LuAnn McCracken Fletcher, Ph.D. Professor of English Cedar Crest College 100 College Drive Allentown, PA 18104 610-437-4471, x3396 lmfletch@cedarcrest.edu Cell phone: 610-504-3011 Education 1991: Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Gendered Fictions, Fictional Identities: Self-Narration in Dickens and Charlotte Brontë 1985: M.A., English, Lehigh University 1983: B.A. with highest honors, English and Psychology, Lehigh University Professional Experience 2007-present: Professor of English, Cedar Crest College 2000-2007: Associate Professor of English, Cedar Crest College 1993-2000: Assistant Professor of English, Cedar Crest College Specialized teaching areas: 19 th century British literature; women s literature; narrative theory; literary tourism; British fantasy. Selected courses: College Writing; First-Year Seminar: The Outsider in Fiction and Film; Literary Analysis; Survey of British Literature I and II; Shakespeare; 300-level topics courses in 18 th and 19 th century British literature; Senior Seminar (topics include Visions and Re/visions: The Woman Question in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novels, Literary London, and Neo-Victorian Novels: Postmodern Takes on the Past). Also: British Fantasy; The Gothic Tradition in British Literature; Celtic Literature; Literary Landscapes: The Importance of Place in British Literature. Honors courses: The Futureworld of Books: Spinning Stories On and Off the Page; Muggle Britain: Literary Tourism and Real History Online courses taught: Survey of British Literature II (first offering Spring 2013); Ireland/Wales/England: Cultural Connections (Spring 2014) Conducted study abroad trips with course tie-ins to England and Scotland (May 2009), London (March 2011), Ireland/Wales/England (May 2014), and England/Scotland (May 2016). 1993 (spring): Adjunct Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Philosophy, Lehigh University Courses taught: Composition; British Literature Survey: Romantics to Moderns; Philosophy and Feminism 1992 (fall): Lecturer, Departments of English, Muhlenberg and Cedar Crest Colleges Courses taught: Basic Composition; Women in Literature 1991-1992: Lecturer, Department of English, UCLA Courses taught: Pre-1800 British Survey; Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays; Earlier 17th Century Literature; The Victorian Novel; Later Victorian Poetry and Prose; Senior Seminar in the Brontës; Victorian Children's Literature Related work experience: 1984-1985: Researcher of major donors, Lehigh University Development Office
L. M. Fletcher 2 Selected Publications Singing in her song she died : Form as Heterotopic Mirror in Tennyson and Byatt. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Fall 2016): 318-342. The Remembrance of Things Past: Narrating Humanity in the Harry Potter Books. Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review 57 (Winter 2011): 69-89. Dress Codes: Fashioning Taste in Eastlake and Brontë. Victorians Institute Journal 34 (2006): 65-92. Victorian Prose: An Anthology. Ed. with Rosemary J. Mundhenk. Columbia UP, 1999. Entries on Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, in An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. 2nd ed. Ed. Paul Schleuter and June Schlueter. Rutgers UP, 1998. A Recipe for Perversion: The Feminine Narrative Challenge in Bleak House. Dickens Studies Annual, 25 (1996): 67-89. Manufactured Marvels, Heretic Narratives, and the Process of Interpretation in Villette. Studies in English Literature 32, No.4 (Autumn 1992): 723-46. The synthesis of my being : Autobiography and the Reproduction of Identity in Virginia Woolf. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 9, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 59-78. Selected Conference Participation Scott-land and Outlander: Inventing Scotland for Armchair Tourists. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association 2017 National Conference, San Diego, CA, 12 April 2017. Singing in her song she died : Form as Heterotopic Mirror in Tennyson and Byatt. Paper presented at British Association for Victorian Studies 2010 Conference, Victorian Forms and Formations, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 3 September 2010. A narrative hung together but awkwardly : The Odd Women s Critique of Marriage. Paper presented at Victorian Secrets, 2007 Victorians Institute Conference, University of Alabama, 11 November 2007. Pensieve Reflections: Memory, Consciousness, and the Morality of Action in the Harry Potter Books. Paper presented for panel on Fantasy Fictions in the 21 st Century, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 29 December 2006. "Dress Codes: The Gendering of Taste in Eastlake and Brontë." Paper given at panel on "Brontë," Eleventh Annual 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, "Gendering Philosophy: Body, Mind, and Culture in 18th and 19th Century Discourse," Texas Christian University, 21 March 2003. "Dress Codes: Fashion, Taste, Gender, and Eastlake's 'Ungentlemanly' Review." Paper given at panel on "Fashion, Taste, and Aesthetics in Victorian Literature and Culture I," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, MA, 7 March 2003. Also served as chair for this panel and a second session on the same topic.
L. M. Fletcher 3 "WebTech Meets the BritLit Survey," with Robert P. Fletcher. Paper given at How We Learn: Technologies in English Studies. The Conference of the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, East Stroudsburg University, 26 October 2000. Writing in the Margins: Collaborating on a Vision/Version of the Victorians, with Rosemary J. Mundhenk. Paper given at panel on Anthologizing Women Writers of the 19th Century, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD, 18 April 1998. Campus Presentations Talk is Chic: Using Online Discussion Boards. Presentation for panel titled Would My Course Benefit from an Online Component? January Faculty Workshop, Cedar Crest College, 2006. "Poets and Painted Ladies." Presentation on the PreRaphaelites, Accepted Students Day, Cedar Crest College, March 30, 2003 and March 21, 2004. "Responding to Plagiarism." Presentation with Carol Pulham and Julie Roe, January Faculty Workshop, Cedar Crest College, 2003. "Re-covering the Past: The Creation of the Woman Writer." Presentation on Florence Nightingale and Cassandra for panel discussion during Women's History Month, Cedar Crest College, March 2002. "Learning to Write/Writing to Learn." Back-to-back presentations, January Faculty Workshop, Cedar Crest College, 2000. Awards and Grants Outstanding Advisor Award, 2004, 2015. Also nominated for Outstanding Advisor Award, 2013 and 2014. Faculty Development Awards for conference and research travel in 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2017, Cedar Crest College. Faculty Development grant to develop online course (ENG 202: Survey of British Literature II), Spring 2012. Completed Quality Matters: Introduction to the QM Rubric course. Test Teacher for The Democracy Project, a pedagogical initiative supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and The Teagle Foundation, Fall 2003. Recipient of FLITE Plan grants from the Culpeper Foundation for technology-enhanced course development, Fall 1999 and Fall 2000, Cedar Crest College Ada Nisbet Dissertation Fellowship for 1990-1991, UCLA Academic Service Administrative service Chair of the History, Literature, and Languages Department, May 2014-August 2017. Responsible for academic leadership, personnel development, and administration of the English, History, Political Science, Pre-law, Spanish, and Writing majors/minors, as well as the Philosophy minor. Also, oversight of the WRI 001 and 100 courses. English Program Director, May 2004-August 2017. Responsible for administrative tasks associated with the English major and minor and writing minor, including course schedule creation, staffing, preparation
L. M. Fletcher 4 of assessment reports, development of promotional materials, review of catalog copy, and long-term program planning. Chair of the Humanities Department, Summer 2002-May 2004; acting chair June 2000 and Spring 2006. Responsible for academic leadership, personnel development, and administration of the Communication, English, Hispanic and Latino Studies, Applied and Professional Ethics, Philosophy, Gender Studies, and Writing programs. Assigned by the Dean of Faculty to rewrite the Faculty Bylaws and Cedar Crest College's academic policies and procedures, Fall 2001. Rewrote the Faculty Handbook (personnel policies) with the Dean of Faculty, the college counsel, and another faculty member, Spring 2001. Developed course and trained faculty for college-wide interdisciplinary writing component, Writing and Research in the Electronic Age, 1995-98. Course Coordinator, 1997-98 Faculty Committee Service Service through faculty election: Faculty Council, Humanities representative, 2016-2019 Faculty Personnel Committee, 2014-16 Co-chair and representative to Faculty Council, 2015-2016 Board of Trustees Advancement Committee, 2013-2014 Faculty Secretary, 2013-2014 Faculty Council, 2012-2014 President, 2012-2013 Past President, 2013-2014 Faculty Executive Committee, 2010-2012 Committee Chair, 2011-2012 Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 2008-2010 Information Services and Technology Committee, 2007-2009 Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee, 2004-2007 Committee Chair, 2006-2007 Grievance Committee, 2004-2005, 2007-2008 Teacher Education Committee, 2003-2005, 2010-2012 Faculty Personnel Committee, 2000-fall 2003 Committee Chair, 2000-2001, fall 2003 Chair of Middle States Standard 10 subgroup (represented by the FPC), 2002-2003 Academic Policy Committee, 1999-2000 Curriculum and Instruction Committee, 1996-1999 Committee Chair, 1998-99 Interim Faculty Secretary, 1996 Library Committee, 1995-97 Committee Chair, 1996-97 Cultural Programs Committee, 1994-96 Ad hoc committees, service through Provost s or President s nomination: Transgender Task Force, 2015-16 Middle States Standards 1-3 subgroup, 2011-2012
L. M. Fletcher 5 Honors Review Committee, 2010-11 Assessment Advisory Board, 2010-2011 Provost Search Committee, 2009-2010 Best Practices Commission (review of college website), 2008 Subcommittee to Assess the Liberal Arts Curriculum (SALAC), 2004-5 "Cedar Crest 2020" committee (development of new curriculum), Fall 2001 Arts and Humanities committee, 1999 Technology committee, 1995 Committee to study the Freshman year (development of new curriculum), 1995 Appointed by the Provost to serve as Faculty Parliamentarian, 2015-present Departmental Service and Advising Co-Director of Gender Studies co-major/minor, 2000-2012 Freshman Advisor, 1995-97 English Major Advisor, 1995-present Faculty advisor to Pitch: A Journal of Arts and Literature (www.cedarcrest.edu/pitch), 2010-2015 Advisor to Preterite, student literary club, 1996-present Advisor to Marauders, student fantasy literature club, 2011-2013 Advisor to Xi Kappa, CCC chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, 2007-2009 Professional Memberships Modern Language Association (Served as reviewer for five essays submitted to PMLA) American Association of University Professors Revised: 8/21/2017