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1 MARY ELLIS GIBSON Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, School of Critical Studies University of Glasgow 4 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland mellisgibson@gmail.com // website: mary.gibson@glasgow.ac.uk Education Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago B.A. in English with highest honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Grants and Honors British Academy Partnership and Mobility Award, Second Cities of Empire: Glasgow, Calcutta and the Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, PI, Elizabeth Rosenthal Distinguished Excellence Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 2008 National Humanities Center, John Sawyer Fellowship, Council of Graduate Schools / Ford Foundation, Professional Master s Program Implementation Grant, PI, Fulbright Senior Research Award, India, 2004 American Institute of Indian Studies, Research Award, (declined) Council of Graduate Schools, Planning Grant for MA Program in Women s and Gender Studies, PI, 2004 North Carolina Humanities Council Grants: Girls Zine, PI, 2003; Seminar for Teachers: Race Gender and Southern Literature, PI, 2004 North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, Real and Imagined Families: Cultural Representation in South Asian / American Contexts, PI, 2003 Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, Grant for Women s Studies Initiative for Girls, Competitive residencies: Wildacres Retreat 2000, 2001, 2002; Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 2001 NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1993 Joiner Essay Prize, Philological Association of the Carolinas, 1987 Fulbright Lecturing Award, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 1981 Professional Experience Professor of English, University of Glasgow, Elizabeth Rosenthal Distinguished Excellence Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro, ; Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor,

2 Professor of English, University of NC Greensboro, Director of Women s and Gender Studies, University of NC Greensboro, Editor, Victorians Institute Journal, Associate Professor, University of NC Greensboro, Assistant Professor, University of NC Greensboro, Instructor, University of NC Greensboro, Instructor, Columbia College, Chicago, ; University of Chicago, Chicago Review, editor ( ) Publications Books History and the Prism of Art: Browning's Poetic Experiments. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, pp. New Stories by Southern Women. Ed. with introduction and bibliography. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, pp. Homeplaces: The South in Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. with introduction and bibliographical essay. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, pp. Critical Essays on Robert Browning. Ed. with introduction. New York: G.K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, pp. Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. Separate Journeys: Stories by Contemporary Indian Women Writers. U. S. edition and introduction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore. Athens: Ohio University Press, pp. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, : A Critical Anthology. Athens: Ohio University Press, pp. Special Issues of Journals Robert Browning Bi-Centennial Issue, ed. with Brittan Martens. Victorian Poetry (2012): Victorian India, ed. with Melissa Richard. Victorian Literature and Culture. 42 (2014): Refereed Articles and Other Publications *"A Conversation with Margaret Atwood." Chicago Review, 27 (1976): Rpt. as "Thinking About the Technique of Skiing When You're Halfway Down the Hill." Rpt. in Margaret Atwood: Conversations. Ed. Earl Ingersoll. Willowdale, Ontario: Ontario Review Press,1990: *"Robert Browning and Ezra Pound: `Pourquoi nier son père?'" Browning Society Notes (London): 10 (1980): *"The Poetry of Struggle: Browning's Style and the 'Parleying with Gerard de Lairesse.'" Victorian Poetry 19 (1981): Rev. of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist, by Mary A. Hill, and Olive Schreiner, by Joyce Avrech Berkman. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6 (1981): *"Approaches to Character in Browning and Tennyson: Two Examples of Metrical Style." Language and Style (1982):

