Kathleen Diffley - English



Kathleen Diffley

Department of English 319-335-0437

University of Iowa kathleen-diffley@uiowa.edu

Iowa City, IA 52242-1492

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Ph.D. (1984) Columbia University

19th-Century American Literature and Culture

M.Phil. (1980) Columbia University

English and Comparative Literature, 1977-80

M.A. (1977) Columbia University

English and Comparative Literature, 1976-77

M.Ed. (1974) Harvard Graduate School of Education

General Education, 1973-74

B.A. (1972) Bard College

Language and Literature, 1969-72

American College in Paris, Freshman Year Abroad, 1968-69

Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 1991-present

Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 1983-91

Honors and Awards

Fellow-in-Residence, Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Spring 2016, Spring 2012

Career Development Award, Spring 2012, 2004-2005, Spring 1990

M/MLA Recognition for Leadership and Unparalleled Service, 2008

Iowa Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award, 2005

Arts and Humanities Initiative Grantee, 1999-2000

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1999-2000, Calendar 1991

Iowa Faculty Scholar, 1998-99, 1994-96

Howard Foundation Fellow, Calendar 1993

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection, Invited Intern, 1989

NEH Summer Stipend, Summer 1989

Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Fellow, Summer 1987

Iowa Old Gold Summer Fellow, 1984, 1985, 1986

American Association of University Women Fellow, 1982-83

Memberships

Modern Language Association, Midwest/Modern Language Association, New-York Historical Society,

Virginia Historical Society, Maryland Historical Society, Museum of the Confederacy, Constance Fenimore

Woolson Society, Research Society for American Periodicals

SCHOLARSHIP

Refereed Publications

Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894, ed.

Kathleen Diffley (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011; paper 2013) 310pp. (16 essays submitted upon invitation)

To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876, ed. Kathleen Diffley (Durham: Duke UP, 2002;

paper 2004) 429 pp.

Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876

(Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992) 236 pp.

Special Issue on “Writing the Civil War: Transnational Dimensions,” eds. Peter Rawlings and Kathleen

Diffley, Comparative American Studies: An International Journal (UK) 4.5 (December 2007) (invited)

“Emancipation and Grizzly Reckoning: The Advent of Photography, California’s Overland Monthly, and the

Model of Parallax,” Literary Cultures of the Civil War, ed. Timothy Sweet (Athens: U of GA P, 2016),

245-64 (commissioned)

“Dead Reckoning: Recollecting the Civil War through Periodicals,” Teaching the Literatures of the

American Civil War, ed. Colleen Glenney Boggs (MLA Teaching Series, 2016), 211-20 (commissioned)

“Dépôt Culture: The Civil War and Periodical Fiction,” Cambridge History of American Civil War

Literature, ed. Coleman Hutchison (Cambridge UP, 2015), 79-95 (commissioned)

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

“Consensus and Contest: The Public Humanities and Unsettling Reception,” Journal of the M/MLA 45.1

(Spring 2012): 1-2, 25-33

“Cypresses, Chameleons, and Snakes: Displacement in Woolson’s ‘The South Devil,’” Witness to

Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894, ed. Kathleen

Diffley (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011), 194-211

“‘People Who Remember’: The American South and the Example of Woolson, 1873-1894,” Witness to

Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894, ed. Kathleen

Diffley (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011), 3-14

“Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus,” Blackwell’s

Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson

(Oxford: Blackwell, 2005; paper 2009), 240-59 (commissioned)

“Splendid Patriotism: How the Illustrated London News Pictured the Confederacy,” special issue on

Writing the Civil War: Transnational Dimensions, Comparative American Studies 4.5 (December

2007): 385-407

“A Veritable Scholarly Frontier,” American Periodicals 12 (2002): 179-92 (commissioned)

“The Roil of Contemporary Debate: Uncovering Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America,”

M/MLA Journal 35 (Spring 2002): 88-95

“Clean Forgotten: Woolson’s Great Lakes Illustrated,” in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth

Century: Essays, ed. Victoria Brehm (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2001): 200-26

“Commemorative Stamps,” American Literary History 12 (Spring-Summer 2000): 254-71 (commissioned)

“Home from the Theatre of War: The Southern Magazine and Recollections of the Civil War,” Periodical

Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, eds. Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1995):183-201

“Musquitos, Rattlesnakes, and Perspiration: The Civil War’s Special Artist for the Illustrated London News,”

Books at Iowa 63 (November 1995): 3-13

“Salmon P. Chase’s ‘Gettysburg Address,’” Iowa Journal of Communication 25 (1993): 62-64 (commissioned)

“Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Popular Narratives from Sumter to the Centennial,” American Literary

History 2 (Winter 1990): 627-58

“Home on the Range: Turner, Slavery, and the Landscape Illustrations in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,

1861-1876,” Prospects 14 (1989): 175-202

“Reconstructing the American Canon: E Pluribus Unum?” Journal of the M/MLA 21 (Fall 1988): 1-15

“’Erecting Anew the Standard of Freedom’: Salmon P. Chase’s ‘Appeal of the Independent Democrats’ and

the Rise of the Republican Party,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988): 401-15

“Introduction to Popular Culture,” in American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the

Civilization of the United States (New York: Cambridge UP, 1986), II: 1173-91 (commissioned)

“The Roots of Tara: Making War Civil,” American Quarterly 36 (Bibliography 1984): 359-72 (commissioned)

Review of Randall Fuller, From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature 67.1 (June 2012): 115-18, 1045 w. (commissioned)

Review of Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865. American Literature 75 (2003): 869-70, 809 w. (commissioned)

Review of Nina Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900. American Historical Review 100 (1995): 1690-91, 604 w. (commissioned)

Review of Nina Baym, Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Critical Texts 11 (Spring 1985): 30-32, 967 w. (commissioned)

Reviews of Scholarship (Witness to Reconstruction)

The Year’s Work in English Studies (London, 2013), Michael Collins, Clare Elliott, Anne-Marie Ford, &

Helena Goodwyn, 304 w.

Choice (February 2012), J. J. Benardete, 133 w.

Journal of Appalachian Studies (Spring/Fall 2011), Kevin E. O’Donnell, 721 w.

and mentions in the Journal of the Civil War Era (December 2012), Civil War Book Review (Summer 2012), and Legacy (Fall 2010)

Reviews of Scholarship (To Live and Die)

American Literary History (Summer 2005), Eliza Richards, 3927 w.

American Periodicals (Spring 2004), Joseph F. Goeke, 702 w.

Journal of Southern History (February 2004), Don Dingledine, 507 w.

JASAT, Journal of the American Studies Assn of Texas (2003), Carolyn Harper, 386 w.

Journal of American Culture (September 2003), Ray B. Browne, 185 w.

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Spring 2003), Lyde Cullen Sizer, 558 w.

Richmond Times-Dispatch (16 February 2003), James Robertson, 194 w.

Choice (November 2002), C. Johanningsmeier, 200 w.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Fall 2002), E. Susan Barber, 550 w.

Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 2002), anonymous, 252 w.

Civil War Book Review (Fall 2002), James Gordon Bennett, 525 w.

Journalism History (Summer 2002), Debra Reddin van Tuyll, 473 w.

Times Literary Supplement (21 June 2002), Stanley Trachtenberg, 1043 w.

Library Journal (1 April 2002), Margaret Atwater-Singer, 171 w.

Kirkus Reviews (1 March 2002), anonymous, 159 w.

and mentions in the Journal of Military History (January 2005), American Literature (March 2003), the U.S. Consulate, Chennai-India Book Alert (October/November 2003), American Historical Review (October 2002), and the Journal of American History (September 2002)

Reviews of Scholarship (Where My Heart Is Turning Ever)

American Literary Scholarship (1992), Gary Scharnhorst, 110 w.

