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Curriculum Vitae MERI-JANE ROCHELSON Professor and Associate Chair of English Florida International University
Education 1976-82: Ph.D. in English, University of Chicago, with Honors Dissertation: "George Eliot and Metaphor: Creating a Narrator in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel"; Directors: Wayne C. Booth and Diana Postlethwaite 1975-76: M.A. in English, University of Chicago, with Honors 1971-73: M.A. in Teaching of English, Teachers College, Columbia University (Minor field: TESOL) 1969-71: B.A., Barnard College, with Honors in Political Science 1967-69: Attended Smith College, Northampton, MA
Professional Honors and Grants Grant, “Identity, Diaspora and Culture,” Transnational and Comparative Studies Center, FIU, 2004 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 2003-04 Women’s Studies Faculty Service Award, 2004 Outstanding Honors Fellow Award, 2002; Senior Fellow in the Honors College, 2005 College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Awards, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Awards, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 Matriculation Merit Award, FIU, 2001, 2003 One-Semester Full-Pay Sabbatical, FIU, 2000-01, 2007-08 Teaching Incentive Plan Award Recipient, 1994 FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994 Participant, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: "The Construction of the 'New Woman' and the 'New Man' in the 1890s." Directed by Martha Vicinus at the University of Michigan. June-August 1992
Professional Experience Professor of English, Tenured, Florida International University, 2007- Associate Chair of English, 2007- Member of the Graduate Faculty, 2003- ; Dissertation Advisor Status, 2008- Associate Professor of English, Tenured, Florida International University, 1992-2007 Acting Director, Women’s Studies Center and B.A. Program in Women’s Studies, Florida International University, 1999-2000 Assistant Professor of English, Florida International University, 1986-1992 Instructor in English, Florida International University, 1984-86 Adjunct Lecturer in Composition and Literature, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1982-84 Adjunct Lecturer in Composition (ESL), Queens College, City University of New York, 1981-82 Part-time Instructor in Humanities, Degree_Granting Continuing Education Program for Nurses, College of St. Francis, Joliet, IL, Summers 1978, 1979 Teaching Intern (unpaid) and Writing Tutor, University of Chicago Humanities Program, 1977, 1978-79 Teacher of English and ESL, Lower East Side Prep. School, New York City, 1973-75 Teacher of English, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 1973
Publications
Books: A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill. Wayne State University Press (December 2008).
Children of the Ghetto, by Israel Zangwill (1892). Edited (with introduction, bibliography, and notes) by Meri-Jane Rochelson. Wayne State University Press, 1998.
Transforming Genres: New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s. Anthology of critical essays, co-edited with Nikki Lee Manos. St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Critical Articles in Journals and Collections: “‘A Religion of Pots and Pans’: Jewish Materialism and Spiritual Materiality in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto.” Victorian Vulgarity, edited by Susan David Bernstein and Elsie Michie. Ashgate (forthcoming).
“Afterword.” Amy Levy: Critical Essays. Edited by Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington. Ohio University Press (forthcoming).
“Edith Ayrton Zangwill and the Anti-Domestic Novel.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 36.3 (2007): 161-183.
“The Friendship of Israel Zangwill and Mabel E. Wotton: ‘Faithfully Yours, Margaret.’” English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 48.3 (2005): 305-23.
"Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill." In Between the East End and East Africa: ‘The Jew’ in Edwardian Culture, edited by Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman. London: Palgrave (forthcoming).
"Israel Zangwill's Early Journalism and the Formation of an Anglo-Jewish Literary Identity." In Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. Edited by Laurel Brake, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2000: 178-94.
“Israel Zangwill and Women’s Suffrage.” Jewish Culture and History 2.2 (Winter 1999): 1-17.
"'They That Walk in Darkness': Ghetto Tragedies: The Uses of Christianity in Israel Zangwill's Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 27 (1999): 219-33.
“Teaching Jewish Studies: Israel Zangwill and Children of the Ghetto.” Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 48.1 (1999): 84-101. [Slightly condensed reprint of Introduction to Children of the Ghetto]
"Bending the Bow: The Verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian Detective." In The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television. Edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998: 85-92.
"Jews, Gender, and Genre in Late_Victorian England: Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 25 (1996): 311-28.
"The Big Bow Mystery: Jewish Identity and the English Detective Novel." Victorian Review 17.2 (1991): 11-20.
"Language, Gender, and Ethnic Anxiety in Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto." English Literature in Transition 1880_1920 31.4 (1988): 399-412.
"Style and Self_Censorship in George Eliot's First Fiction." FIU Women's Studies Center Occasional Papers Series, 1985.
"The Weaver of Raveloe: Metaphor as Narrative Persuasion in Silas Marner." Studies in the Novel 15 (1983): 35-43. Rpt. in The Critical Response to George Eliot. Ed. Karen L. Pangallo. Critical Responses in Arts and Letters. Westport: Greenwood, 1994. 99-107, and as “The Narrator’s Use of Metaphor,” in Readings on Silas Marner. Ed. Barbara A. Goodman. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000: 164-171.
Articles on Pedagogy: “Revisiting the ‘Visitable Past’: Reflections on Wayne Booth’s Teaching after 29 Years.” Pedagogy 7.1 (2007): 37-48.
Short Piece on the Use of Technology in Honors [untitled contribution to a collection]. Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2002): 48.
"'This is My Testimony': Rigoberta Menchú in a Class on Oral History." In Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom. Edited by Stephen Benz and Allen Carey_Webb. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996: 247-57.
Reference Articles: “Israel Zangwill.” 200-word article. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Academia Press, Ghent; British Library; ProQuest (forthcoming).
“Israel Zangwill.” 1500-word article. Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Israel Zangwill.” Short reference article in Jewish Virtual Library (2006). http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/zangwill.html
"Israel Zangwill." Long biographical and critical article. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography; Late Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, Second Series. Gale, 1999: 302-15.
"Israel Zangwill." Long biographical and critical article. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography; British Short Fiction Writers, 1880_1914/The Realist Tradition. Gale, 1994: 362-78.
"Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926)"; "Children of the Ghetto." The Eighteen_Nineties: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1993: 112-13, 695-96.
Reviews: Review of The Jewess in Nineteenth_Century British Literature and Culture, by Nadia Valman. Journal of British Studies 47 (July 2008): 707–9.
“The BBC Daniel Deronda: A Conversation (With Apologies to Henry James).” Media review co-authored with Kathleen McCormack. George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Studies 44-45 (September 2003): 115-20.
Review of The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America, by Jonathan Freedman. Victorian Studies 45.1 (Autumn 2002): 158-60.
Review of Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, by S. Lillian Kremer. Criticism 44 (2002): 305-8.
Review of Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters, by Linda Hunt Beckman. VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal) 29 (2001): 207-11.
Review of The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England, by Talia Schaffer, and Women and British Aestheticism, eds. Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Nineteenth-Century Literature 56.1 (2001): 121-25.
Review of The Foreign Woman in British Literature, ed. Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed. Victorian Studies 44.1 (Autumn 2001): 157-58.
Review of Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual, by Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Nineteenth Century Prose 28.1 (Spring 2001): 124-28.
Review of The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England by Michael Galchinsky. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 12.4 (Fall 1999): 59-62.
Review of Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" & English National Identity by Michael Ragussis. South Atlantic Review 62 (1997): 173-75.
Review of Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 16 (1997): 151-53.
Review of The Construction of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations 1885-1945 by Bryan Cheyette. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 14 (1996): 137-140.
Review of The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness, edited by Tony Kushner. Jewish Quarterly Review 86 (1996): 483-87.
Review of Dreamer of the Ghetto: The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill, by Joseph H. Udelson. AJS Review [Association for Jewish Studies] 17 (1992): 120-23.
"Mary Shelley's Progeny." Review_Article. Science_Fiction Studies 17 (1990): 259-68.
Review of George Eliot: A Writer's Notebook, 1854-1879, and Uncollected Writings, ed. Joseph Wiesenfarth. Modern Philology 81 (1983): 86-89.
Presentations and Papers Read: “The Melting Pot: A Centennial Look Back at Israel Zangwill’s Play.” The Harry and Marjorie Tobias Lecture, Fall 1008 Jewish Heritage Lecture Series. The George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2008.
“Musing on the Margin: How the Industrial Muse Opened the Way for Anglo-Jewish Studies.” Presented at “The Future of Victorian Studies: A Conference in Honor of Martha Vicinus,” University of Michigan, April 2008.
“‘A Religion of Pots and Pans’: Jewish Materialism and Spiritual Materiality in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto.” Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Victoria, BC, October 2007.
