MAI-LIN CHENG CURRICULUM VITAE Robert D. Clark Honors College 1293 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1293 cheng@uoregon.edu office: (541) 346-0123 mobile: (541) 285-4971 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, 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Fordham University, 2006-2008 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, 2013-2014 Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2002, published award essay "Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature" http://gsi.berkeley.edu/chengm-2002/ Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001 Mellon Summer Fellowship, 2000 Graduate Opportunity Award, 1998-1999 Graduate Opportunity Award, 1997-1998 Lara's Stutter. Studies in Romanticism, forthcoming Winter 2015. 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
Cheng, CV, p. 2 TALKS, AND PRESENTATIONS Association (PAMLA). Portland, OR. November, 2015. "Poem as Paratext: Byron, Rogers, and the Grace of Trespass." International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Park City, UT. October, 2015. "Byron's Secret Rights." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Winnipeg, Manitoba. August 2015. "Romantic Stories." NASSR/Romantic Circles Pedagogy Contest Finalist Panel. Winnipeg, Manitoba. August 2015. "Updating Shakespeare: Modern Love in Much Ado about Nothing." Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Invited lecture for student group. Ashland, OR. March 2015. Lost with the Wordsworths. International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ. November 2012. Paper accepted and circulated. Byron in Ruins. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). Pitzer College. Claremont, CA. April 2011. Seeing Home in The Wizard of Oz. Invited presentation to student group. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. April 2011. Byron on the Grand Tour. Invited talk. The Literary Grand Tour panel. Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum. Eugene, OR. November 2010. Reading Ovid. Guest lecture. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China. March 2010. Towards a Genealogy of Human Interest. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey, March 2006. Pleasure was my Object : Dorothy Wordsworth and Other Romantic Things. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS). University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. April 2004. Forms of Dissatisfaction: Story, Poem, Shelley. International Conference on Romanticism. Marquette University. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 2003. Panel Organizer and Chair, Romanticism. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA). Pomona College. Claremont, California, November 2003.
Cheng, CV, p. 3 The Legends of Mary Shelley. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association. Western Washington University. Bellingham, Washington, November 2003. Orientalist Nonsense: James Clarence Mangan and Irish Myths of Origins. Humanities Graduate Student Conference. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, British Columbia. March 2002. Respondent, Frankenstein and the Working Class Reader. Berkeley- Stanford Graduate Conference. Stanford University. April 2001. Presider, Subjects after Humanism. Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000. Assistant Coordinator, The Reach of Law: Law and the Humanities Conference. UC Berkeley, March 1997. 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, 2015. Honors College Literature 222: Island Writing. Winter 2009, 2012, 2013. Honors College Literature 223: Seeing The City. Spring 2009, 2011, 2015. COLLOQUIA HC 421: Romantic Encounters. Winter 2009. HC 421: Romantic Stories. Winter 2010. THESIS COURSES HC 477: Thesis Prospectus. Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Fall 2011. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Romantic Literature, Spring 2008. Victorian Literature, Fall 2007. Close Reading and Critical Writing, Spring & Fall 2007; Spring 2008. Composition and Rhetoric, Fall 2006. Sophomore Literature: Traditions of Storytelling, Fall 2006. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Graduate Student Instructor, Reading and Composition. Literature-based
Cheng, CV, p. 4 courses. Fall 2000, Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2004. Teaching Assistant, British and American Literature 1660-1860. Survey course for English Majors. Fall 1999. Teaching Assistant, Reading and Composition. Fall 1998. 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. 2011-present. Faculty Coordinator, Clark Honors College Honored Author Series. 2010- present. Member, Clark Honors College Admissions Committee. 2010-11, 2011-12, 2015. Initiator, Teaching and Learning Center Workshops for Clark Honors College Students at the Global Scholars Hall. 2012-2013. Member, University of Oregon Advisory Faculty for Diversity. Named 2012. Member, Women of Color Project, University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society. Joined 2010. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Coordinator, Open Book Committee, PEN American Center. New York, New York, 1995-1996. Co-Coordinator, Readers and Writers Program, PEN American Center. New York, New York, 1995-1996. Freelance Researcher, Ford Foundation, 1994. 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
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