curriculum vitae
education

Ph.D. in English  
Claremont Graduate University

expected Spring 2005

M.A. in History  
University of California at Irvine

1998

M.A. in English 
Claremont Graduate University

1996

B.A. in English (with Honors) 
University of Washington

1993


honors and awards

"Superior" evaluation on doctoral qualifying examinations
Major Field: Early Modern through Seventeenth-Century British Literature
Minor Fields: Renaissance Literature and Twentieth-Century American Literature

2000

 

Full Tuition Fellowships

1995, 96, 97

 

Jonathan Dolgen Fellowship

1995

 

Graduate Student Council Travel Awards

1996, 98

 

Received B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors, and cum laude

1993

 

Listed in the National Dean’s List of College Students

1992, 93


teaching experience
 

Instructor
Eureka One-on-One Review
SAT I: Verbal and SAT II: Writing

2/03 - present

 

Instructor
Claremont Graduate University
Writing 95: "Writers' Workshop"

1/99 - 12/02

Instructor
Claremont Graduate University Writing Center

9/96 - 5/02

 

Multimedia Teaching Assistant
Pomona College
English 166: "Pynchon and Melville"
English 141: "Contemporary Fiction"

Spring 2000 and 1999

 

Instructor
Harvey Mudd College
Humanities 1, "Satire and Dark Humor"
Humanities 1, "Dark Humor in Literature and Film"

Fall 1999 and 1998

 

Teaching Assistant
Claremont Graduate University
Language 100, "English for Graduate Studies"

9/96 - 5/99

Teaching Assistant
Harvey Mudd College
Humanities 1: "Monsters in Modern Literature"

Fall 1996


editorial and administrative experience
 

Assistant Director
Claremont Graduate University Writing Center

1/99 - 5/02

 

Associate Editor
Book Review Editor  
Editorial Assistant  
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

9/01 - 3/02
9/98 - 9/01
9/95 - 9/98

 

Research Assistant  
Department of English
Claremont Graduate University

9/95 - 5/97

 

Program Director  
Summer Camp Program  
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

2/95 - 9/96

 

Assistant Program Director  
Summer Camp Program  
YMCA Camp Ravencliff

3/93 - 8/94


publications

 

Ellis, Carol, and Shasta Turner. "Going Digital, Graduate-Style: The Role of the Graduate Writing Center." The OWL Construction and Maintenance Guide. CD-ROM. Eds. James A. Inman and Clinton Gardner. National Writing Centers Association Press.

2002

 

Capsule reviews published periodically in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995 - present. Books reviewed include (in alphabetical order):

Battigelli, Anna. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Bennett, Judith M., and Amy M. Froide. Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Bowers, Toni. The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cavendish, Margaret. The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Anne Shaver, ed. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Daileader, Celia R. Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Donovan, Josephine. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Green, Philip. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Haralovich, Mary Beth, and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds. Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essay. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.

Hengen, Shannon. Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998.

Hitchcock, Tim. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. New York: Palgrave, 1997.

Hutson, Lorna, ed. Feminism and Renaissance Studies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Kritzer, Amelia Howe, ed. Plays By Early American Women, 1775-1850. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Lewis, Katherine J., Noël James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, eds. Young Medieval Women. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, and María Herrera-Sobek, eds. Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2000.

Novy, Marianne, ed. Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Smith, Bonnie. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Walker, Julia M., ed. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.

Wartenberg, Thomas E. Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

1995 -
2002


conference presentations

 

"Public Secrets: Women's Online Journaling." Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention (Chicago, IL).

3/02

 

Panel Respondent: "Gender and Identity in The Roaring Girl." Claremont Graduate Symposium in Early Modern Studies (Claremont, CA).

3/02

 

"Domination and the Dimensions of Colonial Rhetoric: Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland." Graduate Student Symposium, "Self Fashioning Revisited." Claremont Graduate University Early Modern Studies Group (Claremont, CA).  

3/99

 

"Disordered Subjects: Cross-Dressing and Sumptuary Regulation in Early Modern England." Speaker Series, Huntington Library Graduate Seminars in Early Modern British History (San Marino, CA).

4/98

 

"Domination and the Dimensions of Colonial Rhetoric: Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland." Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Conference (Long Beach, CA).

3/98

 

" ‘A Little Easy, and Modern for the Times’: Theatricality and Gender in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair." Presented paper and chaired session. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Atlanta, GA).  

10/97

 

"Visualizing the ‘Invisible’: Aging Women, Sexuality, and Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude." Graduate Student Symposium, "Gender and Identity in the Americas." Claremont Graduate University Humanities Center and Women’s Studies Group (Claremont, CA).

4/97

 

"The Cultural Politics of Identity and Transgression: Nella Larsen’s Passing." National Association of African-American Studies Conference (Houston, TX).

2/96



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