Academic CV

(Last update, summer 2011)

Education

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, August 2008

M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2003

B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, June 1999

College Honors and Latin Honors, summa cum laude
Minors: Women's Studies, Latin

Book Project

Working Title: Brilliant Gloom: The Contradictions of British Gothic Drama, 1768-1823

Gothic plays appear to be less terrifying and transgressive than gothic novels in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Only by examining the stage effects and the idiosyncrasies of performance can we see their mystery and disturbing moral import.  Moreover, these plays complicate the gothic aesthetic because they frequently bring brilliant humor and a celebratory spirit to the readily-recognized formula of gothic danger and gloom.

Academic Employment

Lecturer, Department of English, UCLA, 2008-09
Graduate Student Researcher, Office of Instructional Development, UCLA, 2008
Teaching Fellow, Department of English, UCLA, 2007
Instructional Technology Consultant, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, 2004-05
Teaching Associate, Department of English, UCLA, 2001-02 and 2003-04
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, UCLA, 2000-01

Fellowships and Awards

Jeffrey L. Hanson Distinguished Service Award, UCLA Graduate Students Association, May 2008
Connell Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2006
Travel Grant (research travel), UCLA Graduate Division, May 2006
Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA English Department, 2005-06
Travel Grant (conference travel), UCLA Graduate Division, August 2005
President’s Fellowship, UCLA, 2002-03
President's Fellowship, UCLA, 1999-2000
Regents Scholarship, UCLA, 1995-99
Phi Beta Kappa, 1998
Golden Key National Honor Society, 1997
National Merit Scholarship, 1995

Publications

“The Play with a Past: Arthur Wing Pinero’s New Drama.”  Victorian Literature and Culture 37 (2009): 391-409.

“Sites of Disturbance: The Gothic in Electronic Literature” (newhorizons.eliterature.org/essay.php).  March 2008.  Companion website for N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary.  Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

With Brent Alan James.  “What Is Genre?”  (www.heatherwozniak.com/genre).  May 2006.  Project developed during the 2005-2006 Graduate New Media Colloquium.  Interactive website that invites visitors to explore their assumptions about literature, software, and genre as they encounter a single text in multiple framing environments.

Teaching Interests

British literature 1660-1900, literature surveys medieval to present, introductions to writing and literary studies, romantic poetry, the novel, drama and theatre history, women writers, gender studies, performance studies, electronic literature, digital humanities, instructional technology.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, UCLA

The English Novel to 1832 (Fall 2008, Winter 2009).
Studies in Individual Authors: Jane Austen, Then and Now (Spring 2009).
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature: London’s Global Stage (Spring 2009).

Instructor, UCLA

Critical Reading and Writing: Reading the Gothic Across Genres, Across Time (Winter 2004, Summer 2004, Winter 2007).
Composition, Rhetoric and Language: Heroism, Violence, and Culture (Winter 2002, Fall 2003).

Teaching Assistant, UCLA

British Literature to 1660: Professor Gordon Kipling (Fall 2001).
British Literature 1660-1832: Professor Jayne Lewis (Winter 2001) and Professor Helen Deutsch (Spring 2002).  Guest lecture, “Frankenstein as Myth and as Mary Shelley’s Response to Romanticism,” May 2002.
British Literature 1832 to Present: Professor Joseph Bristow (Summer 2003) and Professor Jonathan Grossman (Spring 2004).
Major American Authors: Dr. Emily Schiller (Fall 2000) and Dr. Luke Bresky (Spring 2001).

Conference Presentations

Discussant, “The Novelty of Novels: A Pedagogy Roundtable,” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2010.

"Gendering Gothic Ghosts in Matthew Lewis's The Castle Spectre and Margaret Harvey's Raymond de Percy," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Claremont, California, November 2008.

“Queering the Canon of Gothic Drama,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2008.

“Frankenstein's Monster Goes to Paris: Shelley’s Novel on the French Stage,” Comparative Literature Conference, California State University, Long Beach, March 2006.

“Blue Bodies: Visualizing Alterity on the Romantic London Stage,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

 “Deviating from the Source: Adapting Gothic for the English Stage, 1790-1820,” International Gothic Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

 “The Power of Blue: Representing Otherness on London Stages at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Beyond,” Southern California Eighteenth Century Group Graduate Conference, UCLA, October 2003.

“A Legacy of Monsters: Romantic Vampirism in Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre,’” Southland Conference, UCLA, May 2002.

Lectures and Talks

"What Is Genre?" Presentation of digital project co-authored with Brent James, New Media Colloquium Public Presentation, UCLA, May 2006.

“Taming the Gothic on Stage: Strategies of Adaptation.” Presentation and discussion of work-in-progress, UCLA Nineteenth Century Group, May 2006.

“Turnitin.com: Using Technology to Uphold Academic Integrity.” Presentation and workshop for Humanities faculty, UCLA, June 2005 and September 2005.

“The Many Faces of Frankenstein's Monster.” Introductory remarks at screening of Frankenstein (1931), held in conjunction with the American Library Association's traveling exhibition, “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature,” UCLA, November 2003.

Professional Service

Webmaster, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 2007-present.

Panel organizer and chair, "Romaniticism," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Scripps College, November 2011.

Panel organizer, "English Literature Post-1700 (I): Generic Tensions in the Eighteenth Century" and "English Literature Post-1700 (II):  The Body and Physicality," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco State University, November 2009.

Webmaster, UCLA Graduate Students Association, March 2005-September 2008.

Director of Communication, UCLA Graduate Students Association, January-June 2008.

Panel organizer and moderator, "English Literature Post-1700 (I): Identity in the ‘Difficult’ Text," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Western Washington University, November 2007.

Panel organizer, "English Literature Post-1700 (II): The Textual Expression of Female Agency," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Western Washington University, November 2007.

Moderator, “Deviance and Display: Romantic Visual Culture,” Special Session at North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

Planning Committee, Annual Marathon Reading, Department of English, UCLA, 2000-2005.

Webmaster, Annual Marathon Reading, Department of English, UCLA, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005.

Coordinator, Southland Romantic Study Group, 2003-2004.

Moderator, “Materialism and the Material of Exchange,” Southland Conference, UCLA, May 2003

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
International Gothic Association

Languages

Latin and French – reading knowledge

Instructional Technology

Moodle, WebCT, Turnitin, HTML/CSS, TEI, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Forums, Wikis, Blogs, Drupal, Wordpress, PowerPoint, scanning documents, digitizing audio and video, podcasting

References

Anne K. Mellor, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA, mellor@humnet.ucla.edu

Felicity A. Nussbaum, Professor of English, UCLA, nussbaum@humnet.ucla.edu

N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature and Information Studies, Duke University, katherine.hayles@duke.edu

Joseph Bristow, Professor of English, UCLA, jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu

Annelie Rugg, Director, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, annelie@humnet.ucla.edu

Christopher Mott, Teaching Coordinator and Lecturer, Department of English, UCLA, mott@humnet.ucla.edu