3 Rev. of Alice James: A Biography, by Jean Strouse, and The Death and Letters of Alice James, ed. by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Women's Studies 9 (1982): Rev. of William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, by Paul Mariani. Resources for American Literary Study 12 (1982): *"Family as Fate in the Novels of Anne Tyler." Southern Literary Journal 16 (1983): *"One More Word on Browning's 'One Word More.'" Studies in Browning and His Circle 12 (1984): Rev. of The Victorian Experience: The Poets, ed. by Richard A. Levine. Modern Philology 82 (1984): *"Edith Wharton and the Ethnography of Old New York." Studies in American Fiction 13 (1985): *"Illegitimate Order: Cosmopolitanism and Liberalism in Forster's Howard's End." English Literature in Transition 28 (1985): *"The Manuscripts of Robert Browning Sr.: A Source for The Ring and the Book." Studies in Browning and His Circle 13 (1985): *"The Photographer's Art and the Construction of History (Richard Howard)." Parnassus 13 (1986): Rev. of Carlyle and the Burden of History by John D. Rosenberg. Modern Philology 85 (1987): Rev. of Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts by Nina Auerbach. Signs 12 (1987): *"The Seraglio or Suttee: Bronte's Jane Eyre." Postscript: Publication of the Philological Association of the Carolinas 4 (1987): 1-8. Rev. of Victorian Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes. English Literature in Transition 31 (1988): Rev. of The Lifted Veil by W. David Shaw. Nineteenth Century Prose 16 ( ): Rev. of No Man's Land: The War of the Words, vol. 1, by Susan Gilbert and Sandra Gubar. English Literature in Transition 32 (1989): Victorian Women Poets." Women's Studies Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, Rev. of Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory by Chris Weedon and Feminism as Critique by Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell. English Literature in Transition 33 (1990): *"Mimesis, Mythologies, and Speculation: Carolyn Kizer's Feminist Poetics." In An Answering Music: On the Poetry of Carolyn Kizer. Ed. by David Rigsbee. Boston: Ford-Brown, 1990, *"The Criminal Body in Victorian Britain: The Case of The Ring and the Book." Browning Institute Studies 18 (1990): *"Gender, Genre and Audience in Matthew Arnold's Lyrics." In Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. Ed. by Antony Harrison and Beverly Taylor. Chicago: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992, *"Southern Women Writers and Literary Tradition." Mississippi Quarterly 46 (1993): * Henry Martyn and England s Christian Empire: Rereading Jane Eyre Through Missionary Biography. Victorian Literature and Culture (1999): Rpt. Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta 28 (2002): * Representing the Nation: Poetics, Landscape, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Culture. Victorian Literature and Culture (1999):

4 Mary Ellis Gibson - 4 Not Walking Dogs (poem). Carolina Quarterly 52 (summer 2000): 37. Night Work (poem). Beloit Poetry Journal 51 (Spring 2001): Domesticity and Patriarchy. The Companion to Southern Literature. Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKeithan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, and Rev. of Traditions of Women s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing by Linda Peterson. Victorians Institute Journal 29 (2002): Real and Imagined Families: Symposium Report. Families: A Journal of Representations 1 (2003): * The Garden and the Empire: Family Drama and Global Politics in Tennyson s Poetry. Poetry: Text and Context. Ed. Jharna Sanyal and Krishna Sen. Calcutta: UGC Academic Staff College, 2003, Annual review essay, Robert Browning Studies. Victorian Poetry: 33 (1995): ; 34 (1996): ; 35 (1997): ; 36 (1998): ; 37 (1999): ; 38 (2000): ; 39 (2001): ; 40 (2002); 41 (2003); 42 (2004). Poems published in Blackberries Two Rivers; A Balance The New Formalist; Leaves Sow s Ear Review; Carolina Snow South Carolina Review. Poems published in Three Poems from the Southern Appalachians. Families: A Journal of Representations. 2-3 (2004): English Literature: Nineteenth Century. The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Edited by Demetres Tryphonopoulous and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2005, * Poems of Mary Carshore: the Indian Legacy of L. E. L. and Tom Moore, Victorians Institute Journal 32 (2004): Letitia Landon. Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford UP, Rev. of How to Make it as a Woman by Alison Booth. Biography 29 (2006): Rev. of Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Simon Dentith. Victorian Studies 49 (2007): * Reading Said in Calcutta. Empire in Context. Calcutta: Calcutta University, 2007, * Afterword. Specters of Reform. Gender and Victorian Reform. Ed. Anita Rose. Newcastleupon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, Rev. of The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire by J. Jeffrey Franklin. Victorians Institute Journal 37 (2009): * The Perils of Reading: Children s Missionary Magazines and the Making of Victorian Imperialist Subjectivity. Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. Edited by James Holt McGavran. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012, Rev. of The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels by Suzanne Daly. Victorians Institute Journal 39 (2011): Gibson, Mary Ellis and Britta Martens. Browning s Bodies and the Body of Criticism. Introduction. Robert Browning Bi-Centennial Issue. Victorian Poetry (2012) Gibson, Mary Ellis and Britta Martens, eds. Browning Critics Roundtable. Robert Browning Bi-Centennial Issue. Victorian Poetry 50.4 (2012): April: Variations on Late Songs by Rabindranath Tagore (poems with introduction).

