AUDREY A. FISCH
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Bio
Dr. Audrey Fisch serves as Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University,
where she has trained a cadre of diverse, first-generation college students to become highly-skilled and committed English teachers in
urban public schools. She counts several Fulbright winners and one school superintendent among her alumni.
At NJCU, Fisch’s administrative responsibilities have included leadership of the University-wide Promotion Committee, a Presidential
Task Force on Graduation and Retention, and a Tenure Coaching Program for junior faculty. She created a College-wide Writing
Assessment Program to raise the writing competence of all certification students in the College of Education and established a paid
Teacher Training Program, with a $100,000 annual budget, to develop undergraduates as tutors, aides, and mentors in community
schools.
Fisch is a widely-recognized scholar of the African-American slave narrative and Mary Shelley. Her recent research is centered on
educational standards, literacy, and assessment. She is a passionate advocate of access and inclusive excellence in public education
Education
Rutgers University: Ph.D., English, May 1993; M.A., English, May 1989.
Dissertation: "Uncle Tom in England: The Black American Abolitionist Campaign, 1852-1861."
Amherst College: B.A., English and Math, magna cum laude, May 1987.
Experience
New Jersey City University, Professor, Department of English, 2005-present
New Jersey City University, Coordinator of the Secondary English Education Program, Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education, 2001-present
New Jersey City University, Associate Professor, Department of English, 2001-2005
New Jersey City University, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, 1998-2000
New Jersey City University (formerly Jersey City State College), Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1993-2001
Leadership Experience
HERS Institute, Bryn Mawr, July 2016
Founder and Coordinator, Teacher Training Program, 2015-present
Founder and Co-coordinator, College of Education Writing Assessment Committee, 2002-2006, 2008-present
Coordinator, Secondary English Education Program, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2001-present
Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, 1998-2000
Awards
Separately Budgeted Research grant for “Using Informational Text to Teach A Raisin in the Sun,” New Jersey City
University, Spring 2015.
Presidential research grant, New Jersey City University, Spring 2014.
Separately Budgeted Research grant with Deborah Bennett for “Preparing Teacher Candidates to Work Collaboratively,”
New Jersey City University, Spring 2012.
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Separately Budgeted Research grant for “The Cambridge Companion to the African-American Slave Narrative,” New Jersey
City University, Spring 2006.
Separately Budgeted Research grant for "Frankenstein: Icon of Western Culture," New Jersey City University, Fall 2004.
International Incentive grant, revised course for “Rethinking Canonical Literature in the Middle School and Secondary
Classroom,” New Jersey City University, Summer 2004.
Separately Budgeted Research grant for "Transatlantic Stowe," New Jersey City University, Fall 2003.
International Incentive grant, revised course for “Advanced Curriculum Development in English,” New Jersey City
University, Summer 2003.
Title V grant, for “Secondary Methods of Teaching English,” Summer 2003.
Title V grant, with Chris Shamburg and Michael Basile, for Digital Best Practices of Teaching English, Fall 2002.
Co-coordinator of International Development Workshops and Grant participant for “Reaching Across Borders:
Internationalizing Students in K-12 Urban Teacher Education,” U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant, 2002-2004.
Separately Budgeted Research grant for "Black British Studies in the Victorian Period," New Jersey City University, Spring
2003.
International Incentive grant with Sheila Kirven (librarian), revised course and library support (combined) for “Children’s
Literature,” New Jersey City University, 2001-2002.
Grant participant for "World Languages and Cultures in Urban Education." U.S. Department of Education, Title VI
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant, 1999-2001.
Separately Budgeted Research grant for "Working," New Jersey City University, Fall 1999.
Travel Grant for international meetings abroad, American Council of Learned Societies, American Comparative Literature
Association, 1995.
Separately Budgeted Research grant for "Uncle Tom in England," Jersey City State College, 1994-95.
Senior Research Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Colloquium on "Race and
Culture," Spring 1994.
Publications
Books
Using Informational Text to Teach The Great Gatsby. [4th volume in the series.] Written with Susan Chenelle. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2016 [under contract].
Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text. [3rd volume in the series.] Written with Susan
Chenelle. Rowman and Littlefield. 2016.
Using Informational Text to Teach A Raisin in the Sun. [2nd volume in the series.] Written with Susan Chenelle. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2016.
Using Informational Text to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird. [1st volume in the series.] Written with Susan Chenelle. Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture. Westfield, UK: Helm Publishing, 2009.
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The Cambridge Companion to the African-American Slave Narrative. Editor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2000; re-issued in paperback, 2009.
The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein. Co-edited with Esther H. Schor and Anne K. Mellor. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Articles
“Informational Text: Two Great Pairings.” [Written with Susan Chenelle.] English Journal, 106.4. [forthcoming]
“Seizing the Opportunity of Informational Text to Connect Literature to the World.” [Written with Susan Chenelle.] English
Journal, 105.4 (2016): 31-36.
“Collaborating to Capitalize on Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities of Informational Text.” [Written with Susan Chenelle.]
English Leadership Quarterly. 37.2 (October 2014): 2-5.
“Ideas for Using Informational Text to Teach Literature: A Model Based on To Kill a Mockingbird.” [Written with Susan
Chenelle.] The New Jersey English Journal. (2014): 23-28.
“Infusing Coteaching into the General Education Field Experience.” [Written with Deborah Bennett.] Interdisciplinary
Journal of Teaching and Learning. 3.1 (Spring 2013): 18-37.
Commentary on Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era. National Era. Word Press (January 2012)
“Independence and Interdependence: An Analysis of Pre-Service Candidates’ Use of Focused Assignments on an Electronic
Discussion Forum During the Initial Field Experience.” [Written with Deborah Bennett.] Interdisciplinary Journal of
Teaching and Learning. 1.1 (Summer 2011): 23-42.
“The Difficulty of Raising Standards in Teacher Education.” Pedagogy. 9.1 (Winter 2009): 142-51.
“Our Disconnect in Training Teachers.” Pedagogy. 5.2 (Spring 2005): 309-15.
“Transatlantic Stowe.” The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Edited by Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge
University Press, 2003: 96-112.
“Wilkie Collins, Race and Slavery.” Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins. Edited by Maria K Bachman and
Don Richard Cox. University of Tennessee Press, 2003: 313-28.
“Chronicles from the Third World (?) of Women’s Studies.” [Written with Lisa Botshon.] Feminist Teacher. 14.1
(Winter/Spring 2002): 41-9.
“Black British Studies in the Victorian Period.” Victorian Literature and Culture. 2002: 353-64.
"On the Discomforts of Teaching." Feminist Teacher. 12.1 (1998): 40-3.
"'Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing': The Ideological Work of American Slave Narratives in England." The
Journal of Victorian Culture. Inaugural issue 1.1 (Spring 1996): 16-34.
"Uncle Tom in England." Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by John Maynard and Adrienne Auslander Munich. 22.
New York: AMS Press, 1995: 23-53.
"'Negrophilism' and British Nationalism: The Spectacle of the Black American Abolitionist." Victorian Review. 19.2 (Winter
1993): 20-47.
"'Exhibiting Uncle Tom in Some Shape or Other': The Commodification and Reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England."
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Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 17.2 (1993): 145-58.
"Plaguing Politics: AIDS, Deconstruction, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man." The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond
Frankenstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993: 267-86.
Campus Publications
“Frankenstein: Or, The Vampire’s Victim.” The Academic Forum. 16.2 (2010): 16-21.
“A Case History of Change in the College of Education’s Writing Assessment Exam.” [Written with Allan De Fina and Tracy
Amerman.] The Academic Forum. 14.2 (Spring 2006): 11-15.
“The Contender: The Limited Pleasures of Popular Culture.” Women on Campus. (Summer 2005): 6-7.
“Reaching across Borders.” [Written with Donna Farina and Carrie Robinson.] The Academic Forum. 12.1 (2003): 28-9.
