Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Fordham University, English, 2012
Dissertation: “The Thoroughly Modern Spectator: Women, the City, and the Marketplace, 1900-1939.” Committee: Philip Sicker (Chair), Anne Fernald, and Christopher GoGwilt.
M.A., Stony Brook University, English, 2003
B.A., magna cum laude, Hofstra University, English and Print Journalism, 2000
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of English, Washington College, Department of English, July 2019-Present
Assistant Professor of English, Washington College, Department of English, July 2013-June 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marist College, Department of English, June 2012-May 2013
Visiting Lecturer, Marist College, Department of English, August 2011-May 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Book
Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist & Mystic, Clemson University Press, March 2, 2021
Pamela Colman Smith was a highly-regarded artist, poet, folklorist, editor, publisher and stage designer in the period from the mid-1890s through the 1920s. An American citizen, Colman Smith was born in England, spent part of her childhood in Jamaica, traveled frequently between New York and Dublin during her peak years of productivity, before retiring to Cornwall where she died in 1951. Although today primarily remembered for designing the Rider-Waite tarot deck, she was a seminal figure in early modernism. My book explores how Colman Smith adopted multiple identities during different parts of her life: Jamaican folk tale teller, suffragist, and ambiguously gendered pixie and how these personas, coupled with a fearlessness unusual for women in this period, affected her critical reception and led to her longstanding lack of recognition.
Mass Market Book
Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story, U.S. Games, Inc., July 2018.
Served as co-author for a lavishly illustrated, commemorative book marking the 140th anniversary of Colman Smith’s birth. Contributed a 99-page biographical essay on her and provided overall editing assistance to the publisher. Other contributors were Stuart Kaplan, Mary Greer, and Melinda Boyd Parsons.
Articles
“Uncovering the Real Life Lizzie Twigg: Misperception and Identity in ‘Lestrygonians.’” James Joyce Quarterly, forthcoming 2021.
“‘We Disgruntled Devils Don’t Please Anyone: Pamela Colman Smith, The Green Sheaf, and Female Literary Networks.” The South Carolina Review. 48.2, Winter 2016: 72-89.
“Pamela Colman Smith’s Performative Primitivism” Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Allison Donell, Maria McGarrity, and Evelyn O’Callaghan. Mona: University of the West Indies Press, June 2015.
“Kate O’Brien, James Joyce, and ‘the Lonely Genius.’” Joycean Legacies. Ed. Martha Carpentier. Manchester: Palgrave Macmillan Irish Studies, May 2015.
“Beyond Vengeance: Ford’s When the Wicked Man as a Writerly Response to Jean Rhys.” Ford Madox Ford and America, Vol. 11. Eds. Sarah Haslam and Seamus O’Malley. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, September 2012: 121-137.
“Jean Rhys’s Quartet: A Re-Inscription of Ford’s The Good Soldier.” Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing,. Vol. 9. Ed. Jason Harding. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2010.
“‘A Splendid Forlorn Hope’: Fin-de-Siècle Little Magazines, Modernism, and the Public Sphere.” Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870-1914, Ed. Gregory Tague. Bethesda: Academica Press, 2008: 27-42.
Reviews & Short Pieces
Review of Jane Davison, Kate O’Brien & Spanish Literary Culture. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2017, breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Q & A with Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna, the Directors of In Bed With Ulysses, Joyce Studies Annual, 13 (December 2014):
Review of In Bed With Ulysses (Dirs. Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna) James Joyce Quarterly. 49.2 (December 2013): 386-90.
Essay Review of Janine Utell, James Joyce and the Revolt of Love. Joyce Studies Annual, 10 (2011): 214-22.
Review of Lesley McDowell, Between the Sheets: Nine 20th-Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships. Ford Madox Ford Newsletter, May 2011.
Review of Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies. Ed. Anna Snaith. Woolf Studies Annual 14(2008):174-177.
Four articles: “Chambers’ (Edinburgh) Journal,” “Family Herald,” “Pearson’s Magazine,” and “Vanity Fair,” in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Eds. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. London: British Library, 2009.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Tenure, Washington College, 2019
Provost’s Travel Grants, Washington College, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Faculty Enhancement Grant, Washington College, Summer 2014, Summer 2017
Junior Leave, Washington College, Spring 2017
Inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, Washington College, April 2015
President’s Travel Grant, Marist College, Spring 2012 and 2013
Special Services Teaching Excellence Award, Marist College, April 2012
Dean’s Award for Summer Research, Marist College, June 2012
Jesuit Pedagogy Fellowship, Fordham University, Spring 2011
Senior Teaching Fellowship, Fordham University, 2010-2011
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Summer Fellowship, 2008
Research Fellowship, Fordham University, 2008-2009
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Pamela Colman Smith’s Performative Primitivism,” The Space Between Society, University of Richmond, June 2021, rescheduled from June 2020.
