JEAN MILLS

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EDUCATION

9/2007 Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Specializing in , Modernism, 20th century women writers, feminist theory, visual pedagogies. Dissertation: Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and . (Director: Jane Marcus, Distinguished Professor of English; Committee Members: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English; Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History

12/2007 Women’s Studies Certificate, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. 5/2006 M.Phil. in English, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

1979-1983 B.A. in English, magna cum laude, Mary Lyon Scholar, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

[Under Contract-Ohio State University Press] Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism. Completed manuscript. Cross-reads the work of Cambridge Classicist, Jane Ellen Harrison, with the work of Virginia Woolf to argue for a distinct feminist expansion of modernism, which I characterize as “transpersonal” in nature, a relationship of shared objectives, politics, and ideals. Publication forthcoming for Ohio State University Press’s Classical Memories/Modernist Identities Series editors at Ohio State University Press.

“Girls’ School Novels as Modernist Feminist Tradition” which argues that three novels, Antonia White’s Frost in May; Kate O’Brien’s The Land of Spices; and Rosemary Manning’s The Chinese Garden comprise a modernist, feminist tradition as an alternative to the universal coming-of-age boy school stories, such as James Joyce’s Dubliners, commonly taught, respected, and learned in undergraduate classrooms today. Article currently under submission for The Symonds Prize in Gender and Sexuality Studies (December 2012).

1924: A Year in the Life of Virginia Woolf. I am currently working on a non-fiction book project for a general audience. This is a micro-history of a single year, which reads 1924 as a fulcrum year for Woolf, whose creativity was decisively fuelled and furthered by her own contemporary times. Formal proposal has been completed and is currently under review with a literary agent. Intensive work will begin Spring 2013.

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The White Narcissus: Virginia Woolf and Sigmund Freud in an Age of Insanity. This project, currently in the research stage, uses Virginia Woolf’s 28 January 1939 meeting with Sigmund Freud as a springboard for discussing Woolf, Freud, and their views and theories about each other and about the rise of political fascism in the late 1930’s. Seeking grant support by Summer 2013.

“Of the Nymph and the Noun: Jane Harrison, Janet Case, and Virginia Woolf’s Greek Education,” which explores the pedagogical connections between Harrison, Case, and Woolf and their respective and related re-reading of the Greeks. Currently under review at The Philological Review (since January 2012).

Three Waste Lands (with Jane Marcus). New feminist interpretations and annotations of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hope Mirrlees’ Paris, and Nancy Cunard’s Parallax. I recently received a third PSC Grant for completing this project. We have a draft of our introduction. Annotations are nearly completed. I used the grant to research the newly created Hope Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge University, in Summer 2011. Final drafts to be completed by Summer 2013.

PUBLICATIONS:

[Paperback Edition, Fall 2012] “The Writer, the Prince and the Scholar: Virginia Woolf, D.S. Mirsky, and Jane Harrison’s Russian Translation of The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, by Himself—A Revaluation of the Radical Politics of the ” in Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. Edited by Helen Southworth. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press: 233-272.

“The Writer, the Prince and the Scholar: Virginia Woolf, D.S. Mirsky, and Jane Harrison’s Russian Translation of The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, by Himself—A Revaluation of the Radical Politics of the Hogarth Press” in Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. Edited by Helen Southworth. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. 233-272.

“Your iPod, Your Art Museum.” Academe (May/June 2009). 23-25.

“Three Guineas: The Movie?—Reading Virginia Woolf’s Pacifist Manifesto as Photographic Theory.” The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 74: (Fall/Winter 2008). 19-21.

“Gertrude on the Block: Writing, Love, and Fame in Stanzas in Meditation.” Philological Quarterly. 83.2 (Fall 2006): 197-210. (Received The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship); Rptd. in Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Eds. Suzuki, Mihoko and Roseanna Lewis Dufault. New York: Modern Language Association of America Press, (forthcoming). 2 | Page

“Violence into Speech: Lessons from the Homefront in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.” HOW 2: A Journal of Modernist Scholarship in “Alerts: New Scholarly Finds.” 2.3 (Spring 2005). 1-14.

