Education

Institution Date Degree Major

University of Florida 1995 Ph.D. English Literature

University of Florida 1991 M.F.A. Creative Writing, Poetry

Georgia Institute of Technology 1983 M.S. Science & Technology Policy

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1977 B.A. English/Religion

Professional Experience

2005 - present Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver

2001 - 2004 Graduate Director for English, University of Colorado Denver

2000 - 2004 Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver

1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor of English, East Carolina University

1995 - 1996 Lecturer in English, University of Florida

1989 - 1995 Graduate Teaching Assistant in English, University of Florida

Books and Book Chapters

2008 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2008.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. For the Lost Boys. Denver: Ghost Road Press, 2006.

1999 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1999.

2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey and Ron Johnston. “Modellazione bibliometrica di co-citation come strumento per il management di S&T e R&S: aspetti, applicazioni e sviluppi.” Valutare la scienza. Ed. and trans. Riccardo Viale and Andrea Cerroni. Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2003. 215-245.

1999 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Hardy’s Failure of Passion, or Even the Rake Has His Reasons.” Review. Ed. James O. Hoge. Charlottesville: U P Virginia, 164-179.

Refereed Essays

2005 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Life of the Buddha in Victorian England.” English Literary History (ELH) 72 (winter 2005): 941-974.

2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Anthony Trollope Meets Pierre Bourdieu: The Conversion of Capital as Plot in the Mid-Victorian British Novel.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.2 (summer 2003): 501-521.

2003 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Counter-Invasion of Britain by Buddhism in Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds and H. Rider Haggard’s Ayesha: The Return of She.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.1 (spring 2003): 19-42.

2001 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Memory as the Nexus of Identity, Empire, and Evolution in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and H. Rider Haggard’s She.” Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens 53 (2001): 141-170.

1998 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Victorian Novel’s Performance of Interiority: George Eliot’s Felix Holt on Trial.” Victorians Institute Journal 26 (1998): 69-93.

1995 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Merging of Spiritualities: Jane Eyre as Missionary of Love.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 49 (March 1995): 456-482.

1994 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “The Victorian Discourse of Gambling: Speculations on Middlemarch and The Duke’s Children.” ELH 61 (winter 1994): 899-921.

Published Poems

2009 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Emma,”. Regional Transportation District (RTD) placards in every city bus, January 2009-March 2009, Denver, CO.

2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball.” Reprinted in Tar River Poetry: Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, A Special Reprint Issue 48.1 (Fall 2008): 38-39

2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “McGaulie’s Polo Grounds.” Reprinted in The 2008 Colorado Poems Calendar. Colorado Poets Association, http://www.coloradopoets.org/april10.html, April 2008 to 22 January 2009.

2008 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Awake.” Many Mountains Moving 8.1 (2008): 116-17.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “War Porno.” Cutthroat 3 (summer 2007): 37.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Brushing out the Tangles.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 55.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Hillbilly Zen.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 58.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Mountain Gathering.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 60-61.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Squirrely” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 63.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “McGaulie’s Polo Grounds.” Iron Horse Literary Review 8.2 (spring 2007): 6-7.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Reprinted in The Rosette (July/August 2007): 3.

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Drucker’s Mule Barn.” Arts & Letters 17 (spring 2007): 78-79.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Elemental.” Tar River Poetry 46 (fall 2006): 8.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “In Jenny-Lynne’s Garden.” Tar River Poetry 46 (fall 2006): 9-10.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Begging the Dead.” Open Windows 2006: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, Essays. Ed. Sonya Unrein. Denver: Ghost Road Press, 2006.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Melos, the Usual.” Southern Poetry Review. 44.2 (fall 2006): 16-17.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Art of Building a Fire (I).” Hiram Poetry Review 67 (spring 2006): 21-22.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Advice to a Son Coming of Age.” Evansville Review 16 (spring 2006): 42.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Apologia to the Opossums.” Measure 1 (2006): 160-161.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “First Fall.” Cutthroat 1 (spring 2006): 120-121.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “All the Connections.” Cutthroat 1 (spring 2006): 121-122.

