Kristin Flieger Samuelian
Department of English
George Mason University
(703) 993-2905
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English 1992, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Dissertation: ÒWomen in Political Fiction: Mary Barton, Hard Times, North and South, and Felix HoltÓ
M.A. English 1984, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
B.A. English 1983, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
EMPLOYMENT
Term Associate Professor, English, George Mason University, beginning Fall 2007.
Term Assistant Professor, English, George Mason University, Fall 2003 to Spring 2007.
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, 2000 to 2002.
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, George Mason University, Fall 1993 to Spring 2000.
Adjunct Instructor, English, George Mason University, Fall 1989 to Spring 1993.
SCHOLARSHIP:
Publications:
In Progress: ÒRoyal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821.Ó Under contract at Palgrave MacMillan, ÒNineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters,Ó Series Editor, Marilyn Gaull.
Emma, by Jane Austen. Edited with an introduction, explanatory notes, and selected contemporary documents. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, April 2004. A Broadview Literary Texts edition.
Articles:
ÒManaging Propriety for the Regency: Jane Austen Reads the Book.Ó Studies in Romanticism (Summer 2009).
ÒHome Duties: Negotiating Influence in 1854.Ó From Hearth to Street: Imagining Outsiders in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell. Eds. Deborah Morse and Deirdre DÕAlbertis (forthcoming).
ÒTo a Sky-LarkÓ (reference article). Companion to Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. Facts on File (forthcoming 2009).
"Periodicals: Aesthetics and Media." Co-authored with Mark Schoenfield, Vanderbilt University. Handbook to Romanticism Studies. Eds. Julia Wright and Joel Faflak. Blackwell (under contract).
"'Piracy is our only option': Postfeminist Intervention in Sense and Sensibility." Jane Austen in Hollywood (and at the BBC): The Media Explosion of 1995-96, eds. Linda V. Troost and Sayre Greenfield (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001).
"Lost Mothers: The Challenge to Paternalism in Mary Barton." Nineteenth Century Studies 6 (March 1992): 19-35.
"Being Rid of Women: Middle-class Ideology in Hard Times." The Victorian Newsletter 82 (Fall 1992): 58-61.
Book Reviews:
Review of Jerome Beaty, Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm. ANQ 12:2 (Spring 1999).
Review of Vanessa D. Dickerson, Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 17:2 (Fall 1998).
Review of John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten, eds., Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-century British Publishing and Reading Practices. Prose Studies 20 (1997).
Review of Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 13:2 (Fall 1994).
Presentations:
ÒLost in London: Mary RobinsonÕs Theatrical Wanderings.Ó International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), New York City, NY, November 2009.
ÒRemaking a Prince of Pleasure: The Evolution of Florizel and Perdita.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Saratoga, NY, April 2009.
ÒThe Political Work of Blackmail: The Case of Thomas Ashe.Ó International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), Oakland, MI, October 2008.
ÒLooking at/in the Prints: Byron, Queen Caroline, and Embodying the Ephemeral.Ó International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), Baltimore, MD, October 2007.
ÒBodied forth to a Fare-thee-well: Byron, Intertextuality and the Body in Responses to the Queen Caroline Affair.Ó North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, Bristol, UK, July, 2007.
ÒKeeping up to date with the Crown: The politics of intertextuality and the intertextuality of politics.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2007.
ÒReading the Body Politic: Public Discourse and the Unruly Queen.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, Durham University, Durham, UK, July 2006
ÒRoyal Squabbles and the Public Imaginary: The King, the Queen, and Popular Opinion, 1820-21.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, March/April 2006
ÒPride and Prejudice, Deviance and Defiance: Adjusting Class Allegiance in AustenÕs Fiction.Ó North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, Montreal, August 2005.
ÒAustenÕs impurities: sex, consumption, and social regulation in two novels.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, April 2005
ÒModernity as antiquity: Donwell Abbey, anti-Gothic, and the gentlemanly ideal.Ó North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, London, Ontario, August 2002.
ÒFigures of representation: understanding bodies in Emma.Ó North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, Tempe, AZ, September 2000.
With Mark Schoenfield, Vanderbilt University: ÒOverlooking Poverty: the visibility of the poor in Austen and the periodical press, 1814-1816.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference (INCS), ÒWays of Seeing: The Nineteenth Century.Ó University of Paris, Nanterre, Paris, June 2000.
