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1 LAURIE LANGBAUER Department of English CB#3520, Greenlaw Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Dept: (919) ; Office: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1999-present. Professor, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fields: Nineteenth-Century, the Novel, Literary Theory, and Children s Literature Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Associate Professor, Swarthmore College Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College. Summer, Visiting Scholar, teaching in the graduate program, The University of Colorado, Boulder Teaching Assistant and Reader, Cornell University. EDUCATION: Ph.D., English, Cornell University, August, Dissertation: "Empty Constructions: Women and Romance in the English Novel." Directors, Neil Hertz, Mary Jacobus, Harry Shaw. M.A., English, Cornell University, January, Rhode Island School of Design, B.A., summa cum laude, with High Honors in English, Wesleyan University, May, Sarah Lawrence College, PUBLICATIONS: Books: Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 1999), 241 pages. Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), 271 pages.

2 Langbauer, page 2 PUBLICATIONS (continued): Editions: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1997), Critical Introduction: Like No One There, vii-xxxii; Scholarly Apparatus: notes, critical excerpts. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1997), Critical Introduction: The Burnt Comb, vii-xxiv; Scholarly Apparatus: notes, critical excerpts. Articles: Romance, Blackwell Companion to the English Novel, ed. Stephen Arata, J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke (6000 words; solicited and accepted; forthcoming, 2011). Marjory Fleming and Child Authors: The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things RaVoN (10,000 words; accepted; forthcoming, 2010.). Anthony Trollope s Adolescent, The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, ed. Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles (6000 words; solicited and accepted; forthcoming, 2010). Consumerism and the Archive: Review-Essay, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 54 (May 2009): Ethics and Theory: Suffering Children in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and LeGuin, ELH 75 (2008): Early British Travelers to the U. S. South, Southern Literary Journal, 40.1 (Fall 2007): The Ethics and Practice of Lemony Snicket: Adolescence and Generation X, PMLA (March 2007): Queen Victoria and Me, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, ed. John Kucich and Dianne Sadoff (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2000), "Absolute Commonplaces: Margaret Oliphant's Theory of Autobiography," in Margaret Oliphant: Critical Essays on a Gentle Subversive, ed. D. J. Trela (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1995), "The City, the Everyday, and Boredom: The Case of Sherlock Holmes," differences 5.3 (1993): "The Celebrity Economy and Cultural Studies," Victorian Studies 36 #4 (Summer 1993): "Swayed by Contraries: Mary Shelley and the Everyday," in The Other Mary Shelley, ed. Anne Mellor, Audrey Fisch, and Esther Schor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993): "Cultural Studies and the Politics of the Everyday," diacritics 22 (1992): "Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies," in "Turning the Century": Feminist Theory in the 1990s, ed. Glynis Carr, special issue of the Bucknell Review 36 #2 (1992): "Women in White, Men in Feminism," The Yale Journal of Criticism 2 #2 (April 1989): "Foreword," to The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), v-xiv. "An Early Romance: Motherhood and Women's Writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's Novels," in Romanticism and Feminism, ed. Anne Mellor (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1988), "Dickens's Streetwalkers: Women and the Form of Romance," ELH 53 (1986):

3 Langbauer, page 3 PUBLICATIONS (continued): Articles (continued): "Romance Revised: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote," Novel 18 (Fall 1984): Excerpted in Nineteenth-Century Literature/Criticism, ed. Janet Mullane and Robert Thomas Wilson (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1989), vol. 23, pp Other Publications and Reviews: Review Ginger S. Frost, Victorian Childhoods, Victorian Studies (forthcoming, 2010). Review Margaret Markwick, Deborah Morse, and Regina Gagnier, eds., The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope s Novels, Victorian Institutes Journal (forthcoming 2010). Review Linda H. Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (forthcoming, 2010). Review John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move, Studies in the Novel (forthcoming, 2010). Review The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture edited by Dennis Denisoff and Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain by Anne Varty, Victorian Studies 51.3 (Spring 2009): Review of Talking Animals in British Children s Fiction, , by Tess Cosslet, Victorian Studies 49.3 (Spring 2007): Review of Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives, by Robert E. Lougy, Victorian Studies 48.2 (Winter 2006): Entry on Charles Dickens, Encarta Encyclopedia, Review of Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, , by Anita Levy, Gender & History 4 #2 (Summer 1992): Review of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fictions, Her Monsters, by Anne Mellor, The Wordsworth Circle 20 #4 (Autumn 1989): Book-length Projects in Progress: Child Authors: the Tradition in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Learning to Read: Ethics and Children s Literature. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: Arts and Sciences Competitive Kenan Research Leave, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring, Fellowship in Scholarship, Creative Activity or Research in the Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer, English Department Research and Study Leave, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, Fall, Ueltschi Service-Learning Course Development Grant, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

4 Langbauer, page 4 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (continued): Hamilton Family Fellowship for Teaching with the New Media, Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring, Ethics Fellow, Institute of the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer, Contemplative Practice Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, Reynolds Competitive Research Leave, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring English Department Research and Study Leave, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall General College Curriculum Technology Enhancement Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Course Development Award, The Center for the Study of the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brandes Course Development Award, Honors Program, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Schwab Fellows Opportunity Grant, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Faculty Fellowship, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring, Philip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ford Foundation Cultural-Diversity Course-Development Grant, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mellon Foundation Seminar on the Intellectual in the Academy, Swarthmore College, Eccles External Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Center, The University of Utah, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry Library, (declined). American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, Summer, Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May-August, George Becker Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College, Chandis Securities Company Fellow, The Huntington Library, (declined). Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, The Newberry Library, (declined). NEH Summer Seminar on Feminist Literary Criticism, directed by Jane Gallop, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, American Council of Learned Society's Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, (declined). American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, Olin-Mathieson Fellowship for Continuing Graduate Education, Cornell University, Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, Winchester Fellowship for Graduate Education, Wesleyan University, 1977 (declined).

5 Langbauer, page 5 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (continued): Dickens Society's Robert B. Partlow Prize (for "Dickens`s Streetwalkers: Women and the Form of Romance"), December, Cornell University Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, Phi Beta Kappa, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Invited Speaker: Invited Keynote Speaker, The Victorian Everyday, Northeast Victorian Studies Association Convention, Wellesley College, Northampton, MA, April, Invited Presenter, Material Objects Session: Children s Literature, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Yale university, New Haven, CT, November Invited Speaker, Fantasies of Children s Literature, Children s Literature Program, The University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA, April 3, Invited Speaker, Ethics and Children s Literature, The Way They Live Now: Victorian Conference, Cornell University, April 4-6, Invited Speaker, Legacies of Henri LeFebvre ( ), Society for French Historical Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March, Invited Speaker, Consuming Themselves: Victorian Self-Fashioning, Conference on Victorian Consumption, Taste, and Fashion, The Graduate School, The City University of New York, May, Invited Speaker, "Who's Afraid of the Everyday?: Virginia Woolf's Unbearable Moments of Being," Humanities Center, University of Utah, March, Invited Respondent to Rachel Bowlby s Presentation, Diversity of Language Seminar, Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, February, Invited Speaker, "Margaret Oliphant, Feminist Theory, and the Everyday," Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May, Invited Speaker, "Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage," University of Colorado, Boulder, July, Panel Presentations (for the last ten years): "'Let Me Tell My Story': Classic Writing and the Girl's Imagination," L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables and the Idea of Classic, 2008 International L.M. Montgomery Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, June, "The Novel and Mass Culture: Children and/as Mass Readership," Theories of the Novel Now Conference, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Providence, RI, November 9-10, "The Romantic Child as Object," Romantic Objects International Conference on Romanticism, Towson University, Baltimore, October, Mechanical Men: Clockwork Children, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Purdue University, October, Ethics and Voice, and Chair of Panel, Style, Performance, and the Future of Criticism, 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February, 2006.

6 Langbauer, page 6 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (continued): Panel Presentations (continued): I wrote so ill that she took it away : Victorian Writing by Children, North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Virginia, September, Most of All Beware This Boy : The Narrative Ethics of Childhood Suffering Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Society Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, April, Most of All Beware This Boy : The Narrative Ethics of Childhood Suffering International Narrative Conference, University of Kentucky, Louisville, April, Off to See the Wizard Again and Again and Again: Ethics and Allegory International Narrative Conference, The University of Vermont, April, Mine!: The Ethics of Children and Things, North American Victorian Studies Association, Inaugural Conference, Indiana University, October, Co-Organizer, Victoria Among the Victorians: Centenary Reflections, Victorians Institute Conference, UNC-CH, October, The Victorian s Taught Me How to Write, Victorian Among the Victorians, Victorians Institute Conference, UNC-CH, October, 2001.