Jennifer Camden, MA, 2001; Ph.D., 2005, The Ohio State University Assistant Professor 19th Century British Fiction E-mail -- JCamden@Uindy.Edu Office -- Esch 044Q

Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 2005.
  • Dissertation: "The Other Woman: Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Novel."
• M.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 2001.
• B.A., summa cum laude, Hollins University, Roanoke,Virginia, June 1999.
  •  Senior Honors Thesis: "Milton and Hawthorne: Revisiting the Fall"

Books

• Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth Century British and American Novels. Ashgate, 2010.
  • Further Information and Purchasing at Ashgate.Com

Awards, Honors and Distinctions

• Faculty Achievement Award, University of Indianapolis, 2008-2009
• Triennial Release Time, University of Indianapolis, Semester II 2007-2008, Semester II 2010-2011
• Summer Research Grant, University of Indianapolis, 2007
• College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Faculty Development Grant, University of Indianapolis, Summer 2006
• Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Summer 2006
• Marie Lundie Stewart Vorman Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Summer and Fall quarters, 2004.
• Recognition of teaching excellence through The Ohio State University Thank-A-Prof program, 2004.
• Sacks Award for Best Paper in Narrative Studies, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2003.
• The Mary Vincent Long Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, 1999.
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Omicron Delta Kappa
• Hollins Scholar, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, 1995-1999.
• P&G Scholarship, 1995-1999.

Other Publications

• Co-author with Kate Fort, "Channeling Thought: Marshall's and Cooper's Legal Fictions of 1823." American Indian Law Review 33.1 Fall 2008.
• Co-Editor, Special Issue of Persuasions On-Line, June 2007.
• "Sex and the Scullery: the New Pride and Prejudice." Persuasions On-Line. June 2007.
• “ ‘Do you forget Louisa’: Forgotten Heroines and the Marriage Plot in Radcliffe, Austen and Cooper.”  Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in British and American Romanticism, forthcoming in Romantic Circles.
• “Review of Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity” Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. Online, April 2004.

Presentations

• “Resembling Little Dorrit: Novel, Miniseries, Newspaper Headline,” INCS, Austin, TX, March 25-27, 2010
• “Excessive Geographies in Charlotte Smith’s Desmond” BWWC, College Station, TX, April 8-11, 2010
• “Transatlantic Exchange in The Golden Bowl,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 18-21, 2010
• “What do College Students “Really” Need to Know?” CELL, Indianapolis, IN, November 17th 2009.
• “The Pursuit of Happiness and the Colonial Detour” INCS, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 2009.
• “The March Family: Women Writers Re-imagining the Civil War” MMLA, Cleveland, OH, November 9th -11th, 2007.
• Co-presenter with Kate Fort, “Land Rights in Cooper’s The Pioneers” American Indian Law and Literature Conference, East Lansing, MI, October 19th-20th, 2007.
• Panel Chair, “"Keira Knightley and Jane Austen: The New Pride and Prejudice” British Women Writers Conference, Lexington, KY, April 12-15th, 2007.
• “‘Mind how it comes on’: Love, Hate, and Marriage in Clarissa” MMLA, Chicago, IL, November 9th-11th, 2006
• “Race, Femininity and the Historical Romance in Ivanhoe and Hope Leslie.” Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures, Berkeley, CA, September 7th-10th, 2006
• “‘Could it indeed be Rowena at all?’: Poe’s Rewriting of Scott.” Transatlanticism in American Literature: Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Oxford, England, July 13th-16th, 2006.
• “Intratextual Recollections: British Women Writers and the Writing of Literary History.” British Women Writers Conference, Gainesville, FL, March 23rd-26th, 2006
• “Transatlantic Quixotism: Lennox and Tenney.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31st-April 3rd, 2005.
• “The Fair Jewess and the Less Interesting Rowena: Race, Femininity and History in Ivanhoe.” MMLA, St. Louis, MO, November 5-7, 2004.  
• “Transatlantic Quixotism: Lennox and Tenney.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31st-April 3rd, 2005.
• “Chaste or Chastised: Learning Coquetry in Clarissa and The Coquette.” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 7-9, 2003.
• “Domestic Gothic: Plot and Providence in The Lamplighter.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, TX, September 25th-27th, 2003.
• “‘Do you forget Louisa’: Forgotten Heroines and the Marriage Plot in Radcliffe, Austen and Cooper.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, San Marcos, CA, April 4-6, 2003.
• “Transatlantic Vigils: Dorothea Brooke and Isabel Archer.” Transatlantic Studies Conference, Dundee, Scotland, July 8-11, 2002.

Professional Service
The University of Indianapolis

• General Education Committee, chair, 2008-present.
• Director of Graduate Program in English, 2008-present.
• Committee to revise English dept. curriculum, 2008.
• Honors College Committee, 2007-present.
• Teacher Petitions Committee, 2006-present.
• Committee to Redesign English 102, Co-chair, 2006.
• International Studies Committee, 2006-2007.
• Presidential Scholars Committee, 2005-present.
• Committee to Redesign English 101, 2005.

The Ohio State University

• Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate Leadership Team, 2002-2005.
• WEGO (Women’s English Graduate/Faculty/Staff Organization), 2004-2005.
• Graduate Studies Program and Policy Committee, 2001-2005.
• English Graduate Student Organization Steering Committee, 2000-01

Hollins University

• Managing Editor, The Album (Hollins University Literary Journal), 1997-99.