“Israel Zangwill and English Antisemitism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Presented at the conference “Antisemitism and English Culture,” Birkbeck College, London, UK, July 2007.
“Revisiting the ‘Visitable Past’: The Aspern Papers and The Rhetoric of Fiction After 29 Years.” Presented as part of “Continuing to Learn from Wayne C. Booth: A Panel in his Memory.” Annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Salisbury, MD, March 2006.
“Mabel Wotton in Jerusalem: A Hidden Archive Illuminates a Late Victorian Life.” Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Charlottesville, VA, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005.
“I, Zangwill: The Making of a Transatlantic Anglo-Jewish Celebrity.” Presented as part of the panel “Spectacular Jews: Self-Promotion as Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Culture.” Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting, Chicago, December 2004.
"'Perhaps IZ Stands for Both': The Complicated Zionism of Israel Zangwill." Presented at “Between the East End and East Africa: ‘The Jew’ in Edwardian Culture,” a colloquium organized by the AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK, July 2003.
“Edith Ayrton Zangwill: Finding the New Woman in the Daughter and Wife.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies, New Orleans, November 2001.
“Jewish Writers and Jewish Masculinity in Late Victorian England.” Presented at the conference “Locating the Victorians,” London, July 2001.
“Israel Zangwill’s Dreamers of the Ghetto: Jewish History and the Construction of Jews as Europeans at the Fin de Siècle.” Presented at the conference “Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century: European Literatures, Histories, Arts,” Cardiff, July 2001. [Also presented at the annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Savannah, March 2002.]
“New Women, Jewish Men: Jewish Writers Confront Gender at the Turn of the Century.” Presented at the UCLA/Clark Library conference New Women, Old Men? Debating Sexual Difference in the 1890s. University of California, Los Angeles Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, May 2000.
“Israel Zangwill and Women’s Suffrage.” Paper presented in a seminar at the University of Southampton, England, in connection with the dedication of the Harry S. Ward Collection at the University library. December 1999.
“Israel Zangwill and his World.” Public lecture presented at the Jewish Museum, London, in connection with the exhibit “‘The Jewish Dickens’: Israel Zangwill and the Wanderers of Kilburn.” December 1999.
“Israel Zangwill and Resistance to Modernism.” Paper presented in the seminar “Modernism and Jewish Writers” at the first annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, Penn State University, October 1999.
"'The Mission of Judaism' and Ghetto Tragedies: Defining a Jewish Future in Turn-of-the-Century England." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 1997.
"'Asiatic Strangers in Their Midst': Jews in 1890s Intellectual Periodicals." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Chicago, September 1997.
"Dreamers, Dandies, and Jewish Mothers: Gender Issues in Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto." Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 1995.
"From 'Marshallik' to 'Ariel': Israel Zangwill's Early Journalism and the Formation of an Anglo-Jewish Literary Identity." Presented at the annual meeting of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995.
"Issues in Reading and Teaching Holocaust Literature." Presented at the Teachers' Institute on Holocaust Studies for the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center in cooperation with Broward County, Dade County, and Palm Beach County Public Schools, June 1993.
"Ibsen Revised: Late-Nineteenth-Century British Attitudes and Alternative Endings to A Doll's House." Presented at the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference on "Revivals and Revisions," April 1993.
"Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs: Ethnicity, Gender, and Genre at the Fin de Siècle." Presented at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association meeting, South Bend, Indiana, April 1992.
"Jewish Self-Hatred or Feminist Rage?: Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs." Presented at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association meeting, University of South Florida, March 1992.
"Bending the Bow: The Verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian Detective." Presented at the Hofstra University Conference on Detective Fiction and Film, October 1991.
"The Big Bow Mystery: Jewish Identity and the English Detective Novel." Presented at the MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, December 1990.
"Israel Zangwill: A Turn-of-the-Century Anglo-Jewish Celebrity." Presented at the Faculty Lunchtime Symposium, North Miami Campus, FIU, March 1990.
"Women's Studies in the [Middle and Secondary School] Classroom: New Voices, New Questions." Workshop conducted at the Summer Institute for Teachers sponsored by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities, Miami-Dade Community College, July 1989.
"Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto: Language, Gender, and Ethnic Anxiety in a Late-Victorian Novel." Presented at the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference on "The Outsider and the Outside View," April 1988.
"Against Type: Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto." Presented at the MLA Annual Convention, New York, December 1986.