5 Mary Ellis Gibson - 5 International Poetry Review 39.1 (2013): Rev. of The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre, Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery Lunatic by Michael H. Fisher. Victorian Studies 55 (2013): Gibson, Mary Ellis. Introduction: English in India, India in England. Victorian Literature and Culture 42 (2014): * Indian English Poetry. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Edited by Dino Felluga, Pamela Gilbert and Linda Hughes. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, Pp *Gibson, Mary Ellis and Jason Rudy. Colonial and Imperial Writing. Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women s Writing. Edited by Linda Peterson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, * Women Poets in Nineteenth-Century India. A History of Indian Poetry in India. Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, [In final proof, forthcoming.] [*Indicates refereed articles in scholarly journals and refereed essay collections; does not include invited review essays or introductions.] Other Works Edited Gibson, Mary Ellis and Beverly Taylor, eds. Victorians Institute Journal. Vol. 22 (1994)- Vol 27 (1999). Gibson, Mary Ellis and David Shields, eds. Contemporary Literature in German. With Joel D. Golb. Chicago Review, 29, No. 3 (1978): 168 pp. Work in Progress Scottish Heroes, Female Martyrs, Heathen Fiends: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 in Poetic Circulation, under review, Victorian Poetry. Sati, BranchCollective. Ed. Dino Felluga (online refereed history of Victorian literature and culture), forthcoming The News from India: Emma Roberts and the Construction of Late Romanticism. In British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia. Edited by Alex Watson and Laurence Williams. Under review: Palgrave Macmillan. Futurist Fictions from Victorian India, an edition of five stories with historical and critical introduction. Poetry and Precarity in Colonial India: Four Literary Lives [John Leyden, Emma Roberts, Honoria Lawrence, Toru Dutt], a biographical and critical study. In progress. Scholarly Papers, Readings and Invited Lectures "Writing and the Dance," Columbia College Dance Seminar, Chicago, "Contemporary Poetry and the Little Magazine," Modern Language Association, "Editing the Little Magazine," DePaul University, Chicago, "Nervous Diseases and Women Writers," Women's Studies Speakers Series, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "Nervous Diseases, Their Causes and Cures: The Case of the Woman Artist," National

6 Mary Ellis Gibson - 6 Conference on American Women in the Arts, , University of Pittsburgh, "Rules and Roles: 'Being Good' in the Fiction of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps," Southeastern American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA., "Reflexive Perception in the Novels of Anne Tyler," Southeastern Women's Studies Association, Charlottesville, VA., "The Disappearing I: Browning and the Historicist Interpretation of Fact." Philological Association of the Carolinas. Charleston, SC, "Making Rooms of Their Own: Women's Autobiographical Writings Virginia Woolf." Women's History Week. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "Illegitimate Order: Cosmopolitanism and Liberalism in E.M. Forster's Howard's End," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, "Historical Perspective and Judgment in Browning's Dramatic Monologues of the Italian Renaissance," Philological Association of the Carolinas, Chapel Hill, NC, "Feudal Relics: Propriety and Promiscuity in the Novels of Edith Wharton," Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Lexington, VA., "The Seraglio or Suttee: Bronte's Jane Eyre," Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC, "Contextualist History and Popular Historical Fiction: The Case of The Ring and the Book," Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, GA., "Observing History: The Poetry of Richard Howard, A Jubilation of Poets," Cleveland State University, Cleveland, "Feminism and Fundamentalism: Problems and Approaches," National Women's Studies Association, Atlanta, GA., "'We are here as on a darkling plain': Gender