C U R R I C U L U M    V I T A E

S T E P H A N I E    H A R Z E W S K I

education

         PhD     University of Pennsylvania, English, with a certificate in Women's Studies, August 2006
MA     Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Women's Studies, 1998; GPA: 4.0
         BA  Vassar College, English; Women's Studies, 1996; General  Honors; Departmental Honors (both majors)

dissertation

The New Novel of Manners: Chick Lit and Postfeminist Sexual Politics
Director: Rita Barnard; Readers: Jim English, Kathy Peiss, John Richetti & Wendy Steiner

The New Novel of Manners is the first comprehensive treatment of a major phenomenon in Anglophone fiction, “chick lit,” demonstrating why this genre is  
        crucial to our understanding of several major literary traditions, including the bildungsroman, the novel of manners, and the romance. These urban period
        pieces and their reception enable us to revisit long-standing debates on the status of the novel and the woman writer as well as to interpret the legacy of
        feminism in a postfeminist age.

Book version under consideration with a major university press.

publications

Articles and Book Chapters
“New Voice, Old Body: The Case of Penelope Fitzgerald." Contemporary Women’s Writing Vol. 1, No. 1.2 (Dec. 2007): 24-33. [peer-reviewed Oxford UP journal]

"The Fantomina Phenomenon: Eliza Haywood and the Formation of a Heroine." The Eighteenth-Century Novel Vol. 5 (2006): 175-96.

"Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction.  Eds. Mallory Young and Suzanne Ferriss. New York: Routledge, 2005.  29-46.

“The Limits of Defamiliarization: Sex and the City as Late Heterosexuality.”  The Scholar and Feminist Online: A Webjournal Published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women 3.1 (Fall 2004): http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/hbo/harzewski_01.htm

"Hypertext as Metaphor: Reading Woolf in the Electronic Age."  Virginia Woolf & Communities: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf.  Eds. Jeanette McVicker and Laura Davis. New York: Pace UP, 1999. 
pp. 227-33.

"Submersion as Metaphor in Adrienne Rich's Diving into the Wreck." Reading the Sea: New Essays on Sea Literature. Ed. Kevin Alexander Boon. New York: Fort Schuyler Press, 1999.  pp. 101-11.

Review Essays

“Weighting Jeanette Winterson.” Forthcoming in Contemporary Women’s Writing (June 2008): 70-76.

“Consuming Heteroscripts: The Modern Wedding in the American Imaginary.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Issue 4 (Spring 2004): 79-91.

"An Unfinished Renaissance: New Editions of Eliza Haywood." [Co-authored with Toni Bowers]  The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 13 (2002): 473-508. 

Miscellany
“'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, & Jennifer Weiner.” American Voices. Ed. Laura Alonso Gallo. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004.  687-719.

In Progress

“'What the Light Looks Like': Virginia Woolf's Legacy to Carole Maso”

grants, fellowships, and prizes

National Grants and Fellowships

        Romance Writers of America Research Grant (2006-07) ($5,000)

        Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies (2004-05)
        American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship (2004-05)
Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarship (2004-05; 2005-06)
        Ford Foundation Scholar (Vassar College, Summer 1995)

University Fellowships
        Alice Paul Center/Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship (2005-06); Declined for 2004-05.
        School of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship (2003-04); Declined for 2004-2005.
        School of Arts & Sciences University Fellowship (Fall 2003-Summer 2004)

Prizes and Distinctions
        Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated [University of Pennsylvania School of <>Arts and Sciences] Faculty (Nominee, 2009)
        NEMLA Women's Caucus Essay Award (Spring 2006, based on paper given at 2005 conference)
        Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Finalist (Spring 2002)
        Graduate Student Essay Award, New York College English Association, "Literature of the Sea" Conference (Spring 1998)

teaching experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, English department (Fall 2007-Soring 2009)

Senior Writing Fellow, Critical Writing Program (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)

Teaching Mentor, Critical Writing Program (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

          Assisted graduate English student teachers in critical writing pedagogy and instructor development

Course Instructor
University of Pennsylvania

The Rise of the Novel (English 60, Spring 2009); intermediate-level course

Post-9/11 Fiction (English 274.302, Fall 2008); upper-level seminar, with a “Critical Writing in the Major” designation

Contemporary British Fiction (English 74.001, Spring, Summer, & Fall 2008); intermediate-level survey

Jane Austen & Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition (English 260.401, Spring 2008); upper-level seminar

British Fiction by Women, 1985-Present (English 290.401/Gender, Culture, & Society 290, Fall 2007); upper-level seminar

Contemporary American Literature (English 74.001, Fall 2007); intermediate-level survey

The Artistic Quest (English 9.332/344/345, Fall 2006, Spring 2007); required writing-intensive course

Jane Austen & Company: Writing about the Novel of Manners Tradition (English 9.331/343, Fall 2006, Spring 2007); required writing-intensive course

Encountering the City (Writing course for Pre-Freshman Program, Summer 2006)