"Knowledge, Passion, and Extraordinary Women in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch." Presented at the SAMLA Annual Convention, Atlanta, October 1985.
"Style and Self-Censorship in George Eliot's First Fiction." Presented at the FIU Faculty Women's Studies Colloquia, January 1985.
"Women and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century Novels." Presented at the Oberlin College Women's Studies Seminar, October 1980.
"The Weaver of Raveloe: Metaphor as Narrative Persuasion in Silas Marner." Presented at the George Eliot Centennial Conference, University of Puget Sound, April 1980.
Other Conference Participation: Organizer, Chair, and Commentator, “The Melting Pot at 100 Years: New Reflections on a Persistent American Metaphor.” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 2008 (forthcoming).
Moderator, “The Jewish Image at the Fin de Siecle.” Conference on “Antisemitism and English Culture,” Birkbeck College, London, UK, July 2007.
Moderator, “Nineteenth Century Jewish London.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Selinsgrove, PA, March 2007.
Moderator, “Beyond Domesticity? Imagining Women on the Edge.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Salisbury, MD, March 2006.
Chair, “A Symposium on Magic and Kabbalah among Jews of Moslem Lands.” Florida International University Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, The President Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, February 9, 2006.
Respondent, “Dressing Jews: Sign, History, Text.” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 2005.
Moderator, “Constructing Childhood and Youth in Major Nineteenth-Century Fiction.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Augusta, GA, March 2005.
Moderator, First panel in conference on “Leadership and Charisma in Sephardic Jewish Mysticism and Philosophy on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of Maimonides’ Death.” Florida International University Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, The President Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, November 17, 2004.
Co-Organizer of Nineteenth Century Studies Association panel for the annual meeting of North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Toronto, October 2004.
Moderator, “A Potpourri of Writers and Texts.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 2004.
Moderator, “Fabulous Feasts.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
Moderator, “Historical Prophecy.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, March 2002.
Moderator, “Art and Architecture: Erecting Victorian Cities, Undoing Victorian Culture.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Roanoke, VA, March 2001.
Moderator, “Degeneration or Decadence: Fin de Siècle Spectacle.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 1999.
Moderator, "Wise Beyond Words." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Huntsville, AL, April 1998.
Mentor to panels organized and presented by students: “In the Calm Before Storms: Learning from Florida’s Devastation,” presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council, Ocala, 2006; “Miami Beach Hotel Design,” presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council, Gainesville, 2005; “Hollywood, Florida—Then and Now,” presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council, 2004; “Transgressive Art,” presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council, Orlando, 2003; “Aesthetics, Values, and Authority,” National Collegiate Honors Council, Salt Lake City, 2002; "Inhabiting Other Lives,” National Collegiate Honors Council, San Francisco, 1996, and Florida Collegiate Honors Council, Tampa, 1997; “Honors as Opportunity for Multicultural Interaction,” Southeastern Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting, Savannah, 1998; “Honors: Tying Loose Ends and Completing the Loop,” National Collegiate Honors Council, Chicago, 1998.
Moderator, "Diversifying the Victorians: Anglo-Jewish Women Writers in 19th-Century England." MLA annual convention, Washington DC, December 1996.
Local Arrangements Co-Chair, 1996 Annual Meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, April 1996.
Conference Committee Member and Panel Moderator, 13th Annual Women's History Month Conference, FIU, March 1995.
Introducer of Keynote Speaker, "Looking East: The Future of Jewish Spirituality," FIU, February 1995.
Moderator, "Building Bridges: African-American and Jewish Relations." FIU North Campus, October 1994.
Moderator, "Victorian Spatial and Temporal Preoccupations." Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, April 1994.
Moderator, "Diverse Perspectives: Nationalist Attitudes in Literature and Culture." FIU Women's History Month Conference, March 1994.
Session Leader and Co-organizer, "The 1890s: Critical Reevaluations of British Fiction." Special Session at the 1991 MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco.
Moderator, "Paying Attention: Two Issues in Gender and Violence." FIU Women's Studies Colloquium, March 1990.
