Jan PUBLICATIONS Monograph Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel (New York: Cambridge UP, 2015).

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1 Jan Janice Ho Curriculum Vitae Department of English University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB Boulder, CO janice.ho@colorado.edu ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS 2015 present Associate Professor in English, University of Colorado at Boulder 2016 present Book Review Editor for Contemporary Literature (British and Anglophone Fiction) Assistant Professor in English, University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate Teaching Assistant in English, Cornell University EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, Cornell University M.A. in English, Cornell University B.A. (Honors I) in English, University of Queensland, Australia RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS 20 th - and 21 st -century British literature and culture; British and transnational modernisms; Contemporary Anglophone world literatures; Colonial and postcolonial criticism and theory; History and theories of the novel; Histories of the welfare state; Theories of development. PUBLICATIONS Monograph Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel (New York: Cambridge UP, 2015). Peer-Reviewed Essays in Journals and Edited Collections The Colonial State and Transnational Welfare During the 1930s Depression, in The History of 1930s British Literature, eds. Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton (forthcoming at Cambridge University Press, 2018) The Human and The Citizen in Joseph Conrad s The Secret Agent in Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights. Ed. Allan Hepburn. Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2016: pp Jewishness in the Colonies of Leonard Woolf s Village in the Jungle. Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies 59.4 (Winter 2013): pp The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 44.2 (Summer 2011): pp

2 Jan The Crisis of Liberalism and the Politics of Modernism. Literature Compass 8.1 (January 2011): pp (Invited submission.) The Spatial Imagination and Literary Form of Conrad s Colonial Fictions. jml: Journal of Modern Literature 30.4 (Summer 2007): pp Editorial Work In/Security, special issue of English Language Notes 54.2 Fall/Winter 2016, co-edited with Nadine Attewell. In/Security in Our Times, introduction to special issue co-written with Nadine Attewell, pp Book Reviews Review of Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class, and Multiculturalism by Rehana Ahmed (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2015), forthcoming in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. Review of Scarecrows of Chivalry: English Masculinities after Empire by Praseeda Gopinath. (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2013) in Contemporary Literature 55.2 (Summer 2014): pp Review of A Sense of Shock: The Impact of Impressionism on Modern British and Irish Writing by Adam Parkes (New York: Oxford UP, 2011) in The Journal of British Studies 52.2 (April 2013): pp Review of The Cosmopolitan Novel by Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010), Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies 57.2 (Summer 2011): pp Review of Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth by John Dolan (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000) in AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 99 (May 2003): pp Works-in-Progress Nationalism and Globalization in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature Transnational Genealogies of Welfare in Twentieth-Century Fiction (book project) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2015 Carolyn Woodward Pope Award, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder 2014 Kayden Research Award, University of Colorado at Boulder Center for the Humanities and the Arts Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder 2010 Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives in Research and Teaching (IMPART) Award, University of Colorado at Boulder Australian Fellowship of University Women (Queensland)

3 Jan Ta-Chung and Ya Chao Liu Memorial Award, Cornell University Sage Dissertation Fellowship, Cornell University Shin Yong-Jin Teaching Fellowship, Cornell University Sage Fellowship, Cornell University 2001 University Medal, University of Queensland, Australia TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, AND COLLOQUIA Invited Talks 2016 The Social Imaginaries of Welfare from Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway to Zadie Smith s NW. Keynote lecture at a conference on The Long Reach of British and Irish Studies at the Department of English, University of New Mexico The Human and the Citizen in Conrad s The Secret Agent. Colloquium on Literature, Citizenship, Rights at the Department of English, McGill University, Montreal Social Citizenship and the Emerging Welfare State in Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway. Symposium on Cultivating the Economy: Literature, Politics, Economics, at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, New York City. Conference Presentations 2017 Figures of the Infrastructure State, Modernist Studies Association, Amsterdam The Modernist Welfare State in Neoliberal Times: Mrs. Dalloway s Party in Zadie Smith s NW, American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht Infrastructure, the Treasury, and the Great Depression in Joyce Cary s Mister Johnson. Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena Scaling Human Rights in Michael Ondaatje s Anil s Ghost. American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA The Subject of Infrastructure in Chris Abani s GraceLand. Modernist Studies Association, Boston Maternalism and Welfare in Rebecca West s The Return of the Soldier. Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh Security and Vulnerability: Welfare and Warfare States in Alan Sillitoe s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. American Comparative Literature Association, New York City Security and Risk: Citizenship and the Welfare State in Sillitoe s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas.

