<p>09/30/2016</p><p>CURRICULUM VITAE</p><p>DR. JENNIFER SCHELL formerly Jennifer Allen</p><p>English Department University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 755720 Fairbanks, AK 99775 (907) 474-1982</p><p>EDUCATION:</p><p>Ph.D. in English/Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 M.A. in English, University of Georgia, 1998 B.A. in Anthropology, Emory University, 1996</p><p>CURRENT POSITION:</p><p>Associate Professor, English Department, Northern Studies Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (2014-present)</p><p>PUBLICATIONS:</p><p>Books:</p><p>“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2013.</p><p>Articles:</p><p>“EcoGothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth” (Forthcoming in Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature from Ashgate Publishing.)</p><p>“Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects of Owen Wister’s Yellowstone Stories.” (Forthcoming in Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture from Lexington Books).</p><p>1 “Teaching about Biodiversity and Extinction in a Thawing Arctic: A Reflective Essay.” (Forthcoming in Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments from Michigan State University Press).</p><p>“The Annihilation of Self and Species: Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ecogothic Sensibilities.” (Forthcoming in The Gothic and Death from Manchester University Press.)</p><p>“Nature.” (Forthcoming in Herman Melville in Context from Cambridge University Press.)</p><p>“‘In the Heart of the Dark Wilderness’: The Short Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Ecogothic.” (Forthcoming in Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, and Approaches from AMS Press, Inc.)</p><p>“Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s ‘A Dying Race.’” The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World. Eds. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.</p><p>“Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs.” Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History, and Criticism. Eds. Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, and Nicklas Hållén. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.</p><p>“‘I Was Now Living in a New World’: Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford’s Cosmopolitan Locality.” Mapping Region in Early American Writing . Eds. Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.</p><p>“‘The Eskimos Knew Better’: Representations of Arctic Whaling in Charles Brower’s Fifty Years Below Zero.” Northern Review 40 (2015): 1-23.</p><p>“‘We Account the Whale Immortal’: Fantasies of Ecological Abundance and Discourses of Extinction in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Critical Insights: Moby-Dick. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2014. 209-28.</p><p>“The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers.” Western American Literature 47.2 (2012): 132-51.</p><p>“‘The Most Virtuous and Independent Citizens’: Farmers, Whalemen, and Factory Workers and the Americanization of Manly Physical Laborers.” Cercles. 19 (2009): 67-76.</p><p>2 “Ed Gentry’s ‘Man Crush’: Idolatry, Power, and Love in James Dickey’s Deliverance.” The Way We Read James Dickey: A New Collection of Essays. Eds. William Thesing and Theda Wrede. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2009.</p><p>“Figurative Surveying: National Space and the Nantucket Chapters of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” Early American Literature. 43.3 (2008): 581-604.</p><p>“‘This Life Is a Stage’: Performing the South in William Wells Brown’s Clotel or, The President’s Daughter.” Southern Quarterly. 45.3 (2008): 48-69.</p><p>“American Fantasies of Masculine Physical Labor and the Dangerous Bodies of Pacific Island Whalemen in Roger Starbuck’s The Golden Harpoon and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 7.1 (2007).</p><p>Book Reviews:</p><p>Rev. of Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul by Gina Freitag and André Loiselle. (forthcoming in The Goose).</p><p>Rev. of Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science by Robert M. Thorson. (forthcoming in ISLE).