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Laura Rigal

Department of English, 308 English Philosophy Building Phone 319-335-0454 FAX 319-335-2535

Department of American Studies, 201 Jefferson Building Phone 319-335-0320 FAX 319-335-0314

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY EDUCATION Ph.D. 1989, Department of English, Stanford University B.A. 1982, Oberlin College. majors: English; Greek Language and Literature ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, 9/97 - present, The University of Iowa, Departments of English and American Studies Assistant Professor, 9/91 - 9/97, University of Chicago, Department of English TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS 18th and 19th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture; Visual Culture Studies; Cultures of U.S. Imperialism; Science and Technology Studies; Public History; Native and American Indian Studies SCHOLARSHIP Invited Review Essay, “Remembering Zion: Ambiguity, Consciousness, and Literary Criticism” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 4, 2013. Online and paper versions. http://lareview of books.org/ (12 pp. typescript). Invited Essay in a Collection “Benjamin Franklin, The Science of Flow, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment,” A Blackwell Companion to Benjamin Franklin, ed. David Waldstreicher, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (Spring 2011), 308-334. Essay in a collection “Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby Dick” New Essays on Melville and Aesthetics, eds. Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn, Palgrave-MacMillan (Spring 2011), 103-116. Invited Review Essay, “Beyond ‘The Trouble with Wilderness’” The American Quarterly, Journal of the American Studies Association (Winter 2010), 989-1001. Book Review Remembering Kensington and Fishtown: Philadelphia’s Riverward Neighborhoods by Kenneth W. Milano (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2008); The History of Penn Treaty Park by Kenneth W. Milano (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2009); The History of the Kensington Soup Society by Kenneth W. Milano (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2009).

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Review published The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134 (January 2010): 97-100. Journal Article “Watershed Days on the Treaty Line, 1836-1839” The Iowa Review, special issue on the Iowa River and the flood of 2008 (Fall 2009) 9:2 202-223. Journal Article Invited article for Special Issue on “Politics.” “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life Volume 9, Number 1 (October 2008). Review Essay, “The Comedy of Colonial Contact,” Wapsipinicon Almanac 15 (December 2008), 124-130. Journal Article “The Chickasaw County Massacre,” Wapsipinicon Almanac 14 (December 2007), 116-123. Journal Article (invited issue commentary), “In the Eye of the Pyramid: Geographic Enterprise from John Smith to America Incorporated,” American Literary History (Winter 2003), 793-808. Book Review, “Local Haunts,” review of Judith Richardson. Possessions, The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Commonplace: the Journal of Early American Life (Winter 2003). Essay in a collection, “Imperial Attractions: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751” in Memory Bytes: Historical Perspectives on American Digital Culture, eds. Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003), 23-46. Journal Article, “Electric Books of 1747: Franklin’s Luminous Gilt,” Commonplace: the Journal of Early American Life (December 2000). Journal Article, "Framing the Fabric: A Luddite Reading of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania, American Literary History Special Issue: History in the Making, Summer 2000 Journal Article, (invited essay) “Whose Affirmative Culture?” response to Joel Pfister, “Complicity Critiques,” American Literary History Special Issue: History in the Making, Summer 2000. Book Review of David Brigham, Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience. William and Mary Quarterly, Spring 1999. Book: The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, October 1998). Journal Article: "Empire of Birds, Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, 1807-1814," The Huntington Quarterly 59, Special Issue on Science and Art, Spring 1998. Journal Article: "Raising the Roof: the Grand Federal Procession of 1788 as Republican Festival." Theatre Journal 48, Fall 1996.

Essay in a collection: "Peale's Mammoth," in American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth Century Art and Literature, ed. David Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Book review of Larzer Ziff, Writing in the New Nation. Modern Philology, Fall 1993. Book review of Jeffrey A. Smith, Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic. William and Mary Quarterly, July 1991. WORKS IN PROGRESS Book Manuscripts Streaming Ralston Creek: Water and War in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1832-1983 Career Development Award, Fall 2014, for Spring semester 2016 Picturing Entitlement: Rhetorics of Expansion in U.S. Visual Culture, 1776-1900

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Career Development Award (Spring 2016) 2010 University of Iowa Faculty Support Award, Summer 2010 2009 University of Iowa Career Development Award, Fall 2009. 2007-2008 John Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, University of Iowa, 2005 University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award 2004 YAH, Year of the Arts and Humanities Award $3000.00 The Office of the President, University of Iowa. for The Arts In America: History, Politics, Practice (lectures; performance; new media installation) 2001-3 University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award, 9/2001-9/2004 (awarded 11/2000) 2000 Obermann Center For Advanced Studies Summer Seminar: The Useable Past: Historical Perspectives on Digital Culture (5/2000) Chicago Humanities Institute Faculty Working Group, "Nation and Gender in Visual Culture: The Emergence of Modernity," University of Chicago, 1993-4. Individual Research Fellowship, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, Spring 1993. University of Chicago Summer Research Fellowship, 1992.

