Experience
British Romanticism
Bibliography,
Textual Studies & History of the Book
Tenured Assistant Professor, Dept of English &
Comparative Literature, San Jose State University (Awarded May 2011)
Assistant Professor, Dept of English & Comparative Literature, San
Jose State University (2005-2011)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Queens College CUNY
(Summer 2005)
British Romantic-era Women's Poetry
Gothic Novel
Victorian Novels & "Afterings"/Adaptations
Nineteenth-century Culture & Literature
Nineteenth-century Reading Practices
Hypertextual & Digital Studies/Digital Humanities
Textual & Scholarly Editing
Literary Canon Formation
Feminist Theory & Women's Studies
Pedagogy
"Printed Book in the West Since 1800," Rare Book School, University of Virginia, held at Grolier Club, NYC, January 7-11, 2008 (Eric Holzenberg)
Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York CUNY (May 2005)
“The Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annual: A Genre's Journey from Nineteenth-Century Popularity to Twenty-First Century Recuperation.” Accompanying hypertextual project: “Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th-Century Literary Annual.” Dissertation Committee: Patricia Clough, David Greetham (director), Gerhard Joseph and Joshua Wilner.
M.Phil. in English, The Graduate Center CUNY (Sept. 2002)
Specialization: Romantic and Victorian Literature, Women's Writing, Textual Theory, History of the Book, Digital/Cyber Theory
Certificate, Women’s Studies, The Graduate Center CUNY (May 2002)
M.A. in English, New York University (May 1999)
Thesis: “Imoinda’s Heroism as the `Inappropriate Other’ in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” Advisor: Professor Carolyn Dever (formerly of NYU)B.A. cum laude in English, California State University at Los Angeles (May 1994)
Grants, Fellowships & Honors
National
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The Aesthetics of British Romanticism, Then and Today," led by Prof. Stephen Behrendt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, June-July 2010
SJSU Team Leader, Project Bamboo, University of Chicago, UC Berkeley & The Mellon Foundation. 2008=2011.
Research Associate, Center for Science, Technology & Society, Santa Clara University, 2008-2009
Bibliographical Society (England) Research Grant for further research on literary annuals at the British Library, etc., London, April 2007 ($400)
Alternate award, AAUW American Fellowships-Publication Summer Stipend for 2007 to prepare British literary annuals manuscript for publication (April 2007)
Rare Book School Scholarship for Tuition, University of Virginia, November 2006Invited Workshop Participant presenting on "Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive," First Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 2006
New Scholar Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America, January 2005
Bibliographical Society (England) Research Grant to complete research on literary annuals at Fales Library, NYU, March 2005
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 2004-2005
Cecilia Konchar Farr Best Feminist Essay Prize for Rocky Mountain MLA Presentation, 2000
San Jose State University
Semester Sabbatical (Spring 2012), to continue work on literary history monograph
Leader, English Department Cohort of Faculty using Innovative Technology in Pedagogy, San Jose State University, to aid in instructional design for faculty using experimental computer classroom, awarded December 2009 for Spring 2010 & Fall 2010 ($500)
Member, Technology and the Classroom Faculty Learning Group, San Jose State University, invited to join group of faculty to discuss technology and pedagogy best practices, awarded January 2010 for Spring 2010 ($500)
College of Arts & Humanities Release Time, San Jose State University, one course release for Fall 2008 to draft and present two conference papers and continue adding content to the "Forget Me Not Archive," awarded April 2008
Student Success Grant, San Jose State University, one course release in Fall 2007 to create a General Education Digital Literature course, complete a Digital Humanities Center proposal and discover best pedagogical practices for a technology-rich classroom environment, April 2007
Jr. Faculty Professional Development Grant, San Jose State University, to fund student assistant's work on scholarly collection of Gothic short stories from literary annuals, April 2007 ($1000)Grant Development Program, San Jose State University, one course release in Spring 2007 to prepare an NEH Scholarly Editions grant for submission in Nov. 2007, awarded December 2006
College of Arts & Humanities Release Time, San Jose State University, one course release to conduct research and continue drafting articles and a book manuscript in Spring 2007, awarded December 2006
California State University Research Grant, San Jose State University, to continue research and assembly of Forget Me Not! The Popular Phenomenon of Literary Annuals book manuscript, awarded November 2006 ($3045)
Small Faculty Grant, San Jose State University, for Fall 2006 Graduate Assistant work on "Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive," awarded May 2006 ($800)Matching Grant, San Jose State University, awarded November 2005. ($10,000 only if receive NEH Scholarly Editions grant)
Cash match grant accompanying an NEH 2005 Scholarly Editions grant application requesting funding for digitizing literary annuals; NEH grant subsequently not awarded.
