DORICE WILLIAMS ELLIOTT
Department of English
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Office: (785) 864-2521
Fax: (785) 864-1159
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, 1994
Dissertation: "The Angel Out of the House: Women's Philanthropy and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England"
Advisers: Professors Mary Poovey and Frances Ferguson
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, 1989
M.A. The University of Utah, English and American Literature, 1986
B.A. Brigham Young University, English, summa cum laude and Highest Honors, 1973
BOOKS:
“Transporting Class: Reinventing Social Relations in Australian Convict Fiction.” Work in progress.
The Angel Out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
ARTICLES:
“Class Act: Servants and Mistresses in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell,” New Essays on Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction, ed. Sandro Jung. Newcastleupon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars P. Forthcoming.
“The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer’s Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement,” The Culture of the Gift, eds. Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 107-22.
*“Convict Servants and Middle-Class Mistresses,” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 16, no. 2 (2005): 163-187.
“Ways of Teaching about Free Indirect Discourse in Emma,” MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma, ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom (New York: Modern Language Association, 2004), 120-126.
*“Servants and Hands: Conflicting Class Loyalties in Victorian Factory Novels,” Victorian Literature and Culture (2000): 377-390.
“Feminist Criticism of Narrative” and “The Victorian Novel of Social Criticism,” Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998).
*"'The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession': Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 19 (1995): 179-204.
*"Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Female Philanthropy," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 35, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 535-553; rpt. in Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800, ed. Jelena Krstovic, Vol. 44 (December 1998)
*"The Marriage of Classes in Gaskell's North and South," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 49 (June 1994): 21-49
*"Hearing the Darkness: The Narrative Chain in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," English Literature in Transition, 28, no. 2 (1985): 162-181
(* indicates juried articles)
PAPERS DELIVERED:
* “Transporting the Novel: Writing Convicts in Australia,” The Novel and Its Borders: University of Aberdeen Centre for the Study of the Novel, Aberdeen, UK, July 2008.
*“Controlling Sex and Crime in Australia: Adultery, Bigamy, Homosexuality, and Transported Convicts,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago, April 2008.
*"'Charitable Guerillas' and ‘Expansive Hearts’: Class and Women's Philanthropy in Imperial Civil Societies,” British Women Writers Association, University of Indiana, Bloomington, March 2008.
"The Perennial Appeal of Jane Austen: Subversive, Seductive, and Relevant in the 21st Century," Keynote Speech for Kansas City Missouri Public Library "Jane-uary" celebration, January 2008.
“Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century England and India,” Hall Center for the Humanities Philanthropy and Literature Seminar, University of Kansas, November 2007.
*"Punishment and the Stage: Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late to Mend," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Missouri at Kansas City, April, 2007.
“Maintaining Privacy in a Household with Servants,” Kansas State University Cultural Studies Conference: Privacy (and Secrecy) March 2006.
“Writing Australian Convicts,” North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Virginia, October 2005.
“Reformed, Respectable, and Rich: Australia in Two Victorian Sensation Novels,” Australasian Victorian Studies Association/Dickens Project, University of Sydney, Australia, July 2004.
“Adultery, Bigamy, and Homosexuality: Sex and Reform in Australian Convict Fiction,” Cultural Studies Symposium: Sex and the Body Politic, Kansas State University, March 2004.
“The Woman’s Sphere in Australian Convict Fiction,” Hall Center British Seminar, University of Kansas, February 2004.
“The Woman’s Sphere in Australian Convict Fiction,” Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 2003.
“‘Not According to Nature’: Changing Attitudes toward Sex and Age in the Nineteenth Century,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and the Dickens Project, University of California at Santa Cruz, March, 2003.
“‘She Sat Down to Think and Be Miserable’: Representing Consciousness through Free Indirect Discourse in 19th-Century Fiction,” Cultural Studies Symposium: Brain Power: Intelligence, Emotion, Cultural Fantasy, Kansas State University, March, 2003.
“Reformed Convicts Make Good Servants: Mary Vidal’s Tales for the Bush,” 18th & 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April, 2002.
“The Angel Out of the House: Literature, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Feminism,” University of Kansas Humanities and Western Civilization Lecture, March, 2002.
“‘The El Dorado of the Working Classes’: Class and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Australian Convict Narratives,” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, UCLA, October 2001.
“Doing Time in Australia: Early Nineteenth-Century Convict Narratives,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans, November 2000.
“Leisure Reading for the Laboring Classes: The Tracts of Hannah More and Harriet Martineau,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference , Coral Gables, Florida, October, 1999.
“Using Historical Background in Teaching Literature,” session organizer and panelist, 47th Annual Conference on Composition and Literature, University of Kansas, October 1999.
“Endorsing and Endeavoring: Matching Ranks in Austen’s Emma,” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of New Mexico, September 1999.
“Servants and Hands: Conflicting Class Loyalties in Victorian Factory Novels,” Holmes Institute Faculty Lecture, University of Kansas, June 1999.
“Women’s Philanthropy and the Challenge of Political Economy in Women’s Social Novels of the 1830s,” A Day in the Life of the English Dept. Conference, University of Kansas, March 1999.
