ELIZABETH A. WAY Departments of English and Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Wake Forest University P. O. Box 7365 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109 Office: (336) 758-4174 Cell: (336) 575-9164 wayea@wfu.edu http://college.wfu.edu/english/about-us/faculty/elizabeth-way/ http://wfu.academia.edu/elizabethway Academic Appointments Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Women s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Wake Forest University, 2016-Present. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University, 2015-16. Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University, 2011-15. Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University, 2006-07, 2010. Robert E. Park Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 2003-04. Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 1996-2002. Education Ph.D., English, August 2003, University of Georgia. Dissertation: Familiarizing the Foreign: Solitary Women and the Cultivation of Domesticity in British Romantic Literature, 1790-1830. Directors: Professors Roxanne Eberle and Anne Williams. M.A., English Literary Studies, December 1994, Durham University, England. Thesis: Pictorialism and the Mind: William Wordsworth s Rejection of the Picturesque in An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. Director: Professor J. R. Watson. Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women s and Gender Studies, December 2007, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. B.A., English, May 1993, magna cum laude, Wake Forest University. Book Romantic Compositions: A Poetics of Authority and Sincerity in Women s Writing, 1790-1837 My book proposes a new consideration of the intersections of gender and genre within literary Romanticism to include multigeneric works by women writers as a central form in the period, to present a poetics of authority in the writings of several major Romantic women writers whose representations of authenticity and sincerity hinge on these generic hybrid constructs, and to reconsider the poiesis of authority and authorship through these creative practices that foreground the role of the Unheimlich to such accounts. Writers and their works considered in this study include: Helen Maria Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Emily Brontë. Publications Stuck through with a pin, and beautifully preserved : Curating the Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Brenda Ayres. New York: Palgrave, 2017. Working Matters: Sculpture, Slavery, and the Sonnet in Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Hiram Powers Greek Slave. Victorians Institute Journal s Digital Annex 43 (2015). Teaching Mary Seacole in a First-Year Writing Seminar. Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Ed. Supriya M. Nair. Options for Teaching Series. New York: MLA, 2012. 380-404. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 305 (March 2015): 306-16. Review, Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Language, by Donald S. Hair, Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2015. Victorians Institute Journal 43 (2015): 255-60.
Way 2 Mary Seacole. Volume Advisor. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Cengage Learning. Vol. 305 (March 2015): 193-326. Review, Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830, by Frederick Burwick, New York: Palgrave, 2011 for Romanticism 20.2 (July 2014): 200-02. Review, Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture, by L. Andrew Cooper, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010 for Gothic Studies 15.2 (November 2013): 114-16. Works Forthcoming The Science of Self/Reading in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2017). Review, That Line of Darkness: The Shadow of Dracula and the Great War, by Robert A. Douglas, Kingston, Ontario: Encompass, 2011. Gothic Studies. Works in Progress Excavating Tintern Abbey. (Under revision for resubmission to Romanticism) Co-Editor, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) by Mary Godwin Shelley. With Roxanne Eberle and Nicole Reynolds. E- edition for Romantic Circles. (Initial query accepted; proposal in preparation) Digital Humanities Project Editor, The Letters, by William Blake. Blake Digital Text Project. Maintained by Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia. 1996-98. http://www.english.uga.edu/~nhilton/wblake/home1.html Research and Teaching Interests Primary fields: 18 th - and 19 th -Century British Literature and Culture and Women s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Other interests: The Global Nineteenth Century; Poetics and Genre Studies; The Gothic; Literature and Science Studies; Women Writers; Digital Humanities; Travel Writing; Composition. Courses Taught Wake Forest University LBS 720: The World and Work of the Brontës. Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. (upcoming Fall 2017) LBS 720: American Gothic: Then and Now. Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. (2016) From Wollstonecraft to Woolf: Feminism in the United States of America and Great Britain, 1792-1929. Lifelong Learning Program. (upcoming Summer 2017) Madmen, Medicine, and Monsters: The Science of Gothic Fiction. Lifelong Learning Program. (2016) ENG 651/351: Studies in Romanticism: Gender and the Global Gothic. (2014) ENG 340/WGS 377: Studies in Women and Literature: World. Class. Women. (2015) ENG 185: Studies in Global Literature: World. Class. Women. (2015) ENG 165: Studies in British Literature: Innocence and Experience in British Literature. (2012 15) ENG 165: Studies in British Literature: Dreams, Vision(s), and the British Imagination. (2010) ENG 160: Introduction to British Literature. (2007, 2010) ENG 150: Literature Interprets the World: Telling Conversations: The Twice-Told Tale (2016) ENG 150: Literature Interprets the World: Fearful Symmetry: Life, Art, and the Shape of Our Nightmares. (2011, 2012) ENG 111 / WRI 111: First-Year Writing Seminar: Science / Fiction(s). (2013, 2014) ENG 111: First-Year Writing Seminar: Novel Cartographies: Fact, Fiction, and Mapping One s Journeys. (2011, 2012) ENG 111: First-Year Writing Seminar: Men, Women, and Gendered Rhetoric. (2006) WGS 622/221: Introduction to Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (2015-Present)
WGS 101: Window on Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (2016) FYS 100: First-Year Seminar: The Many Lives of Frankenstein: 200 Years of Monstrosity (2017) Way 3 University of Georgia ENGL 3000: Introduction to English Studies, upper level, large lecture section. Teaching Assistant to Professor Roxanne Eberle. (2001) ENGL 2320H: Honors Survey of English Literature Since 1700. Park Fellow. (2003) ENGL 2320: Survey of English Literature Since 1700. Park Fellow. (2003-04) ENGL 2320: Survey of English Literature Since 1700, large lecture section. Teaching Assistant to Professor Tricia Lootens. (2000) ENGL 231: Survey of English Literature to 1700. Instructor. (1997) ENGL 231: Survey of English Literature to 1700, large lecture section. Teaching Assistant to Professor Christy Desmet. (1997) ENGL 1102: English Composition and Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction. Instructor and Park Fellow. (1999-2004) ENGL 1101: English Composition, Computer Assisted Instruction. (1998) ENGL 102: English Composition and Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction. (1998) ENGL 101: English Composition, Regular and Computer Assisted Instruction. (1996-97) RGTE 0199: Regents Review of Written English, University of Georgia Writing Center. Teaching Assistant to Professor David Payne. (1999) Alt-Academy Writing Center Tutor, Wake Forest University, 2005-06, 2007-09, 2010. Tutor of literature, composition, and Georgia Regents Examination preparation, University of Georgia Writing Center, 1999. Tutor of literature, composition, and ESL students, University of Georgia Tutorial Program, 1995-96. Awards and Honors Dean s Faculty Travel Award to Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil Conference in Sheffield, England, Wake Forest University, 2016. Apple Pie Professor Award, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Wake Forest University, 2014. William Archie Research Grant for travel to Grasmere, England and Tintern, Wales, Wake Forest University, 2012. Provost Fund for Faculty Travel Award for travel to 41 st Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere, England, Wake Forest University, 2012. Travel Grants for Academic Conferences, English Department, Wake Forest University, 2011, 2012. Research and Publication Fund Award for image fees for Mary Seacole chapter in Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Wake Forest University, 2010. Sally and Alan Cone Scholarship, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2006. Robert E. Park Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 2003-04. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award, University of Georgia, 2002-03. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, 2000. Member, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, University of Georgia, 2000-03. Travel Grants for Academic Conferences, English Department and University of Georgia, 1995, 1996, 2001. Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, Durham University, England, 1993-94. Magna cum laude graduate, Wake Forest University, 1993. Professional Activities Co-organizer, 6 th Annual Student Research Symposium on Gender and Sexuality: Feminist Solidarities: Challenging Systems of Oppression and Privilege. Wake Forest University. 15 March 2017. (upcoming) Co-organizer, 5 th Annual Student Research Symposium on Gender and Sexuality: Feminist Intersectionalities: Systemic Injustice and Social Inequality, Wake Forest University. 16 March 2016. Co-organizer, Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Film Club. Wake Forest University, Fall 2015.
