Julia Leigh Eichelberger Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1992 Major: 20th-century British and Minor: 19th-century British literature Dissertation: "Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, , , and ." (Directed by Trudier Harris)

M.A. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1985

A.B. cum laude, English, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1981

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Professor of English, The College of Charleston (Fall 2006) (Assistant Professor, 1992-98; Associate Professor, 1998- 2006) Courses taught: Composition and Literature (101 and 102); Introduction to Academic Writing (110), Honors English (105 and 106); Survey of American Literature Since 1865 (206); Survey of American Literature (207); Survey of African American Literature (313, 517); African American Novel (370); Bellow and Malamud (350); Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature (344, 345); Modern American Poetry (532); Eudora Welty and the American South (700); Women Writers (336); Introduction to American Studies (AMST 200); Jewish-American Fiction (354); American Novel 1900-1965 (356); American Poetry Since 1945 (359); Charleston Writers (400); African American Literature of the South (573); Contemporary American Poetry (517); Twentieth- Century Southern Literature (341 and 512).

Teaching Assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1985-87, 1991-92 Major American Authors; Film Criticism; Composition (English 1); Argument (English 2); Business Writing.

Visiting Lecturer, Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC, 1989. Introduction to Literature (Adult Degree Program).

Visiting Lecturer, Davidson College, 1988. Freshman Composition.

Teacher, Marymount School, Richmond, VA, 1981-83. English, grades 9-12.

PUBLICATIONS:

Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches. Co-editor with Mae Miller Claxton. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi. Under contract.

“Teaching Welty Through Her Letters.” Forthcoming in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi.

Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2013, paperback edition (with corrections) 2015.

Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2013.

“Excerpt from Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949.” Eudora Welty Review 5 (2013): 27-44.

"Rethinking the Unthinkable: Tracing Welty's Changing View of the Color Line in Letters, Essays, and The Optimist’s Daughter." Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race. Ed. Harriet Pollack. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012. 225-252.

“A Southern Literary Critic In the Making.” Review of Uptown, Downtown in Old Charleston: Sketches and Stories (Louis D. Rubin). The South Carolina Review 45.1 (2012): 173-175.

“Correspondences and Inspirations: The Hurston-Rawlings and Welty-Maxwell Friendships.” Essay review of Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of and (Anna Lillios), and What There Is to Say, We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell (Suzanne Marrs, editor). Southern Literary Journal 45.1 (Fall 2012), 145-49.

“Mountaintop Visions of Faulkner, Welty, and Noel Polk.” Essay Review of Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition (Noel Polk). The Southern Quarterly 67.2 (Winter 2010): 132-139.

Book review. South of Broad (Pat Conroy). Charleston Magazine, August 2009.

“Historicizing The Ponder Heart.” Eudora Welty Review 1 (2009): 135-142.

“‘The Way for Girls in the World’: Laura’s Escape from Drowning in Delta Wedding.” Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding, ed. Reine Bouton. New York: Rodopi Press, 2008. 47-63.

“Making a Place for the Artist’s Voice in The Robber Bridegroom.” Eudora Welty Newsletter 30.1 (Winter 2006). 25-31.

“.” “Eliza Lucas Pinckney.” “Eliza Yonge Wilkinson.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. LSU Press, 2006.

“Spiritual Regeneration in E. L. Doctorow’s ‘Heist’ and City of God.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 24 (2005): 82-94.

Book review. Mr Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance, by Harlan Greene. The Georgia Historical Quarterly 86 (Summer 2002) 322-324.

“Historicizing The Ponder Heart.” Eudora Welty Newsletter 25.2 (Summer 2001): 15-19.

“‘Acts of Love’: Two Anthologies of African American Literature.” Essay Review. Mississippi Quarterly 53.1 (Winter 2000): 111-129.

Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ellison, Morrison, Bellow, and Welty. LSU Press, 1999.

Postscript: Publications of the Philological Association of the Carolinas 16 (1999). (Editor.)

Postscript: Publications of the Philological Association of the Carolinas 15 (1998). (Associate Editor.)

“Renouncing ‘The World’s Business’ In Seize the Day.” Studies In American Jewish Literature 17 (1998): 61-81.

"From Medusa to Sibyl: Welty's Art as Cultural Critique." Essay Review. Mississippi Quarterly 56.2 (Spring 1993): 299-304.

PRESENTATIONS:

“1930s and 40s Radio and Recordings in Welty’s Letters and Fiction,” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2016.

“‘Or Maybe It’s Dreaming’: The Life of an Artist.” Presentation for panel, “Margaret Walker Alexander, Eudora Welty, and the Making of Literary Jackson.” Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson, MS, August 22, 2015.

“Welty’s 1940s Gardening Letters.” Presentation for panel, “Eudora Welty: Letters, Flowers, Loves, and the Latest Scholarship, “ Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson, MS, August 22, 2015. Also broadcast on CSPAN2 Book TV.

“Welty’s 1940s Gardening Letters.” Presentation for panel, “Eudora Welty: Photos and Flowers,” Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA, August 30, 2014.