2006 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dear Tooth Fairy.” Eleventh Muse (2006): 56-57.

2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “My Self My Other.” Diner (fall 2005).

2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “At the Pilar Yacht Club.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed. Matthew Davis and Sonja Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 43.

2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Mountain Lion at Bear Creek Archery.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed. Matthew Davis and Sonja Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 44-45.

2005 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Seeds of Sorrow.” Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction. Ed. Matthew Davis and Sonja Unrein. Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2005: 46-47.

2004 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Black Pattern on a Mocha Ground.” Reprinted in Best of Asheville Poetry Review 1994-2004. 11 (2004): 75-76.

2004 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Days-o’-Work.” Southern Humanities Review 38 (winter 2004): 58-59.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Reasons for Lawns.” Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. 1.2 (fall/winter 2003): 13-14.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Reprinted in How to Be this Man: The Walter Pavlich Memorial Poetry Anthology. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, 2003: 17.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Cookin’ with the David Jones Trio.” Crab Orchard Review. 8.2 (spring/summer 2003): 63-65.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Bird Across the River.” New Orleans Review. 29.1 (summer 2003): 102-103.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Boundaries of Seeing.” Reprinted in Painted Bride Quarterly: Print Annual 1. Ed. Marion Wrenn. Camden, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003. 118-119.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Explaining to my Mother why the Next War will be Necessary.” Cimarron Review 44 (summer 2003): 67-68.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Lawrence from New Mexico, 27 October, 1922.” Cimarron Review 44 (summer 2003): 66.

2003 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Apologia to the Opossums (IV).” Dogwood 3 (2003): 57-8.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Julian Bream.” Common Ground Review 4.2 (fall/winter 2002): 44-45

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Slides of the Field Trip.” Square Lake 2 (fall 2002): 19.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Third Card.” Square Lake 2 (fall 2002):20-21.2002

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “To a Student who Reads ‘The Second Coming’ as Sexual Autobiography.” Best American Poetry. Ed. Robert Creeley. New York: Scribner. 44.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Black Pattern on a Mocha Ground.” Asheville Poetry Review 9 (summer 2002): 44-45.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Reading.” Asheville Poetry Review 9 (summer 2002): 46-47.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Facing the Elk.” Potomac Review 33 (spring/summer 2002): 28-29.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Homosassa.” Cider Press Review 3 (2002): 26-27.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Kosciusko, Mississippi.” storySouth (spring 2002): one page in an edited, web-based journal.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Where We Lay Down.” storySouth (spring 2002): one page in an edited, web-based journal.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Road to Canberra, and Beyond.” Quadrant (Australia) (April 2002): 46.

2002 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Kakadu Cave Paintings.” Quadrant (Australia) (April 2002): 55.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “I Painted the House Myself.” Many Mountains Moving 4 (2001): 167-169.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “A Day’s Outing.” Icarus (December 2001): 48.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Otter and the Shark.” Icarus (December 2001): 49.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Huck Finn at Forty-One.” Arkansas Review 32 (December 2001): 182-183.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Commerce & Gender in the New South.” Shenandoah 51 (winter 2001): 154-155.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Breanna’s Grandmother.” Plainsongs 22 (fall 2001): 18-19.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “‘Blow, wind! come wrack!’” Poet Lore 96 (fall 2001): 48.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “To the Student who Reads ‘The Second Coming’ as Sexual Autobiography.” New England Review 22 (fall 2001): 192.

2001 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dear Arthur, Dear Alfred.” Romantics Quarterly 1 (spring 2001): 41.

2000 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Boundaries of Seeing.” Painted Bride Quarterly 64 (fall/winter 2000): two pages in an edited, web-based, journal.

2000 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Tennessee Latitudes.” Now & Then 17 (winter 2000): 49.

2000 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball.” Tar River Poetry 40 (fall 2000): 23-24.