Alden Dissertation Prize of 1990 for the most distinguished dissertation in the Department of English, Stanford University. Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize Fellowship, 1988-89. CBS Bicentennial Narrators Scholarship, 1987-88. INVITED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Panel Organizer, Chair and Commentator, “Scenes of Crime in the Landscape of Urban Redevelopment,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario (panel proposal submitted; upcoming October 8-10, 2015) Conference Paper, “ Remembering John Deng,” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Moscow, ID (accepted; upcoming June 23-27, 2015). Conference Paper, “Mississippi Aquacade: River Dams and Swimming Stars of the Great Depression, “Biannual Mid-American Studies Association Meeting, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE March 2, 2013. Invited Respondent, Dream Factory Capitalism (curated video series) Exuberant Politics, October 22, 2013. The University of Iowa. Invited Lecture, “Teach the Creek.” Interdisciplinary Flood Institute for Teachers, University of Iowa, School of Education, November 30th – December 1, 2012. Invited Speaker, “Moen and the Mural: from Urban Renewal to Occupy Iowa City, 1972/2012,” State Historical Society of Iowa at Iowa City, November 7, 2012. 50 minute lecture filmed, show and available at PATV-Channel 18 Covered by Little Village; see http://littlevillagemag.com/opinion-the-visual-rhetoric-of-public-space/ Invited Speaker, “Holden Seeds, Monsanto Money and the Holden Cancer Research Center,” The Monsanto Trials (a people’s hearing, and video recording) Boyd Law School, April 21, 2012 Conference Panel Chair, “Utopia and 19th Century Literary Narrative,” Religion Literature and the Arts, University of Iowa, August 25, 2012. Conference Paper “Urban Renewal in the Upper Midwest and the Ephemeral Bodies of Ana Mendieta,” Midwest American Studies Association Bi-annual Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 1-3, 2012. Invited Lecture and Tour, “Rendezvous at Ralston Creek,” Johnson County Heritage Trust Speaker Series, Hickory Hill Park, August 19, 2012. Colloquium Paper “Overlooking Ralston Creek: Science and Society in a Fluid Landscape,” Department of English Faculty Colloquium, February 2012.

Invited Speaker “Fishing as an Industrial Art, Thomas Eakins in New Jersey,” American Studies Department Floating Friday Series, The University of Iowa, January, 2011. Invited Speaker “The Art of American Aquaculture,” “Grid and Flow: Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies Through the Arts and Humanities,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011. Conference Paper ”The Art of American Aquaculture: Thomas Eakins In New Jersey,” panel Fantasy Reparation, and Ideology in the Environmental imagination,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 2011. Invited Panel Commentator, Causes and Consequences: Global Perspectives on Gender and the History of Slavery, October 13-15, 2010. Invited Speaker “The Meskwaki of Johnson County, 1836-1839” “The Meskwaki in the Iowa River Valley: a Symposium,” March 31, 2010, 1-5pm. Meskwaki Casino Veterans Convention Center, Tama Iowa (Meskwaki Settlement). Organized by the Iowa State Historical Society and the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development, March 31, 2010. Conference Paper “Fear of the Water: Hydropower and Bio-power in the Newtonian Public Sphere,” Green Politics, 2nd Annual European Studies Conference,” University of iowa, Dec. 3-4, 2010. Invited Speaker, “The Meskwaki, The American Fur Company, and the Founding of Iowa City,” History Lecture Series, SHSI Centennial Building, Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Invited Lecture, “Electric Sangha: Electricity and Enlightenment in Franklin’s Book,” Reading the Book of Nature, 5th Annual Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts, University of Iowa, April 4, April 3, 2009 Panel Chair, “Figuring Nature in Art and Literature: Cultural Approaches,” Reading the Book of Nature, 5th Annual Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts, University of Iowa, April 4, 2009. Invited Course Lecture, “Visual Sources for 19th Century Social History,” Graduate Seminar in 19th Century American Social History, 016:265:001 (Leslie Schwalm), The University of Iowa, March 3, 2009. Invited Speaker, “Cultures in Contact on the 19th Century Iowa River,” Trinity Episcopal Church, Speaker Series on the Iowa River, February 1, 2009. Conference paper, “Writing the Environmental History of the Iowa River,” panel, “Writing the Iowa River,” Writing Science at the Writing University, The University of Iowa, October 10, 2008. Invited Reading, “The Chickasaw County Massacre,” Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, January 25, 2008.

