Katherine Montwieler
Associate Professor
English Department
132 Morton Hall UNCW Wilmington, NC 28403
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D., English (May 2000). University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
Dissertation
Collecting Power: Writing a Tradition of Women’s Verse
Graduate Certificate, Women‟s Studies (May 1999). University of Georgia.
M.A., English (May 1994). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
B.A. with honors, English/Spanish (May 1992). College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,
Massachusetts.
Refereed Publications
 “Building a Learning Community.” Best Practices in University Teaching: Essays by AwardWinning Faculty at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Second Edition.. Ed. Diana
Ashe. Wilmington: UNCW, forthcoming, 13 pages in manuscript.
 And Mark Edelman Boren. “The Pathology of the Romantic Subject and Mary Shelley‟s Cure for
Melancholia in Frankenstein and Mathilda.” PsyArt: An Online Journal for the
Psychological Study of the Arts, December 2012, 34 pages in manuscript.
http://www.psyartjournal.com
 “Embodiment, Agency, and Alienation in Frankenstein and Ourika.” The CEA Critic 73.3
(Spring-Summer 2011): 69-88.
 “Teaching French Women Writers in a World Literature Survey.” Approaches to Teaching
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York:
MLA, 2011, 326-331.
 “Reading, Sympathy, and the Bodies of Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual 41 (2010): 237-263.
 “Domestic Politics: Gender, Protest, and Barrett Browning‟s Poems before Congress.” Tulsa Studies
in Women’s Literature 24.2 (Fall 2005): 291-317.
 “Reading Disease: The Corrupting Performance of Edgeworth‟s Belinda.” Women’s Writing 12.3
(2005): 347-368.
 “Laughing at Love: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the Embellishment of Eros.” Romanticism on the
Net 29-30 (February-May 2003). www.ron.umontreal.ca
 “Hemans and Home-Schooling: History, Literature, and Records of Woman.” Nineteenth-Century
Feminisms 1.2 (Summer 2000): 10-31.
 “Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and Consumer Culture.” Mary Elizabeth Braddon in
Context. Ed. Marlene Tromp, Pamela Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie. New York: SUNY Press, 2000,
43-61.
Other Publications
 “Turning Point: Appreciating the Breath.” Integral Yoga Magazine Fall 2010. 40-41.
 “Felicia Hemans.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts
on File, 2010, 171-172.
 “Letitia Elizabeth Landon.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York:
Facts on File, 2010, 230-232.
 “Records of Woman.” Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts
on File, 2010, 363-364.
 Review of Fatal Women of Romanticism by Adriana Craciun. Essays in Criticism 54 (2004): 188-
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Review of Jack the Ripper and the London Press by L. Perry Curtis. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26
(2004): 289-291.
Review of Queen Victoria’s Secrets by Adrienne Munich. Women’s Studies International Forum 22.5
(September-October 1999): 580-581.
“Constructing Womanhood in Contemporary American Magazines.” Discourse Studies 1.1 (Spring
1997): 23-34.
“Marleen Gorris‟s Laugh of the Medusa.” The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and
Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Social Imagery, University of Southern Colorado, 1995, 236-41.
Conference Presentations
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“An American Haunting: The Specter of Memory in Elizabeth Strout‟s Olive Kitteridge.”
American Literature Association Conference, May 23, 2013. Boston, MA.
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“Mourning Marks: Barrett Browning‟s Poetics of Maternity.” Eighteenth- and NineteenthCentury British Women Writers Conference, June 9, 2012. Boulder, CO.
“Situating the Subject: Frankenstein, Ourika, and Alienation.” North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism Conference, May 23, 2009. Durham, NC.
“Reading Compassion: The Bodies of Bleak House.” College English Association Conference, April
13, 2007. New Orleans, LA.
“Recollecting Sensibility: Letitia Landon and the Body of Poetry.” Eighteenth- and NineteenthCentury British Women Writers Conference, March 26, 2006. Gainesville, FL.
“The Poetics of Protest: Gender, Politics, and Barrett Browning‟s Poems before Congress.”
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 26, 2004.
Athens, GA.
“Reading Disease: The Corrupting Performance of Edgeworth‟s Belinda.” Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 22, 2003. Fort Worth, TX
“Hemans and Home-Schooling: History, Literature, and Records of Woman.” Midwest Modern
Language Association Annual Conference, Nov. 3, 2000. Kansas City, MO.
“La comida y la cocina: las opciones para feministas.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Annual Conference, Oct. 2, 1999. Puebla, Mexico.
“Re-Discovering „Corsica.‟” American Conference on Romanticism, Jan. 23, 1998. Athens, GA.
