Johanna Brinkley Tomlinson 308 English-Philosophy Building The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Iowa, Department of English, August 2014 Dissertation: “Playing with Words: Child Voices in British Fantasy Literature for Children 1749-1906,” Teresa Mangum (director)
M.A. University of Iowa, Department of English, May 2012, en passant
B.A. Valparaiso University, May 2008, summa cum laude English and Humanities, Classical Language (minor), Christ College Scholar
ARTICLES
“‘as natural as oak growing’: Children, Empire, and Agency in Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 39.2 Summer 2014.
BOOK REVIEW
Review. William Gray. Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Forthcoming.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Ballard Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Iowa, Graduate College, 2013-2014.
Freda Dixon Malone Research Scholarship, University of Iowa, Department of English, 2013.
Post Comprehensive Exams Fellowship, University of Iowa, Department of English, 2012.
Dickens Universe Travel Award, University of Iowa, Department of English, 2011.
Graduate Fellow, Lilly Fellows Program in the Arts and Humanities, 2008-2011.
Mabel M. Wilson Archbold Scholarship, Wells County Foundation, 2006-2013.
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 2008.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Crossing Classifications: History and Fantasy in E. Nesbit’s The Story of the Amulet.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, London, Ontario, Accepted for Nov. 2014.
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“Diverging from Fact: Child Storytellers and the Fantasy of Empire.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Columbia, SC, June 2014.
“Playing in the Past: Heirs of Empire in E. Nesbit’s The Story of the Amulet.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Biloxi, MS, June 2013.
“Customs of Education from Sarah Fielding to Mary Martha Sherwood: Re-writing Reading in The Governess.” British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2013.
“‘as natural as oak growing’: Children and Empire in Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Roanoke, VA, June 2011.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT
Panel Organizer “Women’s Writing Declassified: Writing on the Generic Edge.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, London, Ontario, Accepted for Nov. 2014.
Chair, Panel “Divergent Spaces in 19th Century Literature for Children.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Columbia, SC, June 2014.
Chair, Panel “The Thin Line Between Fantasy and Reality.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Biloxi, MS, June 2013.
Chair, Panel “Children and Empire in Kipling.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Roanoke, VA, June 2011.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth-Century British Literature Periodical Studies Victorian Literature Fantasy Literature Children’s Literature Women in Literature Empire and Imperialism Rhetoric and Composition
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
All courses independently designed and taught. Victorian Literature: Narratives of Growing Up Victorian (1 section). University of Iowa, Fall 2014. This course for majors paired children’s literature alongside novels and poetry that foreground growth and maturation as a central concern. Students were asked to consider how these texts employ narrative techniques to construct specific views of childhood and to look carefully at the interplay between “adult” and “child” voices. Course readings included Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Tomlinson 3
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, and E. Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle.
Interpretation of Literature, General Education Literature Program (5 sections). University of Iowa, Fall 2011, Fall 2012-Spring 2013, Upcoming Spring 2014. This course asks non-majors to engage in the work of literary interpretation through the study of texts that span genres, time periods, and cultural moments. Moving through units focused on Reader, Text, and World, students were asked to think critically about themselves as readers, to attend to the nuances of literary language, and to take into account diverse historical and cultural perspectives. The course also emphasized argumentative writing and discussion participation. Authors included Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Alice Walker, Oscar Wilde, Dr. Seuss, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Tim O’Brien, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Susan Glaspell. Accelerated Rhetoric (4 sections) & Rhetoric II (1 section). University of Iowa, Fall 2009-Fall 2010. These courses built students’ analytical and persuasive speaking and writing skills through studying and responding to contemporary controversies. Topics explored in different sections included controversies surrounding advertising, food, media violence, and gender roles. Additionally, students developed skills in research and visual analysis.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Iowa. Fall 2014-Spring 2015.
Graduate Instructor, General Education Literature Program, English Department, University of Iowa. Fall 2011, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Speaking Center Consultant, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa. Tutored undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty in public speaking, including non-native speakers of English. Spring 2011-Spring 2012.
Speaking Center Instructor Consultant, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa. Worked one-on- one with Rhetoric instructors to improve course design and assignments. Spring 2012.
Graduate Instructor, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa. Fall 2009-Fall 2010.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to the English Major” (2 sections), Prof. Lori Branch and Prof. Doris Witt, University of Iowa. Led discussion sections of a large lecture course and graded assignments. Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Research Assistant, Prof. Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa. Procured research materials, responded to work-in-progress, copy-edited manuscript. Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Assignment Design Institute. Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning, University of Iowa, March 2013.
Rewiring the Classroom: a Forum on Digital Pedagogy for the College Classroom, University of Iowa, Feb. 2013.
Professional Development Program, General Education Literature Program, University of Iowa, Fall 2011.
Dickens Universe. The Dickens Project, Santa Cruz, CA, August 2011.
Professional Development Program, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa, Fall 2009.
SERVICE
Graduate Student Mentor, Association of Graduate Students in English, University of Iowa, Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Textbook Committee Member, General Education Literature Program, University of Iowa, Fall 2011. Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee, English Department, University of Iowa, Fall 2010. Co-president, Association of Graduate Students in English, University of Iowa, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association North American Victorian Studies Association Children’s Literature Association
REFERENCES
Teresa Mangum, Professor of English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Obermann Center, University of Iowa Obermann Center, 111 Church Street, Iowa City, IA 52242 [email protected] (319) 335-5034
Florence Boos, Professor of English, University of Iowa Department of English, 308 English-Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242 [email protected] (319) 335-0434
Brooks Landon, Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Professor of English, University of Iowa Department of English, 308 English-Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242 Tomlinson 5
[email protected] (319) 335-0454
Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books, Pepperdine University 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263-4225 [email protected] (310) 506-7708