LAURA GREEN Curriculum Vitae. 405 Lake Hall Voice: Northeastern University FAX: Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

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1 LAURA GREEN Department of English 405 Lake Hall Voice: Northeastern University FAX: Huntington Avenue Boston, MA EDUCATION Ph.D B.A. Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, June 1994 Dissertation: At Once Narrow and Promiscuous : Representations of Educated Women in the Victorian Novel. Committee: Professors Catherine Gallagher (Director, English), Carol Christ (English), Thomas Laqueur (History) English Literature, High Honors, Swarthmore College, June 1985 TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS Northeastern University, Department of English Chair, Spring Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of English, Visiting Assistant Professor, Winter/Spring 2001 Yale University, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Saint Mary s College of California, Department of English, Lecturer, PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Literary Identification: From Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga. Ohio State UP, 2012 Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature. Ohio UP, 2001 ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Gender and Sexuality in George Eliot. The Blackwell Companion to George Eliot. Eds. Amanda Anderson and Harry Shaw. New York: Wiley/Blackwell, Long, Long Disappointment : Maternal Failure and Masculine Exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant s Autobiography. Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. Ed. Ellen Rosenman and Claudia Klaver. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008 Wishing to Be Fictional. Victorians Institute Journal 35 (2007), I Recognized Myself in Her : Identifying with the Reader in George Eliot s The Mill on the Floss and Simone de Beauvoir s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature, vol (Spring 2005), Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall s The Well of Loneliness and Modernist Fictions of Identity. Twentieth-Century Literature 49 (Fall 2003), 1-20 Strange [In]difference of Sex : Thomas Hardy, The Victorian Man of Letters, and the

2 Page 2 Temptations of Androgyny. Victorian Studies 38 (Summer 1995), At Once Narrow and Promiscuous : Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch. Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 (1995), 1 30 ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Gender (5000 words); Bildungsroman (3000 words), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Ed. Dino Fellgua, Pamela Gilbert, and Linda Hughes. New York: Wiley/Blackwell. Forthcoming. BOOK REVIEWS Victorian Disharmonies: A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction. By Francesco Marroni. University of Delaware Press, Victorian Studies. (Forthcoming, 55.3) Public School Literature, Civic Education, and the Politics of Male Adolescence. By Jenny Holt. Burlington: Ashgate, RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net) 56 (November 2009; published May 2011). The Victorians and Old Age. By Karen Chase. New York: Oxford University Press, Victorians Institute Journal. Vol. 38 (2010) Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate. Ed. Keith Wilson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Studies in the Novel (Fall 2008), Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England, by Sharon Marcus (Princeton, 2007); Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, by Kathryn Sproles (Toronto, 2006); and Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, , by Martha Vicinus (Chicago, 2004). ELN: English Language Notes 45.2 (Winter 2007), George Eliot, U.S.: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives. By Monika Mueller. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Victorian Studies 48.1 (Autumn 2005), Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, By Beth Newman. Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature 24.2 (Fall 2005), Women, Scholarship, and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge Ed. Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, and Gill Perry. Manchester University Press, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26:1 (March 2004), Thomas Hardy, Femininity, and Dissent: Reassessing the Minor Novels. By Jane Thomas. Palgrave Macmillan, Victorian Studies 26:2 (Winter 2001), Vessels of Meaning: Women s Bodies, Gender Norms, and Class Bias from Richardson to Lawrence. By Laura Fasick. Northern Illinois University Press, South Atlantic Review, Summer 1998, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text, by Deirdre d Albertis (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997); Remaking Queen Victoria, ed. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud, by Carolyn Dever (Cambridge University Press 1998). Signs 26.2 (Winter 2001),

