Dr. Jennifer Schell

09/30/2016

CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. JENNIFER SCHELL formerly Jennifer Allen

English Department University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 755720 Fairbanks, AK 99775 (907) 474-1982

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in English/Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 M.A. in English, University of Georgia, 1998 B.A. in Anthropology, Emory University, 1996

CURRENT POSITION:

Associate Professor, English Department, Northern Studies Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (2014-present)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2013.

Articles:

“EcoGothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth” (Forthcoming in Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature from Ashgate Publishing.)

“Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects of Owen Wister’s Yellowstone Stories.” (Forthcoming in Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture from Lexington Books).

1 “Teaching about Biodiversity and Extinction in a Thawing Arctic: A Reflective Essay.” (Forthcoming in Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments from Michigan State University Press).

“The Annihilation of Self and Species: Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ecogothic Sensibilities.” (Forthcoming in The Gothic and Death from Manchester University Press.)

“Nature.” (Forthcoming in Herman Melville in Context from Cambridge University Press.)

“‘In the Heart of the Dark Wilderness’: The Short Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Ecogothic.” (Forthcoming in Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, and Approaches from AMS Press, Inc.)

“Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s ‘A Dying Race.’” The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Eds. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.

“Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs.” Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History, and Criticism. Eds. Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, and Nicklas Hållén. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

“‘I Was Now Living in a New World’: Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford’s Cosmopolitan Locality.” Mapping Region in Early American Writing . Eds. Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

“‘The Eskimos Knew Better’: Representations of Arctic Whaling in Charles Brower’s Fifty Years Below Zero.” Northern Review 40 (2015): 1-23.

“‘We Account the Whale Immortal’: Fantasies of Ecological Abundance and Discourses of Extinction in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Critical Insights: Moby-Dick. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2014. 209-28.

“The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers.” Western American Literature 47.2 (2012): 132-51.

“‘The Most Virtuous and Independent Citizens’: Farmers, Whalemen, and Factory Workers and the Americanization of Manly Physical Laborers.” Cercles. 19 (2009): 67-76.

2 “Ed Gentry’s ‘Man Crush’: Idolatry, Power, and Love in James Dickey’s Deliverance.” The Way We Read James Dickey: A New Collection of Essays. Eds. William Thesing and Theda Wrede. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2009.

“Figurative Surveying: National Space and the Nantucket Chapters of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” Early American Literature. 43.3 (2008): 581-604.

“‘This Life Is a Stage’: Performing the South in William Wells Brown’s Clotel or, The President’s Daughter.” Southern Quarterly. 45.3 (2008): 48-69.

“American Fantasies of Masculine Physical Labor and the Dangerous Bodies of Pacific Island Whalemen in Roger Starbuck’s The Golden Harpoon and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 7.1 (2007).

Book Reviews:

Rev. of Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul by Gina Freitag and André Loiselle. (forthcoming in The Goose).

Rev. of Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science by Robert M. Thorson. (forthcoming in ISLE).

Rev. of Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Aaron M. Moe. Journal of Ecocriticism 7.1 (2015): 15-16.

Rev. of In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage by Jay Ruzesky. The Goose 13.2 (2015): 1-3.

Rev. of Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man by David Remley. Western American Literature 47.1 (2012): 113-14.

Rev. of Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness by Bill Sherwonit. Western American Literature 46.1 (2011): 100-101.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Awards:

Green Carpet Award Winner—UAF Office of Sustainability

“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen—Winner of Honorable Mention Award (category U.S. Maritime History) in the John Lyman

3 Book Awards sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History, May 2014.

“‘A Bold and Hardy Race of Men’: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen”—Winner of Honorable Mention Award in NeMLA’s annual contest for best unpublished book manuscript, Spring 2011.

Nominee for Wichita State University’s Academy for Effective Teaching Award, 2008-2009.

Grants:

UNAC Travel Grant: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 NeMLA Travel Funding: 2011 Summer Sessions Travel Grant: 2013, 2014 CLA Dean’s Office Travel Grant: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

ACADEMIC TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Reframing Understandings of the North: Placing Social Sciences and Humanities at the Center of Interdisciplinary Arctic Research.” Arctic Science Summit, Fairbanks, AK. March 2016.

“‘Annihilated Antechronical Leviathans’: EcoGothic Representations of Extinction in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” MLA, Austin, TX. January 2016.

“Voices from the Forecastle: The Whaleman Poet and the Art of Physical Labor.” Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies, Anchorage, AK. February 2015.

“Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs.” University of Alaska Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. February 2015.

“‘Their dexterity in killing the whale is not easily described’: Colonial-Era Representations of the Indigenous Whalemen of the Pacific Northwest.” Western Literature Association Conference, Victoria, BC. November 2014.

