RANDI SALOMAN Visiting Assistant Professor of English Wake Forest University P.O. Box 7387 Winston-Salem, NC 27109 (203) 606-3824 [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University, 2010—present Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2008—2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of English and College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2007—2008 Lecturer in English, Yale University, 2007 Instructor in English, Yale University, 2005—2006
EDUCATION Ph.D., English Literature, Yale University, December 2006 Directors: David Bromwich and Laura Frost M.A., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2000 B.A., English Literature and Classics, Columbia University, 1997
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS Virginia Woolf’s Essayism, Edinburgh University Press, June 2012. Hotels and Modern Literature (in progress).
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES “Arnold Bennett’s Hotels.” Twentieth-Century Literature, forthcoming, Spring 2012. “‘Unsolved Problems’: Essayism, Counterfactuals, and the Futures of A Room of One’s Own.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, forthcoming, Spring 2012. “‘Here Again is the Usual Door’: The Modernity of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting.’” Genre 38:1- 2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 71-94. “‘Generous Tears’: The Gresham Hotel in Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” Under Review, James Joyce Quarterly
BOOK REVIEWS “Everybody Needs Some Passion.” Review of Anthony Cuda, The Passions of Modernism and Gabrielle McIntire, Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Twentieth- Century Literature 56.3 (Fall 2010): 405-413. Review of Judith Allen, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language. Woolf Studies Annual 17 (2011): 248-252. Review of Elizabeth Outka, Consuming Traditions: Modernism, Modernity, and the Commodified Authentic. Woolf Studies Annual 16 (2010): 208-212. Review of Patricia Laurence, Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. Woolf Studies Annual 11 (2005): 216-219. SALOMAN 2
CHAPTER IN AN EDITED COLLECTION “‘Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown’: A Reassesment.” An Arnold Bennett Companion: Essays for the Twenty-First Century. John Shapcott, ed. Forthcoming, 2013.
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS, NOTES, AND MISCELLANY ‘Vicki Baum’, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, forthcoming 2013. “‘Directly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different’: Hotel Life and The Voyage Out.” Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 2010: 167-172. “Arnold Bennett.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 2010. “‘I never know by whom I am surrounded’: Identity and Transience in Arnold Bennett’s Hotels.” Collected Papers of the 3rd Annual Arnold Bennett Society Conference (August 2008): 27-36. “‘Charles Lamb is dead’: Arnold Bennett’s Journalism for Women and A Room of One’s Own.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 68 Fall (2005)/Winter (2006): 10.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Archie International Travel Award, Wake Forest University 2011, 2012 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University 2008—2010 Yale Center for British Art Summer Travel Grants 2004, 2006 Beinecke Library James Osborn Fellowship 2005 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship 2004—2005 Enders Foundation Research Fellowships 2004, 2005
PRESENTATIONS “Henry James, Hotel Child,” SAMLA conference, Durham, North Carolina, November, 2012. “‘Forever missing things’: Henry James’s Hotels and The Ambassadors,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 2012. “‘Generous Tears’: The Gresham Hotel in Joyce’s ‘The Dead,’” The Space Between Society Conference, Brown University, June 2012. “E.M. Forster’s Hotels,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Buffalo, October 2011. “Life conflicts with something that is not life”: Essayistic Speculation in A Room of One’s Own, International Virginia Woolf Society, Glasgow, June 2011. “‘Clothes are Half the Battle’: Cosmopolitan Fashion at the Grand Hotel,” Modernist Studies Association, McGill University, Montreal, November 2009. “‘[D]irectly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different’: Hotel Life and The Voyage Out,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Fordham University, New York City, June 2009. “The Hotel Business and the Modern Novel,” Talking Papers Colloquium, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, April 2008. “‘The vast foundations of the Savoy’: Hotel-consciousness in The Old Wives’ Tale,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2007. “‘I never know by whom I am surrounded’: Identity and Transience in Arnold Bennett’s Hotels,” Arnold Bennett Society Conference, Staffordshire University, Stoke-On-Trent, UK, June 2006. “‘Your help is invoked in a good cause’: The Whole Contention Between Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf, Revisited Once More,” 20th-Century Colloquium, Yale University, November 2005. “The ‘Deliberate Failure’ of Generic Modernism: Reading Woolf’s The Pargiters,” Modernist Studies Association, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2004.
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PRESENTATIONS, CONTINUED
“I never felt it in the least about the others-From The Pargiters to The Years: The Importance of Woolf’s Essay-Novel,” Twentieth-Century Colloquium, Yale University, May 2004. “‘Here Again is the Usual Door’: Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting and the Permeability of the Essay.” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Smith College, June 2003.
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH SEMINARS “Is there a Future for Women’s Studies in Modernism?” (Mark Hussey and Jane Garrity, Chairs), Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, Canada, November 2010. “History Across the Disciplines” (Jason Frank, Derk Pereboom, and Annette Richards, Conveners), Seminar, Mellon Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2009-2010. “Modernist Studies without Modernism” (Collin Gillis and Andrew Goldstone, Chairs), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2009. “The Human” (Laura Brown and Stephen Hilgartener, Conveners), Seminar, Mellon Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2008-2009. “Modernism and Home” (Christopher Reed and Mary Wilson, Chairs), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, November 2008. “In/Hospitable Modernities” (Jeannie Im and Nicole Rizzuto, Chairs), Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, California, November 2007. “The Author Business” (Alison Booth, Chair), Modernist Studies Association, Loyola University, Chicago, November 2005. "Generic Modernism" (Sean Latham, Chair), Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, Canada, October 2004.
TEACHING INTERESTS Modern Prose and Poetry Gender Studies The Edwardians Anglophone/Post-45 Literature Twentieth-Century Novel British Literature Survey History of the Essay Victorian Literature
COURSES TAUGHT
INSTRUCTOR Wake Forest University ENGL 111 Travel, Tourism, and the Hotel (writing seminar) ENGL 165 British Literature Survey (undergraduate seminar)
Cornell University ENGL 1185 20th-Century Hotel Narratives (freshman seminar) ENGL 3500 The Modern Tradition (undergraduate lecture) ENGL 2700 The Reading of Fiction (sophomore seminar)
Wesleyan University ENGL 292 Bloomsbury Group (junior/senior seminar) ENGL 270 Domesticity in Modern Fiction (junior/senior seminar) ENGL 114/COL 112 The Essay (1st-yr lecture/seminar) ENGL 105/COL 107 Cities and Modern Literature (lecture/seminar)
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COURSES TAUGHT, CONTINUED
INSTRUCTOR Yale University ENGL 115 Introduction to Literary Study (1st-yr seminar) ENGL 117 Introduction to Literary Study II (1st-yr seminar) ENGL 127 American Literature Survey (undergraduate seminar)
TEACHING FELLOW Yale University DEVN 199 The De Vane Lectures (undergraduate lecture series on “Keywords”) (Lecturer: Annabel Patterson)
ENGL 301 The Modern British Novel (Lecturers: William Deresiewicz [2002] and Laura Frost [2003])
ENGL 265 The Victorian Novel (Lecturer: Ruth Yeazell)
SENIOR THESES ADVISED Wesleyan University Hannah Dreier, “Imagining the Forgotten Man: The Aesthetics of Social Engagement, 1935- 1941” (2007-2008) Peter Hill, “The Architecture of Identity: E.M. Forster and the Use of Space” (2007-2008) Lily X. Wahrman, “Absurdity and Samuel Beckett” (Spring 2008)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Academic Advisor, Wake Forest University (2011-present) Article Referee, Modernism/modernity (2012-present) Article Referee, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (2007-present) Board of Contributors, Routledge ABES, Modernism Division (2011-2012) Chair, Panel, “Making Hybrid Genres,” Space Between Society Conference, June 2012. Chair, Panel, “How to be a Modernist Reader,” Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, October 2011. Chair, Panel on “Beyond the Flâneuse: Women in the Modernist City,” Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, Canada, November 2010 Co-coordinator: Wesleyan College of Letters Lecture Series (2007-2008) Organizer, Panel, “Public Space, Private Life,” Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, October 2011. Organizer, Panel on “Weimar Germany through Foreign Eyes,” Modernist Studies Association, McGill University, Montreal, November 2009 Organizer, Panel on “Leaving the City Behind: Virginia Woolf’s Travelers,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Fordham University, New York City, June 2009 Thesis Reader, Wesleyan College of Letters and Department of Romance Languages (2007-2008) Writer and Editor, Biographical Entries for The Norton Reader (2007)
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MEMBERSHIPS Arnold Bennett Society International Virginia Woolf Society Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association The Space Between Society
LANGUAGES Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Spanish
REFERENCES David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University Laura Brown, John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Cornell University Anne Fernald, Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing and Composition at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York City Laura Frost, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York City Molly Hite, Professor of English, Cornell University Scott Klein, Professor and Chair of English, Wake Forest University Pericles Lewis, Founding President and Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College