PAUL A. WESTOVER 4149 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 (801) 422-3048, [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Indiana University, 2008 Dissertation: Traveling to Meet the Dead 1750–1860: A Study of Literary Tourism and Necromanticism M.A. Brigham Young University, 2002 Thesis: The Bible and Romantic Authorship: Essays on and Felicia Dorothea Hemans B.A. Brigham Young University, 1998, magna cum laude

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2014– Associate Professor, English, Brigham Young University 2008– 14 Assistant Professor, English, Brigham Young University 2003–08 Associate Instructor and Teaching Fellow, Indiana University 2002–07 Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech State College—Bloomington 2000–02 Graduate Instructor, Brigham Young University

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPH Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, , and the Cultures of Print, ed. Mellor and Siskin. Reviewed by BARS Review, Byron Journal, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Review 19, Studies in English Literature, Studies in Romanticism, Times Literary Supplement, Wordsworth Circle, and Victoriographies.

EDITED COLLECTION Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century, with Ann W. Rowland. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, ed. Bristow. Reviewed by Review 19, Victorian Studies.

CRITICAL EDITIONS AND DIGITAL TOOLS The Lakeland Writings of : A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, with Michelle Levy and Nicholas Mason. Forthcoming 2021.

Dorothy Wordsworth’s “Excursion Up Scawfell Pike” Reimagined: A Multimodal Retelling of 7 October 1818. Forthcoming at Romantic Circles, 2020.

William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes: A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, with Nicholas Mason et al. First edition, 2015. Revised edition, 2020.

1 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “Teaching Persuasion as a Wartime Novel.” Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen’s Persuasion, ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire. MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature, forthcoming March 2021.

“Home is Where the Archive Is: Discovering Sir Walter Scott in American Authors’ Homes.” Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Ann W. Rowland and Paul Westover. Palgrave, 2016.

“At Home in the Churchyard: Graves, Localism, and Literary Heritage in the Prose Pastoral.” Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830, ed. Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields. Ashgate, 2013. British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Lynch. 65–81.

“Inventing the London of Literary Tourists: Walking the Romantic City in Leigh Hunt’s ‘Wishing-Cap’ Essays.” European Romantic Review 23.1 (2012): 1–19.

“How America ‘Inherited’ Literary Tourism.” Literary Tourism and Nineteenth- Century Culture, ed. Nicola J. Watson. Palgrave, 2009. 184–195.

“William Godwin, Tourism, and the Work of Necromanticism.” Studies in Romanticism 48.2 (Summer 2009): 299–319.

“Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography.” Literature Compass 2 (2005) RO 112, 1–16.

BOOK REVIEWS Tom Mole’s What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History. Studies in Romanticism 58.1 (Spring 2019): 135–139.

Robert Meyer’s Walter Scott and Fame: Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age. Review of English Studies, New Series, 1–3, 2017, doi: 10.1093/res/hgx120.

Saeko Yoshikawa’s William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820–1900. Review 19, 4 October 2014.

Tim Fulford’s The Late Poetry of the : Romanticism Revised. Review of English Studies, 2014 (May), doi: 10.1093/res/hgu046.

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, ed. Benjamin Colbert. Romanticism 20.1 (April 2014): 84–86.

Ann Rigney’s The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move. Review 19, 8 September 2012.

Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown. Review 19, 6 August 2012.

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland, ed. Benjamin Colbert. Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, May 2012.

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Richard J. Hill’s Picturing Scotland Through the Waverley Novels. Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, January 2012.

Nicola J. Watson’s The Literary Tourist. Victorian Studies 50.1 (Autumn 2007): 128– 130.

PRESENTATIONS

INVITED LECTURES

“‘Touchwood Trees’: Literary Relics and Memory Culture.” “Saturday Talks” series, , Cumbria, UK, 6 October 2018.

“Romantic Trees: Literary Souvenirs, Celebrity Culture, and Tree Relics.” University of Texas at Austin, 16 November 2017.

“Romantic Studies in 2017.” Critical Discussions Roundtable, Oregon State University, 20 October 2017.

“Wordsworth Online: Wordsworth, Nature Writing, and the Invention of National Parks.” Webcast (with Maggie Kopp) from BYU to the Wordsworth Trust, 28 April 2015.

CONFERENCE TALKS

“Recreating Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1818 Scafell Pike Ascent: Editorial, Cartographical, and Physical Adventure.” Session organizer and chair, “Wordsworthian Bicentennials.” NASSR 2018. Providence, RI (22–25 June).

“Romanticism Then and Now: Romantic Trees.” NWRECS 2017. Corvallis, OR (21 October).

“The Invention of Literary Tourist London and the Urban Picturesque.” NASSR 2017. Ottawa (10–13 August).

“The Invention of Wordsworth Country.” NACBS 2016. Session Organizer and Chair: “The English as Contested Cultural Landscape.” Washington, D.C. (11–13 November).

“Romantic Discontent and the ‘Rage for Centenaries.” NASSR 2016. Session Chair. Berkeley, CA (11–14 August).