and Audience in Matthew Arnold's Lyrics." Victorians Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, "Body, Text, and Spectacle: Morbid Anatomy in Browning's The Ring and the Book," Conference on Browning and Hopkins, Graduate School, City University of New York, "Southern Women Writers: Categories and Canons," National Women's Studies Association, Towson, MD., "Empire and Domesticity in Tennyson's Poetry," MLA, Washington, "The American Literary Canon and Southern Women Writers," University of South Carolina, Columbia, "Empire and Domesticity in Bronte's Fiction," National Taiwan University Department of Foreign Languages, Taipei, Taiwan, "Tennyson and Victorian Empire," Fu Ren University, Department of English, Taiwan, "Ezra Pound and Robert Browning: Literary Inheritance," National Kaoshiung Normal University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, May "Gender in Matthew Arnold's Poetry," National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, J June Place in Contemporary Southern Fiction, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, "Figures for Loss: Empire and Elegy in Mathew Arnold's 'A Southern Night.'" Mathew Arnold and Victorian Culture. Armstrong Browning Library, Waco, TX, "What Slips Through the Net: Cultural Change in Recent Southern Fiction." Society for the Study of Southern Literature, MLA, Toronto, 1993.

7 Mary Ellis Gibson - 7 "Woman's Mission: Empire and Domesticity in Victorian Evangelicalism," Women's Studies Research Series, University of NC at Greensboro, Feb "Modernist Narrative and Epic Authority in Ezra Pound's Poetry," International Conference on Narrative, Park City, UT, April "Missionary Heroism and Victorian Writers," Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, "Money, Dirt and Poetry: Words as Commodities in Carlyle, Ruskin and Pound," Victorians Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, "Missions, Empire, and Domesticity: Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies," MLA, Washington, DC, "A Proposal for Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships in English and Foreign Languages," MLA, Washington, DC, Godly Adventures for Boys and Girls, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, Oct Engendering Imperialist Bodies: The Technologies of Victorian Publishing for Children. Southeastern Women s Studies Association, Raleigh, NC, Far from the Critic s frown or Flatt rer s praise: English Language Poetry and the Indian Archive before MLA, Chicago, IL, Victorians and Modernism, seminar leader. Modernist Studies Association, Pennsylvania State University, Syntax and the Poetic Line: Browning/Pound, Swinburne/HD. New Modernisms: Modernist Studies Association. University of Pennsylvania, Oct Gender, Empire and the Material Text: Letitia Landon and the Circulation of India. Society for Textual Scholarship, CUNY and New York Public Library, New York, April 2001 The Perils of Reading: Juvenile Religious Magazines and the Making of Victorian Imperialist Subjectivity, Victorians Institute, University of N. C. at Chapel Hill, Oct Graduate Curriculum in Women s Studies, seminar leader, Conference on the Future of Graduate Education in Women s Studies, Emory University, October 2001 What s Still Southern about Southern Literature, Still Cooking after All These Years: Food and Memory in Southern Literature, and Flannery O Connor: Where Grace Meets Place, lectures, North Carolina Humanities Forum, at various venues, Gender and Technology: The Girls Zine Project, Southeast Women s Studies Association, Epic, Elegy and Empire in Victorian Poetry, CUNY Graduate School Victorian Studies Symposium, Gender, Technology, and Educational Trends in the United States, Calcutta University, Southern Literature, Urbanization, and the Virtual Past, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, Genre and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, University of Hyderabad, 2004 Race and Place: Southern U.S. Women Writers, University of Hyderabad, 2004 Poetry and Imperial Commerce in the 1830s: Edward Said Reconsidered. Re-viewing Culture and Imperialism, Calcutta University, 2004 Southern U. S. Literature: Three Emerging Poets, Emerging Voices in American Literature, University of North Bengal, Literary Annuals in Kolkata and London in the 1830s. Indian English Literature 1780-Present. University of North Bengal, Poetry readings at various venues including NC Poets Against War, Café Driade, United States

