Elizabeth Langland **** NW **th Lane

Gainesville, Florida 32605

352-***-****

College of Liberal Arts

and Sciences

Gainesville, Florida

32611

352-***-****

abo9y2@r.postjobfree.com

Academic and Professional Training

M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, English Literature,

1971;

1975

Departmental Honors

B.A., Barnard College, 1970

Summa cum laude with honors in English

Guildhall School of Drama, London, England, 1966-67

Teaching Experience

Professor, Department of English, University of Florida,

1990-present

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of

Florida, 1985-90

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English,

Converse

College, 1982-85

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Vanderbilt

University, 1975-82

Administrative Experience

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Liberal

Arts

and Sciences, U of

Florida, 1995-present.

Graduate Coordinator, English Department, U of Florida,

1990-1994.

Chair, Department of English, Converse College, 1982-85.

Chair, Women's Studies Committee, Vanderbilt U, 1978-82.

Co-director of grant, "Studying Women: The Impact on Social

Sciences

and Humanities," Vanderbilt U, 1981-82.

Honors and Fellowships

TIP award for teaching excellence, University of Florida,

1995

Teacher of the Year, University of Florida, 1988; 1990;

1995

University of Florida Research Grants, 1986; 1987; 1990;

1991;

1993

South Carolina State Fiction Prize, "A Summer Solstice,"

1985

NEH Summer Seminar, University of California, Berkeley,

1983

Vanderbilt University Summer Research Fellow, 1976; 1978

Ford Foundation Fellowship, University of Chicago,

1970-74

Associate Alumnae of Barnard College Graduate Fellowship,

1970-71

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1970

Phi Beta Kappa, 1970

Research and Publications

Books

Nobody's Angels:

Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in

Victorian Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University

Press,

1995.

Anne Brontë: The Other One. London: Macmillan

Press, 1989.

Society in the Novel. Chapel Hill: University of

North

Carolina Press, 1984.

Edited books

Out of Bounds: Male Writers and

Gender(ed)

Criticism.

With

Laura Claridge. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts

Press,

1990.

The Voyage In: Fictions of

Female Development.

With

Elizabeth Abel and Marianne Hirsch. Hanover: University

Press

of New England, 1983.

A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It

Makes. With Walter Gove. Chicago and London:

University of

Chicago Press, 1983.

"Nation and Nationality: Queen Victoria in the

Developing Narrative of Englishness," forthcoming in Queen

Victoria and the Making of Victorian Cultures. Eds. Margaret

Homans and Adrienne Munich. New York: Cambridge University

Press, 1997, 30 ms pages.

"Sexing the Text: Narrative Drag As Feminist Poetics and

Politics in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry.

Forthcoming Narrative. Fall 1996, 17 ms pages.

"Holding the Line: The Idea of the Faculty in an Age of

Downsizing." Forthcoming ADE Bulletin. Fall 1996, 16 ms

pages.

"The Future of Graduate Education; or, Which Graduate Programs

Have a Future?" ADE Bulletin. No. 111 (Fall 1995), pp.

28-32.

"Dialogue, Discourse, Theft, and Mimicry: Charlotte Brontë

Rereads William Makepeace Thackeray," in Understanding

Narrative, Eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz.

Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994, pp. 246-271.

"Inventing Reality: The Ideological Commitments of George

Eliot's Realism," Narrative. Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1994),

pp. 87-111.

"A Feminist and Formal Reading of Pride and Prejudice," in

Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Ed. Marcia Fulsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 1993,

pp. 140-47.

"Becoming a Man in Hardy's Jude the Obscure," in

The Sense of Sex: Feminist Approaches to Hardy. Ed.

Margaret Higonnet. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois

Press, 1993, pp. 32-48.

"The Voicing of Feminine Desire in Anne Brontë's The

Tenant of Wildfell Hall," in Gender and Sexuality in

Victorian Literature and Art. Eds. Antony Harrison and

Beverly Taylor. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press,

1992, pp. 111-123.

"Body Politics: Gender, Race, & Class in Wilkie Collins'

Woman in White," in Gender, Race, & Identity. Eds.

Craig Barrow, Katherine Frank, John Phillips, Reed Sanderlin.

Chattanooga: Southern Humanities Press, 1993, pp. 151-157.

"Nobody's Angels: Domestic Ideology and Middle-Class Women in

the Victorian Novel." PMLA. Vol. 107, No. 2 (March

1992), pp. 290-304.

Gesturing Toward an Open Space: Gender, Form and Language in E.

M. Forster's Howards End," in Out of Bounds: Male

Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism. Eds. Laura Claridge and

Elizabeth Langland. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts

Press, 1990, pp. 252-267.

"Image of Woman: A Literary Perspective," in Foundations for

a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines. Eds.

Michele Paludi and Gertrude Steuernagel. New York and London:

Harrington Park Press, 1990, pp. 69-97.

"Pop Goes the Canon," ADE Bulletin, No. 89 (Spring

1988), pp. 24-28.

"Patriarchal Ideology and Marginal Motherhood in Victorian

Fiction," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 19 No. 3 (Fall

1987), pp. 381-394.

