Jean E. Graham

 

Department of English, Bliss Hall

The College of New Jersey

Post Office Box 7718

Ewing, New Jersey 08628

Phone: (609) 771-3233

Email: graham (at) tcnj (dot) edu

Website: www.tcnj.edu/~graham

 

EXPERIENCE

 

The College of New Jersey

Associate Professor, 2000–Present; Assistant Professor, 1994-2000

Selected Courses Taught:

ENGL233 Women Writers

ENGL345 Studies in Literature: Metaphysical Poetry

ENGL427 Major Writers: Austen

ENGL427 Major Writers: Milton

ENGL497 Senior Seminar: Literary Theory

ENGL614 Milton and the 17th Century

ENGL622 Seminar in Early Modern British Literature

FSP 121 First Seminar: Language and Culture

LIT 251 British Literature to the Restoration

LIT 252 British Literature 1700 to Present

LIT 310 Literature for Younger Readers

LIT 358 British Literature Reformed, 1550-1700

LIT 499 Seminar in Research and Theory: Early 17th-Century British Literature

LIT 499 Seminar in Research and Theory: Gender and “Race” in Early Modern England

RHET101 Rhetoric I

RHET102 Rhetoric II

WRI 102 Academic Writing

Continuing study: Classical Greek (1999-2001)

Selected Service to the College:

Committee on Faculty Affairs (2004-2007; vice chair, 2005-2006)

Interim Director of Writing; chair, hiring committee for Director of Writing (2004-2005)

Graduate Program Advisory Council (1995-2004 and 2006-2008; chair, 1997-1998)

Hiring committee for Dean of the School of Culture and Society (2001-2002)

Faculty advisor to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (1995-2002)

Hiring committee for Registrar (1999-2000)

Faculty Fellow (1995-1996 and 1998-2000)

Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (1996-1998)

Selected Service to the Department:

Interim Graduate Coordinator (2006-2007)

Chair, English Department (2001-2004), which included chairing the Department Personnel Committee and supervising the Coordinator of Academic Writing.

Graduate Coordinator (1999-2001)

Chair, two faculty hiring committees (2000-2002 and 2002-2003)

 

The University of Akron

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1991-1994

Courses: composition (regular and honors), survey of British literature.

Departmental service: Advisory Committee to the Department Head, Composition Program Committee, design of an undergraduate literary theory course.

 

Cleveland State University

Instructor, 1990-1991

Courses: composition.

 

Case Western Reserve University

Instructor, 1989-1990; Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1986-1988

Courses: English as a Second Language (for doctoral and postdoctoral students 1989-1990, for undergraduate students 1986-1988), survey of British literature.

Departmental service: faculty hiring committee; organizing and moderating a panel discussion on gender and children’s literature; co-founding and -editing a magazine of outstanding first-year essays.

 

The University of Akron

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1983-1984

Courses: composition.

 

EDUCATION

 

Case Western Reserve University

Ph.D., English, 1989

Dissertation: “Creation and Chaos: Linguistic ‘Ordering’ in John Milton’s Mask, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.”  Director: James Taaffe.

David Hudson Fellowship

The University of Akron

M.A., English, 1985

Thesis: “Gavin Stevens in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust: Only Too Rhetorical Rhetoric?”  Directors: Arthur Palacas and Dawn Trouard.

 

B.A., English, 1982 (magna cum laude)

Ohio Academic Scholarship

 

PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED)

 

Graham, Jean E.  “Austen and ‘The Advantage of Height.’” Persuasions 20 (summer 1999).  http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol20no1/graham.html.  

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Ay me’: Selfishness and Empathy in ‘Lycidas.’” Early Modern Literary Studies 2 (Dec. 1996). http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/grahmilt.html. 

Graham, Jean E.   “Fruit So Various: A Word Analysis in Paradise Lost.” Milton Quarterly 24 (March 1990): 25-30. 

Graham, Jean E.  “Gavin Stevens in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust: Only Too Rhetorical Rhetoric?”  The Southern Literary Journal 22 (spring 1990): 78-89. 

Graham, Jean E.  “Holodeck Masquing: Early Modern Genre Meets Star Trek.” Journal of Popular Culture 34 (fall 2000): 21-27.

Graham, Jean E.  “The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 41 (spring 2001): 381-98. 

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Tell All Men’: Bunyan and the Gendering of Discourse.” Bunyan Studies 11 (2003/2004): 8-22. 

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Trying to Give the Girl a Chance’: Gaps and Silences in the Novels of Jean Rhys.” Jean Rhys Review 10 (1999): 1-12. 

Graham, Jean E.  “Virgin Ears: Silence, Deafness, and Chastity in Milton's Maske.” Milton Studies 36 (1998): 1-17.  

Graham, Jean E.  “Women, Sex, and Power: Circe and Lilith in Narnia.”  Children’s Literature Quarterly 29 (spring/summer 2004): 32-44.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS (SELECTED)

 

Graham, Jean E.  “Holodeck Masquing: Early Modern Genre Meets Star Trek.”  XXIIIrd International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.  Villanova University, 10 October 1998.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘A Whore, ‘Notwithstanding His Fine Tongue’: Transgressive Male Discourse in The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Third Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society.  Kent State University, 11 October 2001.

Graham, Jean E., and Deborah G. Salvaggio.  “‘The Vanity of Lilith’: The Gendering of Evil in C. S. Lewis.”  National Convention of the Popular Cultural Association and the American Culture Association.  Orlando, 11 April 1998. 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Graham, Jean E.  "Will the Real Donne Please Stand (Here)?  Metaphysical Poetry and Parentheticals."

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

  • Reader for the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language, 1994-1996
  • Reader for the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature, 1997, 2002 and 2005-Present.
  • ESL consultant/instructor for Lincoln General Electric and NASA-Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, 1990-1992.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

  • Conference on Composition and Communication
  • Milton Society of America
  • Modern Language Association
  • National Council of Teachers of English

 

LANGUAGES: French, Greek, Old English

 

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