Jennifer S. Furlong

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Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, member of planning committee, 2007-2008.

       TEACHING EXPERIENCE

      University of X, German Department Instructor. Designed and taught a new course idea and syllabus for an upper-level literature seminar for majors, conducted in German. “Sin and Atonement: Ethics and the Use of Literature.” September-December 2010.

      University of X, German Department Teaching Assistant. Lecture and discussion sections. Assisting students with paper writing and text comprehension. Grading. “Metropolis: Visions of the City.” September-December 2007. “Berlin: Culture, History, and Politics.” January-May 2008. “The Devil’s Pact in Film and Literature.” January-May 2009.

      University of X, German Department Language Instructor. Teaching intermediate (second-year) German language. September-December 2008. Teaching Intensive German for Reading Knowledge course. May-July 2009.

      [Three more teaching entries follow.]

       TEACHING INTERESTS

      Literary theory and continental philosophy of religion, pre-modern intellectual and religious history, pre-modern German and French literature, literary adaptations of myth

       RESEARCH AREAS

      German and French mysticism (twelfth to eighteenth century), esp. mysticism and reform movements; intersubjectivity in philosophy of religion and theological phenomenology

       LANGUAGES

      English (native), German (fluency), French (proficiency), reading knowledge of Latin, Italian, Spanish and Biblical Hebrew

       REFERENCES

      [The names of five references follow.]

       PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

      American Academy of Religion

      Delaware Valley Medieval Association Medieval Academy

      German Studies Association

      Humanities Ph.D. CV. Accepted tenure-track position at urban community college. Candidate had taught at this institution and organized CV to highlight this experience. Original document was two pages.

       MAIA SCHOLAR

      Office: Address, City, State, ZIP

      Home: Address, City, State, ZIP | telephone

      Mobile: telephone | Email address

       EDUCATION

      University of X, City, State (2004-present)

      Ph.D. in English (expected 2011)

      M.A. in English (2006)

      Y University Divinity School, City, State (2002)

      M.Div. with concentration in social and environmental ethics

      Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1997)

      B.A. with honors in English, minor in Mathematics

       TEACHING EXPERIENCE

      Instructor, University of X

      • ENGL 105: The Changing Climate of Nature Writing

       Developmental English Instructor, Community College of City Z

      • Language Lab: Tutor students in reading and writing, teach ENGL 098 labs (Fall 2010)

       Writing Seminar Instructor, University of X

      • ENGL 009: Writing Revolution (Fall 2007, Fall 2006)

      Teaching Assistant, University of X

      • ENGL 102: The American Novel, for Name (Spring 2006)

      • ENGL 022: Romance, for Name (Fall 2005)

      [Five more position listings follow.]

       Teaching Awards

      • Nominee for Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students (2008)

      • Recipient of Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students (2006)

       Courses Prepared

      • ENGL 282: Trickster Tales: An Introduction to American Indian Literatures (2010)

       Teaching Interests

      • Writing and composition

      • American literature and culture of the long 19th century

      • American Renaissance

      • History and literature, historical fiction (antebellum America through 21st century)

      • Religion and literature in the western tradition

      • Ecological sustainability and literature

      • American Indian literatures (19th through 21st centuries)

      • Theories of genre, poetics, memory

       ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

      Research Assistant to Name, University of X (2006-8)

      Career Counselor, University of X Career Services (2003-4)

      Outreach Director, Tennessee Environmental Council (2002-3)

      Teaching Shakespeare Institute Intern, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. (1996)

      Maia Scholar

       AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

      School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2009)

      Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Alternate (2009)

      William Patrick Day Essay Award, University of X (2006)

      University Founder’s Fellowship, University of X (2004)

      [Six more awards/fellowships follow.]

       PUBLICATIONS

      Introduction to Collaborative Dubliners, co-authored with Name, accepted for publication by Syracuse University Press (2010)

      “Reading Dubliners Parabolically,” forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly 47.2 (Winter 2010)

       CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS

      “‘The supreme folly of the hour’: Romantic Historicism as Utopia in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater,” Imagining: A New Century: The Inaugural Conference of C19, The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pennsylvania State University, May 2010

      “‘We trust in places perfecter’: Emily Dickinson, the Millennium, and Utopian Desire,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 2009

      “‘We trust in places perfecter’: Emily Dickinson’s Utopias,” Early American Reading Group, University of Pennsylvania, April 2009

      “Julian West’s ‘New World’: Utopian Fiction and Imperial Historiography,” Rethinking Empire and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2008

      [Three more conference papers/talks follow.]

       SERVICE

      Essay Contest Judge, Beneficial Scholars Program, City, State (2008, 2009)

      Graduate English Association Vice President, University of X (2007-8)

      Graduate English Association