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Anne G. Myles

Department of English

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502

(319) 273-6911

Fax (319) 273-5807

E-mail: anne.myles@uni.edu

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D., English, The University of Chicago, 1993.

     Dissertation: "‘Called Out’: Languages of Dissent in Early America"

M.A., English, The University of Chicago, 1986.

A.B., Bryn Mawr College, summa cum laude, 1984.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:

Assistant Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa, 1999–2005; Associate Professor, 2005―.

Assistant Professor of American Literature, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 1994-1999.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

"'One's Body was not One's Own':  Bodily Spectacle and Sympathy in Loyalist Writing."  Under preparation.

PUBLICATIONS -- BOOK CHAPTERS:

“Border Crossings:  The Queer Erotics of Quaker Martyrdom in Seventeenth-Century New England.”  Accepted for Long Before Stonewall:  Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, ed. Thomas A. Foster (under contract with NYU Press, forthcoming 2007).

“Elegiac Patriarchs:  Crèvecoeur and the War of Masculinities,” Forthcoming in Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies, ed. Mary C. Carruth (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming 2006).

“‘Stranger Friend’:  John Woolman and Quaker Dissent,” in The Tendering Presence:  Essays on John Woolman, ed. Michael Heller (Pendle Hill Press, 2003).

"Dissent and the Frontier of Translation: Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America"  In Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America, ed. Robert Blair St. George (Cornell University Press, 2000).

PUBLICATIONS -- ARTICLES:

"Slaves in Algiers, Captives in Iraq:  The Strange Career of the Barbary Captivity Narrative."  Common-Place 5.1 (October 2004), http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-01/myles/index.shtml

"The Perils and Power of Identification:  Or, There's Something about Mary (Dyer)."  Women Writers:  An E-Zine.  Special Issue on Autotheoretical Criticism, Summer 2003. 

“Queering the History of Early American Sexuality.” William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 60.1 (2003): 199-203.  Full text available.

"From Monster to Martyr:  Re-Presenting Mary Dyer," Early American Literature 36.1 (2001): 1-30.  Full text available in PDF format.

"Arguments in Milk, Arguments in Blood: Roger Williams, Persecution, and the Discourse of the Witness," Modern Philology 91:2 (November 1993).

PUBLICATIONS -- BOOK REVIEWS:

Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press, 2003).  North American Review, Sept.-Oct. 2004.

Review Essay:  Deborah Larsen, The White: A Novel (Alfred Knopf, 2002) and Diane Glancy, Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea (The Overlook Press, 2003).  North American Review (November-December 2003).

Emory Elliott, The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature (Cambrdige UP, 2002).  M/MLA Journal 36.2 (2003).

Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (Cornell UP, 2000).  Early American Literature 38.3 (2003).

Andrew Delbanco, ed., Writing New England:  An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present (Harvard UP, 2001).  Prolepsis:  The Heidelberg Review of English Studies.  June 2003. 

Robert S. Burgess, To Try the Bloody Law: The Story of Mary Dyer (Celo Valley Books, 2000).  Quaker Studies 6.2 (2002).

Carla Mulford, ed., Teaching the Literatures of Early America (Modern Language Association of America, 1999). M/MLA Journal 34.2 (2001).

David Lawton, Blasphemy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). Modern Philology 93:3 (February 1996).

Bernard Rosenthal, Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). American Literature 67:1 (March 1995).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“Being Real:  Pleasures and Terrors of the Personal,” Society of Early Americanists Fourth Biennial Conference, April 2005, Alexandria VA.

“New England Judged:  Anne Hutchinson’s Prophetic Afterlife.”  Society of Early Americanists Fourth Biennial Conference, April 2005, Alexandria, VA.

“‘All Dissenters were in part Partakers’:  Quakers and the Politics of New England Memory.”  Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 2004.

Slaves in Algiers, Captives in Iraq:  The Ideological Persistence of the Barbary Captivity Narrative.”  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, April 2004.

“Men of Sorrows:  Crèvecoeur and the Literature of Loyalist Sensibility,” Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chicago, November 2003.

“Patriotic Persecution:  The Loyalist Body as Political Icon,” Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Providence, RI, April 2003.

“‘These numbers do not sing’:  The Erotics and Politics of Mourning in Marilyn Hacker’s “Cancer Winter” and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 2002.

“Quakers and the Queering of New England Space." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia, November 2001.

“The Perils and Powers of Identification:  or, There’s Something about Mary."  Third Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Decatur, IL, October 2001.

"Border Crossings: Quakers and the Queering of New England" (extended version), McNeil Center for Early American Studies/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference on Sexuality in Early America, Philadelphia, June 2001.  Full text available in PDF format.

"Unlocking the Tongue:  Community and Authorship in the New England Martyr Narratives," Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 2001.

"Elegiac Patriarchs:  Crèvecoeur and the War of Masculinities," Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 2001.

