Julia Leigh Eichelberger Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION: Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1992 Major: 20th-century British and American literature Minor: 19th-century British literature Dissertation: "Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty." (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 Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (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. “Julia Peterkin.” “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, March 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