CURRICULUM VITAE Gillian Silverman University of Colorado Denver Department of English Campus Box 175, P.O. Box 173364 Denver, Colorado 80217 (303) 315.7843 gillian.silverman@ucdenver.edu Education Institution Date Degree Major/Program Duke University 1999 Ph.D. Program in Literature Brown University 1989 B.A., magna cum laude Literature and Society Professional Experience 2011-present Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver 2010-present Director, Women s and Gender Studies Program, University of Colorado Denver 2011-2012 Interim Director, Film Studies Program, University of Colorado Denver 2002-2010 Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver 1999-2002 Assistant Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York 1994-1999 Graduate Instructor, Department of English, Duke University 1990-1992 Assistant editor, Viking Penguin Press Books 2012 Silverman, Gillian. Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In Progress: Silverman, Gillian. Reading and the Sensorium, a single-authored book manuscript about the sensory experience of reading. Silverman, Gillian (co-written with Sarah Hagelin). Female Antiheroes in Contemporary US Television, a co-authored book manuscript about the political and feminist significance of the female antihero on TV. Refereed Publications 2018 Silverman, Gillian (co-written with Sarah Hagelin). Shame TV: Anti-aspirationalism in HBO s Girls. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, forthcoming. 2017 Silverman, Gillian (co-written with Sarah Hagelin). The Female Antihero and Police Power in FX's Justified. Feminist Media Studies 17.5: 851-865.
g.silverman 2 2016 Silverman, Gillian. Neurodiversity and the Revision of Book History. PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association 131.2: 307-323. 2009 Silverman, Gillian. The Best Circus in Town : Embodied Theatrics in the Lincoln- Douglas Debates. American Literary History 21.4: 757-787. 2005 Silverman, Gillian. The Polishing Attrition : Reading, Writing, and Renunciation in the Work of Susan Warner. Studies in American Fiction 33.1: 3-28. 2002 Silverman, Gillian. Sympathy and Its Vicissitudes. American Studies 43.3: 5-28. 2002 Silverman, Gillian. Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and Authorship in Melville s Pierre. American Literature 74.2: 345-372. Winner of the 2002 Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature. Book Chapters 2014 Silverman, Gillian. The Best Circus in Town. In Lincoln s Selected Writings, Norton Critical Edition. Ed. David S. Reynolds. New York: Norton Publishers, 467-475. Excerpt from article (cited above) partially rewritten for a college audience. In Process: Silverman, Gillian The Readerly Touch. In Future Reading. Ed. Leah Price and Matthew Rubery. New York: Oxford University Press. Under contract. Essay Reviews 2016 Silverman, Gillian. Religion and Social Transformation in Nineteenth Century America. American Literary History. 28.2: 393-402. Popular Publications 2017 Silverman, Gillian (co-written with Elissa Auther). Lifestyle Feminism Gets a Bad Rap, But It Can be a Great Gateway to Activism. Slate.com 16 May. 2012 Silverman, Gillian. It s Alive. The New York Times Book Review 12 August: 31. 2008 Silverman, Gillian. Revive Real Debates: The Famous Lincoln-Douglas Contest Was No Genteel Affair. Los Angeles Times 14 October: A23. 2003 Silverman, Gillian. Surprise Delivery. New York Times Magazine 2 November: 84. 2002 Silverman, Gillian. It s a Bird, It s a Plane, It s Plagiarism Buster. Newsweek 15 July: 12. 2002 Silverman, Gillian. Call Me Tippi. New York Observer 27 May: 5+.
g.silverman 3 Reprinted Articles 2008 Silverman, Gillian. It s a Bird, It s a Plane, It s Plagiarism Buster. The Confident Writer edited by Carol C. Kanar. Florence, KY: Cengage Learning, 155-157. Book Reviews 2016 Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century by Nancy Glazener, Oxford University Press. SHARP, forthcoming. 2016 The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America by Michael C. Cohen, University of Pennsylvania Press. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 8: 102-104. 2015 Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere by Michael Millner, New Hampshire University Press. American Studies, forthcoming. 2014 Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric by Faye Halpern, University of Iowa Press. Legacy 32.1: 135-137. 2013 The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature edited by Russ Castronovo, Oxford University Press. Nineteenth Century Literature 67.4: 550-553. 2012 Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 by James Machor, Johns Hopkins University Press. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 4: 67-70. 2002 The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature by Marianne Noble, Princeton University Press. Women s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 31.4: 327-539. 2002 The Only Efficient Instrument: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916 edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves, University of Iowa Press. American Studies 43. 2: 149-150. Encyclopedia Entries 1998 The Life of Helene Deutsch. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Vol 1. New York: Simon & Schuster, 228-230. Presentations at Professional Conferences 2017 The Haptics of Books, Biannual Conference of the Reception Studies Society, St. Paul, MN. 2016 Sewn: Text into Textile, Biannual Conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, State College, PA. 2016 (with Sarah Hagelin) Gendered Disability in 21 st Century US Television, Philosophia,
