EDUCATION Ph.D., English, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February 2000.
Specialties: 18th and 19th-Century Literature with emphasis on Victorian Novels in Britain and the United States, and Composition and Rhetoric.
Dissertation: The Later Evolution of Trollope’s Female Characters.
Trollope's anti-heroic female characters fulfill satirical needs within their texts and provide a rich context for cultural critique of the status of women in nineteenth-century Britain. This study argues that these characters are the product of a mainstream writer’s composition process in conflict with the writer’s own creative imagination. Narratorial ambiguity reveals, then hides disruptive agendas. There is some disagreement over whether Trollope simply advertised conventional values or questioned them. The study looks at ways these later characters put pressure on the implied reader's prejudices and force an unfair social regime out into the open. By revising the traditional view that Trollope’s narratives return all action and characters to a fitting equipoise, the study suggests that Trollope’s anti-heroic women characters are disruptive.
Committee
Robert A. Keefe (Director)
Joseph Bartolomeo (English)
Neal Shipley (History)
Stephan Clingman (English Chair)
M.A., English, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 1994
A.B., English, Smith College, June 1980
Academic Employment
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Biomedical Regulatory Affairs, College of Pharmacy, the University of Washington. 2009-present.
PHRMRA 546: Technical Writing for the Medical Products Industry, (4 sections)
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering (Formerly known as Technical Communication), the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 2008-2012.
TC 509: Writing the Scientific Article (7 sections)
TC 400: Technical and Scientific Communication. (1 section-Autumn 2008)
Lecturer, Department of Technical Communication, the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 2001-2007.
TC 231: Introduction to Technical Communication. (15 sections)
TC 333: Advanced Technical Writing and Oral Presentation (24 sections)
TC401: Style in Scientific and Technical Writing, (1 section-Autumn 2002)
Writing Instructor, North Seattle Community College, Autumn 2007-present
ENGL& 230: Technical Writing, (9 sections)
WRITING INSTRUCTOR, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington. 2002-2006.
ENGR 231: Introduction to Technical Writing. September 2002-2005 (10 sections)
English 100: Essay Writing. 2003-2005. (5 sections)
English 105: Analytic Writing. Winter 2003-Autumn 2005. (2 sections)
English 205: The Research Paper. Autumn 2004-Autumn 2006. (5 sections)
Writing Instructor, Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington. Fall 2000–Winter 2001.
Eng 100: Introductory Composition. Winter 2001 (1 section)
English 110: College Writing. Autumn 2000 (1 section)
ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR, Pierce College, Puyallup, Washington. Fall 2000.
ENG 99: Developmental English (2 sections)
TEACHING ASSOCIATE, English Department, the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1991-1995.
ENG 112: College Writing (6 sections)
ENG 134: Man and Woman in Literature (1 section)
ENG 200: Major British Writers (1 section)
ENGLISH COMPOSITION TUTOR, Bilingual, Athletic, and English Departments, the University of Massachusetts. 1989-1991.
Assisted composition students in writing and revising essays.
Publications Miscellaneous “The Early Promises of an Online Writing Class.” Proceedings of the International Conference onLanguage, Culture and Civilization. Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Language. Forthcoming.
“Three Minutes from a Polite Skeptic: Teaching Technical Writing Online.” Washington FACTC Focus (2012)
“Our Digital Intrusion: What We Lose and What We Must Do in the Deluge of Electronic Distractions.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Culture and Civilization. The Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Language (2011)
“Teaching Engineers to Communicate.” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language, Culture and Civilization. The Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Language (2010)
“Against ‘all that rowdy lot’: Trollope’s Grudge Against Disraeli.” The Victorian Newsletter. No. 112. (2007)
“The Science Communications Act of 2007.” American Teachers of Technical Writing Newsletter. September (2007)
“A Good Library.” UMASS Magazine, Spring (2002)
“The Loop Writing Process.” First Version. Rhetoric through Media. Gary Thompson. Longman, 1997.
“The Loop Writing Process.” Second Version. Community of Writers. Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff. Second Edition. New York, St. Louis, San Francisco : McGraw-Hill, 1995.
In progress
“What Regulatory Writers Can Learn From Mark Twain”
Book reviews Margaret Markwick. New Men in Trollope’s Novels. Review accepted by Ravon, February 2009. Spring 2010. http://www.ravon.umontreal.ca/
Ann C. Colley. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination.The Victorian Periodicals Review. 40:1 Spring 2007. 80-82.
Christine L. Krueger, ed. Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time.
The Victorian Periodicals Review. 39:2 Summers 2006. 184-6.
Peter Ackroyd. Albion: A Study in the English Imagination. The Victorian Periodicals Review. 38:3 Fall 2005. 334-335.
Deborah Anna Logan. The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau’s ‘Somewhat Remarkable’ Life. The Victorian Periodicals Review. 37:1 Spring 2004. 97-98.
Reference book entries The 2004-2006 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Reference List. Contributor responsible for nine journals. Victorian Periodicals Review. 39:4 (2006)
Compiled the scholarly checklist for the Dickens Quarterly for two years. Provided accurate and well-edited material for eight quarters. (1992-4)
Awards Perkins Grant, 2012. Awarded on a competive basis to attend conference, “Emerging Technologies in Online Learning.”
Education Fund Grant, 2012. Awarded on a competive basis to attend conference, “Emerging Technologies in Online Learning.”
Faculty Development Grant, 2012. Awarded on a competive basis, to attend conference, “Emerging Technologies in Online Learning.”
Biomedical Regulatory Affairs Faculty Grant, 2012. Awarded on a competive basis, to attend conference, “Emerging Technologies in Online Learning.”
Seattle Community Colleges Service to Education Award. Five years of service. May 10, 2012.
Dean of the College of Engineering Honor List--Named one of the highest rated instructors for the University of Washington College of Engineering Autumn 2007.
Edmonds Community College, Best Club Advisor Prize 2005.
Smith College Montagu Prize (for a literary essay)–1979.
Scholarly papers delivered “Trollope’s Resounding Judgment: Vulgarity in The Prime Minister (1876).” Sixteenth Annual Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference on “The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores,” Houston, Texas, October 13-14, 2011.
“That Volcanic Peril: The Deadly Attraction of Wilkie Collins’ ‘The Captain and the Nymph’ (1876).”
Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Honolulu, Oahu, October 28-30, 2010.
“Anxious Masculinity, Credit, and the Victorian Marketplace in The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, by One of the Firm (1862).” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Victoria, British Columbia, October 15-17, 2009.
“The Old and New Victorian Gateway to the Continent: St. Pancras Station and Hotel Renovation Update.” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Pepperdine University, Malibu,California, October 26-28, 2006.
“Écriture as a Weapon: Arabella Trefoil and the Social Dragons of The American Senator.” Trollope and Gender Conference. University of Exeter, United Kingdom, July 17-19, 2006.
“The Season of Our Contempt: Trollope’s Christmas Writing Ritual.” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 27-29, 2005.
“The Main Interceptor Pipe.” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, October 20-22, 2004.
“Trollope, Imagination and Gentlemen’s Clubs.” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, October 9-12, 2002.
“Unregulated Hatred? Trollope’s Racial Bias Against Disraeli.” Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, The University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, October 25-28, 2001.
“Graveyards, Mourning, Erotica: A High Victorian Response to Loosening Social Restraint.” The New England Conference for British Studies, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, October 1, 1994.
“Revisions of Woman’s Role in the Fiction of Anthony Trollope.” The Interdisciplinary Conference on Women and Society, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 11, 1994.
“Graveyards, Mourning, Erotica: A High Victorian Response to Loosening Social Restraint.” The Third Annual Graduate English Conference, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 12, 1994.
“The Irish Hero on the English Scene: Was Phineas Finn a Friend or Foe to the Home Rule Effort?” The Regional Conference of the American Conference on Irish Studies. Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts, October 15-16, 1993.
“Two Popular Victorian Parables of Loss: Madeline in Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers (1857) and Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1860).” The Interdisciplinary Conference on Women and Society, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 4-6, 1993.
“Can You Forgive Him? The Victorian Prescriptive Ideal for Women and the Trollopian Subversion.” The Second Annual Graduate English Conference, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 16, 1993.
“Dickens, Trollope and the Swindler’s Appeal.” The First Annual Graduate English Conference, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 15, 1992.