The Novel in English: Origins and Major Debates (English 1.920/Women's Studies 6.920, Summer Session II 2004); required writing-intensive course

Cities of the Interior: Place and the Dream in Twentieth-Century British and American Fiction by Women (English 6.901, Summer Session I 2003); required writing-intensive course

The British Masters: Literary Style from Milton to Winterson (English 1.301, Spring 2003); required writing-intensive course

Heterosexuality and Narrative in Twentieth-Century America (English 3.301/Women's Studies 6.301, Fall 2002); required writing-intensive course

Sexuality and Literary Style since 1700 (English 1.305/Comparative Literature 1.305/Women's Studies 6.305, Spring 2002); required writing-intensive course

Cultural Controversy in Contemporary America  (English 3.314, Fall 2001, Instructor, Fall 2001); required writing-intensive course

Temple University
Introduction to Literature (English X084.12, Summer 2004)

Secondary School
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, English teacher for (MS)² [Math and Science for Minority Students] Program (Summer 2009)

Teaching Assistantships

Reading Film (English 92. 401, Spring 2001)

Women and Literature: American, British, and Postcolonial Women Writers since 1945 (English 90.401, Fall 2000)

Guest Lectureships
Gender and Society (GSOC 002, Fall 2005)
Topics in the Twentieth-Century Novel: The Postmodern Picaresque (ENGL 265.920, Summer 2005)

Writing Across the University Fellow, Print and Sensibility in the Eighteenth Century (English 16.301, Spring 2003)

Senior Tutor, The Writing Center, Writing Across the University Program, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)

Writing Tutor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Feb. 1998-July 1998)

Grader for: Twentieth-Century British Literature (English 61, Spring 2007); Major British Novel, 1660-1914 (English 60, Spring 2003); The Twentieth
                   Century (English 104, Fall 2003)

other relevant experience

        Assistant to Linda Musumeci, Research and Grants Manager, American Philosophical Society (APS), Philadelphia, PA (Spring 2006- )
        --assisted in the processing and review of APS grant and fellowship applications

        Assistant to Cheryl Wall, Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Aug.1998-May 1998)
        --assisted in editing Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (New York: Oxford UP, 2000)

        Assistant to Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English, Vassar College (Oct. 1993-May 1996)
        --provided editorial and project support for DeMaria's British Literature: An Anthology, 1640-1789 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)

teaching interests

Contemporary Anglophone fiction
British literature since 1660 survey

American literature since the late ninteenth century
Novel of manners tradition

Twentieth-century & contemporary women’s narrative prose
Feminist and postfeminist theory

Expository writing

selected conference & panel experience

“The House of Models: Edith Wharton's Influence on Candace Bushnell.” American Literature Association, 18^th Annual Conference. Boston, MA. 26 May 2007.

Respondent to “Objects, Social Relations, and Cultural Motion,” by Prof. Greg Urban, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania’s Ethnohistory Workshop Group. 7 Dec. 2006.

“The ‘Woman Author’ Function: Twentieth-Century Anglophone Women Prose Writers and Their Cultural Formation.”  Northeast Modern Language Association, 37th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA.  2-5 Mar. 2006.  Panel organizer and chair.

"The Hubris of Jeanette Winterson."  Northeast Modern Language Association, 37th Annual Convention.  Philadelphia, PA. 5 Mar. 2006.

“Female Flânerie in Anglophone Popular Fiction by Women, 1996- .”  “Writing About Cities: The New Urban Literature” Seminar.  Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 11^th Annual Conference. Cambridge, MA.  5 Nov. 2005.

Keynote for Senior Girls' Annual Recognition Brunch, sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Reading Branch. West Lawn, PA. 16 Apr. 2005. By invitation.

"A New Bildungsroman: 'Chick Lit' Authors and Their Characters."  Northeast Modern Language Association, 36th Annual Convetion.  Cambridge, MA. 2 Apr. 2005.

Introduction to “Writing Beyond the Dissertation: The Obligation to Structure,” by William Germano, Vice-President and Publishing Director of Routledge.  University of Pennsylvania. 11 February 2005.

“The Limits of Defamiliarization: Sex and the City as Late Heterosexuality.”  Second Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. Northeastern University. Boston, MA.  8 May 2004.

“In the Heart of the Country and the Coetzeean Trajectory.” Narrative: An International Conference, Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, University of Vermont at Burlington.  23 Apr. 2004.

“Future and Challenges of Sexuality Studies Scholarship.”  Roundtable discussion with David Azzolina, Jeanne Stanley (Moderator), Heather Love, Kathy Peiss, and Jacqui Sadashige, in conjunction with the Academic Task Force on Queer Studies.  University of Pennsylvania. 1 Apr. 2004.  Panel organizer, Introduction.

“Graduate School in the Liberal Arts.” Roundtable discussion on the application process and graduate student experience, in conjunction with the Penn Humanities Forum Undergraduate Fellows and Undergraduate English Advisory Board. University of Pennsylvania. 10 Nov. 2003.  Panel organizer, Panelist.

