Mary Beth Harris

Heavilon Hall
Purdue University
harri239@purdue.edu

Appointments______________________________________________________________

Lecturer, Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange (PLaCE), Purdue University. West
Lafayette, IN (2016)

Education_________________________________________________________________

Ph.D. English
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (August 2016)

Dissertation: Women Writers and the Genealogy of the Gentleman: Masculinity, Literary
Authority, and the Male Characters of Eighteenth-Century Female Authors

Committee: Manushag Powell (Chair), Geraldine Friedman, Emily Allen, Marilyn Francus

M.A. English Literature

Villanova University, Villanova, PA (2011)

Thesis: From Mystical Silences to Cultural Language Games: Reading the Evolution
of Forsters Prophets through Wittgensteinian Language
Thesis awarded with distinction

Committee: Megan Quigley (Chair), Heather Hicks

B.A. English Literature and Philosophy

Saint Marys College of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (2009)
Suma Cum Laude

Scholarship________________________________________________________________

Refereed Journal Articles

Upsetting the Balance: Exposing the Myth of Masculine Virtue and Desire in Eliza
Haywoods Philidore and Placentia. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
(58.2, Summer 2017)

Reforming Count Delmont: Masculinity, Sympathy, and Reading in Eliza Haywoods Love
in Excess. (Revise and Resubmit Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature)

Web & Encyclopedia Publications

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and the Rise of the Periodical. Gale Researcher
(Spring 2017)
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Henry Whitfields Villeroy; or the Fatal Moment. The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-
Century Novel. Ed April London. (Forthcoming)

Awards and Honors_________________________________________________________

Research Grants
Purdue Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2015)

Teaching Awards
Mary Gitzen Excellence in Teaching Award for Classroom Communication in ESL for
International Teaching Assistants, Oral English Proficiency Program, Purdue University
(Spring 2015)
Quintilian Award for Instruction in Composition, Purdue University (Fall 2012)

Writing Awards
Winner, Purdue Literary Awards, Kneale Award Category of Literary Criticism:
Upsetting the Balance: Exposing the Myth of Masculine Virtue and Desire in Eliza
Haywood's Philidore and Placentia (Spring 2015)
Winner, Purdue Literary Awards, Kneale Award Category of Theory and Cultural Studies:
Prophetic Paranoia: Blakes The Book of Urizen and the Enactment of the Paranoid
Subject (Spring 2015)
Winner, Purdue Literary Awards, Vons Bookshop Category of Literary Criticism
Howards End, Anti-Slumming, & Forsters Map of the English Character (Spring
2014)
Honorable Mention, EC-ASECS Molin Prize
Vignettes of Violence: Leonora Sansays Secrete History; or the Horrors of St.
Domingo and the Formal Recovery of Violence Against Women (Winter 2014).
Honorable Mention, Purdue Literary Awards, Vons Bookshop Category of Literary Criticism
Getting Jazzy in Prague: The Cultural Shift from Modernism to Postmodernism (Spring
2012).
Awarded Distinction for masters thesis by Villanova University (Summer 2011)

Conferences________________________________________________________________

National Conferences

2018 Proposed Panel & Chair. Men of Parts and Parts of Men: Rethinking the Structures and
Sources of Eighteenth-Century Masculinity (Orlando, FL)

2017 Roundtable Participant: (Re) Introducing Charlotte Charke The Aphra Behn and Frances
Burney Societies Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)

2017 Men about Town: The Gentleman Author and Amatory Circulation, The Aphra Behn
and Frances Burney Societies Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)

2017 Does the Beard Make the Author? Tolerable and Intolerable Disguise in Mary Davys
The Reformd Coquet, The Defoe Society (New Haven, CT)
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2017 No; man only can be polished by woman: The Failure of Male Homosociality and the
Feminine Infiltration of Masculine Power Structures in Mary Robinsons Walsingham,
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Minneapolis, MN)

2016 Whats in a Rake?: Unbracketing Masculine Desire in Amatory Fiction, American

Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Pittsburg, PA)

2016 Uncovering the Gentleman: Recovering the Male Characters of Eighteenth-Century

Women Writers, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Pittsburg, PA)

2015 The Singularity of Arabellas Dress as Material Generic Power in Charlotte Lennoxs
The Female Quixote, Biannual Aphra Behn Society Conference (Summit, NJ)

2013 A Portrait of Neoclassical Masculine Virtue and Desire in Eliza Haywoods Philidore
and Placentia, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Cleveland, OH).

