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

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1 Jan Janice Ho Curriculum Vitae Department of English Hellems 101, 226 UCB Boulder, CO janice.ho@colorado.edu ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS 2015 Associate Professor of English, 2016 Book Review Editor for Contemporary Literature (British and Anglophone Fiction) Assistant Professor of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 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. PUBLICATIONS Monograph Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Editorial Work Co-edited with Nadine Attewell, special issue of English Language Notes on In/Security. Slated for publication in Fall/Winter Peer-Reviewed Journal Essays 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 Essays in Edited Collections 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. Forthcoming in Book Reviews 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 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2014 Kayden Research Award, 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, Australian Fellowship of University Women (Queensland) 2007 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 2014 The Human and the Citizen in Conrad s The Secret Agent. Colloquium on

3 Jan 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 2015 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 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 2012 Democratic Friends in E.M. Forster s Early Novels. Center for the Humanities and Arts Works-in-Progress Series, Leonard Woolf and The Jewish Question in the Colonies. Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas Socialism, Liberalism, Englishness. Modernist Studies Association, Nashville.

4 Jan The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity. Cornell English Department Roundtable, Ithaca. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught Graduate Courses ENGL5059 Modernism in Britain (Spring 2015) ENGL5139 Postcolonial Cities / Cities of the Global South (Spring 2014) ENGL5169 Nationalism and Transnationalism in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature (Spring 2013) ENGL5139 Introduction to Twentieth-Century British Literature (Spring 2010) ENGL5529 Liberalism and the History of the Novel (Fall 2009) Undergraduate Courses ENGL4224 The Modernist British and Irish Novel (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2012) ENGL4038 Englishness in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Spring 2009) ENGL3068 Literature in English, (Spring 2015) ENGL3008 Developments in the Novel Post-1900 (Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014 Fall 2015) ENGL3060 Modern and Contemporary Literature (Fall 2008) ENGL2102 Literary Analysis (Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 Fall 2015) Cornell University Courses Taught (first-year writing seminars) Literature and Travel (Fall 2005) Textual Conversations (Fall 2004, Spring 2005) Shakespeare (Fall 2003, Spring 2004) Introduction to Drama (Summer 2003) ACADEMIC SERVICE Professional Service 2010 present Referee for journals: Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and Arts; Literature Compass; English Language Notes; Contemporary Literature Referee for presses: Cambridge University Press 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)

5 Jan New Directions in Bloomsbury (2010) National Forms, Transnational Encounters (2009) present Member, Executive Board for the Center of British and Irish Studies 2014 present Member, Executive Committee for the Dept. of English 2013 present Graduate Placement Advisor for the Dept. of English Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the Dept. of English Member, Search Committee for Assistant/Associate Prof. in Postcolonial Literature Recording Secretary for the Dept. of English Member, Salary Committee for the Dept. of English Recording Secretary for the Dept. of English Cornell University 2006 Member, Selection Committee for the First-Year Reading Project essay competition 2005 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Prof. in Drama and Performance Studies Member, 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