“, The Great, Great Grand M/F of Rap: ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ and the Rap/Hip-Hop/Spoken Word Aesthetic.” Americana: Journal of American Popular Culture from 1900- present. 2.1 (Spring 2003).

“‘The Unbounded Whole’: Harrisonian Ritual Structures in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day.” The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. (Summer 2006): 6-7.

“Women Creating Change: Dignity, Financial Literacy, & Food, Glorious Food!: The Legacy of Kathy Goldman.” Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work. 19.3 (Fall 2004): 317-321.

“Gertrude Stein took WWII Like a Man.” Harvard’s Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. X.2 (March-April 2003): 16-18.

“On Ruth Gruber’s Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman (Carroll & Graf, 2005)” The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. (Summer 2006): 14-15. (Book review).

“The Gay and Lesbian Parent Olympics.” InsideOut (March-April 2004).

“Lesbian Parenting.” The Scene (Spring 2002).

“Why Are We So Mean to Poor People.” The Scene. (Spring 2002).

“Enjoying the Apocalypse.” The Fifth Street Review (Fall 2002) (short story).

Moments with Jackie: A photographic tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. New York: Metro Books, 1999.

Cabot, Laurie with Jean Mills. The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Empower. New York: Dell, 1997.

Cabot, Laurie with Jean Mills. Celebrate the Earth: A Year of Holidays in the Pagan Tradition. New York: Dell, 1994.

Babyworks: Every Parent’s Sourcebook for Essential Baby Paraphernalia. New York: Viking Press, 1985 [out of print].

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AWARDS and GRANT ACTIVITY

NEH Grant ($5,000) Modernist “tour guide” for podcast script “Make it New: Modernist Visions” for a tour of MoMA for “Making Objects Speak” project, Elisabeth Gitter, Primary Investigator. Spring 2008.

PSC Grant, CUNY (Awarded $2800) for research on Three Waste Lands: New Feminist Interpretations of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hope Mirrlees’ Paris, and Nancy Cunard’s Parallax, with special emphasis on the Hope Mirrlees Archive, Newnham College Cambridge University. Received Spring 2010.

PSC Grant, CUNY (Awarded $2800) for final phase of research on Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison. Received Spring 2009.

PSC Grant, CUNY (Received $3500) for 2nd phase of research on Goddesses and Ghosts. Received Spring 2008.

“Literature and Law,” NEH funded Seminars for Faculty Development, F’08-S’09.

The Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work. The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, May 2008.

The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize. Honorable Mention. Outstanding Feminist Dissertation in the Humanities. The Center for the Study of Women and Society. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. June 2008.

The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, The Women’s Caucus of the MLA, December 2006.

Nina Fortin Memorial Dissertation Proposal Award, $300, Women’s Studies Department, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, July 2006.

Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship, $20,000, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, May 2006.

Dissertation Research Award, $1500 in English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, January 2006.

PUBLIC LECTURES:

Invited Speaker. “Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison in Conversation.” Part of a 3-Evening Lecture Series “Celebrating Virginia Woolf” at the Research Division of The New York Public Library, Schwartzman Auditorium, October 19, 2010.

Invited Speaker. “Bloomsbury Family Values: Circles of Trust in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf” at The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. March 6, 2009 4 | Page

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Endless War/Perpetual Peace: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and the Formation of Peace Studies as a Discipline.” To Think Peace into Existence: Virginia Woolf’s Global Pacifisms. Panelist and Chair. The 22nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Interdisciplinary Woolf. University of Saskatchewan, Canada. June 7-10th, 2012. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

“War and Reconciliation: Three Papers on Three Guineas.” Chair. The 22nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Interdisciplinary Woolf. University of Saskatchewan, Canada. June 7-10th, 2012. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

“ ‘A Dash of the Bolshevik’”: Jane Harrison at the Pontigny Decades and the Russian Émigré Scene in 1920’s Paris.” Jane Ellen Harrison as Modernist Network. Panelist and Chair, MSA (Modernist Studies Association) 12: Modernist Networks. November 11-13, 2010. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

“Teaching Literature from a Gender Perspective to Soldier-Student Populations.” Soldiering On Otherwise, Critically and Collectively: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Student-Survivors of Military Violence, Sexual Abuse and War Trauma. Panelist, The Third Feminist Pedagogy Conference. November 6, 2009. The Graduate Center/CUNY.