"Border Crossing: Quakers and the Queering of New England," Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000.

"Crèvecoeur’s Revolutionary Sketches: Millennialism, Mourning, Masculinity," Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 2000.

"‘The Same Mary Dyer that was Here Before’: Starting Over in New England," Women’s Caucus Session, Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, April 2000.

"Crèvecoeur’s Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America: Revolution and the Rhetoric of Estrangement," Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, April 1997.

"Uses of the Fallen Woman: Seduction and Ideology in Susannah Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s ‘Fanny McDermot,’" New Jersey College English Association, April 1996.

"Dissent and the Frontier of Translation," invited presentation at conference on "Possible Pasts: Critical Encounters in Early America" co-sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, June 1994.

"Slavery and the Religious Imagination: Reading The Narrative of Sojourner Truth," LeMoyne Forum on Religion and Literature, Syracuse, October 1993.

"Native Subjects: Samuel Gorton and the Politics of Interpretation," Second Annual American Studies Graduate Conference, Brandeis University, October 1991.

"Translating Wilderness: Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America," Early American Cultures Workshop, University of Chicago, December 1992; American Studies Workshop, May 1991.

"Christ the Word: Verbal Experience and Verbal Expression in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1987.

CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED/CHAIRED:

Co-organizing and chairing workshop (with Nicole Mische Gothelf), “Persecution and Shifting Constructions of Quaker Masculinity in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic,” for “Attending to Early Modern Women—and  Men” Conference, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, November 2006.

Co-chaired workshop (with Michael Householder, Southern Methodist U), “Beyond the Survey:  Teaching Early American Studies,” for second major Colonial Americas Summit (“Beyond Colonial Studies:  An InterAmerican Encounter”), Providence, November 2004.  

Co-organized (with Michele Lise Tarter, The College of new Jersey) special session for Modern Language Association 2004, “Sites of Early Quaker Identity:  Places, Histories, Texts.”

“America Capta:  Transformations of the Captivity Narrative in American Literature and Popular Culture” (a set of three sessions focusing on historical, literary, and pop-cultural revisions of the genre), accepted for Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 2002 (organizer and chair).

"Sites of Transgression: Quaker Texts, Colonial Contexts," Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, May 2001 (co-organizer).

"The Word, the Whip, and the Rod: Language and the Body in Early Quaker Texts," special session, Modern Language Association, December 2000 (organizer and chair).

"Early American Literature: Charles Brockden Brown and Hugh Henry Brackenridge," Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, April 2000 (chair).

"Early American Literature: Gender and Discourse/Discourses of Gender," Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, April 1998 (organizer and chair).

"Quaker Texts and Contexts in American Literature and Culture," Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, April 1997 (organizer and chair)

"Teaching Literature on the Electronic Frontier: Prospects and Pedagogies," Northeast Modern Language Association, Montréal, April 1996 (organizer and chair).

OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

Participant in two workshops at “Beyond Colonial Studies: An Inter-American Encounter” conference, November 2004, Providence:  “Beyond ‘Female Friendship’: New Directions in Sexuality Studies” and “Beyond the Survey:  Teaching Comparative American Colonial Studies.”

Discussant for panel, "Regionalism, Nationalism, Internationalism and Gender," Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 2000.

Respondent for special session, "John Brown’s Perpetual Resurrection," Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Early American literature and culture, especially writings of Puritan and Quaker dissenters; the interrelationships of religion, rhetoric, gender, and social criticism in spiritual autobiography, the slave narrative, and other nonfictional prose forms; American women writers; gay and lesbian studies.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

At the University of Northern Iowa:

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620:005 College Reading and Writing

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620:031 Introduction to Literature

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620:034 Critical Writing About Literature

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620:053 Major American Writers

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620:070 Beginning Poetry Writing

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620:151g Early American Literature

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620:153g Major American Poets to 1914

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620:186g Studies in Early American Literature

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620:188g Seminar in Literature: The Captivity Narrative in America

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620:188g Seminar in Literature:  The Salem Witch Trials in Literature and History

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620:188g Seminar:  Revolution to Republic:  American Literature, 1750-1800

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620:188g Seminar in American Poetry:  Prophetic Passions, Lyric Rebels (summer course)

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620:284 Seminar in Literature: Writing Gender in Early America (graduate)

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620:284 Seminar in Literature: Heretics, Witches, and Rogues:  Deviance in Early American Literature (graduate)

At The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey:

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LITT 1100 Introduction to Literature

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LITT 1101 Literary Methodologies

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LITT 2104 American Literature I

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LITT 2105 American Literature II

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LITT 2109 Contemporary American Fiction

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LITT 3311 American Women Writers 1790-1915

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LITT 3612 Early American Literature

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LITT 4610 Senior Seminar: Literature and Persuasion

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GAH 1150 The Experience of Literature

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GAH 2106 Women Writing on America

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GAH 3301 Spiritual Autobiography

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GEN 1120 Rhetoric and Composition

Illinois Institute of Technology, Instructor in Humanities. Taught Techniques of Prose Writing. Fall 1993.