1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “The Walls of the West of Ireland.” North Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 136.

1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “What the Rain Said This Morning.” North Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 137.

1998 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Judy as Piñata.” Third Coast (fall 1998): 51.

1998 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Under The House Foundations Lie.” The Asheville Poetry Review 5 (fall 1998): 52.

1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Sky.” Southern Poetry Review 37.2 (winter 1997): 25-26.

1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Porc d’Espine.” The Hudson Review 50 (Autumn 1997): 459-460.

1997 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Dun Aengus.” Cumberland Poetry Review (fall 1997): 20-22.

1994 Franklin, Jeffrey. “If You Have Time to Think.” Alaaraaf (spring 1994): two pages in an edited, web-based journal.

1994 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Restless.” Alaaraaf (spring 1994): one page in an edited, web-based journal.

1992 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Florida.” The Hudson Review. 45 (summer 1992): 277-278.

1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Explaining to My Mother Why I Must Vote For Dukakis.” The Age Monthly Review (Australia) (November 1988): 17.

1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Foreigner in Florida.” The International Terminal. Ed. C. Pollnitz (Newcastle, Australia: U Newcastle P, 1988). 56-58.

1988 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Tiny Feet.” The International Terminal. Ed. C. Pollnitz (Newcastle, Australia: U Newcastle P, 1988). 54-55.

1986 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Waking in Australia.” Scarp 9 (Australia) (October 1986): 17.

1983 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Stories That Become Us.” Devil’s Millhopper 8 (spring 1983): 11.

Book Reviews

2007 Franklin, Jeffrey. “Loss and Belonging.” A Review of Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Coming to Rest and Claudia Emerson’s Late Wife. North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 199-201.

1999 Franklin, Jeffrey. “An Equal and Opposite Reaction: On the Poetry of Kathleen Halme and Michael White.” North Carolina Literary Review 8 (1999): 177-180.

1998 Franklin, J. Jeffrey. [“A Panoply of Dickens Studies”]. Victorian Studies 41 (spring 1998): 518-520.

Non-Refereed Publications

2005 Franklin, Jeffrey, and Byron Plumley. “What Questions Should I Ask Before I Enlist.” A pamphlet for distribution at military recruiting stations. Denver: Tivoli Project/American Friends Service Committee, 2005.

2000 Franklin, Jeffrey, and Christopher Salerno. “Chewing the Fat with a Blues Master: An Interview with Lightnin’ Wells.” North Carolina Literary Review 9 (2000): 63-68.

Publications in Press, Review, or Preparation:

Scholarship:

In Press Franklin, Jeffrey. “The State of Poetry, North Carolina.” An essay review of Michael Chitwood’s Spill, Julia Nunnally Duncan’s An Endless Tapestry, and Keith Flynn’s The Golden Ratio. North Carolina Literary Review. Forthcoming.

In Rev. Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Existential Nihilism and the Nineteenth-Century Nirvana Debate: Jean-Paul Sartre Meets Nagajuna.” Under submission to Representations.

In Prep. Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Literary Longevity and a Revision of Wolfgang Iser’s Reception Theory.” A completed, 29-page essay awaiting re-submission.

Poetry:

In Rev. Franklin, Jeffrey. In Search of the Lost Indian Princess. A completed manuscript of poems currently under submission to multiple book contests and university and independent presses.

In Rev. Multiple individual poems under submission to national literary journals.

