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Professional Preparation
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
Publications
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
Appointments
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]
Projects
Speaking Volumes: Literature and the Languages of Women
2000–2000American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University
Polite and Plain Speech; Or, Amelia Opie Quakerized
1999–1999American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee
Reconstructing Woman's Language and the Languages of Women
1999–1999British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque
'To Dissect a Woman's Tongue': Theorizing Women's Speech in the Eighteenth Century
1998–1998Aphra Behn Society, Daytona Beach
Elocution, Belles-lettres, and the Training of Orators
2000–2000Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland
Additional Information
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