3 Page 3 The Decline of the Goddess, by Shirley Stave (Praeger, 1995); Seeing Women as Men: Role Reversal in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, by Ellen Lew Sprechman (University Press of America, 1995). Victorian Studies 40 (Winter 1997), NON-ACADEMIC LITERARY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Fiction 21c: Is Domestic vs. Epic a Fair Fight? Poets & Writers Magazine 30:6 (November/December 2002) The Literary Life: Why We Reread. Poets & Writers Magazine 30:2 (March/April 2002) Fiction 21c: The Novel in Stories. Poets & Writers Magazine 29:4 (July/August 2001) PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCES Bathsheba Everdene, Young Brown, and Zelda the Gypsy: At Home in Cornhill Magazine, January, Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA), Boston University, Spring Clearly Queer? Reading Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson. Modern Language Association, Spring 2012 Unreading: Tsitsi Danagarembga s The Book of Not. International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (ISSN; formerly SSNL), Case Western Reserve, Spring 2010 Private Ancestors and Postmodern Publication: Jeanette Winterson s Virginia Woolf. Modern Language Association (MLA), Winter 2009 Wishing to Be Fictional: Jasper Fforde, E.M. Forster, and Charlotte Bronte. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (SSNL), Austin, TX, Spring 2008 Ambivalence and Identification: Virginia Woolf s The Voyage Out. SSNL, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), Spring 2007 Modernist Literary Histories: Retrospection, Reinvention, Redistribution, Panel Organizer and Panelist, Modernist Studies Association (MSA)8th Annual Meeting, University of Tulsa. Paper Title: Ambivalent Retrospection in The Voyage Out, Fall 2006 Refusing Knowledge in Margaret Oliphant s Autobiography. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Purdue University, Fall 2006 Narrative Identification and Disaffection in Charlotte Brontë s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid s Lucy, SSNL, University of Louisville, Spring 2005 Identification in the Victorian Context: Charlotte Brontë s Villette. NAVSA Inaugural Conference, Indiana University, Fall 2003 The Reader Rewritten in Simone de Beauvoir s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. MLA, Winter 2002 Reading the Reader in George Eliot s The Mill on the Floss and Simone de Beauvoir s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. SSNL, Michigan State University, Spring 2002 Reading Gender and Identity in Radclyffe Hall s The Well of Loneliness. MLA, Winter 2000 Hall of Mirrors: Gender and Identification in Radclyffe Hall s The Well of Loneliness. MSA, Penn. State, Fall 1999

4 Page 4 Hall of Mirrors: Identification in Radclyffe Hall s The Well of Loneliness. SSNL, Dartmouth College, Spring 1999 Lesbian Panic in Villette. SSNL, Northwestern University, Spring 1998 INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATOINS Transforming Fictions: Literary Identification in the Novel of Formation (Schwartz, Dangarembga, Winterson). Barrs Lecture Series (Department of English), Northeastern University, Fall 2009 Eviscerating Identification: Charlotte Brontë s Villette. Harvard Humanities Center Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar, Winter 2004 Hall of Mirrors: The Well of Loneliness and Literary Identification. Barrs Lecture Series (Department of English), Northeastern University, Spring 2002 Pursuing Lesbian Narrative in Simone de Beauvoir s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Harvard Humanities Center Queer Studies Seminar, Fall 2002 Harassed and Indomitable : Gender and Empire in Anna Leonowens s An English Governess at the Siamese Court. Yale English Department 18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium, Spring 2000 Respondent (fifteen-minute response) to presentation by Professor Mary Wilson Carpenter on Victorian Millenialism, Council on Middle East Studies Seminar, Yale University, Spring 1998 Fiction, Feminism, and the Failures of Female Mentorship, lecture to alumni/ae, Calhoun College, Yale University, Spring 1998 Women in Ruins: Women, Writing, and Travel in the Age of the Grand Tour. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1995 Jane Eyre and the Governess in Victorian Culture. Santa Rosa Junior College, Spring 1995 PANELS CHAIRED Narrative and Image: New Theory for New Forms. Program Arranged by the Division of Prose Fiction, Modern Language Association, 2007 Reading Together. Program Arranged by the Division of Prose Fiction, Modern Language Association, 2004 Representations of Empire (2). Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP), Yale University, Fall 1999 GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University, Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, Summer Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Chancellor s Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Humanities Research Grant, UC Berkeley, Summer 1991 Maude Fife Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, Spring 1990 Joshua Lippincott Alumni Fellowship for Graduate Study, Swarthmore College,