Invited lectures “From Fairy Tales to Horror Stories: Getting to the Truth about Technical Editing,” panelist. The Northwest Independent Editors Guild, ”Red Pencil in the Woods: Designed to Connect, Educate, and Inspire Editors and Other Word Lovers.” Bastyr University, Kenmore, Washington. September 24, 2011.
“Three-Part Workshop on Technical Writing: Precision and Consistency, Concision and Coherence, and Grammar and Mechanics.” The Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington. August 4, 18 and 25, 2010.
“Teaching Technical Communication in the Engineering Research Setting.” In service talk, Universitatea Politehnica din Buçuresti, Bucharest, Romania. September 15, 2009.
“The Role of Communications in Research.” Brown Bag Lecture for the summer Research Experience in Engineering Program, University of Washington College of Engineering,
July 29, 2009.
“Excellence in Scientific Writing.” A four-hour seminar presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, The Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, Washington, May 8, 2009.
“Toxic Repetition: The Cultural Uses of the Whitechapel Murders.” Special invited speaker, Fourth Biennial Jack the Ripper Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 21-23, 2006.
“Toxic Repetition: The Cultural Uses of the Whitechapel Murders.” Brown Bag Lecture, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington, February 16, 2005.
“Basic Presentation Development and Delivery.” In-service workshop for the User Experience Group, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, May 2, 2002.
Professional writing experience GENERAL EDITOR, managing content of two principal authors and six contributors. Clinical and Regulatory Guidance for the Biomedical Products Industry, [Working title] epublication date expected late 2013. 2012-present.
PROJECT COORDINATOR, Asian Law Center, University of Washington. January –June 2009.
Strengthening Justice: Re-Establishment of the Rule of Law in Afghanistan. Oversaw the composition and production of material for a book with multiple contributors. Sponsored by a grant from the International Developmental Law Organization, Rome.
Professional & university service “Unexpected London: How to Learn and Get the Most Out of Your Time Studying Abroad in London.” Study Abroad Faculty Talks, North Seattle Community College, November 15, 2012.
Making Connections Workshops. Women’s Center, University of Washington. Weekly volunteer work helping minority women who are high school students to write their college application materials. Fall 2012-present.
“The Learning Tsunami: Everyone’s Invited!” A Report on the Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Conference, 2012. Community talk on essential technology developments and their uses in administration, student services, and teaching. October 18, 2012. Written report submitted to administration.
In-service talk on English course expectations for the tutoring staff of 25, The Writing Loft, North Seattle Community College, September 24, 2012.
In-service talk on learning technologies, North Seattle Community College English Department, Third Place Books, Bothell, September 21, 2012
Techniques for Improving Student Writing Institute. Writing Coach. North Seattle Community College faculty development initiative. April 20, 2012.
Reviewer of learning management systems to replace ANGEL, the state-licensed LMS. Selected with 68 other professors to serve on state panel, and paid to commit to 21 hours of work assessing the candidate systems. Washington State e-Learning Council and the IT Council, February 21-March 10, 2012.
Participant host and presenter, Community & Culture Conversation, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington, February 16, 2012.
Campus Collaboration Day. Technical devices panel. Presented the “Livescribe Pulse Smartpen” to the faculty at North Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington, January 26, 2012.
Does-It Buzz Workshop. Presented and Reviewed the “Livescribe Pulse Smartpen” to the Distance Learning faculty at North Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington, December 1, 2011.
OCL Discipline Faculty Course Review. Conducted professional review of the course plan for introductory technical writing class at Edmonds College, Lynnwood, Washington, June 1, 2010.
Local Arrangements Chair, Annual Meeting of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Washington, Seattle, October 2006-2008.
Member, Board of Directors, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, October 2006-present.
Bibliographer, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Compiled material for the biennial bibliography of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in The Victorian Periodicals Review, 2006-2009.
Europe Travel Club Advisor, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington,
2004-5. Organized a learning trip to London with students.
Conference Chair, the University of Massachusetts. Organized the first English graduate student conference at the University of Massachusetts in 1992 and continued to conduct it for four years. The program was highly acclaimed by faculty.
Professional Affiliations
The Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
Merlot
The Sloan Consortium
The National Council of Teachers of English
The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
North American Victorian Studies Association
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
References
Dr. Jan Spyridakis
Dr. Richard Fulton
Dr. Connie Fulmer
Dr. Jean Feagin
J.C. Clapp
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