LAURIE LANGBAUER
Department of English
CB#3520, Greenlaw Hall
University of North Carolina÷Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NCÊ 27599-3520
(919) 962-5481
email: llangbau@email.unc.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1999-present. Professor, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Ê Fields: Nineteenth-Century, Literary Theory, and the Novel.
1997-2000. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1995-1999. Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1992-1995.Ê Associate Professor, Swarthmore College.
1985‑1992.Ê Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College.
Summer, 1989.Ê Visiting Scholar, teaching in the graduate program, The University of Colorado, Boulder.
1979‑83.Ê Teaching Assistant and Reader, Cornell University.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, Cornell University, August, 1985.Ê Dissertation: "Empty Constructions: Women and Romance in the English Novel."Ê Directors, Neil Hertz, Mary Jacobus, Harry Shaw.
M.A., English, Cornell University, January, 1982.
Rhode Island School of Design, 1976‑77.
B.A., summa cum laude, with High Honors in English, Wesleyan University, May, 1976.
Sarah Lawrence College, 1972‑74.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 1999), 241 pages.
Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), 271 pages.
Editions:
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1997), Critical Introduction: ãLike No One There,ä vii-xxxii; Scholarly Apparatus: notes, critical excerpts.
PUBLICATIONS (continued):
Editions (continued):
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1997), Critical Introduction: ãThe Burnt Comb,ä vii-xxiv; ; Scholarly Apparatus: notes, critical excerpts.
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Articles:
ãThe Everyday,ä solicited for New Literary History.
ãQueen Victoria and Me,ä Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century , ed. John Kucich and Dianne Sadoff (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2000), 211-33.
"Absolute Commonplaces: Margaret Oliphant's Theory of Autobiography," in Margaret Oliphant: Critical Essays on a Gentle Subversive, ed. D. J. Trela (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1995), 124-34.
"The City, the Everyday, and Boredom: The Case of Sherlock Holmes," differences 5.3 (1993): 80-102.
"The Celebrity Economy and Cultural Studies," Victorian Studies 36 #4 (Summer 1993): 466-72.
"Swayed by Contraries: Mary Shelley and the Everyday," in The Other Mary Shelley, ed. Anne Mellor, Audrey Fisch, and Esther Schor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993): 185-203.
"Cultural Studies and the Politics of the Everyday," diacritics 22 (1992): 47-65.
"Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies," in "Turning the Century": Feminist Theory in the 1990s, ed. Glynis Carr, special issue of the Bucknell Review 36 #2 (1992): 123-31.
"Women in White, Men in Feminism," The Yale Journal of Criticism 2 #2 (April 1989): 219-43.
"Foreword," to The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), v-xiv.
"An Early Romance: Motherhood and Women's Writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's Novels," in Romanticism and Feminism, ed. Anne Mellor (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1988), 208-19.
"Dickens's Streetwalkers: Women and the Form of Romance," ELH 53 (1986): 411‑31.
"Romance Revised: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote," Novel 18 (Fall 1984): 29‑49.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Excerpted in Nineteenth-Century Literature/Criticism, ed. Janet Mullane and Robert Thomas Wilson (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1989), vol. 23, pp. 247-52.
Other Publications and Reviews:
Entry on Charles Dickens, Encarta Encyclopedia, 1999.
Review of Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898, by Anita Levy, Gender & History 4 #2 (Summer 1992): 268-70.
Review of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fictions, Her Monsters, by Anne Mellor, The Wordsworth Circle 20 #4 (Autumn 1989): 210-12.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Ethics Fellow, Institute of the Arts and Humanities, The University of north Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2002.
Contemplative Practice Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-2001.
Reynolds Competitive Research Leave, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2001.
English Department Research and Study Leave, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2000.
General College Curriculum Technology Enhancement Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
Course Development Award, The Center for the Study of the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
Brandes Course Development Award, Honors Program, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-99.
Schwab Fellows Opportunity Grant, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-99.
Faculty Fellowship, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring, 1998.
Philip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
Williamson Award for Course Development, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
Ford Foundation Cultural-Diversity Course-Development Grant, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
Mellon Foundation Seminar on the Intellectual in the Academy, Swarthmore College, 1994-95.
Eccles External Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Center, The University of Utah, 1993-94.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry Library, 1993-94 (declined).
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, Summer, 1990.
Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May-August, 1990.
George Becker Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College, 1989-90.
Chandis Securities Company Fellow, The Huntington Library, 1989-90 (declined).
Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, The Newberry Library, 1989-90 (declined).