Panel Chair and Commentator: “Imagined Empires” 13th Annual Society of Early American Studies/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, June 9, 2007 Moderator for Maria Damon, “Textual Abjection, the Place of Bad Poetry in American Studies,” Poetries Symposium, University of Iowa, April 5, 2007 Invited Lecture, “Hijacked Language,” UMI Teach-in on the Second Iraq War, November 11, The University of Iowa, 2005. Seminar Paper, “Moby Dick and the Politics of Terror,” POROI Rhetoric Seminar, The University of Iowa, Sept 23, 2005 Chair, Conference Roundtable, Arts in American Studies Scholarship Symposium, February 25-6, 2005 Invited Lecture “Mining Empire’s Strata: Mark Tansey’s Constructing the Grand Canyon,” American Tableaux Exhibit, University of Iowa Art Museum, March 26, 2004 Panel Chair, “Grave Matters, Digging for History in Nineteenth Century America,” Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Memphis, TN, April 5, 2003 Conference Paper, “A Little Power: The Early National Tourist at the City Pump,” Midwest American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Iowa City, IA, April 15, 2003 Panel Commentator, "Vision, Visuality, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century America, 1800-1850" (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus) American Studies Associations, Houston, Texas, on November 14-17, 2002. English Department Faculty Colloquium, Feb. 15, 2002, “Sunshine Law: Representing the Ballot in Bingham’s The County Election” Invited Lecture, “Imperial Attractions: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751,” English Department, the University of Pennsylvania, November 13, 2001. Conference Paper, “Representing the Ballot,” in “The Technology of Democracy: Workshop on the Material History of the U.S. Ballot,” Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) July 20, 2001, Williamsburg, Virginia. Conference Paper, “Electric Books: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751,” Obermann Center Symposium, “Fleeting Objects: Material Culture and Social Transformation,” April 6, 2001. Invited Lecture, “American Electricity: Technology and Consensus in the Digital State, 1750/2000,” Boston University, Department of American Studies, March 15, 2001. Panel Commentator, “What Stands between the Nation and the Novel? Races, Readerships, and Epidemic Pretexts; or, Arthur Mervyn at Two Hundred,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. December 28, 2000. Panel Commentator, “Early American Science: Boundaries, Bodies, and Exclusions,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York, July 21-23, 2000.

Symposium paper, “Frame and Fabric: A Luddite Reading of Penn's Treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania." History in the Making, a symposium sponsored by American Literary History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 25-28, 1999. Conference paper, "The Brothertown Letters," Cultural Crossroads of Religion and Literacy in Colonial America," Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 28, 1998 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT Invited Speaker, “Jane Jacobs Tour” of Iowa City, 13-block interactive urban tour from Iowa City pedestrian mall, through proposed urban redevelopment area south of downtown. Led by City Council Member James Throgmorton, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Organizer and Discussion Leader, Public History Event, The State Historical Society of Iowa, “Telling Your Own Story” & “Ralston Creek Reminiscences,” with Iowa City book author Bob Bream, State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City, March 22, 2011, 12-2. Certified Biological and Chemical Water Monitor (Training in North Liberty, IA and Dubuque, IA, Spring 2011) IOWATER Program, U.S. Geologic Survey. Ralston Creek and Willow Creek water monitor, Iowa City Streets Department (Carol Sweeting), March-October 2011. TEACHING TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS 2014 Semester/ Year

Advisees COURSES TAUGHT

Undergrad

Grad

Course Number and Title Students

Enrolled Fall 2014 4

Amer. Studies

7 Amer. Studies

ENGL:7970:0083 Advanced Studies in Literary Criticism, Independent Study

1

AMST:7085:0001 Dissertation Writing Workshop 9

AMST:7994:0031 Independent Study 1

AMST:7090:0031 PhD Thesis 5

ENL:6000:0001 Introduction to Contemporary Theory

8

Summer 2014

0 Amer.

7 Amer.


Studies Studies

Spring 2014 4 Amer. Studies

7 Amer. Studies

ENGL:7960:0083 Advanced Studies in a Literary Theme

1

ENGL:3429:0001 Topics in American Lit Before 1900

27

AMST:7085:0001 Dissertation Writing Workshop 5


AMST:7994:0031 PhD Thesis 6

AMST:3090:0001 Seminar in American Cultural Studies

10

AMST:6099:0001 American Studies Proseminar Comparative Indigenous Studies

8

STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2014 DEGREE OBJECTIVE

STUDENT NAME YEAR OUTCOME

ENGLISH DEPT.