California State University Research Grant for further work on “Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive,” awarded November 2005 ($7500)
Graduate Student Assistant Program Grant for Spring 2006 Graduate Assistant for further work on “Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive,” awarded Jan. 2006 ($1200)
The Graduate Center CUNY
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize, Women's Studies Certificate Program & Center for the Study of Women & Society, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2005
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College CUNY, 2004-2005Graduate Teaching Fellow, Hunter College CUNY, 2002-2003
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz, 2003
Dissertation Year Fellowship funded by Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2003-2004
Doctoral Student Fellowship, The Center for Place, Culture & Politics, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2001-2002Writing Fellow, Hostos Community College CUNY (2000-2002)
Helena Rubinstein Foundation Award, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2000-2001
Tuition Fellowship, Ph.D. Program in English, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2000-2004
Master's & Undergraduate
Teaching Fellowship, Expository Writing Program, New York University, 1998-1999
Alumni Award for Academic Excellence, English Department, California State University, Los Angeles,
1994
Clayton/Patricia Matthews Scholarship, English Department, California State University, Los Angeles,
1993-1994
Susan B. Wilstein Scholarship, English Department, California State University, Los Angeles, 1992-1994
Monograph: "Forget Me Not! The ‘Unmasculine & UnBawdy Age’ of British Literary Annuals," a literary and cultural history of early British literary annuals. Full manuscript under review at Indiana University Press for Textual Studies Series (Prof. Wayne Storey).
"Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann’s Nineteenth-Century Literary Annual." (A scholarly edition.) Listed in MLA International Bibliography. Metadata incorporated into The Poetess Archive Database. Gen. Ed. Laura Mandell. <www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/>. Dec. 2005- [ongoing] Currently being converted to TEI and migrated to The Poetess Archive.
Section Editor, British Literary Annuals Collection. The Poetess Archive, an ongoing digital archive of primary and secondary criticism surrounding the nineteenth-century "poetess" and texts [images and transcripts] from British and American literary annuals. Gen. ed. Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University). Peer reviewed by NINES and listed in MLA International Bibliography.
Books
Gothic Short Stories in British Literary Annuals, an edition of 19th century gothic short stories; includes a critical introduction on the impact of 1820s British literary annual and Gothicism. Under contract with Zittaw Press/Prof. Franz Potter. Forthcoming Spring 2012.
Articles & Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
Encyclopedia Essay Entry: "[Digital] Archive" (1000 words). Johns Hopkins University Press. Invited by editor, Prof. Lori Emerson. (under contract & forthcoming 2012)
"TechnoRomanticism: Creating Digital Editions in an Undergraduate Classroom." Journal of Victorian Culture 16:1 (2011 April): 107-112. Invited by journal editor, James Mussell.
Encyclopedia Essay Entries: "Literary annual" (3000 words) and "Rudolph Ackermann" (3000 words) entries. The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Eds. Frederick Burwick, Nancy M. Goslee and Diane Long Hoeveler. Blackwell Publishers. (Under contract; due for publication Feb 2012)
A. Bristow and The Maniac: A Bio-Critical Essay. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt (funded by ACLS Fellowship). Alexander Street Press, 2009. Online Database (subscription).
"Borrowing, Altering and Perfecting the Literary Annual Form – or What It is Not: Emblems, Almanacs, Pocket-books, Albums, Scrapbooks and Gifts Books." The Poetess Archive Journal 1.1 (2007) <http://paj.muohio.edu>.
