Bethany F. Hicok, PhD Education Ph.D. in English, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1996 M.A. in English, University of Rochester, 1992 M.A.T. in English/Education, University of Rochester, 1990 B.A., cum laude, with high honors, English, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, 1980 Academic and Administrative Appointments Lecturer in English, Williams College, 2018- Professor of English, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, 2014-2018 Honors Program Director, Westminster College, 2014-2018 Associate Professor of English, Westminster College, 2007-2014 Moderator, Honors Program, Westminster College, 2004-2007 Co-Moderator, Honors Program, Westminster College, 2002-2004 Assistant Professor of English, Westminster College, 2001-2007 Assistant Professor of English, Mount St. Clare College, Clinton, Iowa, 1996-2001 Academic Grants, Awards and Honors National Endowment for the Humanities $105,414 grant awarded August 2016 to lead a three-week Summer Seminar for College and University Professors on Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive at Vassar College, June 2017 CIC Summer Seminar grant, Histories of Herodotus, Hellenic Centre, Washington, D.C., July 2016 Hoon Research Award, Westminster College, Spring 2013 Watto Research Award, Westminster College, Fall 2011 NEH Summer Seminar participant grant, Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction, São Paulo, Brazil, July 5-30, 2010 Watto Research Award, Westminster College, 2008-2009 McCandless Scholar Award, Westminster College, 2007-2008 Travel/Presentation Grant, Heritage Chair in the Humanities, Westminster College, Fall 2007 (awarded for collaborative research with undergraduate student and presentation at Sylvia Plath Conference in Oxford, England, October 2007) Henderson Lectureship, Westminster College, Fall 2006 Faculty Summer Institute 2004: Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, Dartmouth College, Summer 2004 (NIH Funded) Iowa College Foundation Faculty Research and Development Grant, "In the Footsteps of Ezra Pound in Italy," June 2000-June 2001 Outstanding Young Educator, Clinton Jaycees, 1997 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Mount St. Clare College, Summer 1997 Susan B. Anthony Travel and Research Grants, University of Rochester, 1993, 1994 Tuition Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1988-1996 Willmott Teaching Scholarship, for the most promising teacher in the graduate program, University of Rochester, 1988
Hicok 2 Howard James Radley Award, for the English Major with the highest academic average, Russell Sage College, 1980 Publications Books Hicok, Bethany. Elizabeth Bishop s Brazil. University of Virginia Press, 2016. Hicok, Bethany, editor (with Angus Cleghorn and Thomas Travisano). Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century: Reading the New Editions. University of Virginia Press, 2012. Hicok, Bethany. Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and the Women s College, 1905-1955, Bucknell University Press, 2008. Book Chapters Hicok, Bethany. American Feminist Poetry Movement. Invited submission for The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary American Poetry. Eds. Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin. London: Bloomsbury, expected publication, 2018. Hicok, Bethany. Becoming a Poet: From North to South. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop. Eds. Angus Cleghorn and Jonathan Ellis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 111-123. Hicok, Bethany. Bishop s Brazilian Politics. In Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century: Reading the New Editions. Co-editors Angus Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok and Thomas Travisano. University of Virginia Press, Spring 2012. 133-150. Hicok, Bethany. Inviting Our Students to Join the Scholarly Conversation. In Reading, Writing, & Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies. Ed. Laura Behling. Washington, D.C.: Council of Undergraduate Research, 2009. 42-52. Hicok, Bethany and Joshua Corrette-Bennett. Designer Genes: Teaching the Ethical Dimensions of Genetic Research in Clustered Courses. In The Human Genome Project in College Curriculum: Ethical Issues and Practical Strategies. Eds. Donovan A. and R. Green. University Press of New England, 2008. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Hicok, Bethany. Freud, Modernity, and the Father Nucleus in Wallace Stevens. The Wallace Stevens Journal 34.2 (Fall 2010): 125-143. Hicok, Bethany. Companions in Disguise: The Conjuries of Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore, The Wallace Stevens Journal 31.2 (Fall 2007): 115-130. Hicok, Bethany. "To Work 'Lovingly': Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, 1905-1909," The Journal of Modern Literature 23.3/4 (Summer 2000). 483-501.
