Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (expected 2005)
Exchange Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001-2
M.A. English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996
B.A. with Special Honors, English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, attended 1991-2

DISSERTATION

Eating Disorder: Food and Class from Reformation to Revolution
Committee: Prof. Richard Strier (chair), Prof. David Bevington, Prof. Sarah Beckwith

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Left, Right, and Center: Politics and the University.”   Roundtable Discussant.   Reaches of the Mind: Knowledge and Its Limits Conference.   Duke University.   November 20, 2004.

“Transforming Medieval Theater into Early Modern Theater.”   Guest Lecturer.   Duke University.   October 3, 2004.

“Understanding Stoppard’s 80’s.”   Dramaturgy Presentation for Hapgood.   Duke University.   September 19 and 26, 2004.

 “Food Fight: The Politics of Eating in the First American Cookbook.”   Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture.   University of California, Berkeley. (in a forthcoming issue)

“‘Adapted to This Country and to All Grades of Life’: The First American Cookbook Defines National Taste in a Popular Voice.”   Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001.

“The History of Food and Romance.”   51%.   Northeast Public Radio.   WAMC.   Air Date:   February 14, 2001.

Women’s History Month Series.   “Women, Cookbooks, and Nationbuilding.”   51%.   Northeast Public Radio.   WAMC.   Air date: March 30, 2001.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer and Instructor

Shakespeare After 1600, Duke University, English Department, Autum 2005

Shakespeare: Page, Stage and Beyond, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 2003, 2001

Shakespeare Workshop, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2002

Elizabeth I: The Queen in Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Spring 2002

Monarchs, Merchants, and Masterless Men: A View of Renaissance England, University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Autumn 2001

Early America in Image and Text , University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Autumn 2001

Linguistic and Cultural Immersion Summer Institute for International Graduate Students, University of Chicago , Summer, 2001

American Ways and Values, University of Chicago , International House, ESL Program, Spring 2001

Intensive Writing Workshop, University of Chicago, International House, ESL Program, Autumn 2000, Winter, Spring 2001

Popular Culture , Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 2000

Rhetoric, Icons, and Media , Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 1999

Cannibals, Magicians, and Others: The Renaissance As an Age of Discovery , University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies, Master of Liberal Arts Program, Autumn 1998, (Independent Writing Lecturer for course taught by David Bevington)

Writing and Society , Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Summer 1997, 1998

The Process of Writing , Johns Hopkins University, Center for Ta lented Youth Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Summer 1994, 1995, 1996  

General Writing , University of Pittsburgh, English Department, Academic year 1995-6

Theater History and Dramatic Performance , College for All Kids, St. Charles, Missouri, Summer 1991

Course Assistant

Media Aesthetics , University of Chicago, Autumn, Winter, Spring 2000-01

English as a Second Language Summer Institute for International Graduate Students, University of Chicago , Summer, 2000

Middle English Literature, University of Chicago , Spring, 2000

Early Shakespeare, University of Chicago , Autumn, 1999

Human Being and Citizen , University of Chicago, Autumn, Winter, Spring, 1997-8, 1998-9

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Subject Coordinator .   Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Writing Courses, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Summer 1996, 1997, 1998

Coordinator . University of Chicago, The College and Humanities Division.   Academic year 1997-8, 1998- 9

Program Assistant . University of Chicago, Gender Studies Program, Academic year 1992-3

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Nicholson Center for British Studies
English-Speaking Union Research Travel Grant, 2004
Maramarco Research Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2003
Jane Grigson Trust Bursary for Food Studies, 2001
Century Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1996-2000
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-6
Research Assistant Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-5
Special Honors for B.A. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1993 : “Essentialized Maternal Bodies and Infantalized Mothers: Victorian Medical Discourse, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Maternal Vision”

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sixteenth-Century British Literature
Seventeenth-Century British Literature
Shakespeare
Early Modern Drama
Prose Fiction and Early Novels
Food History and Food in Literature
Class Studies

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

Seminar in Teaching Composition, University of Pittsburgh, Sept. 1995-Dec. 1996
Academic and Professional Writing (Little Red Schoolhouse); Interning in The Core, University of Chicago, Spring 1998

REFERENCES

Richard Strier, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Address: 1050 E. 59 th Street, Chicago, IL   60637
Email: rastrier [at] midway.uchicago.edu
Office telephone: 773-702-8006

David Bevington, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Address: 1050 E. 59 th Street, Chicago, IL   60637
Email: bev [at] midway.uchicago.edu
Office telephone: 773-702-9899

Sarah Beckwith, Professor, Department of English and Department of Theater Studies, Duke University
Address: Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
Email: ott [at] duke.edu
Office telephone: 919-684-8705