Department of English, Wake Forest University P.O. Box 7387, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 E-Mail: [email protected]/Phone: (203) 606-3824/Website: Randisaloman.Com
RANDI SALOMAN Department of English, Wake Forest University P.O. Box 7387, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 e-mail: [email protected]/phone: (203) 606-3824/website: randisaloman.com
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, 2012. Paperback Edition, June 2014. Editor, Arnold Bennett, The Grand Babylon Hotel. Under contract with Broadview Press. Hotels and Modern Literature. In progress.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES “‘Unsolved Problems’: Essayism, Counterfactuals, and the Futures of A Room of One’s Own.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 32.1 (Spring 2013): 53-73. “Arnold Bennett’s Hotels.” Twentieth-Century Literature, 58.1 (Spring 2012): 1-25. “‘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 and ‘The Dead.’” Under Review at Modernist Cultures. “‘We Refuse to Be Each Other’: Zadie Smith’s Connection to E.M. Forster.” In progress.
BOOK REVIEWS Review of Rob Hawkes, Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns. Journal of Modern Literature, forthcoming. Review of Ruth Hoberman, Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism. Modernist Cultures, forthcoming 10.1 (2015). Review of Judith Allen, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language. Woolf Studies Annual 17 (2011): 248-252. “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 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 Reassessment.” In An Arnold Bennett Companion: Essays for the Twenty-First Century, edited by John Shapcott. Leek: Churnet Valley Books, forthcoming 2014.
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS, NOTES, AND MISCELLANY “Vicki Baum.” Encyclopedia entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2014). “Arnold Bennett.” Encyclopedia entry for Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (2011). “‘Directly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different’: Hotel Life and The Voyage Out.” In Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2010): 167-172. “‘I never know by whom I am surrounded’: Identity and Transience in Arnold Bennett’s Hotels.” In Collected Papers of the 3rd Annual Arnold Bennett Society Conference (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.
PRESENTATIONS “‘Eternally Impatient’: Domesticity, Nostalgia, and the Contemporary Hotel Novel.” Modernist Studies Association Conference (MSA), Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, November 2014. “‘Don’t Split’: Editing Arnold Bennett's Grand Babylon Hotel for the 21st-Century.” Edwardian Culture Network Symposium, University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK, October 2014. “‘We refuse to be each other’: Zadie Smith’s Connection to E.M. Forster.” MSA, University of Sussex, August 2013. “Henry James, Hotel Child,” SAMLA, Durham, North Carolina, November 2012. “‘Forever missing things’: Henry James’s Hotels and The Ambassadors,” MSA, 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,” MSA, Buffalo, New York, October 2011. “‘Life conflicts with something that is not life’: Essayistic Speculation in A Room of One’s Own,” International Virginia Woolf Society Conference (IVWS), University of Glasgow, June 2011. “‘Clothes are Half the Battle’: Cosmopolitan Fashion at the Grand Hotel,” MSA, McGill University, Montreal, November 2009. “‘[D]irectly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different’: Hotel Life and The Voyage Out,” IVWS, 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 (MLA), 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,” MSA, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2004. “‘I never felt it in the least about the others’: From The Pargiters to The Years: The Importance of Woolf’s Essay-Novel,” 20th-Century Colloquium, Yale University, May 2004. “‘Here Again is the Usual Door’: Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting and the Permeability of the Essay.” IVWS, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, June 2003.
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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Faculty Development Award 2014, 2010 Archie Research and Travel Award, Wake Forest University 2011, 2012, 2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University 2008—2010 Yale Center for British Art Summer Travel Grants 2004, 2006 Beinecke Library James Osborn Fellowship 2005—2006 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship 2004—2005 Enders Foundation Research Fellowships 2004, 2005
TEACHING INTERESTS Modern Prose and Poetry Anglophone/Post-45 Literature Twentieth-Century Novel British Literature Survey The Edwardians Gender Studies History of the Essay Victorian Literature
COURSES TAUGHT INSTRUCTOR Wake Forest University ENGL 396/696 Contemporary British Fiction ENGL 165 Studies in British Literature ENGL 150 Hotel Stories WR 111 Downton Abbey: The Golden Age of Edwardian England WR 111 Travel, Tourism, and the Hotel
Cornell University ENGL 3500 The Modern Tradition ENGL 2700 The Reading of Fiction ENGL 1185 20th-Century Hotel Narratives
Wesleyan University ENGL 292 The Bloomsbury Group ENGL 270 No Way Home: Domesticity in Modern Fiction ENGL 114/COL 112 The Essay ENGL 105/COL 107 Cities and Modern Literature
Yale University ENGL 115/117 Introduction to Literary Study I & II ENGL 127 American Literature Survey
TEACHING FELLOW Yale University DEVN 199 De Vane Lectures on “Keywords” (Lecturer: Annabel Patterson) ENGL 301 Modern British Novel (Lecturers: William Deresiewicz [2002]; Laura Frost [2003]) ENGL 265 Victorian Novel (Lecturer: Ruth Yeazell)
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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)
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH SEMINARS “Architectural Modernism” (Catherine Flynn, Chair), MSA, Las Vegas, October 2012. “Is there a Future for Women’s Studies in Modernism?” (Mark Hussey and Jane Garrity, Chairs), MSA, Victoria, Canada, November 2010. “History Across the Disciplines” (Jason Frank, Derk Pereboom, and Annette Richards, Conveners), Mellon Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2009-2010. “Modernist Studies without Modernism” (Collin Gillis and Andrew Goldstone, Chairs), MSA, Montreal, November 2009. “The Human” (Laura Brown and Stephen Hilgartener, Conveners), Mellon Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2008-2009. “Modernism and Home” (Christopher Reed and Mary Wilson, Chairs), MSA, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, November 2008. “In/Hospitable Modernities” (Jeannie Im and Nicole Rizzuto, Chairs), MSA, Long Beach, California, November 2007. “The Author Business” (Alison Booth, Chair), MSA, Loyola University, Chicago, November 2005. “Generic Modernism” (Sean Latham, Chair), MSA, Vancouver, October 2004.
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,” MSA, Buffalo, October 2011 Chair, Panel, “Beyond the Flâneuse: Women in the Modernist City,” MSA, Victoria, Canada, November 2010 Co-coordinator: Wesleyan College of Letters Lecture Series (2007-2008) Organizer, Panel, “Modernism Recalled, Reused, Reimagined,” MSA, Sussex, UK, August 2013 Organizer, Panel, “Public Space, Private Life,” MSA, Buffalo, October 2011 Organizer, Panel, “Weimar Germany through Foreign Eyes,” MSA, Montreal, November 2009 Organizer, Panel, “Leaving the City Behind: Virginia Woolf’s Travelers,” IVWS, 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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LANGUAGES Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Spanish
MEMBERSHIPS Arnold Bennett Society Committee Member International Virginia Woolf Society Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Space Between Society
REFERENCES Laura Brown, John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Cornell University Phone: (607) 255-5180 E-mail: [email protected]
Anne Fernald, Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing and Composition at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York City Phone: (212) 636-7613 E-mail: [email protected]
Laura Frost, Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Liberal Studies, Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York City Phone: (212) 229-5100 ext. 3473 E-mail: [email protected]
Molly Hite, Professor of English, Cornell University Phone: (607) 255-9317 E-mail: [email protected]
Mark Hussey, Professor of English, Pace University Phone: (212) 346-1658 E-mail: [email protected]
Scott Klein, Professor and Chair of English, Wake Forest University Phone: (336) 758-5399 E-mail: [email protected]