Employment
2006-
Assistant Professor
Marymount University, Arlington VA
Department of English Literature
2005-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor
Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA
Department of English Literature
1999-2005
Graduate Student Instructor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Department of English Literature
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Education
1998 - 2005
Ph.D., December 2005
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Department of English Language & Literature
2000
MA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Department of English Language & Literature
1993 - 1997
BA
James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA
Departments of English and Philosophy
Summa cum laude, Graduation with Distinction
Honors Thesis: “Writing the Text Erotic: Discourses of Loss and Desire in the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson”
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Dissertation
“’A Monster with a Face between his Feet’: The Corporeal Culture of Farce in the Early Eighteenth Century”
Winner, Michael Myatt Dissertation Award
• Dr. Julie Ellison (chair), Departments of English & American Culture; Director, Arts of Citizenship
• Dr. David Porter, Departments of English & Comparative Literature
• Dr. Tobin Siebers, Comparative Literature, Department Chair
• Dr. Leigh Woods, Department of Theater and Dance
• Dr. Lincoln Faller, Department of English Literature
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Research &
Teaching Interests
• Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Cultural Studies
• Novel and Narrative Theory (18th – Contemporary)
• Eighteenth-Century Visual and Print Culture
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
• Aesthetics and Aesthetic Theory
• Digital Humanities—Teaching and Researching with Computers
• Popular Culture
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Honors & Awards
2006
UMInDS Michael Erik Myatt Distinguished Dissertation Award Recipient
1998 - 2005
Rackham Merit Fellowship
2004
Rackham Discretionary Grant
2003
Rackham Dissertation Grant
2003
Fulbright Scholarship Finalist
2002
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor
Nominee
1999, 2001
Rackham Travel Grant/Hart Stipend
1999, 2001
English Department Travel
1993
Grant Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award
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Professional
Affiliations
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
UM Eighteenth-Century Studies Group (faculty group)
UM Eighteenth Century Symposium (graduate group)
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Conferences & Presentations
2006
“Crimes of Reproduction”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2005
Speaker, “What’s Up with English?”
“Bad Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Britain; or, The Pleasures of Mimicry”
Washington & Lee University
2005
“Crimes of Fraudulence and Mimicry: The Case of Mary Toft
Eastern Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2003
“Discourses of Farce in the Early Eighteenth-Century”
Performing the Eighteenth Century
Graduate Student Conference at the University of Michigan
2002
“The Irony of Authorship: An Essay on Woman as Essay in Oppositionality”
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2002
“Apollo’s Emetick; or, Farcical Bodies”
English Graduate Group Conference, University of Michigan
2001
“’A (Quondam) Friend to Libertynism’: John Wilkes’ Essay on Woman as Essay in Political Opposition”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
1999
“Cyphers, Zeroes and Naughts: Compassing the Void in Pamela”
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Teaching Experience
[2006
[English 380E, Topic Seminar 2006
[“Chainsaws and Gore: American Slasher Cinema 1960s-1980s
[Spring Offering
2006
English 335, Eighteenth-Century British Novel
“The 18th Century British Novel: Texts and Contexts”
2006
English 232, Studies in the Novel
“The 18th and 19th Century British Novel: Shape and Substance”
2006
English 105D, Composition and Literature
“Villains, Criminals, and Outsiders”
2005
English 333, Studies in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
“Licensing and Licentiousness: British Drama 1660-1737”
2005
English 251, British Literature in an Age of Global Expansion
“Experiment and Exploration, Invention and Imagination: British Literature
in the Long Eighteenth Century”
2005
English 105K, Composition and Literature
“Villains, Criminals, and Outsiders”
2005
English 125, First Year Composition
“Technologies of College Composition”
2004
English 125, First Year Composition
“College Writing and the Languages of Advertising”
2003
English 239, What Is Literature?
