Calinda C. Shely Phone: (325) 212-6414 Department of English and Modern Languages calinda.shely@angelo.edu P.O. Box 10894 San Angelo, TX 76904 Education PhD English, 2016 Dissertation Title: The Distemper of a Gentleman : Grotesque Visual and Literary Representations of Gout, 1744-1826 (Co-Directors Carolyn Woodward and Gail Houston; members Aeron Hunt, Aeron Haynie, and Amy Brandzel) Graduate Certificate: Women Studies MA English, 2008 Thesis: The Commodification of Women in Victorian Literature BA Sociology and English, 2006 Graduated magna cum laude with Highest University Honors Honors and Awards Graduate Student Success Scholarship ($9000) 2016 Office of Graduate Studies Research/Professional Development Travel Grant ($595) 2014 Paul Davis and Cheryl Fresch Literature TA Teaching Award ($300) 2013 Research and Professional Travel Grant, English Dept., UNM ($850) 2013 18 th -and 19 th -Century British Women Writers Conference Travel Award ($400) 2012 Research and Professional Travel Grant, English Dept., UNM ($200) 2012 Core Writing Program Peer Mentor Honorable Mention 2010 1 st Place English Department Graduate Essay Contest ($300) 2006-7 Department of Psychology and Sociology Student of the Year 2005-6 Distinguished Student Award, College of Liberal and Fine Arts 2005-6 English Department Presidential Award Nominee 2005-6 Robert G. and Nona K. Carr Research Fellowship ($2000) 2005-6 Publications: Creations Born of Chaos: The Cultural and Historical Context of Mary Shelley s Novels. Critical Insights: Mary Shelley. Ed. Virginia Brackett. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, forthcoming Fall 2016. The Worrying Torment that Was His Portion : Gout, Debt, and Overconsumption in Ellen Wood s East Lynne. The Victorian 1.2 (2013). Shely 1
Invitation to the 2013 BWWC:. Writing Women 13.2 (Fall 2012): 2-3. WebCT in a Genre-Based English 102: Using a Common Space to Foster Discourse Community and Invent the University. coauthored with Mellisa Huffman and Genesea Carter. Pearson Technology in the Classroom online publication, Spring 2010. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/cccc_emergingpedagogies/ Reviews: Review of Amy Porter s Their Lives Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846. Concho River Review 30.2 (Spring 2016): 116-117 Review of John McKiernan-Gonzalez s Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942. Somatechnics 5.2 (March 2016): 106-108. Review of Clay Reynolds s Sandhill County Lines. Concho River Review 22.1 (Spring 2008): 129-130. Conference Presentations Scenes of Retreat as Schoolroom: Women s Education in Mary Shelley s Lodore and Falkner. British Women Writers Conference, Athens, GA. June 2-5, 2016. Diseased Governing Bodies: Gout s Metaphorical Significance within the Golden Age of Graphic Satire. Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies. New York, NY. April 5-6, 2014. An Ailing Body Politic: Gouty Gentlemen as Cultural Metaphor in Sarah Fielding s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn and Smollett s The Adventures of Roderick Random. South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Austin, TX. February 21-23, 2013. Labouring Under a Complication of Diseases : Lord Dellwyn as a Model of the Gouty Aristocrat in Sarah Fielding s The Countess of Dellwyn. 18 th - and 19 th -Century British Women Writers Conference. Boulder, CO. June 7-9, 2012. Eating the Upper Crust: Gout and Overconsumption in Ellen Wood s East Lynne. 18 th and 19 th Century British Women Writers Conference. College Station, TX. April 8-10, 2010. WebCT in a Genre-Based English 102: Using a Common Space to Foster Discourse Community and Invent the University. Poster Presentation with Genesea M. Carter and Mellisa Huffman. Conference on College Composition and Communication Preconference Workshop Session. Louisville, KY. March 10, 2010. Be Sure I Looked : Voyeuristic Narrators in Browning s Porphyria s Lover, My Last Duchess, and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Riverside, CA. April 4-5, 2007. The Effects of Coed Residence Halls on Learning Environment and Student GPAs. Poster presentation. Carr Student Research Fellowship Scholar Symposium, San Angelo, TX. April 2006. Shely 2
