KRISTINE SWENSON

Assistant Professor of English

University of Missouri—Rolla

 

EDUCATION:

 

1989-1995           Ph.D., English Language and Literature

                        University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Fields: Nineteenth‑Century British Literature, Women’s Cultural History

1987-1989           M.A., English Language and Literature                      

                        University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Field: Victorian Literature

1983‑1987       B.A., English Language and Literature,

summa cum laude

Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

 

DISSERTATION: “Treating A Sick Culture: Victorian Fictions of Medical Women”

            Committee: Florence Boos, Teresa Mangum, Jeffery Cox, Kevin Koppelson, Archibald Coolidge

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

“Evolution, Entropy, and the Construction of Empire in Kipling's The Naulahka.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Vol. 8, No. 2, (Spring 2001): forthcoming Spring 2002.

“Intimate Sympathy and Self-effacement: Writing the Life of Sophia Jex-Blake.” A/b: Auto/biographical Studies. 14:2 (Winter 1999): 222-40.

“Protection or Restriction? Gaskell’s Mary Barton and Women’s Labor.” The Gaskell Society Journal 7 (May 1993): 50‑66.

“Culture and Pedagogy. A Review of Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Studies in the Classroom.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 15 (1996): 164-67.

“Margaret Todd.” Entry for An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. 2nd edition. Rutgers UP, 1998.

“Robert Burton,” “Robert Chambers,” “Michael Faraday,” “Penelope Fitzgerald,” “Edmund Gosse,” “Realism.” Entries for An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Ed., Pamela Gossin. Greenwood Press. Forthcoming.

Review of Trollope: A Biography, by John N. Hall (Oxford, 1991). The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, New Series III, 1 (Spring 1994): 41.

 

PUBLICATIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION:

 

“Teaching a ‘highly exceptional’ text: Krupabai Satthianadhan’s Saguna and Narratives of Empire.” Teaching 18th and 19th century British Women Writers. Eds. Jeanne Moskal and Shannon Wooden. Collection under consideration at Broadview Press.

“The Menopausal Vampire: Arabella Kenealy and the Boundaries of True Womanhood.” Under consideration at Women’s Writing.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

 

2001                University of Missouri Research Board Grant (sabbatical and travel grant for Spring ’01)

1998-99           College of Arts & Sciences Education and Training Funds Award, UMR

1997-98           College of Arts & Sciences Education and Training Funds Award, UMR

1994-95           Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Iowa

1993-94           Edwin Ford Piper Memorial Scholarship, University of Iowa

1993-94           UISA Student Research/Travel Grant, University of Iowa

1987-90           R.J. McElroy Trust Graduate Fellowship, Waterloo, Iowa

1987                Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Chapter, Luther College

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

1997-               Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Missouri--Rolla

Co-Coordinator of Literature and Science Minor

1996-97           Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English

Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

1995‑96           Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

1992‑93           Instructor, Department of English

Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

1989‑94           Graduate Instructor, Rhetoric and General Education in Literature Programs

                        University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

 

Introductory Courses:

First-Year Composition

Technical Writing

Introduction to Literature

The Novel

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature

Women’s Literature

Introduction to Literature and Science

 

Upper-level Courses:

Victorian Literature

British Romanticism

Gothicism

British Novel II

Contemporary British Literature

Seminar: Sexual Science and the British Marriage Plot Novel, 1880-1930

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

 

Participant, “Writing & Thinking Workshops,” Bard College, May 4-6, 2001.

Participant, University of Missouri System New Faculty Development Tour, October 1999.

 

PRESENTATIONS:

 

“The Menopausal Vampire: Arabella Kenealy and the Boundaries of True Womanhood.” Eighth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. University of Kansas, March 2001.

Panel Chair. “Marriage and Gender Roles.” Eighth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. University of Kansas, March 2001.

“Feminist Eugenics in Arabella Kenealy's Dr. Janet of Harley Street.” Society for Literature and Science 1999 Conference. University of Oklahoma. October 7-10. (Participant and panel organizer.)