“Internationalizing Our Practice: Reflections on Globalizing the Student Teaching Experience.” [Written with Carrie
Robinson, David Blackmore, Ellen Garvey, and Irma Maini.] The Academic Forum. 12.1 (2003): 30-5.
“Internationalizing Ourselves: Reflections on Traveling Around the Globe.” [Written with Carrie Robinson, Basanti
Chakraborty, Ellen Garvey, Cora Lagos, and Pargellan McCall.] The Academic Forum. 12.1 (2003): 36-40.
“Borders Yet to Be Crossed.” [Written with Donna Farina and Carrie Robinson.] The Academic Forum. 12.1 (2003): 44-6.
“The World Languages and Cultures Grant: A Challenge and Opportunity.” [Written with world languages and culture grant
faculty.] The Academic Forum. 9.1 (2000): 1, 40-5.
“'Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing': The Ideological Work of American Slave Narratives in England." The
Academic Forum. 8.2 (2000): 21-4. [Excerpted and reprinted from American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolition in
Popular Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2000.]
"Women's and Gender Studies at NJCU: Risks and Rewards." Women on Campus: The Newsletter of the NJCU Women's
Center & the Women's Studies Program. (Fall 1999/Spring 2000): 3, 16-7.
"On the Discomforts of Teaching." Women on Campus: The Newsletter of the JCSC Women's Center & the Women's Studies
Program. (Fall 1997): 3, 18. Republished in Feminist Teacher. 12.1 (1998): 40-3.
Review Essays
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, edited by Jesse Hagopian. Education Review 22:
forthcoming.
Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861, by Siân Silyn Roberts. Clio: A
Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 45.1 (2015): forthcoming.
Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination, by Celeste-Marie Bernier. Journal of American
Studies 48.1 (February 2014): 334-336.
Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms, by Jeff Zwiers, Susan O'Hara, and Robert Pritchard. Teachers College
Record [Written with Susan Chenelle.] 29 Aug. 2014. Web.
The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping the Human Sciences, by Edward Beasley.
Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.4 (August 2012): 368-370.
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor, by Elizabeth Young. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.1
(February 2011): 81-84.
Dark Victorians, by Vanessa D. Dickerson. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 31.4 (December 2009): 391-94.
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Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture, edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B.
Todd. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 30.2 (June 2008): 200-2.
The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins, edited by Jenny Bourne Taylor, and Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays,
edited by Andrew Mangham. Victorian Studies (Spring 2008): 495-98.
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s, by Sarah Meer. Victorian Studies 49.4
(Summer 2007): 747-48.
Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century, by Jason Haslam and
Julia M. Wright. The University of Toronto Quarterly “Letters in Canada 2005” 76:1 (Winter 2006/2007): 444-46.
Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, by Patrick Brantlinger, Australasian Victorian Studies
Journal 10 (2004): 205-7.
Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot, by Alicia Carroll. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 9 (2003): 211-13.
Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by H.L. Malchow. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 21 (1999): 465-70.
Marriage or Celibacy? The Daily Telegraph on a Victorian Dilemma, by John M. Robson. Victorian Periodicals Review
30.1 (Spring 1997): 68-70.
"Body Parts." Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context, by Anne McClintock. In-between:
Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism 6.1 (March 1997): 73-76.
The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison, edited by Carl Plasa and Betty T. Ring. Nineteenth-Century
Contexts 19.4 (1996): 446-448.
Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities, by Ed Cohen. Victorian Periodicals
Review 28.3 (Fall 1995): 266-68.
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, by Aijaz Ahmad. In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism 3.1 (March
1994): 63-66.
Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism, by Jon Thompson, and Apprehending the Criminal:
The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Discourse, by Marie-Christine Leps. Victorian Review 20.1 (Summer
1994): 86-89.
Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body, by Karen Sanchez-Eppler. The Amherst Magazine 46.3
(Spring 1994): 40-41.
Culture and Imperialism, by Edward W. Said. Victorian Review 19.2 (Winter 1993): 97-100.
Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and Misery,” by Jane Blumberg. In-between: Essays & Studies in
Literary Criticism 2.1 (March 1993): 63-66.
