Joseph W. Childers joseph.childers@ucr.edu 100 University Office Building University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA (951) 827-4302 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Dean, Graduate Division, University of California Riverside, 2008- Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, 2004 - Associate Dean, Graduate Division, University of California Riverside, 1998-2003 Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, 1995-2004 Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, 1989-1995 DEGREES Ph.D. Columbia University, 1990 M. Phil. Columbia University, 1984 M.A. University of Arkansas, 1982 B.A., summa cum laude, University of Arkansas, 1980 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM Member, Academic Planning Council, 2009- Member, Council of Graduate Deans, 2008- Member, Subcommittee on Diversity Chair, Council of Graduate Deans Sub-Committee on Post-doctoral Labor Issues, 2008- Chair, Faculty Subcommittee, Chancellor Search Committee, UC, Riverside, 2007-08 Member, Chancellor Search Committee for UC, Riverside, 2007-08 Advisory Committee, Semester in London, Education Abroad Program, 2006 - Assembly Delegate, UC Academic Senate, 2005-2007 Chair, On-site Academic Program Review for Education Abroad Summer Programs at Pembroke College, Cambridge University & the University of Sussex, 2005 UC Council of Graduate Deans. 1998-2003 UC, System-wide Post-Doctoral Policy Committee, 2000-2003 UC System-wide Collective Bargaining Team (Academic Student Employee Contract initial and subsequent negotiations), 1998-2003. Hiring Committee, UC Lead Negotiator for ASE Contract, 1999 Associate Director, UC Dickens Project, 1998-2002
Childers 2 Faculty, UC Dickens Project 1989- Graduate Facilitator, UC Dickens Project, 1995-98 Graduate Seminar Faculty, UC Dickens Project, 1993, 96, 98, 2000, 03, 04, 05 UC, RIVERSIDE Chair, Athletic Director Search Committee, 2011 Chair, Task Force on International Affairs, 2010-2011 Member, Enrollment Management Committee, 2010- Chair (interim), 2011- Member, Palm Desert Task Force, 2009 Member, Academic Excellence Strategic Planning Committee, 2009 Chair, Administrative Redesign Committee on International Activities, 2009 Member, Palm Desert Campus Executive Committee, 2008- Co-Chair, Graduate Student Information System Implementation Committee, 2008- Member, UC Riverside Foundation Board of Trustees, 2008- Member, Graduate Council, 2008- Member, Capital Programs Advisory Committee, 2008- Member, Ethics and Compliance & Audit and Controls Committee, 2008- Member, Chancellor s Cabinet, 2008- Member, Dean s Council, 2008- Member, Committee to Reorganize Faculty Senate, 2007-08 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2007-08 Member, Search Committee, Dean of Summer Session, 2008 Co-Chair, Senate/Administrative Task Force on Summer Session, 2006- Convener: Seminar on the Global 19 th Century, 2006-2009 Member, Planning and Budget Committee, 2006 Chair, Rupert Costo Endowed Chair Search Committee, 2006-07 Member, Search Committee for Dean of Univ. Extension, 2006-7 Chair, Senate Task Force on Graduate Student Support, 2006-07 Chair, Special Task Force on Summer Session, 2005-06 Vice-Chair (elected), Academic Senate, 2004-2005 Academic Senate Liaison for Undergraduate Affairs, 2004-2005 Summer Session Steering Committee (for conversion of Summer Session to Full Academic Quarter), 2004-2005 Freshman Preparatory Writing Task Force, 2003-04 Enrollment Management Team, 2004-2005 Freshman Experience Task Force, 2004-2005 Task Force on Improving Conversion Factor, 2004-2005 Chancellor s Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, 2004-9 Chancellor s Executive Leadership Team, 2004-2005 UCR Senate Advisory Committee, 2004-2005; 2006- Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2004- Basic Writing Task Force, 2003-2004 Graduate Dean Search Committee, 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, 2002-05, Chair 2005 Committee on Committees (elected), 2003-04 Lead Academic Negotiator, Local Bargaining of ASE Contract, 1998-2003.