Select Regional Conferences

2016 Authorship is a Spectators Sport: Playing the Gentleman in The Spectator and Mary
Davys The Reformd Coquet, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (Amherst, MA)

2014 A Funny Kind of Drag: The Erotic and Authorial Pleasure of Elizabeth Inchbalds A
Simple Story, East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Newark,
DE).

2013 Vignettes of Violence: Leonora Sansays Secrete History; or the Horrors of St.
Domingo and the Formal Recovery of Violence Against Women, East-Central American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Philadelphia, PA).

2013 Re-orienting Female Secret Keeping in Susanna Centlivre's The Perplex'd Lovers
and The Wonder, Early Atlantic Reading Group Colloquium (West Lafayette, IN).

2012 Be not too curious to pry into the Reasons of Women: The Politics of Female Secret
Keeping in Susanna Centlivre's The Perplex'd Lovers and The Wonder, East-Central
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Baltimore, MD).

2012 Upsetting the Balance: Exposing the Mythmaking of Masculine Virtue and Desire in
Eliza Haywoods Philidore and Placentia, Early Atlantic Reading Group Colloquium
(West Lafayette, IN).

2012 E.M. Forster & Ludwig Wittgenstein: Mystical Silences and the Love that Dare Not
Speak Its Name, Queertopia! 2012 (Chicago, IL).

2011 This smiling empty passivity: Ira Levins The Stepford Wives and the Gothic
Nature of The Feminist Mystique, Delaware Womens Studies Conference (Newark,
DE).
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2011 Reading Ira Levins The Stepford Wives as a Gothic Rendition of The Feminist
Mystique, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference (Villanova, PA).

2011 The Grammar of Cultural Collaborations: Tutor-Tutee Relationships and Meeting the
Needs of Graduate ESL Students, Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (West
Chester, PA).

Teaching Experience________________________________________________________

Literature
Gender and Literature-ENGL 360 (Purdue University--Instructor of Record): Spring 2016
An upper-level survey course that introduces students to gender theory, with which
students expand their close-reading skills, writing skills, and examine historical
depictions of gender across a variety of historical periods and genres.

Introduction to Fiction-ENGL 238 (Purdue University--Instructor of Record): Fall 2014

An introductory survey of eighteenth-century to contemporary prose that explores
fiction as both a genre and a cultural concept.

Language and Culture (English as a Second Language)

American Language & Culture for International Students 1ENGL 110 (formerly GS 100) (Purdue
University--Instructor of Record) [Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange]: Fall 2017; Fall 2016
The first in a two course sequence that combines language skill education (speaking,
reading, writing, and collaboration) with a social science based exploration of the
American university as a unique cultural space in order to help international students
take full advantage of their experience at Purdue. The fall course focuses more
specifically on oral and reading fluency skills.

American Language and Culture for International Students 2ENGL 111 (formerly GS 101)
(Purdue University--Instructor of Record) [Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange]: Spring 2017
The second in a two course sequence that combines l language skill education
(speaking, reading, writing, and collaboration) this time with a humanities based
exploration of the American university as a unique cultural space in order to help
international students take full advantage of their experience at Purdue. The spring
course emphasizes critical reading and writing skills.

Classroom Communication for International Graduate Students-ENGL 620 (Purdue University--

Tutor) [Purdue University Oral English Proficiency Program]: Spring 2015; Fall 2015; Spring 2016
A course for international graduate students who are non-native English speakers,
designed to help them develop the oral English communication and professional
skills to work as TAs and instructors for the university.

Graduate
Teaching Introductory Composition-ENGL 505 (Summer Mentor): Summer 2017
A supplementary summer mentoring program for first year graduate instructors on
teaching freshman composition.