The Failure of Modernism, by Andrew Ross. the minnesota review 32 (Summer 1989): 144-147.
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, by Paul Monette. Magill's Literary Annual. Ed. Frank N. Magill. 2 vols. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1989, 112-5.
"Political Differences." A World of Difference, by Barbara Johnson. Critical Texts 5.3 (1988): 44-8.
Letters
PMLA Roundtable. PMLA 122.3 (May 2007): 815-16.
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General publications
“Common Core, Assessment, and Public Education.” Well Mixed. April 2015.
“N.J. parents should worry less about test scores and more about learning.” Star Ledger. 12 Feb. 2014.
“Text to Text: `Lord of the Flies’ and `A Fight Club for Flies.’” [Written with Susan Chenelle.] The New York Times. The
Learning Network. 22 January 2015.
“Text to Text: `A Raisin in the Sun’ and `Discrimination in Housing Against Nonwhites Persists Quietly.’” [Written with
Susan Chenelle.] The New York Times. The Learning Network. 13 March 2014.
“Equal Pay Day: When it comes to salaries, there’s no equality.” Star Ledger. 16 April 2012.
“Equal pay for women remains a concern after signing of Lilly Ledbetter Act.” The Times of Trenton. 28 March 2012.
“Here’s to the Next Lilly Ledbetter.” NJToday.net. 21 March 2012.
“Sexual harassment in our schools should not be ignored.” Cape May Star and Wave. 28 December 2011. Reprinted in
njtoday.net; Newjerseynewsroom.com; Shanghai Daily; The Times of Trenton.
Presentations
Conference Papers
“Using Informational Text to Enhance Literacy and Collaboration Across Disciplines.” Institute. International Literacy
Association Annual Convention; Boston, MA; July 2016.
“Using Informational Text To Enhance Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and the Arts.” [with Susan Chenelle] 8th Annual
New Jersey Charter Schools Conference; Atlantic City, NJ; May 2016.
“Teaching Literature in (Not-so) Post-Racial Times.” [with Susan Chenelle] New Jersey Council of Teachers of English
Annual Conference; Montclair, NJ; April 2016.
“Successful Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and the Common Core.” [with Susan Chenelle] New Jersey Council of Teachers
of English Annual Conference; Montclair, NJ; April 2016.
“Unpacking Race in To Kill A Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun in Response to Ferguson and Baltimore.” Panel with Susan
Chenelle and Michele Haiken. Critical Questions in Education Conference; Baltimore, MD; November 2015.
“The Potential and Rewards of Leadership and Collaboration Across Institutions.” [with Susan Chenelle] Conference on
English Leadership Convention; Minneapolis, MN; November 2015.
“Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird Responsibly in (Not So) Post-Racial Times.” [with Susan Chenelle] National Council of
Teachers of English Annual Convention; Minneapolis, MN; November 2015.
“Using Informational Text to Teach Literature.” [with Susan Chenelle] The New York State English Council Annual
Conference; Albany, NY; October 2015.
"Using Informational Text to Connect Curriculum to the World." [with Susan Chenelle] Illinois Association of Teachers of
English Conference; Crystal Lake, IL; October 2015.
“Collaborating to Use Informational Text Across the Disciplines.” [with Susan Chenelle] International Literacy Association
Annual Convention; St. Louis, MO; July 2015.
“Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Collaboration in Using Informational Text.” [with Susan Chenelle] Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development Annual Convention; Houston; March 2015.
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“Using Informational Text: Cross-Disciplinary Literacy to Motivate Secondary Learning." [with Susan Chenelle] Conference
on English Leadership 2014 Convention; Washington, DC; November 2014.
“Using Informational Text to Teach A Raisin in the Sun.” [with Susan Chenelle] National Council of Teachers of English
Annual Convention; Washington, DC; November 2014.
“Collaborating Across Disciplines: Using Informational Text to Enhance Curriculum.” [with Susan Chenelle] New
Jersey/Pennsylvania Elevating & Celebrating Effective Teachers and Teaching; Raritan Valley Community College;
September 2014.