“Biography in Modernist Studies” roundtable, Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn, NY, cancelled due to Covid-19.
“Creating Sustainable Writing Groups” workshop, Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 16, 2020. Co-led with Claire, Buck, Ravenel Richardson, and Aimee Armand Wilson.
““terrible surprises” and “good ones”: Modernist Archival Scholarship” roundtable, Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 17-19, 2020
Chair of “Middlebrow Women Writers” panel that will be part of the Northeast Modern Languages Association annual conference, Washington D.C., March 21-24, 2019.
“Pamela Colman Smith: Decadence and The Green Sheaf,” presented at the “Women Writing Decadence: European Perspectives” conference at Oxford University, England, July 7-9, 2018.
“Pamela Colman Smith, Female Artistic Communities, and the Suffrage Movement,” presented at “Intersections of Resistance,” a joint conference with the Space Between Society and the Feminist inter/Modernist Association, at the University of Northern California, Greeley, CO, June 7-9 2018.
“A Deck of Many Cards: Pamela Colman Smith and the Failed Creation of Identity,” presented at the Northeast Modern Languages Association annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 12-15, 2018. Also co-chaired a panel on “Teaching Argument in the Age of Trump.”
“Pamela Colman Smith and The Green Sheaf,” was presented as part of the Women in Modern Periodical Culture Round Table at the 18th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference in Pasadena, California November 17-20th, 2016. I also presented, “Reading, Writing, and Walking: Transforming English 101 with Joyce and Woolf” on the Modernist Texts and the Core Curriculum Roundtable at the same conference.
Chair of the “Feminism and the Medical Humanities” panel at the NeMLA conference in Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017.
“Pamela Colman Smith, The Green Sheaf and the Women’s Suffrage Atelier,” Modernist Studies Association XVII, Boston, November 2105. Accepted and distributed in advance. Due to an emergency, I was unable to attend the actual discussion of the pre-circulated papers.
“Pamela Coleman Smith, the Green Sheaf Press, and Female Literary Networks,” The 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bloomsburg, PA, June 2015.
“Walking to Write, Writing to Understand: Flânerie as a Pedagogical Practice,” Modernist Studies Association XVI, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
“Pamela Colman Smith’s Performative Primitivism,” Modernist Studies Association XVI, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
"Pixie, Performer, Poet, Priestess, Pamela: Pamela Coleman Smith and the Uses of Identity," Faculty Lunch Time Forum, Washington College, October 2014.
“Mail and the Female: New Approaches to Women’s Letters,” Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 2015 (Panel chair).
“Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Editor, and Publisher on the Margins,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York, New York, April, 2014.
“Pamela Colman Smith and The Green Sheaf,” 129th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, January 2014.
“‘Sloppy’ Hair and ‘Tasteless’ Stockings: Shedding Light on the Real Life Lizzie Twigg,” North American James Joyce Symposium, Charleston, South Carolina, June 2013.
“Going Her Own Way: The Unexpectedly Unconventional Poetry of Lizzie Twigg,” Northeast Modern Language Association 44th Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2013 (organizer and panel chair).
“Meet Pamela Colman Smith the Artist, Poet, Folklorist, and Editor Who Brought Jamaica to Ireland.” Marist College Faculty Research Forum, Poughkeepsie, NY March 2013.
“Uncovering the Real Life Lizzie Twigg: Misperception and Identity in ‘Lestrygonians,’” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, Kentucky, February 2013 (panel chair).
“Irish Modernism in Pamela Colman Smith’s Annancy Stories and The Green Sheaf,” Irish Caribbean Connections Conference, Barbados, November 2012.
“Who’s Playing Whose Game? Jean Rhys’s Critique of Ford Madox Ford,” Women and Society Conference, Marist College, October 2012.
“Subversive Exiles: Kate O’Brien, James Joyce, and the ‘How-Many-Sided Figure of Life,’” 23rd International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
“Who’s That Girl: James Joyce, Lizzie Twigg, and the Mystery of Ulysses,” School of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Forum, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, April 2012.
“Kate O’Brien, ‘Avant-Gardisme,’ and the Anxiety of Influence,” Northeast Modern Language Association 43rd Annual Conference, Rochester, New York, March 2012 (organizer and panel chair).
“Navigating the Rocky Road to the Ph. D,” Northeast Modern Language Association 43rd Annual Conference, Rochester, New York, March 2012.
“A ‘place of refuge for all the races of the world’: Ford Madox Ford’s New York in When the Wicked Man,” Modernist Manhattan Conference, New York Institute of Technology, March 2012.
“Building Discernment in the Composition Classroom,” Fordham University’s 5th Annual Jesuit Pedagogy Symposium, Bronx, NY, May 2011.
“Women, the City, and Walter Benjamin,” Northeast Modern Language Association 42nd Annual Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011 (organizer and panel chair).
