c.v. - Molly Hall

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