Curriculum Vitae
Erin Mackie
Erin Mackie,
English Department
Hall of Languages 401
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244
[email protected]
315 443-4950
Employment History
2011: Professor, English Department, Syracuse University
2008-2011: Chair, English Department, Syracuse University
2007- 2010: Associate Professor, English Department, Syracuse University
2001- 2007: Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
2002- 05: Head/Program Co-coordinator, Department of English, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch
1999-2001: Associate Professor, Department of English, Washington University
1993-1999: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington University
Education
Princeton University, English, Ph.D., 1994
University of Delaware, English, MA, 1986
Brown University, Classics, 1983-84
The Johns Hopkins University, Classics, BA, 1982
Books
Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth
Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from "The Tatler" and "The Spectator." Editor.
Bedford Cultural Editions Series. Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in "The Tatler" and "The Spectator." The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Essays
“Swift and Mimetic Sickness,” forthcoming, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
“The Perfect Gentleman: Boswell, The Spectator, and Macheath.” Media History 14.3 (2008):
353-372.
“Jamaica Ladies and Tropical Charms.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
37. 2-3 (2006): 189-220.
“Boys Will Be Boys: Masculinity, Criminality, and the Restoration Rake.” The Eighteenth
Century: Theory and Interpretation 46.2 (2006): 129-149.
“Being too Positive about the Public Sphere.” “The Spectator”: Emerging Discourses. Ed.
Donald J. Newman. University of Delaware Press, 2005. 81-104.
"Welcome the Outlaw: Maroons, Pirates, and Caribbean Countercultures." Cultural Critique 59
(2005): 24-62.
"Red Shoes and Bloody Stumps." Footnotes: On Shoes. Eds. Shari Benstock and Suzanne
Ferriss. Rutgers University Press, 2001. 233-247.
"Cultural Cross-Dressing: The Colorful Case of the Caribbean Creole." The Clothes That Wear
Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Ed. Jessica Munns.
University of Delaware Press, 1999. 250-270.
"Fashion." Entry in Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace.
Garland Press, 1997.
"The Culture Market, the Marriage Market, and the Exchange of Language: Swift and the
Progress of Desire." In Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism. Eds. Brain Connery and
Kirk Combe. St. Martin's Press 1995. 173-192.
"Fashion in the Museum: An Eighteenth-Century Project." In Architecture: In Fashion. Eds.
Deborah Fausch and Paulette Singley. Princeton Architecture Press, 1994. 314-342.
"Feminism and Cultural Studies." Co-written with Gwen Bergner. Critical Matrix: The
Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 7.2 (1993): 1-5.
"Lady Credit and the Strange Case of the Hoop-Petticoat." College Literature 20.2 (1993): 2743.
"Desperate Measures: The Narratives of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke." ELH 58 (1991):
841-865.
"Critical Issues: Trying to Read Swift." Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women,
Gender, and Culture 6 (1991): 1-19.
Review Essays and Reviews
Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of
Knowledge (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Eighteenth-Century Life 33.1 (2009): 131-137.
Susan Dwyer Amussen. Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English
Society, 1640-1700 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007). Clio: A Journal of Literature,
History, and the Philosophy of History 38.1 (2008): 97-100.
Tita Chico. Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
and Culture (Bucknell Univ. Press, 2005). Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19.1-2 (2006-07): 225227.
Jennie Batchelor. Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth
Century Literature (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation 46 (2005): http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ecti/ (Review Essay).
Jenny Davidson. Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to
Jane Austen (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004). The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation
45 (2004): http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ecti/ (Review Essay)
David M. Turner, Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex, and Civility in England, 1660-1740, Past
and Present Publications Series (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002). The Scriblerian 37.2 (2005):
165.
Helen Berry, Gender, Society, and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of
the “Athenian Mercury,” Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series (Ashgate 2003).
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 34.3 (2005): 376-81.
Review, Shawn Maurer, Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in Eighteenth-Century
English Periodicals (Stanford Univ. Press, 1998). Modern Philology 99.2 (2001): 312-315.
Papers and Presentations (selected)
“Keeping the Lights On: Program Closures, Restructuring, and Academic Freedom.”
