Claire Laville

claville@tru.ca www.clairelaville.net Citizenship: Canada, EU EDUCATION Ph.D., English Emory University, August 2014

Reading to the Test: Character, Method, and Complicity in U.S. Writing from Emerson to Adorno

Chair: Michael Moon Committee: Benjamin Reiss, Deborah Elise White, Walter Kalaidjian

M.A., English Emory University, May 2012 Hon. B.A. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, June 2008

(high distinction) Areas of specialization American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; Critical theory Areas of competence Composition (including digital writing); British literature, 18th century to present; Gender and sexuality studies; Disability studies; African-American literature; Linguistics; Science studies APPOINTMENTS May 2015- Sessional Lecturer, Thompson Rivers University Kamloops, BC 2014-15 Visiting Assistant Professor in English, Emory University Atlanta, GA FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS 2013-14 Deans Teaching Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University Declined, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Fox Ctr. for Humanistic Inquiry 2008-13 George W. Woodruff Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University

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2008 Jolliffe Gold Medal in English and Helen Maude Vokes Postgraduate

Scholarship, Victoria University in the University of Toronto Declined, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanada Graduate Scholarship, Masters

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles Idiocy and Aberrancy: Disability, Paul de Man, and Wordsworths Idiot Boy. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 47.2 (June 2014), special issue Romance Other Scholarly Publications Review of Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology, by Bill Ferster. Configurations 24.1 (January 2016) Otto Weininger: entry in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross, 2015 (peer-reviewed, online) Review of Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life, by Omri Moses. Modernism/Modernity, forthcoming (2016) The Thematic Apperception Test and the Melville Revival, under review PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) 2015 Reflexivity after Self-Consciousness: The Case of Hawthornes Ministers Black

Veil, MLA, Vancouver, BC: Literary History and Ideas of Mind panel 2013 Allegories of Reading in the Harvard Psychological Clinic, The

Phenomenology of Reading, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA 2013 Apart from Experience: In Gertrude Steins Laboratory, VariAbilities: The

History and Representation of the Body in its Diversity, Decatur, GA (co-organized by Emory and the University of Winchester): Disabling Science panel

2013 Disciplining Empathy, Strange Relations (Studies in Sexualities Fourth Annual

Graduate Conference), Emory Univ.

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2011 Using Nightwoods Objects, Northeast Modern Language Association, New Brunswick, NJ: Persons and Things: A Roundtable in Memorial to Barbara Johnson

2008 Watch me: Self-Mutilation and the Ethics of Spectatorship, Regarding Pain

panel, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON Organizer 2013 Co-organizer, Re-Visioning Emory, Re-Engaging Scholarship: An

Interdisciplinary Symposium, Emory Univ. 2011 Panel organizer and chair, Impersonality beyond Tradition, Modernist Studies

Association, Buffalo, NY TEACHING First-Year Writing Introduction to University Writing. 6 sections to date. Thompson Rivers University. Writing about Literature: Writing in Tight Spaces. 3 sections. Spring 2015, Emory University. Expository Writing: Technology and the Senses. 3 sections. Fall 2014, Emory University. Writing about Literature: Sinister Children. Spring 2011, Emory University. Expository Writing: Privacy. Fall 2010, Emory University. Interdisciplinary Topics (Emory University) Literature and Science: Inventing Languages. Upper division. Summer 2014 American Literature as a Human Experiment. Upper division, cross-listed in English,

American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Womens Studies. Spring 2014 Teaching assistant, Foundations of Linguistics. 2 sections. Fall 2011 and spring 2012 Teaching assistant, Literature and Science before 1900. British. Fall 2009 Core Courses for the English Major Introduction to Poetry and Drama. Summer 2015, Thompson Rivers University. Poetry. Spring 2013, Emory University. Teaching assistant, British Literature since 1660. Spring 2010, Emory University. SERVICE (SELECTED) 2015- Reviewer, Twentieth Century Literature

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2015- Research assistant, Radio Free Stein (PI: Adam Frank, University of British

Columbia). Supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2014 Writing Program Assessment Working Group. Norming and best practices for

traditional and digital writing projects. 2013-14 Presentations for the annual pedagogy workshop of the Graduate Program in

English: The Query Letter as a Research Genre and How to Make Peer Review a Meaningful Experience

2013 English Department: Assistance with, e.g., compiling and managing documents

for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; web and print outreach materials; consulted on changes to official graduate program handbook

2013 Co-facilitator of workshops on Using Writing as a Teaching Tool and Micro-

teaching, as part of the Laney Graduate Schools teaching-assistant training program

2011-13 Graduate English Advisory Committee. Faculty-student liaison, mentoring to

junior graduate students. 2009-12 Coordinated two speaker series: a Works in Progress series in which faculty and

graduate students exchange scholarly writing; a brown-bag lunch series related to issues in pedagogy and professionalization for graduate students

2007-10 Research assistant to Simon Dickie, University of Toronto. Research and

manuscript preparation for Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2014-15 Practicum in First-Year Composition, Emory College Writing Program.

Included the Domain of Ones Own Program (born-digital student portfolios) 2014 Safe Space training, Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life 2013 Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts, Oxford College of Emory University Workshops: Enhancing Learning with Peer Instruction; Doing Digital

Humanities

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2013 THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp): Feminisms, Southeast 2012 Semester-long colloquium in the Pedagogy of Literature 2010 Presenting Content in the Digital Era, Emory Center for Interactive Teaching 2010 Semester-long workshop in the Teaching of Composition 2009 Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity, Laney Graduate School AFFILIATIONS Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Modern Language Association