“‘We Account the Whale Immortal’: Fantasies of Arctic Abundance in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Early American Whaling Narratives.” Arctic Science Conference, Fairbanks, AK. September 2014.

“A Bold & Hardy Race of Men: The Lives & Literature of American Whalemen.” University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK. July 2014.

4 “‘What I Did Not Propose to Dwell Upon’: The Discourse of Religious and Scientific Inquiry and Cotton Mather’s The Thankful Christian.” MLA, Chicago, IL. January 2014.

“‘A Bold and Hardy Race of Men’: Antebellum American Whaling Narratives and Fantasies of Manly Productive Physical Labor.” MLA, Chicago, IL. January 2014.

“‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” The Ninth International Melville Conference: Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After, Washington, D.C. June 2013.

“The West in Black, White, and Grey: The Artistic Antecedents of Rick Spears and Rob Goodridge’s Dead West.” Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, Anchorage, AK. March 2013.

“The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers.” University of Alaska Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. April 2012.

“‘My Man Friday’: Illustrated Editions of Robinson Crusoe and Representations of Manly Inter-Racial Friendship.” Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, Anchorage, AK. March 2012.

“‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” MLA, Seattle, WA. January, 2012.

“Imagining Heroic American Manhood: Nineteenth-Century New England Whalemen and Rocky Mountain Fur Trappers.” Hungry Ocean: Literary Culture and the Maritime Environment, Providence, RI. April 2011.

“‘This Life is a Stage’: Performing the South in William Wells Brown’s Clotel or, The President’s Daughter.” ALA, San Francisco, CA. May 2010.

“Northeastern Urbanity, Southern Gentility, and Western Ruggedness Masculinity in Owen Wister’s The Virginian.” University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. April 2010.

“‘There Were Four Ladies in the Bay’: Traveling Whaling Wives and Pacific Fantasies of Domestic Bliss.” Gender Across Borders IV: Globalisms, Buffalo, NY. April 2010.

5 “‘Oh the Whaleman’s Joys!’: New Forms of Masculinity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.” NEMLA, Boston, MA. February 2009.

“Imagining the Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Hero: New England Whalemen and Western Mountain Men.” Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, CO. October 2008.

“Figuratively Surveying National Space: The Western Frontier and the Ocean in J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” NEMLA, Buffalo, NY. April 2008.

“Ed Gentry’s ‘Man Crush’: Idolatry, Power, and Love in James Dickey’s Deliverance.” MLA, Chicago, IL. December 2007.

“‘Poetry of Incident’: The Art of Physical Labor and the Whaleman Poet.” NEMLA, Baltimore, MD. March 2007.

“‘She was Following the Path of Duty’: Whaling Wives and Oceanic Fantasies of Domestic Bliss.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, PA. November 2006.

“Queequeg’s Rooted, Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Why Melville Matters Now Symposium, Albany, NY. November 2006.

“Figurative Surveying: National Space and the Work of Whaling in J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Providence, RI. April 2006.

“Historical Re-Imaginings of American Racial Aesthetics in Clotel, or, the President’s Daughter.” 30th Popular Culture Association and 22ndAmerican Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Books:

“From Mammoths to Muskox: The Specter of Extinction in the Print Culture of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Alaska”

Articles:

6 “‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” (This article is being revised for submission to American Studies.)

“‘What I Did Not Propose to Dwell Upon’: Religious and Scientific Discourse and Cotton Mather’s The Thankful Christian.” (This conference paper is being expanded and revised for submission to Early American Literature.)

COURSES TAUGHT:

University of Alaska Fairbanks:

Undergraduate Literature Courses: 306—“Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to Civil War”—Fall 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 307—“Survey of American Literature: Civil War to the Present”—Spring 2014, Spring 2016 350—“Literature of Alaska and the Yukon Territory”—Fall 2010 403—“American Renaissance”—Spring 2011 408—“American Origins”—Spring 2010 415—“Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Literature”—Fall 2015 435—“Authors”—Fall 2014 448—“American Prose After 1900”—Spring 2011 465—“Genre”—Spring 2013 482—“Topics in Language and Literature”—Spring 2015

Undergraduate Composition Courses: 111X—“Introduction to Academic Writing”—Fall 2012, 2013 213X—“Academic Writing About the Social and Natural Sciences”—Fall 2010, 2016; Spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; Summer 2012, 2013, 2014 485—“Teaching Composition in the Schools”—Spring 2010

Graduate Literature Courses: 606—“British Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century”—Fall 2015 609—“Early American and Romantic Literature”—Fall 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 611—“American Realism and Modernism”—Fall 2010, 2016

Graduate Composition Courses: 661—“Mentored Teaching in English”—Fall 2013, 2014; Spring 2012

Wichita State University:

7 Undergraduate Literature Courses: 230—“Exploring Literature”—Spring 2008, 2009 232—“Themes in American Literature”—Fall 2007 275—“Popular Literature”—Spring 2009 362—“American Writers of the Nineteenth Century”—Fall 2007, 2008; Spring 2008

Graduate Literature Courses: 821—“Graduate Readings in American Literature I”—Fall 2008 822—“Graduate Readings in American Literature II”—Fall 2007

Undergraduate Composition Courses: 102—“College English II”—Spring 2008

University of Pittsburgh:

Undergraduate Composition Courses: 200—“General Writing”—Fall 1999; Spring 2000 200—“Seminar in Composition”—Fall 2003, 2004, 2006; Spring 2004, 2005, 2007

Undergraduate Literature Courses: 300—“Introduction to Literature”—Spring 2006 325—“Short Story in Context”—Fall 2001; Spring 2002 365—“Literature, Tradition, and the New”—Fall 2000 365—“Literature and the Contemporary”—Spring 2001; Summer 2001 500—“Introduction to Critical Reading”—Fall 2005; Spring 2006 550—“Introduction to Popular Culture”—Spring 2007 570—“American Literary Traditions”—Summer 2002 573—“Literature of the Americas”—Fall 2002, 2004, 2005; Spring 2003, 2005 610—“Women and Literature”—Summer 2003 629—“The Wild West”—Fall 2006; Spring 2007 1272—“The Roaring 20’s”—Fall 2006

University of Georgia:

Undergraduate Composition Courses: 101—“English Composition” (computer-based composition) —Fall 1997;

Winter 1997 102—“English Composition” (computer-based composition)—Spring 1997

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

8 Departmental and University:

University of Alaska Fairbanks:

Current Service: 2016-present Member, SADA Committee 2016-present Member, Honors Council 2014-present Chair, Library Committee 2014-present Graduate Programs Committee 2014-present Faculty Representative, RISE Sustainability Board

Past Service: 2016 Member, M.F.A. Assessment Committee 2015-2016 Faculty Adviser, English Majors Union 2014-2015 Member, RISE Sustainability Curriculum Subcommittee 2013-2015 Member, Core Review Committee 2011-2014 Member, Language and Literature Committee 2014 Member, M.A. Assessment Committee 2014 Interim Chair, English Department 2013-14 Member, Curriculum Committee 2013-14 Member, Library Committee 2013 Member, M.A. Assessment Committee 2012-13 Member, Dean’s Advisory Council 2012 Interim Chair, English Department 2011-13 Chair, Language and Literature Committee 2011 Member, Search Committee (Administrative Assistant) 2011 Member, B.A. Assessment Committee 2010-14 Member, Composition Committee 2010-13 Member, T.A. Selection Committee 2010-12 Faculty Senate Alternate 2010-11 Member, Composition Curriculum Committee 2010-11 Member, Search Committee (Long 18th Century, Tenure Track Position) 2009-12 Member, M.A. Comprehensive Exam Committee 2009-11 Coordinator, Humanities Colloquium

Wichita State University:

2008-09 Member, Composition Committee 2007-09 Member, Film Studies Committee 2007-09 Member, Policies and Procedures Committee

University of Pittsburgh:

2006-07 Member, Awards Committee

9 Member, Literature Curriculum Committee Member of Graduate Website Sub-Committee 2004 Grader, “Seminar in Composition” Placement Essays 2002-03 Member, “Literature of the Americas” staff teaching group 2000.1 Member, “Literature, Tradition, and the New”/“Literature and the Contemporary” staff teaching group 2000-02 Graduate Student Mentor 1999-00 Member, Committee for Evaluation and Advancement of Teaching 1999-00 Member, Teaching Seminar

University of Georgia:

1997-98 Member, Apprentice College English staff teaching group 1996 Member, Teaching Mentor Program

Community Service:

2016-present Interior Alaska Land Trust 2015-2016 Tanana Valley Watershed Association 2014-2015 Portfolio Presentation Panel Judge, Eielson High School, Eielson AFB, AK 2014 Denali Highway Cleanup Day Volunteer 2012-2014 Celebration of Writing, Fairbanks, AK

Professional Memberships and Service:

2013 Reader/Reviewer, Journal Article, Mississippi Quarterly 2013 Reader/Reviewer, Book Proposal, Broadview Press 2013-present Member, ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Ad hoc ISLE Manuscript Reader/Book Reviewer 2008-present Member, Western Literature Association Ad hoc WAL Manuscript Reader/Book Reviewer 2007-12 Member, NEMLA 2006 Member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2002-present Member, MLA Ad hoc PMLA Manuscript Reader 2000 Member, American Culture Association 2000 Member, Popular Culture Association