NEH Summer Seminar on Feminist Literary Criticism, directed by Jane Gallop, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1988.
American Council of Learned Society's Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1986‑87.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1985‑86 (declined).
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 1984‑85.
Olin‑Mathieson Fellowship for Continuing Graduate Education, Cornell University, 1983‑84.
Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1978‑79.
Winchester Fellowship for Graduate Education, Wesleyan University, 1977 (declined).
Dickens Society's Robert B. Partlow Prize (for "Dickens`s Streetwalkers: Women and the Form of Romance"), December, 1986.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (continued):
Cornell University Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1982.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1976.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
Invited Speaker, ãEthics and Childrenâs Literature,ä Victorian Conference, Cornell University, April 4-6, 2002.
Invited Speaker, ãA Womanâs Story: A Fresh Perspective,ä Associated Women and Staff Professionals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2001.
Invited Speaker, ãLegacies of Henri LeFebvre (1901-1991),ä Society for French Historical Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March, 2001.
Invited Speaker, ãConsuming Themselves: Victorian Self-Fashioning,ä Conference on Victorian Consumption, Taste, and Fashion, The Graduate School, The City University of New York, May, 1999.
Chair, ãWomenâs Legal Narratives,ä Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March, 1998.
Participant, Graduate Directorâs Meeting, South Atlantic Graduate Education Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November, 1997.
Invited Speaker, Symposium on Job Placement, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 1997.
Chair and Moderator, Why Do Victorian Narrative?, Forum, International Narrative Convention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, April, 1997.
Discussant, ãThe Teaching of Jane Austen,ä North Carolina English Teachersâ Association Meeting, Greensboro, North Carolina, October, 1996.
Discussant, ãTeaching Popular Culture: Jane Austen,ä The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September, 1996.
"The Everyday as Everything: Pushing the Limits of Trollope's Series Fiction," International Narrative Convention, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, April, 1996.
ãWomen, Race, and the Everyday in Virginia Woolfâs Writing,ä Womenâs Studies Colloquium, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, January, 1995.
Chair, "The Politics and Poetics of Minor Narratives," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Panel, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 1995.
"The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Virginia Woolf Herself," International Narrative Convention, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 1994.
"Who's Afraid of the Everyday?: Virginia Woolf's Unbearable Moments of Being," Paper presented at Faculty Forum, Humanities Center, University of Utah, March, 1994.
"Women and Modernism: Everyday Life in the Modern World," Women and the Question of Periodization, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December, 1993.
Chair, Women and the Question of Periodization, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December, 1993.
"Feminism and the Theory of the Everyday," Faculty Seminar, Humanities Center, University of Utah, October, 1993.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (continued):
"Meet Jane Doe: Politicizing the Everyday," The Object in Psychoanalysis, Buffalo Symposium in Literature and Psychoanalysis, SUNY Buffalo, May, 1993.
Chair, Urban Pleasures, Urban Dangers: Women on the Street in Everyday Life, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December, 1991.
"The Baker Street Irregular: Reading the Banal in Arthur Conan Doyle," Urban Pleasures, Urban Dangers: Women on the Street in Everyday Life, Special Session, Modern Language Convention, San Francisco, December, 1991.
Respondent, Diversity of Language Seminar, Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, February, 1991.
Chair, Dickens Society Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 1990.
"Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies: Responses, Revisions, Alternatives, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 1990.
"Margaret Oliphant, Feminist Theory, and the Everyday," Paper delivered to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May, 1990.
"Foucault and Madame Foucault," Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Tulane University, April, 1990.
Respondent, The Question of Hysteria: From Body to Discourse, Session at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, April, 1990.
"Women and the Theory of Everyday Life," Women and the Practice of Everyday Life, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 1989.
Chair, Women and the Practice of Everyday Life: Renaissance Texts/Theoretical Contexts, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 1989.
"The Monstrosity of Everyday Life: Mary Shelley's Gothic," Specifying the Other, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C., December, 1989.
"Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage," Paper Delivered at the University of Colorado, Boulder, July, 1989.
"Representing Feminist Literary Criticism: Confessional Modes and Imperative Moods," Feminism and Representation Conference, Rhode Island College, April, 1989.
"Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage," Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 1989.
"Old and New Prisons: Women and the Home in Dickens's Novels," Dickens Society Session, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December, 1988.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes: Women's Role in George Meredith's Literary History," Division on Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English Literature, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December, 1988.
"Becoming Margaret Oliphant," Margaret Oliphant Panel, Midwestern Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, November, 1988.
"Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage," Lacan and Literature Conference, Kent State University, May, 1988.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (continued):
Respondent, Symposium on Hysteria, Trinity College, April, 1988.
"Prostitution and Narrative Ideology in Mary Wollstonecraft's Fiction," Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Ohio State University, April, 1988.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes: George Meredith's Historical Vision," Section on Literature and History, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Providence, RI, April, 1988.
Chair, Section on The Brontes, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Providence, RI, April, 1988.
Ê"Women in White," The Politics of the Maternal in Post‑structural Feminist Theory, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December, 1987.
Chair, The Politics of the Maternal in Post‑structural Feminist Theory, Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December, 1987.
Chair, Gender Issues I, Symposium: International Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language, George Mason University, November, 1987.
"Women in White," Dickens, Women, and Victorian Culture, 1987 Dickens Project Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, August, 1987.
Secretary, Section on The Brontes, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Northeastern University, April, 1987.
"An Early Romance: Motherhood and Women's Writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's Novels," English Romanticism Division, Modern Language Association Convention, December, 1986.
"The Master's House," Narrative Poetics Conference, The Ohio State University, April, 1986.
"Charlotte Bronte's Family Romance," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Rutgers University, April, 1986.
"An Early Romance: Motherhood and Women's Writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's Novels," Criticism a la Mode: Revisionist Approaches to Eighteenth‑Century English Literature, Cornell University, October, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Reader for Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Feminist Studies, Signs, SEL, Tulsa Studies in Womenâs Literature, Victorianâs Institute Journal, Broadview Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Yale Uniersity Press.
Advisory Board, Victorianâs Institute Journal, 1998-.
Co-Organizer, ãCentenary Reflections: Victoria Among the Victorians,ä 2001 Victorians Institute Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October, 2001.
External Review Committee, Davidson College English Department, 1996.
External Review Committee, Grinnell College English Department, 1995.
Trustee, The Dickens Society, 1990-94.
Panelist, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Review Board, 1990, 1991.
UNC-CH Elected Representative, Arts and Sciences, Faculty Council, 2001-.
UNC-CH Committee on Faculty Research and Study Leaves, 2001-2002.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICE (continued):
UNC-CH Provostâs Committee on Phased Retirement, 2001-2002.
UNC-CH Faculty Legislative Liaison Committee, 1998-2000.
Co-Chair, UNC-CH Graduate and Professional Task Force, Carolina First Campaign, 1998-2000.
UNC-CH University Research Council, 1998-2000.
UNC-CH Womenâs Studies Advisory Board, 1998-.
UNC-CH Tar Heel Bus Tour Steering Committee, 1998-.
UNC-CH Tar Heel Bus Tour, May, 1998.
Autumn Saturday, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH, 1998.
UNC-CH Appointed Member, Board of Trustees, Victory Village Daycare at the University Child Care Center, 1998-.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1998-.
UNC-CH Faculty Advisor and Board Member, Victory Village Daycare Center, 1996-1998.
UNC-CH Ad Hoc Time to Degree Program Committee, 2001-2002.
UNC-CH English Department Administrative Committee, 1997-2000.
UNC-CH English Department Chairâs Advisory Committee, elected member 1996-1997, 2001-2002; ex officio member 1997-2000.
UNC-CH English Department Curriculum Committee, ex officio member, 1998-2000.
UNC-CH Graduate Advisory
Committee, 1997-2000, 2001-.
Chair, 1997-2000.
UNC-CH English Department M.A. Committee, 1997-2000.
UNC-CH English Department Ad Hoc M.A. Committee, Chair, 1998-1999.
UNC-CH English Department Hiring Committee, 1998-1999.
UNC-CH English Department Library Committee, 1997-.
UNC-CH English Department Development Committee, 1998-1999.
UNC-CH English Department Job Placement Committee, 1995-96.
Swarthmore College Chapter Board, Phi Beta Kappa, 1990-93.
Swarthmore College Faculty Research Committee, 1994-95.
Swarthmore College Student Life Committee, 1992-93.
Swarthmore College Cooper Committee, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93.
Swarthmore College Fellowships and Prizes Committee, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93.
Swarthmore College Women's Studies Committee, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1990-91.
Swarthmore College Women's Studies Faculty Seminar, 1989-90.
Swarthmore College Phi Beta Kappa Evaluation Committee, 1989, 1991, 1993.
Swarthmore College Self-Evaluation Steering Committee, 1988-89.
Swarthmore College Library Committee, 1987-88.