Hicok 3 Hicok, Bethany. Elizabeth Bishop s 'Queer Birds': Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community, Contemporary Literature 40.2 (Summer 1999). 286-310. Book Reviews Hicok, Bethany. Review of George Monteiro s Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed (McFarland 2012). The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin 19.1 (Fall 2013). Hicok, Bethany. Review of Robert Boschman s In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop and Amy Clampitt (McFarland 2009), Letters of Canada 2011, University of Toronto Quarterly 82.3. Hicok, Bethany. Review of Jonathan Ellis s Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (Ashgate, 2006), The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin 14.1 (Fall 2007). Hicok, Bethany. Review Essay, Elizabeth Bishop Panel, American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2005, Elizabeth Bishop Society Newsletter, July 2006. Hicok, Bethany and Pamela Lougheed. Review essay, Laura Mulvey s Visual and Other Pleasures. Discourse 13.2 (Spring-Summer 1991): 119-122. Conferences, Papers and Lectures Go to the Source: New Directions in Bishop Studies at the Fluid Boundaries of the Archive, Invited Paper for Spaces of Translation and Translations of Space: Elizabeth Bishop in Paris, University of Paris-Sorbonne, June 6-8, 2018 The Poetics of Instruction: Elizabeth Bishop s Poetry and Vassar s Modern Curriculum, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, Fall 2015 The Meeting of the Waters: Elizabeth Bishop s Santarém, American Literature Association Special Poetry Conference, Savannah, Georgia, Fall 2014 From Psyche to Poetry: A Transmutation of Fire, Bleasby Colloquium, Westminster College, Fall 2013 I woulda rather had my mother : Race, Class, Love, Loss and the Politics of Consent, HELA Talk, First Year Program, Westminster College, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 Traveling in the Arcives, Faculty Forum, Westminster College, Fall 2013 First Friday at the Cornell, Gallery Talk on Elizabeth Bishop and how travel informed her art for the art exhibition Questions of Travel, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, August 2, 2013
Hicok 4 Featured speaker on BBC Radio 4 program on Elizabeth Bishop s years in Brazil with Paul Farley, A Foreigner Everywhere, first aired April 29, 2012 A Trip on the Amazon with Elizabeth Bishop, Faires Faculty Forum, Westminster College, Fall 2012 Elizabeth Bishop in the 21 st Century, with co-editors Thomas Travisano and Angus Cleghorn, Bleasby Colloquium, Westminster College, Fall 2012 Elizabeth Bishop s Brazilian Translations, Global Studies Conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 2011 Flying Down to Rio : Elizabeth Bishop, Clarice Lispector and the American Reception of Brazil at Mid-Century, PAMLA Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2010 Brazilian Interludes, Bleasby Colluquium, Westminster College, Fall 2010 Surviving the Blast: The Nuclear Poetics of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, for a panel on the Cold War and Poetics, Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2009 Revolutionary Intersections: Freud, Modernism, and Belief in Wallace Stevens, Faires Faculty Forum, Westminster College, November 2009 Elizabeth Bishop s Brazilian Politics, for a panel on Reading Elizabeth Bishop through the New Editions, American Literature Association, Boston, May 2009 Wallace Stevens After Freud: Theories of the Post-Enlightenment Self, for panel on Stevens and Freud, Louisville Conference on Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Louisville, KY, February 2009 Dreams of Inaccessible Utopia in Wallace Stevens, for panel entitled Utopia and Modernity, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nashville, November 2008 Down the Rabbit Hole: Copyright Law, Scholarly Freedom, and Other Discoveries of a McCandless Year, Faculty Forum, Westminster College, Spring 2008 Inviting Our Students to Join the Scholarly Conversation, for panel entitled The Undergraduate Student as Scholar, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, December 2007 Order[ing] a box of maniacs : Questions of Power in the Bee Poems, Sylvia Plath Symposium, Oxford, England, October 2007
Hicok 5 Marianne Moore s Student Hero: Poetry and Politics in the 1930s, Henderson Lecture, Westminster College, fall 2006 Companions in Disguise: The Conjuries of Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005 Elizabeth Bishop s Ballads, American Literature Association Poetry Symposium, San Diego, September 2005 Stalking the Lesbian: Poets, Women s Colleges and Literary Cross-Dressing, Bleasby Colloquium and Faculty Forum, Westminster College, September 2005 Sexual and Cold War Politics in Sylvia Plath s Early Poems, American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, May 2005 Scholarship and the Liberal Arts College, The Future of Graduate Studies in English Conference, Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., October 2004 This strangest of theatres : Elizabeth Bishop s Florida, Ventriloquism, and the Other, American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, May 2004 This strangest of theatres : Elizabeth Bishop s Florida, Ventriloquism, and the Other, American Literature Association International Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop, Cancun, Mexico, December 2003 Defining Art in the 1930s: Bishop and Her Rebel Sisters at Vassar, Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, September 2003 Serpents in Paradise: Marianne Moore, Alyse Gregory and the Dilemma of Marriage, Marianne Moore Conference, Penn State University, March 2003 Why did you bring me here to see it? : Elizabeth Bishop s Monument and the Dialogues of Modernism, American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, March 2003 There is no easy way if you are to be a great artist : Reconsidering Moore s Influence on Bishop, American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, California, June 2002 Ordering a Box of Maniacs : Contexts of Desire in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Faculty Forum, Westminster College, September 2002 Archival Research and Literary Theory: Texts and Contexts, Honors Colloquium, Westminster College, October 2001
