EXPERIENCE

1996- Pennsylvania State University. Altoona, PA

present Professor of English and American Studies (2007-present)

Associate Professor of English (2002-2007)

Assistant Professor of English (1996-2002)

Graduate Faculty (2005-present)

Program Coordinator, Letters Arts & Sciences (1997-present)

1991-1996 Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA

Teaching and Research Assistant

EDUCATION

1996 Ph.D., English. Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA

Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Sattelmeyer

1990 M.A., English. Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA

1983 B.A., English. Armstrong State College. Savannah, GA

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Fellowship, 2004; Summer Stipend, 1999

Pennsylvania State University

George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008

Pennsylvania State University, Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Individual Faculty Grants, 2003, 1999, 1998

Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College

Senior Research Award, 2008
Kjell Meling Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts and Humanities, 2007
Collaborative Research Proposal Grant, 2006
Research and Development Grants, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1997, 1996
Grace D. Long Faculty Excellence Award, 2000
Dean’s Development Grant, 2003; 1999, 1996
Project Empower Grant for Technology in Teaching, 1998

Pennsylvania State University, College of Liberal Arts

Research and Graduate Studies Office Individual Faculty Grant, 1999

Georgia State University

Dissertation Research Grant, 1995
Research and Teaching Fellowships, 1991-1996

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Almanack of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Edition. Ed. with Noelle Baker. In progress.

The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. Ed. with Joel Myerson and Laura Dassow Walls. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009.

To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s Walden for the Twenty-First Century (with “Afterword”). Ed. with Laura Dassow Walls. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

Ed., Journal 8: 1854 (with “Historical Introduction”). In The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Journal Articles

“The ‘Higher Law’: Then and Now.” Thoreau Society Bulletin, forthcoming.

“Fugitive Slave-Running on the Moby-Dick: Captain Austin Bearse and the Abolitionist Crusade.” Resources for American Literary Study 28 (2003): 53-81.

“‘Swelling that Great Tide of Humanity’: The Concord, Massachusetts, Female Anti-Slavery Society.” New England Quarterly 74 (September 2001): 385-418.

“Profile: Jessie Benton Frémont.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.2 (2001): 232-238.

“Editorial Savoir-Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into ‘Slavery in Massachusetts.’” Resources for American Literary Study 25.2 (1999): 206-231.

“Selective Sympathy: The Public and Private Mary Merrick Brooks.” Thoreau Society Bulletin 226 (Winter 1999): 1-3, 5.

“Re-Reading ‘Bachelors’ and ‘Maids’: Melville as Feminist?” Melville Society Extracts 110 (September 1997): 1, 5-10.

“By the Light of Her Mother’s Lamp: Woman’s Work versus Man’s Philosophy in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Transcendental Wild Oats.’” Studies in the American Renaissance 1995. Ed. Joel Myerson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 69-81.

Reference Works

“Transcendentalism and Antislavery.” In The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. Ed. Petrulionis, Joel Myerson, and Laura Dassow Walls. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009.

“The Liberator.” In American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Scribner's, 2006. 651-655.

“William Henry Channing.” In The American Renaissance in New England. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 243. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001. 69-77.

“Alcott, Abigail May ‘Abba,’” “Apple Slump,” “Germantown, Penn.,” “Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,” “Lane, Charles,” “‘Transcendental Wild Oats’ (1874).” In The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Ed. Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. 10-11, 22, 119-120, 134-135, 169, 329-330.

“Bathsheba Bowers.” In American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 200. Ed. Carla Mulford, Amy Winans, and Angela Vietto. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. 62-66.

“Elizabeth Drew Stoddard.” In Nineteenth Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 397-405.

Other

Walden Sesquicentennial Issue. Nineteenth-Century Prose 31.2 (Fall 2004). Ed. with Laura Dassow Walls.

“The Thoreau Society’s John Brown Weekend.” With Jayne Gordon. Thoreau Society Bulletin 247 (Spring 2004): 7-8.

Book Reviews

Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. In Journal of American History 94 (December 2007): 928.

John Brown Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf, 2005. In Thoreau Society Bulletin 252 (Summer 2005): 10-11.

The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. Joan Goodwin. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. In Thoreau Society Bulletin 228 (Summer 1999): 6-7.

Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. In Publishing Research Quarterly 14, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 93-95.

CONFERENCE AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS

“Idealism and Social Reform: Concord’s Antislavery Movement.” NEH Summer Workshop on “Landmarks of American History and Culture”: “Concord Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19^th Century.” Concord, MA. July 2008.