PhD

Nicholas Cooley (Dissertation Co-Director) 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2015

PhD

Brent Krammes (Comprehensive Exam Special Interest Field Director)

4 Comprehensive Exam, Spring 2014

PhD

Brent Krammes (Dissertation Committee Member)

4 Prospectus Approved Fall 2014

PhD

Nicholas Bochert (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member)

4 Spring 2015 (scheduled)

PhD

Katherine Wetzel (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member)

3 Exam time TBA

PhD

Catherine Garnett (Dissertation Committee Member)

6 Prospectus Approved, Fall 2013

PhD Christine Norquest (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Jennifer McGovern (Dissertation Committee Member)

11 Defense Fall 2013 Degree Awarded Summer 2014

AMERICAN STUDIES

PhD Jonathan Hansen (Dissertation Director) 8 Defense Spring 2014 Degree Awarded

PhD Jennifer Ambrose (Dissertation Director) 10 Defense Summer 2014 Degree Awarded Spring 2014

PhD Matt Thomas (Dissertation Dircctor) 10 Defense Spring 2015 (Degree TBA Spring 15)

PhD Ivana Takacova (Dissertation Director) 10 Prospectus Approved Fall 2009

PhD Thomas Collins (Dissertation Director) 8 Prospectus Approved Fall 2012

PhD Michael Winslow (Dissertation Director) 5 Prospectus Approved Spring 2013

PhD Mark Mattes (Dissertation Committee Member) 8 Defense Fall 2013 Degree Awarded Spring 2014

PhD Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza (Dissertation Committee Member)

5 Defense Spring 2014 Degree Awarded

PhD Nicholas Yanes (Dissertation Committee Member)

6 Defense Spring 2014 Degree Awarded

PhD Nathan Titman (Committee Member) 8 Defense Spring 2014 Degree Awarded

PhD Robert Albanese (Committee Member) 7 Defense Spring 2014 Degree Awarded

PhD Larissa Werhnyak (Dissertation Committee Member)

8 Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

PhD Allison Wanger (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Rebecca Dewing (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Matthew Hodler (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Eileen Narcotta-Welp (Comprehensive Exam Committee)


PhD Stacey Moultry (Comprehensive Exam Field Director)

3 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2014

PhD Stephanie Grossnickel-Batterton (Comprehensive Exam Field Director)

3 Comprehensive Exam Fall 2014

ART HISTORY

PhD Emily Kerrigan (Dissertation Committee Member)


HISTORY

PhD Mary Wise (Comprehensive Exam List Director)

2 Exams scheduled Fall 2015

COMMUNICATON STUDIES

PhD Jonathan Crylen (Committee Member) 7 Defense Scheduled Spring 2015

PhD Dmitrios Latisis (Dissertation Committee Member)


TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS 2013 Semester/ Year


Undergrad

Grad



Amer. Studies

14 Amer. Studies

008:550 Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Subject

1

008: 45:550 Dissertation Writing Workshop 11

045:600 PhD Thesis 1

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 5

045:201 Theory and Practice in American Studies 9

008:276 Writing and Revolution 16

Summer 2013

0 Amer. Studies

12 Amer. Studies

045:600 PhD Thesis 2

*Spring 2013

6 Amer. Studies

12 Amer. Studies

008:535 Advanced Studies in Literary Criticism 1

045:550 Dissertation Writing Workshop 9

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1

045600 PhD Thesis 5

008: 175 Topics in Film and Literature 17

*Sp. 2013 3-credit American Studies undergraduate course (08:135) cancelled due to under enrollment. STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2013 DEGREE OBJECTIVE


ENGLISH DEPT.

PhD

Catherine Garnett (Dissertation Committee Member)

5

Prospectus Approved, Fall 2013

PhD Nicholas Kelley (Comprehensive Exam, Field Director)


PhD Christine Norquest (dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Robert McLoone (Dissertation Co-director, w/Matthew Brown)

8 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded Summer 2013

PhD Jennifer McGovern (Dissertation Committee Member)

11 Defense Fall 2013 Degree Expected Summer 2014

PhD Craig Carey (Committee Member)

7 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded Spring 2013

AMERICAN STUDIES

PhD Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza (Field Director) 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2013


PhD

Nicholas Yanes (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Eileen Narcotta-Welp (Comprehensive Exam Committee)


PhD David Barrett Gough (Dissertation Committee Member)

7 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded Summer 2013

PhD Sara Shreve (Dissertation Committee Member) 7 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded Summer 2013

PhD Allison Wanger (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Rebecca Dewing (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Matthew Hodler (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Kirstin Archer (Committee Member) 6 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded Summer 2013

PhD Michael Winslow 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2013

PhD Mark Mattes (Committee Member) 8 Defense Fall 2013 Degree Awarded Spring 2014

PhD Larissa Werhnyak (Committee Member) 7 Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

PhD Jonathan Hansen (Dissertation Director) 7 Prospectus Approved, Spring 2012

PhD Matt Thomas (Committee Member) 10 Prospectus Approved Spring 2011

PhD Nathan Titman (Committee Member) 7 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Robert Albanese (Committee Member) 6 Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

PhD Jennifer Ambrose (Dissertation Director) 10 Prospectus Approved Fall 2009


ART HISTORY

PhD Emily Kerrigan (Dissertation Committee Member)


PhD Janet Seiz (Comprehensive Exam Committee)

6

Comps Scheduled Fall 2014

COMMUNICATON STUDIES

PhD Jonathan Crylen (Committee Member) 6 Prospectus Approved Summer 2012

PhD Dmitrios Latisis (Dissertation Committee Member)


RELIGION

Kari Thompson (Dissertation Committee Member)

7 Defense Spring 2013 Degree Awarded SP 2013



Undergrad

Grad



Amer. Studies

11 Amer. Studies

008:229:001 Introduction to Contemporary Theory

17

045:550:001 Dissertation Writing Workshop (American Studies

10

045:250:001 Seminar: Topics in American Studies 6

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1

045:320:03 Independent Study 1

045:600:031 PhD Thesis 5

Summer 2012

0 Amer. Studies

11 Amer. Studies

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1

Spring 2012

0 Amer. Studies

11 Amer. Studies

008:105:SCA Lit and Culture of 19 Century America

26

045:550:001 Dissertation Writing Workshop 10

045:258:001 Seminar Technology and American Culture

9

045:600:03 PhD Thesis 4

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1

STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2012 DEGREE OBJECTIVE


ENGLISH PhD

Catherine Garnett (Field Director, Sp/Su 2012)

4

Comprehensive Exam (Fall 2012)

PhD Daniel Boscaljon (Dissertation Director) 4 Prospectus work Fall 2012

PhD Matthew Lavin (Committee Member) 6 Degree Awarded Summer 2012

PhD Christine Norquest (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Robert McLoone (Dissertation Co-director) 7 Defense Scheduled April 2013

PhD Jennifer McGovern (Committee Member) 11 Prospectus Approved Spring 2009

PhD Craig Carey (Committee Member)

6 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010 Prospectus Approved

Fall 2010

AMERICAN STUDIES

PhD Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza (Field Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Committee Spring 2012


PhD

Nicholas Yanes (Committee Member) 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

PhD Eric Johnson (Committee Member) 9 Degree Awarded Summer 2012

PhD David Barrett Gough (Committee Member) 6 Dissertation Prospectus Approved Fall 2011 Ballard-Seashore Awarded 2012-13

PhD Sara Shreve (Committee Member) 6 Dissertation Prospectus Approved Fall 2011 Ballard-Seashore Awarded 2012-13

PhD Allison Wanger (Committee Member) 3 Prospectus Approved Fall 2012

PhD Rebecca Dewing (Field Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Fall 2012

PhD Matthew Hodler (Committee Member) 3 Comprehensive Exam, Spring 2012

PhD Kirstin Archer (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

PhD Steven Williams (Dissertation Director) 9 Degree Awarded Summer 2012

PhD Michael Winslow 3 Prospectus Approved Spring 2013

PhD Mark Mattes (Committee Member) 7 Defense Scheduled Spring 2013

PhD Larissa Werhnyak (Committee Member)


PhD Jonathan Hansen (Dissertation Director) 6 Prospectus Approved, Spring 2012

PhD Matt Thomas (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Approved Spring

2011

PhD Nathan Titman (Committee Member) 6 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Robert Albanese (Committee Member and Exam Chair)


Jennifer Ambrose (Dissertation Director) 9 Prospectus Approved Fall 2009

Ivana Takacova (Dissertation Director) 9 Prospectus Approved Fall 2009

HISTORY

PhD Melvin Prewitt

7

Prospectus Approved Spring 2012

ART HISTORY

PhD Emily Kerrigan (Committee Member) 6 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

COMMUNI-CATION STUDIES

PhD Jonathan Crylen (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Summer 2012

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS 2011 Semester/Year


Undergrad

Grad



Amer. Studies

13 Amer. Studies

008:229:001 Introduction to Contemporary Theory Graduate Course (English Department)

15

045:201:001 Theory and Practice of American Studies graduate Course (American Studies)

9

045:550:001 Dissertation Writing Workshop (American Studies

7

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 2


045:600:031 PhD Thesis 8

Summer 2011

8 Amer. Studies

13 Amer. Studies

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 2

045:320:031 Independent Study

045:600:031 PhD Thesis

*Spring 2011

8 Amer. Studies

14 Amer. Studies

008:505:083 Advanced Studies in a Literary Period

1

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 2


045:600:03 PhD Thesis 6

* In Spring 2011, I bought out 1 undergraduate course (English), and took a course release in Am Studies, in order to pursue research on my book project, Overlooking Ralston Creek: Science and Society in a Fluid Landscape. I will teach the 1-credit pro-seminar (the Graduate Dissertation Writing Workshop) through Fall 2012, in order to make up the 3-credit course release in American Studies. STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2011 DEGREE OBJECTIVE


ENGLISH

PhD Daniel Boscaljon (Field Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2011

PhD Jennifer McGovern (Committee Member) 10 Prospectus Approved Spring 2009

PhD Christine Norquest (Committee Member) 4 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Robert McLoone (Dissertation Co-director) 6 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Matthew Lavin (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Craig Carey (Comprehensive Exam, Special 5 Comprehensive Exam Spring

Interest List Advisor) 2010 Prospectus Approved Fall 2010

AMERICAN STUDIES

PhD

Robert Albanese (Comps Chair; Dissertation Committee Member)

4 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2011; Prospectus Approved Fall 2011


PhD

Kirstin Archer (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member)


PhD Craig Eley (Committee Member) 8 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Thomas Collins (Field Director, Comprehensive Exam)

5 Comprehensive Exam, Spring 2011

PhD

Mark Warburton (Dissertation Director) 8 Dissertation Defended Spring 2011


PhD Bradley Parsons (Committee Member) 10 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Eric Johnson (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Approved Spring 2009

PhD David Barrett Gough (Committee Member) 5 Comprehensive Exam Fall 2010; Dissertation Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Mark Mattes (Committee Member) 6 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Steven Williams (Dissertation Director) 8 Prospectus Approved Fall 2008

PhD Charles Williams (Committee Member) 10 Dissertation Defended Fall 2010

PhD Jonathan Hansen (Dissertation Director) 5 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010 Prospectus Approved Spring 2011

PhD Larissa Werhnyak (Committee Member) 5 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010

PhD Matt Thomas (Committee Member) 8 Prospectus Approved Spring 2011

PhD Nathan Titman (Committee Member) 5 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Nicholas Yanes (Committee Member) 3 Comprehensive Exam Fall 2011

PhD Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza (Field Director, Comprehensive Exam)

3 Comprehensive Exam, Fall 2011

ART HISTORY

PhD Emily Kerrigan (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Fall 2011

PhD Doyle Buhler (Committee Member) 10 Dissertation Defended Spring 2011


PhD Gina Giotta (Committee Member) 8 Dissertation Defended Fall 2011

PhD Jonathan Crylen (Committee Member) 4 Comprehensive Exam Committee



Undergrad

Grad



Amer. Studies

14 Amer. Studies

008:105:SCA Lit and Culture of 19 Century America

22

045:258:001 Graduate Seminar, Technology and American Culture

12


1

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1


045:600:031 PhD Thesis 4

Summer 2010

9 Amer. Studies

12 Amer. Studies

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 1


045:600:031 PhD Thesis 2


12 Amer. Studies

045:090:001 Seminar in American Cultural Studies: Eco-Criticism: The Culture of nature in the United States

24


1

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 3


045:400:031 Masters Preparation 1

045:600:03 PhD Thesis 3 STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2010 DEGREE OBJECTIVE


ENGLISH

PhD Adam Bradford (Committee Member) 6 Degree Awarded Summer 2010

PhD Chad A. Hines (Dissertation Director) 5 Degree Awarded Summer 2010

PhD Jennifer McGovern (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Approved , Spring 2009

PhD Joshua Raulerson (Committee Member) 9 Degree Awarded Spring 2010

PhD Chad Wriglesworth (Dissertation Director) 5 Degree Awarded Summer 2010

PhD Willis McDonald (Committee Member) 6 Degree Awarded Fall 2010

PhD Robert McLoone (Dissertation Co-director) 5 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Matthew Lavin (Committee Member) 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010

PhD Craig Carey (Committee Member: Special Interest Area)


Prospectus Approved Fall 2010

PhD Katherine Bishop (Committee Member) 4 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010

PhD Carolyn Hall (Committee Member) 6 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010

AM. STUDIES

PhD Sharon Lake (Dissertation Director) 8 Degree Awarded Fall 2010

PhD Mark Warburton (Dissertation Director) 7 Dissertation Defended Spring 2011


PhD Bradley Parsons (Committee Member) 10 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010 (withdrawn from program as of Summer 2011)

PhD Eric Johnson (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Approved Spring 2009


PhD Mark Mattes (Committee Member) 5 Prospectus Approved Spring 2010


PhD Charles Williams (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Approved

PhD Jonathan Hansen (Field List Director) 4 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010 Prospectus Approved Spring 2011

PhD Larissa Werhnyak (Field List Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010

PhD Nathan Titman (Committee Member) 3 Comprehensive Exam Spring 2010

PhD David Barrett Gough (Field List Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Fall 2010

MA Julie Shanahan (Committee Member) 2 Degree Awarded Spring 2010

MA Jennifer Hagedorn (Committee Member) 2 Degree Awarded Summer 2010

MA Shannon Kelley (MA Preparation Supervisor) 2 Degree Awarded Spring 2010

ART HISTORY

Rachel Stephens (Committee Member) 8 Degree Awarded Fall 2010


Jin Kim (Committee Member) 8 Degree Awarded Spring 2010



Undergrad

Grad


Enrolled Winter 2009

048:175:001 Topics in Film and Literature: 008:175:001 Topics in Film and Literature: “Reading The West”

17


16 Amer. Studies

008:254:001 Graduate Readings Course, “Readings in American Literature II: The 19th Century”

9

008:595:083 PhD Thesis 2


045:600:031 PhD Thesis

Summer 2009

008:595:083 PhD Th esis 1


045:600:031 PhD Thesis 3

*Fall 2009 9 Amer. Studies

16 Amer. Studies


1

0008:595:083 PhD Thesis 3


045:600:031 PhD Thesis 4

*Fall 2009 Career Development Award (CDA) with course relief STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2009 DEGREE OBJECTIVE


ENGLISH

PhD Adam Bradford (Dissertation Committee Member)

5 Degree Expected Summer 2010

PhD Chad A. Hines (Dissertation Director) 4 Degree Expected Summer 2010

PhD Jennifer McGovern (Committee Member) 8 Degree Expected Fall 2012

PhD Joshua Raulerson (Dissertation Committee Member)

8 Degree Expected Spring 2010

PhD Chad Wriglesworth (Dissertation Director) 4 Prospectus Approved, Fall 2008

PhD Willis McDonald (Dissertation Committee Member)

5 Degree Expected Fall 2010

PhD Matthew Lavin (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member)

3 Summer 2009

PhD Robert McLoone (Comprehensive Exam, Portfolio Article Director)

4 Spring 2009

AM. STUDIES


PhD Wayne Anderson (Committee Member) 4 Prospectus Approved Spring 2009

PhD Eric Johnson (Dissertation Co-director with Stecopoulos)


PhD Sharon Lake (Dissertation Co-Director with Kerber)

7 Degree Expected Fall 2010

PhD Mark Mattes (Committee Member) 4 Prospectus Approved Fall 2009

PhD Bradley Parsons (Committee Member) 9 Prospectus Meeting Scheduled

PhD Sharon Romeo (Committee Member) 7 Degree Awarded Summer 2009

PhD Barbara Shubinski (Dissertation Co-Director w/Raeburn)

Degree Awarded Summer 2009


PhD Mark Warburton (Dissertation Director) 6 Degree Expected Fall 2011


PhD Charles Williams (Committee Member) 8 Prospectus Approved Fall 2007

PhD Jonathan Hansen (Field List Director) 3 Comprehensive Exam Supervision

MA Jennifer Hagedorn (MA Porfolio Supervisor)

1 Degree Expected Spring 2010

MA Shannon Kelley (MA Essay Supervisor) 3 Degree Expected Spring 2010

ENGLISH NONFICTIONWRITING

MFA Amelia Bird (MFA Thesis Committee Member)

3 Degree Awarded Spring 2009

COMMU-NICATION STUDIES

PhD Jin Kim (Committee Member) 7 Prospectus Approved SP 2007 SERVICE UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL Fall 2014 Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant Committee (AHI), Office for the Vice

President for Research and Economic Development Fall 2014 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2014 Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies Program

(Co-chairs Jacki Rand and Erica Prussing)

Fall 2014 Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Recruitment (includes service at Hawkeye recruitment day, UMI), American Studies

Fall 2014 Graduate Student Placement Committee, English Department Fall 2014 Graduate Student Adviser Assignment (Alex Ashland), English Department Spring 2014 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2014 Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies Program

(Chair, Erica Prussing) Spring 2014 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2014 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2014 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Co-Reader, English Department Spring 2014 Prospective Student Recruitment Coffeehouse, You@UI Days,

English Department Fall 2013 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2013 Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies Program

(Chair, Erica Prussing)