Booklist (15 November 1992), Gilbert Taylor, 165 w.

Southern Seen (February 1993), anonymous, 230 w.

The State, S.C. (3 May 1993), Rodney Stevens, 260 w.

Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 1993), anonymous, 130 w.

Historian (Autumn 1993), Jacquelyn S. Nelson, 490 w.

Journalism History (Spring 1994), David Abrahamson, 470 w.

College Literature (June 1994), Timothy Sweet, 1300 w.

Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1995), John Gerlach, 670 w.

and mentions in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (24 January 1993), Tennessee Historical Commission Courier (February 1993), American Literature (June 1993), Reference and Research Book News (August 1993), and Michigan Law Review (September 1993)

Readings and Interviews

“The Rupture of Civil War,” World Canvass with Joan Kjaer, 25 January 2013



“The Unknown Civil War—In Photographs and Words,” Interview 2, WBUR Arts Online, 16 June 2004



“Live from Prairie Lights,” Reading from To Live and Die, 23 November 2002

Danielle Alexander, “To Live and Die: Narrative Remains Open Literary Window to the Civil War,”

Illumine 2 (July 1999): 3-7

Invited Addresses and Conference Papers

“In Progress: Making Time, Landing Fellowships,” Grinnell College, June 2016

“Cultural Life During Wartime: 1861 and Literary Periodicals,” Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin,

September 2014

“Emancipation’s Growl: Antietam, the Proclamation, and the Long Reach of the Overland Monthly,”

University of Iowa, Triangle Club, April 2012

“Gorillas in the Mist: Large Classes, Pedagogical Gumption,” Iowa State University, April 2009

“DGS Mentoring: Best Practices,” University of Iowa, Graduate College, March 2008

“Workshop on Periodicals,” University of Iowa, Main Library, February 2008

“In Progress: Writing Grant Proposals,” University of Iowa, Dept. of Art History, August 2007

“In Progress: Making Time, Landing Fellowships,” Iowa State University, April 2007

“Baked Alaska; Or, The Humanist Folly of Applying for Fellowships?” Grinnell College, October 2004

“Prix Fixe: Fellowship Applications in Ten Easy Steps,” Grinnell College, October 2004

“Splendid Patriotism; or, The Illustrated London News Covers the Confederacy” (Interdisciplinary

19th-Century Studies conference, 2004) invited keynote presentation

“After Antietam: Stereo Views, Civil War Stories, and Paramount National Citizenship,”

Harvard University's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, March 1997

“Home from the Theatre of War: The Southern Magazine and Recollections of the War Between the States,”

City College of New York, October 1993

“Mutiny’s Rumbles in the New National Era” (MLA, 2017) invited

“Low Whistle: Douglass’s New National Era and Sudden Opportunity” (M/MLA, 2016)

“Numbered, Numbered: Commemorating the Civil War Dead in Woolson’s ‘Rodman the Keeper’” (ALA

Symposium, 2016) invited

“‘Deliver a Smeazel’: Emancipation and Chicago’s Lakeside Monthly” (C19, 2016) invited

“Writing the ‘Blind Ruck of Event’: Civil War Literary Historiography at 150, 1861” (MLA, 2016)

“The Land of Lincoln: Illinois, the Lakeside Monthly, and the Underground Railroad” (M/MLA, 2015)

“Trial by Newspaper: Murder and Invention in Woolson’s Anne” (Woolson Society, 2015; ALA, 2015)

“Long Forgot: The Lost Cause and the Land We Love” (M /MLA 2014)

“Textual Problems…in Periodicals” (MLA, 2014) invited

“Uncovered: Beyond Coverture in Charlotte’s The Land We Love” (M/MLA, 2013)

“Emancipation’s Thunder-Bolt in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Anne” (ALA, 2013)

