Patricia Michaelson

Ph.D. - Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature
University of Chicago - 1985

M.A.
University of Chicago - 1977

B.A.
Kirkland College, Clinton, N.Y. - 1975

Language and Gender in Emma, in Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen 's Emma, ed. Marcia Folsom McClintock, MLA, 2004 2004 - Publication

Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading and Speech in Austen and Her Time, Stanford University Press, 2002 Second edition (paper), 2004 2002 - Publication

Faith and the Profession, Profession 1998, 179-85. 1998 - Publication

Religion and Politics in the Revolution Debate: Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture, ed. Lisa Plummer Crafton (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 27-40. 1997 - Publication

Religious Bases of Eighteenth - Century Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Quakers, Women 's Studies 22 (1993): 281-95. 1993 - Publication

The Wrongs of Woman as a Feminist Amelia, The Journal of Narrative Technique 21 (1991): 250-61. 1991 - Publication

Reading Pride and Prejudice, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3 (1990): 65-76. 1990 - Publication

Women in the Reading Circle, Eighteenth-Century Life n.s. 13, no. 3 (1989): 59-69. 1989 - Publication

Associate Professor of Literary Studies
University of Texas at Dallas [2000–Present]

Assistant Professor of Literary Studies
University of Texas at Dallas [1992–2000]

Assistant Director and Assistant Professor
Emory University, Atlanta, GA [1990–1992]

Assistant Director
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts [1988–1992]

Lecturer
Loyola University of Chicago [1985–1987]

Lecturer
University of Chicago [1983–1985]

Speaking Volumes: Literature and the Languages of Women

2000–2000 American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University

Polite and Plain Speech; Or, Amelia Opie Quakerized

1999–1999 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee

Reconstructing Woman's Language and the Languages of Women

1999–1999 British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque

'To Dissect a Woman's Tongue': Theorizing Women's Speech in the Eighteenth Century

1998–1998 Aphra Behn Society, Daytona Beach

Elocution, Belles-lettres, and the Training of Orators

2000–2000 Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland

Professional Recognitions

• Victor Worsfold Outstanding Teaching Award, UTD, 2003
• Finalist, MLA Prize for a First Book, 2003
• Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Yale University, fall 2001
• Special Faculty Development Award, UT-Dallas, 2001-2002
• NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1991, Yale University
• High honors awarded to dissertation, 1985, University of Chicago
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1980-1981
• Snowday Memorial Essay Prize, 1980, University of Chicago
• Graduate fellowship, 1977-1980, University of Chicago
• Presser Foundation Prize Scholarship in Music, 1974
   

Service

• School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Executive Committee, 2005-
  • Co—Chair, overall SACSCOC assessment
    • Chair, Literary Studies SACSCOC assessment
  • Organized SOTL working group, 2005-
  • Supervise TA-taught sections of Literary Analysis
  • Graduate Studies Committee
  • Review Committees, Search Committees
• University of Texas at Dallas
  • SACSCOC Assessment Committee
  • Core Committee for the Support of Women and
  • Minorities (Chair), 2000-2001
  • Library Committee
  • Academic Senate
  • Association of Professional Women
• External service
  • Book review editor, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 2002-2006
  • Referee for PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romantic Pedagogy Commons, Univ. of Michigan Press
     

Professional Memberships

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Friends Association for Higher Education
• Modern Language Association