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1 ANNE C. MCCARTHY 430 Burrowes Building University Park, Pa EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Academic Positions Assistant Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University (2012-present) Adjunct Instructor, Eugene Lang College First Year Writing Program, The New School ( ) Adjunct Instructor, Baruch College (CUNY) Department of English (2006-8) Education Ph.D., English, City University of New York (2012) Dissertation: Reading for the Pause: The Uses of Suspension in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry M.Phil., English, City University of New York (2008) B.A., History, New York University (2002) PUBLICATIONS Monographs Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry (University of Toronto Press, 2018) [In Progress] Catastrophic Intimacies: Looking for Love at the End of the World, Edited Collection Romanticism and Speculative Realism, with Chris Washington (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) Articles Falling in Love with the Author in Godwin s Memoirs of Wollstonecraft. Essays in Romanticism, vol. 25, no. 2, October 2018, pp Reading the Red Bull Sublime. PMLA, vol. 132, no. 3, May 2017, pp Winner of the Best Essay Prize, awarded by the Keats-Shelley Association of America (2017) The Aesthetics of Contingency in the Shelleyan Universe of Things, or, Mont Blanc without Mont Blanc. Studies in Romanticism, vol. 54., no. 3, Fall 2015, pp Dumbstruck: Christabel, the Sublime, and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief. The Sublime and Education. Ed. J. Jennifer Jones. Romantic Circles Praxis, August Who knows if he be dead? Maud, Signification, and the Madhouse Canto. Victorian Poetry, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp Book Chapters [Forthcoming] The object as in itself it really is not : Counterfactual romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency. Counterfactual Romanticism, ed. Damian Walford Davies. Manchester University Press, Introduction: Literature and Philosophy in the World Without Us. With Chris Washington. Romanticism and Speculative Realism. Ed. Chris Washington and Anne C. McCarthy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp

2 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 2 [In Press] Zen and the Art of Negative Capability. Keats s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives. Ed. Brian Rejack and Michael Theune. Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp There has to be something deeply symbolic in that : Peanuts and the Sublime. The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life. Ed. Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon. University Press of Mississippi, 2017, pp Collection nominated for a 2018 Eisner Award for best academic title on comics. Suspension. Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts. Ed. Claire Colebrook. Routledge, 2014, pp Reviews [Forthcoming] Lively Textures : The Pleasures of Spectral (Re)Reading. Review of Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan Wolfson (Hopkins, 2018). Papers in Language and Literature, [Forthcoming] Review of What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom Mole (Princeton, 2017). Keats-Shelley Journal, I meant to find her when I came : Emily Dickinson in Manhattan. Review of Emily Dickinson exhibit at the Poets House, NYC. Victorian Poetry Network, 12 December Writing the Machine. Review of The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Werschler- Henry (Cornell, 2007). American Book Review, vol. 29, no. 1, November/December 2007, p. 24. Neglected Classic. Review of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, ed. Thomas Banchoff (Princeton, 2005). Expositions, vol. 1, no. 2, 2007, pp Other Writing Summary of James Norris Brewer, An Old Family Legend, or One Husband and Two Marriages (1811). Summary of James Norris Brewer, Sir Gilbert Easterling, A Story Supposed to Have Been Written by Himself, About the Year 1598 (1813). Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Best Essay Prize, Keats-Shelley Association of America (2017) Resident Scholar Fellowship, Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities (2015) Distinguished Dissertation Prize in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center (2012) B. Altman Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center ( ) Writing Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center ( ) Robert E. Gilleece Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (2004-9) Sir Harold Acton Scholarship, New York University College of Arts and Science ( ) THE KEATS LETTERS PROJECT Founder and co-editor (2015-present) The Keats Letters Project is a collaborative digital humanities initiative that is publishing and recirculating all of John Keats s extant letters, in the order they were written, between 2015 and 2021, with new responses from scholars, artists, poets, and others. Received a $1,000 Networked Events grant from the Romantic Bicentennials Project (2017) Individual Contributions to KLP Website John Keats and the Vile Descent, 6 August 2018 A Denial of Sociability from Keats; or, Poor Horace Smith! 19 February 2018 Keatsian Interleavings, 12 November 2017

3 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 3 Post Cards from Keats, 24 November 2015 Media and Other Coverage Thoet, Alison. In poet John Keats letters, a man full of life before he died. PBS Newshour. 20 November Includes individual contributions from each KLP editor. The Keats Letters Project. The Keats-Shelley Review, vol. 31, no. 2, September 2017, pp Essay coauthored by KLP editors. PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks Romanticism against the Future. English Department Colloquium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (October 2018) How To Love What You Don t Understand: Discontinuous Subjects in Godwin s Memoirs and Wollstonecraft s Short Residence. Washington Area Romanticists Group, Washington, DC (April 2016) Conference Wrap-Up: Victorian Accidents. Northeast Victorian Studies Association. Providence, RI (April 2015) The Counterfactual Sublime, Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University Park, PA (April 2015) The Sublime (faculty colloquium). Penn State Department of English, University Park, PA (March 2014) Nature Shakespeareanized: Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Poetic Faith (respondent). Friday Forum Series, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (March 2012) Lazarus Takes Up the After-Life: A Reconsideration of Browning s Epistle... of Karshish. CUNY Victorian Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (November 2010) Panels Organized / Moderated Romanticism and Speculative Realism (roundtable moderator; co-organized with Chris Washington). International Conference on Romanticism, Greenville, SC (October 2018) Shadow Connections: Magic, Sympathy, and Ecstasy Beyond the Gothic (panel moderator; coorganized with Rachel Feder). International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, CO (October 2016) What We Talk About When We Talk About the Sublime (co-organized with Rachel Feder). North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Bethesda, MD (July 2014) Selected Conference Papers Catastrophic Intimacy in the Romantic Back Loop. Modern Language Association Annual Convention; Working Group: Romanticism Now, Chicago, IL (January 2019) Don t They Know It s the End of the World? Romanticism against the Future. International Conference on Romanticism, Greenville, SC (October 2018) Emma and Extinction. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Providence, RI (June 2018) Coleridge s Cliffhanger: Suspension and the Sublime on Scafell, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth- Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA (March 2018)

4 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 4 The Keats Letters Project and the Futures of Romantic Commemoration. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, ON (August 2017) Suspension and the Sublime: Burke, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth. American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, Minneapolis, MN (March 2017) Reading for the Pause in the Biographia Literaria. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA (January 2017) The Bird that Loved Me: Dark Attachment in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, CO (October 2016) That Continuous and Obstinate Series : Iteration and Temporality in Charles Schulz s Peanuts. American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA (March 2016) Missing Mary Wollstonecraft: Boundary Issues in Godwin s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. International Conference on Romanticism, Park City, UT (October 2015) Zen and the Art of Negative Capability. British Association for Romantic Studies, Cardiff, UK (July 2015) Poetic Faith and the Discontinuous Self in Christabel and Aids to Reflection. International Conference on Romanticism. Minneapolis, MN (September 2014) Absorb d, yet hanging still upon the sound : The Motif of Suspension in Coleridge. Friends of Coleridge International Summer Conference, Cannington, UK (July 2014) Reading the Red Bull Sublime. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Bethesda, MD (July 2014) Slow Sublimes: Free Fall and the Suspension of our Comparing Power. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, MA (August 2013) A might that has no dominance over us : The Relational Sublime in Shelley s Mont Blanc. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, MA (March 2013) Romanticism as Method: Aids to Reflection and the Poetics of Faith. North American Victorian Studies Association, Madison, WI (September 2012) Notes Toward a Theory of Suspension. International Conference on Romanticism, Montreal, QC (November 2011) Beyond Curiosity: Frustration and Faith in The Prince s Progress. British Women Writers Conference, Columbus, OH (April 2010) Constituting Discontinuity in Victorian Poetry: Suspension in Robert Browning s Karshish. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA (December 2009) Ever so little deeper : Maud s Buried Lives. Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Toronto, ON (April 2008) Sublime Humiliations: Coleridge s Christabel. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism / British Association for Romantic Studies joint conference, Bristol, U.K. (July 2007) TEACHING Pennsylvania State University Fall 2012-present General education Great Traditions in English Literature (Fall 2012; Fall 2013) 200-level Introduction to Critical Reading (Fall 2012; Spring 2013; Spring 2014; Spring 2017; Spring 2018; Spring 2019) distribution requirement for majors Introduction to Critical Reading Honors Section (Spring 2016; Spring 2018) 300-level (honors) Reading the Victorian Underground (Fall 2015) 400-level The Romantics (Spring 2013; Fall 2013; Spring 2016; Spring 2017; Spring 2018; Spring 2019) Authors and Contexts: Frankenstein at 200 (Fall 2018)

5 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 5 British Women Writers (Fall 2016) Graduate seminars Romanticism and the Anthropocene, co-taught with Claire Colebrook (Fall 2018) The Young Romantics at 200 (Fall 2017) Romantic-Era Women Writers (Fall 2016) The Global 1790s: From the French Revolution to Lyrical Ballads (Fall 2015) The Romantic Sublime (Spring 2014) Graduate Independent Study (Fall 2013 [Kristen Fisher]; Spring 2018 [Ashley Mulligan]) Eugene Lang College, The New School Fall 2008-Spring 2012 Writing the Essay 1: Forgiveness as Power and Paradox (Fall semesters ) Writing the Essay 2: Going Underground (Spring semesters ) Baruch College, City University of New York Fall 2006-Spring 2008 ENGL 2100: Expository Writing (Fall 2006; Fall 2007; Spring 2008) ENGL 2150: Expository Writing with Literature Emphasis (Spring 2007) Other Pedagogical Activities Pedagogy and Graduate Mentoring. (Video.) Romantic Circles Pedagogies Hangouts, July Faculty Facilitator, All-University Orientation, The New School (2011) Designed and led first-year student discussion groups as part of the Experience + Meaning program Writing Fellow, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY ( ) Developed Writing Intensive courses to meet CUNY-wide guidelines in consultation with faculty in humanities, social science, and vocational disciplines Supported faculty and departmental implementation of Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy Led faculty workshops on assessment, assignment design, and writing-to-learn activity Mentored BMCC faculty in semester-long WAC training sessions Attended CUNY-wide professional development workshops for Writing Fellows GRADUATE ADVISING Co-Director, Alex Sibo, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee (2019) Co-Director, Ashley Mulligan, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee (2019) Director, Rachel Balzar, Hints for Don Juan: The Case for Anthologizing Claire Clairmont as a Romantic Critic. M.A. Thesis, English (2018) Director, David LeBlanc, Julian and Maddalo Reconsidered: Shelley s Poetics of Sociability. M.A. Thesis, English (2018) Committee Member, Kristen Fisher, Wayward Expectations: Romantic Medievalisms and the Grand Tour. Ph.D., Comparative Literature (2016) Committee Member, Jacob Hughes, Spontaneous Overflow: Internalization and Excess in British Romanticism. Ph.D., English (2014)

6 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 6 SERVICE ACTIVITIES Profession / Field Committee Member, Romantic Circles / North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Pedagogy Contest (2018) Editorial Board Member, Dickens Studies Annual (2017-present) Conference Program Committee Member, Northeast Victorian Studies Association ( ; ) Manuscript and Proposal Reader: Open Humanities Press; University of Manchester Press; Studies in Romanticism; Essays in Romanticism; Configurations; Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; Religion and Literature Department of English, Pennsylvania State University Mock Interviewer for Graduate Job Seekers ( ; ) Faculty Volunteer, Marathon Read (2017) Faculty Judge, Lehman Fiction Writing Prize (2017) Member, Graduate Studies Committee ( ) Member, Victorian Search Committee (2016) Member, Interdisciplinary Rhetoric Search Committee ( ) Member, Awards Committee (2013) Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center Founder and Chair, Long Nineteenth Century Student Colloquium (2006-9) Student Coordinator, CUNY Victorian Committee Annual Conference ( ) Member, Placement Committee ( ) Alternate Member, English Program Executive Committee ( ) Member, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2007-8) Member, Recruitment Committee (2006-7) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association North American Society for the Study of Romanticism International Conference on Romanticism Keats-Shelley Association of America Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Northeast Victorian Studies Association PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Robert Caserio Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Pennsylvania State University rlc25@psu.edu Claire Colebrook Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy Pennsylvania State University cmc30@psu.edu David Collings Professor of English

7 Anne C. McCarthy / C.V. / 7 Bowdoin College dcolling@bowdoin.edu Penny Fielding Grierson Professor of English University of Edinburgh penny.fielding@ed.ac.uk William Galperin Distinguished Professor of English Rutgers University whg1@english.rutgers.edu Alan Vardy Professor of English Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY avardy@hunter.cuny.edu Nancy Yousef Professor of English Rutgers University ny109@english.rutgers.edu