“Word & Image, Content & Form”
2002
English 230, Introduction to the Short Story & Novel
“Villains and Criminals: Representing Otherness”
2001
English 124, Writing & Literature
“Representing the Gothic”
2000
English 124, Writing & Literature
“Writing Women in the Eighteenth Century”
2000
English 367, Shakespeare’s Major Plays
Taught two discussion sections
1999
English 483, Primo Levi
Gradership
1999
English 313, Literary Studies: Fantasy
Taught two discussion sections
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Related Experience
2005
Seminar Organizer and Instructor
“Teaching Composition in an Electronic Environment”
University of Michigan
2004 - 2005
Electronic Text Reviewer
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
1999 - 2004
Professional Aide, Coordinator, and Webmistress
Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, University of Michigan
2003
Conference Organizer, “Performing the
Eighteenth-Century”
University of Michigan
2001 - 2003
Designer and Webmistress
“Eighteenth-Century England”
Online collection of student projects completed for Dr. David Porter
2002 - 2004
Founder and Organizer
Eighteenth-Century Symposium, University of Michigan
2002
Project Genesis Adult Literacy Program
Instructor
Washtenaw Community College
2002
Professional Workshop Participant
“Teaching Well with Technology,” University of Michigan
2002
Dissertation Editor
Dr. Apollo O. Amoko
University of Florida
2001 - 2006
Personal Editor
Dr. Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
2001 - 2004
Research Assistant
Dr. Julie Ellison, University of Michigan
1999 - 2001
Research Assistant
Dr. David M. Halperin, University of Michigan
1998
Study Abroad Teaching Assistant (Paris)
Dr. Liedeke Plate, James Madison University
1997 - 1998
Technical Writer and Editor
Interface Video Systems, Washington DC
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Miscellaneous Experience
2005
WIRE Wiki Designer and Editor
First & Second Year Studies Program, University of Michigan
2004
Intranet Database Developer and Designer
Institute for Human Adjustment, University of Michigan
2004
Internet Developer and Designer
Psychological Clinic, University of Michigan
2003 - 2004
Radio Host, “This Strange Olio”
88.3 WCBN FM, University of Michigan
1997 - 1998
Volunteer, Women’s Health Resource Center
University of Michigan
2001 - 2002
Rotating Radio Host, “The Living Writers”
88.3 WCBN FM, University of Michigan
2001 - 2002
Volunteer Webmistress and Consultant
Voices of the Blue Ridge non-profit community art program
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Languages
• French: Advanced reading, intermediate writing and speaking
• German: Basic reading
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Special Skills
• Experienced in incorporating a variety of electronic media into the composition classroom. Can effectively teach and work with:
BlackBoard and Sakai course management software; Internet-based research techniques; Composition, revision, and peer review using Microsoft Word; Composition for the web environment; Collaborative techniques of composition; Instruction in the use of electronic media in the composition classroom
• Expert in a wide variety of print design, web design, sound editing, and publishing software packages
• Competent to expert in a variety of web-based programming syntaxes and languages, including (D/X)HTML, XML, PHP, Java, and JavaScript
• Competent in creation and administration of Apache and IIS server technology
• Extensive professional editorial experience
• Moderate ESOL experience
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Scholarly & Pedagogical Projects (Selected)
Selected Teaching Portfolio Materials
http://home.wlu.edu/~howet/web/index.htm
Student Research Archives (English 333)
http://courses.wlu.edu/2005_06_FALL-ENGL_333_01/public_html/
WIRE: Writing Instructor Resources Wiki
http://fsys.lsa.umich.edu/mg (user: fsys / pass: pearl)
Collaborative Composition Project Site (English 125)
http://www.umich.edu/~thowe/125/web_project
Writing Women in 18th Century Prose Fictions (English 124)
http://www.umich.edu/~thowe/124/016/f00124.htm
Literature & Writing: Representing the Gothic (English 124)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~thowe/124/031/
Villains and Criminals: Reading "Other-ness" (English 230)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~thowe/230/
What Is Literature? Word & Image, Content & Form (English 239)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~thowe/239/
Eighteenth-Century Studies Group
http://www.umich.edu/~ecsg
Eighteenth-Century England
http://www.umich.edu/~ece
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References
• Julie Ellison: Professor, Department of English & Program in American Culture;
Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, University of Michigan *
• David Porter: Professor, Departments of English & Comparative Literature, University of Michigan *
• Tobin Siebers: Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan *
• Leigh Woods: Professor, School of Music, Theater, and Drama, University of Michigan
• Lincoln Faller: Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan
• Jim Warren: Professor and Chair, Department of English, Washington & Lee University *
• Amaney Jamal: Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University
* references in dossier
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