Courses Taught at FIU Literature: Approaches to Literature Survey of British Literature II Periods in English Literature: The Victorian Age Women in Literature: Nineteenth-Century British Women Novelists Major Literary Modes: Realism in Fiction Major Literary Genres: The Short Novel Major American Writers: Henry James Special Topics: British Fiction of the 1890s Late Victorian Fiction Late Victorian Literature (M.A. course) Jews in 19th-Century British Fiction Anglo-Jewish Literature, 19th Century to the Present Israel Zangwill and the Immigrant Experience Fiction of the Jewish Immigrant Experience Migrant Stories: Jewish and Caribbean/Caribbean and Jewish (team taught)
University Honors College: Inhabiting Other Lives Aesthetics, Values, and Authority
Composition: Writing Fundamentals Freshman Composition (including Freshman Interest Group, 2000-01) Techniques of Interpretation Business Letters and Reports
Additional Courses Taught Elsewhere: Survey of World Literature II Introduction to the Humanities
Affiliated Faculty Member: Women's Studies Center Program in Judaic Studies Program in Sephardic/Oriental Studies Department of Religious Studies English in London program (Summer 1998) M.F.A. Thesis Committees: Kitty Oliver, Preston Allen (1993-94); Ran Henry (1994-95, 1998); Ian Vasquez, Michele Baker, Marjorie Klein (1996-97); Nina Romano (1999-2001); Joseph Walpole (2001-02); Sandra Rodriguez Barron (2002-03); Lisette Mendez-Delaney (2002-04); George Tucker (2003); Kathleen Cappy (2003); Lee Kline (2004-05); Astrid Parrish (2004-06); Elizabeth Vondrak (2004-05); Myra Gross (2004-05); John Colagrande (2005- ); Yousi Mazpule (2005- ); Andrea Dulanto (2005-08); Sharon Hartley (2006-07) M.A. Thesis Committees: Andrea Shaw (1997-98); Ronald Bolisay (1997-98); Louise Meredith (1997-[student left program]); Leslie Froelich (chair; 1999-2000); Karen Sutton (chair, 2001-2002); Jeffray Harrison (2002); Michelle Weisen (chair; 2004-05); Benjamin Ruby (2005-08) Academic Service at FIU University Committees and Service: External Reviewer, Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program, 2005 Planning Committee, “Weaving the Tapestry of Jewish Life in America” (FIU program in conjunction with the American Jewish Committee), 2004-05 Search and Screen Committee, Judaic Studies, 2005 FIU Foundation Summer Research Program Evaluation Committee, 2003-04 Reader, Banned Books Week, Biscayne Bay Campus Library 2003, 2004 Biscayne Bay Campus Convocation Committee, 2002 Search and Screen Committee, Women’s Studies, 2002 United Faculty of Florida Senator, 2000-2001 Chair, Search and Screen Committee, Director of Women’s Studies, 2000 Acting Director, Women’s Studies, 1999-2000 Coordinating Committee, Judaic Studies Certificate Program, 1994- Advisory Committee for Women's Studies, 1992- Bookstore Proposal Evaluation Committee, 1993-94 University Bookstore Advisory Committee, 1988-95 (Chair, 1988-93) Faculty Advisory Committee, Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, 1990-92 Search and Screen Committee, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, 1989 Curriculum Subcommittee, University Undergraduate Experience Focus Group, 1989
College of Arts and Sciences Committees and Service: Search and Screen Committee, Director of Women’s Studies, 2008 Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2001-02, 2004-05 Committee on Faculty Assignments and Evaluation, 1994-95 Faculty Development Committee, 1993-95 Student Complaint Committee, 1986-90 Budget Committee, English Department Rep., 1986-88 Biscayne Bay Campus Arts and Sciences Steering Committee, 1985-87, 1989-1992, 1996-97, 2000-01 (and more recently, too)
Honors College Committees and Service: Judge, Convocation Poetry Competition, 2004, 2005, 2006 Curriculum Review Committee, 2002-03 Outstanding Fellow Awards Committee, 2002-03 Lectures and Events Committee, 2002-03 Admissions Committee, 2002 Advisory Committee, 1997-2000 North Campus Honors College Committee, 1995-96 Mentor to students who prepared proposals and presented panels at 3 national, 1 regional, and 2 state Honors Council conferences.
