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BOYLE
elizabethaboyle.com • boyle30@purdue.edu
Purdue University • Department of English • 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in English
Purdue University, May 2019
Primary Area: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Secondary Areas: Women’s Writing; Political and Social Reform Writing; Children’s Literature;
Gender and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Feminist Theory
Dissertation: “She Will Be: Literary Authorship and the Coming Woman in the Postbellum
United States”
Committee: Derek A. Pacheco (chair), P. Ryan Schneider, Maren T. Linett, and John N. Duvall
EMPLOYMENT
Editorial Assistant, Modern Fiction Studies, 2016 – 2019
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“The Beauty of Wholeness: Coming Womanhood, Spiritualism, and Evolution in Postbellum Utopian
Fiction.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers [Under Review].
“Antebellum Womanhood and Taming Her ‘Wild Way’: Pet-Keeping, Mourning, and Social
Indoctrination in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1
(Spring 2018): 111-29.
“‘Becoming a Part of Her Innermost Being’: Gender, Mass-Production, and the Evolution of
Department Store Culture in Edith Wharton’s ‘Bunner Sisters.’” American Literary Realism 47.3
(Spring 2015): 203-18.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
“Year in Conferences, American Literature Association Conference.” ESQ [Forthcoming].
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth A. Boyle
boyle30@purdue.edu
Graduate Student Travel Support Award, Department of English, Purdue University, 2018
TEACHING AWARDS
Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award, Purdue University, 2017
“Not ‘the old story over again’: Coming Womanhood and Coming-of-Age in Fettered for Life” (May 2018)
American Literature Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA.
“An American Venus: Fiction, Modernity, and Artistic Dress in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of
Avis” (March 2017) Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth A. Boyle
boyle30@purdue.edu
Roundtable on Teaching Children’s Literature (April 2017) Early Atlantic Reading Group Annual
Colloquium. West Lafayette, IN.
“‘To me you are not a man, but a nation’: Mary Mann, Domingo Sarmiento, and (Co)Authoring
American Identity in Life in the Argentine Republic” (March 2016) Early Atlantic Reading Group Annual
Colloquium. West Lafayette, IN.
“Memorialization, Living Histories, and Mixed-Race Bodies in Frances E.W. Harper’s Minnie’s Sacrifice”
(October 2015) Midwest PCA/ACA Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
“The last lily she ever brought ashore”: Sentimental Mourning, Childhood Pet Keeping, and Articulations
of the Body in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets” (March 2015) Early Atlantic Reading Group
Annual Colloquium. West Lafayette, IN.
INVITED LECTURES
“Of Martians and (Wo)Men: The Coming Woman on Mars in Postbellum Utopian Fiction” (October
2018) Literature, Theory, Cultural Studies (LTC) Forum Series. Department of English, Purdue
University. West Lafayette, IN.
Guest Lecturer, Communicating with Academic Journal Staff (July 2018) English 696: Scholarly Writing
and Publishing, Purdue University
Guest Lecturer, J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy (April 2018) English 389: Literature for Children, Purdue
University
Guest Lecturer, L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (April 2018) English 389: Literature for
Children, Purdue University
Guest Lecturer, Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets (March 2018, February 2017, October 2016)
English 389: Literature for Children and English 548: Literature for Children, Purdue University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Mentor for Online Literature Instructors, Department of English, Purdue University, Spring 2019
Mentoring a group of graduate student instructors teaching online, accelerated sections of
English 238: Introduction to Fiction for the first time. Designing and leading a sequence of
instructional sessions guiding first-time online literature instructors through the process of
designing, implementing, and leading online literature courses. Collaborating with department
administrators to develop an online literature course mentoring program for future semesters.
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth A. Boyle
boyle30@purdue.edu
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Instructor of Record, English 110: Critical Reading and Writing
Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014: 4 sections
A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course.
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Undergraduate Course Assistant, WTSN 104: Engineering Communications II
Binghamton University, Spring 2012: 1 section
A first-year engineering communications, composition, and research course led by George
Weinschenk. Mentored students and managed class activities.
Content Creator, Purdue University Online Writing Lab, Purdue University, 2015
Developed new webpages for the Literary Theory section. Improved existing webpages on
literary interpretation, terminology, and criticism.
Mentored undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Delaware in improving their
oral and written communication skills. Worked with native English speakers and second-language
students in one-on-one and group settings by teaching students strategies for improving their
critical thinking and rhetorical skills.
SELECT SERVICE
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
LTC Forum Series Chair, Early Atlantic Reading Group, Purdue University, 2018 – 2019
Inaugurated a departmental research forum series showcasing recent graduate students and
faculty research projects. Collaborated with other departmental organizations to develop and
facilitate research presentations.
Vice President, Graduate Student English Association, Purdue University, 2016 – 2017
Literary Awards Committee, Graduate Student English Association, Purdue University, 2015 –
2016
Vice President, English (Alt-Ac) Career Forum, University of Delaware, 2013 – 2014
Writing Groups 101 Forum, Graduate Student English Association Professional Development
Workshop, Purdue University, November 2017
Academic Writing for Graduate Students Workshop, Purdue University Writing Lab, February
2016
Common Grammatical Errors Workshop, Purdue University Writing Lab, February 2016
Grammar and Word Choice Workshop, Purdue University Writing Lab, November 2015
Reading Group Facilitator, Purdue University Department of English and West Lafayette Public
Library, April 2018
Designed and led “Big Read Book Club” discussion of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
(2014), developed in collaboration with the Purdue University Department of English, the West
Lafayette Public Library, and Von’s Book Shop.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
C19
SSAWW: Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Children’s Literature Association
MLA
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
American Literature Gender and Sexuality Studies
Late 19th Century American Literature Gender, Rhetoric, and the Body
American Literary Culture, 1820 – 1860 Bad Mothers in American Literature
Transnational American Studies Transatlantic Women Modernists
Transatlantic Gothic Literature
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Race in American Literature Children’s Literature
African American Narratives Young Adult Literature
Asian American Culture and History
African American Body in Literature Pedagogy, Rhetoric, and Composition
Black Narratives and Newspapers Teaching Literature in a College Classroom
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth A. Boyle
boyle30@purdue.edu
Teaching Bodies
Introduction to Composition Studies
REFERENCES
Available upon request.