Childers 3 Chancellor s Committee on the Status of Women in the Academy, 1998-2000 Associate Director, Center for Ideas and Society, 1995-98 Graduate Council, 1995-98 Vice-Chair, Graduate Council, 1997-98 Chair, Internal Graduate Review Committee, 1997 Executive Vice Chancellor s Task Force on Community Outreach, 1997 Chair of Undergraduate Studies, English, 1995-97; 2004- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE Associate Editor, ReThinking Marxism, 2009- Editorial Board, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 2006- Editorial Board, Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), 2003- Review Editor, ReThinking Marxism, 2002- Editorial Board, ReThinking Marxism, 2001- North American Victorian Studies Association, 2001- Association for Economic and Social Analysis 2000- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant Selection Committee, 1999-2000; 2005; 2008 Western Humanities Conference Governing Board, 1995-1999 Modern Language Association, 1984- Delegate, Modern Language Association Assembly, 1996-1999 Editor, Critical Texts: A Review of Theory and Criticism, 1983-92 Referee for the following journals: Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Institute Journal, Cultural Critique, ReThinking Marxism, Publications of the Modern Language Association, Studies in the Novel, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, Literature in Transition, Mosaic, Criticism, Nineteenth- Century Contexts Referee for the following academic presses: Cambridge Univ. Press, Oxford Univ. Press, Duke Univ. Press, the University of Virginia Press, Stanford Univ. Press, Routledge, Verso, Ohio State Univ. Press, Columbia Univ. Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Blackwell, University of California Press. Ohio Univ. Press. ACADEMIC HONORS Mellon Fellowship (UCR) for The Global 19 th Century 2006-09 UCR Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001 Hewlett Foundation Fellow, 2000 NEH Summer Fellowship, 1995 Fellow, University of California, Riverside Center for Ideas and Society :1994; 1999, 2005 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship: 1992 University of California Regents Fellow: 1994-95 UC, Career Development Award: 1991-92
Childers 4 Columbia University President's Fellow: 1982-83; 88-89 University of Arkansas Graduate Writing Award, 1981, 1982 University of Arkansas Graduate Research Award, 1981-82 Phi Beta Kappa: 1980 PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY BOOK-LENGTH WORKS: Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics (ed. with Stephen Cullenberg and Jack Amariglio). London: Routledge 2008. Victorian Prism: The Great Exhibition and Its Legacies (ed. with James Buzard and Eileen Gillooly). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, June 2007. Victorian Ethnographies. Special Issue of Victorian Studies. co-edited, with James Buzard, 1999. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. (co-author and general editor with Gary Hentzi) Columbia UP, 1995. Translated into Japanese, 1998. Translated into Korean, 1999; new Korean translation, 2005. Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. CURRENT PROJECTS: The Empire Within: Minority Discourse and Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century England. City Men: Masculine Space in Victorian London New edition of The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: Social Class and the Victorian Novel. Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (new edition). Ed. Deirdre David. Cambridge and New York: Forthcoming, 2011. Editor s Introduction. ReThinking Marxism. 22.3 Special issue on The Common and Forms of the Commune. 2010. California Dreaming, Kritik. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2010/02/15-ways-to-takeyour-furloughvoluntary_12.html. February, 2010. So this is Christmas. In Contemporary Dickens. Ed. Deirdre David and Eileen Gillooly. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2009. 113-130.
Childers 5 Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics with Jack Amariglio and Stephen Cullenberg in Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics. Ed. Jack Amariglio, Joseph Childers, Stephen Cullenberg. London: Routledge, 2008. 3-25. Speculating with Difference: Gambling with Value with Stephen Cullenberg in Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics. Ed. Jack Amariglio, Joseph Childers, Stephen Cullenberg. London: Routledge, 2008. 82-91. Refractions and Reflections, the Crystal Palace and its Legacies with James Buzard and Eileen Gillooly in Victorian Prism. Ed. Buzard, Gillooly, Childers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 1-29. Peering Back: Colonials and Exhibitions in Victorian Prism. Ed. Buzard, Gillooly, Childers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 203-216. Political Dickens in Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies. Ed. Robert Patten and John Bowen. London: Palgrave Press, 2006. 198-216. "Of Prison Notebooks and the Restoration of an Archive," ReThinking Marxism 18(2): 9-15; January 2006. "Stranded at a Distance." ReThinking Marxism. 17(2): 257-59. (2005), Foreign Matter in Filth. Ed. William Cohen and Ryan Johnson. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pps. 201-224. "Outside Looking In: Colonial, Immigrants, and the Pleasure of the Archive." Victorian Studies. 46(2):297-308. 2004 Winter. "Victorian Theories of the Novel." A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Ed. Patrick Brantlinger and William Thesing. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pps. 406-424. with Townsend Carr and Regna Meenk. "White Men Can't... (De)centering Authority and Jacking into Phallic Economies in Gibson's Count Zero." Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy. Eds. George Slusser and Gary Westfahl. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Pps. 151-160. "Industrial Culture and the Victorian Novel." Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Ed. Deirdre David. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP: 2001. Pps. 77-96. "The Empire at Home." Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination. H.M. Daleski and Murray Baumgarten, eds. New York: AMS Press, 1998. Pps. 215-226. With James Buzard, Introduction to Victorian Ethnographies. Victorian Studies. 41(3): 351-54. 1998 Spring. Year s Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies. Studies in English Literature, 38(4):761-825. 1998 Autumn.