“Infusing Bibliography and Book History with Hyper-Textuality: A Course for Undergraduates” in Supplement to Teaching Bibliography and Book History. Ed. Ann Hawkins. (July 2006) <http://www.pickeringchatto.com>
“Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 99.4 (Dec. 2005): 573-622.
Academic Blogging
Research Blog. In the interest of being a public intellectual, this blog is where I post my conference papers, slideshows, grant proposals, book projects, reviewers' comments, calls for papers, position papers, and article drafts. Since March 2011, received over 1000 readers.
Textual Editing and Criticism Blog. Ed. Erick Keleman (invited to contribute) (Sept 2011-present)
Teaching Romanticism: An RC Pedagogies Blog. Ed. Kate Singer (Sept 2010-present)
"Day of Katherine D. Harris." Day in the Life Digital Humanities Project. Ed. Geoffrey Rockwell. University of Alberta. March 2009 and March 2010 and March 2011 <http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dayofdh/KatherineHarris/ >; <http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dayofdh2010/katherineharris/>; <http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dayofdh2011/katherineharris/>
THATCamp Bay Area (Oct 2010)
Twitter @triproftri (used to microblog with students about courses & conferences)
Academic Wikis
Open Access Task Force, Academic Senate Appointment, SJSU (2008-2010)
Project Bamboo Planning Wiki, Mellon Foundation-supported international project (2007-present)
Technology and the Classroom, Digital Pedagogy across Disciplines, SJSU (2009-present)
Teaching & Learning Book History, Special Interest Group, SHARP (password protected)
Essays in Collections
“Fantasies of Containment: Digitally Archiving a Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annual (the Forget-Me-Not) as a Textual Moment.” The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, March 2002 Conference Proceedings. Ed. John Frow. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities: U. of Edinburgh, 2002. <http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/malts/other/IASH/dsp-all-papers.cfm>
Book Reviews, Newsletters & Other Writings
Review Article of The Scholar’s Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World by Jerome McGann, University of Chicago Press, 2006. Style (Winter 2007): 451-57.
British Literature Survey Syllabus. Online Resources accompanying Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. Eds. N. Katherine Hayles, Chris Mott & Jacob Burch. U Notre Dame P, 2008. Online resources: http://newhorizons.eliterature.org (site currently unavailable)
"Masculinity and Femininity Unbound: Revising Gender Studies (Again) in British Romanticism." Review of Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism by Susan Wolfson, Stanford UP, 2006. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 3.1 (Spring 2007). <http://www.ncgsjournal.com/> (Peer-reviewed)
"Outside the Canon: Inside the BWWC." Writing Women: A Newsletter for the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers 8:1 (Spring 2007): 1-2. (Peer-reviewed)
“Creating Writing Intensive Courses: A Writing Fellow’s Guidebook,” Hostos Community College CUNY (May 2002).
Contributing Editor and Graphic Editor, Making Meaning, Making Sense: A Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum, Hostos Community College CUNY. Ed. Professor Linda Hirsch (Sept. 2001).
Editorial Work*
Editorial Board, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (online, open-access journal, 2011- [ongoing]
E-Resources Review Editor, SHARP News, a quarterly, print newsletter for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. July 2008- [ongoing]
Editorial Board, The Poetess Archive Journal. ISSN 1935-7362 <http://paj.muohio.edu>. 2005- [ongoing]
Editorial Board, Studies in Gothic Fiction (only-US journal on this topic), 2009 - [ongoing].