Roundtable discussion sponsored by Modern Language Association Committee on Academic
Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. MLA Convention. Vancouver, January
2012.
“Home and Away: Urban Romance in Paul Clifford.” Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. Buffalo, October 2010.
“Jack Sheppard: Escape from Celebrity.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Albuquerque, March 2010.
“Swift and Mimetic Sickness.” English Department Colloquium Series. Syracuse University.
February 2010.
“The Word and the Flesh: Sensible Anecdotes in Swift.” American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies. Portland, April 2008.
“Highs, Lows, and the Highwayman.” David Nichol Smith Seminar. University of Otago. New
Zealand. April 2007.
“Department Leadership Eighteenth-Century Style.” Invited presentation. The University of
Alabama at Birmingham. November 2006.
“The Perfect Gentleman: Boswell, The Spectator, and Macheath.” Invited presentation. The
University of Colorado at Boulder. November 2006.
“Masculine Prestige, Criminality, and the Libertine Rake.” Invited presentation. University of
Notre Dame, January 2004.
“’The Most Agreeable of All Bad Characters’: The English Libertine Rake and the Problem of
Emulation.” Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 2003.
“’And Handsome Ills by My Contrivance Done’: The Paradoxes of Rakish Prestige.”
Masculinities Seminar Series, Gender Studies and American Studies, University of Canterbury,
October 2003.
“Being too Positive about the Public Sphere.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Los Angeles, August 2003.
Guest speaker for University of Chicago Graduate Seminar, April 2001.
Circum-Atlantic Consciousness. Panel chair. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
New Orleans, April 2001.
“Jamaican Ladies.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April 2000.
“With the Fetish.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Miami, October 1999.
“Welcome the Outlaw: Pirates, Maroons, and Caribbean Countercultures.” Invited presentation.
Johnson Society, March 1999.
“Since When was Fashion Queer?” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport,
November 1998.
“Free Love.” Workshop on Sex and Sexuality in Early Modern Culture. Group for Early
Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, November 1998.
"From Hans Sloane to Junior Vasquez: Dancing, Drumming, and Early Modern Ethnicity."
Invited presentation at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champagne, October 1996.
"Tropical Discourse." Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1995.
"Producing the Caribbean." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Dallas, October 1995.
"Taste of the Tropics." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, NY, November
1994.
Courses Taught
Syracuse University
How to Read a Novel
Introduction to Critical Theory (graduate seminar)
Critical Analysis: Theories of the Novel
Colonialism and Cultural Formation: The British West Indies (graduate seminar)
The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789 (graduate seminar)
Forms and Genres: History of the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Literary Periods: The Restoration, 1660-1715
Reading and Interpretation
University of Canterbury
The Eighteenth-Century Novel (convener)
Colonialism and Cultural Formation: The Early Modern West Indies (honors/MA
seminar)
Eighteenth-Century Worlds (convener)
Postcolonial Literature (lecturer)
Drama from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries (lecturer)
Cultural Studies II: Cultural Collection and Display (lecturer)
Cultural Studies I: Reading Culture (lecturer)
Introduction to Literary Study (lecturer)
Washington University
Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Graduate Study (theory and methods)
Colonialism and Cultural Formation: The Early Modern West Indies (graduate seminar)
Commerce, Culture, and Criticism (graduate seminar)
Contemporary Feminisms
Satire and Sentiment in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Eighteenth Century and Modernity: Swift, Pope, and Defoe (honors seminar)
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Survey of Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Eighteenth-Century British Literature in Colonial Context: The West Indies
Youth Cultures
Major English Authors, II (eighteenth to early twentieth centuries)
Supervision
Syracuse University
Supervisor, Elizabeth Porter, “Jail-Breakers, Vampires and Flesh-Eating Pigs: EarlyVictorian Popular Texts and Working Class Criminalization" (Ph.D. in progress)