“Sex, Science, and Theory in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Society for Literature and Science 1998 Conference. University of Florida. November 5-7, 1998. (Participant and panel organizer.)

“Freud's Sexual Solution; or, How Lady Chatterley Dissolved her Marriage Plot.” University Lecture Series. UMR. October 15, 1998.

“Teaching a “highly exceptional” text: Krupabai Satthianadhan’s Saguna and Narratives of Empire.” Sixth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. University of North Carolina. March 1998.

“Ministering to Bodies and Souls: British Medical Missions and Women Doctors in the 1880s and '90s.” Nineteenth-Century Religion and the Fragmentation of Culture in Europe and America. Lancaster University, UK. July 17-19, 1997.

“Duelling Plots: Imperial Adventure and New Romance in Hilda Gregg's Peace with Honour.” Panel on Transnationalism and the Imperial Gaze. Fifth Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. University of South Carolina. March 21-23, 1996.

“Prostitutes and Medical Women in Sensation Fiction.” Panel on Prostitution in Victorian Britain. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth‑Century Studies Conference. University of California at Santa Cruz. April 7‑8, 1995.

“Texts and Tonics: New Women Doctors in Turn‑of‑the‑Century Britain.” Missouri Valley History Conference. University of Nebraska at Omaha. March 9‑11, 1995.

“Mona Maclean, Medical Student: The New Woman Doctor in Fiction and Fact.” Fourth Annual Conference on Eighteenth‑ and Nineteenth‑Century British Women Writers. University of Notre Dame. March 2‑4, 1995.

Panel Chair. “Marie Corelli.” Fourth Annual Conference on Eighteenth‑ and Nineteenth‑Century British Women Writers. University of Notre Dame. March 2‑4, 1995.

“Professional Ambition and Sexual Ambiguity in Dr. Margaret Todd's Mona Maclean, Medical Student.” Panel on Nineteenth‑Century Scottish Women Writers. Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Diego, California. December 27‑30, 1994.

“Reforming the Nurse: Social Medicine and the Superfluous Woman in Victorian Fiction and Culture.” Third Annual Conference on Eighteenth‑ and Nineteenth‑Century British Women Writers. Michigan State University. April 15‑16, 1994.

“Creating 'The Lady with the Lamp': the Crisis of Empire and the British Press.” Midwest Conference on British Studies. Kent State University. October 5‑6, 1993.

“Salvation by Profession: Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth and the Nightingale Nurse.” Midwest Women's Studies Association Regional Conference: “Other Women's Lives.” University of South Dakota. March 31‑April 3, 1993.

 

 

SERVICE:

 

2001-2002       Chancellor’s Task Force on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Groups, UMR

1999-2002       Academic Council, English Department Representative, UMR

1999-2001       University Personnel Committee, Academic Council Representative, UMR

1999-2001       University Student Affairs Committee, Academic Council Representative, UMR

1999-2000       College of Arts & Sciences Curricula Committee, English Department Representative, UMR

1999-2001       Chair, English Department Scholarship Committee, UMR

1999-2001       Faculty Adviser, Delta Omicron Lambda (Women's Service Fraternity), UMR

1999-2000       Search committee member for Weiner Endowed Chair in the Humanities, UMR

1999-2000           Search committee member for English Department Medievalist, UMR

1999-2001       Reader, AP English Literature Exam, Daytona Beach, FL

1998-99           Member, Dean's Ad Hoc Committee to Improve the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UMR  

1998-99           Search committee member for English Department Chair (outside search), UMR

1998-               Department of English Representative, Honors Program Committee, UMR

1997                Conducted student interviews for Presidential Scholarships, Augustana College

1993‑94           Coordinator of “Scholarly Exchange,” a forum for graduate student works‑in‑progress at                                         the University of Iowa

1992‑93           Search committee member for 18th‑Century British Literature hire, Luther College

 

REFERENCES:

 

Florence Boos, Department of English, University of Iowa

Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa

James Wise, Department of English, University of Missouri--Rolla

Linda Bergmann, Department of Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University