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Heather Anne Wozniak
UCLA Department of English EDUCATIONPh.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
DISSERTATION“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. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDSConnell Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, July 2006 PUBLICATIONS“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. TEACHING INTERESTSEighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, drama, theatre history, performance studies, the gothic, romanticism, gender studies, electronic literature, digital humanities. TEACHING EXPERIENCEInstructor, UCLA
Teaching Assistant, UCLA
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGYWebsite 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. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS“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. 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 SERVICEDirector 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. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSModern Language Association LANGUAGESLatin and French – reading knowledge REFERENCESAnne 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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