*included here to bring attention to editing as a scholarly function, not a service
Designed/Taught Courses
Graduate Seminars
Eat, Look, Go: Romanticism, Aestheticism, and the Sensualism of Travel, SJSU, Fall 2011
William Wordsworth: In conversation with his friends (designed but not taught)
Madness & Romanticism, SJSU, Fall 2008 (technology-rich classroom; Moodle, wiki, blogs, forum, glossary)
Methods & Materials of Research, SJSU, Fall 2007 (technology-rich classroom with Wikis, Blogs & Forums)
Romantic Genders, SJSU, Spring 2006
Courses for Undergraduate
Majors
Honors Seminar: Digital Literature:
The Death of Print Culture?, SJSU, Fall 2010 (class
list archive,
hastag archive,
statistics on Twitter use in class)
TechnoRomanticism (British Romantic-Era Survey),
SJSU, Spring 2008,
Fall 2009 (technology-rich classroom; Moodle, wiki, blogs, forum,
Google Docs, web design)
Introduction to Literature & Writing Workshop, SJSU, Spring 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2011
English Literature, Late Eighteenth
Century to Present, SJSU,
Fall 2007,
Fall 2010,
Spring 2011
Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction, SJSU,
Fall 2006,
Fall 2008,
Spring 2010 (revised),
Fall 2011
Nineteenth-Century British Novel,
SJSU, Fall 2006,
Spring 2009 (technology-rich classroom; Moodle, wiki, blogs,
forum, glossary)
Introduction to Literary Theory,
SJSU,
Fall 2005,
Fall 2006,
Spring 2007,
Spring 2008,
Fall 2008,
Spring 2009,
Fall 2009,
Spring 2010,
Spring 2011
Introduction to the Romantic Era,
SJSU, Fall 2005
British Literature Survey II: Enlightenment to
Modernism, Queens College CUNY, Spring 2005
Technology and Textuality: Converting “Literature” to the Digital Medium,
Hunter College CUNY, Summer 2003 (see
article)
Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop,
Dickens Universe at University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer 2003
General Education Courses
TechnoLit: Great Works of Literature, SJSU, Spring 2010
Introduction to Literature, Hunter College
& Lehman College CUNY, Spring 2000, Spring 2003
British Literature Survey II: Great Writers, Hunter College CUNY,
Spring 2003
Romantic Era Survey: “Defining (and Re-Defining) the ‘Romantics,'" Queens College CUNY,
Fall 2004, Summer 2005.
Composition Courses
Expository Writing: Using daily (low-stakes) writing, progressive assignments, draft workshops and peer review, students write formal (high-stakes) and in-class (timed) essays; syllabi variations include one-semester course, two-semester course, portfolio-centered course and computer lab course; syllabi are my design.San Jose State Univ., Spring 2006, Spring 2009 (blogs & wiki; technology rich classroom), Fall 2010 (pw-protected wiki; request access), Fall 2011 Food & You (pw-protected wiki; request access; pdf version). (2nd semester)
San Jose State Univ., Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007. (1st semester)
Queens College CUNY, Fall 2004. (one semester)
Hunter College CUNY, Fall 2002 (portfolios; computer lab)
Lehman College CUNY, Spring 2000 (2nd semester; computer lab)
Lehman College CUNY, Fall 1999 (1st semester; computer lab)
New York University, Spring 1999 (2nd semester; exclus. computer lab)
New York University, Fall 1998 (1st semester; exclus. in computer lab)
Other
Writing Fellow, Hostos Community College CUNY,
Fall 2000-Spring 2002
Collaborated with tenured faculty on writing intensive syllabi in content areas (including
Biology, Computer Information Systems, English, History, Public Administration, Psychology, Radiology), designed
writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) assignments/activities, conducted departmental WAC workshops.
Shakespeare’s Play(er)s, Excel/Putney Student Travel
at Williams College, Summer 1999 & Summer 2000
College-level intensive course for high school students (4 weeks) which included the historical influence, culture and literature of Shakespeare's plays; syllabus is my design.
Mentoring
Master’s Thesis Advising
3rd Reader, Thesis Committee, Alanna Callaway (English), "Women Disunited: Re-Reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a Critique of Feminism," completed Spring 20082nd Reader, Thesis Committee, Chris Consorte (Radio, TV, Theatre & Film), "Episodic Characters in Dungeons & Dragons," completed Spring 2009
Master’s Student Mentoring
Directed Independent Study for M.A. Candidates Shanda Adams & Maria Judnick, UC Santa Cruz Dickens Universe (Hard Times & Mary Barton), Fall 2008Directed Teaching Assistants Maria Judnick for Introduction to Literature & Writing Workshop, Spring 2008, & Michelle Perry for Writing Workshop II, Fall 2006
General Mentoring & Advisement
Directed Research Assistants on several research projects, Spring 2006-Spring 2008Faculty Advisor, Association for Literary Enthusiasts, an interdisciplinary student group, Fall 2008
Invited Lectures, Colloquia
& Conferences
(Selected)
Invited Lectures, Keynotes & Plenaries
Invited Co-Teacher, “Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities,” a week-long course taught at Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2012.
Keynote Speaker, “Digital Research in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Re: Humanities 2012 Conference, hosted by Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr, March 22-23, 2012
Keynote/Plenary Speaker, “Gothic in the Literary Annuals,” Studies in Gothic Fiction Conference, National University, San Diego, CA, March 15-16, 2012
Invited Speaker, “Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions,” London Seminar in Digital and Textual Scholarship, King's College, University of London, Feb 2012.
Invited Speaker, "Buried in the Archives: Recovering British Literary Annuals from an 'Unbawdy and Unmasculine' Age," Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria, Jan 2012.
Invited Panelist as Pedagogy Expert (blog post reflections), "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities with DHCommons," Pre-Convention Workshop for the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Jan 2012.
Seminar Leader, “The Undergraduate Voice in the Digital Classroom,” ThatCampPedagogy, Vassar College, Oct 2011. [Article on event, Chronicle of Higher Education.]
Plenary Respondent, Digital Humanities Plenary, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference, Washington DC, July 2011
Seminar Organizer & Leader, “Re-Defining the Scholarly Edition,” Society for Textual Scholarship International Conference, March 2011 (pw-protected wiki; request access)
Webinar Roundtable Discussion: "Teaching Writing as an Information Act," with Mark C. Marino (USC), Elizabeth Losh (UC San Diego), Dave Parry (UT Dallas), sponsored by Digital Media & Learning; archived with DMLCentral, February 28, 2011.
"The Promise of Digital Humanities: Progressive Exposure or Overwhelming Contamination? or or 15,330 Days Later: Has the Contamination Killed Off Humanities?" for One-Day Symposium, "Digital Humanities: Practice, Methodology, & Pedagogy," Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures, Simon Fraser University, May 2007.
Presentation on the "Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive, " First Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 2006.
"From Conduct Books to Idiot's Guides: Literary Forms of 'Feminine' Instruction," Distinguished Speaker Reading Series, Southern New Hampshire University, March 2006.
"Hypertextuality and Literary Study: Demonstrating the Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive." Guest Lecturer invited by Professor David Greetham, Textual/Digital Studies Seminar, The Graduate Center CUNY, January 2006."Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and Their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain," presented for the New Scholars Panel at the annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, January 2005.
Colloquia
Invited Participant, Documentation and Preservation of Dance Project, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland Colloquium on digital preservation of dance, New York Public Library, invited as expert in text mining and digital archiving, October 17 & 18, 2010
Participant, "Transmediating Silence," led by Laura Mandell (Miami University), NASSR Annual Conference 2010.
Participant, "Print and Performance in the Late-Romantic Information Age," led by Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich), NASSR Annual Conference 2010.
Participant, "What Does a Fetish Want?" Seminar, led by Sonia Hofkosh; Annual NASSR/NAVSA Conference, Purdue University, Sept 2006.
Participant, Seminar on Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz; Led by Professors Hilary Schor and John Bowen, July 2003.
Participant, “Figures on the Margin: The Language of Gender in British Romanticism,” Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies; Led by Susan Wolfson, West Virginia Univ, June 2003.
Conference Presentations & Panels
Romantic & Victorian-Era Literature "‘The polite history of
our time:’ Modernist Reclamation of 19th-Century Trash," presented
on the special session panel "Writing and/as Curatorship: The History of
the Book," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Jan 2011. "Battling 'Folly and
False Taste': Reviewers, Knight-Errants and Literary Annuals," presented
at the
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference,
Vancouver, Canada, Aug 2010. "Selling 'Englishness' with German
Translations: Mimili, Rudolph Ackermann and the Literary Annual,"
revised versions presented 1) on the panel "Adaptations and Transformations in the Work of British
Romantic Women Writers," Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, October 2008; 2) on the panel "19th-Century Editions,"
Society
for Textual Scholarship International Conference, New York, NY,
March 2009; 3) on the panel "19th-Century Literature,"
Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association Conference, San
Francisco, CA, Nov 2009.
"Undoing the Good: The Uncivilizing
Nature of Gothic Short Stories in Early Literary Annuals," Presenter &
Session Organizer on the panel, "Unruly Ladies & Civilizing Media: Using
Periodicals & Annuals to Educate Nineteenth-Century Women," Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International
Conference, Oxford, England, June 2008. "Diseased
Hypertextuality: Revising the Canon with an Epidemic of Annuals,"
presented on the panel "Queer Editing I,"
Society for Textual Scholarship Conference,
New York University, March 2007. "New Gothicism Infects Literary Annuals! Maniacs,
Smugglers, Benshees and Elves in the 1831 Forget Me Not,"
presented on the panel "The Gothic II,"
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference,
Tulsa, OK, February 2007. “Gazes of the
Other: Engaging Engravings within Literary Annuals,” presented at the
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference,
Durham University (UK), July 2006. "Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and Their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain," presented for the New Scholars Panel,
at the annual meeting of the
Bibliographical Society of America, Jan 2005. “'Time hath no power against Identity': Penetrating the Archive and Authenticating 'Englishness' in H. Rider Haggard's
She,” presented at the
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference on “Centers and
Peripheries,” April 2000. “Considering the `Minor(?)’ Romantic Poets: Women’s Poetry Published in Friendship’s Offering,” presented in the panel “Mining for Romantic Poetry,”
Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference,
Sept 1999. “Establishing an Intimate Kinship [in Early Nineteenth Century Women’s Poetry],” presented at the New
York University Graduate Student Conference on “Experience and Experiment,” March 1998. Digital/Electronic/Technology Invited Participant, "The
Accidental Digital Archivist," on Roundtable "Old Books and New Tools," Modern
Language Association Convention, Jan. 2012.
Panel Organizer &
Presenter, The Poetess Archive
for Digital Projects Poster Session, presented at Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International
Conference, Washington DC, July 2011 "Pedagogy
& Play: Revising Learning through Digital Humanities,"
Digital Humanities Conference,
June 2011.
Panel Organizer &
Presenter, “Digital Editions: You Made Me Promises, Promises” for panel
“Editing Digital Feminism,”
Society for Textual Scholarship
International Conference, March 2011. "Teaching
and Learning in DH," invited to participate in "The History and Future of Digital
Humanities" Roundtable, Modern Language
Association Convention, Jan 2011.
THATCamp Bay Area 2010, invited to participate in a
user-generated “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to
work together for the common good, October 2010. See
my report from the meetings. "‘Cool’ New Tools vs. The Tyranny of Print Editions,"
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
International Conference, University of Toronto, July 2009.
[accepted but did not attend];
Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh,
July 2010. [accepted but did not attend due to lack of travel funding] "Digital Editions: You Made Me
Promises, Promises" for
C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Pennsylvania State University, May 2010 (invited to
panel). [invited but did not attend due to lack of travel funding] "The Total [Digital] Archive: Collecting Knowledge in
Online Environments," presented on the panel "Beyond the Author
Function," Modern Language Association Convention, Dec 2009.
"The Poetess
Archive Database and Visualization Tool," Electronic Roundtable: A
Demonstration of Digital Poetry Archives,
Modern Language Association
Annual Convention, December 2008.
Session Organizer & Presenter of
"The Poetess Archive Database,"
for the "Digital Projects Poster Session," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
International Conference, Oxford, England, June 2008.
“Continuing the Relationship: Literary Annuals as Nineteenth-Century
Emblematic Forms,” presented in the Bibliographical Society of America
panel, “Emblem Books: Text and Image,”
Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing, The Hague, July 2006.
