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Rachel Mann
Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
B.A., English, and B.F.A., Ballet Performance, University of Utah, 2002
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
email: rmann@umail.ucsb.com
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Areas of Interest

  • Nineteenth-century novel
  • Victorian studies
  • Ballet and dance
  • Women writers
  • Children's/YA literature

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: "Semiotics of the Body in Nineteenth-Century Art" under the direction of Kay Young (chair), Bill Warner, Janis Caldwell, and Carol Press.

M.A. Comprehensive Exam Fields: Restoration/Eighteenth-Century, Romantic/Victorian, and Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature.

Selected Awards and Honors

Northeast Modern Language Association Travel Grant (March 2007)
UCSB English Department Fellowship (2002-2003)
U. of Utah Continuing Departmental Full Tuition Scholarship in English (2001-2002)
U. of Utah Recognition of Excellence in Ballet and Fine Arts Scholarship (2001-2002)

Selected Presentations

  • "'Spirits of the Age': Victorian Responses to the Romantic Ballet Body." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Victoria, BC, October 13, 2007.
  • "'Let me know my fate': Mary Crawford as (Anti)Heroine of Mansfield Park." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 3, 2007.
  • "The Madwoman in the Romantic Ballet: Enacting and Embodying Giselle." (dis)junctions: Lost in Translation, University of California, Riverside, April 8, 2006.
  • "'Her heart is breaking, her mind wanders, her feet begin to move...': Enacting and Embodying Giselle's Mad Scene." Dance Under Construction VIII: Breaking it Down, University of California, Riverside, April 8, 2006.
  • "'Spirits dancing in private rapture': Reading "Dancing" and Displacement in Jane Austen's Persuasion." Dickens Universe Graduate Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, February 17, 2006.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, UCSB English Department (Fall 2003-present)

  • Sole Instructor, English 10: Memory and Early Modern Studies (Spring 2005, Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
  • Teaching Associate/Sole Instructor, English 10: Art and Adaptation (Summer 2005, Winter 2008)
  • Teaching Associate/Sole Instructor, English 103B: British Literature 1789-1901 (Summer 2006)
  • Teaching Associate/Sole Instructor, English 10: Women Writing (Women) (Spring 2006)
  • Discussion Leader, selected survey courses (Fall 2003-Winter 2005, Winter 2007)
Teaching Assistant, UCSB Writing Program (Fall 2005-Fall 2006)
  • Sole Instructor, Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing
 
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