English Department Committees and Service: Search and Screen Committee, Writing Center Director, 2008 Associate Chair, 2007- Salary Committee, 1987-88, 1995-96, 2003, 2005-06 Curriculum Committee, 1999- Personnel Committee, 1993-94 (North Miami Campus chair), 1997-99, 2001-02 Acting Associate Chair, Spring 1994, 1995-96, 2005-06 Committee to Administer the M.A. in Literature, 1994-2000 Committee to Develop the M.A. in Literature, 1987-88, 1990-2000 Search and Screen Committees, Literature, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94 (Chair, Spring 1994) Search and Screen Committee, Creative Writing, 1988-89 Recruitment Committee, Composition, 1986-87 Advisor to Students in English, 1984- Head Advisor in English, Biscayne Bay Campus, 2005-06, 2007-
Other: Book club discussion facilitator: The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. The Wolfsonian-FIU, June 2008. “Mabel E. Wotton’s ‘The Fifth Edition’: Literary Violence Against Women.” Guest Lecture in Liberal Studies Colloquium, Introduction to Women’s Studies, June 2008. “I, Zangwill: The Making of a Transatlantic Jewish Celebrity.” Talk presented to the English Department Graduate Students Association, March 2005. “Israel Zangwill and the Early Zionist Movement.” Talk presented at the Biscayne Bay Campus College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Seminar, September 2003. “The Honors College: Welcome to the Real World.” Keynote address, Honors College Convocation, Florida International University, September 2002. Moderator, Student Policy Paper session, Fourth Annual Student-Centered Symposium: Democracy, Justice, & Trade in US/Caribbean/African Policy December 28, 2001 Faculty Participant, FIU Committee for the Miami Jewish Film Festival, 2001 Host for several Jewish Studies guest lecturers, 1997- Faculty Participant, Parent Orientation Program, "Academics: Everything a Parent Wants to Know," North Miami Campus, July 1988 Planning Committee for and Participant in Multiple Roles Seminar, Women's Studies Center, 1986-87 Guest Lecturer, Honors Program, 1991, 1992 Guest Lecturer, Humanities Colloquium on Women and the Constitution, 1988 Guest Lecturer, English Dept. course in George Eliot, 1986, 1987
Service to the Profession (see also "Other Conference Participation" and “Media Appearances”): President, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. First three-year term beginning March 2006. Secretary/Member of Executive Committee, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, 2002-05. Board Member, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, 1996-2002. Acting Treasurer, Victorians Institute, Fall 1989, 1992-93, Spring 1995. Consultant to Ruth Fruchtman, a Berlin writer, on the radio documentary Israel Zangwill: Ein Ghettoträummer, 2002. Consultant on the exhibit “‘The Jewish Dickens’: Israel Zangwill and the Wanderers of Kilburn.” November 1999-March 2000. Jewish Museum, London. Manuscript Reviewer (1994-present, dates omitted to preserve confidentiality): Wayne State University Press, Broadview Press, Ashgate Publishing Company, Ohio University Press, University of Missouri Press; Victorian Studies, VIJ (Victorians Institute Journal), Nineteenth-Century Studies, Shofar, PMLA. Referee of candidates for tenure and promotion at various colleges and universities, 1994-present. Faculty Grant Reviewer, Morehouse College, 2003.
Community Service: “Israel Zangwill: The First Transatlantic Jewish Celebrity.” Talk presented at a combined program of the Renaissance Group, Temple Sinai of Toronto, and the Sisterhood, Beth Tikvah Congregation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 21, 2008.
Book review discussion facilitator: Days of Awe, by Achy Obejas. Sisterhood of Temple Sinai of North Dade, North Miami Beach, FL, April 16, 2007.
“Women’s Literary Responses to Parshat Chayei Sarah.” Session leader for Women of Reform Judaism Study Day, Temple Sinai of North Dade, North Miami Beach, FL. November 18, 2006.
“Israel Zangwill, the First Transatlantic Jewish Celebrity.” Talk presented at the monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of Temple Sinai of North Dade, North Miami Beach, FL. November 7, 2005.
“I, Zangwill: The Making of a Transatlantic Jewish Celebrity.” Harry S. Ward Memorial Lecture, Golders Green Synagogue, London, UK, June 26, 2005.
“Fiction of the American Jewish Immigrant Experience.” Lecture presented to the Interamerican Chapter of Hadassah, Miami Beach, December 16, 2004.
“The First Jewish Celebrity of the 20th Century: A Lecture on Author Israel Zangwill.” Jewish Book Month event, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami Beach branch, November 16, 2004.
“Seeking My Father’s Past: A Journey Through Lithuania.” Talk presented at Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, Miami, FL, October 2003.
“Literature of the Great Wave of Jewish Immigration.” Talk presented at the monthly meeting of Na’amat-Or group, April 2003.
