BEVERLY TAYLOR
Professor of English
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Office:
Greenlaw Bldg., CB # 3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
ph: 919-962-6921
fax: 919-962-3520
btaylor@email.unc.edu
EDUCATION:
1977 Ph.D., Duke University (English)
1970 M.A., Duke University (English)
1969 B.A.E., University of Mississippi, Oxford (English)
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
1984-92 Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1977-84 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1973-76 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Duke University
1970-72 Instructor in English, Memphis State University, now U. of Memphis
PUBLICATIONS--BOOKS:
Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art, co-edited with Antony H. Harrison. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992, 286 pp.
The Cast of Consciousness: Concepts of the Mind in British and American Romanticism, co-edited with Robert A. Bain. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987, 249 pp.
Francis Thompson. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987, 158 pp.
Arthurian Legend and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. Volume One: The Middle Ages, with Edmund Reiss and Louise Horner Reiss. New York: Garland Press, 1984, pp. 467.
The Return of King Arthur: British and American Arthurian Literature Since 1800, with Elisabeth Brewer. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1983, 382 pp.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Poetics of Engagement, a critical study. (Most of five projected chapters completed.)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poetry, ed. with Marjorie Stone. Broadview Press, forthcoming 2006.
The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Complete Edition, ed. with Sandra Donaldson, Marjorie Stone, et al. Five vols. anticipated. Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming 2007.
Women of Victorian Camelot: Female Figures in 19th-Century Arthurian Literature and Art, a critical study. (Portions of five chapters drafted.)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Early Writings, an edition for the Juvenilia Press.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Translations of Petrarch, an edition and critical commentary.
PUBLICATIONS--ARTICLES:
”Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Political-Aesthetic Philosophy: Poetics of Engagement,” Studies in Browning and His Circle, forthcoming, 17 pp. typescript.
”Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Romantic Child,” Studies in Browning and His Circle, forthcoming, 16 pp. typescript.
”’Arms and the Man’: An Italian Lineage for the Wedding of Love and War in A Farewell to Arms,” in Hemingway in Italy, ed. Rena Sanderson (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, forthcoming 2005), 15 pages typescript.
“Childhood Writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ’At Four I First Mounted Pegasus,’” in The Child Writer from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 138-53.
”A Date for an Undated Letter and an Unpublished Reminiscence of the Brownings,” (London) Browning Society Notes, 28 (2003): 67-72.
“Re-Vamping Vivien: Reinventing Myth as Victorian Icon,” in King Arthur’s Modern Return, ed. Debra N. Mancoff (New York: Garland, 1998), pp. 65-81.
“Female Savants and the Erotics of Knowledge in Pre-Raphaelite Art,” in Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment, ed. Margaretta Frederick Watson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997), pp. 121-37.
“Beatrix / Creatrix: Elizabeth Siddal as Muse and Creator,” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, n.s. 4 (Spring 1995), 29-50.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Subversion of the Gift Book Model,” Studies in Browning and His Circle, 20 (1993), 62-69.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Annuals: Feminist Challenges to the ‘Feminine,’” Postscript 10 (1993), 1-7. (Founder’s Prize Essay).
“’School-Miss Alfred” and ‘Materfamilias’: Female Sexuality and Poetic Voice in The Princess and Aurora Leigh,” in Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art, ed. B. Taylor and A. Harrison (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992), pp. 5-29.
"Victorian Camelot and the Pictorial Imagination," in Moderne Artusrezeption, 18.- 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Kurt Gammerschlag, Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 548 (Goppingen: Alfred Kummerle, 1992), pp. 51-86.
"Using the Visual Arts to Teach 19th-Century Arthurian Literature," in Approaches to
Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, ed. Maureen Fries and Jeannie Watson (NY: Modern Language Association, 1992), pp. 143-46.
"Shelley's Mirrors of Consciousness," in The Cast of Consciousness: Concepts of
the Mind in British and American Romanticism, ed. B. Taylor and R. Bain (Westport,
CT: Greenwood, 1987), pp. 86-103.
"Tennyson Ludens," Victorians Institute Journal, 14 (1986), 99-112.
