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Nicole Reynolds

Nicole Reynolds, portrait
Associate Professor
Ellis 355, Athens Campus

Reynolds is an English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies joint appointment.

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Georgia, 2001.

Graduate Certificate of Achievement in Women's Studies, University of Georgia, 1997.

M. A. English, University of Connecticut, 1995.

B. A. English, Boston University, 1989, Cum Laude.

Scholarly Focus

  • British Romantic literature and culture
  • History of the book
  • World War I and print culture
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Women鈥檚 literature and Feminist literary theory

Publications

Monograph

Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Reviewed:

  • The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55.2-3 (2014): 301-305.
  • Keats-Shelley Journal 61 (2012): 142-144.
  • Eighteenth Century Fiction 25.1 (2012): 283-285.
  • Victorian Studies 54.2 (2012): 319-321.
  • 鈥淩ecent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.鈥 SEL 51.4 (2011): 905-54 [918-19].
  • Times Literary Supplement (Aug. 19 and 26, 2011): 31-32.

Refereed Articles

鈥淪uicide, Romance, and Imperial Rebellion: Sati and the Lucretia Story in Sydney Owenson鈥檚 The Missionary: An Indian Tale.鈥 Special issue on 鈥淩omanticism and Suicide.鈥 Literature Compass 12.12 (2015): 675-682. Web.

Co-authored with Michelle Faubert. 鈥淚ntroduction: Romanticism and Suicide.鈥 Special issue on 鈥淩omanticism and Suicide.鈥 Literature Compass 12.12 (2015): 641-651. Web.

Edwards, Katie, Jessica Turchik, Tina Dardis, Nicole Reynolds, Christine Gidycz. 鈥淩ape Myths: History, Individual and Institutional-Level Presence, and Implications for Change.鈥 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 65 (2011): 761-773.

鈥淐ottage Industry: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the Cottage Orn茅e.鈥 The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51.1-2 (2010):211-227.

鈥淭he Literary Lives of Sir John Soane鈥檚 House-Museum.鈥 Genre: Forms of Discourse and        Culture 41 (2008): 39-74.

鈥淧hebe Gibbes, Edmund Burke, and the Trials of Empire.鈥 Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20.2 (Winter 2007-8): 151-176.

鈥淏oudoir Stories: A Novel History of a Room and Its Occupants.鈥 LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 15 (2004): 103-130.

Book Chapter

鈥淕othic and the Architectural Imagination, 1740-1840.鈥 The Gothic World, ed. Glennis Byron and Dale Towshend. London: Routledge, 2014: 85-97. Rpt. in Routledge Historical Resources: Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu, John Strachan, and Jane Moore. Forthcoming, 2019.

  • Collection reviewed: Choice, July 2014. 鈥淪umming Up: Essential.鈥

Journal Issue Edited

With Michelle Faubert. Special issue of Literature Compass on 鈥淩omanticism and Suicide.鈥 Literature Compass 12.12 (2015).

Encyclopedia Entries

Forthcoming. Entries on Phebe Gibbes鈥檚 Friendship in a Nunnery; The Fruitless Repentance; Hartly House, Calcutta; and The Life and Adventures of Francis Clive. The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

鈥淎rchitecture.鈥 Wiley/Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789, ed. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. 1519 words. Blackwell Publishing, 2015: 58-60.

鈥淧hebe Gibbes.鈥 Wiley/Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789, ed. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. 998 words. Blackwell Publishing, 2015: 535-36.

Book Reviews

Review of Mark Purcell鈥檚 The Country House Library. In Journal of British Studies 57.3 (June 2018): 664-65.

Review of Kelly McGuire鈥檚 Dying to be British: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721-1814. In  Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27.1 (Fall 2014): 163-66.

Review of Richard Albright鈥檚 Writing the Past, Writing the Future: Time and Narrative in Gothic and Sensation Fiction. In Gothic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Criticism, Theory, and Cultural Studies 15.2 (November 2013): 116-118.

Review of Robert Miles鈥檚 Romantic Misfits. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.2 (Winter 2010-11): 443-446.

Contributions

鈥淐ase Study鈥 for Teaching with a Global Perspective: Practical Strategies from Course Design to Assessment, by Dawn Bikowski and Talinn Phillips. Routledge, 2019: 137-138.

Conferences

鈥淢argin of Error: Memory, Modernity, and the First World War.鈥 Modernist Studies Association.         Columbus, OH, November 2018.