Way 4 Director, Interdisciplinary 18 th -Century Symposium: Horace Walpole s Gothic Operas. Student-Faculty Performance and Invited Speaker, Professor Emeritus Anne Williams (U of Georgia); Wake Forest University, 7-8 April 2014. Seminar Participant, Romantic Science and the Romantic Imagination. Led by Professor Richard C. Sha, American University. West Virginia University 2013 Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies. 6-9 June 2013. Member, The Humanities Institute, Faculty Seminar: Re-Writing Exile: Women, the Arts, and Technologies, Professors Wanda Balzano and Lynn Book, Co-Conveners. Wake Forest University, 2013-14. Member, The Humanities Institute, Faculty Seminar: Aesthetics and Politics, Professor Omaar Hena, Convener. Wake Forest University, 2013. Member, The Humanities Institute, 18 th -Century Faculty Seminar: Poverty and Progress in the Eighteenth Century, Professor Heather Welland, Convener. Wake Forest University, 2012-13. Member, The Humanities Institute, 18 th -Century Faculty Seminar: Science and the Arts in the 18 th Century, Professor Jessica Richard, Convener. Wake Forest University, 2011-12. Member, Modern Language Association, 2002-Present. Member, International Gothic Association, 2015-Present. Member, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2011. Member, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2011-Present. Member, International Conference on Romanticism, 2011. Member, British Women Writers Association, 1996-Present. Co-Director, 12th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Georgia, March 2004. Keynote speakers: Susan Gubar, Yopie Prins, and Susan J. Wolfson. President, English Graduate Organization, University of Georgia, 2001-02. Volunteer and Presenter, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Wake Forest University, March 2011. Grader, English Composition Placement Examinations, 2000, 2002. Grader, Georgia Regents Examinations, 1998-2004. Chair, English Composition Final Examination Committee, University of Georgia, 1998, 2000. Member, English Composition Final Examination Committee, University of Georgia, 1997. Student Supervision Adviser, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Thesis, Latoya Lucas, "Female Polytrauma, Combat Veterans, and Their Reintegration Challenges." Wake Forest University, 2016-17. Adviser, Senior Honors English Thesis by Elizabeth Hickson, The Dissolution of Space in Anne Sexton s To Bedlam and Part Way Back and Sylvia Plath s Ariel, Wake Forest University, 2015-16. Reader, Senior Honors English Thesis by Kathleen Darling, A Female Renaissance through Utopian Narratives in Margaret Cavendish's A Blazing World, Wake Forest University, 2016. Adviser, Senior Honors English Thesis by Elena Dolman, Patriarchy Explicated and Ultimately Undermined in Perrault s Bluebeard, Angela Carter s The Bloody Chamber, and Margaret Atwood s Bluebeard s Egg. Wake Forest University, 2015. Reader, Master of Arts in English Thesis by Rachel Glasser, Projections of the Not-Me : Redemptive Possibilities of the Gothic within Wuthering Heights and Beloved. Wake Forest University, 2014-15. First-Year Adviser, Wake Forest University, 2014-15; 2016-17. Faculty Adviser, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Wake Forest University, 2014-Present. Lower Division Adviser, Wake Forest University, 2012-2014, 2015-2016. Select Conference Papers: International Venues As a true history : The Science of Self/Reading in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil Conference. Sheffield, England, 24-27 June 2016. The Novel Dracula; or, How the Count Won t be Shorthanded. 2015 International Gothic Association Conference. Vancouver, Canada, 28 July 1 August, 2015.
