Curriculum vitae JANINE M. UTELL 818 South 3rd Street, #2 Philadelphia, PA 19147 610-499-4527 (office) 267-334-2278 (cell) jmutell@mail.widener.edu http://www2.widener.edu/~jmutell EDUCATION 2003 Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Dissertation: “Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction” Director: Edmund Epstein Committee: Mary Ann Caws, Gerhard Joseph M.A., English, The Catholic University of America Examination Field: Twentieth-Century British Literature B.A., English/Creative Writing and French, Barnard College Summa cum laude, departmental honors 1998 1996 SCHOLARSHIP PUBLICATIONS Articles and Book Chapters “Writing War: The Memorial Design Project.” Honors in Practice 5 (2009): 125-133. “Negotiating Dissent: The Adrian Mole Diaries and The Young Ones.” Popular Culture Values and the Arts: Essays on Elitism versus Democratization. Ed. Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 151-162. “The Archivist, the Archaeologist, and the Amateur: Reading Joyce at the Rosenbach.” Journal of Modern Literature 31 (2008): 53-65. “Mourning and Meals in Woolf’s The Waves.” College Literature 35 (2008): 1-19. “Are You Experienced?: Teaching and Reading Joy(ce) through the Body.” Feminist Teacher 17 (2007): 136-150. “The Unburiable: Death Ritual in Osbert Sitwell’s Poetry of the Great War.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 2 (2006): 73-86. “Leaving Her Father’s House: Sackville-West’s Saint Joan of Arc and Woolf’s Three Guineas.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 69 Utell/1 (2006): 7-8. “Unfacts and Evidencegivers: Rumor, Reputation, and History in Finnegans Wake.” James Joyce Quarterly, 41 (2004): 689-700. “The Loss of History: The Publishing of 30s Documentary, Word and Image,” The Thirties Now. Working Papers on the Web, 6 (2004) (a peer-reviewed online journal produced by Sheffield Hallam University, special issue edited by Christopher Hopkins and Mary Grover). . (19 pp.) “Virtue in Scraps, Mysterium in Fragments: Robert Graves, Hugh Kenner, and Ezra Pound.” Journal of Modern Literature 27 (2003): 99-104. “A Fatal Place: The Ritual Encounter with Death in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield.” The CEA Critic 66 (2003): 22-31. “Silence and Tears.” The Explicator 61 (2003): 105-108. Reviews and Review Articles Review of Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm by Daniel J. Leab. Studies in the Novel 40 (2008): 515-517 (solicited). Review article of Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women’s Fiction between the Wars by Jennifer Nesbitt and British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and Friendship by Catherine Clay. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 4 (2008): 161-166. Review of A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World by Morris Dickstein. Modernism/Modernity 14 (2007): 414-416. “Why We (Still) Read Orwell,” review article of George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London by Kristin Bluemel and On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future edited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha Nussbaum. College Literature 33 (2006): 198-203. Review article of Modernism and the Culture of Market Society by John Xiros Cooper and The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (2nd ed.) edited by Derek Attridge. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 38 (2005): 151-166. Review of Before Modernism Was: Modern History and the Constituency of Writing by Geoff Gilbert. Modernism/Modernity 12 Utell/2 (2005): 515-517. Review of Make it New: The Rise of Modernism edited by Kurt Heinzelman. English Literature in Transition 48 (2005): 345-348. Review article of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War by Sarah Cole and Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere by Melba Cuddy-Keane. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 37 (2004): 99-104. Review of The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars edited by Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer. English Studies Forum 1.2 (2004) (a peer-reviewed online journal produced by Ball State University, edited by Trey Strecker). . (4 pp.) Encyclopedia Entries and Other Resources “Les Murray,” “ ‘Morse’ (Les Murray),” “ ‘Once in a Lifetime, Snow” (Les Murray),” “World War II and Poetry.” Companion to British Poetry 1900 to the Present. Ed. James Persoon and Rob Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2009. (600 words; 1000 words; 500 words; 500 words; 2000 words) “Bliss (Katherine Mansfield),” “‘Je ne parle pas français’ (Katherine Mansfield),” “Modernism.” Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 36-38, 212-213, 290-292. “Dan Jacobson.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000. Vol. 319. Ed. David Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 112-120. Introduction to Volume Twenty-Two (November 1, 1917 to April 25, 1918), The Digital New Age Edition (A. R. Orage's The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art). Essays from and about the Modernist Period: Introductions and Topical Essays. The Modernist Journals Project (an online critical archive of journals and little magazines from the Modernist period under the direction of Robert Scholes, Brown University, and Sean Latham, University of Tulsa). • Main page: • Page for Volume Twenty-Two, including Editor’s Introduction (15 pp.): “The Woman Question.” Essays from and about the Modernist Period: Introductions and Topical Essays. The Modernist Journals Project. • Main page: < http://www.modjourn.org > Utell/3 • Page for “The Woman Question” (19 pp.): Forthcoming – Reviews and Review Articles Review of The Shadow of Marriage: Singleness in England 1914-1960 by Katherine Holden. Modernism/Modernity. Review of The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell by Loraine Saunders. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 5 (2009). Review of The Opposite of Desire: Sex and Pleasure in the Modernist Novel by Tonya Krouse. English Literature in Transition 53 (2010) Review of Leonard Merrick: A Forgotten Novelist’s Novelist by William Baker and Jeanette Roberts Shumaker. English Literature in Transition 53 (2010) (solicited). Under Review “James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire,” at Palgrave Macmillan. “Has Her Roses Probably: Molly Bloom, Marie Stopes, and Menstruation,” at James Joyce Quarterly. EXHIBITIONS CURATED “A Nation is the Same People Living in the Same Place: Joyce and Jews: An Exhibition of Selections from the Rosenbach Ulysses Manuscript.” The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA. June 2007. “Warm Fullblooded Life: The ‘Hades’ Episode: An Exhibition of Selections from the Rosenbach Ulysses Manuscript.” The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA. June 2006. “Gentlemen of the Press: The ‘Aeolus’ Episode: An Exhibition of Selections from the Rosenbach Ulysses Manuscript.” The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA. June 2005. INVITED PRESENTATIONS “The Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, and Desire in Ulysses.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. 17 June 2009. “Coffined Thoughts in Mummycases.” The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA. 11 June 2006. Utell/4 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS International “Towards a Theory of the Couple Biography,” 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Sussex, England, June 2010. Seminar Participant, “20th Century Studies: Modernist Studies Without Modernism,” MSA 11, Montréal, Canada, November 2009. “Scripting the Erotic; Or, Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Sex You Could Have Learned from Paul de Kock and Martha Clifford,” XXIst International James Joyce Symposium, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France, June 2008. “The Sexual and Historical Self: MacNeice’s Autumn Journal,” Poetry and Sexuality Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, July 2004. Seminar Leader, “Cruel Modernisms,” MSA 5, Birmingham, England, September 2003. “A Martial Tone with a Domestic Note: The Second World War and the Subversion of the Home in Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children and Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Manservant and Maidservant,” Retrieving the 1940s, University of Leeds, England, April 2002. National “George Barker’s City of Sin: London and Environs in The Dead Seagull,” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Wheaton College, September 2009. “Arranging Adultery: Narrative Design in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept,” College English Association Annual Conference, March 2009. “Women’s Bodies and the Body Politic: The Representation of Postwar Activism and Anxiety in The New Age,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2009. Seminar Participant, “In/Hospitable Modernities,” MSA 9, Long Beach, CA, November 2007. “When Is Adultery Okay? When It’s Good for the Soul: Joyce, Levinas, Love,” College English Association Annual Conference, April 2007. Utell/5 “War, Self, and Community in Rex Warner’s The Aerodrome,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2007. “The Caught Self: Movement and Stasis in Henry Green’s Blitz,” Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between: 8th Annual Conference of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Bucknell University, June 2006. “Nether Regions: Beyond the Margins of Marriage in Joyce’s Notebooks,” College English Association Annual Conference, April 2006. Seminar Participant, “From Barcelona to Berlin: Modernism Goes to War,” MSA 7, Chicago, IL, November 2005. Seminar Leader, “Modern(ist) Love,” MSA 7, Chicago, IL, November 2005. “Intimate Cities: Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings,” College English Association Annual Conference, March 2005. “The Ethics of Love in Hoffman,” Seventh Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Thinking on the Boundaries: The Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature, University of South Carolina, February 2005. Respondent, “St. Joan and the Dragon: Women and Militarism,” 2004 Modern Language Association Convention, December 2004. “The Collapse of Our World: The Personal and Political Wars of the Woolfs,” 2004 World War II Conference, Siena College, June 2004. “‘Is it someone you want to die with?’: Sex and Violence in the Second World War,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2004. “Last Rites and Resurrection: Sex, Death, and Comedy in Finnegans Wake,” Traditions and Innovations: 