course
  Considered the contours of Victorian literature – its obsessions, tensions, particulars, and world views by exploring the Woman Question, class conflicts, the Crisis of Faith, and degeneracy/decadence. Final projects included a periodical project that required students to read an entire issue of a Victorian periodical and connect its articles and advertisements to these issues in Victorian culture, as well as a fictional narrative project that required groups of students to create an original narrative with images using characters from Victorian literature and then write an interpretative analysis of their narratives.
  (UF, Spring 2004; Spring 2006; Fall 2006)

• "Survey of British Literature: 1750 to the Present," sophomore-level literature survey course
  Examined individual works within the larger context of English literature. Used the Longman Anthology of British Literature's "Perspectives" sections, which feature a number of authors writing on a particular issue or in response to a specific work, to give students a sense of the particular concerns of the Romantics, the Victorians, and the Moderns.
  (UF, Fall 2003)

• "Writing About the Piecing Together of Meaning (Quilting)," special topics course
  Explored how quilting can be thought of and enacted in writing and reading. Projects included the construction of web, MOO, and material quilt squares. Students investigated questions of gender, race, and art vs. craft in reference to a diverse collection of texts from antique quilts to Shelley Jackson's hypertext novel Patchwork Girl.
  (UF, Spring 2002)

• "Writing About Literature," introductory writing course to literary criticism
  Introduced students to various schools of literary theory. Students practiced each particular school of criticism in essays throughout the course by looking at wide range of texts, including film, television, and fairytales.
  (UF, Spring 2000; Summer 2000; Spring 2001; Fall 2001)

• "Technologies of Identity," introductory writing course
  Focused on the idea of technology itself and how it both creates and reflects our identities. Considered the assumptions and possibilities inherent in a number of virtual tools that are geared toward the presentation of one's self, like Facebook and MySpace, blogs, and Second Life (which was used extensively for class discussions and projects), as well as the language and arguments used to talk about them.

• "Expository and Argumentative Writing," introductory writing course
  Familiarized students with different forms of expository and argumentative writing. While focusing on critical thinking, students completed the following writing projects: literacy narratives, comparison and contrast essays, process analysis essays, and final web-based persuasive projects.
  (UF, Fall 2000; Summer 2001; Fall 2001; Summer 2002)

• "Twentieth-Century English Novel," distance learning junior-level literature survey course
  Responded to student queries and graded student essays in terms of both the mechanics of writing a literary analysis as well as the thematics of the Modern English novel.
  (UF, Fall 2006—present)

• "Introduction to Argumentation and Persuasion," introductory writing course focusing on writing the research paper
  Introduced students to techniques and forms of argument in a broad range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, business, and natural sciences. In order to develop students' writing and researching skills for the research paper, they completed editorials, annotated bibliographies, and synthesis essays.
  (UF, Spring 2007)

• The University of Florida Women's Club Scholarship, 2007
• O. Ruth McQuown Graduate Scholarship, 2005
• Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Finalist, 2005
• Edwin C. and Mary Kirkland-Johns Travel Award, 2003
• English Department Teaching Award, 2001
• Edwin C. and Mary Kirkland-Johns Doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2005
• University of Georgia Presidential Scholar, 1997-1999

• Director of Communications, The 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association

• Steering Committee Co-Chair, The 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association Conference, 2006

• English Graduate Organization, The University of Florida (http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/ego/)
  - Conference Co-Chair for "Insatiable Crises: Producing Obsessions, Evils, and Traumas," 2003
  - Secretary, 2002-2003

• Graduate Assistants United, The University of Florida (http://www.ufgau.org/)
  - UFF Senator, 2004-2005
  - Organizing Committee Member, 2003-2004

• Website Designer, Victorian Studies Forum, The University of Florida (http://www.english.ufl.edu/vsf/)

• Website Designer, Feminist Reading Group, The University of Florida (http://www.english.ufl.edu/frg/)

• Tutor, PACE Center for Girls of Alachua

• Modern Languages Association
• 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association
• North American Victorian Studies Association
• The Victorians Institute
• South Atlantic Modern Languages Association
  
  

Course Management Programs

• Proficient with WebCT
• Proficient with Blackboard
• Proficient with T-Square (Georgia Tech's Sakai installation)

• Proficient in HTML
• Proficient with Dreamweaver

• Proficient with Fireworks

• Proficient with Windows (2000, NT, XP, Vista)
• Proficient with OSX

• Office Suites: StarOffice, OpenOffice, MSOffice, Endnote
• Virtual Environments: Second Life, MOO