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Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Ph.D., Rutgers University (Literature)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • M.A., Rutgers University (Literature)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • M.A., Southern Illinois University (Zoology)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • B.Sc., McGill University (Biology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Books <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Sloth –<\/em> Reaktion Books, December 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Dolphin<\/em>– Reaktion Books, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • England in 1815: A Critical Edition of The Journal of Joseph Ballard <\/em>– Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect<\/em> – Duke University Press, 2001.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty- Second Century <\/em>(1827), by Jane Webb (Reprint) – U. Michigan Press, 1994.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature.<\/em> Ed. George Levine. Asst. Ed. Alan Rauch – U. of Wisconsin Press, 1987.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • “Gendered Abjection in Gaskell’s Gothic Stories,” with Erin Dulin, in Approaches to Teaching Elizabeth<\/em> Gaskell<\/em>, MLA (Forthcoming).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Science, Women, and the Mother Tongue: Translating Knowledge for 19th<\/sup> Century Readers,” Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, 52:7, 796-815, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cGaskell and Science,\u201d Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell<\/em>, ed. Elizabeth Ludlow, Palgrave,  Forthcoming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cEmpire and Zoology,\u201d ed. Pamela Gilbert, The Palgrave Handbook of Nineteenth Century Literature and Science<\/em>, Palgrave, Forthcoming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cMaria Barton Hack (1777\u20131844)\u201d in Ed. Lesa Scholl, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women\u2019s Writing. <\/em> London: Palgrave, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cDeath as a Sacrament in Kingsley\u2019s Water-Babies<\/em>\u201d in Jonathan Conlin and Jan Marten Ivo Klaver (eds.), Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy. <\/em>Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 2021. Pp. 184-201.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cThe Sukotyro: On the Extinction of a Nonexistent Animal,\u201d Configurations, <\/em>Vol. 28 (1) 2020: 51-88.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cOcean of Whales and Dolphins,\u201d  RISE: A Children\u2019s Literacy Journal<\/em>. Spring\/Summer 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cScience and Literature.\u201d Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature<\/em>. Dino Felluga, Linda Hughes, and Pamela Gilbert, Eds. London, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cEcce Emendator<\/em>: The Cost of Knowledge for Scholarly Editors,\u201d Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, [https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/285-ecce-emendator-the-cost-of-knowledge-for-scholarly-editors].<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cScholarly Publishing: Hindsight Toward a Digital Future.\u201d,J. of Scholarly Publishing<\/em>, Vol. 42, Number 1 \/ October 2010, 56-67.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • \u201cThe Pupil of Nature: Science and Natural Theology in Maria Hack\u2019s \u201cHarry Beaufoy.\u201d In Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Ed.,  Science in the Nursery<\/em>, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar\u2019s Press, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “The Scholarly Journal: Hindsight Toward a Digital Future,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing, <\/em>Vol. 42, Number 1 \/ October 2010, 56-67.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “The Sins of Sloths: The Giant Ground Sloth as a Paleontological Parable,” Victorian Animal Dreams<\/em>, Deborah Morse, Martin Danahay. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007. Pp. 215-228.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Mentoria: Women, Children, and the Structures of Science.” Nineteenth Century Contexts<\/em>, Volume 27, Number 4, (December 2005), pp. 335-351.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Great Work. You’re Fired.” [Program-Building and Disposable Labor: A Neglected Fourth Dimension in Evaluating Faculty], The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, April 1 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “The Lacunae of Science: Observing the Unobserved in the Practices of Knowledge.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews<\/em>, Volume 28, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 209-216.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Victorian Poetry and Science.” In The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry<\/em>, ed. Richard Cronin, Antony Harrison, and Alison Chapman. London: Blackwell, 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Cetacean Culture: Resisting Myths and Addressing Lacunae.” <\/span>Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/em>, 2001 Vol. 24 (2): 352-353.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Parables and Parodies: Mrs. Gatty’s Interpretations of Nature,” <\/span>Children’s Literature<\/em> (Yale University Press), edited by Mitzi Myers and U. C. Knoepflemacher, Vol. 25 (1997):137-152.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Forum on Interdisciplinarity. <\/span>PMLA<\/em>, March 1996: 273-274.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Looking for Home: Canada and the Major Leagues,” in William Humber and John St. James, eds. <\/span>All I Thought about was Baseball<\/em>; <\/span>Writings on a Canadian Pastime<\/em>. Toronto: U. Toronto Press, 1996. 246-249.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” <\/span>Studies in Romanticism<\/em>, Vol. 34. (Summer, 1995): 227-253.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “The Tailor Transformed: The Notion of Change in Charles Kingsley’s <\/span>Alton Locke<\/em>.” <\/span>Studies in the Novel<\/em>, Summer 1993, Vol. 25(2): 196-213.