Way 5 Re-viewing Tintern Abbey. 41 st Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, England, 30 July 3 August 2012. Select Conference Papers: United States Venues Stuck through with a pin, and beautifully preserved : Curating the Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Generations : Annual 18 th - and 19 th -Century British Women Writers Conference 2017. Chapel Hill, NC, 21-24 June 2017. The remotest of the Orkneys : Scotland, Enlightenment Science, and M/Other Nature s Monstrous Peripheries in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Making a Scene : Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference 2016. Athens, GA, 2-5 June 2016. Working Matters: Sculpture, Slavery, and the Sonnet in Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Hiram Powers Greek Slave. Victorians Institute Conference 2015. Spartanburg, SC, 2-3 October 2015. Narrating Line[s] of Connection in Helen Maria Williams's Letters Written in France in the Summer of 1790. 43 rd Annual 18 th - and 19 th -Century British Women Writers Conference. New York, NY, 25-27 June 2015. Listen to my tale : Balladry and Romantic Entanglements in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Organizing Romanticisms: 22 nd Annual Conference of The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Washington, D. C., 10-13 July 2014. Devout Poetics and Patriotic Aesthetics in Charlotte Smith s The Emigrants. Romanticism and Independence: The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference, Park City, Utah, 11-14 August 2011. The Science of Self/Reading: Ontological Experimentations in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2011 Annual Meeting, Wake Forest University, 3-5 March 2011. I would leave enshrined something immortal of my heart and mind : The Aesthetics of the Heart(h) in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans. The Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry: The Victorians Institute 2005 Annual Meeting, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1-2 April 2005. Charlotte Smith s Solitary Poetics: Domestic Exile in The Emigrants. Third Annual Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference, Athens, Georgia, 4-5 April, 2003. Landscapes of Folly: Nature and Money in Charlotte Smith s The Young Philosopher. 9th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, 15-17 March 2001. And thus difficult [...] is the blameless use of riches! : Frances Burney s Cecilia as an Indulgent Consumer of Useless Commodities. 4th Annual American Conference on Romanticism, Athens, Georgia, 22-25 January 1998. An Interrogation of the Solitary in the Landscapes of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth. Gendering Romantic Poetry Seminar of the 1996 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 14-16 November 1996. Common sense stares me in the face, and my feelings even at this instance, alas! confute my system : Maria Edgeworth s Belinda as a Student of Cold Reason and Duplicitous Staging. Aphra Behn Society Conference, Athens, Georgia, 24-26 October 1996. Tranquil seclusion I have vainly sought : The Frustrated Landscapes of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth in The Emigrants and Descriptive Sketches. 3rd Annual National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 12-14 April 1996.
Way 6 Of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth : Dreams as Religious Realities in Olive Schreiner s The Story of an African Farm. 5th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Columbia, South Carolina, 21-23 March 1996. Painting Words: The Representations of Fact and Thought in the Work of William Wordsworth and John Constable. 2nd Annual American Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 21-24 September 1995. Thus I must look only to myself. Subjugating Instruction for the Sake of Gender: Teacher-Student Relationships in Charlotte Brontë s Villette. 1st Annual University of Georgia Graduate Student Forum Promoting Interdisciplinary Interaction, Athens, Georgia, 11 May 1995. Invited Lectures Speaker, The Waiting Room, for Talkback post-show discussion. Wake Forest University Theater Production. Invited by Jay Buchanan, Student Dramaturg/Historian for the event. 21 February 2016. Interview, Episode 5: Gothic Literature, Humanities Viewpoints: A Podcast from the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, 31 October 2014. http://humanitiesinstitute.wfu.edu/podcast. Speaker, Narrative Dwellings: The Poetics of Home and Exile in Romantic Women s Writing, 1790-1825; Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, Wake Forest University, 28 February 2013. Speaker, Shipwrecked! and Victorian Travel Writing. Guest Speaker, Insight Speaker Series. Triad Stage, Greensboro, NC. Invited by Bryan Conger, Triad Stage Artistic Associate. October 2012. Speaker, The World of the Play. 18 th -Century Humanities Institute Faculty Seminar Presentation. Pre-Show Event for Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight, Wake Forest University Theater Production. Invited by Professor and Director Sharon Andrews, April 2012. Speaker, The Poetics of Revolution and Domesticity in British Romanticism. British Romantic Writing Forum. University of Georgia. Invited by Professor Anne Williams. October 2002. Speaker, Landscapes of Folly: Nature and Money in Charlotte Smith s The Young Philosopher. Women Writers Interest Group, University of Georgia. Invited by Professor Fran Teague. March 2001. Speaker, Male and Female Gothic in The Mysteries of Udolpho. Survey of English Literature since 1700, University of Georgia. Invited by Professor Tricia Lootens. August 2000. Speaker, Aphra Behn s Oroonoko: Romance or Imperialist Narrative? Survey of English Literature to 1700, University of Georgia. Invited by Professor Christy Desmet. February 1997. Roundtable Seminars Thesis Topic Selection and Research. Graduate Symposium Roundtable, Wake Forest University. Invited by Professor Eric Wilson. November 2010. Course and Syllabus Design. Graduate Symposium Roundtable, Wake Forest University. Invited by Professor Eric Wilson. September 2010. How to Write and Complete a Dissertation Successfully. Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society Roundtable. University of Georgia. Invited by Valerie Morrison, President. November 2003.
Way 7 References Available upon request.