MAI-LIN CHENG CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 MAI-LIN CHENG CURRICULUM VITAE Robert D. Clark Honors College 1293 University of Oregon Eugene, OR office: (541) mobile: (541) CURRENT EMPLOYMENT PAST EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of Literature, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, 2009-present Adjunct Instructor of Literature, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Fordham University, EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Department of English, May 2006 B.A. Brown University, American Civilization / Semiotics double-major, June 1993 HONORS AND AWARDS PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS North American Society for the Study of Romanticism /Romantic Circles Pedagogy Contest Finalist, 2015 Affiliated Scholar, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2002, published award essay "Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature" Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001 Mellon Summer Fellowship, 2000 Graduate Opportunity Award, Graduate Opportunity Award, Lara's Stutter. Studies in Romanticism, forthcoming Winter Lost with the Wordsworths. Article in preparation for European Romantic Review. Story's Threshold: Romanticism and the Poetry of Human Interest. Manuscript in preparation. CONFERENCES, "Romantic Commonplaces." Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages

2 Cheng, CV, p. 2 TALKS, AND PRESENTATIONS Association (PAMLA). Portland, OR. November, "Poem as Paratext: Byron, Rogers, and the Grace of Trespass." International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Park City, UT. October, "Byron's Secret Rights." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Winnipeg, Manitoba. August "Romantic Stories." NASSR/Romantic Circles Pedagogy Contest Finalist Panel. Winnipeg, Manitoba. August "Updating Shakespeare: Modern Love in Much Ado about Nothing." Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Invited lecture for student group. Ashland, OR. March Lost with the Wordsworths. International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ. November Paper accepted and circulated. Byron in Ruins. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). Pitzer College. Claremont, CA. April Seeing Home in The Wizard of Oz. Invited presentation to student group. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. April Byron on the Grand Tour. Invited talk. The Literary Grand Tour panel. Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum. Eugene, OR. November Reading Ovid. Guest lecture. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China. March Towards a Genealogy of Human Interest. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey, March Pleasure was my Object : Dorothy Wordsworth and Other Romantic Things. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS). University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. April Forms of Dissatisfaction: Story, Poem, Shelley. International Conference on Romanticism. Marquette University. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November Panel Organizer and Chair, Romanticism. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA). Pomona College. Claremont, California, November 2003.

3 Cheng, CV, p. 3 The Legends of Mary Shelley. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association. Western Washington University. Bellingham, Washington, November Orientalist Nonsense: James Clarence Mangan and Irish Myths of Origins. Humanities Graduate Student Conference. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, British Columbia. March Respondent, Frankenstein and the Working Class Reader. Berkeley- Stanford Graduate Conference. Stanford University. April Presider, Subjects after Humanism. Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December Assistant Coordinator, The Reach of Law: Law and the Humanities Conference. UC Berkeley, March TEACHING EXPERIENCE ROBERT D. CLARK HONORS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE SEQUENCE Honors College Literature 221: Poetry, Myth, and Transformation. Fall 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, Honors College Literature 222: Island Writing. Winter 2009, 2012, Honors College Literature 223: Seeing The City. Spring 2009, 2011, COLLOQUIA HC 421: Romantic Encounters. Winter HC 421: Romantic Stories. Winter THESIS COURSES HC 477: Thesis Prospectus. Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Fall FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Romantic Literature, Spring Victorian Literature, Fall Close Reading and Critical Writing, Spring & Fall 2007; Spring Composition and Rhetoric, Fall Sophomore Literature: Traditions of Storytelling, Fall UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Graduate Student Instructor, Reading and Composition. Literature-based

4 Cheng, CV, p. 4 courses. Fall 2000, Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Spring Teaching Assistant, British and American Literature Survey course for English Majors. Fall Teaching Assistant, Reading and Composition. Fall TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS SERVICE Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Lyric Poetry; Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing; Gender and genre; Postcolonial Theory; Literary Theory; Film and Media Theory; Composition Member, Clark Honors College Student Life Committee present. Faculty Coordinator, Clark Honors College Honored Author Series present. Member, Clark Honors College Admissions Committee , , Initiator, Teaching and Learning Center Workshops for Clark Honors College Students at the Global Scholars Hall Member, University of Oregon Advisory Faculty for Diversity. Named Member, Women of Color Project, University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society. Joined OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Coordinator, Open Book Committee, PEN American Center. New York, New York, Co-Coordinator, Readers and Writers Program, PEN American Center. New York, New York, Freelance Researcher, Ford Foundation, MEMBERSHIPS & PROFESIONAL ORGANIZATIONS REFERENCES International Conference on Romanticism Modern Language Association Keats-Shelley Association of America North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Pacific Modern Languages Association Professor Judith Butler, UC Berkeley, Departments of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric Professor Anne-Lise François, UC Berkeley, Departments of Comparative Literature and English

5 Cheng, CV, p. 5 Professor Celeste Langan, UC Berkeley, Department of English Professor Stuart Sherman, Fordham University, Department of English Professor Rei Terada, UC Irvine, Department of Comparative Literature Additional References Available Upon Request