"Phyllis, Canacee, Biblis, and Dido: Keys to Understanding the Minnegrotte
of Gottfried's Tristan," Mediaevalia, 8 (1982), 81-95.
"Imagination and Art in Arnold's Tristram and Iseult: The Importance of 'Making,'"
Studies in English Literature, 22 (1982), 633-45. Selections reprinted in
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 6, ed. L. L. Harris and S. Fitzgerald
(Gale Research Co., 1984), pp. 73-75.
"Carlyle's Historical Imagination: Untrue Facts and Unfactual Truths," Victorian
Newsletter, no. 61 (1982), 29-31. Selections reprinted in The Critical
Temper, second supplement, vol. 5, ed. Martin Tucker (NY: Crossroad/Ungar/Continuum,
1989).
"Browning and Victorian Medievalism," Browning Institute Studies, 8 (1980), 57-7l.
"Science in Tennyson's Poetry of Myth and Fairy Tale," Science / Technology and the Humanities, 3 (1980), 133-46.
"Shelley's Philosophical Perspective and Thematic Concerns in 'The Cloud,'"
Interpretations, 12 (1980), 70-75.
"Byron's Use of Dante in The Prophecy of Dante," Keats-Shelley Journal, 28 (1979),
102-19.
"The Medieval Cleopatra: The Classical and Medieval Tradition of Chaucer's Legend of
Cleopatra," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7 (1977), 249-69.
ARTICLES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCE WORKS:
“Sexuality,” “Women (the position of),” “Divorce Laws,” “The Novel in the Mid-nineteenth Century,” “Gothic Novels,” “Imagery in the Brontes’ Works,” “Thackeray,” and 13 brief entries, Oxford Companion to the Brontës, Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003).
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 199: Victorian Women Poets, ed. William B. Thesing (Detroit: Gale Research, 1999), master entry, pp. 79-99.
“Annuals and gift books,” Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens, ed. Paul Schlicke (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999), p. 24.
"Legends of Arthur's Return," The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy, et al. (New York: Garland), 1991), 381-82.
"Legend of Arthur after Spenser," The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A. C. Hamilton, et al., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988).
"Rosa Nouchette Carey," "Eliza Cook," "John Gilbert," "Jane Ellen Harrison," "Julia
Kavanagh," "Walter Savage Landor," and "Edna Lyall," in Victorian Britain: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Sally H. Mitchell (NY: Garland Press, 1988).
“Legends of Arthur’s Return,” in The Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy (New York: Garland, 1986), pp. 49-51.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing, by Linda H. Peterson, Virginia, 1999, 256 pp. in Victorian Periodicals Review, 1999.
The Brontës, by Juliet Barker, St. Martin’s, 1994, 1003 pp., and The Art of the Brontes, by Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars, Cambridge, 1995, 484 pp., in Victorians Institute Journal 24 (1996), 253-60.
Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions, by W. David Shaw, Johns Hopkins, 1994, 279 pp., in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 95 (1996), 570-72.
John Forster, by John J. Fenstermaker, Twayne, 1984, 132 pp., in South Atlantic Review, 51 (1986), 88-90.
The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since 1800, by Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Harvard, 1984, 191 pp., in Victorians Institute Journal, 13 (1985), 146-49.
Robert Browning as a Religious Poet: An Annotated Bibliography of the Criticism, by Vincent P. Anderson, Whitston, 1983, 325 pp., in South Atlantic Review, 49 (1984), 166-68.
PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
“Arms and the Woman: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodosia Garrow Trollope, and the English Woman’s Political Voice,” Anglo-Italian Relationships 1845-1865, The London Browning Society, Vallombrosa, Italy, September/October 2005.
”The After-Lives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Significations of Flush,” Victorians Institute, UNC Greensboro, April 2005.
”Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nations and Transnationalism: People Diplomacy in ‘A Fair-going World,’” North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Toronto, October 2004.
”Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Political Legacy,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Texas, October 2003.
”Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Juvenilia and Unpublished Poetry,” Old Lamps, New Lit: The Future of Victorian Poetry, University of Western Ontario, March 2003.
”English Women and Italian War: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Theodosia Garrow Trollope,” Victorians Institute Conference, the Citadel, October 2002.