“Feminism, Modernism, Woolf.” Seminar Leader. MSA (Modernist Studies Association) 11: The Languages of Modernism. November 7-8, 2009. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

“Re-Negotiating London: Virginia Woolf’s 1924 Return to the City.” The City as Transitional Text: Woolf, London, and Modernity. Panelist, The 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Fordham University, Lincoln Center. June 4-7, 2009.

“Enough Powder to Blow up St. Paul’s”: The Documentary Forms of The Years and Three Guineas. Chair/Discussant, The 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Fordham University, Lincoln Center. June 4-7, 2009.

“Making Objects Speak: Creating Audio-Tours of Museum Collections & Historic Neighborhoods To Enhance Teaching in the Humanities.” Presenter. John Jay College, New York. June 2-3, 2009.

“The Writer, the Prince, and the Scholar: Virginia Woolf, D. S. Mirsky, and Jane Harrison’s Russian Translation of The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, by Himself.” The International 5 | Page

Virginia Woolf Society’s 18th Annual Conference. University of Colorado. June 19-22, 2008, Denver, CO.

“The Struggle Keeps Me Awake: Two Women Photographers Document the War.” 10th Annual Space Between 1914-1945 Society. June 13-14, 2008, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

“Three Waste Lands: Virginia Woolf as Poetry Editor of the Hogarth Press.” 9th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, MSA 9, University of Southern California, November 1-4, 2007, Long Beach, CA.

“A Canon of Modernist Poetry According to Virginia Woolf: A Road Not Taken.” 9th Annual Space Between 1914-1945 Society, June 8-9, 2007, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

“Radical “Waste Land”: T.S. Eliot, Hope Mirrlees, and Jane Ellen Harrison.” “Poetry and Politics” conference Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland, U.K. July 12 – 16, 2006.

“Remodernizing Myth: Jane Ellen Harrison and Virginia Woolf.” International Virginia Woolf Society’s Annual Conference June 22 – 25, 2006, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.

“Ghostings: Lesbian Collaboration in the Modernist Text—Jane Ellen Harrison and Hope Mirrlees.” Seminar discussant for Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 3 – 6, 2005.

“Tea and Sympathy: Domestic Subversive Space in Virginia Woolf’s The Years.” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, Lewis and Clark University, Portland, Oregon, June 9 – 12, 2005.

“Violence into Speech: Virginia Woolf as Pacifist Other and My Lessons from the Homefront.” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 21-24, 2004.

“Female Militaristic Desire and Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.” Back to Bloomsbury International Virginia Woolf Society Conference, London University, London, England, June 23-26, 2004.

“Gertrude Stein, the Great Great Grand M/F of Rap? ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ and the Rap/Hip-Hop/Spoken Word Aesthetic.” English Students’ Association Conference, “Locating Love,” The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2003.

“Gender Transgressiveness: Identity and Politics in Stein’s Paris France & Wars I have

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Seen.” GBLT Symposium, University of Rhode Island, April 3-5, 2003.

“Legends of the Good: Lillian D. Wald and Kathy Goldman,” accepted for College English Association’s National Conference, St. Petersburg, FL April 3-5, 2003.

“Enjoying the Apocalypse” and “La-La-La.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association’s Annual Conference, Creative Writing Panelist, New Orleans, April 2003, short stories.