Courses Taught (Fall 2000-Spring 2009)

ENGL 6018, The Literature of Victorian Religion

ENGL 6015, From Decadence to Modernism: British Literature 1880-1920

ENGL 5100, Literary Research and Writing (methods course for MA students)

ENGL 4999, Victorian Masculinities

ENGL 4803, Special Topics in Creative Writing: The Forms of Poetry

ENGL 4700/5004, Literature of the British Empire

ENGL 4600/5600, Modern British and Irish Literature

ENGL 4580/5580, The Victorian Age (British literature 1837-1901)

ENGL 4320/5320, History of Poetry in English

ENGL 4210/5210, History of the English Novel II (19th-20th century)

ENGL 4200/5200, History of the English Novel I (17th-18th century)

ENGL 4025, Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry

ENGL 4180, Argumentation and Logic

ENGL 4000/5000, Major Authors: Thomas Hardy & D. H. Lawrence

ENGL 3020, Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

ENGL 3001, Critical Writing (Introduction to literary theory, scholarship, writing)

ENGL 2154, Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 1400, Introduction to Literary Studies

Presentations at Meetings and Seminars

2008 “The Western ‘Discovery’ of Buddhism in the Nineteenth Century.” Lunch, Link, Learn: Brown-Bag Lecture Series. University of Colorado Denver, August 7, 2008.

2008 “Victorian Buddhism and Modernity.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 14-16.

2007 “Spiritual Motions: Reincarnation, Transmigration, Metempsychosis.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 25-27.

2006 Invited public lecture, “Buddhist History, Tenets, and Practice,” Buddhist-Christian Interfaith Community, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Denver, CO, 27 August, 2006, 5:00-7:00pm.

2005 “The Victorian Séance--Ritualized Cultural Revision.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October 27-29.

2004 Panel chair. “Literary Tourism.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 21-23 October, 2004.

2004 “The Life of the Buddha in Late-Victorian England.” The Northeast Victorian Studies Association. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 16-18 April, 2004.

2004 Panel chair. “Rhetorics of War and Crisis.” Colloquium on War, Center for Humanities and the Art. University of Colorado at Boulder, 4-6 March, 2004.

2003 “The Legacy of Victorian Buddhism.” The Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States. University of Texas, Austin, 8-11 October, 2003.

2002 “Theosophy, Blavatsky, and the Institutionalization of Spiritualism.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Boise State University, 11 October, 2002.

2001 “The Counter-Invasion of the West by Eastern Religions.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, UCLA, 25 October, 2001.

2000 “The Cultural and Literary Construction of Buddhism in Mid-to-Late Victorian Britain.” MLA session “Victorian Buddhism,” Washington, DC, 28 December, 2000.

1999 “The Longevity of Literary Works as a Function of the Intersection between the Context of Inception and the Context of Reception.” MLA session “Historicism, Pragmatism, Theory: Why Literature Lasts.” Chicago, 27 December, 1999.

1999 “Rereading Memory as Victorian Fiction: The Novel as the Form of Memory.” MLA session “Rereading Memory in Victorian Fiction.” Chicago, 29 December, 1999.

1998 “Bourdieu Meets Trollope: Plot as the Conversion of Forms of Capital in the Mid-Victorian Novel.” MLA session “Practicing Bourdieu.” San Francisco, 29 December 1998.

1998 “The Conversion of Capital as Plot in the Mid-Victorian British Novel.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies panel “Money: Literary Roles and Representations.” New Orleans, 18 April, 1998.

1997 “A Devil’s Advocate’s Critique of the Panel.” MLA session “Industrialism and Aesthetics in Victorian Culture.” Toronto, Canada, 29 December, 1997.

Poetry Readings

2008 Invited poetry reading, Colorado Poets Association, Everyday Joe's Coffee House, Fort Collins, CO, 24 October 2008.

2008 Invited poetry reading, Cannon Mine Reading Series, Lafayette, CO, 8 May 2008.

2008 Invited poetry reading, Poets on Corners, a project sponsored by The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, Denver, CO, 4 April 2008.

2008 Invited poetry reading, Many Mountains Moving Literary Salon, St. John's Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO, 29 March 2008.

2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading as a paid guest artist. Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 29 September, 2007.

2007 Invited poetry reading, Project for Dolores, Mercury Café, Denver, CO, 4 May 2007.

2007 Invited poetry reading, Loveland Gallery, Loveland, CO, 3 May, 2007.

2007 Invited poetry reading, Colorado Poetry Association Denver Reading Series, Hooked on Colfax, Denver, CO, 9 April, 2007.