Composition
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Introductory Composition-ENGL 106 (Purdue University--Instructor of Record): Fall 2011; Spring

2012; Fall 2012; Spring 2013; Spring 2014; Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Fall 2015
A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course.

Teaching Assistant
Pirates!-MARS 220/ENGL 232/CMPL 230 (Purdue University--Teaching Assistant): Fall 2013
A large lecture surveying depictions in pirates in prose, poetry, drama, and film.
Graded all exams and papers, held regular office hours, and guest lectured.

Service Programs
The Warrior Scholar Project-(University of Michigan--Writing Instructor, Curriculum Developer,
Founding Branch Staff Member): Summer 2014-Present
A weeklong intensive series of lectures, writing courses, study skills, and
cultural/social transition discussions designed to support veterans transitioning from
active duty to the university.

Writing Lab Experience_______________________________________________________

Purdue University Writing Lab Tutor (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Correspondent (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
Villanova University Writing Lab Tutor (Fall 2009-Spring 2011)
Villanova University Workshop Developer (Fall 2009-Spring 2011)

Editorial Experience________________________________________________________

North American Victorian Studies Association (May 2013-May 2015)

Social Media Manager
Undergraduate Research Assistant Mentor

BRANCH: Britain, Representation, & Nineteenth-Century History (May 2013-May 2015)

Database Manager and Editorial Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant Mentor

Blackwell Encyclopedia for Victorian Literature (May 2013-May 2015)

Database Manager and Editorial Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant Mentor

Purdue English Department Newsletter (Summer 2013- Spring 2015)

Editorial Assistant

Service to the Profession_____________________________________________________

Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange Curriculum Development (Fall 2016-present)

Served on a committee incorporating literature instruction into the ESL classroom.
Designed literature unit, developed activities, projects, writing prompts, and other
materials; lead professional development for fellow instructors; partnered with
English literature faculty to provide guidance and dialogue for developing curriculum
using literature to meet ESL student needs
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Served on an interdisciplinary committee to create a multi-course sequence and

learning community designed to bring domestic and international students together
through humanities curriculum, community, and study abroad.
Partnered with the Purdue Writing Lab to create workshop materials tailored to the
ESL classroom, which contextualize processes like revision for students with a
variety of cultural and language backgrounds.

Purdue University Course Planning (Fall 206-present)

Contributed to the proposal drafting (description, text selection, schedule, etc) and
submission of the now approved ENGL 249 Grate British books course.
Participated in planning forum proposing a Games as Literature Course.

Purdue University Syllabus Approach Leader for Writing About Writing (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
Served as a representative on a graduate instructor led committee whose mission is to
provided resources and support for graduate student teaching assistants in the ICaP
program.

Purdue Early Atlantic Reading Group, President (2014-2015)
Organized events to support graduate student and faculty engagement in Early
Atlantic research and pedagogy.

Purdue Early Atlantic Reading Group, Colloquium Chair (2013-2014)
Chaired the planning of the EARG annual colloquium, including selecting and
inviting an external key note speaker (Chris Loar); applying for grant funding,
creating and advertising the CFP; accepting papers; organizing panels; advertising the
colloquium on campus; and securing space, food, and other resources.

Purdue Graduate Student English Association, Student Representative to the Graduate Studies
Committee (2012-2014)

Purdue Graduate Student English Association, Publication Forum Committee Assistant (2012-2013)

Purdue Graduate Student English Association, Write an Article Month Committee Chair (2013)

Courses Prepared to Teach___________________________________________________

The British Empire: Colonial and Post-
Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Colonial
Survey of British Literature (1 & 2) Introduction to Gender and Literature
The Eighteenth-Century Novel Transatlantic Literature
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Digital Humanities
Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Poetry Early Caribbean Literature
Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Drama The Romantics
The Enlightenment
Introduction to Literature
The British Novel Introduction to Fiction
Eighteenth-Century Print Culture Introduction to Literary Theory
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Gender Gender Theory
Queer Studies
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Masculinity International Students

Introductory Composition Classroom Communication for International
Advanced Composition Graduate Student
American Language and Culture for

References & Dossier ________________________________________________________

References available upon request