8 Mary Ellis Gibson - 8 Educational Foundation in India (Calcutta) Letitia Landon and Emma Roberts: Poetry in the Archive of Victorian Literature, British Women s Writers Conference, Gainesville FL, March Technologies of Knowledge: Creating English Language Poetry in Nineteenth-Century India, North American Victorian Studies Association, Lafayette, IN, Aug The Archive as Ruin: Editing English Language Poetry Written in India, Society for Textual Studies, New York, March Pound, Tagore and the Backwash from India, 22 nd Ezra Pound Society International Conference, Venice, June Indian Poetry in the London Fin de Siècle: Ghose, Naidu, Tagore, Duke University Conference in Comparative Literature, keynote address. September Moving Toward Modernity: Indian Poetry in the London Fin de Siècle, National Humanities Center lecture series, Moving toward Modernity, Nov Historical Tourism in the Contemporary South, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC, Nov Some Problems in Pre-Postcolonial Literary Study. National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, May Rice Culture, Southern Foodways, and Writing Race, lectures sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council, May (various dates and venues) Still Cookin : Grits, Race, and Desegregation in North Carolina, lectures co-sponsored by North Carolina Humanities Council and Dare County Libraries. Manteo NC, Jan Contesting Definitions: Indian Poets in London, Authentic or Modern? EAM (European and American Modernisms Association), Ghent, Belgium, May Contemporary North Carolina Writers, North Carolina Humanities Council Teacher s Seminar, Greensboro NC, September, Lecture and seminar leader. The Harp of India, the Landscapes of Mortality: Emma Roberts and H. L. V. Derozio, North American Victorian Studies Association, Yale University, November Pound s Canto 51, Ezra Pound Seminar, Institute for English Studies, University of London, December Technology, Religion, Nation: Futurist Fictions in Nineteenth-Century British India. American Academy of Religion, Montreal, November Indian English Poetry and Bardic Nationalism. Renmin University, Beijing. June Moving Too Fast Already: Globalization and Futurist Fictions in British India, North American Victorian Studies Association, Montreal, November Performing Indian Authenticity: Poetry in Fin-de-siècle London, North American Victorian Studies Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, November National Women s Studies Association Pre-Conference for Administrators, Using Annual Reports to Strengthen Programs, Atlanta, GA, November 2011 (in absentia). Performing Poetry in Fin-de-Siècle London: The Trap of Authenticity. Wake Forest University. Winston Salem, NC, February How to Make It as a Journalist: The Old Girl Network and the Indian Solution, or Emma Roberts Makes a Living. North American Victorian Studies Conference, Madison, WI, September Browning s Beginnings and Endings, Seminar Leader. Robert Browning Bicentennial Conference. Baylor Browning Library, Waco, TX, November 2012.

9 Mary Ellis Gibson - 9 Romare Bearden s Tables: Southern Cooking in the Odyssey of the Great Migration Reynolda House Museum of American Art, November In conjunction with the national tour of Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. Emma Roberts Becomes an India Wallah: Literary Patronage and Exchange between Britain and India. British Women Writers Conference. University of New Mexico, April Rebellion in Verse: Violence, Vengeance and Piety in Victorian Mutiny Poems, University of Stirling, February Resisting Classification: The Indian Rebellion in Poetic Circulation. North American Victorian Studies Association. London, Ontario, November John Leyden: Poetry, Patronage and Indian Intelligence. Scottish Diasporic Poetics. University of Stirling, March The Fifth Decad: Uneven Modernity in Pound s Canto 50, Ezra Pound Seminar, English Institute, University College