ÒA fling at the slave trade: the language of commerce and the language of class in Emma.Ó Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, Columbus, OH, April 1999.
ÒÔA mine of pure, genial affectionsÕ: money and the construction of class in Jane Eyre.Ó Conference on Wealth, Poverty, and the Victorians, Leeds, UK, July 1999. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (INCS), New Orleans, LA, April 1998.
"Responding to 'the law': Austen, Emma Thompson, and postfeminist intervention." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1997.
"Making a middle class: romancing property law in Jane Eyre." Bront‘s Legacy Conference, Leeds, UK, April 1997; Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, March 1997.
"Thoroughly modernizing Elinor: twentieth-century interventions and the case for implicit feminism." East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, November 1996.
"Home duties: negotiating influence in 1854." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Savannah, GA, November 1996.
"Woman's work': social reform, maternalism, and married women's property in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South." Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 1995.
"Being rid of women: middle-class ideology in Hard Times." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1991.
Invited Lectures:
ÒPride and Prejudice in Historical Context.Ó Workshop on ÒJane Austen in Her and Ours.Ó Sponsored by the Center for the Liberal Arts, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, February 2008.
ÒPains and Pleasures of Editing Emma.Ó Editors Panel. Jane Austen Society of North America General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, October 2007.
ÒJane Austen in Bath.Ó Riversdale House Museum, Riversdale, MD, September 2007
ÒJane Austen and History: The Lessons and Limitations of Romance.Ó New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, April 2007.
ÒLetters in and of Austen.Ó Jane Austen Society of America, Washington, DC Regional Conference, Bethesda, MD, December 2005.
ÒElizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens: womenÕs writing and womenÕs work in nineteenth-century Britain.Ó Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, April 1999.
ÒMoney and marriage in Jane Austen.Ó Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, March 1998.
"Courtship and domestic ideology in Austen's fiction." Intellectual Life of Schools Project, Institute of the Third Annual Conference, "Exploring Jane Austen," George Mason University, August 1996.
"The problem of class in Austen." ILS Institute, "Exploring Jane Austen," George Mason University, August 1996.
COURSES TAUGHT
At George Mason University:
ENGL 640, Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (graduate seminar): The Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace, one section.
ENGL 477, British Authors: Jane Austen, four sections.
ENGL 459, Special Topics in Fiction: Bildungsroman, one section.
ENGL 453, Nineteenth-Century British Novel, one section.
ENGL 414, Honors Seminar: ÒDecadent Victorians,Ó one section.
ENGL 408, British Literary Periods: "The City and the Home in the Victorian Imagination," one section.
ENGL 408, British Literary Periods: "The Early Victorians," one section.
ENGL 369/WMST 300, Women and Literature (Women's Studies course), two sections.
ENGL 345, Literary Surveys: ÒThe Long Nineteenth Century,Ó one section.
ENGL 325, Dimensions of Literature, six sections .
ENGL 201, Reading Texts, five sections.
ENGL 201, Reading Texts, two sections (Mason Topics Program)
ENGL 202, Texts and Contexts, one section (Mason Topics Program).
ENGL 203, Western Literary Masterworks I, one section (Mason Topics Program).
ENGL 204, Western Literary Masterworks II, two sections.
ENGL 302, Advanced Composition for the Humanities, twelve sections.
HNRS 121, Reading Cultural Signs, four sections.
WMST 200, Introduction to Women's Studies, one section.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Faculty Fellow, Office of University Life, 2007-2008.
Coordinator, Mason Topics General Education Program, beginning Spring 2007.
Coordinator, English 325, ÒDimensions of Writing and Literature,Ó 2004-2007.
University Retention Committee, 2001-02.
WomenÕs Studies Executive Committee, 1997-99.
HONORS AND AWARDS
George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2005.
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, September 1985 to June 1989.
Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, September 1983 to June 1984.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Executive Board, 2000-04.
Conference Chair, 17th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) Conference, ÒNineteenth-Century Knowledges,Ó George Mason University, April 11-13, 2002.
President, Literary Criticism Division, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1998.
Moderator and Conference Organizer: Intellectual Life of Schools Project, Institute of the Third Annual Conference, "Exploring Jane Austen," George Mason University, August 1996.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
International Conference on Romanticism
Modern Language Association
Deborah Kaplan, Associate Professor, Department of English, George Mason University