2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading, “Rock Point Reading Series,” Rock Point Books, Chattanooga, TN, 3 March, 2007.

2007 Book signing, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1 March, 2007. This event was listed in the conference program.

2007 Invited poetry reading, “Auraria Mini Poetry Festival,” Sponsored by Copper Nickel, Tivoli Student Union, University of Colorado at Denver, 9 February, 2007.

2007 Invited out-of-state poetry reading, “Berry Poetry Festival,” Berry College, Berry, GA, 27 February, 2007.

2007 Invited poetry reading, “Second-Monday Poetry Series,” The Tattered Cover (Colfax), Denver, CO, 8 January, 2007.

2007 Invited live, on-air interview and reading, “The Poetry Show,” hosted by Donna Stein, KRFC radio, 7 January, 2007, Fort Collins, CO.

2006 Invited poetry reading and book signing, Cameron Church, Denver, CO, sponsored by Book Buffs, 2 December, 2006, 4:00-6:00pm.

2006 Invited poetry reading and book signing, Bas Bleu Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, 28 November, 2006, 7:30-9:00pm.

2007 Invited poetry reading and book signing: Many Mountains Moving Literary Journal Poetry Salon, October 21, 2006, Unitarian Universalist Church, Boulder, CO.

Recognitions, Honors, and Awards

2007 Invited Guest Artist, Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, “Creating Story out of Family and History,” East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, September 28-29.

2002 UCD College of Liberal Arts and Sciences “Research and Creative Activities Award,” 2002.

2002 Poem selected by Robert Creeley for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2002.

2001 Co-recipient of the 2001 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award ($2,500) from the Poetry Society of America for a manuscript of ten poems.

1995 Kirkland-Johns Fellowship in Victorian Literature, University of Florida.

1994 Dissertation Fellow, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.

1990-91 Best Graduate Student Essay, Department of English, University of Florida.

1989-90 Best Graduate Student Essay, Department of English, University of Florida.

Reviews Received

2007 Bizzaro, Patrick. “Poetry and Intelligence: A Reading of Chitwood, Franklin and Root.” Asheville Poetry Review 14.1 (2007): 191-200.

2007 Smith, James. “‘What Poetry Can Do and How It Can Do It’: An interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor, Jeffrey Franklin.” North Carolina Literary Review 16 (2007): 55-64.

2007 Byrne, Edward. “One Poet’s Notes--Recommended Readings of Recent Contemporary Poetry: Jeffrey Franklin’s For the Lost Boys.” http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/. March 11, 2007.

2007 Pittard, Shawn. “Jeffrey Franklin’s For the Lost Boys.” The Great American Pinup. http://www.greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/. Tuesday, January 30, 2007.

2001 Rosdeitcher, Elizabeth. “Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, by J. Jeffrey Franklin; pp. vi + 250. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, $37.50, £28.50.” A review essay. Victorian Studies 43 (winter 2001): 317-319.

2001 Morris, Debra. “J. Jeffrey Franklin. Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, 242 pp.” A review. Aethlon XIX: 1 (fall 2001): 196.

2001 Poetry Society of America. The Winning Poems: Poetry Society of America’s 91st Annual Award Ceremony, April 20, 2001. “Stephanie Strickland on Jeffrey Franklin.” Judge’s citation of the winning manuscript for the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award.

2000 Morgan, Susan. “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” An omnibus review, including one paragraph on Serious Play. Studies in English Literature 40 (Autumn 2000): 745-794: 772.

Other Indicators of Scholarship/Creative Activity

2004 UCD Young Upwardly Mobile Professors (YUMPs). $400.00. Granted support to attend the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Washington, 21-23 October, 2004.

2004 UCD Young Upwardly Mobile Professors (YUMPs). $400.00. Granted support to attend the annual meeting of the Northeastern Victorian Studies Association, Cornell University, April 16-18, 2004.

