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Vita for:
Kathleen McCormack Professor Department of English Florida International University North Miami, Florida 33181 USA
Books:
George Eliot’s English Travels: Composite Characters and Coded Communications. London: Routledge 2005.
George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000; Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001.
‘George Eliot’s Continental Travels’ In progress.
‘Essays and Allegories by Edith Simcox.’ In progress.
‘Sundays at the Priory: George Eliot and the Salon’ In progress.
Articles:
‘Bessie Parkes’s Summer Sketches: George Eliot as Poetic Persona.’ Victorian Poetry 42 (Fall 2004): 295-311.
‘George Eliot’s English Travel: “Widely Sundered Elements.”’ George Eliot Review 31 (2000): 65-70.
‘George Eliot’s First Fiction: Targetting Blackwood’s. The Bibliotheck: A Scottish Journal of Bibliography and Allied Topics 21 (1996): 69-80.
‘George Eliot, Julia Cameron, and Fox Talbot: Photography in Daniel Deronda.’ Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 12 (April-June 1996): 175-179 (quarto pages).
‘Middlemarch: Dorothea's Husbands in the Vatican Museums.’ Victorians Institute Journal 20 (1992): 75-91.
‘George Eliot Biography: A Fourth Phase.’ Victorians Institute Journal 19 (1991): 219-232.
‘The Saccharissa Essays: George Eliot's Only Woman Persona.’ Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 (Spring 1990): 41-59.
‘George Eliot and Victorian Science Fiction: Daniel Deronda as Alternate History.’ Extrapolation 27 (Fall 1986): 185-196.
‘George Eliot and the Pharmakon: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England.’ Victorians Institute Journal 14 (1986): 33-51.
‘George Eliot's Earliest Prose: The Coventry Herald and the Coventry Fiction.’ Victorian Periodicals Review 29 (Summer 1986): 57-62.
‘The Sibyl and the Hyena: George Eliot's Wollstonecraftian Feminism.’ Dalhousie Review 63 (Winter 1983-84): 602-615.
‘George Eliot: Wollstonecraft's “Judicious Person With Some Turn for Humour.”’English Language Notes 9 (September 1981): 44-46.
‘Rosamond and Lady Blessington: Another Middlemarch Anachronism.’ Notes and Queries 27 (December 1980): 527-28.
Chapters in Books
‘Intoxication and the Victorian Novel.’ In Victorian Literary Cultures: A Critical Companion to the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Ed. William Baker (New York: Greenwood 2001).
‘Mary Catherine Hume-Rothery.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Women Poets II. . Vol. 256 Ed. Bill Thesing (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman 2001), 100-106.
‘Camilla Toulmin.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Women Poets II. Vol. 256. Ed. Bill Thesing (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman 2001), 19-25.
‘Isa Blagden.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Women Poets I. Ed. Bill Thesing (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998): 20-27.
‘Mabel Kitcat.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: Short Fiction Writers of the Late Nineteenth Century. Ed. Bill Thesing (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1994): 212-216.
‘John P. Marquand.’ Popular World Fiction (Washington, D.C.: Beacham Publishing, 1987): 1008-1015.
‘George Eliot.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Prose Writers Before 1867. Ed. Bill Thesing (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman,1987): 303-312.
Reviews:
Reviews of 142 Strand by Rosemary Ashton and George Eliot Germany by Gerlinde Roder-Bolton. Forthcoming in Victorian Studies.
Review of William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis, by Angela Thirwell. Victorians Institute Journal 34 (2006):274-75.
Review of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, by Amy King. Victorians Institute Journal 32 (2004):242-4.
‘The BBC Daniel Deronda: A Conversation (With Apologies to Henry James)’ (with Meri-Jane Rochelson). George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 44 (2003): 115-20.
Review of Scenes of Reading: Transforming Romance in Brontë, Eliot and Woolf by Nancy Cervetti. George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 36-37 (1999): 111-13.
Review of A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker. Ed. Margaret Barfield and Constance Fulmer. George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 34 (1998): 69-71. . Review of Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology. Ed. Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds. George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 32-3 (September 1997): 82-85.
Review of Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare by Marianne Novy. George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 18-19 (September 1991):100-103. (1998): 69-71.
Review of American Sailing Ships: Their Plans and History, by Charles G. Davis, Victorians Institute Journal 16 (1988): 199-201.
Review of H. Rider Haggard by D. S. Higgins, Science Fiction Studies 11 (1984): 93-94.
Scholarly Papers:
‘George Eliot and Theory.’ Participant presentation at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, July 2006.
‘George Eliot in Spain: Landscapes for a Creative Imagination.’ Read at the meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Salisbury University, Maryland, March 2006.
‘George Eliot in the Schwarzwald: Gwendolen’s Childhood.’ Read at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Virginia, September 2005.
‘George Eliot’s Coded Communications: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.’ Read at the meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association. University of Toronto, October 2004.
