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1 KELLY J. MAYS Department of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 5011 Las Vegas, NV (702) (Office) (702) (Fax) EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, English Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2004-present. Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Assistant Professor, English Department, New Mexico State University, Preceptor, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University, EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Stanford University, B.A., English, summa cum laude, Emory University, SELECTED GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, Spring-Fall UNLV College of Liberal Arts/Black Mountain Institute Research Fellowship, Spring UNLV English Department Nominee, Rita Deanin Abbey Humanities Teacher of the Year Award, 2005, NEH Extending the Reach Faculty Research Award, Spring-Summer NMSU Arts and Sciences Research Mini-Grant, Summer WORK IN PROGRESS How the Victorians Invented Themselves: Imagining an Era and a Style, c PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Kelly J. Mays, The Norton Introduction to Literature. 11 th ed. New York: Norton, Alison Booth and Kelly J. Mays, The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: Norton. 8 th ed., th ed., th ed., Kelly J. Mays with Gayla McGlamery and Bryan Crockett, Instructors Guide to the Norton Introduction to Literature and the Norton Introduction to Poetry. 7th ed. New York: Norton, ARTICLES How the Victorians Un-Invented Themselves: Architecture, the Battle of the Styles and the Emergence of the Term Victorian. Journal of Victorian Culture (forthcoming).

2 ARTICLES (CONTINUED) Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror of Future History. Victorian Studies 53.3 (Spring 2011): An Exchange on The Norton Anthology of English Literature IV. Surprised by Sin: A Response to Sean Shesgreen. Critical Inquiry 35 (Summer 2009): Domestic Spaces, Readerly Acts: Reading(,) Gender and Class in Working-Class Autobiography. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 30.4 (Dec. 2008): Print. When a Speck Begins to Read: Literacy and the Politics of Self-Improvement in Nineteenth- Century British Working-Class Autobiography. Reading Sites: Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation. Ed. Patrocinio Schweickart and Elizabeth Flynn. New York: MLA, The Publishing World. The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel. Ed. Patrick Brantlinger and W. B. Thesing. Oxford: Blackwell, Slaves in Heaven, Laborers in Hell: Chartist Poets Ambivalent Identification with the (Black) Slave. Victorian Poetry 39.2 (Summer 2001) Chartism, Selfhood, and the Nature of Truth-Telling in Two Chartist Autobiographies. The Chartist Legacy. Ed. Owen Ashton, Robert Fyson, and Stephen Roberts. Braunton, England: Merlin, The Disease of Reading and Victorian Periodicals. Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth- Century British Publishing and Reading Practices. Ed. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series, No. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, REVIEWS Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State by Bruce Robbins. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 4.3 (Winter 2008). Web. The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, by Ian Haywood. Victorian Studies 49.1 (Fall 2006): Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction by Patricia E. Johnson. Victorian Studies 45.2 (Winter 2003): Images of Chartism by Stephen Roberts and Dorothy Thompson. Victorian Studies 43.1 (Autumn 2000):

3 REVIEWS (CONTINUED) Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals by Paul Thomas Murphy and Radical Politicians and Poets in Early Victorian England: The Voices of Six Chartist Leaders by Stephen Roberts. Victorian Studies 40.2 (Winter 1997): OTHER Thomas William Robertson and Trelawny of the Wells [2 entries]. The Literary Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Feb SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS Making (Fun of) the (Early-Middle) Victorians. Leisure! Enjoyment! Fun!, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). University of Virginia, March 2013 (forthcoming). Invisible No More: Thoughts on the Changing Canon. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Las Vegas, November Victorian Self-Fashioning: Commemorative Consumerism and the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibitions. North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). Montreal, November Performing the Early-Middle Victorian: Trelawny of the Wells, the Crinoline Scare, and Late-Victorian Neo-Victorianism. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Nashville, November Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror of Future History. NAVSA. Montreal, November The Battle of Styles and the Emergence of the Term Victorian. Fighting Victorians, Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA). Princeton U, April Un-Fixing Images: Sandra Goldbacher s Re-Vision of Jane Eyre. Up to Date with a Vengeance, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). U of Missouri Kansas City, April Far West Popular Culture Association. Las Vegas, January Domestic Spaces, Readerly Acts: Reading(,) Gender and Class in Working-Class Autobiography. Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Local/Global, INCS. U of Notre Dame London Centre, U.K., July Kind Respect and Brotherly Love : Reading (in) the Working-Class Mutual Improvement Society. Nineteenth-Century Knowledges, INCS. George Mason U, April Memory, Subjectivity, and the Problem of Reading. Victorian Memory, NVSA. Yale U, April 1999.

4 SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS (CONTINUED) Shout till every slave is free : Slavery and the Internationalist Logic of Chartist Poetry. Transatlanticisms, INCS. Ohio State U, April Why Don t They Just Get Over It? : The Logic of White Students Responses to Post- Colonial Texts. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, April Boredom, Effeminacy, and Ethnicity in Disraeli s Political Trilogy. Whatever (Gay Studies in Language and Literature Panel). Modern Language Association (MLA), Toronto, December COURSES TAUGHT (SINCE 2001) LOWER-DIVISION COURSES World Literature II [18 th century-present] Survey of English Literature II [Romantics-present] Introduction to Shakespeare Readings in the Contemporary Novel Writing about Literature CROSS-LISTED UPPER-DIVISION/GRADUATE COURSES The Gothic Gender and Literature (a variable topics course cross-listed with Women s Studies): Fictions of the 1890s 19 th -Century British Women Writers Major Figures in British Literature: The Brontës Romantic Poets Victorian Poetry Nineteenth-Century Prose Writers British Literature II [Romantics-present] Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories British Novel II [the 19 th century] Contemporary English Novel GRADUATE SEMINARS Studies in English Romanticism Studies in Victorian Literature: Fictions of the Brontës Romance and Realism in the 1890s (Neo-)Victorian Fictions Studies in Literary Genre: The British Empire and the British Novel,

5 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (SINCE 2001) NATIONAL & STATE Board Member, Nevada Humanities Council, November 2009-present Member, Executive Committee, Fall 2012-present Chair, Grants and Program Committee, Fall 2011-present Chair, Grants Committee, Fall Member, Search Committee for Southern Nevada Program Director, 2010-present Member, Communications and On-line Nevada Encyclopedia (ONE) Advisory committees, 2009-present Book Proposal Reviewer for Broadview and MLA presses Board Member, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Member, Selection Committee, Norton Scholars Prize, 2002 UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE (CLA): Member, Women s Studies Steering and Personnel committees, Fall 2009-present Member, University General Education Advisory Committee and Global/Multicultural Subcommittee, Member, CLA Ad-hoc Committee on Teaching Loads, Member, CLA Ad-hoc Committee on Outcomes Assessment, Member, CLA Language, Literature, Literacy, and Communication Macrotheme Working Group, Spring 2002 Member, University Planning Council, Fall 2001 DEPARTMENT Chair, Research Resources Committee, Member, Undergraduate Committee, , , (Chair), Member, Advisory Committee, , , Member, Technology Committee, Assistant Department Chair/Director of Undergraduate Studies, Member, World Literature Steering Committee, Member, Graduate Committee, Member, Personnel/Merit Committee, 2006 Chair, Search Committee for 19 th -Century British Poetry Position, Member, Bylaws Committee, Member, Search Committee for 20 th -Century Poetry and Poetics Position, REFERENCES Alison Booth, Professor of English, University of Virginia Mary Jean Corbett, John W. Steube Professor of English, Miami University Regenia Gagnier, Professor of English, University of Exeter (U.K.)