2003 President’s Fund for the Humanities: “Poets Kurt Brown and Laure-Anne Bosselaar.” $1,400.00. Funded two public poetry readings and the teaching of one poetry workshop. Written as second author to Jake York.

2002. Scholarship awarded by the West Chester University Poetry Conference to attend the annual conference, West Chester, PA.
2001. Young Upwardly Mobile Professors (YUMPs). $400.00. Granted support for a trip to London to access resources at the British Library and London museums for my current scholarly book project. March 15-24, 2001.

1999 Scholarship awarded by the RopeWalk Writer’s Retreat to attend the annual conference, New Harmony, IN.

1992 Scholarship awarded by the Sewanee Writers Conference to attend the annual conference, Sewanee, TN.

1985 Scholarship awarded by the Frost Place Workshop to attend the annual conference, Franconia, NH.

1982 Scholarship awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference to attend the annual conference, Middlebury, VT.

Professional Organization Memberships

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs

North American Victorian Studies Association

Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
Service

Department of English

2008-pres. Director, Honors Program

2008-pres. Member, Annual Salary Increment Service Subcommittee

2007-pres. Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee

2004-2006 Major Advisor, undergraduate English majors

2005 Member, Comprehensive Review Committee for Philip Joseph

2003-2004 Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee

2001-2004 Director, Graduate Studies

2001-2004 Member, Executive Committee

2001-2004 Member, Salary Increment Committee for Research/Creative Activity

2001-2002 Chair, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee

2001. New course design, ENGL 5100, Literary Research & Writing

2001 Contributor, Departmental salary increment criteria review

2000-2003 Member, Film Studies Committee

2000-2002 Member, MA Comprehensive Examination Committee

2000-2001 Lead Member, ad hoc committee to revise the Literary Studies Masters curriculum

2000 New track design, co-author of the Department’s Creative Writing Track

2000 New course design, co-author of ENGL 4025, Advanced Writing Workshop, and reactivation of ENGL 4160, Poetics

2000 Member, Modern Language Association job candidate interview team

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)

2009 Chair, CLAS Council

2008 Chair-elect and Member, CLAS Council

2005-2006 Member, Dean’s Budget Advisory Committee

2003-2004 Lead Member, English/Education collaborative degree design team--MA in English with Secondary Teaching Licensure

2002-2004 Member, CLAS Educational Planning and Policy Committee

2002. Member, CLAS Academic Standards Committee

2002 Member, CLAS Dean advisory committee of Graduate Directors

2000 Member, CLAS Chancellor’s Scholars and Leaders, International Student/Faculty Network

University

2008-pres. Co-Chair and Member, Education Policies and Curriculum Committee

2007-2008 Member, CLAS Dean Search Committee

2007-pres. Co-director, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, David Broom, “George Eliot and the Aestheticism of the Realist Novel,” CU.

2006-2007 Member, Ph. D. Comprehensive Examination Committee, David Broom, CU.

2005-pres. Member, Faculty Senate Educational Planning and Policy Committee

2001-2008 Member, University Graduate Council

2005-2006 Member, CLAS Dean Search Committee

2004-2006 Member, President’s Fund for the Humanities Advisory Council

2004-2005 Participant, University Academic Master Plan Search Conference

2003 Poetry reading, Grammata Literary Society, October 2003

2002-2005 Faculty Advisor, Campus Greens

2002 Presenter, New Faculty Orientation

2001-2005 Member, Denver Poetry Festival Planning Committee

Profession

2008-pres. Contributing Editor, Copper Nickle

2007 Invited outside reader, submission review, Victorian Review

2003-pres. Member, Board of Directors, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States

2003-pres. Peer review of essay submissions, North Carolina Literary Review

1999-pres. Poetry Editor, North Carolina Literary Review

2006 Program organizer, annual conference, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States

2005 Referee of book manuscripts, Broadview Press

2004-2005 Secretary, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States

2004 Invited outside reader, submission review, Victorians Institute Journal

2003 Peer review of book proposals, Broadview Press