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “‘Preparing the Rising Generation’; Romanticism and Sir Richard Phillips’s ‘Juvenile Library.”‘ <\/span>Nineteenth-Century Contexts<\/em>, 1991, Vol 15 (1): 3-27.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “A World of Faith on a Foundation of Science: Science and Religion in British Children’s Literature, 1761-1878.”<\/span>Children’s Literature Association Quarterly<\/em>, Spring 1989, Vol. 14 (1): 13-19.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • “Bruce Springsteen and the Dramatic Monologue.” <\/span>American Studies<\/em>, Vol. xxix (1), Spring 1988: 29-49.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Curated Exhibit & TedX Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • \u201cAll Real Animals are Imaginary,\u201d TedX \u2013 Charlotte<\/em>. Feb. 6, 2021[https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JZqadvWIbJo]<\/u><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Subverting the Natural Order: Women and Science<\/em>, <\/strong>Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, University of Florida, November 2 \u2013 December 18, 2021. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • Science, Technology, and Culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • The Long 18th Century, Romantic, & Victorian Literature & Culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Codifications of Knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Animal Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • The Graphic Novel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Material Culture – The Meaning of Things<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Women’s Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • History of the Book including New Media, Visualization, & Digital Publishing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • ENGL 6680: The Victorians and Empire<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 4750 (Honors): Women & Science in the Early 19th Century<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 4072\/5072: The Bible as Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 6680: British Women Writers in the 19th C.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 6070: Dickens Bicentennial Seminar<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 6126: The Victorian Era<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL\/Honors 3050: Animals, Culture, and Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 3050: Jewish Identity & The Graphic Novel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • LBST 2213: Science, Technology, and Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • HONR 3701:Science, Technology, and Human Values<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • LBST 2102: Global and Intercultural Connections<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • ENGL 3302: British Literature Survey II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Professional Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              • MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Advisory Board, Publications of the Modern Language Association<\/em> (PMLA<\/em>) -2019-2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Board of Directors, Charlotte Folk Society<\/em> , 2023 – <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Chapter Head, Sigma Xi:  The Scientific Research Honor Society<\/em> (2020 – 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • President<\/em>: Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) (2012-2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Editor<\/em>: Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology<\/em> (Johns Hopkins) (2001-2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Past- President<\/em>: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • BOOK SERIES EDITOR, Intersections in Literature and Science, University of Wales Press, 2008-<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • ADVISORY BOARD, Penn State University Press \u2013Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures<\/em>, a series edited by Nigel Rothfels and Garry Marvin \u2013 2011-2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Modern Language Association, National Program Committee<\/em>, 2008-2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • MLA Ad-Hoc Committee to Study the Feasibility of Changing the Convention Dates,” 1995-96<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                Fellowships and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                • Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Mellon Fellowship, Library Company, Philadelphia  2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Chancellor’s Diversity Grant, “Jewish Identity & the Graphic Novel,” UNC Charlotte, 2008-09<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Studies Fellowship, New York Public Library, New York, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Boston Athenaeum Bicentenary Fellow, Boston 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Franklin Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Trent Dames Fellow in the History of Civil Engineering, Huntington Library, 2003-04<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Fellow, Cambridge University, 2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • C. P. Snow Fellowship, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Fellowship for College and University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities 1992-93<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Advanced Institute in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Fellow, 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                  Community Service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  • Charlotte Folk Society, Board of Directors; Writer of “Ballad Broadsides” Monthly Essay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Charlotte Observer<\/em> – Guest Writer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Sunrise Assisted Living – Occasional Guest Speaker<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Charlotte Area Science Network (CASN)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                    May 21, 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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