鈥淎ssembling John Clare: Manuscript, Memory, and the First World War.鈥 The International Conference on Romanticism. Greenville, SC, October 2018.

鈥溾楾his Bomb Under My Monument鈥欌: Memory and Resistance in World War I Autobiography.鈥 Annual conference of 鈥淭he Space Between鈥 Society. University of Northern Colorado, June 2018.

鈥淩escuing Romanticism: Edmund Blunden鈥檚 Campaign to Preserve the Nineteenth-Century Book.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, CA, August 2017.

鈥淢ary Robinson鈥檚 Memoirs, Regenerated.鈥 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. June 2017.

鈥溾楢 burning deathless discontent鈥: Edmund Blunden, John Clare, and the Legacy of the Great War.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Berkeley, CA, August 2016.

鈥溾榤ark but the penning o鈥 it鈥: Paratextual Languages, Marginal Voices, and Idioms of Book-Love in Edmund Blunden鈥檚 Library.鈥 SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Paris, France, July 2016.

鈥淓diting Perdita: The Many Lives of Mary Robinson鈥檚 Memoirs.鈥 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Georgia, June 2016. Also session organizer and chair: 鈥淭he Scene of the Page: Bibliographic and Book-Historical Approaches to the History of British Women鈥檚 Writing, 1700-1900.鈥

鈥淭he Ghost and the Suicide: An Uncanny History of Irish Nationalism.鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Asheville, North Carolina, March 2016.

鈥淩omantic Populism and Suicide: The Case of Castlereagh.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Winnipeg, Canada, August 2015.

鈥溾楤ringing Them Home鈥: Book Collecting, the Great War, and the Organization of the Romantic Canon.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Washington, D.C., July 2014.

鈥淪pectral Evidence: Ballyshannon鈥檚 鈥楻adiant Boy鈥 and the Fate of Irish Independence.鈥 North American Victorian Studies Association. Pasadena, CA, October 2013.

鈥淭he Ties that Bind: Romancing Suicide in Sydney Owenson鈥檚 The Missionary.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, MA, August 2013. Also session organizer and co-chair: 鈥淩omanticism and Female Suicide.鈥

Invited Talks

Organizer and interviewer, Authors@Alden with John Greening. Discussion with poet and editor of Edmund Blunden鈥檚 Undertones of War. Alden Library, November 8, 2018.

Organizer and panelist, 鈥Frankenstein at 200.鈥 Panel discussion of Shelley鈥檚 novel and screening of Whale鈥檚 Bride of Frankenstein. Athena Cinema, February 15, 2018.

Panelist, "Hidden Mother: A Panel Discussion on Maternity, Representation and Labor." Kennedy Museum of Art, 51社区, March 17, 2016.

鈥淪uicide, Radicalism, and Romantic Print Culture.鈥 Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th-Century Literature, University of Georgia, April 7, 2011.

Fellowships, Honors and Awards

2017 College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund Award, 51社区, $1635.60.

2017 Distinguished Mentor Award, Honors Tutorial College, 51社区.

2016 College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund Award, 51社区, $3000.

2014-15 Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas, $3000 (one-month tenure). 鈥淓dmund Blunden: Poet and Bibliophile.鈥

2013 College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund Award, 51社区, $1879.00.

2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, $6,000. 鈥淩omanticism and Suicide: The Culture of Voluntary Death in Britain, 1770-1822.鈥

2010 51社区 Research Committee Award, $7, 289.

2010 鈥淪igma Superlative鈥 Award for Best Professor, Sigma Kappa Sorority, 51社区.

2007 Distinguished Mentor Award, Honors Tutorial College, 51社区.

2005 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of Nebraska. Dr. Stephen Behrendt, director. Seminar topic: 鈥淕enre, Dialogue, and Community in British Romanticism.鈥

2002 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Drs. Lee Cassanelli and Brian Spooner, directors. Institute topic: 鈥淭he Indian Ocean, Cradle of Globalization.鈥

2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California (three-month tenure).

Professional Developments

Organizer (with Joseph McLaughlin and Miriam Intrator): Faculty Learning Community on 鈥淭eaching Book and Print History Across the Disciplines.鈥 51社区, Fall & Spring, 2018-19.

Organizer: Ping Center for the Humanities Summer Institute on 鈥淩emembering the Great War.鈥 51社区, June 13-15, 2018.

Organizer (with Joseph McLaughlin and Miriam Intrator): Ping Center for the Humanities Summer Institute on 鈥淏ook History from Gutenberg to Google.鈥 51社区, June 14-16, 2017.

Participant: Bruning Teaching Academy. 51社区, Fall & Spring, 2018-19.

Participant, THAT Camp (The Humanities and Technology Camp). 51社区, September 21-22, 2018.

Participant, THAT Camp (The Humanities and Technology Camp). Marshall University, March 31, 2018.

Participant, Book History Workshop. Texas A&M University. May 22-27, 2016.

Participant, 鈥淕lobal Education and Diverse Classrooms Faculty Learning Community.鈥 Led by Talinn Philips and Dawn Bikowski, 51社区, 2014-15; 2015-2016.

Participant: 鈥淭eaching the History of the Book.鈥 Led by Michael F. Suarez. Rare Book School, University of Virginia. June 10-14, 2013.

Participant: 鈥淩omanticism & Digital Humanities Pre-Conference Workshop.鈥 Led by Neil Fraistat. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Aug. 15, 2012.

Community Service

Reading group discussion leader: 鈥淓mily Bronte鈥檚 Wuthering Heights.鈥 Athens Public Library, June 1, 8, & 15, 2017.

Reading group discussion leader: 鈥淢ary Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein.鈥 Athens Public Library, April 5, 12, & 19, 2016.

Reading group discussion leader: 鈥Jane Eyre and Nineteenth-Century Feminism.鈥 Athens Public Library, September 3, 10 & 17, 2015.

Courses Taught

English

  • ENG 3060J, Women and Writing. Topic: Frankenstein and Feminist Medical Ethics (online).
  • ENG 3060J, Women and Writing. Topic: 鈥淭wisted Sisters鈥: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Its 鈥淗ideous Progeny.鈥
  • ENG 3060J, Women and Writing. Topic: 鈥溾榖urning down the house鈥: Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, and a Women鈥檚 Literary Tradition.鈥
  • ENG 3130, English Literature, 1660-1800. Topic: 鈥淏ritish Radicalism in the 1790s.鈥
  • ENG 3140, English Literature: 1800-1900. Topic: 鈥淩omanticism and War.鈥
  • ENG 3140, English Literature: 1800-1900. Topic: 鈥溾楢 new world of gods and monsters鈥: Discovery and Disillusion in British Literature, 1818-1928.鈥
  • ENG 3250, Women and Literature. Topic: 鈥溾榯ruth[s] universally acknowledged鈥: Jane Austen in Her Time and In Ours.鈥
  • ENG 3490, History of Books and Printing.
  • ENG 3970T, Specialized Honors Tutorial. Topic: Feminist Science Fiction.
  • ENG 4600, Topics in English Studies. Topic: 鈥淢ary Wollstonecraft and Her Circle.鈥
  • ENG 5120/7730, Graduate Seminar in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Topic: 鈥淛ane Austen and Women鈥檚 Literary Culture.鈥
  • ENG 5230, MAE Online: Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥淟yrics, Ballads, and Tales: Form and Feeling in British Romantic Poetry.鈥
  • ENG 5230/7230, Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥淩omancing Romantic Books: Authors, Readers, Collectors, Scholars.鈥
  • ENG 5700/7730, Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥淩omanticism and Suicide.鈥
  • ENG 5700/7730, Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥淩omanticism and War.鈥
  • ENG 5700/7730, Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥溾楳ad, bad, and dangerous to know鈥: Byron, the Shelleys, and Their Circle.鈥
  • ENG 5700/7730, Graduate Seminar in Romanticism. Topic: 鈥淔ighting Words: British Radicalism, 1785-1805.鈥
  • ENG 5850, History of Books and Printing.
  • ENG 5900, Directed Reading. Topic: British Women Novelists, 1788-1826.
  • ENG 5950, Introduction to English Studies.

Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  • WGSS 1000, Introduction to Women鈥檚 Studies.
  • WGSS 2000, Issues in Feminism. Topic: 鈥淢anifesto!鈥
  • WGSS 2000, Issues in Feminism. Topic: 鈥淲omen and War: A Feminist Inquiry.鈥
  • WGSS 2000, Issues in Feminism. Topic: 鈥淕ender, Sexuality, and the Postmodern.鈥
  • WGSS 4600/5600, Gender, Sexuality, and Culture.
  • WGSS 5900, Special Topics. Topic: 鈥淔eminist & Queer Studies and Professionalization.鈥