"Blake's Feminist Revision of Literary Tradition in "The SICK

ROSE," in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of

Method, eds. Donald Ault, Mark Bracher, and Dan Miller.

Durham: Duke University Press, 1987, pp. 225-243.

"Dialogic Plots and Chameleon Narrators in the Novels of

Victorian Women: The Example of Charlotte Brontë's

Shirley, " Papers in Comparative Studies,

Special Issue on Narrative Poetics, Vol. 5 (1987), pp. 23-37.

"Promises Not Kept: Sexual Infidelity and the Vengeful George

Eliot," Postscript, No. 3 (1986), pp. 53-60.

"The Social Dialectic in Zola's Germinal," rpt. in

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale

Research Co., 1986; 1992.

"Society Anatomized in Dreiser's An American Tragedy,"

rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit:

Gale Research Co., 1985.

"'They Shared a Laboratory Together': Feminist Collaboration in

the Academy," with Elizabeth Abel and Marianne Hirsch, Women's

Studies International Forum, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1983),

pp. 165-167.

"Society as Formal Protagonist: The Examples of Nostromo

and Barchester Towers," Critical Inquiry, Vol.

9, No. 3 (Winter, 1982), pp. 359-378.

"Female Stories of Experience: Alcott's Little Women in

Light of Work," in The Voyage in: Fictions of Female

Development. Eds. Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, Elizabeth

Langland. Dartmouth: University Press of New England, 1983, pp.

112-127.

"Women's Studies at Vanderbilt: Towards a Strategy for the

Eighties," Stepping off the Pedestal: Academic Women in the

South. Eds. Irene Thompson and Pat Stringer. New York:

Modern Language Association, 1982, pp. 41-47.

"A Perspective of One's Own: Thomas Hardy and the Elusive Sue

Bridehead," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring,

1980), pp. 12-28.

"Marriage and Divorce in Contemporary Literature," in

Marriage-Divorce: A Humanistic Perspective. Ed. Beverly

A. Asbury. Nashville: Tennessee Committee for the Humanities,

1978, pp. 62-83.

Reviews

Review of Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women

Writers and the Novel of Development.The Wordsworth

Circle, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 250-51.

Review of Christine L. Krueger, The Reader's Repentance:

Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social

Discourse.The Women's Review of Books. Vol. X, no. 12

(September 1993), pp. 23-24.

Review of Martin Gaskell, Ed. Slums.Population and

Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Vol.

13, No. 3 (Spring 1992), pp. 219-21.

Review of Huang Mei, Transforming the Cinderella Dream: From

Frances Burney to Charlotte Brontë. Studies in the

Novel, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 504-506.

Review of Joseph Wiesenfarth, Gothic Manners and the Classic

English Novel. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Fall

1989), pp. 223-26.

Review essay of Eric Sigsworth, ed., In Search of Victorian

Values; of David Trotter, Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and

the Economics of the Novel; and of Jennifer Wicke,

Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social

Reading. Dickens Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 1 (June 1989), pp.

71-76.

Review of Ann Messenger, His and Hers: Essays in

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature. South Atlantic

Review, Vol. 53, No. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 125-27.

Review of Evelyn Hinz, Ed. For Better or Worse: Attitudes

Toward Marriage in Literature. Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 94,

No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 230-32.

Review of Margaret Homans, Bearing the Word: Language and

Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing. The

Arnoldian, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1986-87), pp. 43-46.

Review of H.M. Daleski, Unities. Studies in the Novel,

Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall, 1986), pp. 322-23.

Review of Karl Miller, Doubles. Studies in the Novel,

Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 448-50.

Review of Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in

Gissing, Dreiser, and Zola. Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 93, No.

3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 686-88.

Review of Ross Posnock, Henry James and the Problem of Robert

Browning. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring,

1986), pp. 102-104.

Papers Presented

"Sexing the Text: Narrative Drag as Feminist Poetics and

Politics." International Society for the Study of Narrative

Conference. April 27, 1996. Columbus, Ohio.

"Queen Victoria and the Developing Narrative of Englishness,"

April 21, 1995. International Society for the Study of Narrative

Conference, Park City, UT.

"Which Graduate Programs Have a Future?" December 30, 1994. MLA

Convention, San Diego, CA.

"The Future of Graduate Education," November 12, 1994. SAMLA

Convention, Baltimore, MD.

"Hannah Cullwick: The Diary Narrative of a Home-Grown

Native," April 30, 1994. Society for the Study of Narrative

Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British

Columbia.

"The Ideological Commitments of George Eliot's Realism."

April 2, 1993. Society for the Study of Narrative Conference,

RPI, Troy, NY.

Panel, "Multiculturalism vs the New Orthodoxy." Nov. 13, 1992.

SAMLA Convention, Knoxville, TN.

"Becoming a Man in Jude the Obscure." April 10, 1992.

Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Vanderbilt U,

Nashville, TN.

"Wayne Booth, the Feminists, and Feminist Criticism." Dec.

29, 1991. MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA.

"Gender, Race, and Ideology in Wilkie Collins's Woman in

White." March 2, 1992. Southern Humanities Conference,

Chattanooga, TN.