‘Beyond Warwickshire: English Originals in George Eliot’s Fiction.’ Read at the George Eliot Conference. University of Warwick, August 2004.
‘Industrious Tourism: George Eliot’s Composite Representations of Place.’ Conference on ‘Tourism and Literature.’ Harrogate, July 2004.
‘Visual Images and George Eliot’s Creative Imagination: Middlemarch and the Keepsake Once Again’ (with Richard Fantina). University of Gent, June 2004.
‘Hemingway’s Battlers and Barflies’ (with Richard Fantina). Read at the meeting of the Hemingway Society. Key West, Florida, May 2004.
‘Blame It on Venice: George Eliot’s Husband in the Grand Canal.’ Read at ‘The Make-Believe of a Settlement: 19th-Century Venice.’ University of Leeds, July 2003.
‘George Eliot’s English Travel.’ Paper read at plenary session at the conference of the Victorians Institute, The Citadel, Charleston, October 2002.
‘A Holiday in Surrey: Barbara Leigh Smith, Marian Evans, and Bessie Parkes.’ Paper read at ‘British Women Writers,’ University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2002.
George Eliot’s English Travel: Widely Sundered Elements”’ Poster display. ‘Locating the Victorians.’ Imperial College, London, July 2001.
‘Edith Simcox, Journalist.’ Read at ‘British Women Writers,’ University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 2001.
‘“Correspondence” in The Ladies’ Companion: Editors, Readers, and Scornful Rejections.’ Read at the meeting of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 2000.
‘George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Rising and Converging with the Academy.’ Read at ‘Victorian Scholarship,’ Leeds Center for Victorian Studies, March 1998.
‘George Eliot's Theory of Addiction: “The Logic of Habit.”’ Read at ‘Addiction and Culture,’ Claremont Graduate Center, Claremont, California, March 1996.
‘George Eliot's First Fiction: Targeting Blackwood's.’ Read at the meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, the University of Edinburgh, July 1995.
‘Neo-Gothic Architecture in George Eliot's Fiction.’ Read at the meeting of The Gothic class=Section3>Association, The University of Stirling, June 1995.
‘Parents, Drugs, and Politics in George Eliot's Fiction.’ Read at the meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, William and Mary College, April 1994.
‘“Among the Blacks”: George Eliot and Postcolonial Literature.’ Women's Studies Conference, Florida International University, March 1994.
‘From Arbury to Lacock: George Eliot and the Architectural Gothic Revival.’ Read at the meeting of the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, Spring 1993.
‘Daniel Deronda and Photography.’ Read at Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Tampa, Florida, April 1992.
‘A Million Wills: Casaubon's Sympathetic Community.’ Read at ‘Dorothea's Windows: Sympathy and Community in the Novels of George Eliot’ George Eliot Conference at Northeast Missouri University, Kirksville, Missouri, April 1991.
‘Middlemarch: Dorothea's Husbands in the Vatican Museums.’ Read at ‘The Globalized Victorian,’ Victorians Institute Conference, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, October 1990.
‘British Painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition.’ Read at the meeting of the European Association of American Studies, London, England, April 1990.
‘Bugs Bunny's Androgyny.’ Read at ‘In the Historical Dimension,’ the Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1990.
‘A New George Eliot Biography.’ Read at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, December 1989.
‘Kubrick's Allusions: Fragonard, Barry, and Bach.’ Read at ‘Cultural Literacy, Cultural Power,’ the Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1989.
‘George Eliot and Metaphors of Transport.’ Read at ‘Transport, Transition, and Rites of Passage,’ the meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1988.
‘The Book and the Loom: George Eliot, Silas Marner, and Alistair Cooke.’ Read at ‘Intertextuality,’ the Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1988.
‘Oxbridge Degrees for Women: 1887-97, a Decade of Debate.’ Read at the ‘Victoria's Jubilees’ class=Section4>Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 1987.
‘Key West Oral Biography: The Reliability of the Conch's-Eye Hemingway.’ Read at ‘Crosscurrents,’ the Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1987.
‘Sailing Imagery in the Novels of George Eliot: From Sealore to Metaphor.’ Read at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1986.
‘“Modern Housekeeping” and the Finale to Middlemarch: George Eliot's Only Woman Persona.’ Read at the FIU Women's Studies Colloquium, February 1986.
‘The Military Wife and the Militant Feminist.’ Read at the FIU Department of English Lecture Series, March 1985.
‘Walter Besant's The Revolt of Man: The Failure of a Nineteenth-Century Anti-Feminist Dystopia.’ Read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1984.
‘George Eliot and the Pharmakon.’ Read at the Victorians Institute Conference, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, October 1984.
‘Art and Ideology: Literary Canonicity.’ Read at the FIU Department of English Lecture Series, April 1984.
‘George Eliot's Wollstonecraftian Feminism.’ Read at the FIU Women's Studies Colloquium, October 1982.