”’Arms and the Man’: An Italian Lineage for the Wedding of Love and War in A Farewell to Arms,” International Hemingway Society Conference, Stresa, Italy, June 2002.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Political-Aesthetic Philosophy: The Poetics of Engagement,” Golden Jubilee Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, October 2001.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian Invalidism,” plenary talk, Victorians Institute, University of South Carolina, September 2000.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Romantic Child,” The Brownings and Romanticism: An International Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, March 1999.
“’At four I first mounted Pegasus’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian Childhood,” invited plenary talk, Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Sydney, Australia, February 1999.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Construction of Public Woman,” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, March 1998.
“Galahad and Victorian Monasticism,” Arthurian Legends, Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, March 1997.
“Heartbreakers, Caretakers, and Nestmakers: The Men of Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion,” invited plenary talk, Jane Austen Society of North America, Richmond, October 1996.
“Re-Vamping Vivien,” Arthurian Legends, Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, March 1996.
‘Framing the Feminine: The Brownings and Female Portraiture,” International conference on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Relationship, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, October 1995.
“Female Savants: The Erotics of Knowledge in Pre-Raphaelite Art,” Ideas and Images: A Pre-Raphaelite Symposium, Delaware Art Museum, September 1995.
“Guinevere Among the Grail Maidens,” Arthurian Legends, Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 1995.
“Portraiture and Gender Politics: Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor,” Southeastern 19th-Century Studies Association, Baltimore, March 1995.
“The Gender Politics of Portraiture in The Professor,” The Brontes’ Web of Consciousness Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, November 1994.
“Beatrix/Creatrix: Elizabeth Siddal as Muse and Creator,” International Conference on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Circle, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, April 1994.
“Hands Across the Waters: Ladies of the Lake,” Arthurian Legends, Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April 1994.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Subversion of the Gift Book Model,” International Conference on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, November 1993.
“Barren Vessels: The Grail as Caldron of Plenty,” Arthurian Legends, Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 1993.
Respondent, Tennyson Centenary Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, October 1992.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Exploitation and Subversion of the Gift Book Model,” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 1989.
"Victorian Camelot and the Pictorial Imagination," 19th-Century Seminar, National
Humanities Center, May 1988.
"Outside Views in Tennyson's The Princess: Female Sexuality, Education, and Poetic
Voice," Southeastern 19th-Century Studies Association, Georgetown
University, April 1988.
”The (Mis)Fortunes of the Grail," Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, March 1988.
"Visual Arts Teach 19th-Century Arthurian Literature," 22nd International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1987.
"’School-Miss Alfred’ and the Ladies: Tennyson and Female Sexuality," UNC-CH Dept. of
English Faculty Colloquium, March 1986.
"The Victorian Camelot as Utopia: Visual Images of the Better Life," Southeastern 19th-
Century Studies Association, April 1985, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 1985.
"Tennyson Ludens: The Comic View and Play of Language in Tennyson's Sober Verse,"
Victorians Institute, The Citadel, October 1984. Abstract published in Victorians
Institute Journal, 13 (1985), 173-74.
"A New Propriety in Marriage: The Conduct Books and Jane Austen's Persuasion,"
Southeastern 19th-Century Studies Association, Virginia Military Institute, April 1984.
"Tennyson and the Romantic Imagination," SAMLA, Atlanta, November 1980.
"Victorian Poets and the Clerisy," Victorians Institute, West Virginia
University, October 1980.
"Classical Models of Love in the Tristan Narratives," Arthurian Literature Section, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1979.
"Phyllis, Canacee, Biblis, and Dido: Keys to Understanding the Minnegrotte of Gottfried's
Tristan," Twelfth International Arthurian Congress, Regensburg, Germany, August 1979.
Summary in the Bulletin Bibliographique de la Société Internationale
Arthurienne, 31 (1979), 309.
"Shelley's Philosophical Perspective and Thematic Concerns in 'The Cloud,'" SAMLA, Atlanta, November 1978.
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES:
”Intrepid Victorian Women Travelers,” summer seminar “Spirit of Adventure: British and American Adventure Writing,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 2004.
”Victorian London,” weekend seminar “London Times,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, September 2002; repeated by popular demand, February 2003.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Politics of Childhood,” Pennsylvania State University, February 2002.