5 Page 5 TEACHING COURSES TAUGHT AT NORTHEASTERN SINCE 2006 ENGL 4624, Victorian Literature, Spring 2012 ENGL 5103, Graduate Proseminar, Fall 2011 ENGL 1501, Survey of British Literature 2, Spring 2011 ENGL 5103, Graduate Proseminar, Fall 2010 ENGL 7286, Topics in Victorian Literature: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature, Spring 2010,14 students ENGL 2221, Survey of British Literature 2, Fall 2009 ENGL G266, Victorian Literature, Spring 2009 ENG U624, Victorian Literature, Fall 2007 ENG G101, Introduction to Critical Issues, Fall 2007 ENG U221, Survey of British Literature 2, Spring 2007 ENG U337, Literary Interpretation, Fall 2006 ENG U625, Topics in Victorian Literature: The Victorian Novel, Fall 2006ENG G294, The Victorian Novel, Spring 2006, 13 students ENG U221, Survey of British Literature 2, Fall 2005, 36 DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED Donna Decker Reck, Ph.D, Vexatiously Ever After: Marriage and the New Woman Novel, 2005 Mary Balestraci, Victorian Voices: Gender Ideology and Shakespeare s Female Characters, 2012 Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Ambivalent Recognition: Mapping Intimacies in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf, 2012 Alicia Peaker, Landscaping Literature in the Works of Edith Holden, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Vita Sackville-West, and Mary Webb, current Jennifer (Sopchockchai) Bankard, Testing Reality s Limits: Mad Scientists, Realism, and the Supernatural in Late Victorian Popular Fiction, current Jessica Nelson, current Shun Kiang, current OTHER COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT AT NORTHEASTERN (BEFORE ) Graduate: Bodies in Victorian Literature; Literature of the Fin de Siècle; Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory; The English Bildungsroman; Victorian Literature and Literary Culture Undergraduate: Literature of the Fin de Siècle, The English Gothic Novel; Major Figure: The Brontës COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT (UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) The Age of Victoria; The Female Hero in the Novel COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT (YALE UNIVERSITY) Home and Abroad: Travel in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel; Nineteenth- Century English Literature Abroad; The European Literary Tradition; Introductory Seminar in Writing and Literature; Introduction to Literary Study; Feminist and

6 Page 6 Queer Theory (cross-listed with Women s & Gender Studies); Women s & Gender Studies Senior Colloquium (W&GS); Introduction to Women s Studies and Feminist Thought (W&GS) COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT (SAINT MARY S COLLEGE) Contemporary Literary Theory; Literary Theory from Plato to Samuel Johnson; Eighteenth-Century Novel; Renaissance, 17th-, and 18th-Century Thought; Contemporary Women s Poetry; Introduction to Women s Studies; English Composition PROFESSIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE SERVICE TO NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY University Joint ad hoc Senate and Provost s Office Committee to Assess the NU Core, 2012 Co-Chairs: Professor Bob McOwen, Math; Vice-Provost Mary Loeffelholz NEASC team for Standard 7: Library and Other Information Resources, Chair: William Wakeling, Acting Dean of the Libraries Committee to Review Chair of History, Laura Frader, , Chair: Professor Ken Baclawski, Computer Science Library Policy Operations Committee, Chair: Professor Ronald Willey, Chemical Engineering Graduate Enrollment and Admissions Policy Committee, Chair: Professor Samuel Matthews, Pharmacy College Chair, Undergraduate Academic Advisory Committee, Member, CSSH Committee to Review the Merit Process, Chair: Professor James Fox, School of Criminal Justice Member, Internal Advisory Board, Northeastern Humanities Center, Member, Executive Council and Advisory Boards, Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (formerly Women s Studies Program), Co-Organizer, Humanities Center Artists and Practitioners in Residence Residency (Deborah Davidson), Spring 2011 Member, Chairs CSSH Constitution Committee, Spring 2010 Chair: Professor Dennis Cokely, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Humanities Center Sexualities Working Group Faculty Convenor, Member, GSAS Academic Standing Committee, Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Member, Honors Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Member, College Council, Department Department Chair, Spring Chair, External Chair Appointments Committee, Graduate Studies Committee, English Department, Chair/Graduate Coordinator, ; Member, Member, Probationary Faculty Committee, ; Chair, Spring 2008

7 Page 7 Head Advisor, English Department, Member, Appointments Committee (Modern British Search), Member, Merit Committee, ; Member, Editorial Board, Studies in American Fiction, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Conference Committee Member, International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) Annual Conference, MIT, 2014 Co-Convener, Harvard Humanities Center Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar, 2009-current Editorial Board Member, ELN (English Language Notes), 2011-current MLA Prose Fiction Division, Divisional Executive Committee, Committee Secretary, ; Committee Chair, Norton Scholar s Prize Judging Committee Member (Annual prize given by W.W. Norton for undergraduate essay), Summer 2001 MSS. READ Articles: Twentieth-Century Literature (2010, 2005); Studies in the Novel (2008); Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature (2012, 2011, 2006); Victorian Studies (2008, 2007, 2003); Victorians Institute Journal (2002) Prospectus: Two books on feminist rhetoric, Oxford University Press, Spring 2000 Book: First-Person Anonymous: Nineteenth-Century Media and the Woman Author, for Macmillan, Fall 2000 PREVIOUS INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE - YALE UNIVERSITY Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women s & Gender Studies Program, Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies Committee (FLAGS) member, PREVIOUS INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE - SAINT MARY S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA Acting Coordinator, Women s Studies Program, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Member, Boston Consortium Academic Chairs Program, Sept.-May Member, Modern Language Association, International Society for the Study of Narrative, Northeast Victorian Studies Association