“Home is Where the Archive Is: Locating Sir Walter Scott in American Authors’ Homes.” MLA 2015. Vancouver, B.C. (8–11 January).

“Chairs: Authors’ Mobile Monuments.” WRECS 2014. Aspen Grove, UT (23–24 October).

“Arboreal Tourism in the Age of Authors.” Session organizer and chair: “Romantic Trees.”

3 NASSR 2014. Washington, D.C. (10–13 July).

“The Author’s Strangely Mobile Chair and the Romantic Iconography of Literary Heritage.” NASSR 2013. Boston, MA (8–11 August).

“Walter Scott, Landscape Illustrations, and the Scotland of Nineteenth-Century Tourists.” RMESC 2011. Salt Lake City, UT (20–21 August).

“Romanticism and the Invention of Transatlantic ‘English.’” NASSR 2011. Park City, UT (11– 14 August).

“Walter Scott, Illustration Books, and the Literary Tourist Industry.” NASSR 2010. Vancouver, B.C. (18–22 August.)

“Magical Objects, Books, and the Romantic Cityscape in Leigh Hunt’s Wishing-Cap Papers.” ICR 2009. New York (5–9 November).

“Necromanticism and English Literary Heritage in the ‘Prose Pastoral’.” NASSR 2009. “Necromanticism” panel. Duke University (21–24 May).

“Writing Yourself to Death and Related Morbid Symptoms of the Romantic Culture of Posterity.” ICR 2008. Oakland University (16–29 October).

“‘Our very life-blood is English life-blood’: The Problem of Literary Inheritance and the American Importation of Literary Tourism.” Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture: an International One-Day Conference. University of London (8 June 8 2007).

“Mapping the Book-World in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.” NASSR/NAVSA 2007. Purdue University (31 August–3 September).

“Wrong Turns, Fake Relics, and Deep Feelings: American Tourists Going Awry in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Going Awry: A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Indiana University (23–25 March 2006).

“Ideal Presence and Imaginative Geography in Romantic-Era Britain.” Intimacy/Proximity: A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Indiana University (7–9 April 2005).

“Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography.” Romanticism, History, Historicism conference. University of Wales, Aberystwyth (18–22 June 2004).

“The Lockean Inheritance in Scott’s Redgauntlet: Equivocation ‘In the Way of Business’.” ICR 2003. Marquette University (13–15 November).

4 TEACHING AND MENTORING

Courses

Brigham Young University (2008–) English 251, Fundamentals of Literary Interpretation English 292, British Literary History II English 294, Transatlantic Literary History English 295, Writing Literary Criticism English 300R, British Literature in a Cultural Context (for study abroad / internships) English 333, The English Novel English 374, The British Romantic Period Exploratory Survey “Necromanticism” Romantic Transport Romanticism and War Literature in the Age of Revolutions Romantic Poetry and the Arrival of the Novel Romanticism and Memory English 384R (Major Authors), William Wordsworth English 390R, Transatlantic Nineteenth Century: The Making of the “English” Canon English 395 (Independent Study), Christian Fantasy English 396R, Studies in Women’s Literature: Dorothy Wordsworth and Romantic Women’s Writing English 399R, Academic Internship English 451, The Critical Tradition English 495, Senior Course The Romantic Novel: Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott William Wordsworth and Literary Geography English 600, Intro to Graduate Studies English 621R Intro to Romantic Studies British Romantic Poetry Romanticism and the Victorians (with 622R) English 629R “English” Literature in the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Literary Geography International and Area Studies 201R London Preparation Course London Walks

Indiana University (2003–2008) Intro to Fiction: “Haunting” Intro to Poetry Intro to Writing and the Study of Literature: American Bestsellers, 1790–present First-year Writing

5 Basic Writing Professional Writing Intro to Composition (Groups Student Support Summer Program) Internship: Nineteenth-Century Literatures in English (with Professor Deidre Lynch) Internship: The Bible as Literature (with Professor Nicholas Williams)

Ivy Tech State College—Bloomington (2002–2007) Persuasive Writing (traditional, online) First-Year Composition English Grammar and Usage (corporate) Technical Writing (corporate) Introduction to Speed-Reading (night school)

Brigham Young University (2000–2002) First-year Writing Graduate TA for English 223, Intro to Language

MASTER’S THESES

Chair for seven students, reader for twenty-three, 2010–2020

HONORS THESES

Chair for two students, reader for two others (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015).

GRADUATE TEACHING INTERNSHIPS

Seven supervised, 2011–2019

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORSHIPS

Eight supervised, 2011–2019

WORDSWORTH TRUST INTERNSHIP CO-DIRECTOR, 2014–PRESENT.

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Graduate Program Coordinator: April 2018–2021. English 203 Task Force, 2020. London Centre Faculty Oversight Committee, 2016–2018. Romantic and Victorian Study Group Coordinator (several turns). Graduate Advisory Committee Member, 2014–2017. Program Director, BYU London Centre, Fall 2015. (Associate Director in Summer 2015.) English 292 Course Coordinator, 2011–2013. English 251 Course Coordinator, 2012–2014. BYU Chapter Secretary, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2011–2013. Faculty Advisor, English Society, 2009–2011.