COURSES TAUGHT:
19th-Century British Literature
Undergraduate:
The Romantic Period Victorian Women Poets Women in the 19th-Century British Novel The Victorian Period British Women Writers The Gothic Novel George Eliot and Her Influence Texts and Contexts: 19th- and 20th-century British Literature British Women Novelists George Eliot Women and Violence in the 19th-Century British Novel Women in Literature: Schoolgirls in 19th and 20th-century Novels Victorian Literature and the Italian Renaissance The English Novel from Scott to Hardy George Eliot and the Visual Arts Women Heroes of the 19th-Century British Novel The Development of the English Novel Survey of British Literature II The Victorian City and Its Literature Shakespeare, Keats, and Dickens
Graduate:
Middlemarch and 19th-Century Narrative Victorian Women Writers: Prose and Poetry Victorian Prose: Fiction and Journalism Work and Play in 19th-Century British Literature History of the Novel
Other British Literature
20th-Century British Literature British Novels of the 1990s British Literature at the Millennium English Literature since 1660 Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature Contemporary British Literature
British and American Literature
The Short Story Literature of the Sea Italian Settings in British and American Literature Literature and Intoxication Women in Literature: Sisters Homes and Haunts: Literary Spaces and Places
General Humanities and Film
Approaches to Literature Studies in Film Film and Reality Film and Its Music Italian Film Film of the Sixties
Writing
Travel Writing Elements of Writing Elements of Writing: Writing on Computers Technical Writing Techniques of Interpretation Travel Literature and Travel Writing
Art and Sciences Liberal Studies Colloquia
Nuclear Holocaust Liberal Studies Colloquium War and Society Liberal Studies Colloquium
EMPLOYMENT:
2004-present Professor Florida International University 1987-2004 Associate Professor Florida International University Spring, 1995 Visiting Associate Professor Florida State University Study Abroad program Summer, 1994 Visiting Faculty Cambridge University International Summer School Spring, 1993 Visiting Associate Professor Tufts University Fall, 1992 Visiting Associate Professor Florida State University Study Abroad Program, London Fall, 1989 Visiting Associate Professor Florida State University Study Abroad Program, Florence 1982-87 Assistant Professor Florida International University 1981-82 Visiting Assistant Professor Florida International University 1980-81 Adjunct Instructor University of Miami
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Scholarship, The School for Criticism and Theory, Director: Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, Summer 2006.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative," Ohio State University, Summer 1995.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Political and Religious Romance in the English Novel," Boston College, Summer 1991.
Alternate, NEH Summer Institute, 1991.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1987 (declined in order to accept the following)
Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar in Italian Civilization, 1987.
Junior Faculty Development Fellowship, Florida Endowment Fund for Higher Education (McKnight), 1985-86.
Alternate, NEH Summer Seminar, 1984.
Minority Faculty Development Awards, FIU, annually 1982 through 1990.
College of Arts and Sciences Research Grants, FIU, annually 1983 through 1990.
SERVICE:
Member, Department of English Search and Screen Committee, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1993-94 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85 Member, University Judicial Review Board for Academic Misconduct, 1984-85, 1986-87 Major Advisor, Department of English, Summer 1984-Fall 1985 Respondent, Women's Studies Colloquium, 1985 Member, M.S. Examining Committee, Biological Sciences Department, 1985 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Student Complaint Committee, 1985-86 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Student Complaint Committee, 1986-87 Chair, University Judicial Review Board for Academic Misconduct Hearing, June 1988 Co-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Procedural Committee, 1989-90 Member, Department of English Library Committee, 1988-89 Judge, Career Services Awards, May 1989 Member, University Faculty Senate, 1990-1992 Session Moderator, "Focus on Gender," FIU Women's Studies Conference, April 1991 Member, Department of English Space Committee, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96 Member, University Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1991-1992, 1992-93 Member, Ph.D. Examination Committee, Tufts University, 1993 Member, Teaching Incentive Program Committee, Modern Languages Department, 1994 Co-director, English in London Study Abroad Program, 1996. Member, FIU Foundation/Provost's Award Committee, 1994, 1996 Member, Program Committee, Women's History Month Conference, FIU, 1995-96 Director, English in London Study Abroad Program, 1997, 1998 Member, University Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee, 1991-93, 1997-98 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Procedural Committee, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98, 2002-2003 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Procedural Committee, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1996-97, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003 Member, Women's Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committee, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007 Member, Master’s Thesis Committee, Department of English, 2005 Chair, Department of English Salary Committee, 2005-2006 Member, Department of English Salary Committee, 2006-2007
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Treasurer, Victorians Institute, 1986-2006 Reader, McGill-Queen’s University Press 1999 Editorial Consultant, Victorians Institute Journal, 1986-present Referee, Nineteenth-Century Studies, 1987, 1989 Referee, St. Martin's Press, 1991 Co-Chair, Arrangements. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Meeting, Spring 1996 Chair, Program. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Meeting, Spring 1996 Referee, Victorian Studies 2001 Referee, Routledge Press 2005 Program Chair, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Meeting, Spring 2008
REFERENCES: upon request
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