</p><p>Rev. of Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Aaron M. Moe. Journal of Ecocriticism 7.1 (2015): 15-16.</p><p>Rev. of In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage by Jay Ruzesky. The Goose 13.2 (2015): 1-3.</p><p>Rev. of Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man by David Remley. Western American Literature 47.1 (2012): 113-14.</p><p>Rev. of Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness by Bill Sherwonit. Western American Literature 46.1 (2011): 100-101.</p><p>GRANTS AND AWARDS:</p><p>Awards:</p><p>Green Carpet Award Winner—UAF Office of Sustainability</p><p>“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen—Winner of Honorable Mention Award (category U.S. Maritime History) in the John Lyman </p><p>3 Book Awards sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History, May 2014.</p><p>“‘A Bold and Hardy Race of Men’: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen”—Winner of Honorable Mention Award in NeMLA’s annual contest for best unpublished book manuscript, Spring 2011. </p><p>Nominee for Wichita State University’s Academy for Effective Teaching Award, 2008-2009.</p><p>Grants:</p><p>UNAC Travel Grant: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 NeMLA Travel Funding: 2011 Summer Sessions Travel Grant: 2013, 2014 CLA Dean’s Office Travel Grant: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015</p><p>ACADEMIC TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS:</p><p>“Reframing Understandings of the North: Placing Social Sciences and Humanities at the Center of Interdisciplinary Arctic Research.” Arctic Science Summit, Fairbanks, AK. March 2016.</p><p>“‘Annihilated Antechronical Leviathans’: EcoGothic Representations of Extinction in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” MLA, Austin, TX. January 2016.</p><p>“Voices from the Forecastle: The Whaleman Poet and the Art of Physical Labor.” Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies, Anchorage, AK. February 2015.</p><p>“Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs.” University of Alaska Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. February 2015.</p><p>“‘Their dexterity in killing the whale is not easily described’: Colonial-Era Representations of the Indigenous Whalemen of the Pacific Northwest.” Western Literature Association Conference, Victoria, BC. November 2014.</p><p>“‘We Account the Whale Immortal’: Fantasies of Arctic Abundance in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Early American Whaling Narratives.” Arctic Science Conference, Fairbanks, AK. September 2014.</p><p>“A Bold & Hardy Race of Men: The Lives & Literature of American Whalemen.” University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK. July 2014.</p><p>4 “‘What I Did Not Propose to Dwell Upon’: The Discourse of Religious and Scientific Inquiry and Cotton Mather’s The Thankful Christian.” MLA, Chicago, IL. January 2014.</p><p>“‘A Bold and Hardy Race of Men’: Antebellum American Whaling Narratives and Fantasies of Manly Productive Physical Labor.” MLA, Chicago, IL. January 2014.</p><p>“‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” The Ninth International Melville Conference: Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After, Washington, D.C. June 2013. </p><p>“The West in Black, White, and Grey: The Artistic Antecedents of Rick Spears and Rob Goodridge’s Dead West.” Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, Anchorage, AK. March 2013.</p><p>“The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers.” University of Alaska Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. April 2012.</p><p>“‘My Man Friday’: Illustrated Editions of Robinson Crusoe and Representations of Manly Inter-Racial Friendship.” Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, Anchorage, AK. March 2012.</p><p>“‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” MLA, Seattle, WA. January, 2012. </p><p>“Imagining Heroic American Manhood: Nineteenth-Century New England Whalemen and Rocky Mountain Fur Trappers.” Hungry Ocean: Literary Culture and the Maritime Environment, Providence, RI. April 2011.</p><p>“‘This Life is a Stage’: Performing the South in William Wells Brown’s Clotel or, The President’s Daughter.” ALA, San Francisco, CA. May 2010.