“The Lightning Flash of War, The Thunder-Bolt of Emancipation: Woolson’s Anne” (Woolson Society, 2013)

“Railroaded: Chicago’s Lakeside Monthly and the Neglected Western War” (M/MLA, 2012)

“Emancipation and Grizzly Reckoning: The Advent of Photography, the Overland Monthly, and the Model

of Parallax” (C19, 2012), invited

“Dead Reckoning: Recollecting the Civil War through C19 Periodicals” (M/MLA, 2011)

“Gardenhaus Invaded: Woolson’s ‘Wilhelmina’ and Ohio’s Egypt” (Ohio Goes to War, 2011)

“Of Arms and the Women: Woolson’s Anne and the Epic Incorporation of the Local” (ALA, 2011)

“Last Resort: Neeker-bocker Travel and Catskill Rescue in Anne” (Woolson Society, 2011)

“Old Times There: The Land We Love and Re-Inventing the South” (M/MLA, 2010)

“Dépôt Culture: Cornelius Vanderbilt and Magazining Memory” (M/MLA, 2009)

“Woolson’s Anne as Western-Border Mongrelosity” (Woolson Society, 2009)

“Emancipation and the Grizzly Rebuttal of the Overland Monthly” (M/MLA, 2008)

“Lost? Charlotte’s Land We Love and Magazining the Civil War” (Modern Language Assn, 2007)

“Dead Reckoning: Post-Appomattox in the Magazine Marketplace” (M/MLA, 2007)

“Cypresses, Chameleons, and Snakes: Displacement in Woolson’s ‘The South Devil’” (Woolson Society, 2007)

“Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Anne as Border Mongrelosity” (ALA, 2006)

“Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte: The Land We Love and North Carolina’s Civil War” (M/MLA, 2005)

“Booster Fever; Or, the Revenge of the Stacks” (ALA, 2005), invited

“Unsubjugated: How the Illustrated London News Pictured the Confederacy” (M/MLA, 2004)

(Interdisciplinary 18th/19th Century Colloquium, 2005)

“Hue and Cry: Reconstruction’s Emended Promise in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Waiting for the

Verdict” (American Studies Association, 2003)

“To Live and Die and Woolson’s ‘Wilhelmina’” (ALA, 2003)

“Taint Necessarily So: Reconstructing the Union in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Waiting for the Verdict”

(Mid-America ASA, 2003)

“In Circulation: Stories, Magazines, and Post Offices of the Civil War” (ASA, 2002)

“Woolson’s ‘Wilhelmina’ and Reconstruction’s Egypt” (Woolson Society, 2002)

“The Fetching Roil of American Debate: The Work of Diffusion in 19th-Century Magazines and

Undergraduate Classrooms” (ALA, 2002)

“Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Wilhelmina’ and the Nubian Challenge to Communal Life”

(M/MLA, 2001)

“Gartenhaus Invaded: Woolson’s ‘Wilhelmina’ and Magazining the Civil War” (ALA, 2001)

“Delivering the Goods: Civil War Stories, Wartime Magazines, and Postal Reorganization” (M/MLA, 2000)

“Cleveland’s Crooked Prosperity” (Woolson Society, 2000)

“Polyglot Manque: The Overland Monthly and Postbellum San Francisco” (M/MLA, 1999)

“‘Cross-Providences, God’s Will’: Civil War Stories, the Lakeside Monthly, and Railroad Sprawl” (ASA, 1999)

“Electronic Tonic: Workshop on Teaching American Literary Magazines” (ALA, 1999) invited

“Far From the Spirit of Progress: Reconstructing the South in Woolson’s For the Major” (Woolson Society, 1998)

“Quotidian Emergency: Civil War Stories in the Popular Wartime Press” (M/MLA Convention, 1997)

(Multi-Ethnic Lit of the U.S., 1998)