Supervisor, Stephany Tan, “Horace Walpole’s Sublime Comedy” (Distinction thesis,
2010)
Supervisor, Gina Keicher, “’Tapping Where My Own Heart’s Supposed to Be’: Porn
Babies and Postmodernity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Snuff,” (Distinction thesis, 2009)
University of Canterbury:
Supervisor, Kate Hensley, “Female Desire in Burney’s Camilla and Edgeworth’s
Belinda” (MA, 2008)
Co-supervisor, Tanya Schwalm, “Representation of Animals in Magic Realism” (Ph.D.,
2007)
Co-supervisor, Sharon McIver, “Landscape in Contemporary New Zealand Dance and
Music Culture” (Ph.D., 2007)
Co-director, John Fox, “Jane Austen and Community” (Honors thesis, 2005)
Co-supervisor, Karen Healey, “Objectification and Subjectivity Explored in the Personal
Online Journals of SuicideGirls.com” (MA, 2005)
Supervisor, Emily Hewitt, “Swift’s Satire of the Book,” (Honors thesis, 2004)
Co-supervisor, Gary Dustow, “Necromancy in the fiction of Ishmael Reed” (MA, 2003)
Supervisor, Andrew Williamson, “Postmodernity and Postcolonialism in Sherman
Alexie,” (Honors thesis, 2001)
Washington University:
Co-supervisor, Richard Reitsma, "Homosexuality on the Plantation: Deconstructing
Myths of National Identity in the American South, Puerto Rico, and Cuba." (Ph.D.,
2007)
Co-supervisor, Loretta Clayton, “Fashionably Wilde: Oscar Wilde and The Woman’s
World” (Ph.D., 2005)
Co-supervisor of Elaine McGirr’s, “The Politics of Style: Heroic Drama and Political
Crisis, 1660-1745.” (Ph.D., 2002)
Co-supervisor until 2001 of Rachel Schwartz, “Men and Women in Motion: The Perils of
Unfixity in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” (Ph.D., 2001)
Supervisor, Amanda Paetz-Hiner, “Sheltered Spaces: Early Modern Women Writers,
Print Culture, and the Problem of Publicity.” (Ph.D., 1998).
Service to the Profession
Modern Language Association Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and
Responsibilities (2010-2013)
Editorial Board: Eighteenth-Century Studies (2010- ) and Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2005- )
Reader/Referee: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth Century:
Theory and Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, Bucknell University Press, Oxford
University Press, Cornell University Press, Ohio State University Press, The Johns Hopkins
University Press, Routledge Press, Kent State University Press, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press,
Palgrave/Macmillan, Broadview Press
Co-editor, Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, 1992-93
Service to the Department and the University
Syracuse University
Tolley Professor Selection Committee (2011)
Faculty Reader for Fulbright Fellowship Applications (2010)
Committee on A & S/Maxwell White Paper, College of Arts and Sciences elected
member (2010)
Remembrance Scholarship Selection Committee (2010- )
University Senate, College of Arts and Sciences elected representative (2009-2012)
Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Professional Ethics (2009-2012)
Humanities Council (ex officio 2008-2011)
University of Canterbury:
University Library Committee, 2005-07
Academic Board (University Senate), College of Arts elected representative, 2004-2007
Research Committee, School of Culture, Literature, and Society, 2004-2005
Conference Organizing Committee, “Biculturalism or Multiculturism,” 2004-2005
Executive Committee, School of Culture, Literature, and Society, 2004-2005
Supervisor of Thesis Students, School of Culture, Literature, and Society, 2004-2006
Departmental Bursar, 2002
Management Committee, 2002
Curriculum Committee, 2001-2005
Washington University:
Director of Honors Program, 1998-1999, 2000-2001
Graduate Committee, 1999-2001
Director of Graduate Placement, 1999-2001
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1997-2001
Women’s Studies Executive Committee, 1996-2001
Curriculum Committee for the School of Arts and Sciences, 1999
Executive Committee, 1998-99
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, 1996-97
Mellon Minority Fellowship Selection Committee, 1996
Undergraduate Committee, 1995-96
Mylanos Scholarship Selection Committee, 1995
Professional Development
Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar for Chairs, College Park, June 2010
American Council of Education Seminar for Chairs, Rochester, June 2010
Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar for Chairs, Providence, June 2009
Professional Organizations
American Association of University Professors
Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies