CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON

Northeastern University • Department of English • 405 Lake Hall • Boston, MA 02115

e.dillon@northeastern.edu

 

Employment and Appointments

• Distinguished Professor, Department of English, 2018-present
• Chair, Department of English, 2015-2019
• Founding Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, 2013-present
• Professor, Department of English, 2012-2018
• Associate Professor, Department of English, 2007-2012

• Associate Professor, Departments of English and American Studies, 2003-2007
• Assistant Professor, Departments of English and American Studies, 1997-2003

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, 1995-1997

Education

• Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 1995
• M.A. University of California at Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 1989
• A.B. with honors, Brown University, Literature and Society, 1985

Publications

Books

• Winner of The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014.
• Honorable mention, John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association, 2015.
• Shortlist for Kenshur Prize from the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2014.

The Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S.: Histories, Geographies, Textualities, co-edited with Michael Drexler (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

• Winner of Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, Yale University, 2003.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Collections (selected)

“The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons,” The Minnesota Review (Fall 2019) (forthcoming).

“Zombie Biopolitics,” American Quarterly 71.3 (2019): 625-652.

“A Sea of Texts: The Atlantic World, Spatial Mapping, and Equiano’s Narrative,” in Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, ed. John Corrigan (University of South Carolina Press, 2017): 25-54.

“Translatio Studii and the Poetics of the Digital Archive: Early American Literature, Caribbean Assemblages, and Freedom Dreams,” American Literary History 29.2 (2017): 248-266.

“Atlantic Aesthesis: Books and Sensus Communis in the New World,” Early American Literature 51.2 (2016): 367-395. Winner of 2016 Richard Beale Davis Prize for best article of the year in Early American Literature.

“Haiti and the Early U.S., Entwined,” co-authored with Michael Drexler, introductory essay, The Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S.: Histories, Geographies, Textualities, ed. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016): 1-15.

“By Design: Remapping the Colonial Archive,” Social Text 33.4 (December 2015): 142-147.

“Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” co-authored with Nicole N. Aljoe, Benjamin Doyle, and Elizabeth Hopwood, Atlantic Studies 12.2 (2015): 258-266.

“Reassembling the Novel: Kinlessness and the Novel of the Haitian Revolution,” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 47.1 (Spring 2014): 167-185.

“Obi, Assemblage, Enchantment,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1.1 (2013): 172-178.

“Coloniality, Performance, Translation: The Embodied Public Sphere in Early America,” in Transatlantic Traffic and (Mis)Translations, ed. Robin Peel and Daniel Maudlin (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2013): 177-196.

“John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and Publics in Early African American Literature,”in Early African American Print Culture, ed. Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012): 318-339.

“Religion and Geopolitics in the New World,” Early American Literature 45.1 (2010): 193-202.

“Atlantic Practices: Minding the Gap Between Literature and History,” Roundtable on Interdisciplinary Atlantic Studies published in both William and Mary Quarterly 65.1 (2008): 181-186 and Early American Literature 43.1 (2008): 205-210.

“The Secret History of the Early American Novel: Leonora Sansay and Revolution in St. Domingo,” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 40.1/2 (Spring 2006/Fall 2007): 77-103.

“Print, Performance, Manuscript: Prospects for Early American Studies,” Early American Literature 41.2 (2006): 365-369.

“Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire,” A Companion to the Literature of Early America, ed. Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 551-565. Winner of Society of Early Americanists Annual Essay Award, 2005

“The Original American Novel or, The American Origin of the Novel,” A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 235-260.

“‘Slaves in Algiers’: Race, Republican Genealogies, and the Global Stage,” American Literary History 16. 3 (Fall 2004): 407-36.

“Sentimental Aesthetics,” American Literature 76.3 (Sept. 2004): 495-523, special issue on Cultural Studies and Aesthetics, ed. Christopher Castiglia and Russ Castronovo.

“Nursing Fathers and Brides of Christ,” “A Centre of Wonders”: The Body in Early America, ed. Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), 129-145.

“Fear of Formalism: Kant, Cultural Studies, and the New Americanist Criticism,” Diacritics 27.4 (Winter 1997): 46-69. 

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

“Detecting and Modeling Local Text Reuse,” third author; with David Smith, Ryan Cordell, Nick Stramp, and John Wilkerson; in the Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), IEEE Computer Society Press (2014): 183-192.

“Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” third author, with David A. Smith and Ryan Cordell, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Humanities, IEEE Computer Society Press (2013): 86-94.

Media/Reviews/Other (selected)

“Intimacy and Erasure: Haiti and the United States, from Slave Revolt to Freedom Dreams,” in The Art of Haiti, ed. Anthony Bogues, Colorado Fine Arts Museum (in press).

“Long Before ‘Hamilton’ Brouhaha, Theater Was Anything but Polite,” New York Times, digital edition, Nov. 22, 2016. Print edition: “Speaking to, and From, the Stage,”New York Times, Nov. 27, 2016, Arts Section, 6.

“Atlantic History: Literature and Culture,” annotated bibliography/review essay (13,000 words); Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2010. Also published as a Kindle e-book: Literature and Culture: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide (Oxford University Press, 2010).

“Democracy, Memory, and Methodology,” review essay on Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature by Paul Downes and Sealed With Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America by Sarah J. Purcell; Early American Literature 39.3 (Winter 2004): 591-598.

“The Infant Imaginary: Consent, Citizenship, and Pedagogy in Early America,” review essay on The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture by Gillian Brown, American Quarterly 54.1 (March 2002): 149-158.

“Nineteenth-Century Women Writers,” in American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits, ed. R. W. B. Lewis (Yale University Press, 1999).

Digital Humanities Projects

Early Caribbean Digital Archive, Founder and Project Co-Director, digital archive and text laboratory for work on early Caribbean texts and images (funding from Northeastern University and the American Council of Learned Societies)

Our Marathon, the Boston Bombing Digital Archive, Founder and Project Co-Director, crowd-sourced digital archive of the April 15, 2013 bombing in Boston (funding from Northeastern University, WBUR 90.9, and Iron Mountain). Recipient of Digital Humanities 2013 Award: Best DH Project for Public Audiences.

Margaret Fuller Transnational Archive: Project Team Member, project digitally maps networks of publication involving Fuller and her circles of European and American correspondents and colleagues, including Horace Greeley, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (funding from Northeastern University)

Viral Texts, Project Team Member, project tracking reprinting networks in 19^th-century US newspapers (funding from Northeastern University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities)

Honors

• Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2016 for best article of the year in Early American Literature for “Atlantic Aesthesis: Books and Sensus Communis in the New World,” Early American Literature 51.2 (2016): 367-395.
• The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
• Finalist mention, 2015 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
• Shortlist for 2014 Kenshur Prize from the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
• University Excellence in Research and Creativity Award, Northeastern University, 2015
• “Best Digital Humanities Project for Public Audiences” for Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive, with Ryan Cordell, David DeCamp, Kristi Girdharry, James McGrath, and Alicia Peaker, Digital Humanities Awards 2013, awarded February 2014
• Digital Humanities Award from the Digital Library of the Caribbean for the Early Caribbean Digital Archive project, June 2013
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Excellence in Mentorship Award 2010-2011, awarded by the Graduate Caucus of ASECS
• Society of Early Americanists Annual Essay Award, 2005 for “Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire”
• Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, Yale University, 2003 for The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Awards

• R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2019-2020
• Research Development Initiative, 2019, with Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University, “Early Caribbean Digital Archive: Caribbean Partnership Development,” $10K.
• Co-PI, Tier One Research and Mentoring Grant, 2018-19, with Laura Nelson, Moya Bailey, Meg Heckman, and Sarah Jackson, “Measuring Social Movement Success: Linguistic and Discursive Indicators of Social Change,” $50K.
• Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2017-2018, with Julia Flanders and Cody Dunne, Northeastern University, “Word Vector Analysis for TEI/XML: A user-friendly toolkit,”$50K
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Director, “Space, Place, and the Humanities,” Summer 2017, $202K
• Charles Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, Spring 2015
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Fall 2014
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation Fellowship, 2014-2015 for work on the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, $85K
• Co-PI, Mellon Foundation Grant for Proteus Project, Exploring Big Data in the Humanities, 2014-2015, $500K
• Northeastern University ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Grant for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, with Moya Bailey, Ryan Cordell, Julia Flanders, and Benjamin Schmidt, 2014-2015
• Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2014-2015, Northeastern University, for “Big Data and Text Curation: TEI and NLP Methods and Intersections,” $50K
• Co-Project Director, “Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, 2013-2014, $60K
• Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2013-2014, Northeastern University, for “Infectious Texts: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” $50K
• PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2012-2013, Northeastern University, for development of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive Project, $50K
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 2010-2011
• Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2009
• Instructional Development Fund Grant for Archival Teaching Project, Northeastern University 2008-2009   Davis Educational Foundation Grant, Yale Electronic Libraries Initiative, 2005
• A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, 2001, 2005
• Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund Grant, Yale University, 2003
• Baker Steyer Fund Grant for course development, Yale University, 2001-02
• Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2001
• Whitney Humanities Center Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2001
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, 1995-97
• Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1996-97 (declined)
• Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-94
• Annette K. Baxter Travel Award, American Studies Association, 1993
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1992-93

Invited Lectures / Plenary Talks (selected recent)

“Decolonizing the Archive: Remix, Reassembly, and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive” and “Many Hands in the Archives: De/Re-Constructing Colonial Knowledge,” with Alanna Prince. Plenary talk and workshop, Omohundro Institute and Equality Lab, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, April 2019.

“Infrastructure and New Knowledge Creation in the Digital Humanities,” Coalition for Networked Information-Association of Research Libraries (CNI-ARL), Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 2019.

“Texts, Bodies, Commodities: Atlantic World Circulations in Memory and Marble,” and “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Digital Archives and Freedom Dreams,” keynote talks for, “The U.S. in Europe: Transatlantic Ideas, Institutions, People; 100 Years of the Library: A Celebration,” The Center for American Studies, Rome, Italy, Nov. 2018.

“Zombie Biopolitics,” keynote speaker, “New Geographies of the Atlantic World,” University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Nov. 2018.

“Colonial Histories and Digital Possibilities: The Digital Archive of the Early Caribbean,” invited speaker, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2018.

“Aesthetics, Performance, Freedom,” plenary speaker at “Freedom: An International Mellon-Sawyer Symposium,” The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, June 2018.

“Ante-Oedipus: Race, Sex, and Gender Systems of Colonial Modernity,” plenary speaker, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, June 2018.

“Colonial Histories and Digital Possibilities: The Digital Archive of the Early Caribbean,” plenary panelist, Against Amnesia Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March 2018.

“Staging Freedom in the Atlantic World: Dandy Lines and Circuits of Performance,” invited speaker, University of Toronto, Canada, January 2018.

“Networks, Assemblages, and the Poetics of Sub-Agential Personhood,” Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, Department of English, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 2017.

“Evaluating Digital Scholarship,” plenary panelist, Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2017.

“The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” plenary panelist, “Digital Humanities for Caribbean History” History Design Studio Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2017.

“Digital Remix and Freedom Dreams: Responsibilities and Possibilities for Digital Archive Creation,” plenary speaker, Digital Research Exchange (DREx), Hofstra University, Long Island, NY, April 2017.

“Early American Matters Caucus: Colloquy with Elizabeth Maddock Dillon on New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2016.

“Colonialism, Slavery, and the Archive: Old and New Practices,” plenary panelist, Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Global Humanities, Tufts University, Medford, MA, November 2016.

“Translatio Studii and the Digital Archive: Early American Literature, Caribbean Assemblages, and New Knowledge Production,” plenary lecture, OASIS - Orientale American Studies International School, Procida, Italy, June 2016.

“What is Critique?”, closing roundtable, Situation Critical! Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2016.

“Performance, Materiality, and Aesthetics in the Atlantic World: From Jonkonnu to Yankee Doodle Dandy,” invited lecture, Atlantic Cultures Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 2016.

“Translatio Studii and the Digital Archive: Early American Literature, Caribbean Assemblages, and New Knowledge Production,” invited lecture, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, February 2016.

“Performance and Materiality in the Atlantic World: From Jonkonnu to Yankee Doodle Dandy,” invited lecture, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, October 2015.

“The Humanities in the Digital: DH, the Archive, and New Knowledge Production,” invited lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 2015.