“Reconstructing Gettysburg” (ASA, 1997) invited

“The Roil of Contemporary Debate: Unearthing Literature and Culture in 19th-Century Magazines” (ALA,

1997) invited

“Fac-Simile Truth: Photographic Shock and Literary Innovation during the Civil War” (Modern Language

Association, 1996) invited

“Clean Forgotten: Woolson’s Great Lakes Illustrated” (Woolson Society, 1996) invited

“Horrible Significance: Mathew Brady’s ‘The Dead of Antietam’ and Civil War Stories in the Popular

Wartime Press” (INCS, 1996)

“Untelling the Truth: The Advent of Photography and the Disruption of Narrative in Stories of the Civil War

(M/MLA, 1994) invited

“Caroline Marsdale, the Southern Magazine, and Memories of the Civil War” (ALA, 1993)

“‘Tell Us Truly’: Recollections of the Civil War and the Impact of International Copyright Debates” (ASA,

1992), invited

“Sk-yarred for Life: Mark Twain, the Civil War, and Reconstituting the Body Politic,” (MAASA, 1992)

“Cycles of Story and History in Faulkner’s The Unvanquished” (MLA, 1990)

“Race and the Tensions of Cultural Hegemony in the American Theatre of the 1850s,

Response” (ASA, 1990) invited

“Keep the Home Fires Burning: National Stability and Popular Fiction from Sumter to the

Centennial” (American Culture Association, 1988)

“‘Erecting Anew the Standard of Freedom’: Salmon P. Chase’s ‘Appeal of the Independent

Democrats’ and the Rise of the Republican Party” (Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1988)

“Reconstructing the American Canon: E Pluribus Unum?” (M/MLA, 1986)

“The Rise of the Republican Party: Rhetorical Strategy in Salmon P. Chase’s ‘Appeal of the

Independent Democrats’” (ASA, 1985)

“The Popular Rhetoric of Reconstruction: Images of the Civil War in Harper’s New Monthly

Magazine, 1866-1876” (MLA, 1983)

TEACHING

Courses Taught

F16 ENGL:2014 “Reading and Writing about Short Stories” (18 students)

ENGL:3430 “In Print/In Person” (23 students)

M16 ENGL:6900 “Doctoral Workshop in English (8 students)

S16 course reduction for 2015-16

F15 ENGL:2150 “Introduction to the Short Story” (21 students)

ENGL:2409 “Washington Irving and His Era (22 students)

ENGL:3430 “In Print/In Person” (21 students)

M15 ENGL:6900 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (10 students)

S15 ENGL:2409 “Hawthorne and His Contemporaries” (24 students)

ENGL:7600 “Civil War Cultures” (8 students)

F14 8:36 “Introduction to the Short Story” (21 students)

8:139 “In Print/In Person” (24 students)

M14 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (12 students)

S14 8:59 “American Short Story” (53 students)

F13 8:36 “Introduction to the Short Story” (25 students)

8:98 “Honors Seminar: Inventing an American Past” (11 students)

8:139 “In Print/In Person” (24 students)

M13 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (14 students)

S13 8:87 “Hawthorne & His Contemporaries” (25 students)

8:247 “American Literary Magazines: 19C” (11 students)

F12 8:120 “Honors Thesis Workshop” (11 students)

8:139 “In Print/In Person” (28 students)

M12 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (12 students)

F11 8:120 “Honors Thesis Workshop” (11 students)

8:139 “In Print/In Person” (27 students)

M11 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (10 students)

S11 8:36 “Introduction to the Short Story” (25 students)

F10 8:120 “Honors Thesis Workshop” (9 students)

8:139 “In Print/In Person” (20 students)

8:250 “New National Literatures” (16 students)

M10 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (12 students)

S10 8:87 “Hawthorne & His Contemporaries” (30 students)

F09 8:59 “American Short Story” (59 students)

8:120 “Honors Thesis Workshop” (12 students)