“George Eliot’s Middlemarch: The Failure of the Philanthropic Heroine,” Hall Center British Seminar, University of Kansas, November 1998.
“ The Philanthropic Heroine in British Novels of the 1860s,” Conference on Composition and Literature, University of Kansas, October 1998.
“Educating Women’s Desires: The Philanthropic Heroine in the 1860s,” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 1998.
“The Failure of the Philanthropic Heroine: A New Reading of the Ending of Middlemarch,” Australasian Victorian Studies Association, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, February 1998.
“Servants and Hands: Conflicting Class Loyalties in Victorian Factory Novels,” presented as part of a panel on “The Construction of Victorian Class and Classes,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997.
“Christian Paternalism in the Factory: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s Helen Fleetwood,” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference at the University of California, Davis, March 1997.
“Frances Trollope’s Michael Armstrong, Factory Boy: Women Writers Enter the Factory Debates," Comparative Literature Symposium: British Women’s Writing/Political Discourse, 1640-1867, University of Tulsa, March 1997.
"Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work," Hall Center British Seminar, University of Kansas, October 1996.
"Sentenced to Transportation: Female Convictism in Caroline Leakey's The Broad Arrow," 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers, University of Notre Dame, March, 1995.
"Women's Philanthropy and the Gendering of Sympathy," Folger Institute Faculty Colloquium, February 1994.
"'The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession': Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work," Folger Institute Faculty Colloquium, January 1993.
"Empowering Women in the College Classroom," AAUW "Taking the Lead: Balancing the Educational Equation" Conference, Mills College, October 1992.
"'An Assured Asylum against Every Evil': Millenium Hall and Mid-Eighteenth Century Philanthropic Institutions for Women," Johns Hopkins University Journal Club, October 1991.
"'Proper Lady' or 'Great Man'?: Hannah More as Professional Writer and Philanthropist," Graduate Student Women's Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 1990.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Literature and Culture of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Women's Literature and Feminist Criticism
The History and Theory of the Novel
British Colonial and Commonwealth Literature and Culture
Historical Criticism and Literary Theory
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Chair, English Department, University of Kansas, July 2003-June 2006
Associate Professor, English Department, University of Kansas, July 2002-
Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Kansas, 1996-2002
Instructor, English Department, York College of Pennsylvania, 1995-96
Lecturer, English Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Graduate Assistant to Director of Women's Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, 1992-93
Dean's Teaching Fellow, English Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1991-92
Teaching Assistant, English Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1988-90
Instructor, English, Brigham Young University Salt Lake Center, 1984-87
Teacher, English and Journalism, Gifted and Talented Program, and Teacher Inservice, Odessa-Montour Jr./Sr. High School, Odessa, New York, 1976-80
Teacher, English and Journalism, Eisenhower Jr. High School, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1973-76
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Mabel Fry Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Kansas, 2001
Hall Center for the Humanities International Travel Grant, University of Kansas, 2004
General Research Fund Grant, University of Kansas, 1998, 2000
New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas, 1997
The Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1991-92
President, Journal Club, Johns Hopkins English Department, 1991-92
Ballman Fund Award for research in London, English Department, Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Ford Foundation Women's Studies Travel Grants, Johns Hopkins University, 1991, 1992
Readership and Grant-in-Aid, The Folger Institute, 1990-93
The Johns Hopkins University Fellowships, 1987-91
Phi Kappa Phi, 1972, 1985
State English Curriculum Committee, New York State Education Department, 1979
Vice-President and President-Elect, Utah State Journalism Education Association, 1975-76
Outstanding English Student Award, Brigham Young University English Department, 1973
U.S. Presidential Scholar, 1969
National Merit Scholar, 1969
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate Seminar in 19th-Century Literature: Empire and Imperialism
Graduate Seminar in 19th-Century Literature: Victorian Literature and Social Class (KU)
Graduate Seminar in Literary Criticism: Historical Criticism and the Social-Problem Novel (KU)
Studies in 19th- Century Psychology and Literature (KU)
Women and Literature: Women in Victorian England (KU)
Practicum Collegium English II (practicum for new graduate teaching assistants, KU)
Honors Proseminar: “From Rags to Respectability”--An Interdisciplinary Seminar in 19th- & 20th-Century English and American History and Literature (team-taught with Prof. Ann Schofield of American Studies and Women’s Studies)
Honors Proseminar: “Rags to Riches”--Cultural Capital and Social Mobility in English & American Literature (KU)
The Nineteenth-Century British Novel (KU)
Major Authors: Jane Austen (KU)
Major Authors: Charles Dickens (KU)
Major Authors: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell (KU)
The British Novel (KU)
Major British Writers After 1800 (KU)
Freshman-Sophomore Honors Proseminar: Telling Stories (KU)
Introduction to Fiction (KU)
Practical Composition (York College & JHU)
Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism (JHU)
Class, Poverty, and Reform in the Victorian Novel (JHU)
Shakespeare I and II (JHU)
The British Novel (BYU-Salt Lake)
The American Novel (BYU-Salt Lake)