</p><p>“Northeastern Urbanity, Southern Gentility, and Western Ruggedness Masculinity in Owen Wister’s The Virginian.” University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Humanities Colloquium, Fairbanks, AK. April 2010.</p><p>“‘There Were Four Ladies in the Bay’: Traveling Whaling Wives and Pacific Fantasies of Domestic Bliss.” Gender Across Borders IV: Globalisms, Buffalo, NY. April 2010.</p><p>5 “‘Oh the Whaleman’s Joys!’: New Forms of Masculinity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.” NEMLA, Boston, MA. February 2009.</p><p>“Imagining the Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Hero: New England Whalemen and Western Mountain Men.” Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, CO. October 2008.</p><p>“Figuratively Surveying National Space: The Western Frontier and the Ocean in J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” NEMLA, Buffalo, NY. April 2008.</p><p>“Ed Gentry’s ‘Man Crush’: Idolatry, Power, and Love in James Dickey’s Deliverance.” MLA, Chicago, IL. December 2007. </p><p>“‘Poetry of Incident’: The Art of Physical Labor and the Whaleman Poet.” NEMLA, Baltimore, MD. March 2007.</p><p>“‘She was Following the Path of Duty’: Whaling Wives and Oceanic Fantasies of Domestic Bliss.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, PA. November 2006.</p><p>“Queequeg’s Rooted, Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.” Why Melville Matters Now Symposium, Albany, NY. November 2006.</p><p>“Figurative Surveying: National Space and the Work of Whaling in J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer.” Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Providence, RI. April 2006. </p><p>“Historical Re-Imaginings of American Racial Aesthetics in Clotel, or, the President’s Daughter.” 30th Popular Culture Association and 22ndAmerican Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2000.</p><p>WORK IN PROGRESS:</p><p>Books:</p><p>“From Mammoths to Muskox: The Specter of Extinction in the Print Culture of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Alaska”</p><p>Articles:</p><p>6 “‘Perish their Cause! but Mark the Men’: National Manhood in the Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.” (This article is being revised for submission to American Studies.)</p><p>“‘What I Did Not Propose to Dwell Upon’: Religious and Scientific Discourse and Cotton Mather’s The Thankful Christian.” (This conference paper is being expanded and revised for submission to Early American Literature.) </p><p>COURSES TAUGHT:</p><p>University of Alaska Fairbanks:</p><p>Undergraduate Literature Courses: 306—“Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to Civil War”—Fall 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 307—“Survey of American Literature: Civil War to the Present”—Spring 2014, Spring 2016 350—“Literature of Alaska and the Yukon Territory”—Fall 2010 403—“American Renaissance”—Spring 2011 408—“American Origins”—Spring 2010 415—“Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Literature”—Fall 2015 435—“Authors”—Fall 2014 448—“American Prose After 1900”—Spring 2011 465—“Genre”—Spring 2013 482—“Topics in Language and Literature”—Spring 2015</p><p>Undergraduate Composition Courses: 111X—“Introduction to Academic Writing”—Fall 2012, 2013 213X—“Academic Writing About the Social and Natural Sciences”—Fall 2010, 2016; Spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; Summer 2012, 2013, 2014 485—“Teaching Composition in the Schools”—Spring 2010</p><p>Graduate Literature Courses: 606—“British Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century”—Fall 2015 609—“Early American and Romantic Literature”—Fall 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 611—“American Realism and Modernism”—Fall 2010, 2016</p><p>Graduate Composition Courses: 661—“Mentored Teaching in English”—Fall 2013, 2014; Spring 2012</p><p>Wichita State University: </p><p>7 Undergraduate Literature Courses: 230—“Exploring Literature”—Spring 2008, 2009 232—“Themes in American Literature”—Fall 2007 275—“Popular Literature”—Spring 2009 362—“American Writers of the Nineteenth Century”—Fall 2007, 2008; Spring 2008</p><p>Graduate Literature Courses: 821—“Graduate Readings in American