8:458 “Seminar in American Literature & Culture: Civil War Cultures” (9 students)

M09 8:210 “Doctoral Workshop in English” (12 students)

S09 8:59 “American Short Story” (56 students)

Students Supervised, 2012-16 (*directed dissertation, comps area, qualification, or PhD workshop)

PhD: Matthew Blackwell (2015) *comps F16, *quals S15

Nicholas Borchert (2012-16) *PhD workshop M16, M15, M13, M12, prospectus S16, *comps S15

Kelly Budruweit (2014-2015) *PhD workshop M16, M15, M14

Jaclyn Carver (2015-16) *prospectus F16, *PhD workshop M16, *comps S16

Carla Gonzalez (Education) *PhD workshop M16

Stephanie Grossnickle-Batterton (American Studies) *PhD workshop M16, prospectus S15, comps F14

Sarah Livesay (2015) defense M16, *PhD workshop M15

Jennifer Loman (2011-14) defense M16, prospectus F14, comps F14, *PhD workshop M14, M11 *quals F11

Eric Moy (Education) *PhD workshop M16

Nicholas Katopol (Education) *PhD workshop M16

Jennifer Shook (2013-15) defense M16, *PhD workshop M15, M14, prospectus S14, comps F13

Katie Wetzel (2016) *PhD workshop M16

Lacey Worth Askeland (2010-15) *defense F15, *prospectus S12,*comps F11

Christine Norquest (2010-15), defense F15, *PhD workshop M10

Alex Ashland (2015) *PhD workshop M15, *quals S15

Gemma Goodale-Sussen (2015) *PhD workshop M15

Miriam Janechek (2014-15) *PhD workshop M15, comps F14

Tim Robbins (2011-15) *PhD workshop M15, M13, M11, defense S15, prospectus M13

Annmarie Steffes (2015) *PhD workshop M15

Stephanie Tsank (2015) prospectus F15, *PhD workshop M15, *comps M15

Harrison Dietzman (2015) *quals S15

Jennifer Ambrose (American Studies) defense F14, *PhD workshop M12

Raquel Baker (2010-13), *PhD workshop M14, M13, M10

Thomas Blake (2009-14) *PhD workshop M14, M10, M09

Blake Bronson-Bartlett (2009-14) defense M14, prospectus S12, *comps S11, *PhD workshop M09, *quals S09

Nicholas Cooley (2012-14) comps F14, *PhD workshop M12

Justin Cosner (2010-13) prospectus F14, S14, *PhD workshop M14, *comps F13, *quals F11

Jennifer Yirinec Janechek (2013-14) *PhD workshop M14, M13

Nicholas Kelly (2014) *PhD workshop M14

Brent Krammes (2014) prospectus F14, comps S14

Elizabeth Lundberg (2013-14) *PhD workshop M14, *PhD workshop M13

Benjamin Miele (2013-14) *PhD workshop M14, *PhD workshop M13

Annemarie Pearson (2014) *PhD workshop M14

Eve Rosenbaum (2005-13) *defense F14, *PhD workshop M13, M12, M11, M08, M06, M05, *M/MLA workshop F08,

F07, *prospectus F07, *comps S07

Spencer Santos (2013-14) *PhD workshop M14, M13

Rob Albanese (American Studies) *PhD workshop M13, M12

Dan Boscaljon (2011-13) defense M13, prospectus F11, *comps S11

Barrett Gough (American Studies) *PhD workshop M13

Laura Kuhlman (2013) *PhD workshop M13

Mark Mattes (American Studies) defense F13, *PhD workshop M10, M06, prospectus S10, *M/MLA workshop F08,

comps S09

Jennifer McGovern (1997-2013) *defense F13, *PhD workshop M12, M11, M10, M09, M08, M05,*prospectus F07,

*M/MLA workshop F05, F04, *comps S05, *quals S99

Lauren Rosales (2013) *PhD workshop M13

Eliza Sanders (2013) *PhD workshop M13

Craig Carey (2009-13) *defense S13, *prospectus F10, *PhD workshop M10, M09, *comps S10

Eric Conrad (2010-12) defense S13, prospectus F11, *comps S11

Nicole Gainyard (2006-13) *defense S13, *PhD workshop M11, *prospectus S09, *comps S08

Gabriel Downs (2008-12) prospectus M12, *PhD workshop M09, M08, comps S09

Kelly Franklin (2012) *comps S12

Rob Gillespie (2011-2012) *PhD workshop M12, M11

Matthew Lavin (2007-12) defense M12, prospectus S10, *comps S09, *M/MLA workshop F08, *quals F07

Joshua Matthews (2007-12) defense S12, prospectus F08, *comps S08, *PhD workshop M07

Christine Mazurkewycz (2012) *PhD workshop M12

Joseph Rodriguez (2008-10, 2012) *PhD workshop M12, M10, M09, M08

Brenton Thompson (2007, 2012) *PhD workshop M12, M07

Kari Thompson (Religious Studies) *PhD workshop M12

Nicholas Yanes (American Studies) *PhD workshop M12, M11, comps S11

no post-docs

SERVICE

Department

General Education Literature Faculty Advisor, 2016-17

Graduate Admissions, 2015-16, 2007-09

Promotion Committee, Fall 2015

Graduate Qualifications, Spring 2015 (Chair)

Graduate Placement, 2014-15, 2013-14 (Chair), 2007-08

Graduate Steering Committee, 2013-15, 2005, 2001-04, 1995-98 (Chair), 1991-94, 1986-88

AGSE panel on journal publishing, Fall 14 (invited)

Honors Thesis Czar and Honors Committee, 2009-13

AGSE panel on comps, Spring 2010 (invited)

American Area Committee, Fall 2009 (Chair)

Tenure Committee, Fall 2006, Fall 2000 (Chair)

Graduate Finances, 2002-06 (Chair, Co-Chair)

Honors Committee, 2005-06, 2001-02

Pre-Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2005

Cultural Studies Search Committee, 2003-2004

Graduate Admissions, Graduate Finances, 2001-02, Fall 1995 (Chair), 1989-94 (Chair, 1991-94)

Center for the Book/English Search Committee, 2000-01

Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, 1995-98

Curriculum Committee, 1995-98

Spriestersbach Prize Selection Committee, 1997, 1996

Americanist Search Committee, 1996-97, 1994-95, 1992-93

Executive Committee, 1991-94

Affirmative Action and Opportunity at Iowa Search Committee, 1988-89, 1992-93

African-American Search Committee, 1983-85

College

CLAS Task Force on Graduate Finances, 2005-2006

Liberal Arts Executive Committee, 1994-98

Task Force on Reducing DEO Paperwork, Spring 1998

Internal Review Committee, Women's Studies, 1992-93

University

Tenure Committee, SLIS Fall 2010, SLIS Fall 2003, Theatre Fall 1995

Master’s Reader for Commencement, Graduate College, 2006

Internal Review Committee, Graduate College, 2003-04

Faculty Senate, 2001-04

SROP Summer Institute roundtable, Summer 2004

Ad Hoc “Term” Graduate Faculty Committee, Fall 2003

University Libraries, Special Collections Search Committee, Spring 2001

VP for Research Advisory and Selection Committee, Spring 2001, Fall 1998

Vice Provost Search Committee, Summer 1997

Faculty Scholar Selection Committee, 1995-96

Profession

Past President and Local Arrangements Chair, Constance Fenimore Woolson Society (2016-17, 2011-13)

Director, Civil War Caucus, M/MLA Conference on “Reconstruction at 150: The Flickers of

Possibility” (8 sessions) 2016

Chair, ALA roundtable on Teaching 19C American Women’s Writing, 2016

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities workshop, MLA 2016 (invited)

Contributing Editor, American Literary History, 1994-present

Board Member, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2008-18; Treasurer, 2008-12

Director, Civil War Caucus, M/MLA Conference on “The Civil War at 150: Surrender?”

(10 sessions) 2015

Panelist, Library of Congress Kluge Fellowships/NEH, 2015

Director, Civil War Caucus, M/MLA Conference on “The Civil War at 150: Brave New World?”

(8 sessions) 2014

Referee, ALH, Book History, Mosaic, PMLA, Southern Cultures, PQ, American Quarterly

Chair, MLA session on Imagining Modern Cities through Periodicals, 2014 (invited)

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “The Civil War at 150: Turning Points,”

(8 sessions) 2013

Referee, U of Massachusetts P, UP of Virginia, U of Nebraska P, Harvard UP, U of Georgia P, MLA P,

Routledge, UP of Mississippi, U of Chicago P, Cornell UP, U of Alabama P, Beacon Press, Cambridge

UP, Pickering & Chatto, Johns Hopkins UP, Fordham UP

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “The Civil War at 150: The Fateful Lightning,”

(6 sessions) 2012

Tenure Referee, Cornell College 2012, CCNY 2011, U of Nebraska 2004, Mt. Holyoke 1998,

U of Iowa/Theatre 1995, IUPUI 1995, Kenyon 1994

Referee, U of Texas-El Paso internal grants competition, Fall 2012

Chair and Organizer, ALA session on “Woolson’s Postbellum Itinerancy,” 2012

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “The Civil War at 150: Sesquicentennial Summons,”

(8 sessions) 2011

Chair and Moderator, ProQuest/RSAP Prize Committee, “Issues and Methods in American Periodical

Research: ProQuest-RSAP Award Panel for Scholarship on American Periodicals (ALA 2011)

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “Civil War and the American 19C: Rupture &

Representation,” (5 sessions) 2010

Member, M/MLA Executive Committee, 2008-2010

Panelist, NEH Division of Public Programs, America’s Media Makers, 2010

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “Civil War: American Vortex in Print,” (4 sessions) 2009

Moderator, M/MLA Workshop on Writing a Grant Proposal, 2009, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001

Executive Director, Midwest/Modern Language Association, 2000-08

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Conference on “Recasting the Civil War,” (3 sessions) 2008

President and Conference Organizer, Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, 2004-07

“Postbellum Sojourns: The American South and the Example of Woolson, 1865-1890”

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Session on “Remembering the Civil War,” 2007

Panelist, NEH Fellowships for University Teachers, 2007, 1997, 1996, 1992; Summer Stipends, 1989

Consultant and Project Organizer, HarpWeek, 1997-2007

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Session on “A Popular Reconstruction,” 2006

Panelist, Newberry Library Fellowships, 2006

Moderator, M/MLA Workshop on Choosing Administration, 2004

Session Organizer, M/MLA Workshop on Reading Literature: The NEA’s Survey of Literary Reading in America, 2004

Panelist, NEH Division of Public Programs, Literature and Journalism History, 2004

Chair and Organizer, M/MLA Session on “Liberty and Justice in 19th Century Periodicals,” 2003

Site Evaluator, NEH Visit to Winterthur, Fall 2002

Moderator, “Teaching 19th-Century Literary Magazines: Is There a Text in This Class?”

(MAASA Convention, 1998)

Referee, CCNY internal grants competition, Spring 1998

Invited Panelist, MLA Session on Practical Choices and Real Advice about Grad School, 1995

Chair, M/MLA Session on Technology, Popular Culture, and Literary Innovation, 1994

Chair, ASA Roundtable on Activist Women of Letters in 19th Century Culture, 1993

Consultant, Columbia Center for American Culture Studies, 1984-90

Chair, ACA Session on Civil War Art, 1988

Chair, ASA Session on the Jeremiad, 1984

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