Denver, CO. g.silverman 4 2015 The Readerly Trace in Spike Jonze s film her, Biannual Conference of the Reception Studies Society, Bloomington, IN. 2014 Shiftless Readers in a Shifting World; or, Reading as (Really) Eating, Biannual Conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Chapel Hill, NC. 2013 Becoming Our Books: Reception from the Vantage Point of Neurodiversity, Biannual Conference of the Reception Studies Society, Milwaukee, WI. 2012 Beyond Interiority. Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Denver, CO. 2012 Dead Authors and Resistant Readers. Biannual Conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Berkeley, CA. 2012 Communing in the Library. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA. 2011 The Time of Reading. Biennnial Conference of the Reception Studies Society, Northwestern Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. 2011 Digital Reading and the End of the Deep Subject. Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Washington, DC. 2010 Speaking to Broad Audiences About Feminist Cultural Radicalism (with Elissa Auther). Annual Conference of the National Women s Studies Association, Denver, CO. 2010 Motor Maids (with Elissa Auther). Conference of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, Colorado Springs, CO. 2009 The Circulation of Mysterious Fluids: Sympathy and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Reader. Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA. 2009 Feminism Gone Public (with Elissa Auther). Annual Conference of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Denver, CO. 2008 Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Example of Colorado. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM. 2007 D is for Docile: Slavery and the Nineteenth-Century Southern Primer. Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, St. Paul, MN. 2007 Frederick Douglass and the Erotics of Literacy. International Conference on Narrative,
Washington, D.C. g.silverman 5 2005 The Traveling Voice: Zora Neale Hurston and the Great Migration of Stories. Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL. 2004 The Shifting Nature of Biography: Abraham Lincoln and the 1858 Senatorial Debates. Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder, CO. 2003 This is Not a War: The Ethics of Representing Violence. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT. 2001 Representing Terror in American Museums: Exhibits, Education, Exploitation. Field/Work: American Studies and Museum Studies In Conversation, City University of New York, New York, NY. 2001 Relating to Books: Reading and Intersubjectivity in American Sentimental Fiction. Annual Conference on Literature and Film, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 1998 Melville s Sentimentalism. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA. 1997 Housekeeper or Politician?: The Case of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. 1996 Estranged Bedfellows: Popular and Academic Feminisms. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. 1996 A Queer Future? Feminism in America. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 1995 Owning and Managing the Female Body in Alcott's Little Women. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, New York, NY. Invited Talks 2018 Reading and the Sensorium, for a week-long institute entitled Reading Now: Practices, Pedagogy, Profession at Ben Gurion University, Israel. 2017 Leaning In Is Not Enough (with Sarah Tyson). The Women s March on Denver. 150,000+ in attendance. 2016 Banned Books: The Example of Alison Bechdel s Fun Home, Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO. 2015 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity in the College English Classroom, CU Denver 2014 Freud, Redux, Mixed Taste Lecture Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
g.silverman 6 2013 Reading and Neurodiversity, University of Denver. 2013 Reading and Disability in the Digital Age, Mini-School for the Humanities, University of Colorado Denver 2011 Freud. Mixed Taste Lecture Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. 2011 Salon Discussion of Lynn Hershman s film W.A.R. Women s Art Revolution, Denver Film Society. 2008 From Lincoln-Douglas to Obama-McCain: 150 Years of Political Rhetoric. Colorado Center for Public Humanities. 2007 Marxism. The Lab for Art and Ideas at Belmar, Lakewood, CO. 2006 The Balancing Act. CU Women Succeeds Annual Conference, University of Colorado Denver. 2004 The Poetry of Emily Dickinson. The Lab for Art and Ideas at Belmar, Lakewood, CO. 2004 The Art of the Slave Narrative. The Lab for Art and Ideas at Belmar, Lakewood, CO. 2002 But What Good Will It Do Me? : Literary Studies, Criminal Justice, and the Search for Middle Ground. Portland State University, Portland, OR. Courses Taught at CU Denver ENGL 1600: Telling Tales: Narrative in Literature and Film UNHL 2755: First Year Honors and Leadership Seminar ENGL 2600: Great Works in British and American Literature ENGL 3001: Critical Writing ENGL/WGST 3400: Introduction to Women s Studies ENGL 3700: American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War ENGL/WGST 4306/5306: Survey of Feminist Thought ENGL/WGST 4308/5308: Contemporary Feminist Thought ENGL 4230/5230: The American Novel ENGL 4999: Senior Seminar: Literature and the Law ENGL 5100: Literary Research and Writing ENGL 5145: Literary and Rhetorical Theory ENGL 5650: Graduate survey of American Literature to the Civil War ENGL 6001: Critical Theory in Literature and Film ENGL 6016: Major Authors: The American Sentimental Tradition Teaching Outside the Classroom Institutional Initiatives
g.silverman 7 2007-present Co-Director, Feminism and Co.: Art, Sex, Politics at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Research, lecture, and curate programs for a weekly series every April dedicated to examining contemporary issues around women and gender. Invited to Guadalajara, Mexico to share best practices in directing Feminism & Co. with PAOS, an art institute dedicated to teaching, outreach, and social justice. 2003-2008 CU Denver liaison to the Mayor s Office for the One Book One Denver Project (OBOD) Periodically met with Mayor s office to plan initiatives for OBOD, a city-wide initiative to get all of Denver to read the same novel. Led discussion groups and round-tables on the OBOD selections for CU Denver faculty/staff/students, for residents of NW Denver, and for Denver city employees. Occasional member of selection committee for OBOD.