“Israel Zangwill.” Talk presented at a meeting of the Golda Meir Chapter of Hadassah, Pompano Beach, FL, April 2002.
“Israel Zangwill and Children of the Ghetto.” Talk presented at a meeting of the regional chapter presidents of Women’s League for Israel, Februrary 2002.
“Searching for Israel Zangwill: A Scholar’s Journey.” Talk presented at the April 2001 meeting of the Hazak organization, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation.
“Israel Zangwill’s ‘Watchman, What of the Night?’” Talk presented at the October 2000 meeting of the South Florida Association for Jewish Studies, Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
“Jews in England.” Talk at the year’s inaugural program of Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Sisterhood, September 2000.
Introduction of Susan Faludi, speaker at the Miami Book Fair International, November 1999.
"Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual,” by Heidi Thomann Tewarson." First Wednesdays Book Review, Adult Education Program, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, North Miami Beach, FL, January 2000. “New Directions in Women’s Studies at the University.” Lecture at monthly meeting of the American Association of University Women-Florida, November 1999.
“Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto: A Jewish Literary Response to the Representation of the Jew in English Literature.” Lecture at Young Israel of Kendall, October 1999.
“Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto.” Lecture at North Miami Beach Havurah, October 1998.
“The Chosen People–-For What?” Tikkun Leyl Shavuot study session, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, Miami, FL, May 1998.
"Children of the Ghetto: Assimilation and Tradition 100 Years Ago." First Wednesdays Book Review, Adult Education Program, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, North Miami Beach, FL, April 1998.
"The Jewish Woman in the 21st Century: Inclusive Language in Prayer." Participant in lunch-and-learn program at Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, North Miami Beach, FL, February 1997.
"Shakespeare and the Jews, by James Shapiro." First Wednesdays Book Review, Adult Education Program, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, North Miami Beach, FL, November 1996.
"Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto." Talk at Havurah of Boca Raton, FL, October 1996.
Guest Speaker on David Lean's film Great Expectations, Classic and Foreign Film Discussion Group, Fort Lauderdale, FL, February 1996.
"Children of the Ghetto, by Israel Zangwill." First Wednesdays Book Review, Adult Education Program, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, North Miami Beach, FL, November 1995.
"Amy Levy, a Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Woman Writer." Talk presented as guest speaker at monthly meeting of Na'amat-Mazal group, Miami, Florida, January 1995.
"The Happy Prince," by Oscar Wilde, Lecture/discussion presented in the 5th and 6th grade Humanities core, regional gifted program, Highland Oaks Elementary School, March 1994.
"Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto after One Hundred Years." Talk presented as guest speaker at monthly meeting of Na'amat-Or group, Miami, Florida, October 1992.
Participating Reader, Dade County Read-Aloud Day, Madie Ives Elementary School, April 1992, 1993.
Member, Sisterhood Board, 1998-2004; Executive Board, 1995-99; Board of Directors, 1994-99, Beth Torah Adath Yeshurun Congregation, Miami, FL.
Media Appearances Interviewed for and quoted in article, “The Jewish Sylvia Plath? Neglected 19th-Century Author [Amy Levy] Gets a New Lease on Life.” By Jessica George Firger. The Forward, November 3, 2006: B3; also published as “Books: Interest grows in neglected 19th-Century female author Amy Levy,” Jewish Journal, Nov. 16, 2006.
Interview subject and consultant for the radio documentary “The Jewish Dickens: Israel Zangwill.” Broadcast January 25, 2004, BBC Radio 3. Pennine Productions, Mark Whitaker, Producer.
Interviewed for and quoted in article, “Return of the Wanderer [An Exhibition of the Life and Times of Israel Zangwill],” By Lawrence Joffe. Jerusalem Report, January 17, 2000: 44-45.
Media appearance representing the Honors College, on FIU in View, program on high-achieving students and the 2002 National Collegiate Honors Council conference, taped and broadcast by WLRN public television, Cable-TAP, December 2002.
Media appearances as Acting Director of Women’s Studies: Brief news event responses on local news shows (WFOR and WSVN Miami); one of two participants in a half-hour interview show, FIU in View: Women’s History Month, taped and broadcast by WLRN public television Cable-TAP, March 2000.
Current Memberships: Modern Language Association Association for Jewish Studies Women's Caucus, Association for Jewish Studies Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (President) Victorians Institute North American Victorian Studies Association
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