“That Obscure Subject of Desire: L.E.L., Femininity and Erotic Politics.” Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, March 29, 1997. Davis, CA.
“Romantic Constructions.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Nov. 16, 1996.
Boston, MA.
“Eyeing Women in The Female Spectator.” Aphra Behn Society Annual Conference, Oct. 26, 1996.
Athens, GA
“Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and Consumer Culture.” Eighteenth- and NineteenthCentury British Women Writers Conference, March 21, 1996. Columbia, SC.
“Marleen Gorris‟s Laugh of the Medusa.” The Image of Violence: Society for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Social Imagery, March 11, 1995. Colorado Springs, CO.
“The Mysterious Erasure of Marian Erle.” Victorian Studies Group, Feb., 24, 1995. New York, NY.
“„Rattigan Glumphoboo‟: Orlando as Intersubjective Investigation.” Virginia Woolf Conference,
June 10, 1994. Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY.
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Grants and Honors
 Discere Aude Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2011).
 Mini grant, Internship and Service Program, New Hanover High School. University of North
Carolina at Wilmington (2011).
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Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2010).
Distinguished Teaching Professorship, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2009).
Significant Impact Statement Recognition. (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004,
2003, 2002, 2001).
Research Reassignment Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2007).
Summer Pedagogy Development Award, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2007).
Summer Research Initiative Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2005).
Cornerstone Learning Communities Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2004).
Cornerstone Learning Communities Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2003).
Summer Research Initiative Grant, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2001).
Excellence in Scholarship, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
(2001).
Dissertation Assistantship, Board of Regents, University of Georgia (1999-2000).
Mayers Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (July 1999).
Center for Humanities and Arts Dissertation Research Grant, University of Georgia (Jan. 1999).
Board of Regents Grant, University of Georgia (1994-1996).
Oxford University Grant, University of Georgia and Oxford University (Summer 1995).
Courses Taught
 Introduction to Composition
 Advanced Composition
 Introduction to Literature
 Critical Approaches to the Study of Literature
 British Literature to 1700
 British Literature Since 1700
 British Literature to 1800
 British Literature Since 1800
 Revolutionary Traditions
 World Literature Since 1660
 Sex, Sensibility, and the Body Politic (Eighteenth-Century British Literature)
 Romantics and Revolutions (British Romanticism)
 Eighteenth-Century Novel
 Love and Power Nineteenth-Century Style (Nineteenth-Century British Novel)
 Studies in Poetry: Harlots, Heroines, and Wise Women (Nineteenth-Century British Women‟s Poetry)
 European Novel to 1900
 Victorian Literature
 The Gothic Novel
 Twentieth-Century Women Writers
 Literary Passions (Twentieth-Century Fiction)
 Feminist Literary Theory
 Victorian Secrets (Senior Seminar)
 Sex, Power, and the Modern Subject (Interdisciplinary Seminar)
 Multicultural Perspectives on Women in the U.S.
 Introduction to Women‟s Studies
 Eighteenth-Century Women Writers (Graduate Seminar)
 The Early Romantics (Graduate Seminar)
 Romantic Genders (Graduate Seminar)
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Romantic Women Writers (Graduate Seminar)
Romantic Gothic (Graduate Seminar)
Lyrical Femininities (Graduate Seminar)
Nineteenth-Century Novel Empires (Graduate Seminar)
Sexuality, the City, and the Novel (Graduate Seminar)
Sex, Power, and Victorian Secrets (Graduate Seminar)
An Introduction to the Gothic (Graduate Seminar)
World Gothic (Graduate Seminar)
Studies in European Literature in Translation: Feeling, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
(Graduate Seminar)
Modern Literary Theory (Graduate Seminar)
Master’s Theses, Director
 JoAnna Wright, in progress.
 Amanda Easton, “The Nips and Tucks of Female Aging in Christina Rossetti‟s „Goblin Market,‟
Charles Dickens‟s Great Expectations, and Emile Zola‟s Au Bonheur des Dames.” Spring 2011.
 Amanda Perry, “Love Bites: An Exploration of Stephenie Meyer‟s Twilight as a Gothic Retelling of
“Beauty and the Beast, ” Spring 2010.
 Kristine Jennings, “Translating The Devil and His grandmother: an introduction to the life and work
of Lou Andreas- Salomé.” Spring 2008.
 Aimee Wilson, “Holding hands with Virginia Woolf: a map of Orlando's functional subversion.”
Spring 2008.
 Jessica Jones, “The masquerade and bisexuality in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride.” Spring
2007.
 Matthew Rickard, “Finding a rhythm: how tribalism creates identity in Erdrich's The painted drum.”
Spring 2007.