16th Irregular Miami J’yce Conference, University of Miami, January 2004. “Little or Nothing but Life: Real World Ritual in The Waves,” Woolf in the Real World: 13th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Smith College, MA, June 2003. “The Liars’ School: High Culture, Low Culture and the BBC During Wartime,” The SW/TX Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, February 2002. “Unfacts and Evidencegivers: Rumor, Reputation, and History in Finnegans Wake,” 2001: A Joyce Odyssey, University Utell/6 of Miami, February 2001. CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR/ORGANIZER Chair, “Modernist Precursors, Contemporary Design,” College English Association Annual Conference, March 2009. Chair, “Mid-Century British Modernism,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2009. Chair, “Modernist Rites of Passage,” College English Association Annual Conference, March 2008. Chair, “Tourism from the Outside In,” MSA 9, Long Beach, CA, November 2007. Chair, “Travel and Transformation,” The Experience of War in the Space Between, 19141945: 9th Annual Conference of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, U.S. Naval Academy, June 2007. Chair, “Rewriting and Re-Envisioning Texts,” College English Association Annual Conference, April 2007. Chair, “Narrators and Their Readers,” College English Association Annual Conference, April 2006. Chair, “Modernism and Transatlantic Diasporas,” MSA 7, Chicago IL, November 2005. Moderator, “How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out: Ulysses and the Popular Press,” The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA. 13 June 2005. Organizer/Moderator, “Queering World War Two: Questioning Community,” 2004 Modern Language Association Convention, December 2004. Chair, “Women’s Connection: Duty, Desire, Hypocrisy, and Women’s Narrative in the 19th Century,” College English Association Annual Conference, April 2004. Chair, “Modernism, Beasts, and Bestiality,” MSA 5, Birmingham, UK, September 2003. . CURRENT RESEARCH A World of Two: The Biography of Marriage as Genre This book-length study will define and examine the biography of marriage as a genre. Combining philosophical investigations into romantic love and marriage with work in biography, narrative, and genre theory, this work will offer a taxonomy of the biography of marriage in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on trans-Atlantic couples. Utell/7 GRANTS AND AWARDS 2009 Pennsylvania Humanities Council “Read About It!” Program Grant, for developing and facilitating a book group focused on biographies of marriage 2009 Widener University Faculty Development Grant, for work on A World of Two: The Biography of Marriage as Genre 2007 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Ulysses: Texts and Contexts,” Trinity College, Dublin, directed by Kevin J. H. Dettmar 2007 Widener University President’s Lecture, “Leaving Her Father’s House: War, Gender, and National Identity” 2005 2005 College English Association Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award Sigma Tau Delta 2004 Widener University Provost Grant, for work on James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire 2003 2001 David Gordon Prize, Best Dissertation in Twentieth-Century Studies Distinction on Second Examination (“Orals”) Examination Fields: James Joyce; Modernism into the Thirties; History, Language, Ritual 2000 1996 Study 1996 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York University Fellowship The Catholic University of America Roy DeFerrari Scholarship for Graduate Phi Beta Kappa OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Facilitator, “The Biography of Marriage: A Look at the Lives and Marriages of the Famous and Infamous,” a book group program sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Marple Public Library, Marple, PA 2009 Facilitator, “Let’s Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness,” a book group program sponsored by the American Library Association and the Fetzer Institute, Aston Township Public Library, Aston, PA 2009Co-Founder/Co-Facilitator, NY/PHL Finnegans Wake Reading Group Utell/8 20072007- Referee, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 Referee, Studies in the Novel 2006 Facilitator, “Books on Screen,” a Pennsylvania Humanities Council “Read About It!” book group program, Ridley Township Public Library, Folsom, PA 2005-2008 Facilitator, Ulysses Reading Group, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA 2005-2007 Coordinator, Bloomsday, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA 2004Reviewer, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (area: 20th Century British Literature and Culture, 30+ reviews) 2004Association 2003-2004 Referee, The CEA Critic, official print journal for the College English Association Associate Editor and Web Site Manager, College English Association Responsible for The CEA Forum, online journal for the College English 2002 Participant, Dickens Universe, University of California at Santa Cruz, a weeklong summer program focusing on a novel by Charles Dickens (in this case, Dombey and Son); participating graduate students teach the novel to high school teachers and undergraduates while attending seminars and lectures Participant, “Writing to Learn,” a workshop at The Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College Workshop leader, “Creating Better Assignments,” Adjunct Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York Workshop leader, “Writing in the Humanities,” Writing Fellow Professional Development Seminar, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 2001-2002 Editorial Assistant, Dickens Studies Annual 2001-2002 Co-Editor, The Notebook: Narratives of Teaching and Learning, a publication of The Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York 2001-2003 Writing Fellow, The Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York Collaborated with faculty to implement a new Program in Writing Across the Curriculum and writingto-learn strategies, including the development of new courses Utell/9 Coordinated workshops addressing pedagogical theory and practice in various disciplines Served as liaison between new faculty and the Program in Writing Across the Curriculum 2000 Workshop leader, “College Now,” LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York, a series of weekend college preparatory workshops for high school students 1998 Production Assistant, Apocrypha, a documentary on the York Mystery Cycle (dir., Geoffrey Pingree, The Catholic University of America) TEACHING 2009Widener University, Associate Professor of English and Member of Writing Center Faculty See below for courses offered 2009 Member Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Greifswald, Guest Faculty Course taught: Literature in English after Empire (Sommersemester) 2003-2009 Widener University, Assistant Professor of English and Member of Writing Center Faculty • Courses in rotation, Undergraduate: ENGL 101: Composition and Critical Thought ENGL 102: Advanced Composition and Literature ENGL 103: Freshman Honors English ENGL 134: British Literature II ENGL 146: Women Writers: 1800 to the Present (cross-listed with Women’s Studies) ENGL 301: Methods of Literary Study ENGL 356: Victorian Literature ENGL 357: The British Novel ENGL 360: British Literature: 1890-1945 ENGL 361: British Literature: 1945 to the Present ENGL 362: 20th Century British Drama ENGL 363: Literature in English after Empire ENGL 409: Senior Seminar: Ulysses • Courses in rotation, Graduate: GLS 515: Diverse and Distinct Voices: International English Literature GLS 520: Literature of War in the 20th Century 2003 Yeshiva University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Member of Writing Center Faculty Courses taught: Composition II: The Research Paper; Survey of British Literature II 2002 Hofstra University, Adjunct Instructor of English Course taught: Composition, for “Cyberspace: Technology and Ethics,” a section of the Utell/10 First-Year Program (a learning cluster with courses in Computer Science and Philosophy) 1998-2001 LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York, Adjunct Instructor of English Courses taught: Introduction to Expository Writing; Writing Through Literature 1997-1998 SERVICE University Level 2009-2010 20082008 Thinking Faculty Secretary Co-Chair, Search Committee for Director of the Office of Pedagogical Support Honors Program in General Education Pilot Assessment Project in Critical The Catholic University of America, Teaching Assistant and Writing Center Tutor Assisted with Composition and Introduction to Media Studies 2007-2008 Faculty Participant, Freshman Orientation Academic Program: Keys to Success/Common Experience 20062005-2006 Faculty Advisor, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance Student Retention Task Force 2004-2006 College of Arts and Sciences Representative, Faculty Council Grants and Awards Committee • Secretary (2005-2006) 2004Representative from English, Teacher Education Council • Preparer, NCTE Report for NCATE Accreditation (national recognition awarded) (2006-2009) 2003 Member, Ad-Hoc Subcommittee for the Creation of a Women’s Studies Major, Women’s Studies Advisory Committee 2003-2008 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Committee College of Arts and Sciences Level 2008Representative from Humanities, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Advisory Committee 2005At-large Representative, College of Arts and Sciences Assessment and General Education Committee • Secretary (2007-2009) 2005-2007 Secretary-Treasurer, College of Arts and Sciences Utell/11 2005 Replacement Member, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Planning Committee 2004 2003-2005 Faculty Moderator, DebateWatch 2004 Member, Pew Lecture Committee Humanities/English Level 2008 2007 2005-2006 2004 2004 Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Student Retention in Humanities Faculty Facilitator, English Club Presents “A Night at the Movies” Reader, Mervin R. Lowe Creative Writing Prize Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Recruiting Majors to English Facilitator, Comp Over Lunch PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Board Member (ex officio), College English Association • Publications Committee • Chair, Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award Committee • 20th Century British Literature Area Chair Member, International James Joyce Foundation Member, International Virginia Woolf Society Member, Modern Language Association Member, Modernist Studies Association Member, The Space Between Utell/12