“Using Informational Text to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird.” [with Susan Chenelle] New Jersey Council of Teachers of
English Annual Conference; Montclair University; March 2014.
“Incorporating Informational Text into the Teaching of To Kill a Mockingbird.” [with Susan Chenelle] National Council of
Teachers of English Annual Convention; Boston; November 2013.
“Infusing Coteaching into the General Education Field Experience.” [with Deborah Bennett] International Association of
Special Education Biennial Conference; Vancouver, BC; July 2013.
“Real Academic Freedom: The Privilege, if Not Always the Time, to Write What One Chooses.” Panel: “Teaching Lives: Our
Work as Teacher-Scholars in Settings that Focus on Undergraduate Teaching.” Modern Language Association Convention;
Los Angeles, CA; January 2011.
“Raising Standards for Writing in Pre-Service Teachers.” [with Tracy Amerman and Allan De Fina] Conference on English
Leadership 2008 Convention; San Antonio, TX; November 2008.
“The Importance and Difficulty of Raising Standards in Teacher Training and Education.” [with Tracy Amerman and Allan
De Fina] New Jersey Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference; Montclair, NJ; March 2008.
“Enrollment and Standards in Teacher Education: Can They Coexist?” [with Tracy Amerman and Allan De Fina]
National Council of Teachers of English Convention; New York, NY; November 2007.
“Slavery.” Panel: “Victorian Keywords Reconsidered III: Secularization, Hypocrisy, Slavery.” Modern Language Association
Convention; Philadelphia, PA; December 2006.
“Strengthening Arts and Sciences and Education Collaboration to Internationalize Urban Teacher Education.” [with Donna
Farina and Carrie Robinson] Panel: “Internationalizing Collaborative Leadership: Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared.”
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting; Washington, DC; February 2005.
“Changing Campus Attitudes Toward Foreign Language Study.” [with Donna Farina] Panel: “Policy Perspectives on
Postsecondary Foreign Language Requirements.” Modern Language Association Convention; Philadelphia, PA; December
2004.
“Conceptualizing the Research Agenda at Non-traditional, Non-elite Institutions.” Panel: “Conceptualizing the Posttenure
Research Agenda.” Modern Language Association Convention; Philadelphia, PA; December 2004.
“Our Disconnect in Training Teachers.” Panel: “Gaps in Preparation: What We’re Not Teaching Teachers.” Modern
Language Association Convention; San Diego, CA; December 2003.
“Uncle Tom and Harriet Beecher Stowe in England.” Panel: “Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Roundtable.” American Literature
Association Conference; Cambridge, MA; May 2003.
"Still Struggling to Exist: Women's Studies at Resource Poor Institutions." National Women's Studies Association
Conference; Boston, MA; June 2000.
"Making Women's Studies Work on an Urban Public Campus: Politics, Programming and Publicity." Mid-Atlantic Women's
Studies Association Conference; Drew University; Madison, NJ; February 2000.
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"What's In a Name? Why Women's and Gender Studies?" National Women's Studies Association Conference; Albuquerque,
NM; June 1999.
"Women's Studies: Lessons from the Frontlines." National Women's Studies Association Conference; Albuquerque, NM; June
1999.
"Teaching Victorian Studies to Diverse, Urban Students." Panel: "Roundtable on Teaching." Northeast Victorian Studies
Association; Smith College, Northampton, MA; April 1998.
"African American Identity in a Box." Panel: "Going Public Beyond the Territory: African-Americans in Europe." American
Studies Association; Washington, DC; November 1997.
"The Material Conditions of Academic 'Success.'" (with Lisa Botshon, University of Maine) Special Session: "The Star
System." Modern Language Association Convention; Washington, DC; December 1996.
"Disciplinary Change, Affirmative Action, and the Hiring Process." Panel: "The Small College Department." Modern
Language Association Convention; Washington, DC; December 1996.
