Previous Semesters at Mizzou
Fall 2005
Coursework:
Nineteenth Century American Novel (Evelev)
Renaissance Literature (Read)
Teaching: ENG1000: Exposition and Argumentation
Presentation:
"Beyond Sentimental: Conflicted Sympathies In Late Georgian Comic Opera"
Aphra Behn Society, October 29, 2005.
Winter 2006
Coursework:
Textual Criticism (Quirk)
18th Century Literature: Richardson, Burney, Austen (Justice)
Unions and their Discontents: Britain 1707-1914 (Koditschek - History)
Teaching: ENG2100: Writing About LiteraturePresentations:
"Introducing Portrait: How Current Editions Construct James and his Heroine"
MU EGSA Conference, February 17, 2006.Panel Chair (with Dr. Pam Benoit). "Graduate School: Considerations & Possibilities." Griffiths Leadership Society for Women Conference, Columbia, MO, 23 April 2006.
Summer 2006
Coursework:
History of the English Language (Gordon)
Fall 2006
Coursework:
19th-Century British Literature: Romanticism and History (Heringman)
Contemporary Critical Approaches (Cohen - syllabus)
Teaching:
ENG1210: Readings in British Literature
ENG1000: Exposition and ArgumentationPresentation:
"Wanderer’s End: Understanding Burney’s Approach to Endings"
Frances Burney Society, October 26-8, 2006.
Winter 2007
Coursework:
Intensive Beginning French (Molavi)
18th-Century British Literature: Jane Austen Among Women (Looser)
Teaching:
ENG2100: Writing About Literature
Summer 2007
Reading for Comprehensive Exams
Presentation:
"Life's Endings: Seeking Closure in Burney's Court Diaries"
Young Researchers Panel, UK Burney Society, Windsor, UK, July 6-7, 2007.Soliciting (for Samuel Richardson Society):
For American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27-9 March 2008:
Call for Panelists: "Richardson in the Twenty-first Century: A Roundtable"
Call for Papers: "Beyond Clarissa: Sir Charles Grandison in Conversation"
Fall 2007
Soliciting (for Samuel Richardson Society at ASECS 2008):
Call for Papers: "Beyond Clarissa: Sir Charles Grandison in Conversation" (now closed)Comprehensive Exams - October (now ABD)
Teaching:"Lies! False Documents, Fictional Frauds, and Literary Hoaxes” This course will examine several kinds of literary "lies" -- the fictional "true story" (like Defoe's Moll Flanders or The Blair Witch Project), forgeries (like the Ossian poems or false Shakespeare plays of William Henry Ireland), frauds (like Laura Albert, AKA "JT LeRoy" or Carter's The Education of Little Tree), and false documents (such as in the work of Borges, Nabokov, or Bram Stoker's Dracula). We'll be investigating what makes a text "authentic" or "inauthentic" by examining works (novels, films, and everything in between) which play with our ideas of what makes for a "true story".
In two variations:
Presentation:
Napoleon on the Margins: Creating an End To the Revolution”
MidWestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MW-ASECS), Kansas City, MO, October 11-13, 2007.
Spring 2008
Awards, etc.
- Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship
- First Prize, Creative Arts/Humanities Division MU 2008 Research and Creative Activities Forum
- Elected Vice-Chair/Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Caucus (Vice-Chair 2008-09, Chair 2009-2010)
Presentation and Other Activities:
“Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels”
- Presented first at South-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Auburn, AL, February 14-17, 2008.
- Also presented at the MU 2008 Research and Creative Activities Forum - Columbia, MO March 8, 2008. Won First Prize
Chair/Organizer, "Beyond Clarissa: Sir Charles Grandison in Conversation" (Session V/68, Thursday)
Chair/Organizer, "Richardson in the Twenty-first Century: A Roundtable" (Session XIV/199, Saturday)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Portland, OR March 27-9, 2008Participant in the ASECS Graduate Caucus Reading Group, as essayist ("These Aids from Nature, join'd to the Wiles of Art": Some Thoughts (and more questions) on Fantomina's Roles) and as editor/contributor of a collection of essays on Sir Charles Grandison ("Introduction" and "Where Does Grandison End?")
Teaching:
ENG1210: Readings in British Literature: "Cultures of the Book"
Summer 2008
Service and Activities
- Writing Writing Writing
- Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Caucus
- Soliciting for Richmond ASECS 2009 Panel:
Beginnings and Endings: Locating Boundaries, Crises, and Turning Points in the (Very Long) Eighteenth-Century
In the field of “long” eighteenth-century studies, the limits of our century are strikingly fluid. But the temporal borders are not the only boundaries that fall under debate. How we order our sense of turning points, movements, and crisis-points often varies greatly depending on our vantage point. Dividing up the period, thus, has always been a little messy. Many of us are aware of the border skirmishes that come up between labels such as “Regency” and “Romantic,” but there are other discrepancies. Some of these differences are geographical, as scholars of various national traditions mark different moments of crisis throughout the century. Other differences may be generic, as specialists in poetry, art history, or political science place very different turning points than scholars invested in a sense of the “rise” of the novel or the study of religious practice or technological advances. This panel asks how and why current scholars imagine (and reimagine) beginnings and ends. We seek papers that interrogate, challenge, and reaffirm the internal and external boundaries of the “long” eighteenth century. We also seek papers that explore the institutional, political, and academic stakes of doing so. Ideally, panelists would represent a wide variety of specialties and disciplinary leanings. We encourage proposals from graduate students and junior scholars. Please send abstracts to Emily C. Friedman by September 15.
Fall 2008
Presentation:
"Jane Austen: End or Beginning?"
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Chicago, IL, October 2-5, 2008.Austen holds a curious space in literary history; three literary specialties (18th century novel, Romantics, Victorians) claim her. Friedman answers the question whether Austen is a new sort of Romantic writer, the literary heiress to novelists Richardson and Fielding, or even the mother of a new kind of novel.
Teaching:
ENG4996: Honors Seminar in English (Fall 2008, assistant to Professor Alexandra Socarides)Activities:
Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Graduate Caucus
- Soliciting for Richmond ASECS 2009 Panel: Beginnings and Endings: Locating Boundaries, Crises, and Turning Points in the (Very Long) Eighteenth-Century (Deadline September 15)
- Soliciting Applications for the Caucus Graduate Mentoring Award (Deadline December 15)