ALICIA L. KERFOOT

Department of English The College at Brockport State University of New York Brockport, NY 14420 Office: 207A Hartwell Hall E-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of English, The College at Brockport: State University of New York (2012-Present) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Prince Edward Island (2011-2012) Lecturer, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University (2009-2011) Lecturer, Department of English, University of Waterloo (2010-2011)

EDUCATION PhD, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University (2010) MA, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph (2005) BA, Honours English Literature and Applied Studies Co-operative Program, University of Waterloo (2003)

Dissertation: “Domestic Ruins: Imagining the Nunnery in Eighteenth-Century British Literature.” Committee: Dr. Peter Walmsley (Supervisor), Dr. Catherine A. Grisé, Dr. Grace Kehler. External Reader: Dr. Katherine Binhammer, University of Alberta.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Representations of nunneries, monastic ruins, and the domestic sphere in British literature, 1660-1830; the Gothic novel; women’s writing; early modern ephemeral publications; material objects and representations of fashion, costumes and clothing in British literature, 1660-1830.

PUBLICATIONS “Prison and Sanctuary: Ann Radcliffe’s Mutable Nunneries.” Under the Veil: Spirituality and Feminism in Post-Reformation Britain and Europe. Ed. Katherine Quinsey. Cambridge Scholars Press (2012). “Declining Buckles and Movable Shoes in Frances Burney’s Cecilia.” The Burney Journal, Volume 11 (2011). “Replacing the Old Silver Knife: the Convergence of Antislavery Rhetoric and Legal Discourse in Mansfield Park.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31.2 (2008): 275- 292. Student Encyclopedia of African Literature. Co-edited with Douglas Killam. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group (December 2007). Kerfoot CV - 2

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “The ‘spectatress’ or the ‘party engaged’? Dance and Debt in Frances Burney’s Camilla.” The Burney Society Biennial Conference, New York, New York (October 2012). “Ann Radcliffe and the Mutable Aesthetics of Female Monasticism." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas (March 2012). “Ann Radcliffe’s Maternal Waxes: Iconography, the Miniature, and Female Monasticism.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Hamilton, Ontario (October 2011). “‘Let firm, well-hammer’d Soles protect thy Feet’: Footwear and the Permeability of the Street in Gay’s Trivia.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia (March 2011). “Catherine Morland’s ‘Plain Black Shoes’: Practical Femininity and Buried Convents in Northanger Abbey.” Jane Austen Society of North America Annual General Meeting, Portland, Oregon (October 2010). “Declining Buckles and Movable Shoes in Frances Burney’s Cecilia.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2010). “Inherited Follies: Ruinous History in Sophia Lee’s The Recess and at William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon (March 2008). “Reading Stone Bodies: Nunneries and Domestic Ruins in Alexander Pope and John Brand.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba (October 2007). “Replacing the Old Silver Knife: Marriage, Reproduction, Property, and the Convergence of Anti-slavery Rhetoric and Legal Discourse in Mansfield Park.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (January 2007).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Production Assistant, Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2009-2011) Research Assistant to Dr. Julie Park (2007- 2008) Research Assistant (and co-author), Student Encyclopedia of African Literature (Dr. Douglas Killam), University of Guelph (2007) Research Assistant, for the transcription and annotation of the 1709-1710 periodical the Female Tatler (Dr. Tedra Osell), University of Guelph (2005)

COURSES TAUGHT The College at Brockport: State University of New York English 112: College Composition (Spring 2013) English 230: British Literature I (Spring 2013) English 430: The Long Eighteenth Century (Spring 2013) English 303: Introduction to Literature Analysis (Fall 2012) English 431: English Romantic Writers (Fall 2012)

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University of Prince Edward Island English 296: Writing about Literature (Spring 2012) English 335: British Romantic Literature (Spring 2012) English 121: Survey of Literature from its Beginnings to 1785 (Spring 2012) English 192: Introduction to Literature (Fall 2011) English 366: Eighteenth-Century British Literature II (Fall 2011)

McMaster University English 1A03: Shorter Genres (Summer 2011) English 3G06: Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Summer 2010) English 3M06: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Fall 2009)

University of Waterloo English 251B: Criticism II (Spring 2010) English 251A: Criticism I (Fall 2010)

SELECTED HONOURS AND AWARDS Chawton House Visiting Fellowship, Chawton House Library (June 2012) Honourable Mention, Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies, The Burney Society (2010) Nominee, School of Graduate Studies TA Excellence Award, McMaster University (2009) Research Travel Grant, Edna Elizabeth Ross Reeves Scholarship, McMaster University (2008) Conference Travel Grant, Yates Scholarship Fund, McMaster University (2008) SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada (2007-2009) English & Cultural Studies Conference Fund, McMaster University (2006) Schweitzer Travel Bursary, McMaster University (2006) Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University (2005-2007) Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship, University of Guelph (2005) Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph (2004)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE The College at Brockport: State University of New York Graduate Committee Member (2012-2013)

University of Prince Edward Island Faculty Advisor, Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick (2012) Committee Member (Second Reader), Lauren Murphy, Honours Undergraduate Essay on Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.

McMaster University Member of the Organizing Committee, “The Immaterial Eighteenth Century” CSECS Annual Conference, McMaster University (2011) McMaster Centre for Leadership and Learning Certificate, “Making Presentations: Lecturing” (2008) Peer Reviewer, Eighteenth-Century Fiction Kerfoot CV - 4

External Service and Professional Affiliations Reviewer and Vetter, “Charlotte Lennox,” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism series, Gale Cengage, Inc. (2011) Member, The Burney Society Member, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Member, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Member, Modern Language Association