"Queuing Up For the Bull-Whip and the Cobbing Ladle: The Spectacle of American Slavery in Victorian England." Panel:
"Black Americans and the Anti-Slavery Crusade in Great Britain." New England Historical Association Conference; Amherst
College; April 1996. Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference; Villanova University; April 1996.
"'Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing': The Ideological Work of American Slave Narratives in England."
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; Tampa, FL; September 1994. The Victorians and Race; University of Leicester;
July 1995.
"'Black and White': Wilkie Collins, Race, and Slavery." Center for Humanities; Wesleyan University; May 1994.
"American Slave Narratives in the Victorian Literary Marketplace." Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture;
Rutgers University; March 1993.
"'Exhibiting Uncle Tom in Some Shape or Other': The British Reception to Uncle Tom's Cabin." Panel: "Uncle Tom's Cabin:
140 Years of Reaction." Central New York Modern Language Association; Cortland, NY; Oct. 1992.
"The Black American Abolitionist Campaign and Uncle Tom's Cabin: Politics and Popular Culture." Reading Victorian
Periodicals: Research Methodologies, Representations, and Localities, sponsored by the Research Society for Victorian
Periodicals; Manchester Polytechnic; July 1992.
"Uncle Tom in England: Or, A Proof that Black's White." University of Southampton; June 1992. London Seminar for
Nineteenth-Century Studies; Birkbeck College; July 1992.
"Education, Art, and Exotica: The Reception of Panoramas of American Slavery in England." Panel: "African-American
Experience." Second American Studies Graduate Conference; Brandeis University; October 1991.
"'Persons Representing Themselves as Fugitive Slaves': The Politics of 'Imposture' in England." Panel: "Of Race and Place."
Southern American Studies Association; Williamsburg, VA; February 1991.
"Plaguing Politics: AIDS, Deconstruction, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man." Special Session: "The Other Mary Shelley."
Modern Language Association; Chicago, IL; December 1990.
"Sir Gawain's Wily Femininity: Reading Sexual v. Gender Difference in Medieval Misogyny." Panel: "Gender in Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight." The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; New Brunswick, NJ; June 1989.
"The Question of Understanding 'a language which nobody understood': Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Panel: "Henry James
and Kate Chopin: Deconstructive, Psychoanalytic, and Cultural Readings." Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations Meeting; Toronto, Ontario; March 1990.
"Some Feminist Implications of Indeterminacy: Living, Herland, and Ulysses." Panel: "Modernism in Literature." Mid-
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Hudson Modern Language Association Conference; Poughkeepsie, NY; November 1988.
Media Appearances
“Why is Harper Lee releasing `Go Set a Watchman’ now?” Inside Story. Al Jazeera America. February 8, 2015.
Invited Lectures and Workshops
“An Impartial Forum about Standardized Testing: A Conversation about the Pros and Cons.” The League of Women Voters,
Montclair Area. April 2015.
“Frankenstein: Icon of Culture.” Bayonne Jewish Community Center. December 2005.
“Assessing and Developing the Writing of Education Students.” Workshop leader, Title V Workshop, New Jersey City
University. March 2004.
“Uncle Tom and Harriet Beecher Stowe in England.” Bayonne Jewish Community Center. November 2002.
"Balancing Work and Family and Other Myths about Parenting." University of Maine at Augusta; March 2000.
“Thinking about Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” American Association of University Women, Northwest New Jersey Chapter,
November 1995.
Service
National Service
Elected Regional Delegate, Middle Atlantic, Modern Language Association, 2016-2019.
Elected Delegate, Women in the Profession, Modern Language Association, 2009-2012.
State Service
Board Member, New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, 2015-present.