6 Faculty Advisor, BYU English Symposium, 2009–2012. Judge, Phi Kappa Phi Paper Contest, 2012, 2013. Judge, Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Contest, 2012, 2013. Judge, Circle of Honor Essay Contest, 2011. ORCA proposal reviewer, 2010. Member of Center for the Study of Europe committee of the whole, 2010–14. Affiliate of BYU European Studies program. Affiliate of BYU Women’s Studies program. Founding member of BYU’s Romantic and Victorian Study Group.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Book Review Editor, Journal of British Studies, 2014–2019. Referee: European Romantic Review, Literature Compass, Modern Philology, Philological Quarterly, Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism on the Net, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Ad hoc manuscript reviewer: Palgrave Macmillan, Farleigh Dickinson University Press. Commissioned reviewer, Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D (10th ed.) Editorial Advisor, Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Age of Romanticism, fourth edition. Co-organizer, NWRECS 2017: “Romanticism Then and Now,” a Romantic Bicentennials Networked Event. Assistant Symposium Organizer, WRECS 2014 (Sundance). Assistant Conference Organizer, NASSR 2011 (Park City).

CAMPUS AND PUBLIC OUTREACH “On the Use of Primary Sources in Teaching: Curating Wordsworth at BYU.” Presentation. BYU Faculty Center seminar for pre-CFS faculty, 15 October 2020. Curator (with English 374 students): “Remembering Dorothy Wordsworth” and “Wordsworth at BYU: An Exhibition for the Poet’s 250th Birthday,” BYU Harold B. Lee Library, March and September 2020. Consultant and transcription contributor, online Dorothy Wordsworth exhibit for the Morgan Library and Museum, posted June 2020. Contributor (digital map): Dorothy Wordsworth Ullswater Journal exhibit at Morgan Library, February–June 2020. “Literary Pilgrimage.” Interview. Constant Wonder radio program, BYU FM and Sirius XM 143, 3 January 2019. Two films commemorating Romantic bicentennial walks: Journeywomen: Walking in the Footsteps of Dorothy Wordsworth and Top Hat Flies Over Edge: A Walk up Skiddaw, released November 2018. Participant and Consultant. “This Girl Did: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Scafell Pike Letter.” Video for Wordsworth Trust YouTube Channel, 8 October 2018. Contributing curator: “‘This Girl Did’: Dorothy Wordsworth & Women Mountaineers.” Exhibition. Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK, 1 Sept.–23 Dec. 2018. “Five Great English Poets in the LDS Hymnal.” Presentation. BYU Education Week, 22 August 2018. “From the Vaults: Illustrating Wordsworth.” Interview. Top of Mind program. BYU Radio, 7 February 2018.

7 “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 200: The Afterlives of Myth.” Public lecture. Springville Public Library, Classics Revisited series, 25 October 2017. “Where Does ‘English Literature’ Live?” Presentation for BYU Humanities Center Colloquium Series, 23 February 2017. “Walter Scott.” Interview. This’ll Take A While program. BYU Radio, 30 May 2016. Keynote speaker, English Department Awards Banquet, 15 March 2016. Organizer, Wordsworth Trust workshop for London-based international programs, BYU London Centre, 20 November 2015. Judge, Central Utah Sterling Scholar Competition, March 2014 Panelist, Café CSE Lecture Series: “Gothic Europe: Ghosts and National Heritage” (with Matthew Wickman and Carl Sederholm). 6 November 2013. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe and the Kennedy Center for International Studies. Curator (with Maggie Kopp), “William Wordsworth and the Invention of National Parks.” Exhibition. Harold B. Lee Library, March–October 2013: http://exhibits.lib.byu.edu/wordsworth//. “Wordsworth and National Parks.” Interview. Thinking Aloud radio program, BYU FM and Sirius XM 143, 17 June 2013. Exhibit Guide, A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference, March 21-22, 2013. “Thoughts on Necro-Tourism.” Two-installment guest post, Literary Tourist website, August 2012 (1, 2). “Transatlantic Literary Pilgrimage.” Interview. Thinking Aloud radio program, BYU FM and Sirius XM 143, 3 May 2012. Invited panelist on Melissa Leilani Larsen’s theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, BYU, 26 February 2011. “The Cult of Literary Pilgrimage.” Interview. Thinking Aloud radio program, Classical 89, KBYU FM, 28 May 2009. “Frankenstein and the Limits of Man’s Reach.” Literature Mind Marathon, public lecture. Orem Public Library, Orem, UT, 29 April 2009. “How Americans Invented Literary Tourism in Great Britain.” English Society Brownbag Series, 26 February 2009.

GRANTS AND AWARDS Department Citizenship Award, 2018 Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG): Co-Principal Investigator, Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writings, 2014–15 ($20,000) Title VI Research Grant: Wordsworth Guide Project, 2011 ($2,000) Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG): Wordsworth Guide Project, 2011 ($20,000)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association (MLA) North American Association for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

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