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Curriculum Vitae:Personal Contact Information:Email: cdegrasse@smu.edu cmd4513@Biographical Information:Carol DeGrasse is currently a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University.?Her primary interests lie in nineteenth-century circum-Atlantic literature and the histories of Civil-War era periodicals and photography. She has published on Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and Rebecca Harding Davis and is currently researching the power of propagandic photography and print in shaping racial identities during the Civil War.Education: Ph.D. in English, Southern Methodist University (SMU), August 2018 to presentM.A. in English, University of Texas at Tyler, May 2017. B.A. in English, University of Texas at Tyler, May 2015Fellowships, Grants, and AwardsNEH Scholarship, Rare Book School, tuition and stipend, competitive award, 2020Michael Pueppke Writing Prize, 2019Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society Fellowship, 2014 Phi Theta Kappa, Texas District Three Hall of Honor Achievement Award, 2013Sigma Kappa Delta Honor Society, National Outstanding English Student Award, 2012Kilgore College Outstanding English Scholar, 2011-2012Refereed Publications:“Blocks of this Korl”: Substance as Feminist Symbol in “Life in the Iron Mills.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 49, no. 7, 2020, pp. 736-47. doi: 10.1080/00497878.2020.1803863.“The Highest Calling.” The Little Orange Book II: Student Voices on Excellent Teaching, U of Texas P, 2020, pp. 11-15. “Emily Dickinson’s ‘’Twas warm — at first — like Us—’ (Fr614).” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 4, 2017, pp. 248-51. doi:10.1080/00144940.2017.1382439. “Emily Dickinson’s ‘I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent –’ (Fr257).” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 2, 2017, pp. 125-28. (with Dr. Ann Beebe).Interviews and podcasts:“Emily Dickinson in Popular Culture,” Emily Dickinson Museum Podcasts, August 5, 2018Conference Presentations: “Mud and Foul Effluvia”: Difficulty as Working-Class Exposé in “Life in the Iron-Mills,” Modern Language Association, Virtual, January 2021 “Lighting out West”: The West as Metaphor in Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad,” American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2021 (rescheduled)“Creating Identity through Revolt: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionists and the Power of the Press,”American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2021 (rescheduled)“Blocks of this Korl”: Substance as Feminist Symbol in “Life in the Iron Mills,” American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2019 “Struggle as Catalyst and Catharsis in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, Denver, Colorado, November 2018 “‘I would not paint – a picture – ’ Symbolic Representation in Dickinson’s ‘I’ Poems.” Emily Dickinson International Society Critical Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts, August 2018 “Re-Imagining Mrs. Georgie Sheldon: Feminist Theory in 19th-Century Sentimental Fiction,” American Literature Association, San Francisco, California, May 2018 “’That Dark Parade’: Emily Dickinson and the Victorian ‘Cult of Death’,” Emily Dickinson International Society Critical Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts, August 2017“Gender-Bending: Borders of Identity in?Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2017“Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the ‘Good Death’,” South Atlantic MLA Conference, November, Jacksonville, Florida, 2016 “Broadening the Boundaries: A Historical Analysis of Frontier Women in 19th Century Literature,” ALA Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, February 2016Affiliations:African American Literature and Culture Association, 2019 to presentSHARP, 2018 to presentAmerican Studies Association, 2017 to presentRebecca Harding Davis Society, 2016 to presentSociety for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), 2016 to presentModern Language Association (MLA), 2014 to presentEmily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 2012 to presentService in field:MLA 2021 Team Member for ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture’s “The Year in Conferences” project, 2020-2021Reviewer, journals: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Medical Humanities, The Explicator, 2018 to presentWebmaster, Rebecca Harding Davis Society, 2019 to presentMustang Mentors, SMU Engaged Learning, Jan. 2019 to presentESL Language Mentor, SMU Dedman College, Dec. 2018 to present ................
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