Hicok 6 Archival Research and Literary Theory: Texts and Contexts, Bleasby Colloquium, Westminster College, November 2001 "Constructing a Life: Women and Achievement in the 21 st Century," YWCA Woman of Achievement Awards, Clinton, Iowa, April 2000 Talk on Elizabeth Bishop, "About Books," WVIK (public radio station, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois), April 1999 "Marriage a very trivial object indeed," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1999 Talk on the value of teaching poetry in the schools, "About Books," WVIK, December 1998 "'To Work 'Lovingly : Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, 1905-1909, Bonaventure Honors Lecture, Mount St. Clare College, April 1997 Maternal Echoes, Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1997 A Flight of Fancy : Elizabeth Bishop, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community, Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, University of Toledo, February 1995 The Female Language of Love and Ritual : Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, American Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Minnesota, April 1994 Professional Conference Panels and Seminars Organized and/or chaired Co-director, Modern Poetry, Archives, and Estates, Seminar, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Pasadena, Fall 2016 Between Modernism and the Lyric, Panel Chair, Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2009 Utopia and Modernity, Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, November 2008 Responses to Elizabeth Bishop s Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box I and II, two panels organized for the Elizabeth Bishop Society, American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, May 2007 Women Poets in Cultural Context: Dickinson, Moore, and Plath, American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, May 2005
Hicok 7 Tropical Epistemologies, American Literature Association sponsored Elizabeth Bishop Symposium, Cancun, December 2003 The End of Monumental Modernism, American Literature Association Conference in Long Beach, Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Developments and Definitions, March 2003 Peer Reviewing Mosaic, 2018 Contemporary Literature, 2016 Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature, 2015 Contemporary Literature, 2014 Mosaic, 2011, 2009 PMLA, 2010 Selected Teaching Experience Graduate/Undergraduate Upper Level Seminars James Joyce s Ulysses Whitman and Dickinson Modernism Feminisms Upper Level Undergraduate Seminars English Capstone Freud and Psychoanalysis Sylvia Plath The Art of Confession: Post-War American Poets and the American Family Modern Poets Gender and Literature Romanticism London Novel (taught in London) Teaching English in the Secondary School (specific methods course for English Education Minors) Gateway Courses to the Major Introduction to Literary Studies: American Introduction to Literary Studies: British Interdisciplinary Courses and Clusters Designed and Taught for Non-Majors Honors 201: Ancient Greek Justice Designer Genes (literature/biology) Political Dreams (utopian/dystopian fictions/political science: modern ideologies) Enlightenment (18 th century literature/modern philosophy: Westminster in London) Ancient Greek Justice (Ancient Greek literature/philosophy; travel to Greece)
Hicok 8 The Sea (literature of the sea/oceanography) Honors Colloquium Other Undergraduate Non-Majors Courses Introduction to Poetry It s Monstrous Writing Honors Inquiry International Experience May 2013, 2015, 2017: Two-week student trip to Greece Fall 2011: Semester in London: Westminster in London Program Summer 2011: Travel in Brazil in Elizabeth Bishop s footsteps, including Rio de Janeiro, Samambaia, Ouro Prêto, the Amazon Summer 2010: NEH Summer Seminar in São Paulo, Brazil May 1999 and May 2001: Led two student trips to Italy 1984-1986: Lived and taught English as a Second Language in Venezuela 1986-1988: Lived and worked in London Selected Administrative Experience Director, Westminster s Four-Year, All-College Honors Program, 2014-present Reports to Vice President for Academic Affairs Responsibilities include: managing budget; developing new global, interdisciplinary core curriculum; faculty development; teaching in the program; recruiting; fundraising; liasing with faculty, division chairs, vice presidents, staff, honors student organization, admissions, residential life, alumni; coordinating honors boards and defenses; organizing co-curricular activities and travel; advising; website development and maintenance; participating in and promoting honors education at the national and regional levels through NCHC and NRHC Vice Chair of the Faculty and Associate Trustee, Westminster College, 2012-2014 Organizer, Bleasby Speakers Series, Westminster Department of English and Public Relations, 2002-2011 Chair, Faculty Development Committee, 2007-2008 Moderator, Two-Year Honors Program, 2004-2007 Co-Moderator, Two-Year Honors Program, 2002-2004 Additional Committee Service: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Operations, President s Planning, Budget, and Institutional Research Council,
Hicok 9 Institutional Review Board, Undergraduate Research Advisory Council, Faculty Development Consultancies Advisory Panel for Assessment, Department of English and Secondary Education Programs, Slippery Rock University, Spring 2006-2008 Reviewed curriculum and assessment plans for Slippery Rock s English Department Languages Reading and some conversational knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French Memberships MSA, MLA, Elizabeth Bishop Society