 Heather Brown, “„I gained his secret‟: narrating desire in Mary Shelley's Matilda.” Spring 2006.
 Johanna Stevens, “„The prettiest little actress‟: performance theory and Frances Burney's Evelina.”
Spring 2006.
 Rebekah Costin, “Rejecting the myth: characterizations of emerging adulthood in three contemporary
novels.” Fall 2005.
 Kimberle Brown, “„When I kissed her cheek‟: theatrics of sexuality and the framed gaze in Esther's
narration of Bleak House.” Spring 2005.
 Jeffrey Grissett, “„His love is real, but he is not‟: examination of reality in Spielberg's AI: artificial
intelligence.” Spring 2005.
 Gena Walker, “A language of sign: obtaining power in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story.” Spring
2005.
 Anna Maria Cancelli, “The androgyny of an angel: death as liberator in George Sand's Gabriel.”
Spring 2003.
 Jennifer Parrack-Rogers, “Dissolving the doctrine of the separate spheres: a Mellorian reading of
Anna Letitia Barbauld's „The Baby-House.‟” Spring 2001.
Undergraduate Honors Theses, Director
 Jeffrianne Gutsin, “Mamma Sara: Representations of Victorian Maternity in Frances Hodgson
Burnett‟s A Little Princess.” Spring 2013.
 Nicole Herbert, “Rereading literary legacies: Jean Rhys‟s Wide Sargasso Sea and Emily Brontë's
Wuthering Heights.” Spring 2007.
 Heather Lucking, “Moral mythology: Oscar Wilde's use of classical mythology and idealism in The
Picture of Dorian Gray.” Spring 2004.
Master’s Theses, Reader
 Lisa Graham, in progress.
 Mitchell McInniss, in progress.
 Quinn Tooman, in progress.
 Zach Tooman, in progress.
 Shauna Maraugh, “Learning Femininity: Gender Performance and Clothing in Tamora Pierce‟s Song
of the Lioness quartet and Suzanne Collins‟s The Hunger Games trilogy,” Spring 2012.
 Jamie LaLonde-Pinkston, “Once in Songwipo,” Spring 2012.
 Joshua Wade, “„To Rise Above Nature‟: Reading Science as Phallic Power in R.L. Stevenson‟s The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A.C. Doyle‟s „The Advetures of the Creeping
Man,” Fall 2011.
 Maria DiBenigno, “„I am not alone in my fascination‟: cultural fear and the „True‟ Wilmington ghost
story.” Spring 2011.
 Trisha Jones, “Melville as Mat-Maker: Weaving the Language of Fate in Moby Dick.” Spring 2011.
 Emily Black, M.Ed. Portfolio. Spring 2010.
 Jenna Batchelor, “Representations of camp in Disney's 101 Dalmatians and The little mermaid.”
Spring 2009.
 Jessica Puzzo, “„To do what a God would do!‟: Jamaica Kincaid's equivocal return to origins in My
garden (book).” Spring 2009.
 Kat Boudrie, “Let‟s Talk about Sex (or Not): The Fallen Woman‟s Linguistic Dilemma and the
Double Standard in Thomas Hardy‟s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge.”
Spring 2008.
 Elizabeth De Nittis, “Gender and the grotesque in the short fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Spring
2008.
 Dawn Brown Henderson, “Original and eternal seduction: Satan's psyche in Paradise Lost.” Spring
2008.
 Kristin Holmes, “A limited woman: character in question in Buchi Emecheta's novel The joys of
motherhood.” Spring 2007.
 Jesse Lambertson, “Alice K's adventures interroscribing simulandra: of performance through
questions in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Trial.” Spring 2007.
 Jason Garnett, “Structures of public works: speaking of civility.” Fall 2006.
 Mark Eyre, “Go to the Light.” Spring 2006.
 Jay Whitaker, “Aesthetic representations of history: the question of the national allegory.” Spring
2006.
 Brianna Spencer, “Material girl: the subjective role of objects in Dorothy Parker's poems and short
stories.” Spring 2005.
 Matthew Price, “A tale of sight and smell signifying death: Benjy Compson revisited.” Fall 2005.
 Dan Barker, “A justification of the narrative presence of Esther Summerson in Charles Dickens's
Bleak House.” Spring 2004.
 Emily Kruse, “Story idea and a conversation with the narrator.” Fall 2004.
 Melanie Bruce, “„Far more than I ever dared to hope for‟: Victorian traveler Isabella Bird in the
Rocky Mountains.” Spring 2003.
 Alicia Skipper, “Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary, and Female Liberation.” Spring 2003.
 Kurt Henning, “Rebellion, Marriage, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall.” Spring 2002.