"Whiting Out the Body in Wilkie Collins's Woman in

White." December 29, 1990. MLA Convention, Chicago, IL.

"The Voicing of Feminine Desire in Anne Brontë's The

Tenant of Wildfell Hall." April 6, 1990, Society for the

Study of Narrative Literature Conference, Tulane University, New

Orleans, LA.

"Ideological Inscriptions: Charlotte Brontë's Revision of

W. M. Thackeray." April 6, 1989. Society for the Study of

Narrative Literature Conference, University of Wisconsin,

Madison, WI.

Response, "Is There a Female Bildungsroman?" December 29, 1988.

MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Panel, "Exploding Binary Oppositions in Gender Theory." December

30, 1988. MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA.

"E. M. Forster's Right Rhetoric: Gender, Form, and Silence in

Howards End." April 9, 1988. Conference on Narrative

Poetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

"Pop Goes the Canon." June 5, 1987. ADE Summer Seminar, U. S.

Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

Chair and respondent, "Authority in the Humanities." February

26, 1987. Southern Humanities Conference, Belmont College,

Nashville, TN.

"Patriarchal Ideology and Marginal Motherhood in Victorian

Fiction," December 30, 1986. MLA Convention, New York, NY.

"E. M. Forster's Right Rhetoric: The Omniscient Narrator as

Female in Howards End." December 28, 1986. MLA

Convention, New York, NY.

"Dialogic Plots and Chameleon Narrators in the Novels of

Victorian Women." April 12, 1986. Conference on Narrative

Poetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

"Promises Not Kept: Sexual Infidelity in George Eliot's Novels."

March 16, 1985. Philological Association of the Carolinas,

Wake Forest University, Raleigh, NC.

"Quality and Equality: Women's Voices in the Literary

Canon." December 29, 1984, MLA Convention, Washington, DC.

"Textual Incoherence in George Eliot's The Mill on the

Floss." November 9, 1984. SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Chair and respondent, "Sexual Politics and the Humanities."

February 3, 1984. Southern Humanities Conference, Chattanooga,

TN.

"Maggie versus Tom in The Mill on the Floss," October 15,

1983. Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Clemson, SC.

"'They Shared a Laboratory Together': Feminist Collaboration in

the Academy." With Elizabeth Abel and Marianne Hirsch. December

28, 1981. MLA convention, New York, NY.

Introduced and Coordinated Panel, "The Female Novel of

Development as Genre." May 18, 1980. National Women's Studies

Association Convention, Bloomington, IN.

"George Eliot's Masculine Narrator: The Poser in Janet's

Repentance." December 27, 1979. MLA Convention, San

Francisco, CA.

"Assessing Our Assessors: The Rhetoric of Evaluation." May 31,

1979. National Women's Studies Association Conference, Lawrence,

KN.

"Instruction in Vanderbilt's Women's Studies Program." May 31,

1979. National Women's Studies Association Conference, Lawrence,

KN.

Invited Lectures

"Holding the Line: The Idea of the Faculty in an Age of

Downsizing." ADE-West. July 20, 1996. Snowbird, Utah.

"Canons in a Minor Key." Plenary address. Eighteenth- and

Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference. March 23,

1996. University of South Carolina.

"Feminist Theories: 1) Originary Streams; 2) Differing

Tributaries; 3) New Currents." Lecture series, October 9-13,

1995. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and

Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

"Dialogue, Discourse, Theft and Mimicry: Strategic

Intertextuality in Women's Novels." April 5, 1993. Florida

State University, Tallahassee, FL

"Victorian Domestic Ideology." September 20, 1992. Flagler

College, St. Augustine, FL.

Keynote Lecturer. "Of Canons and Curricula" and "the Opening of

The American Mind: Women's Studies in the Curriculum." November

14, 1988. Ohio University, Athens, OH.

The Vinzant Lectures. "Images of Woman: The Stereotypes,"

"Woman Being and Becoming," "Women: Friends and Lovers, Self and

Others." February 16-17. Tift College, Forsyth, GA.

"The Olde Boys Revisited: William Blake's Revision of Literary

Tradition

in 'The SICK ROSE.' " September 20, 1987. Humanities Lecture

Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

L. L. Smith Distinguished Lecturer. "Anne Brontë: The

Other One." November 5, 1986. University of Wyoming, Laramie,

WY.

Memberships and Service in Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association

Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights

and

Responsibilities, 1993-96; Chair, 1995-96

International Society for the Study of Narrative

Executive Council, 1992-95

Narrative, Editorial Board, 1992-94

National Women's Studies Association

South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Chair, Section IV, Romantic and Victorian Literature,

1988

Chair, Graduate Studies in English Forum, 1992

Editorial Consulting

Cornell University Press

Ohio State University Press

University of Florida Press

University of Georgia Press

University of Iowa Press

University of Michigan Press

University of North Carolina Press

Southern Illinois University Press

Narrative

SEL

South Atlantic Review

Studies in the Novel

Victorian Studies

Work in Progress

Negotiating Gender in Victorian Fiction.

Book manuscript.

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