Literature I”—Fall 2008 822—“Graduate Readings in American Literature II”—Fall 2007 </p><p>Undergraduate Composition Courses: 102—“College English II”—Spring 2008</p><p>University of Pittsburgh:</p><p>Undergraduate Composition Courses: 200—“General Writing”—Fall 1999; Spring 2000 200—“Seminar in Composition”—Fall 2003, 2004, 2006; Spring 2004, 2005, 2007 </p><p>Undergraduate Literature Courses: 300—“Introduction to Literature”—Spring 2006 325—“Short Story in Context”—Fall 2001; Spring 2002 365—“Literature, Tradition, and the New”—Fall 2000 365—“Literature and the Contemporary”—Spring 2001; Summer 2001 500—“Introduction to Critical Reading”—Fall 2005; Spring 2006 550—“Introduction to Popular Culture”—Spring 2007 570—“American Literary Traditions”—Summer 2002 573—“Literature of the Americas”—Fall 2002, 2004, 2005; Spring 2003, 2005 610—“Women and Literature”—Summer 2003 629—“The Wild West”—Fall 2006; Spring 2007 1272—“The Roaring 20’s”—Fall 2006 </p><p>University of Georgia:</p><p>Undergraduate Composition Courses: 101—“English Composition” (computer-based composition) —Fall 1997;</p><p>Winter 1997 102—“English Composition” (computer-based composition)—Spring 1997 </p><p>ACADEMIC SERVICE:</p><p>8 Departmental and University:</p><p>University of Alaska Fairbanks:</p><p>Current Service: 2016-present Member, SADA Committee 2016-present Member, Honors Council 2014-present Chair, Library Committee 2014-present Graduate Programs Committee 2014-present Faculty Representative, RISE Sustainability Board</p><p>Past Service: 2016 Member, M.F.A. Assessment Committee 2015-2016 Faculty Adviser, English Majors Union 2014-2015 Member, RISE Sustainability Curriculum Subcommittee 2013-2015 Member, Core Review Committee 2011-2014 Member, Language and Literature Committee 2014 Member, M.A. Assessment Committee 2014 Interim Chair, English Department 2013-14 Member, Curriculum Committee 2013-14 Member, Library Committee 2013 Member, M.A. Assessment Committee 2012-13 Member, Dean’s Advisory Council 2012 Interim Chair, English Department 2011-13 Chair, Language and Literature Committee 2011 Member, Search Committee (Administrative Assistant) 2011 Member, B.A. Assessment Committee 2010-14 Member, Composition Committee 2010-13 Member, T.A. Selection Committee 2010-12 Faculty Senate Alternate 2010-11 Member, Composition Curriculum Committee 2010-11 Member, Search Committee (Long 18th Century, Tenure Track Position) 2009-12 Member, M.A. Comprehensive Exam Committee 2009-11 Coordinator, Humanities Colloquium</p><p>Wichita State University:</p><p>2008-09 Member, Composition Committee 2007-09 Member, Film Studies Committee 2007-09 Member, Policies and Procedures Committee</p><p>University of Pittsburgh:</p><p>2006-07 Member, Awards Committee</p><p>9 Member, Literature Curriculum Committee Member of Graduate Website Sub-Committee 2004 Grader, “Seminar in Composition” Placement Essays 2002-03 Member, “Literature of the Americas” staff teaching group 2000.1 Member, “Literature, Tradition, and the New”/“Literature and the Contemporary” staff teaching group 2000-02 Graduate Student Mentor 1999-00 Member, Committee for Evaluation and Advancement of Teaching 1999-00 Member, Teaching Seminar</p><p>University of Georgia:</p><p>1997-98 Member, Apprentice College English staff teaching group 1996 Member, Teaching Mentor Program</p><p>Community Service:</p><p>2016-present Interior Alaska Land Trust 2015-2016 Tanana Valley Watershed Association 2014-2015 Portfolio Presentation Panel Judge, Eielson High School, Eielson AFB, AK 2014 Denali Highway Cleanup Day Volunteer 2012-2014 Celebration of Writing, Fairbanks, AK</p><p>Professional Memberships and Service:</p><p>2013 Reader/Reviewer, Journal Article, Mississippi Quarterly 2013 Reader/Reviewer, Book Proposal, Broadview Press 2013-present Member, ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Ad hoc ISLE Manuscript Reader/Book Reviewer 2008-present Member, Western Literature Association Ad hoc WAL Manuscript Reader/Book Reviewer 2007-12 Member, NEMLA 2006 Member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2002-present Member, MLA Ad hoc PMLA Manuscript Reader 2000 Member, American Culture Association 2000 Member, Popular Culture Association</p><p>10</p>