 Jennifer Raspet, “A Humorous Defense: The Serious Comedy of Dorothy Parker.” Spring 2002.
 Sherry Niven, “„A Woman Needs to Be a Liar‟: Voice in Ellen Glasgow‟s The Woman Within.”
Spring 2001.
Undergraduate Honors Theses, Reader
 Trey Morehouse, “Postmodern Soul Therapy: Encountering the Real in Caryl Churchill‟s
Twenty-First-Century Political Drama.” Spring 2012.
 Meredith Privott, “Neither here nor there: a study of the liminal in coastal women's narratives.”
Spring 2007.
 Jennifer Schettler, “Gender and aging in literature: the humorous subversion of sexism and ageism.”
Spring 2007.
 Hannah Renwick, “Grounding grief: the role of landscape imagery in female-voiced Old English
laments.” Spring 2006.
 Erin Huels, “The Evolution of Merlin: A Study of How this Character Became a Reflection of the
Society That Wrote about Him Rather than One of His Own Time.” Spring 2003.
Service
Department
 Assistant Departmental Chair. 2008-2010.
 Coordinator of Literary Studies. 2008-2011.
 Chair, Hiring Committee for Assistant Professor of English Education, present.
 Chair, Graduation Committee. 2006-2007.
 Chair, Undergraduate Literature Committee. 2003-2004.
 Chair, Buckner Committee (lecture series). Spring 2003.
 Mentor to Assistant Professors. 2008-present.
 Member, Hiring Committee for two Assistant Professors of Linguistics, 2010.
 Member, Hiring Committee for Lecturer in English, 2008.
 Member, Hiring Committee for Office Manager, 2008.
 Coordinator, Women Write lecture series. Fall 2004.
 Member, Mentoring Committee. 2006-2007, 2009-2011.
 Member, Applied Learning Committee. 2006-2007.
 Member, Steering Committee. Fall 2002, 2005-2006, 2007-2011.
 Member, Graduate Qualifying Exam Committee. 2006-2007.
 Member, Student Awards Committee. 2006-2007.
 Member, Buckner Committee. 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2008-2009.
 Member, Graduate Committee. 2004-2005, 2007-2009.
 Member, Wentworth Committee (student travel awards). 2000-2001, 2003-2004, 2004-2005.
 Member, Undergraduate Literature Committee. 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004.
 Member, Designing ENG 205 Committee (Gateway course for English majors with literature
concentration). 2001-2002, 2002-2003.
 Member, Basic Studies Committee. 1999-2000.
 Director, eleven independent studies. 2001-present.
University
 Member, Scholars Council, 2010-2011.
 Member, University College Advisory Committee, 2009-2011.
 Member, Honors Council, 2009-2012.
 Panel Member, Women‟s Bodies/Women‟s Lives Program. March 2009.
 English Department Liaison to Synergy Common Reading Program. 2008-2010.
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Member, Center for Faculty Leadership Board, 2008-2011.
Member, Basic Studies Committee. 2006-2007.
Member, Academic Standards Committee. 2006-2007.
Member, Women‟s Resource Center Board of Directors. 2005-2007.
Respondent, The Vagina Monologues. March 2005.
Teacher, College Day. November 20, 2004.
Teacher, College Day. November 22, 2003.
Member, UNCW Feminist Colloquium. 2001-2002.
Community and Profession
 Guest Review Editor, Women’s Writing, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature; Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture; Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Journal of Effective Teaching,
Colonial Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, OLLI Interactive Literary Club: Frankenstein. UNCW. October 5, 2011.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, OLLI PLATO Society: “Reacting to the Industrial Revolution: Triumph,
Terror, and Trauma.” UNCW. January 25, 2011.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, OLLI Interactive Literary Club: Candide. UNCW. October 6, 2010.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, Let’s Talk About It: Wide Sargasso Sea. North Carolina Humanities Council
and Brunswick County Libraries, Southport. January 17, 2010.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, Let’s Talk About It: Jane Eyre. North Carolina Humanities Council and
Brunswick County Libraries, Southport. January 3, 2010.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, Let’s Talk About It: The Secret Garden. North Carolina Humanities Council
and Friends of the Sneads Ferry Library. October 13, 2009.
 Lecturer and Facilitator, Let’s Talk About It: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. North Carolina Humanities Council
and Friends of the Sneads Ferry Library. September 8, 2008.
 Faculty Adviser, Larissa Emery, Senior Project, South Brunswick High School. 2009.
 Literacy and Writing Tutor, Friends School of Wilmington. 2008-present.
 Facilitator, The Write Script, New Hanover Regional Hospital. 2001-2002.
 Literacy Tutor, J.C. Roe Elementary School. 2000-2001.