"'Chick Lit' and Concurrent Media Phenomena."  "Bound, Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book" Conference: Graduate Humanities Forum Conference.  University of Pennsylvania. 4 Apr. 2003.

Welcoming Address.  Time and Space, Memory and Place: Graduate Humanities Forum Conference.  University of Pennsylvania. 2 Mar. 2002.

"'What the Light Looks Like': Carole Maso, Woolf, and the Process of Illumination." Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. University of Delaware. 12 June 1999.

"Reading Community in Images of Objects and Machines." Panel Chair. Eighth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Saint Louis University. 6 June 1998.

"Young Women and Fear of the 'F[eminism]' Word." Panel Participant. National Organization for Women, Mid-Hudson Chapter. Marist College. 24 Apr. 1995.  By invitation.

Conference Planning Committee, Graduate Humanities Group, Penn Humanities Forum:
Bound, Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book. 3-4 Apr. 2003.
Time and Space, Memory and Place. 1-2 Mar. 2002.
Thinking About Style. 21 Apr. 2001.

Pedagogical Presentations
“Analyzing Style.” Critical Writing Program Faculty Training, 2005-2006. University of Pennsylvania. 1 Sept. 2005.  By invitation.

"Overcoming First-Semester-Teaching Stumbling Blocks in the Literature Classroom." Graduate Student Teaching Panel. Literature Pedagogy Seminar,     University of Pennsylvania. 18 Apr. 2003. By invitation.

media experience

Interviews
"Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre" by Cris Mazza, Poets & Writers Jan./Feb. 2005: 31-37.

"Drop and Give Me 20...Pages!," by John H. Walker, Pennsylvania Gazette Sept./Oct. 2005: 29.  [On the University of Pennsylvania's Dissertation Boot Camp, July 5-19, 2005]

“The Pros and Cons of Chick-Lit” by Leslie Gray Streeter, Chicago Tribune 12 Oct. 2005: 6.

committee service

Professional
Referee for Working Papers on the Web (peer-reviewed Sheffield Hallam University journal)

(Spring 2008)

MLA Handbook, 6th Edition, Focus Group, MLA Headquarters, New York, NY (July 2004)

University

           Respondent for "Explorations of Samuel Richardson" panel, English Undergraduate Academic

              Conference (Spring 2009)
           Reader for “Torture and Language in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe,”

English honors thesis by Kevin Kimura (Spring 2008)

“Bridget Jones’s Diary and the Production of a Popular Austen,” by the invitation of Penn’s

Preceptorial Committee (April 2008)
Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Humanities Group (Spring 2001-Spring 2005)

Vice Provost's Special Advisory Committee for Library Systems (Spring 2001-Spring 2005)

Graduate English Association Writing Program Representative (Fall 2002-Spring 2003)

Instructional Technology Focus Group: Student Study Habits & Support Needs (Spring 2003)

Judge, Mandell Essay Contest (Fall 2003)

Queer Studies Academic Task Force (Summer 2003-Spring 2004)

University Council Honorary Degrees Committee (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

Graduate/Undergraduate Mentoring Program (Fall 2003-Spring 2005)

Editorial Board, 3808: A Journal of Freshman Writing (2004-2006)

Undergraduate Research Fair, English Dept. Representative (Mar. 2005)

New Student Orientation Focus Group (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

"Navigating the Grant" Series Focus Group (Spring 2006)

Project Mentor for "An Exploration of Beckett's Characters Through the Psychoanalytic Theories of W.R. Bion," by Paul Samuelson, Undergraduate Humanities Forum Fellow (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

Community

          Judge, City Garden Competition, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (Summer 2008)

          Kosciuszko Foundation, Philadelphia Chapter, Education Committee Chair (2008- )

          West Philadelphia Tsunami Relief Concert and Raffle, Organizing Committee (Jan. 2005)

External Fundraising (Non-Profit)

Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, "Cruise for the Kids" Host Committee (2005- )

Young Friends of the Settlement Music School Steering Committee (2006- )

references

Rita Barnard

Professor of English; Director of Women Studies and the Alice Paul

Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

435 Logan Hall

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel.: 215.898.0795
   rbarnard@english.upenn.edu

Mary Eagleton

Professor in Contemporary Women's Writing
Room H318
School of Cultural Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University
Civic Quarter
Leeds LS1 3HE
United Kingdom

Tel: 0113 812 5883

m.eagleton@leedsmet.ac.uk

James F. English

Professor of English

3340 Walnut St.

University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel.: 215.898.7340

jenglish@english.upenn.edu

            Valerie Ross  
              Director, Critical Writing Program

Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing

3808 Walnut St.

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215.573.2729

vross@writing.upenn.edu

   Wendy Steiner

Richard L. Fisher Professor of English; Founding Director of Penn Humanities Forum

3619 Locust Walk

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel.: 215.746.5941

wsteiner@english.upenn.edu

 Last updated: 5 June 2009

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