Referee and judge
Program reviewer: NCTE Annual Convention
Articles: NWSA Journal, PMLA, minnesota review, Victorian Review, Journal of Victorian Culture, Studies in the Novel,
Transformations, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Studies; Studies in
Romanticism, Oxford Bibliographies
Books: Macmillan Publishing, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Vanderbilt University Press, Prentice
Hall Publishers, Broadview Press, Louisiana State University Press
Promotion reviewer: University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College; University of Maine at Augusta; Rutgers
University, Camden; University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Scholarship Judge: Norman Mailer High School and College Student Writing Awards (National); Martin Luther King
Scholarship (NJCU); New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, High School Writing Contest (State); Linda Riddle/SGMA
Scholarship, Women's Sports Foundation (National)
Editorial Board
New Jersey English Journal, 2013-present
Assessment and Professional Development Work
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Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Educator Workshop on Using Informational Text to Teach Mockingbird and
Watchman,” Barnes and Noble, Clifton, NJ, October 2015.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Collaboration: Using Informational Text in
Social Studies,” Ewing High School, Ewing, NJ, Oct. 2015.
Workshop Leader, “Mentoring Interns through Observations, Conferences and Coaching,” 2015 Cooperating Teacher
Institute Workshop, Kean University, Union, NJ, June 2015.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Educator Workshop on Using Informational Text to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird,”
Barnes and Noble, Springfield, NJ, April 2015.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “PARCC Questions and Informational Text,” University Academy Charter High
School, January 2015.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Using Informational Text: Cross-Disciplinary Literacy to Motivate Secondary
Learning,” Ewing High School, Ewing, NJ, Nov. 2014.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Collaborating Across Disciplines: Using Informational Text to Enhance
Curriculum,” New Jersey Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Monroe Township, NJ, July 2014.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Collaborating Across Disciplines: Using Informational Text to Enhance
Curriculum,” University Academy Charter High School, July 2014.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Preparing for PARCC by Collaborating on Student Literacy,” University Academy
Charter High School, April 2014.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Using Informational Text to Increase Student Motivation, Engagement, and CrossDisciplinary Literacy,” New Jersey Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Monroe Township, NJ, March
2014.
Workshop Leader with Susan Chenelle, “Teaching Informational Text,” “New Pathways to Teaching Capstone Experience.”
Mercer County Community College, June 2013.
Language Arts Consultant, Grades 9-12, University Academy Charter High School, 2011-present.
Workshop Leader, “Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices,” Professional
Development Day, University Academy Charter High School, Jersey City, NJ, October 2011.
Workshop Leader, “The New Common Core Curriculum Standards,” Professional Development Day, University Academy
Charter High School, Jersey City, NJ, August 2011.
Workshop Leader, “Teaching Grammar and Teaching Writing,” Professional Development Day, University Academy Charter
High School, Jersey City, NJ, October 2009.
Workshop Leader, “Understanding and Working with the HSPA in the Language Arts Classroom,” Professional Development
Day, University Academy Charter High School, Jersey City, NJ, August 2009.
Workshop Leader, “Understanding and Working with the HSPA in the Language Arts Classroom,” Professional Development
Day, Union City Public Schools, December 2008.
Workshop Leader, “Bloom’s Taxonomy and Poetic Devices,” Winter Professional Development Day, Essex County
Vocational Schools, January 2008.
Language Arts Curriculum Development, Grades 9-12, Essex County Vocational Schools, Summer 2006, 2007.
Language Arts Consultant, Grades 9-12, Essex County Vocational Schools, 2006-2010.
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Workshop Leader, “Understanding and Preparing for the GEPA and HSPA in the Language Arts Classroom,” “New Pathways
to Teaching Capstone Experience,” Raritan Valley Community College, May 2006.
Mentor, West Caldwell Vocational School [Essex County Vocational Schools], January-March 2006.
Workshop Leader, “Persuasive Essays, Picture Prompts, and Targeted Rubrics,” Winter Professional Development Day,
Essex County Vocational Schools, January 2006.
Workshop Leader, “HSPA Enrichment Training,” Fall Professional Development Day, Essex County Vocational Schools,
Fall 2005.
Workshop Leader, “Understanding HSPA Scoring,” Summer Institute, Essex County Vocational Schools, Summer 2005.
HSPA and NCLB Assessment, Essex County Vocational Schools, Spring and Summer 2005.
Workshop Leader, “Secondary Language Arts,” “New Pathways to Teaching Capstone Experience.” Mercer County
Community College, June 2004.