“Intimate Friendship and Extravagant Performance: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Frank Lyell.” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, Washington, DC, May 2014.

“Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters,” Solo presenter at Southern Festival of the Book, Nashville, TN, October 11, 2013.

“Other Weltys, Other Winds.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Arlington, VA, 2014.

“Ecstasy and Agency in Welty’s Letters and The Bride of the Innisfallen.” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2013.

“Tell About Night Flowers, Tell About the South: Transcendence and History in Welty’s Postwar Fiction.” Eudora Welty Society International Conference, College Station, TX, April 2013.

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Charleston: The Cultural Work of Charleston Writers.” Southeastern American Studies Association, Charleston, SC, January 2013.

“Secrets, Revelations, and Transformations in Welty’s ‘The Whole World Knows.’” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, May 26, 2012.

“Inventing Southern Commemorations: Real and Imagined Anniversaries in Louis D. Rubin’s The Golden Weather.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Nashville, TN, March 29, 2102.

“Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters and Her Artistic Development, 1940-1949.” Starkville, MS. Starkville Reads! Public Lecture. October 21, 2011.

“The Rewards of Re-reading The Optimist’s Daughter.” Starkville, MS, Starkville Reads! Public Lecture. October 20, 2011.

“Cultivating Friendship and Selfhood in Eudora Welty’s Letters.” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2010.

“Dangerous Carnivals in Eudora Welty’s Letters and The Optimist’s Daughter.” Eudora Welty Society, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, New Orleans, LA, April 2010.

“The Discourse of Gardening in Welty’s Letters to John Robinson.” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, Boston, May 2009.

“In Search of Eudora’s Gardens.” Eudora Welty Centennial Conference, Jackson, MS, April 2009.

“Bizarre Confluences: Eudora Welty in the Pages of Harper’s Bazaar.” Eudora Welty Society, American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2008

“History, Intertextuality, and Artistic Anxiety in Welty’s ‘Asphodel.’” Society for Study of Southern Literature, Williamsburg, VA, April 2008.

“The Fate of the Liberal Imagination in Eudora Welty’s ‘A Curtain of Green.’” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Birmingham, AL, March 31, 2006.

“The Discourse of Sexual Violence in Welty’s Narratives of Infidelity.” Eudora Welty Society, South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, October 29, 2004.

“The Place Welty Made in Her First Novel.” Eudora Welty Session, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2004.

“The Psychic Weight of Material Objects in Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings.” South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2002.

“Historical and Literary Lynchings in Eudora Welty’s Fiction.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Lafayette, LA, March 2002.

“Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah and Mother Love: The Narrative Context of the Lyric Moment.” American Women Writers of Color, Ocean City, MD. October 2001.

Respondent, panel on “Images of Plantations in Southern Literature,” at “Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry,” Charleston, April 2000.

“Historicizing Eudora Welty’s The Ponder Heart.” American Literature Session, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 2000.

“‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken’: The African American Presence in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Session of South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 1997.

“The Democratizing Humor of Lake Wobegon Days.” Session Honoring Norman Olsen, Jr., Philological Association of the Carolinas, 7 March 1997.

“Invisible Man: Ellison’s Hymn to Democracy,” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Session, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 9 November 1996.

“‘Somebody With Hands Who Does Not Want Me To Die’: Family and Ideology in The Bluest Eye.” MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Session, South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, 13 November 1994.

“‘Vulgar Multiculturalism’ And The Role Of Ethnic Studies In A Multicultural Mainstream.” MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Session, South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, 6 November 1993.

"A Morality Play Loses Its Nerve: The Decline of Twin Peaks." Salisbury Conference on Literature, Film, and the Humanities, 7 June 1991.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

President, Eudora Welty Society, 2106-18. Vice President, 2014-2016.

Volume Advisor, “Ragtime: E. L. Doctorow,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 363. Gale Cengage Learning, 2015.

Volume Advisor, “The Book of Daniel: E. L. Doctorow,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 366. Gale Cengage Learning, 2015.

Outside reviewer of submission for Mississippi Quarterly, 2013, 2010.

Outside reviewer of submission for MELUS, March 2010.

Member, Selection Committee. Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Holman Prize, awarded annually to best book on Southern literature. Member, 2006, 2007, and 2008 committees. Chair, 2007 committee.

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Associate Chair: January-July 2016; January 2010-July 2011

Interim Director, M.A. Program in English: January-July 2008

Department Committees Ad Hoc Personnel Committees Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in African American Literature (2016) Search Committee for Asst. Professor in American Literature, First-Year Writing (2013) Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Poetry Writing (2009, 2012) Search for Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Anglophone Literatures (2010) Search Committee for Visiting Instructor in First-Year Writing (2008)

Coordinator, Formative Teaching Observation and Development. 2014-15, 2015-16.

Events Committee (2011-12, 2012-13, F 2013)

First-Year Writing (2005-6, 2006-7, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11)

Curriculum (2006-7)

Other Departmental Committees Honors; Sense of Community; Personnel; Technology; Library; Assessment

Departmental Senator

Departmental Workshops and Presentations

“Teaching the Annotated Bibliography in English 110.” September 18, 2013.