4 Jan Towards Social Citizenship in Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway. Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo Leonard Woolf, Jewishness, and the Colonies. Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, Canada English and Negro Liberalisms in Conrad s Nostromo. Modernist Studies Association, Montreal Woolf, Colonial Violence, and Whig Historiography. Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo Conrad and Coincidence. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia. Seminar Papers and Colloquia 2016 Documentary Modernism and Trans/National Welfare From the Empire Marketing Board to UNESCO. Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena Democratic Friends in E.M. Forster s Early Novels. Center for the Humanities and Arts Works-in-Progress Series, University of Colorado at Boulder Leonard Woolf and The Jewish Question in the Colonies. Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas Socialism, Liberalism, Englishness. Modernist Studies Association, Nashville The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity. Cornell English Department Roundtable, Ithaca. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Colorado at Boulder Courses Taught Graduate Courses Contemporary British Fiction Modernism in Britain Postcolonial Cities / Cities of the Global South Nationalism and Transnationalism in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature Introduction to Twentieth-Century British Literature Liberalism and the History of the Novel Undergraduate Courses Literature and the City The Modernist British and Irish Novel Englishness in Twentieth-Century British Literature Literature in English, Developments in the Novel Post-1900

5 Jan Modern and Contemporary Literature Literary Analysis Cornell University Courses Taught (first-year writing seminars) Literature and Travel Textual Conversations Shakespeare Introduction to Drama ACADEMIC SERVICE Professional Service 2017 Editorial Board member for English Language Notes 2016 Advisory Board member for Genders: Future Tense 2016 External reader for a Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan External reviewer for the tenure and promotion case of an Assistant Prof. at the Department of English, Queens College, CUNY present Book Review Editor for Contemporary Literature (British and Anglophone Literature division) 2010 present Referee for journals: Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and Arts; Literature Compass; English Language Notes; Contemporary Literature; Literature and History; Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. Referee for presses: Cambridge University Press; Bloomsbury 2009 present Panels organized at the American Comparative Literature Association: Literature and Human Rights (2016, co-organized with Prof. Sonali Perera at Hunter College, CUNY) Panels organized at the Modernist Studies Association: Mediations of Africa (2015) Modernist Genealogies of Welfare (2014) New Directions in Bloomsbury (2010) National Forms, Transnational Encounters (2009). University of Colorado at Boulder 2017 present Committee for the Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence 2016 present Graduate Studies Committee for the Dept. of English 2016 Member of Karim Mattar s Primary Unit Evaluation Committee (PUEC) for fourth-year reappointment review 2014 present Executive Board for the Center of British and Irish Studies Executive Committee for the Dept. of English Graduate Placement Advisor for the Dept. of English Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the Dept. of English Search Committee for Assistant/Associate Prof. in Postcolonial Literature Recording Secretary for the Dept. of English Salary Committee for the Dept. of English

6 Jan Recording Secretary for the Dept. of English Cornell University 2006 Selection Committee for the First-Year Reading Project essay competition 2005 Search Committee for Assistant Prof. in Drama and Performance Studies Organizing Committee for the English Department Roundtable PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association Society for Novel Studies American Comparative Literature Association LANGUAGES Bahasa Malaysia (fluent) French (reading proficiency) REFERENCES Available upon request.