London, December 11, [Forthcoming] Poetry and Networks of Patronage: John Leyden Makes Important Friends in Calcutta. Second Cities of Empire: Glasgow/Calcutta and the Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Centre for Research in the Social Sciences / Presidency University, Kolkata, February [Forthcoming] Around the Edges of Empire: Migrant Poets in Nineteenth-Century India, Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Rutgers, New Brunswick, April 8-9, [Forthcoming] Comparative Worlds, or the Uneven Development of Genres: A Case for the Centrality of Poetry in Global Victorian Studies, Victorian Worlds in Comparison, University of Warwick May [Forthcoming] Courses taught University of Glasgow, : Post-graduate courses and lectures: Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Poetry; Writing Empire; Victorian Literature master s degree core course (two semesters); Gender and History master s degree core course; Theology and Religious Studies master s degree core course. Undergraduate courses and lectures: Introduction to Poetry, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, American Literature to 1900, American Literature since 1900, Radical Women s Spirituality (Theology and Religious Studies), Honours Dissertation Supervisor. Graduate supervisions and PhD examining at Master s and PhD levels in English, Scottish Literature, Theology and Religious Studies, and Creative Writing. University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Graduate courses: seminars on Browning and Pound; Victorian Empire; Victorian Literature (various foci); Gender in Victorian Culture; Feminist Theory; New Histories and Literary Theory; Survey of Contemporary Critical Theory; Romantic Poetry and Poetics; Introduction to Graduate Studies (introduction to literary theory and to advanced research methods). Undergraduate courses: Anglophone Literatures from 1780 to the Present (literature survey), Victorian Literature, The English Novel, British Romanticism, English Literature Survey, "Primitive and Civilized" (Junior Honors Seminar), Feminist Theory, Women in Literature, Southern U. S. Women Writers, American Women Writers, , Feature Writing and Reviewing, Journalism, Introductions to Poetry and to Fiction, Composition.

10 Mary Ellis Gibson - 10 Undergraduate honors supervision: various honors theses in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction and in southern U.S. literature. Other Teaching Abroad: "City as Metaphor: Literary Views of London," UNCG/Guilford College Summer School Abroad, summer English conversation, English for non-native speakers. Hong Kong, "Writing and Sacred Space. Ancient and Modern," UNCG Summer School Abroad, Graduate seminars: Work and Society in Victorian Literature, Browning and Pound, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Fulbright Senior Lecturer, 1991 Recent Graduate Student Supervision, UNC Greensboro PhD students completing degrees: Aria Chernik, Lawless, wingd and unconfined : Aesthetics and the Possibility of Justice in Early British Romantic-Era Literature. Laurie Lyda, The Rhetoric of Prostitution in Victorian England [director]. Kristen Pond, The Impulse to Tell and to Know: The Rhetoric and Ethics of Sympathy in the Nineteenth-century British Novel [director]. Geoffrey W. Vance, Spells and Portents: Reading H. P. Lovecraft s Necronomicon as Socio- Historic Commentary. Stephanie Womick, Fashioning Femininities: Sartorial Literacy in English Domestic Fiction, [director]. Martha Griffin, Oceans Apart: Women Readers in the Nineteenth-century British and American Novel [director]. Melissa Richard, Genres at Work: Performing Working Identities in Victorian Literature [director] Glasgow University Nuala Watt, Partial Sight and Poetic Form [PhD, creative writing; co-director] Kun Xi, Victorian Women Travellers in Nineteenth-Century China [PhD; director, in progress]. Heather Stevenson, Pre-Raphaelites Remaking Shakespeare [PhD; director, in progress]. Amina Kauser Khan, The Poems of Ghalib in Context [MLitt Research; co-director, in progress]. Nicole Hailstones, Southern Gothic as Southern Religion in McCullers and O Connor [MLitt Research; co-director, in progress].