“The Trade Gap Reconsidered,” plenary panelist, Society of Early Americanists, Chicago, IL, June 2015.

“Translatio Studii  and the TEI: Caribbean Newspapers, Networks, and New Knowledge Production,” plenary panelist, Digital Antiquarian conference, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, May 2015.

“Revisionist Historiographies: Indigenous History meets the Columbian Encounter,” plenary panelist, Reunion and Jamboree of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 2015.

“The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” plenary panelist on Diverse Voices panel, Digital Diversity 2015: Writing | Feminism | Culture, Edmonton, Canada, May 2015.

“Humanities and the Digital: Collaboration, Curation, and Knowledge Production,” plenary panelist, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication,” Brown University, Providence, RI, April 2015.

“The Humanities in the Digital: DH, the Archive, and New Knowledge Production,” keynote speaker, Digitorium Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2015.

“Radical Atlantic Aesthetics: The Black Dandy and the Performance of Freedom,” keynote speaker, Performance and Poetics C19 Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 2015.

“New World Drama and the Aesthetic Atlantic,” invited lecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 2015.

“The Demos and Disposable Bodies: Unimagined Community in the American Novel,” plenary speaker, Neoliberalism and American Literature Conference, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland, February 2015.

“Digital Design and the Poetics of the Archive: Building the Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” seminar speaker, Warren Center for American History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 2015.

“The Early Caribbean Digital Archive: Recovery and Remix,” with Nicole Aljoe, plenary presentation, The Caribbean Digital, Barnard College, New York, NY, December 2014.

“New World Drama and the Aesthetic Atlantic,” invited lecture, St. John’s University, New York, NY, November 2014.

Respondent to panel on the publication of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849, featuring Donald Pease (Dartmouth), Eric Lott (CUNY), Duncan Faherty (CUNY), Tavia Nyong’o (NYU), and Monica Miller (Barnard College), CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 2014.

“Radical Atlantic Aesthetics: The Black Dandy and the Performance of Freedom,” invited lecture, Boston University, MA, October 2014.

“Emerging Emphasis on Digital Humanities Projects: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” invited speaker, National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, September 2014.

“Radical Archival Practices and the Digital Humanities: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” invited lecture, Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, September 2014.

“Subaltern Aesthesis,” plenary speaker, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 2014.

“The Uneven Atlantic: Mapping New World Textual Space,” invited lecture, Five Colleges Atlantic World Group, Hampshire College, Northampton, MA, April 2014.

Conference Papers/Workshops (selected recent)

“Workshop: Digital Decolonization,” Caribbean Digital V, St. Augustine University, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Dec. 2018.

“Workshop: The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” West Indian Literature Conference, Miami, FL, Sept. 2018.

“The Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” Caribbean Studies Association, Havana, Cuba, June 2018.

“Hawthorne and the Gag Rule,” Society for the Study of the Novel Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2018.

“Pop Up Classrooms,” roundtable participant, National Humanities Conference, Boston, MA, November 2017.

“Sororal Assemblage and the Performative Commons: Caribbean Connections,” American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017.

“Sororal Assemblage and the Performative Commons: Caribbean Connections,” Society of Early Americanists, Tulsa, OK, March 2017.

“Creole Erasure: Anglo-Whiteness and Coloniality,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.

“Lateral Kinship in Early America: or, New World Gender,” Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, January 2016.

Roundtable member, “Innovative Assignments,” panel organized by Graduate Students’ Committee, American Studies Association, Toronto, CA, October 2015.

“The Performative Commons and the Print Public Sphere,” Society of Early Americanists, Chicago, IL, June 2015.

“The Early Caribbean Digital Archive: Recovery and Remix,” African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture, Center of the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September 2014.

“Introduction to the Early Caribbean Digital Archive,” with Nicole Aljoe, Early Caribbean Society Meeting, Kingston University, London, England, July 2014.

“Radical Atlantic Aesthetics: The Black Dandy and the Performance of Freedom,” Society of Early Americanists, Kingston University, London, England, July 2014.

“From Markup to Analysis: Culture Claims and Code in the Digital Archive,” with Julia Flanders, Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2014.

“Translation’s Remains: The West Indian Novel,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, January 2014.