“Alice Walker’s Ladder.” 26th Annual CAWS Conference/Writing to Heal/Writing to Learn, Panelist, New York City Technical College, November 2002. Essay on writing after 9/11.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Fall ’07- present Assistant Professor, John Jay College /City University of New York

ENG 101 John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline Program (F’12) Otisville State Penitentiary, Otisville, NY LIT 375 Women Write the Great War (S’12) LIT 400 Senior Seminar in Literature: “Finding the Lost Generation: Post-War Literature of 1920’s” (F’12) LIT 327 Literature of Crime and Punishment (S’ 11) LIT 300 Text and Context—Virginia Woolf (F’ 10, F’09) LIT 260 Introduction to Literary Studies (S’ 10; 2 sections) LIT 400 Independent Study: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Literary Aftermath of World War I (S’ 10) LIT 230 Classical Literature (S’ 10; 2 sections) (F’09; 2 sections) LIT 290 Radical Literature (LIT elective) (Summer ’10) LIT 290 From Iraq and Back: War Writings, 1914 – present (LIT elective) (S’09) LIT 360 Mythology in Literature (S’08) LIT 232 Modern Literature (8 sections) (F’07 – Spr/Sum ’08; S’12) ENG 101 Freshman Composition (F’07)

Jan ’00-May ’07 Graduate Teaching Fellow A, Hunter College/City University of New York

One Major Author: Virginia Woolf The Status of Liberty in the Victorian Age Modernist Expatriate Literature: 20th Century Writers in Paris Romantic Poetry Honors College English Advanced Expository Writing Introduction to Literature 7 | Page

March 2, ’07 and

Sept 10, ‘12 Guest Lecturer-City College/City University of New York

Taught master’s level class for Professor Jane Marcus on Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: A Poem and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the relationship between these two poems and Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison.

Sept ‘05- Jan ‘07 Instructor, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

Freshman Comp/English 105 and Freshman Intro to Lit/English 106.

Jan ‘00 -June ‘03 Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College/City University of New York; Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York/Borough of Manhattan Community College Intro to Comp and Lit classes.

Aug - Dec 1999 Adjunct Lecturer, SUNY/New Paltz; Adjunct Instructor, SUNY/Ulster. Introduction to Comp and Lit classes.

Other teaching/instructional responsibilities:

Supervised Research/Advisor: “The Forgotten Land: Hope Mirrlees’s Modernist Fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist,” Jennifer Faust, Award-winner for Outstanding English Essay 2012, Completion date: January 2012.

Supervised Research/Advisor: “Concealment, Control, and a Culture of War in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room,” Jamie Bridgewater, Selected for John Jay’s Finest, May 2012, Completion Date: December 2011.

Supervised Research/Advisor: “Anchors in a Sea of Chaos: Paris Nightclubs and Found Families, 1920-1939,” C.C. Reilly, Selected for John Jay’s Finest, May 2012, Completion Date: December 2011.

Independent Study/Advisor: “The Literary Aftermath of World War I”, Joseph Onwu, Completion Date, May 2010. I continue to mentor him as he pursues his law degree.

Honors Thesis Supervision/Advisor: “ ‘Only for a Moment it was a Sudden Revelation’: An Analysis of Heterosexual Anxiety and Queer Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”, Rachel N. Ramirez, Completion Date: June 2010. I continue to mentor her as she pursues a doctoral degree in English.

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Formal Academic Advisement: Academic Advisor, English Major (S’12, F ’11, F’10, S’10, F’09, S’08)

Curriculum Development and Assessment: Developing War Literature Course

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Department: Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee for English Minor program, Committee Member, Appointed Fall 2011- Spring 2012 Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee for General Education program, Committee Member, Appointed Sept-Oct 2011. Personnel & Budget Committee, 2010-2011. Curriculum Committee, 2009-2010. Major Advisory Committee, 2008-2009. Search Committee, Hispanic/Caribbean/Latin@ line, English Dept. 2007-2008.

College: Faculty Senate, Committee Member, Elected, May 2012- present. College Council, Committee Member, Elected, May 2012 – present. Human Rights Certificate Program, Exploratory Committee, S’ 09-F’11.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

The International Virginia Woolf Society The Modernist Studies Association The Space Between 1914-1945 Society The Modern Language Association

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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