Invited Presentations: Classroom Management Practices: Handling Difficult Students. Guest Lecturer for ENG 6367, Practicum in College Composition Pedagogy, taught by Dr. Mellisa Huffman, Angelo State University, August 2015. Travel in Austen s Pride and Prejudice. Guest Lecturer for ENG 3312, Restoration and Enlightenment Literature, taught by Dr. Mark Jackson,. April 2015. Defoe s Moll Flanders: Her Stolen Goods and Her Movements. Guest Lecturer for ENG 3312, Restoration and Enlightenment Literature, taught by Dr. Mark Jackson,. March 2015. Why We Need Feminism in the Workplace. Guest Speaker, 1 st Annual Women s Empowerment Conference (slated for March 2014; canceled for lack of funding), Albuquerque, NM. Comprehensive Exam Areas and Research Interests: Georgian literature, Victorian literature, Feminist Theories, the Rise of the Novel, gender studies, medical discourses of the 18 th and 19 th centuries, composition pedagogies Teaching Experience Courses taught as Instructor of record: ENG 1302, Writing Across the Curriculum 2014-2016 & (includes online sections) 2007-2008 ENG 1301, Intro to Academic Writing 2014-2015 ENGL 295, Survey of Later English Literature 2014 WMST 200, Intro to Women s Studies (3 sections) 2012-2014 ENGL 294, Survey of Earlier English Literature 2013 ENGL 150, Intro to Literature for non-majors 2013 ENGL 293, World Literatures 17 th Century-Present 2013 WMST 304, Feminist Theories 2012 (Cross-listed with American Studies 332) linked with Trauma & Resuscitation 2012 linked with Censorship in Children s Literature 2011 ENGL 240, Traditional Grammar (4 sections) 2009-2011 ENGL 220, Intermediate Expository Writing, Food Culture in the United States 2011 ENGL 102, Analysis and Argument (4 sections) 2009 & 2010 linked with Intro to Signed Language 2009 &2010 ENGL 101, Expository Writing 2008 & 2010 Shely 3
Course taught as Teaching Assistant: ENGL 250, Introduction to Literary Studies (two sections, including one online course) 2011 & 2012 Other Teaching/Academic Experience Graduate Assistant and Grader for Management 638, Fraud Prevention (UNM) 2011-2013 Teacher Exchange Program with Albuquerque Public Schools, Partnered with La Cueva High 2009 Writing Center Peer Tutor, 2005-2007 Teaching Interests: 18 th - and 19 th -century British literature, gender studies, feminism, visual analysis, gender in literature and popular culture, composition, rhetorical analysis Service: To the Profession and University: Chairperson of Steering Committee for the 2013 18 th and 19 th -Century British Women Writers Conference 2011-2013 English Coordinator for Freshman Learning Community Program 2011 Write On! Workshop Tutor, 2008-2013 Co-editor of Oasis Literary Magazine, 2006-2007 To the Department: Peer Mentor, 2011-present Teacher Learning Community Curriculum Planning and Development Committee 2010-2012 Teacher Learning Community Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee 2010-2011 Core Writing Outcomes Assessment Committee 2009-2011, 2013 New Instructor Orientation Speaker 2009 &2010 To the Community: Animal Humane New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2011-2014 Regency House Convalescent Home Activities Volunteer, San Angelo, TX 2006-8 Memberships: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association Modern Language Association 2013-present 2013-present Shely 4
References: Dr. Gail Houston Professor Dept. of English ghouston@unm.edu Dr. Aeron Hunt Assistant Professor, Dept of English Boston College aeron.hunt@bc.edu Dr. Carolyn Woodward Associate Professor, Dept of English woodward@unm.edu Dr. Mary Ellen Hartje Professor, Dept. of English and Mod. Lang. me.hartje@angelo.edu Dr. Mark Jackson Assistant Professor, Dept. of English and Modern Languages Roger.jackson@angelo.edu Shely 5