11 Mary Ellis Gibson - 11 Selected professional activities External Examiner, University of Warwick, National Humanities Center, proposal referee, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, National Endowment for the Humanities, proposal referee, 2001, 2009, 2010; literature committee member Designed and co-led with Nigel Smith at National Humanities Center, year long seminar, Master Languages and Vernaculars ( ) Victorians Institute, President ; Vice President, ; journal editor, External tenure and/or promotion referee for departments of English at University of Florida, Lafayette College, Clemson University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wake Forest University, Women s and Gender Studies Institute at University of Florida, and others Humanities Forum / Roads Scholar (speakers bureau): North Carolina Humanities Council, present, outreach activities including lectures across the state Seminar director, North Carolina Humanities Council Teacher s Institute. Families: Indian and U.S. Perspectives, 1995; Contemporary North Carolina Writers, 2008 Humanities Scholar for Touring Theatre, North Carolina Humanities Council, 1994 Fulbright Grants Program, CIES, American Studies Selection Committee, , Chair, Seminar Director, N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching, 1988, 1989 Editorial Boards, Families: A Journal of Representations [Kolkata]; Victorian Poetry; Victorians Institute Journal. Manuscript reader for the University of Chicago Press, University of South Carolina Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University Press of Virginia, Routledge, Ohio University Press, Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Paideuma, South Central Review, Contemporary Literature, and others. Manuscript Editor for Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1981 Consulting Reader for Arts Recognition and Talent Search, ETS, Princeton, NJ, Coordinator of Curriculum Study for Women's Educational Equity Act Grant, UNCG, 1983 Vice president Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of N.C. Administrative Experience and University Service As Professor of English at University of Glasgow, Convened/directed MLitt in Victorian Literature, overseeing curriculum, teaching assessment, advising, national and international recruiting, Co-administered British Council, LITUP Curriculum Development and Exchange project with University of Delhi, hosting speakers and overseeing virtual classroom exchange program, Developed structure of collaboration and cross-disciplinary cooperation among the eight taught MLitt programs in School of Critical Studies Developed professional development internship/work placement for taught master s students; designed and lead professionalization and subject area workshops for master s students Developed interdisciplinary research projects / exhibition designed by post-graduate students in conjunction with University Archives and Special Collections in conjunction

12 Mary Ellis Gibson - 12 with British Academy Second Cities of Empire; liaised with Swire Foundation representative to develop further Foundation funding for University Archives As Director of Women s and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro Developed first professional master s degree program in the US in Women s and Gender Studies, with concentrations in Gender and Health and Gender and Community Leadership; completed curriculum design and secured implementation grant from Council of Graduate Schools / Ford Foundation Raised nearly $800,000 in grants and endowment More than doubled number of majors and graduate certificate students; improved teaching and enrollments in core courses while enriching curriculum Significantly increased community outreach, bringing nearly 1000 participants annually (from campus, the city, the region and beyond) to UNCG for programs, arts events, lectures and conferences Implemented new undergraduate curriculum design; incorporated service learning and web-assisted instruction in core courses as appropriate; strengthened undergraduate internship opportunities. Major service and administrative roles, University of North Carolina Greensboro Coordinator for Research Development in the Humanities College of Arts and Sciences Research Advisory Committee, , College of Arts and Sciences, Dean s ad hoc committee for articulating mission and promoting liberal arts and sciences in undergraduate education, As Class of 1952 Professor of English, designed a series of programs and faculty workshops, Crossing Borders, to develop undergraduate literature curricula and graduate teaching opportunities in a global context ( ) Director of Graduate Studies in English (MA, MEd, PhD) Chair or member of numerous search committees, hiring both faculty and administrative positions, in English, History, and Dean of the Graduate School University Undergraduate Admissions Policies Committee (chair, faculty committee on enrollment management and student recruitment) Provost s task force on recruiting academically talented undergraduate students University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Undergraduate Student Leadership Development Task Force (internships, service learning, leadership training oversight) College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee Chaired or served on promotion committees across the campus including committees in Classics, English, German Russian and Japanese, and Women s and Gender Studies Memberships North American Victorian Studies Association Victorians Institute Victorian Poetry Network British Association for Victorian Studies

13 Mary Ellis Gibson - 13 References Beverly Taylor Chair and Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature Greenlaw 209 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC btaylor@ .unc.edu Daniel E. White Professor of English Department of English Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada M5R 2MB Daniel.white@utoronto.ca Tony K. Stewart Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies Professor of South Asian Studies Vanderbilt University 301-B Garland Hall Box Nashville, TN tony.k.stewart@vanderbilt.edu Timothy Johnston Dean of Arts and Sciences 105 Foust Building University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC