Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (expected 2006)
Exchange Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001-2
M.A. English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996
B.A. with Special Honors, English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, attended 1991-2

DISSERTATION

Eating Disorder: Food and Class in Early Modern England
Committee: Prof. Richard Strier (chair), Prof. David Bevington, Prof. Sarah Beckwith

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer and Instructor

Duke University, English Department and Theater Studies, Durham, North Carolina, 2005-present

Courses: Shakespeare After 1600; Renaissance Popular Culture; Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore, Maryland and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1994-2001 & 2003

Courses: Shakespeare; Popular Culture; Rhetoric, Icons, and Media; Writing and Society; The Process of Writing

European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2002

Courses: Shakespeare Workshop

University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001-2

Courses: Elizabeth I: The Queen in Text and Image; Monarchs, Merchants, and Masterless Men: A View of Renaissance England; Early America in Image and Text

University of Chicago, International House, 2000-2001

Courses: Summer Institute for International Graduate Students; American Ways and Values; Intensive Writing Workshop

University of Pittsburgh, English Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995-6

Courses: General Writing

Course Assistant

University of Chicago, English Department, Chicago, Illinois, 1997-2001

Courses: Human Being and Citizen; Early Shakespeare; Media Aesthetics; Middle English Literature

University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies, Master of Liberal Arts Program, 1998

Courses: Cannibals, Magicians, and Others: The Renaissance As an Age of Discovery

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

“From the Academy to the World: Transforming Scholarship into Podcasting and More.” Duke University Podcasting Symposium. September 27-28, 2005.

“The Groaning Board” column. Renaissance Magazine. Ongoing. (under the name Anne Bramley)

“Left, Right, and Center: Politics and the University.” Roundtable Discussant. Reaches of the Mind: Knowledge and Its Limits Conference. Duke University. November 20, 2004.

“Transforming Medieval Theater into Early Modern Theater.” Guest Lecturer. Duke University. October 3, 2004.

“‘Adapted to This Country and to All Grades of Life’: The First American Cookbook Defines National Taste in a Popular Voice.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001.

“The History of Food and Romance.” 51%. Northeast Public Radio. WAMC. Air Date: February 14, 2001.

Women’s History Month Series. “Women, Cookbooks, and Nationbuilding.” 51%. Northeast Public Radio. WAMC. Air date: March 30, 2001.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Subject Coordinator Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Writing Courses, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Summer 1996, 1997, 1998

Undergraduate Humanities Colloquia Co-Coordinator University of Chicago, The College and Humanities Division. Academic year 1997-8, 1998- 9

Program Assistant University of Chicago, Gender Studies Program, Academic year 1992-3

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

University of Chicago Nicholson Center for British Studies Research Travel Grant, 2005
English-Speaking Union Research Travel Grant, 2004
Maramarco Research Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2003
Jane Grigson Trust Bursary for Food Studies, 2001
Century Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1996-2000
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-6
Research Assistant Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-5
Special Honors for B.A. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1993 : “Essentialized Maternal Bodies and Infantalized Mothers: Victorian Medical Discourse, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Maternal Vision”

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sixteenth-Century British Literature
Seventeenth-Century British Literature
Shakespeare
Early Modern Drama
Prose Fiction and Early Novels
Food History and Food in Literature
Class Studies

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

Seminar in Teaching Composition, University of Pittsburgh, Sept. 1995-Dec. 1996
Academic and Professional Writing (Little Red Schoolhouse); Interning in The Core, University of Chicago, Spring 1998

REFERENCES

Richard Strier, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Address: Walker 413, 1115 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Email: rastrier - at - midway.uchicago.edu
Office telephone: 773-702-8006

David Bevington, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Address: Walker 413, 1115 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Email: bevi - at - midway.uchicago.edu
Office telephone: 773-702-9899

Sarah Beckwith, Professor, Department of English and Department of Theater Studies, Duke University
Address: Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
Email: ott - at - duke.edu
Office telephone: 919-684-8705