Childers 6 "Year's Work in Dickens Studies, 1995." Dickens Studies Annual, 1996 (appeared 1997). "Nicholas Nickelby's Problem of Doux Commerce." Dickens Studies Annual, 25: 49-66, 1995. "Feminine Hygiene: Women in Edwin Chadwick's Sanitation Report." Prose Studies. (August 1994): 17.2: 22-36. "Observation and Representation: Mr. Chadwick Writes the Poor. Victorian Studies. (Spring 1994): 37.3:23-50 "The Victorian Period." Vol. I. The Reader's Advisor, 14th edition. David Kastan, ed. Series ed. Marion Sader. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1994. 309-411. "A Matter of Time: A Textual History of W.D. Howells' Annie Kilburn." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 83.4, 503-519. "History, Totality, Opposition: The New Historicism and Little Dorrit." Dickens Quarterly 4.4, (1989), 150-58. "Change, Change, Change: Postmodernism and the Telos of Literary Discourse." The Journal of Literary Criticism. 4.2 (1987, appeared 1989). 47-60. "Politics as Interpretation: 'Progress,' Language, Party in Early Victorian England." CLIO, 17.1 (1987), 65-80. "Character and Context: The Paradox of the Family Myth in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding." Essays in Literature, 14.2 (1987), 241-250. "Opposing the Paradigm: The Example of Blake." The Dalhousie Review, 66.3 (1987), 301-310. "Carlyle's Past and Present, History, and a Question of Hermeneutics." CLIO, 13.3 (1984), 247-58. "Theory and Consequences: An Interview with Stanley Fish, Part I & II." Critical Texts, 2.1&2 1984), 1-6; 18-21. "Narrative Discourse, 'Voice,' and Melmoth the Wanderer." Structuralist Review, 2.3 (1984), 124-36. REVIEWS Postcolonialism Meets Economics, edited by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela. ReThinking Marxism. 21(4): 650-654. October 2009. Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination by Sally Ledger. RAVON: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. No. 53, February 2009. http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Childers 7 Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David F. Ruccio. New York: Routledge, 2001. ReThinking Marxism 18(2): 341-44. 2006 April. Adorno: A Critical Reader. Edited by Nigel Gibson and Andrew Rubin. ReThinking Marxism. 15(4): 568. 2003 October. Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel: Readings in Language and Ideology, by Patricia Ingham. Victorian Studies. 45(4): 770-71. 2003 Summer. Victorian Writing About Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World, by Elaine Freedgood. Victorian Studies. 45(3): 569-71. 2003 Spring. The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: the Market, the Individual, and Communal Life by Josephine Guy. Victorian Studies. 41(2): 200-301. 1998 Winter. Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things by Robert Newsom; Bleak House: An Introduction to the Variety of Criticism by Jeremy Hawthorn; The Companion to Bleak House by Susan Shatto. Dickens Quarterly 7(4): 395-98. 1990. "Figuring George Eliot." Critical Texts. 5(3): 36-40. 1988. History and Criticism by Dominick La Capra. Critical Texts. 3(3): 22-25. 1986. PRESENTATIONS (invited) The Other Side of Spectacle: England and the English through Indian Eyes. International Conference on Travel Literature and India. University of Delhi, Delhi, India. February 2007. Peering Back: Colonials and Exhibitions. UC, Riverside Department of Dance History Colloquium. UC, Riverside. January, 2007 The Other Side of Spectacle: England and the English through Indian Eyes. Mellon Group on the Global 19 th Century. University of California, Riverside. November 2006. Nicholas Nickelby, Violence, and the Urbane. Urbanism, Urbanity, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. University of California, Santa Cruz. August, 2006. Plenary Speaker. Seminar on The Empire Within. Victorian Studies Cluster of the British Studies Seminar. University of California, Berkeley. April 11, 2006. Foreign Matter: Imperial Filth. Victorian Studies Seminar. State University of New York, Binghamton, NY. April 2002. Imperial Dirt. Opening Speaker. Dickens Universe, U.C. Dickens Project. UC Santa Cruz, August, 2000. Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Minority Discourse. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May, 1998
Childers 8 Immigration and Minority Discourse in Victorian England. Rice University. Houston, TX. April, 1997. So this is Christmas? Commodifying the Yuletide in Dickens s Christmas Books. Dickens Project Plenary Speaker. UC, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA August, 1996. "The Malay at the Door, and Other Subjects." Victorian Ethnography and the Construction of the Other. City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY. May 6, 1994. "Baudrillard Through the Looking Glass: Cyberpunk and the Decentering of Authority." Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside. April 15-17, 1994. "Subjectivity and Immigration in 19th-Century England." University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Cultural Studies, Jan 29, 1994. "Uncle Ralph, the Cheerybles, and Nicholas Nickelby's Problem of Doux Commerce." Invited Speaker. Dickens Universe. University of California, Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. August, 1992. "A Home Which is Not One: Cultural Identity and Oppositional Politics in Victorian Immigrant Communities." Homes and Homelessness in Dickens and the Victorian Imagination. Hebrew University. Jerusalem, Israel. June, 1992. "England, Englishness, and Otherness: Immigrant Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Britain." University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, CA. April, 1992. (selected) The Will to Cosmopolitanism: T.N. Mukharji and the Powers of Distance. The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond. University College, Cork. Cork, Ireland. November 2005. The Uses of the Orient : George Eliot s Felix Holt. North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. October, 2004 Peering Back: Colonials and Exhibitions, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. St. Louis, MO. March, 2004 "A View from Below: Responding to Bombay London New York," Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2003. "Letters, Hegemony, and the Gramsci Archive," Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November, 2003. "The Empire Looks Back: Colonials and Exhibitions," Dust and Monuments Conference, Regent's College, London, England, July 2003.