Professional Activities

• Massachusetts Historical Society, Digital Initiatives Committee, 2019-present
• sx archipelagos, Editorial Board, 2017-present
• CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics, Editorial Board, 2016-present
• Women Writers Online, Steering Committee, 2014- present
• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Associate Editor, 2014- 2018
• Early American Literature, Editorial Board, 2008-2015
• PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association, Advisory Board, 2010-2013
• Chair, Nominating Committee, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (elected), 2012-2013
• Co-chair, Program Committee, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2012
• Program Committee, “‘Triumph in my Song’: 18th & 19th Century African Atlantic Culture, History, & Performance,”University of Maryland, May 2012 (sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists)
• Founding Editorial Board member, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Atlantic History, 2010-2012: http://aboutobo.com/atlantic-history/
• American Literature, Editorial Board, 2009-2012
• Chair, American Literature Section, Modern Language Association (elected), 2010
• Advisory Council, American Literature Section, Modern Language Association (elected), 2008-2010
• Studies in American Fiction, Editorial Board, 2007-2009
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Program Committee, 2009 Annual Meeting
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Advisory Board Member, 2006-2008
• Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, Division of American Literature to 1800 (elected), 2005-2007
• American Studies Association, Program Committee, 2006 Annual Meeting: “Inside/Outside: Transcultural American Studies.”
• Society of Early Americanists Prize Committee, 2005-2006, 2012-1013
• Early American Editor, Literature Compass website, Blackwell Publishing, 2003-2004
• Program Committee, Society of Early Americanists, 2002-2003
• Yale Journal of Criticism, Editorial Board, 1998-2001
• Qui Parle, Editorial Board Member, 1992-1995
• Reader/ Referee:

American Literature; American Literary History; American Music Quarterly; American Quarterly; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies; Ashgate Publishing; Blackwell Publishing; Broadview Press; CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics; Carleton University Press; Columbia University Press;Dahlem Postdoctoral Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin; Duke University Press; Early American Literature; ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance; Fordham University Press; Harvard University Press; Huntington Library; Indiana University Press; J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists; John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth College (manuscript review); Journal of American Studies; Literature Compass/Wiley-Blackwell; NINES: Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online; New England Quarterly; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: University of North Carolina Press; New York University Press; PMLA; Princeton University Press; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Smithsonian Press; Stanford University Press; sx archipelagos;Theatre Survey; The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; Studies in American Fiction; Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature; University of Pennsylvania Press; VWO: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Innovational Research Incentives Scheme;William and Mary Quarterly

• Member of: American Studies Association, Modern Language Association, C19, Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Study Group, Society of Early Americanists, American Antiquarian Society (elected), Early Caribbean Society

University Service

Northeastern University

• Chair, Department of English, 2015- present
• Founding Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, 2012- present
• Co-Director, Digital Teaching Integration Initiative, 2018-present
• Founding member, Feminist Coding Collective, 2016-present
• Administrator Evaluation Oversight Committee (AEOC), 2018-2019
• PhD Task Force, Office of the Provost, 2016-2017
• Experiential PhD Committee, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016-17
• Chair, Library Policies and Operations Committee, Faculty Senate Committee, 2015-2016
• Humanities Center Advisory Board, 2011-2017
• Provost Search Committee, 2014-2015
• Graduate Placement Officer, Department of English, 2013-2014
• Provost’s Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion, 2013
• Research Leadership Development Initiative (leadership seminar member), 2012-2013
• Graduate Program Director, Department of English, 2008-2010, 2011-13
• Appointments Committee, Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014
• Appointments Committee, College of Art and Media Design, Games, 2013-14
• Appointments Committee, Department of English, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, (Chair) 2011-12, 2016-17
• Appointments Committee, History Department, 2011-2012
• Appointments Committee, Digital Humanities, 2011-2012, (Chair) 2012-2013, 2015-16
• Leadership Academy, Provost’s Office, Spring 2011
• Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English, 2008-2010, 2011-2013
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of English, 2007-2010
• Probationary Faculty Committee, Spring 2010
• Archive Teaching Circle, Co-convener, 2008

