curriculum vitae
J. JEFFREY FRANKLIN

 

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 -             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.

Refereed Poems

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 Prep.            Franklin, J. Jeffrey.  “The Victorian Séance: Ritualized Cultural Revision.” A completed 27-page essay under submission.
In Prep.            Franklin, J. Jeffrey.  “Blavatsky, Theosophy, and the Resurrection of the Goddess in Late-Victorian Hybrid Religion.”  A completed 37-page essay under revision.  
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 Press.            Franklin, Jeffrey. "Lapping, Swimmingly." River Oak Review.  Poem accepted and awaiting publication.
In Press.            Franklin, Jeffrey. "What Is." River Oak Review.  Poem accepted and awaiting publication.
In Rev.            Franklin, Jeffrey.  Little Self.  A completed manuscript of poems currently under submission to multiple first-book contests and university and independent presses.
In Rev.            Twenty or more poems are currently under submission to national literary journals and magazines.

Courses Taught (Fall 2000-Fall 2006)

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 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 Presented

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

  1.              Scholarship awarded by the West Chester University Poetry Conference  to attend the annual conference, West Chester, PA.
  2.              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 Organizations

The Academy of American Poets
The Associated Writing Programs
The Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
The Poetry Society of America
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States

Service

Department of English
2008-         Director, Honors Program
2007-2008         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

  1. 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)
2008-            Chair-elect, 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

    1. 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-            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-            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