”Victorian Women of Camelot,” summer seminar “King Arthur,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 2001.
“Once Again, the Once and Future King: Victorian King Arthur,” summer seminar “King Arthur,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 2001.
“Looking Back at the Victorians Looking Back at Jane Austen,” Victorian Arts and Culture Series, The Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC, September 1998.
“Tennyson and Pre-Raphaelite Art: Revisiting Courtly Love,” weekend seminar “Courtly Love Medieval and Victorian,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, October 1997.
“Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: Courtship and the Poetry of Love,” weekend seminar “Courtly Love Medieval and Victorian,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, October 1997.
“Jane Austen’s Last Words: Persuasion, the Late Fragments, and Austen Continuations,” summer seminar “Jane Austen: The Pleasures of a Good Novel,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1996.
“’Run Mad as Often as You Chuse, but Do Not Faint’: Women’s Health and Work in Austen’s World,” summer seminar “Jane Austen: The Pleasures of a Good Novel,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1996.
“First-Person Jane Austen: The Letters,” summer seminar, “Jane Austen: The Pleasures of a Good Novel,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1996.
“Reflections of the World in ‘Two Inches of Ivory’ and a Spoon: Social Upheaval in Jane Austen and George Eliot,” weekend seminar “Jane Austen and George Eliot,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, September 1994.
“What Goes On in a Room of Our Own,” summer seminar “Women Writers,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1994.
“Margaret Drabble,” summer seminar “Women Writers,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1994.
“Virginia Woolf,” summer seminar “Women Writers,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1994.
“The Fruits of ‘Our Mothers’ Gardens’: The Legacy of 19th-Century Women Novelists,” summer seminar “Women Writers,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July 1994.
“Jane Eyre,” weekend seminar “Four Great Literary Heroines,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 1994.
“Beatrix/Creatrix: Elizabeth Siddal as Muse and Artist,” Ackland Art Museum & Department of Art, UNC-CH, April 1993.
“Grail Maidens and Other Distractions,” Rossell Hope Robbins Library, University of Rochester, April 1993.
“Victorian Maidens, Wives, and Mothers,” weekend seminar “Victorian Britain,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, September 1992.
“Parallel Lives: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” weekend seminar, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, September 1992.
“Isak Dinesen,” weekend seminar “The Female Imagination,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 1991.
“King Arthur in Legend and Literature,” weekend seminar “Myth and Literature,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 1991.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” weekend seminar “Women in the Arts,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 1990.
”Victorian Women," weekend seminar “Victorian Britain,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC Chapel Hill, July l988.
"Victorian Literature," The Literary Heritage of England Series, Isothermal Community
College, March 1982.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES:
Co-editor with Marjorie Stone, special issue of Victorian Poetry (Winter 2006) on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, Washington, DC, July 2004.
Conference chair, Victorians Institute, “Victoria and the Victorians: Centenary Reflections,” Chapel Hill, 2001.
Reviewer, NEH major grant proposal, 2001.
Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, Washington, DC, July 2000.
Council Member-at-Large, Popular Culture Association, 1999-2001.
Co-editor with Mary Ellis Gibson, Victorians Institute Journal, 1994-99.
Area Chair, Food and Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association, 1994- .
Manuscript and project referee: Yale University Press, University of Georgia Press, Broadview Press, Penguin Press, University of Missouri Press, Greenwood Press, Ohio University Press, Palgrave Press.
Manuscript referee: Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Studies in Philology, South Atlantic Review.
Outside reviewer for promotion and tenure decisions: Mills College, Utah State University, University of Santa Clara, Syracuse University, University of New Orleans, Denison University, University of Minnesota, Florida International University, University of New Mexico.
Moderator, panel at the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, 1998.
Session organizer and chair, “Victorian Standards of Beauty: Site of Cultural Conflict,” Southeastern 19th-Century Studies Association, Baltimore, 1995.
Session organizer and chair, “Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Beauty,” Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, 1994.
Conference chair, “Scientific Fantasies and Fantastic Science,” Victorians Institute, Chapel Hill, 1993.
Chair, English IV Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1992.
Session organizer and chair, “The Imperial Lens,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 1992.