Yale University

• Director, Americanist Colloquium, 2005-2006
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1999-2000, 2004-2006
• Aims and Procedures Committee (elected), 2004-2005, 2006-2007
• Director, English 127, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006
• Graduate Studies Committee, 2001-2003
• Morse Fellowship Selection Committee, 2001-2002
• Graduate Admissions, 1998-2000, 2001-2003, 2004-2005, 2005-2007
• Lectures and Arrangements, 1997-1998, 2005-2006
• Timothy Dwight College, English Department Adviser, 1997-2005
• Junior Faculty Appointments Committee, 1998-1999

• Executive Committee, 1997-2000, 2002-2003, 2004-2007
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2005-2006
• Graduate Admissions Committee, 2004-2005
• Junior Faculty Appointments Committee, 1999-2000

• Executive Committee, 2004-2007
• Faculty Council, 1998-2000, 2001-2003, 2004-2007
• Graduate Advisory Committee, 2004-2006
• Curriculum Review Committee, 2004-2005
• Steere Prize Committee, 1999

• Steering Committee and Council Member, Women Faculty Forum, 2001-2006
• Organizer seminar series: “Structures of Work and Family,” 2003-2004
• Chair, Subcommittee on Diversity, 2003-2006
• Chair, Working Group on Childcare, 2003-2006
• Founder Yale Babysitting Service (now run by Yale Worklife Program), 2003
• Co-author and organizer: Report on Childcare at Yale University, 2002
• Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture Committee, 2003-2006
• Steering Committee, Yale Coalition on Diversity, 2003-2005
• University Advisory Committee on Work and Life, 2004-2005
• Subcommittee on Dependent Care, 2004-2005
• University Committee on Honors and Academic Standing, 2001-2003, 2004-2006
• Assistant Director, Whitney Humanities Center, 1999-2000, 2001-2002
• Organizer of Faculty Working Groups, 1999-2000, 2001-2002
• Tanner Lecture Committee, 1999-2000, 2001-2002
• Conference Organizer: “Sexuality, Modernity, and Social Theory,” March 2000
• Steering Committee, Women’s Table, 2001-02
• Yale China Faculty Advisory Committee, 1999-2001

Teaching

• Literature and Digital Diversity, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
• Print and Performance in the Atlantic World (Grad), Spring 2017
• NULab Workshop in Digital Humanities (Grad), Fall 2016, Spring 2016
• Graduate Proseminar (Grad), Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015
• Eighteenth-Century American Literature: Gender and Empire, Spring 2012, Spring 2014
• Engaging Haiti: Literature, Culture, Social Justice, Fall 2011, Spring 2014
• Opening the Archive, Spring 2010
• Gender and Empire (Grad), Fall 2009
• Three Revolutions in the Atlantic World (Grad), Spring 2009
• Early African American Literature, Spring 2008
• Transatlantic Print Culture (Grad), Spring 2008, Fall 2011
• American Literature Survey I, Fall 2007, Spring 2010
• The Novel and the New World, Fall 2007

• Trauma and Narrative, three-day seminar, March 2011

• Gender, Religion, and Globalization (Grad), WGSS 921, Spring 2005
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature: English 280, Fall 2001, Fall 2004
• Democracy and the American Renaissance: English 287, Fall 2004
• Early American Drama: English 230, Spring 2003
• Transatlantic Print Culture and the Early American Novel (Grad): Eng. 841, Spring 2002
• Truth and Masquerade: Performance and Identity: Yale in London, Summer 2002
• Introduction to American Literature: English 127, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2004
• The Junior Seminar in American Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to U.S. Imperialism: American Studies 390, Fall 1999
• Feminist Perspectives on Literature: English 359, Spring 1999
• Early American Women Writers: English 269 and American Studies 203, Spring, 1998, Fall 1998
• Slavery and Freedom: English 118b, Spring 1998
• Introduction to the Study of Literature: English 115, Fall 1997, Fall 1998

• Gender, Desire, and Sentimental Fictions: English 256, Spring 1997
• Introduction to Feminist Theory: Women’s Studies 210, Fall 1996
• Freedom and Representation: Comp. Lit. 418, Spring 1996
• Your Cheating Heart: Truth, Race, and Gender: Comp. Lit. 101, Fall 1995