“Titillating Textuality: Transgressive Femininity in British Literary
Annuals,” presented in the panel, “Fashionable Literature: Recovering
Silly Novels & Epidemic Annuals,”
British Women Writer’s Conference,
March 2006.
“Diminutive Spaces of Textual Production: The Development of Early Nineteenth Century Literary Annuals,” presented at the
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Aug 1999.
Session Organizer, "Using Digital Archives in the Classroom"
Panel,
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
International Conference, University of Minnesota, July 2007.
"Technophobia and Misogyny," with Laura Mandell, presented on the panel:
"Agora.Techno.Phobia.Philia: Gender, Knowledge Building, and Digital
Media,"
Digital Humanities Conference, June 2007.
"Demonstrating the Poetess Archive" with Laura Mandell, presented at the Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Conference, Texas A&M University, October 2006.
“Hypertext (Re)Visions: Rescuing the Literary Annual from Material Obscurity,” presented on the panel, “Material Electronic Texts,” Modern Language Association Convention, Dec 2004.
“Fantasies of Containment: Digitally Archiving a Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annual (the Forget-Me-Not) as a Textual Moment,” presented at Conference on The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, Univ of Edinburgh, March 2002.
Pedagogy
Organizer & Moderator, "Digital Pedagogy: An Electronic Roundtable," to be presented at Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Jan. 2012.
"TechnoRomantic Anxieties: Our Hideous Progeny," NASSR Annual Convention, 2008 [accepted but did not attend]; SHARP panel "Print Culture and Undergraduate Literary Study," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Jan 2011 [proposal accepted but declined due to too many other MLA appearances].
"Sneaking It In:
Teaching Textual Studies Without Teaching Textual Studies," presented
on "Pedagogy and Textual Studies Roundtable,"
Society for Textual Scholarship Conference,
New York University, March 2007.
"Infusing Bibliography and Book History with Hyper-Textuality: A Course for Undergraduates," presented on the panel, "Teaching Bibliography in a Digital Age," Modern Language Association Convention, Dec 2005.
“Shakespeare’s Play(er)s: Exploring the Bard’s Works in a Performance-Based Classroom,” presented in the panel “O Horror, Horror: Shakespeare in the General Education Curriculum,”
Northeast Modern
Language Association Convention, March 2001.
“Reconstructing Identities in the Literary Classroom,” presented in the panel “Writing in the Literature Classroom,” Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Oct 2000.
“Identity Crises: Anonymity and Re-Creation of the Self in the Narrative Space of E-Mail,” presented at Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Oct 1997.
Other
“Archiving as the Borgesian Quest for 'Total' Knowledge,” presented in the panel “Knowledge and the Audience,”
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
Conference on “The Image of the 20th Century,”
March 2000.
“Imoinda’s Heroism as the 'Inappropriate Other’ in Aphra Behn’s
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History and Thomas Southerne’s
Oroonoko, A Tragedy,” presented in the panel “Eighteenth-Century
Literature I: Constructing the Other,”
Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association Convention, Oct 1999.
“Investigating Female Desire in Southerne’s Oroonoko,” presented at Fordham University Graduate Student Conference on “What’s Love Got to Do With It: The Literary Dynamics of Desire,” Feb 1999.
“Destructive Desires in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Thomas Southerne’s Adaptation of
Oroonoko,” presented at the
Aphra Behn Society Annual Conference on “The Fair Sex? Women in the Arts, 1660-1830,” Oct
1998.
“The Sexual Empowerment of Marie de France’s Women in the Lais: Yonec, Eliduc, Laustic, Guigemar and
Lanval,” accepted for the Medieval to Early Modern Student Organizations of the Pacific Conference on
“Somebodies, Nobodies, and Just Bodies: Medieval to Early Modern Estates, Texts, and Persons,” Oct 1997.
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshops
“Secrets of Success in a Writing Intensive Course: How to Revise Assignments and Syllabi with your Faculty Member,” presented at The Graduate Center CUNY, March 2002.