Fall 2013 Ad Hoc Faculty Search Committee, American Studies/AINSP Fall 2013 Graduate Student Advisor Assignment (Harrison Deitzman) Fall 2013 Graduate Student Placement Committee, English Department Spring 2013 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2013 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2013 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2013 Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies Program

(Chair, Erica Prussing) Spring 2013 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Co-Reader Fall 2012 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2012 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Fall 2012 Placement Committee, English Department Fall 2012 Steering Committee Member, American Indian and Native Studies (Chair, Erica

Prussing). Spring 2012 Steering Committee, American Studies Department

Spring 2012 Placement Committee, English Department Spring 2012 Steering Committee, American Indian and Native Studies (Chair, Erica

Prussing). Spring 2012 Undergraduate Honors Thesis co-Reader Spring 2011 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (Craig Just, Committee Chair:

Provost’s Office) Spring 2011 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2011 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2011 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2011 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies Spring 2011 Undergraduate Honors Thesis co-Reader Fall 2011 Steering Committee Member, American Indian and Native Studies (Chair, Erica

Prussing). Fall 2011 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (Craig Just, Committee Chair:

Provost’s Office) Fall 2011 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2011 Director, English@Work program for English Majors, Department of English Spring 2010 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2010 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2010 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop. American Studies Summer 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies (co-led

with Kim Marra in Summer 2010) Fall 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies Fall 2010 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (the Provost’s Office) Fall 2010 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Fall 2010 Steering Committee, American Studies Department

Spring 2009 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (the Provost’s Office) Spring 2009 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2009 Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Fellowship Committee (Graduate College) Spring 2009 Faculty Judge, Jacobson Graduate Student Conference Spring 2009 member-at-large nominating committee, UI Graduate Council, Spring 2009 Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies Spring 2009 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2009 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Spring 2009 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Fall 2008 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Fall 2008 Sustainability Curriculum Committee (Provost’s Office) Fall 2008 Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies Fall 2008 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2008 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Fall 2008 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Summer 2008 Sustainability Curriculum Task Force (Provost’s Office) Spring 2008 Director of Graduate Studies American Studies Spring 2008 Chair, Tenure Committee, Nick Yablon Spring 2008 Steering Committee, American Studies Spring 2008 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Service 2007 Fall 2007 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2007 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Fall 2007 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (6 lectures) Fall 2007 Board Member CESA, Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, Fall 2007 DGS American Studies Spring 2007 Chair, English Department Task Force on the Gateway Course for Undergraduate

English Majors Spring 2007 Steering Committee, American Studies Spring 2007 Chair, Search Committee, American Studies Latin@ Studies search

Spring 2007 Admissions Committee, American Studies Spring 2007 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series (7 lectures) Spring 2007 Board Member CESA, Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, Spring 2007 Colloquium Co-chair, Center For Ethnic Studies and the Arts Colloquium on

Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble with Diversity, How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, University of Iowa, Feb. 22, 2007

Spring 2007 DGS American Studies PROFESSION National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Proposal Review Committee (Division of American Studies) Washington D.C., Summer 2007 Jamestown Prize Committee, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, June 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Proposal Review Committee (Division of American Studies) Washington D.C. , Summer 2004, Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg Virginia (3-year Appointment: 2004-2007) Program Committee: “From Bacon to Bartram: Early American Inquiries into the Natural World,” A Conference sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, March 22-24, 2002. Elected Member of Division Committee (American Literature to 1800) of the Modern Language Association, 2002- 2004 Chair, MLA Davis Prize Committee for the best essay in Early American Literature, December 2000. Organizer, MLA panel, “Reconfiguring Early American Literary History,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 27-30, 2003. MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING Spring 2014 reader’s report (article) Nineteenth-Century Literature Fall 2013 manuscript reader (book) Oxford University Press Spring 2013 manuscript reader (book) Oxford University Press Summer 2012 manuscript reader (article) Journal of the Early Republic Fall 2011 manuscript reader (article) Early American Literature Fall 2010 manuscript reader (article) American Literary History January 2008 manuscript reader (book) Stanford University Press September 21, 2008 manuscript reader (article) William and Mary Quarterly December 22, 2008 manuscript reader (article) American Literary History August 2007 manuscript reader (journal article) Journal of the Early Republic November 2006 manuscript reader (journal article) Journal of the Early Republic December 2006 manuscript reader (journal article) Annals of Iowa May 2005 book manuscript reader, The University of Alabama Press September 2003 manuscript reader, (journal article)

October 2003 book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA

February 2002 book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA

October 2002 book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA

December 2001 book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA

September 2000 manuscript reader, (journal article) American Literary History

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