At the University of Chicago:

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Lecturer, Department of English, Winter 1993. Taught self-designed course on American Spiritual Narratives.

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Course Assistant: Introduction to Poetry, winter 1994; American Literature Survey 1620-1860, winter 1989.

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Writing Intern, Humanities Core Program, 1989-1991.

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Lector, Little Red Schoolhouse Academic and Professional Writing Program, 1986.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

All periods of American literature, with special emphasis on early American literature; American women writers; teaching with electronic technology; contemporary poetry and fiction; poetry as a genre; autobiographical narrative; religion and literature; rhetorical criticism and theory; feminist criticism.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Book Review Editor, North American Review, 2001-.

Assistant to the Editor of Modern Philology, 1993-1994.

Poetry Editor, Chicago Review, 1989-1992.

ACADEMIC HONORS:

At the University of Northern Iowa:

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NEMLA Women's Caucus Best Essay Award for 2000, for "From Monster to Martyr:  Re-Presenting Mary Dyer in Early American Literature."

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Selected to participate in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, "Inquisitions and Persecutions in Early Modern Europe and the Americas," University of Maryland, June 13-July 15, 2005.

At The University of Chicago:

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Ph.D. awarded with Honors, 1993

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Josephine de Kármán Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1991

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John Billings Fiske Poetry Prize, 1989

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M.A. awarded with Honors, 1986

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Century Fellowship, 1985-1989

At Bryn Mawr College:

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A.B. awarded summa cum laude, 1984

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Honors in English, 1984

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M. L. Eastman Brooke Hall Scholarship for junior with highest general average, 1983

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Sheelah Kilroy Scholarship for excellence in English, 1983

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Katherine F. Gerould Prize for creative writing, 1983

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Academy of American Poets Prize, honorable mention, 1982 and 1983

GRANTS:

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UNI 4-week Summer Fellowship, Summer 2001.

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UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts Major Grant, Fall 2000.

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Provost’s Mini-Grant, University of Northern Iowa, Spring 2000.

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Richard Stockton College of NJ Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, 1998-1999.

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Richard Stockton College of NJ Research and Professional Development awards, 1997 & 1996.

COLLEGE SERVICE:

At the University of Northern Iowa:

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Book Review Editor, North American Review, 2001–.  

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Co-coordinator, Department of English Literature Section

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Graduate Exam Committee, member, Spring 2005; Chair, 2005-2006.

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Chair, Standing Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2004-2006.

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English Faculty Senate, 2003-2006.  

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English Curriculum Committee, 2003-2005.

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American Literature search committee, 2002-2003.

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American Literature and Creative Writing search committees, 2000-2001

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Faculty Advisor to English Club, 1999–2000.

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Graduate Student Recruitment & Awards Committee, 1999–2001.

At The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey:

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General Arts and Humanities Committee convener, 1997-1998

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General Studies Committee, member 1997-1998

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Library Committee, member 1996-1999

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Literature/Language curriculum revision subcommittee, Summer 1996

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Search Committee for tenure-track British Literature position, Fall 1995-Spring 1996

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Student Services Committee, member 1995-1997

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Campus Hearing Board, member 1995-1998

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Academic Honesty Appeals Board, member 1994-96

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Member of the Women’s Studies faculty, 1995-1999

COLLEGE & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Member of four-person organizing committee for UNI’s We Celebrate Walt Whitman festival, November 9, 2005; organized and chaired workshop with college and secondary faculty on “Teaching Walt Whitman,” gave talk during evening performance at Gallagher-Bluedorn Center.

Member of informal UNI faculty reading group on the History of Sexuality, 2002-2003.

Participant in KUNI Critics’ Roundtable for Theatre UNI’s production of Last Night of Ballyhoo, March 2002

"'Thy Love doth often melt in me':  The Queer Erotics of Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century New England," presentation in UNI's CROW Forum Series, October 2001.

"Saying 'I':  The Place of the Personal in Critical Writing," workshop at UNI's Celebrating Critical Writing Conference, March 2001.

Co-organizer of interdisciplinary Music/English performance, "An Evening with Emily Dickinson," in UNI's Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center; moderated pre-show discussion, March 2001.

"Writing in/and/for the Classroom," presentation at Stockton Federation of Teachers summer teaching workshop, August 1998.

Delivered the 50th Annual Lecture of the John Woolman Memorial Association ("‘Stranger Friend’: John Woolman and Quaker Dissent"), Mount Holly, N.J., September 1996.

"Salem Unpossessed," talk given at pre-show discussion of Stockton’s production of The Crucible, April 1996.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, Society of Early Americanists, Friends Association for Higher Education.

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