“Advising Students in the New Major.” January 2010.

“New Configurations for English 101 and 102 Syllabi” January and March 2005

“Valentines: Love Poems By African American Writers.” Co-organizer: poetry reading by students and faculty, open to all students. February 14, 2005.

“Composition Pedagogy—Theory and Practice.” 12 January 2004

“Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.” Moderator and organizer: panel discussion for English 102 students and the general public. February 2003.

“Teaching Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Theme Day Workshop, January 2002.

“Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Freshman Composition.” Sabbatical Lecture, January 2000.

COLLEGE-WIDE SERVICE College-wide Committees Budget Committee (2011-12; chair 2012-13, 2014-16) Committee on Academic Planning (Secretary, 2008-9, Chair, 2009-2011) 2012 Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Chair) Provost’s Planning and Priorities Committee (2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-12) Ad Hoc Committee on General Education (Chair), 2005-2007 Graduate Advisory Council (Spring 2008) Faculty Welfare Committee (Chair 00-01, 01-02) Honors Program Committee (Chair 95-96, 96-97, 97-98) Long-Range Planning and Coordinating Committee Working Group President’s Advisory Committee (93-94, 94-95)

Other College service:

SACSCOC Writing Group, 2015-16 ARG Reader for Assessment of General Education First-Year Writing Requirement, 2016 Faculty Administrative Fellow, Office of Academic Affairs, 2013-2015 At-large HSS Faculty Senator (2010-12, 2014-16) At-large Faculty Senator (2006-7, 2008-9, 2009-10) Member, SACS review committee (assisted in researching and writing portions of the SACS accreditation report; met with on-site SACS representatives), 2006-7 Attendee, "Making Place Matter," AASCU conference, Chicago, May 2006), representing the College of Charleston along with 5 other team members. Faculty Senate Secretary (2002-2005) Member, Avery Advisory Board, 1993-1997

Campus Presentations:

Honors College Faculty Lecture Series presentation, “The Letters of Eudora Welty,” April 11, 2014.

Theme Day Panelist: Brenda Marie Osbey, Spring 2008. Toni Morrison, Spring 2002. August Wilson, Spring 1997.

Moderator, Panel Discussion of W. E. B. DuBois for College’s Centennial Commemoration of Souls of Black Folk, October 3, 2003

Designer, Website on DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, and African American spirituals http://www.cofc.edu/~eichelbe/Links

Panelist, Forum on African American Studies at the College of Charleston, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 6 September 2001.

Discussion Leader, Readers’ Theater Productions: “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been” (Fall 98), “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (Fall 99), “Why I Live at the P.O.” (Fall 2000), “Two Short Stories by Hemingway” (Fall 2001).

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Judge, Poetry Out Loud Region 3 Competition, College of Charleston, January 24, 2016. January 24 2010.

Lecturer on book Tell About Night Flowers: August 1 2013 (Charleston County Library), Unitarian Church of Charleston (September 22 2013); Hobcaw Garden Club (February 11, 2014); Center for Creative Retirement (March 4, 2014).

Coordinator, Poetry Out Loud Region 3 Competition, sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, January 13, 2013; January 26, 2014.

Lecturer, Starkville Reads!, October 2011, Starkville MS. Lectures: “The Rewards of Re-reading The Optimist’s Daughter” and “Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters.”

Lecturer on Eudora Welty, Lowcountry Senior Center, James Island, 21 October 2009.

Author, program notes on works performed by Mepkin Abbey Vocal Arts Ensemble, 2001-2007: Bach’s St. John Passion, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Monteverdi’s and Bach’s Magnificat, Durufle’s Requiem, Bruckner’s and Handel’s Te Deum, Handel’s Israel In Egypt, Bach’s Jesu, Meine Freude.

Author and editor, City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, Piccolo Spoleto programs, 2004-2008.

Author, 6 interpretive booklets on liturgical seasons, 4 program notes for concerts, for First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, 1998-2008.

Mentor, Academic Magnet High School Senior Thesis Projects: Janelle Ferguson, 1996-97; Takeisha Taylor, 2002-03.

Judge, essay contest for Burke High School Band Boosters scholarship, March 2002.

Lecturer on Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, Charleston County Library’s “Let’s Talk About It” Reading and Discussion Series, 2002.

Lecturer for Laura Bragg Society, Center for Creative Retirement, Shepherd Center, German Teachers Institute, Avery Institute, Jewish Studies Lunch Discussions (1990s).

Panelist, In-Service Workshop for Charleston County Schools, Teachers of African American Studies. 26 August 1993.

Minicourse on and Saul Bellow, open to community. Offered through Jewish Studies Curriculum. March-April 1994.

AWARDS:

Distinguished Service Award, College of Charleston, 2011

Distinguished Advising Award, College of Charleston, 2011

MEMBERSHIPS: Society for the Study of Southern Literature; Eudora Welty Society