“Developing Writing Intensive Courses with Faculty Partners,” presented at Writing Fellows Workshop, The Graduate Center CUNY, Jan 28, 2002.
“Overview of Designing and Implementing a Writing Intensive Course,” presented at Hostos Community College CUNY, Jan 17, 2002.
“Using Double-Entry Journals in the Composition Classroom,” presented at Hostos Community College CUNY, Sept 27, 2000.
Professional
Service & Membership
Service to Profession
Member, Digital Humanities Council, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, 2011-present.
Committees
Elected Representative, Executive Committee, Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature, Modern Language Association, 2012-2017.
Elected Representative, Executive Committee, Discussion Group on Bibliography & Textual Studies, Modern Language Association, 2011-2015.
Elected Representative to Delegate Assembly, Division on Methods of Literary Research, Modern Language Association, 2010-2013.
Advisory Board, The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU 2006 - 2011.
Membership Chair & Publicity Liaison, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2007-2009.
Chair, Selection Committee, Cecilia Konchar Farr Best Feminist Essay Prize, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 2000-2001.
Reviewer on various federal grant applications (non-disclosed)Reviewing Manuscripts/Editorial Board
Editorial Board, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, 2011-present
Reviewer for Digital Humanities Conference Proposals, 2010-2012
Reviewer & Editorial Board, Studies in Gothic Fiction, 2009-present
Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2006-present
Reviewer, Digital Studies, 2009-present
Reviewer for Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2008.
Reviewer for Broadview Press, 2007.
Proposal Reviewer, Pearson Longman Publishers, 2009.
Review PanelsTHATCamp Fellowships, Center for New Media, George Mason University, January 2011.
American Association of University Women, Review Panel for American Fellowships 2011.
Digital Humanities Conference Review Panel for proposals, November 2010.
CUNY Professional Staff Congress & Women’s Studies Grant Applications, 2007-2008.
Service to Department
San Jose State University
Curriculum Committee, English Department, SJSU, Fall 2005 - present.
Web Oversight Committee, English Department, SJSU, Fall 2007 - Fall 2008 (chair), Fall 2008 - present (member).
Composition Committee, English Department, SJSU, Fall 2009
Graduate Studies Committee, English Department, SJSU 2006-2007.
Publicity Committee, English Department, SJSU Fall 2006.CUNY
Advisory Board, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, CUNY 2001-2005.
Webmaster, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, CUNY 2000-2005.
Website Committee, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY 2003-2004.
Feminist Studies Group (Co-Chair), Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY 2003-2004.
Fund Raising Committee, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY 2001-2003.
Media Committee, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY 2000-2001.
CUNY Focus Group/Discussion for The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (Appointed Representative for Ph.D. Program in English), Council of Library and Information Resources, March 2001.
New York University
Graduate Student Course Evaluations Committee, English Department, NYU Spring 1999.
Service to College & University
Digital Humanities Specialist, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Photographic Negative Reference Collection Digitization Project sponsored by Special Collections & Archives, King Library, submitted June 2011.
Open Access Task Force, Humanities & Arts Representative, SJSU, 2008-2010.
Academic Senate, Elected Representative, College of Humanities & the Arts, SJSU 2006-2007.
University Library Board, SJSU 2006-2007; 2010-2013.
Public Outreach
Contributor, “Social Media and Book History: #SHARP11 and Twitter” by George Williams. Chronicle of Higher Education (29 July 2011).
Interviewed for “What Are Your English Students Reading Right Now,” by Meredith Nudo Online Education Database (25 May 2011).
Collaborative learning assignment, "Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club" by David Silver. Chronicle of Higher Education (8 May 2011).
Interview for article, "Absent Students Want to Attend Traditional Classes via Webcam" by Jeffrey Young. Chronicle of Higher Education (30 Jan 2011).
Press Reference for Google "Apps to School Bus Tour," Sept 2008.
Profiled by Ellen Brown for regular column, "How I Got Started," in Fine Books & Collections Magazine for my extensive rare book collection of literary annuals and other 19th/20th-century ephemera.
Dr. Katherine D. Harris
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