Heather Anne Wozniak

UCLA Department of English
149 Humanities Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530
hwoz@ucla.edu
www.heatherwozniak.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, expected July 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

“Brilliant Gloom: The Contradictions of British Gothic Drama, 1768-1823”
Committee: Anne K. Mellor (Chair), Felicity A. Nussbaum, Sue-Ellen Case.

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.

Connell Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2006
Travel Grant (research travel), UCLA Graduate Division, May 2006
Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA English Department, 2005-2006
Travel Grant (conference travel), UCLA Graduate Division, August 2005
President’s Fellowship, UCLA, 2002-2003
President's Fellowship, UCLA, 1999-2000
Regents Scholarship, UCLA, 1995-1999
Phi Beta Kappa, 1998
Golden Key National Honor Society, 1997
National Merit Scholarship, 1995

“The Play with a Past: Arthur Wing Pinero’s New Drama.”  Victorian Literature and Culture.  Forthcoming 2009.

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

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, drama, theatre history, performance studies, the gothic, romanticism, gender studies, electronic literature, digital humanities.

Instructor, UCLA

Critical Reading and Writing (English 4W) - “Reading the Gothic Across Genres, Across Time”: introduction to the study of literature with intensive focus on writing argumentative essays and understanding literary terminology.  Coursework explored gothic tropes and themes in poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and film, asking students to probe their own anxieties along with those expressed in literature  (Winter 2004, Summer 2004, Winter 2007).

Composition, Rhetoric and Language (English Composition 3) -  “Heroism, Violence, and Culture”: introduction to university-level composition.  Readings and discussions explored the interrelation between heroic ideals and violence in a variety of cultures, from ancient Greek to modern Native-American and Chinese-American (Winter 2002, Fall 2003).

Teaching Assistant, UCLA

British Literature to 1660 (English 10A) - Professor Gordon Kipling (Fall 2001).

British Literature 1660-1832 (English 10B) - 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 (English 10C) - Professor Joseph Bristow (Summer 2003) and Professor Jonathan Grossman (Spring 2004).

Major American Authors (English 80) - Dr. Emily Schiller (Fall 2000) and Dr. Luke Bresky (Spring 2001).

Website Design (www.heatherwozniak.com/portfolio.html).  Clients have included Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA Department of English, and UCLA Graduate Students Association.

Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Office of Instructional Development and Faculty Committee on Educational Technology, January 2008-present.

Online Project: “What Is Genre?”  (www.heatherwozniak.com/genre).  Interactive website that invites visitors to explore their assumptions about literature, software, and genre as they encounter a single text in multiple framing environments. Co-authored with Brent James, PhD Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA.

Graduate New Media Colloquium, 2005-2006 (led by Professor N. Katherine Hayles).

Instructional Technology Consultant, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, 2004-2005.  Advised and trained TAs and professors on instructional tools; customized course websites, scanned documents, prepared multimedia for web-delivery; researched online services like ArtStor (image database) and Turnitin (plagiarism prevention); authored and maintained websites providing help and resources to students and faculty.

Languages and Skills: HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML; some Javascript and MySQL; Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop; open-source Content Management Systems (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress); digitizing audio and video; familiarity with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), WebCT, Turnitin.

“Queering the Canon of Gothic Drama,” paper accepted for 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.

"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.

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

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.

Coordinator, Southland Romantic Study Group, 2003-2004.

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

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

Latin and French – reading knowledge

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

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

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

N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of English and Design | Media Arts, UCLA, hayles@humnet.ucla.edu

Annelie Rugg, Interim Director and Instructional Technology Coordinator, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, annelie@humnet.ucla.edu

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

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