CYNTHIA L. HALL

 

Education

 

Ph.D.        University of California, Riverside.

                          

M.A.         University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA.                                

 

M.ED.       Emmanuel College.  Boston, MA. 

 

B.A.          Mount St. Mary College. Newburgh, NY.    

 

 

Awards

 

Governor’s Teaching Fellow, University System of Georgia, 2010-2011

UCR English Dept. Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06.

University of California Travel Grants (4),  2003-06.

UCR English Dept. Teaching Assistantships, 2002-05.

Kristine Scarano Scholarship: Teachers For Peace and Justice, 2004.

Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2004.

Dean of Humanities Fellowship: University of California, Riverside, 2001.

Outstanding Graduate Award:  University of West GA, 2000.

English Dept. Teaching Assistant: University of West GA, 1998-00.

Graduate Education Excellence Award:  Emmanuel College, 1993.

Senior Honor:  Magna Cum Laude, Mt. St. Mary College, 1987.

 

 

Teaching Positions                                                                                            

 

Assistant Professor:  Abraham Baldwin State College, Tifton, GA, (2008-present)

 

          English 1101- Freshman Composition

          English 1101- Composition and Introduction to Literature

          English 2131- American Literature I

          English 2132- American Literature II

          English 4300- Rural Fictions

 

 

Instructor:  University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, (2006-2007) 

                

           English 1101- Freshman Composition

           English 1102- Composition and Introduction to Literature

           

 

Teaching Assistant:  University of CA, Riverside, (2002-2005)      

      

         English 4A- Developmental Grammar and Composition

         English 1A- Beginning Composition

         English 1C-  Advanced Composition

       English 31-  Survey of American Literature to 1900

 

 

 

Publications

 

 “‘Colossal Vices’ and ‘Terrible Deformities’ in The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk

     Hall:  George Lippard’s Gothic Nightmare.”  In Horror of the Body:   Essays on

     Illness and Disability in Gothic Literature.  Ed.  Ruth Bienstock Anolik.  NY:

     McFarland Press, 2010. 

 

                                           

 

Conference Presentations

 

“Standing Tall or Lying Still:  The Impact of Spinal  Impairment on Individual Subjectivity in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and Fruit of the Tree.”  Modern Language Association Conference.  Chicago, IL.  December 2007.

 

“Eradicating the Curve:  Mill Reform Texts as Corporeal Regulation in Elizabeth

 Stuart Phelps’ “The Tenth of January” and The Silent Partner.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.  Charlotte, NC  November 2006.  

 

“‘Colossal Vices’ and ‘Terrible Deformities’:  Exorcising Evil from America’s

 Nineteenth-Century Spine.”  American Culture Association Conference.  Atlanta, GA  April 2006.

 

“Gothic Deformities:  Hunched Backs, Curved Spines, and 19th-Century Social

 Reform.”  American Comparative Literature Association.  Princeton, NJ.  March 2006.

 

“Iron Mills and Slave Plantations:  Gothic Technique and Its Ideological Spectrum.”

International Gothic Association.  Montreal, Canada.  August 2005.

 

“Something About Lily:  Class and Race in The House of Mirth.”  Edith Wharton

Society Centennial Conference on The House of Mirth.  Poughkeepsie, NY.  June 2005.

 

“’Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch To Live’:  Edith Wharton’s Supernatural Tales and the

New Woman.”  American Literature Conference.  San Francisco, CA.  May 2004.

 

“The Frontier Dilemma of ‘Girls Gone Wild’:  Mabel Dunham’s Wilderness Education

 and Sadistic Interpellation.”  The Society of James Fennimore Cooper Conference. Oneonta, NY.  July 2003.

 

“Chasing Amy but Finding Irigaray:  Hollywood’s Patriarchal Plot Thickens.”

(dis)junctions: a graduate student conference. University of CA, Riverside.

April 2002.

 

“Not Such an Innocent Age:  Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence.”  Florida State Conference on Film and Literature.  Jacksonville, FL.  January 1999.