“‘Dollars by the Hundred’: Concord and the Unlikeliest Raider’s Path to Harpers Ferry.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 2008.

“Daughters of American Radicalism: The Alcotts and (John) Browns.” Concord School of Philosophy. Concord, MA. July 2007.

“New England Radicals: Antislavery Activism and Transcendentalist Reform.” The House of the 7 Gables. Salem, MA. June 2007.

“To Set This World Right: Antislavery Activism in Concord.” Tsongas Gallery, Walden Pond State Reservation. Lincoln, MA. May 2007.

“Radicalizing America’s Town: Antislavery in Concord.” MLA annual convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006.

“Radicals in Our Town: Antislavery in Thoreau’s Concord.” Two talks to mark the opening of a special exhibit, “Antislavery in Concord,” at the Concord Free Public Library. Concord, MA. November 2006.

“The Role of Letters for Concord Women and the Alcotts.” Respondent on “Women’s Letters and the Culture of Reform,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers third biennial conference. Philadelphia, PA. November 2006.

“Established Practices, Fragmentary Texts, and Recovered Lives: One Decade as a Documentary Editor.” Association of Documentary Editing annual conference. Denver, CO. October 2005.

“‘Action from Principle’: ‘The Higher Law’ in the Antebellum Antislavery Crusade.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 2005.

“1854: The Social and Political Contexts of Walden.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 2004.

“Women and Reform in Emerson’s Town: The Concord Female Antislavery Society.” Concord Museum. Concord, MA. January 2003.

“Journal 8: 1854 and The Almanack of Mary Moody Emerson.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 2002.

“Unsung Heroes and Everyday Reform: The Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society,” and “‘Murder to the State’: The Evolution of Thoreau’s Abolitionism.” Concord School of Philosophy. Concord, MA. July 2002.

“An Evening with Henry D. Thoreau.” Friends of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Bushkill, PA. May 2001.

“Mad Dogs, Mud Turtles, and Escaped Pigs: Thoreau as Storyteller in the Journal.” MLA annual convention. Washington, D.C. December 2000.

“The Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society: Those Women behind Those Men.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 2000.

“An Evening with Thoreau.” Indiana County (PA) Parks Association. March 2000.

“The Thoreau Edition: An Update and a Gold Mine for New Research.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 1999.

“Fugitive Slave-Running and the Moby-Dick: Melville’s Relationship with the Boston Abolitionists.” Melville Society Conference. Mystic, CT. June 1999.

“Highlights of Editing Thoreau’s Journal.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 1998.

“Bulkington, Landlessness, and Moby-Dick’s ‘The Lee Shore.’” American Literature Association, American Renaissance conference. Cancun, Mexico. December 1997.

“Editing Thoreau in the 21st Century.” Thoreau Society annual gathering. Concord, MA. July 1997.

EDITORIAL SERVICE

2004-present. Editorial Advisory Board, Thoreau Society Bulletin

1998-present. Advisory Editor, Concord Saunterer

1998-present. Editorial Board, Pennsylvania College English

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

§ American Studies Association

§ Association for Documentary Editing

§ Emerson Society

§ Louisa May Alcott Society

§ Melville Society

§ Modern Language Association

§ Nineteenth-Century Concord Digital Archive

§ Society for Digital Americanists

§ Society for History of the Early American Republic

§ Society for the Study of American Women Writers

§ Thoreau Society

SELECTED SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES

Penn State University

§ Program Coordinator, B.A. in Letters Arts & Sciences (1997-present)

§ Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee (2007-present)

§ Chair, College Promotion and Tenure Committee (2005-2006)

§ Chair, College Curricular Affairs Committee (2005-2006)

§ Member, College Faculty Senate (2005-2007, 1997-2001)

§ Faculty Coordinator, College Voter Registration Drives (2004, 2006)

§ Member, numerous faculty and administration search committees, including two for Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1996-2006)

§ Co-Chair, University Intercollegiate English Committee (1997-1999)

§ Member, University General Education Curricular Guidelines Committee (2004-2005)

Brown (University) Women Writers Project

§ Member, Digital Editions Advisory Board (2008-present)

Louisa May Alcott Society

§ Treasurer (2005-present)

§ Co-Chair Conference Planning (2005-present)

Nineteenth-Century Concord Digital Archive

§ Member, Board of Directors (2007-present)

Thoreau Society

§ Co-Chair Conference Planning (2001-present)

§ Member, Board of Directors (2001-2005)

§ Executive Secretary (2002-2006)