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)

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Grants, Fellowships & Honors

Grants & Fellowships

Fellow, Center for Science, Technology & Society, Santa Clara University, 2008-2009

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)

Bibliographical Society (England) Research Grant for further research on literary annuals at the British Library, etc., London, April 2007 ($400)

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 Dec. 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 Dec. 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 Nov. 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 Nov. 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 Nov. 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)
 

New Scholar Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America (Jan. 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)
 

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 (2001-02)

Tuition Fellowship, Ph.D. Program in English, The Graduate Center CUNY (2000-2004)

Awards

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 2006)

Invited 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)

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize, Women's Studies Certificate Program & Center for the Study of Women & Society, The Graduate Center CUNY (2005)

Cecilia Konchar Farr Best Feminist Essay Prize for Rocky Mountain MLA Presentation (2000)

Helena Rubinstein Foundation Award, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, The Graduate Center CUNY (2000-2001)

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)

Teaching Fellowships

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College CUNY (2004-05)

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz (2003)
 

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Hunter College CUNY (2002-03)

 

Writing Fellow, Hostos Community College CUNY (2000-2002)

Teaching Fellow, Expository Writing Program, New York University (1998-1999)

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Work in Progress

Manuscript: "Forget Me Not! The ‘Unmasculine & UnBawdy Age’ of British Literary Annuals," a literary and cultural history of early British literary annuals. Proposal under consideration with Cambridge University Press.

Article: "Blogs, Wikis and Forums, Oh My! Teaching Graduate Research Methods in a Technology-Rich Environment" co-authored with Menko Johnson, Technology Instructional Designer, to be submitted to Textual Cultures for Fall 2008 publication.

Editor: Co-editor, with Maura Ives, for special journal cluster on pedagogy and textual studies for Pedagogy.

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Publications

Books

Gothic Short Stories in British Literary Annuals, an edition of 19^th century gothic short stories; includes a critical introduction on the impact of 1820s British literary annual and gothicism. Under contract with Zittaw Press/Franz Potter. Proposed publication Fall 2008.

Editorial Work

Editor, "Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann’s Nineteenth-Century Literary Annual." Listed in MLA International Bibliography. The Poetess Archive. Gen. Ed. Laura Mandell. <www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/>. Dec. 2005- [ongoing]

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 (Miami University Ohio).

Editorial Board, The Poetess Archive Journal. ISSN 1935-7362 <http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/PAJournal/index.html>.

Articles & Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

"Fantasies of Containment: Archiving Moments in Cyber- and Real-Life." Virtual Identities: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace. Ed. Caroline Maun. Eastern Washington University Press. (Forthcoming 2008.)

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, 2008. 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://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/PAJournal/>.

“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.” Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 99.4 (Dec. 2005): 573-622.

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 of The Scholar’s Art by Jerome McGann, University of Chicago Press, 2006. Forthcoming in Style 2008.

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

"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)

Review of ‛Colour'd Shadows': Contexts in Publishing, Printing and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers by Terence Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter, Palgrave, 2005. The Wordsworth Circle 36:4 (Autumn 2005): 180. (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).

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Teaching

Technologies Integrated into Courses

Google Docs
Google Groups
de.licio.us
Moodle
PBWiki
Listservs
Course Websites (static HTML pages)
PowerPoint
Digital Media, i.e., YouTube, ELO Vol. 1

Designed/Taught Courses

Graduate Seminars
Madness & Romanticism, SJSU, Fall 2008 (technology-rich classroom)
Methods & Materials of Research, SJSU, Fall 2007 (technology-rich classroom with Wikis, Blogs & Forums)
Romantic Genders, SJSU, Spring 2006

Courses for Undergraduate Majors
TechnoRomanticism (Romantic-Era Survey), SJSU, Spring 2008
Introduction to Literature & Writing Workshop, SJSU, Spring 2008
English Literature, Late Eighteenth Century to Present, SJSU, Fall 2007
Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction, SJSU, Fall 2006, Fall 2008
Nineteenth-Century British Novel, SJSU, Fall 2006
Introduction to Literary Theory, SJSU, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
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
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. (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.

Designed/Proposed Courses

William Wordsworth: Questioning a Literary Lion, SJSU (Graduate Seminar, cancelled Spring 2007)
Women "Skirting" the Romantic Age, Graduate Seminar or Undergraduate Majors
Literary Hypertextuality, Undergraduate Honors Seminar
Conversations on the Sublime: Prose in Romanticism, Undergraduate Majors
Conflicting Environments: Natural Landscapes & Urban City-Scapes in Romantic-Era Writing, Undergraduate Semester Abroad
Victorian Afterings/Adaptations, Undergraduate Majors
Rise of the Novel, Undergraduate Majors
Literary Representations of Women and War, Undergraduate Majors
"Feminism" is a Dirty Word?, Undergraduate Majors

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Invited Lectures, Colloquia & Conferences (Selected)

Invited Lectures

Co-Leader, NINES Summer Workshop for Editors of Digital Archives, Miami University at Ohio, July 22-29 (Laura Mandell, Jerome McGann)

Invited Speaker, "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, Jan. 2006.

Colloquia

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

["Selling "Englishness" with German Translations: Mimili, Rudolph Ackermann and the Literary Annual," on the panel "Adaptations and Transformations in the Work of British Romantic Women Writers," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 2008.]

["TechnoRomantic Anxieties: Our Hideous Progeny," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism International Conference, University of Toronto, August 2008.]

[ "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.]

["The Poetess Archive Database," Session Organizer & Presenter on the Panel "Digital Projects Poster Session," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference, Oxford, England, June 2008.]

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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"Demonstrating the Poetess Archive" with Laura Mandell, presented at the Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Conference, Texas A&M University, October 2006.

“Gazes of the Other: Engaging Engravings within Literary Annuals,” presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference, Durham University (UK), July 2006.

“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.

"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.

"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.

“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.

“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.

“'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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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Professional Service & Membership

Service to Profession

Committees
Membership Chair, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2007-present.
Chair, Selection Committee, Cecilia Konchar Farr Best Feminist Essay Prize, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 2000-2001.
Advisory Board, The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU 2006-present.
Vice President, Graduate Feminist Forum, English Department, NYU 1998-1999.
Leader/Moderator, Summer Interdisciplinary Reading Group, Graduate Feminist Forum, NYU 1998.
Graduate Assistant, Fales Library (Special Collections), NYU 1997-1998.
         Archivist for The William Zinsser Papers (author of On Writing Well).
         Archivist for general collections, including the Theater and Portrait Collections.

Service to Department

Thesis Committees
Chair, Thesis Committee, Calista Vinyard (English), "Graphic Novels & Gender," Fall 2007-present
Member, Thesis Committee, Alanna Callaway (English), "Women Disunited: Re-Reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a Critique of Feminism," Fall 2007- present
Member, Thesis Committee, Crystal Michallet (Interdisciplinary), Title TBD, Spring 2006-present
Member, Thesis Committee, Chris Consorte (Radio, TV, Theatre & Film), "Episodic Characters in Dungeons & Dragons," Fall 2006-present

Service Committees
Chair, Web Oversight Committee, English Department, SJSU, Fall 2007 - present.
Curriculum Committee, English Department, SJSU Fall 2005 - present.
Technology Advisor, English Department, SJSU Fall 2005 - present.
Webmaster for Departmental Website, SJSU, Fall 2006 - present.
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.

NYU
Graduate Student Course Evaluations Committee, English Department, NYU Spring 1999.

Service to College & University

Academic Senate, Elected Representative, College of Humanities & the Arts, SJSU 2006-2007.
University Library Board, SJSU 2006-2007.

Public Outreach

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. Forthcoming Fall 2008.

Professional Memberships

Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)
British Women Writer's Association (INCS)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)
Society for the Study of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
Special Interesting Group on Book History Pedagogy & Curriculum (SHARP)
Society for Textual Scholarship (STS)
Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association

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Non-Academic Activities

Organizer for Fall Slideshow Series "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Manhattan Plaza Climbing Gym. New York, New York, Fall 2003. Organized, scheduled and publicized slideshows to highlight the achievements of professional climbers.
 

President, New York Chapter, SheClimbs, Inc./Rock Goddesses, a non-profit international women’s climbing  organization, 1996-1997. Created this chapter to organize women climbers of southern New York State.

 

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