MOLLY HALL University of Rhode Island Department of English Swan Hall [email protected] (617) 460-6162 EDUCATION University of Rhode Island, Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature, Expected 2018 University of New Hampshire, Master of Arts in English Literature, 2014, Thesis: “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Modernist Fantasy, Ecology, Trauma, and the Great War” Cambridge College, Master of Education, 2010 University of Massachusetts, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, cum laude, 2007 TEACHING POSITIONS Teaching Assistant, University of New Hampshire, August 2013-May 2014 Created and implemented syllabi and lesson plans for First-Year Writing courses. Graded student papers and conferenced with students individually on strategies for improving their writing. Courses Independently Designed and Taught: ENGL 401: First-Year Writing, (Fall 2013): Required writing-intensive course for first-year students at the University of New Hampshire teaching the academic standards of writing, analysis, and research. ENGL 401: Special Topics in First Year Writing: Ecology and Subjectivity, (Spring 2014): Required writing-intensive course for first-year students at the University of New Hampshire using ecocriticism to inform a cultural studies approach to analysis and writing. ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW “The Trauma of Beloved: the Displaced Subject of American Slavery,” under review for publication in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS “Comic Books in the Classroom, Not Such a Comical Idea Anymore: The Graphic Novel in Humane Literary Studies Curricula,” Comic Arts Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 2012 “Ethical Animal Aesthetics and Speciesism in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of An African Farm,” Forms of Life: Reading Humans, Animals, and Machines in a Posthuman World, University of Alabama Graduate Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 2012 “Comic Books in the Classroom, Not Such a Comical Idea Anymore: The Graphic Novel in Humane Literary Studies Curricula,” University of New Hampshire Graduate Research Conference, Durham, NH, April 2012 British Eighteenth Century Literature, Session Chair and Presenter, “Wollstonecraft--Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature of the Feminine and a Gendered Nature,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, WA, October 2013 “Literary Activism in Academia: Ecocriticism’s Role in Reviving the Relevancy of Literary Studies,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2014 “Wollstonecraft---Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature of the Feminine and a Gendered Nature,” University of New Hampshire Graduate Research Conference, Durham, NH, April 2014 “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Modernist Fantasy, Ecology, Trauma, and the Great War,” Mythcon 45: Where Fantasy Fits, Norton, MA, August 2014 ACADEMIC HONORS Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Rhode Island, Awarded 2014 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of New Hampshire, Awarded 2013 Full Tuition Scholarship, University of New Hampshire, Awarded 2012 Recognition of Excellence in English, Educational Testing Service, Awarded 2009 Eugene M. Lang Scholarship, New School University, Awarded 2003 Regis College Book Award, Awarded 2002 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization, Co-Chair of Professionalization, 2013-2014 Modern Language Association, Member North East Modern Language Association, Member Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Member Mythopoeic Society, Member Animals and Society Institute, Member NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Social Media Marketing Manager, Café Manager, and Catering Sous Chef, Tidewater Catering Group, 2011 Social Media post creation; editing and proofreading of contracts, proposals, and menus; planned and supervised events, customer service, clerical duties, food service preparation and maintenance, product ordering, menu development, bartending, employee supervision of small staff. Substitute Teacher, Bangor School System, 2010 Supervised junior high school classrooms, implemented lesson plans. Prep Cook and Delivery Driver, Pizzeria Roma, 2008 Customer service, food service preparation and maintenance, delivery services. Prep Cook and Barista, Soleil Café and Catering, 2004 Customer service, clerical duties, food service preparation and maintenance. Short Order Cook and Baker, Magnificent Muffin and Bagel Shoppe, 2000 Customer service, clerical duties, food service preparation and maintenance. ACADEMIC REFERENCES Petar Ramadanovic, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, e-mail: [email protected] office phone: (603) 862-0253 Robin Hackett, Associate Professor of English and Graduate Program Director, University of New Hampshire e-mail: [email protected] office phone: (603) 862-0860 Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition, University of New Hampshire e-mail: [email protected] office phone: (603) 862-0292 James Krasner, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire e-mail: [email protected] office phone: (603) 862-1877 Mary Pat Champeau, Director of Education, Institute for Humane Education; Faculty, Valparaiso University e-mail: [email protected] office phone: (207) 667-1025
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