EMC Graduate Students
Maggie Sloan
Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of California,
Santa Barbara; Ph.D. Expected June 2008
M.A., English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
B.A., English, Yale University, 1998
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
email: msloan@umail.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- The Novel
- British Romanticism
- Victorian Studies
- Abolition and Salvery
- Sensibility and Sentimentality
Current Projects and Publications
Dissertation Title: "Mentors and Subjects in British Novels, 1778-1886"
Publications:- "Mentorship and Female Subject Formation in Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer." The Burney Journal (peer-reviewed). Forthcoming, 2007.
- "Feel Free to Thank Me: Gratitude, Freedom, and Abolition in Maria Edgeworth's Oeuvre." British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Joint Conference, Bristol, England, July 26 - 29, 2007.
- "'Come, listen to my plaintive ditty': the Rhetoric of Sentiment, Sensibility, and Abolition in Amelia Opie's "Black Man's Lament" and Adeline Mowbray." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference (PAMLA), University of California, Riverside, November 10-11, 2006.
- "The Difficulty of The Wanderer: Mentorship and Female Subject Formation." The Burney Society Annual Conference 2006, Tucson, Arizona, October 26-27, 2006.
- "Women, Writing, and Defiance: Mary Shelley's Lodore as Response to Mary Wollstonecraft." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Montreal, Canada, August 13-17, 2005.
- "Acknowledging, Forgiving, and Finding in Charles Dickens' Bleak House." Dickens Project Winter Conference, University of California, Davis, February 18-20, 2005.
- "Mentorship, Texts, and Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories." Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 13, 2007.
- "'My brain is on fire!': Aggression, Knowledge, and Mentorship in Frances Burney." Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 5, 2006.
- Respondent to Paula McDowell and Kari McBride. University of California, Santa Barbara, Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium on Ballads, Broadsides, and Popular Culture. November 18, 2005.
- "Writing Women, Writing Sexuality." Paper Presentation and Discussion, Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture Roundtable Discussion Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 18, 2005.
Awards and Grants
- UCSB Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Winter 2008
- UCSB Graduate Council Travel Grant, 2007
- Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture Travel Grant, 2006
- UCSB Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, 2006
- UCSB Humanities Special Fellowship, 2005-2006
- Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture Travel Grant, 2005
- UCSB Humanities Special Fellowship, 2002 - 2003
Teaching Experience
English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies. Fall 2007.English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Studies: The Public, The Private, The Secret. Winter 2007.
English 10LC: Introduction to Literary Studies: Artists, Creation,
Technology, and Structure. Fall 2006.
English 114AF: Women and Literature. Summer 2006
English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies. Summer 2005.
Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing. Fall 2004-Spring 2005; Spring 2007.
Teaching Assistant, English 105A: Shakespeare, Early Plays. Spring 2004.
Teaching Assitant, English 103B: British Literature from 1789 to 1900.Winter 2004.
Teaching Assistant, English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare. Fall 2003.