Childers 9 "Outside Looking In: Colonials, Immigrants, and the Pleasure of the Archive, North American Victorian Studies Association, Inaugural Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana. October, 2003. When there is no 'In Between': Colonial Visitors in Victorian England. International Conference on BOUNDARIES. University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. July 4-7, 2002. A Place in the Fog: Autoethnography and Colonial Visitors to Victorian England. South Asian Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison WI. October, 2002 "Displaying the Empire, Narrating the Colonial and Indian Exhibition," International Conference on Narrative. University of California, Berkeley, CA. May, 2002 Use, Value, Aesthetics: Gambling with Difference/Speculating with Value with Stephen Cullenberg. Value and Aesthetics Conference. U.C., Riverside, Riverside, CA. June 2001. Mr. Mukharji Goes to London. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December, 2000. Film, Realism, and the Victorians. International Conference on Narrative. Dartmouth University, Hanorver, N.H. May, 1999. Begging to Differ: Spivak s Marx. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. December, 1998. Not Bad for an Amphibian : The Muppets and Victoriana. Aesthetics and Difference Conference. University of California, Riverside. October, 1998. Re-Valuing Marx with Stephen Cullenberg. Society for Critical Exchange. Conference on Culture and Economics; Exeter University, Exeter, U.K. July 1998. Power and Whiteness. Respondent to Plenary Speaker Oliva Espin. UC, Riverside Conference on Whiteness. May, 1998. The Place of Assimilation in Victorian London. Nineteenth-Century Geographies. Rice University, Houston, TX, April 1998. From the East-End to Maida Vale: Class in Late 19 th -Century Anglo Jewry. Modern Language Association of America. Toronto, Canada.. December, 1998. Film Adaptations, Victoriana, and the Fetish for the Real Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, MN. November, 1996. George Eliot s Significant Other. Conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. May, 1996. Columbus, Ohio. Celebrating Empire: Sunity Devee and the Golden Jubilee. Northeast Victorian Studies Association. May 1996, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA. What Happens When Girls Fiddle? Response Paper. West Coast British Studies Conference, March, 1996, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Childers 10 New Uses of the Past. Response Paper and Session Chair, Western Humanities Conference, October 1995, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Respondent. "Profession 2000." Modern Language Association Convention. San Diego, CA. January 30, 1994. "An Indian Princess in Queen Victoria's Court." Western Conference on British Studies. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. October 29, 1994. "Feminine Hygiene: Women in Edwin Chadwick's Sanitation Report." UC Dickens Project Conference on Victorian Work. UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. August 6, 1994. "Reverse Colonization and the Construction of Englishness." 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. April 28-May 1, 1994. "Sweeping it Under the Rug: Working Class Women and Unpaid Labor." Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, April 21-22, 1994. "'Refusing the Solving Name': The Contingencies of Theorizing Change," International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Université de Montréal. Montreal, Canada. May 1991. "Detection and Surveillance in Alton Locke: The Problem of Morality," The International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. April 1990. "Alton Locke, Social Control, and the Reproduction of Moral Order," Pacific Coast British Studies Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. March 1990 "Correct Observation, Reliable Representation, and the Case of the Victorian Working Class," Western Conference on British Studies, University of Texas. Austin, TX. October, 1989. "No Gaze Averted: Dickens, Chadwick, and the Report on the Sanitary Condition," Dickens Project Conference on Dickens and Sentimentality, University of California, Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. August, 1989. "'Do Not Forget': The New Historicism and the Example of Little Dorrit," Modern Language Association Convention. New Orleans, LA. December, 1988. "Blake and the Tactics of Change," Conference on The Politics of Literary Adulation, West Chester University. West Chester, PA. April 1985. "Self, Family, Other in the Works of Eudora Welty," The Conference on Twentieth Century Literature, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. Feb. 1985.