“Re-visiting Joyce’s Idea of ‘Smart’: Women, Intellectuality, and Unstable Masculinity in Ulysses,” Mid-Atlantic American Conference on Irish Studies, Drew University, Chatham, NJ, October 2010.
“The ‘Uneasy Eyes’ of Influence: Ford’s When the Wicked Man and Jean Rhys,” International Ford Madox Ford Society Annual Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, September 2010.
“From ‘Packages’ to People: The Conflicted Representation of Women in Kate O’Brien’s Early Fiction,” Northeast Modern Language Association 41st Annual Conference, Montreal, April 2010 (organizer and panel chair).
“‘War Material,’ Impressionism, and the Cinematic Gaze in Jean Rhys’s ‘Vienne,’” Literature and the Mass-Produced Image Conference, New York University, NY, April 2010.
Panel Chair, “Woolf and Empire,” International Virginia Woolf Society Annual Conference, Fordham University, NY, June 2009.
“‘Belonging to the Great Maddening City’: Flânerie and Female Agency in Jean Rhys’s Quartet,” Northeast Modern Language Association 40th Conference, Boston, MA, February 2009 (organizer and panel chair).
“Baiting and Courting ‘Average Opinion’: Fin-de-Siècle Little Magazines, Modernism, and the Public Sphere,” Modernist Studies Association X: Modernism and Global Media, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 2008.
“The Lingering Memory of an Affair: Ford Madox Ford’s Influence on Jean Rhys,” International Ford Madox Ford Society’s Annual Conference, University of Durham, Durham, England, September 2008.
“Lovely ‘Packages’: Female Commodification in James Joyce and Kate O’Brien,” Northeast Modern Language Association 39th Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY, April 2008 (panel chair).
“Animate Things and Puppet People in Carter’s Magic Toyshop,” Symposium on Objects, Rice University, Houston, TX, March 2006.
“Solid Reverberations: An Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Use of Objects,” International Virginia Woolf Society Annual Conference, University College London, London, England, June 2004.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member of Tenure & Promotion, Washington College, June 2020- Present
Faculty Vice Chair, Washington College Honor Board, September 2017- July 2020
Faculty Panelist, Washington College Honor Board, September 2014- 2017
Internship Coordinator, Washington College English department, May 2014- Present
Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta of Maryland, Washington College, May 2018- June 2019
Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta of Maryland, Washington College, May 2017-2018
Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta of Maryland, Washington College, March 2014-Fall 2016
Members-in-Course Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta of Maryland, Washington College, June 2019- Present
First Year Book Discussion Leader for Faculty and Staff, August 2018
Chair, Journalism and Editing & Publishing Working Group, Washington College, September 2017- March 2018
Member, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism and Nonfiction, Washington College, January 2018- May 2018
Member, Search Committee for Associate Professor of 18th and 19th Century British Literature , Washington College, December 2016- April 2017
Member, Communications Working Group, Washington College, December 2015-Fall 2016
Reviewer for the Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Essay Prize, 2012-2015.
Co-Moderator of Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Nu Mu chapter, Washington College, August 2013- June 2014
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Served as Shakespeare’s Sister Mentor for the Northeast Modern Language Association, 2012-9.
President, Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA, 2012-15
Responsibilities include updating the website, informing the membership of upcoming events, organizing the caucus’s panel at the convention, and organizing the Shakespeare’s Sister Mentorship program. An elected position, I previously served as secretary and vice president.
Reviewer for CEA, the Journal of the College English Association, November 2015-Present.
Professional Development Co-Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association, 2011- 2012
Responsible for planning and overseeing the panels, speakers, and other events related to professional development at the 2012 conference. This program was especially focused on improved ways of meeting the needs of the contingent, adjunct, two-year, and independent scholar community.
Program Editor, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meetings, 2007-2013. Responsible for all areas of design and publication for the group’s annual conference program.
Research Assistant, Fordham University, 2008-2009
Assisted Professor Christopher GoGwilt with the completion of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. The book won the 2012 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.
Editorial Assistant, Joyce Studies Annual, 2008
Responsible for editing all essays for the 2008 edition of the JSA. Also updated and maintained the journal’s website.
Graduate Assistant, 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, 2008-2009.
Responsible for creating conference budget and assisting with general planning of the conference held at Fordham University in June 2009.
News Manager, Newsday, 2000-2004. Responsibilities included news gathering, writing, editing, reporting, and multimedia enhancement for Long Island and New York City news, feature, and business stories.
LANGUAGES
French, Italian, Latin
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American and British Literature
Modernism(s)
Decadence
Irish Culture and Literature
Postcolonial and Colonial Studies
Feminist and Gender Studies
Fin-de-Siècle Little Magazines and Modernist Print Culture
MEMBERSHIPS
Feminist/interModernist Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Phi Beta Kappa Society