Secretary, English IV Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1991
President, Victorians Institute, 1990, 1989.
Vice-President, Victorians Institute, 1988, 1987.
Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1988.
Conference chair, Victorians Institute, "Victorian Gender Issues," Chapel Hill, 1987.
Session chair and respondent, "Images of the Poet in the Nineteenth Century," Philological Association of the Carolinas, Greensboro, 1987.
Elected regional representative, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 1985-87.
Secretary, Victorians Institute, 1986, 1985.
Bibliographer, Annual Bibliography, Victorian Studies, 1982-87.
Annotator, Bibliography issue of Studies in Medievalism, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1980.
Annotator, New Chaucer Society Annual Bibliography, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1979-81.
Bibliographer, Modern Language Association International Bibliography, Medieval and Neo-Latin Section, 1972-82.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
Department of English, Research and Study Assignment, Spring 2006
Smallwood Grant for Undergraduate Research (Sponsor), Summer 2002
Department of English, Research and Study Assignment, Fall 2000
Arts & Sciences Foundation Award, 1995, 1996
Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH, Spring 1995
Department of English, Research and Study Assignment, Fall 1994
University Research Council Grant, 1993-95
DuPont Foundation Grant, Summer 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Scholars Award (Sponsor), Summer 1991
Ford Foundation Seminar, Fall 1990
Department of English, Research and Study Assignment, Spring 1990
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Culture and Society in Victorian Britain, Yale Center for British Art, l988
Women's Studies Course Development Award, l988
University Research Council Grant, 1986-87
Arts and Sciences Course Development Award, 1985-86
Arts and Sciences Foundation Research Development Grant, 1984-85
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1984
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1983
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1982
University Research Council Grant, 1981
MEMBERSHIPS IN SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
MLA
NAVSA
International Arthurian Society
Tennyson Society
Victorians Institute
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
COURSES TAUGHT AT UNC-CH:
Undergraduate courses:
Victorian Literature (73)
Romantic Literature (72)
18th- and 19th-Century British Novel (43 and 43H)
Victorian Afterlives: The Modern Experience of Victorian Novels (49C)
Capstone Course: The Romantic Revolution (94D)
British Women Novelists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (50)
Images of Women in 19th-Century Britain (50)
British Literature, Middle Ages through 18th Century (20)
British Literature, 19th and 20th Centuries (21)
Introduction to Fiction (23)
Classical Mythology and English Literature (40)
First-Year Seminar: Courtly Love Then and Now (6M)
Advanced Composition (30)
Business Writing (32)
Scientific Writing (33)
Freshman Composition (11 & 12)
Honors (97 & 98)
Directed Readings (96)
Graduate Courses:
Victorian Literature (174)
Studies in 19th-Century Fiction (244)
Studies in Victorian Poetry: Victorian Mythologies (274)
Studies in Victorian Poetry: Long Narrative Poem (274)
Studies in Victorian Poetry: The Woman Question (274)
Studies in Victorian Poetry: Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (274)
Seminar in 19th-Century Fiction: The Brontës (343)
Seminar in Victorian Literature: The Woman Question (343)
Seminar in Victorian Poetry: The Brownings (373)
Seminar in Victorian Poetry: The Brownings and Tennyson (373)
Seminar in Victorian Poetry: Victorian Medievalism (373)
Seminar in Victorian Poetry: Major Poets, Major Poems (373)
Independent Study in Victorian Literature (397)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Graduate School Administrative Board, 2005-08.
Graduate School Committee on Professional Program Review (for SACS Reaccreditation), 2004-05.
University Committee on Scholarships, Awards, & Student Aid, 2002-05.
Graduate School Ad Hoc Task Force on Tuition Remission, 2002-03.
Graduate School Centennial Awards Selection Committee, 2003.
General College Administrative Board, 2000-03.
General College Appeals Committee, 2000-03.
Chair, Committee on Faculty Hearings, 2000-2001.
Nominating committee, faculty elections, Spring 2001.
Committee on Faculty Hearings, 1996-2001.
College of Arts & Sciences Committee on Assistance for Scholarly Publications and Artistic
Exhibitions and Performances, 1998-2001.
College of Arts & Sciences, Search Committee for Dean, 1996-97.
Divisional Assessment Subcommittee, College Planning Committee, 1996-97.
Advisory Board, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, 1995-98.
College of Arts & Sciences, Division of the Humanities nominating subcommittee, 1994.
College of Arts & Sciences, SACS Reaccreditation Undergraduate Task Force, 1993-94.
College of Arts & Sciences ad hoc committee to address faculty salary increase policy, 1993-94.
Advisory Board, Women’s Studies, 1993-96.
Faculty Advisor, Epsilon Sigma Alpha service organization, 1992-93.
Advisory Board, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, 1992-95.
College of Arts & Sciences Endowment Committee, 1991-94.
Project Uplift, 1991, 1992.
Faculty mentor, Carolina Teaching Fellows, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93.
Participant, Arts & Sciences Multiculturalism Workshops, 1989-90.
University Committee on Faculty Welfare, 1984-86.
College of Arts and Sciences Advisor, 1984-86.
DEPARTMENT SERVICE:
Director, Graduate Studies, 2001-05
Chair, Graduate Advisory Committee, 2001-05
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2001-05
Administrative Committee, 2001-05
Outside Review Committee, 2005.
Rank and Tenure Committee, 2004-05
Committee to Revise the MA Program, 2003-04
Search committee, position in 19th-century American Literature, 2003-04
Committee on Graduate Study Time to Degree, 2001-02
Director, Undergraduate Literature Program, 1998-2000
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 1998-2000
Chair, Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 1998-2000
Administrative Committee, 1998-2000
Advisor for transfer students, August 1998-2000, 1989-94, 1981
Chair, committee on first-year seminars, 1997-98
Ad hoc committee for the English 20s courses, 1997-98
Development committee, 1997-98
Rank and Tenure Committee, 1996-97
Chairman’s Advisory Committee, 1996-97
Group V co-ordinator 2004-05, Fall 1998, 1995-96, Fall 1989, 1983-84
Chair, committee for the graduate studies Novel Minor, 1992-98
MAT Committee, 1980-97
Panel, Future of the ‘Literature’ Department, Trans/Positions, January 1997
Panel, Academic Publishing, Association of Graduate English Students, April 1997
Graduate Advisory Committee, 1995-96
Rank and Tenure Committee, 1995-96
Committee for graduate students’ reception, Fall 1995, 1988, 1981
Search Committee, positions in the Novel, the 18th Century, and African-American literature,
1994-95
Graduate Review Committee, 1993-94
Search Committee, positions in African-American literature and in the Novel, 1993-94
Search Committee, positions in American and in Renaissance literature, 1992-93
Committee for English 30, 1991-92
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1990-92
Chair, Committee on large lecture courses, 1990-92
Committee to examine department teaching load, Spring 1990
Search committee, senior appointment in literary theory, 1990-91
Assistant Chair/Director of Undergraduate Literature Program, 1989-94
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 1989-94
Graduate Advisory Committee, Spring 1988
Chair, Whitfield Prize Committee (Honors), Spring, 1988; committee 1986-88
Chair, committee to review grade appeal, Spring 1988
Reviewer of classroom teaching of applicants for fellowships, most years since 1986
Search Committee, positions in American literature (Hanes chair) and in 17th century
literature, 1985-86
Committee selecting Senior Fellows and Teaching Fellows, Spring 1984
Committee for Faculty Colloquium, 1983-87
Freshman Committee, 1983-85
Committee for C. Hugh Holman Award, 1983, 1984
Committee to explore offering a course suitable for requirement in the Women's Studies
Program (English 50), Fall 1982
Committee to explore requiring English majors to take a foreign language, Fall 1981
Committee to review graduate foreign language requirements, Spring 1981
Committee to review grade appeal, Spring 1981
Special advisor for English majors, Fall 1980
Secretary of the department faculty, 1978-81
Departmental bibliographer for Research, 1977-80
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Radio interview, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sonnets from the Portuguese, WCHL, February 2004.
Panelist, session on Teaching Jane Austen, North Carolina English Teachers Association, Winston-Salem, October 1996.
Consultant with Durham County Public Schools on Curriculum Revision, 1990-91.