Jeanette Shumaker Professor English  West Faculty #157 (760) 768-5524 jshumake@mail.sdsu.edu

Spring 2008 Courses	RWS 200 : Writing from Sources Eng 540B:  Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
Education	1983-90  Claremont Graduate Schoool M.A., Ph.D. English X 1982-83  Trinity College, Dublin Higher Diploma Anglo-Irish Literature 1981-82  U.C. Irvine (MFA program)  none Poetry writing 1977-81  University of Redlands B.A. English 1979-80  University of Durham, England  none Interdisciplinary
Professional Experience	SDSU, Imperial Valley Campus  Asst./Assoc. Professor  o 1992-present  English Univ. of Texas, Permian Basin  Assistant Professor  o 1991-92 English Elizabethtown C., Etown. PA. Assistant Professor  o 1990-91 English UCLA Writing Programs  Lecturer (full-time)  o 1989-90 Writing Cal-Poly University, Pomona  Lecturer (part-time)  o 1987-89 Writing Scripps College  Fall  Lecturer (part-time)  o 1986-88 English University of Redlands  Lecturer (part-time)  o Fall l985-88 Writing U. C. Riverside  Fall  Lecturer (part-time)  o l985 Writing Riverside City College  Lecturer (part-time)  o Spring l984 Writing U.C. Irvine  Teaching Assistant (part-time)  l981-82 Writing
Publications	Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: "Girardian Rivalry in Maeve Brennan's 'The Springs of Affection,'" forthcoming in Short Story. "Edna O'Brien's 1990s Trilogy" forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly. "Accepting the Grotesque Body: Bildungs by Clare Boylan and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne " in 1: 103-111 of Estudios Irlandaises (www.estudiosirlandeses.org/Issue1)   "Uncanny Doubles: the Fiction of Anne Enright" in New Hibernia Review 9.3 (2005): 107-122. "Fallen Madonnas in Late-Victorian Fiction: Kate Chopin's and Grant Allen's Ambivalence About Sacrifice" in South Carolina Review 36.1 (2003): 40-50. "The White Devil in Orley Farm: Trollope, Webster, and Degeneracy" in Readerly/ Writerly Texts 10.1-2 (2002-03): 79-88. "A Secret Garden of Repressed Desires: F.H. Burnett's That Lass 'O Lowries" in Dickens Studies Annual 32 (2002): 363-78. "Degeneracy in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima" in SUNO Review, from S. Univ. New Orleans, 1.2 (2001): 12-26. "Mother-Daughter Rivalries in Short Stories by Edna O'Brien, Helen Lucy Burke, Mary Beckett, and Elizabeth Bowen" in North Dakota Quarterly 68.1 (2001): 70-85. "Illness as a Crucible in Novels by George Meredith, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge" in Nassau Review 8.2 (2001): 16-26. "Borders, Binaries and Heritage in an Irish Short Story: Victoria White's 'Raving Autumn'" in 29 (2000): 519-38 of Women's Studies. "Becoming a Middle-Class Princess: F.H. Burnett's Through One Administration" in 8.1-8.2 (2000): 43-52 of Readerly/Writerly Texts. "Irish 'Fallen' Women in Stories by Mary Beckett, Lilian Roberts Finlay, and Emma Cooke" in NS 7.2 (1999): 91-98 of Short Story. "Gaskell's Ruth  and Hardy's Tess  as Novels of Free Union," in 28 (1999): 151-72 of Dickens Studies Annual. "Domestic Gothics: Charlotte Yonge's Heir of Redclyffe and Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid" in 14.1 (1999): 43-54 of Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review. "Abjection and Degeneration in Thomas Hardy's 'Barbara of the House of Grebe'" in 26.2 (1999): 1-17 of College Literature. "Bruised Boys and 'Fallen' Women in Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen"  in 32.1 (1999): 88-99 of the South Carolina Review. "Rivalry, Confession, and Healing in Bernard Mac Laverty's Cal," in 9 (1997):  9-15 of Notes on Modern Irish Literature. "Sacrificial Women in Short Stories by Edna O'Brien and Mary Lavin," in 32.2 (1995):  185-97 of Studies in Short Fiction . "Breaking with the Conventions: Victorian Confession Novels and Tess of the D'Urbervilles," in 37.4 (1994): 445-62 of English Literature in Transition. "Deathbed Confessions," in III (1994): 92-106 of Continuum, a journal of hermeneutics and social concern. "The Madonna Ideal in Mary Lavin's Short Stories: A Kristevan Perspective," in 20 (Sp. '93):  81-88 Journal of the Short Story in English. "Confessing Rebellion:  Gwendolen Harleth and the Alcharisi," in 18-19 (9/91): 55-62 of The George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Newsletter. Jointly Authored Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: Amtower, L. Kehler, D., Emory, L., Little, S., Moore, J., and Shumaker, J. "A Marriage of True Minds: a Fifteen-Year-Old Writing Group" in Issues in Writing 11.2(2001):168-90.   Single-Authored Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers: "The West in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing," at the American Conference of Irish Studies West in Boisie Idaho, 10/03. "Degenerationism in Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science," at the Modern Language Assoc. (MLA) Conference in New Orleans, 12/01. "Degeneracy in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima" at the South Central Modern Language Assoc. (SCMLA) Conference in San Antonio, 11/00. "Female Friendships in Irish Short Stories by Maeve Kelly and Rita Kelly" at the American Council of Irish Studies-West (ACIS-West) Conference in Gig Harbor, WA, 10/00. "Degeneracy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda" at the British Women Writers Conference (BWWA) in Albuquerque, 9/99. "'Raving Autumn' as Irish Border Literature,"at the ACIS-West Conference, Tacoma,10/98. "Borders and Binaries: Victoria White and Gloria Anzaldua," at the Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA) Conference in Savannah, 10/98. "A Secret Garden of Repressed Desires: F.H. Burnett's That Lass O'Lowries," at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference in Denver, 10/97. "Abjection and Degeneration in Hardy's 'Barbara of the House of Grebe,'" at the SCMLA Conference in Dallas, 10/97. "Rivalry, Confession, and Healing in Bernard Mac Laverty's Cal," at the ACIS-West Conference in Tuscon, 10/95. "Sacrificial Women in Short Stories by Edna O'Brien and Mary Lavin," at the Modern Language Assoc. (MLA) Conference in San Diego, 12/94. "Gaskell's Ruth, Hardy's Tess, and Free-Love Novels," at the International Narrative Conference (Society for Study of Narrative Literature) in Vancouver, 5/94. "The Madonna Ideal in Mary Lavin's Short Stories:  A Kristevan Perspective" at the SCMLA Convention in Austin, 10/93. "Confession in Hardy's Tess,  Collins's New Magdalen, and Gissing's The  Unclassed " at the SCMLA Convention in Memphis, 10/92. "Confession in Daniel Deronda " at the International George Eliot Conference, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, 4/91. "Illness as Sacrifice in Novels by George Meredith, Charlotte Yonge, and Frances Trollope" at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Assoc. (INCS) Conference, Cal. State Univ. Long Beach, 3/90. Panel Chair at a Peer-Reviewed Conference: Nineteenth-century English literature panel at RMMLA in Santa Fe, 10/99. Book and Videotape Reviews: Of Anna K. Nardo's George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, forthcoming in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies in 2007. Of all the articles about prose works that appeared in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies between 2000 and 2005, forthcoming in 2006 in Nineteenth-Century Prose. Of Maud Ellmann's Elizabeth Bowen in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Fall 2004: 382-84. Of Masako Hirai's Sisters in  Literature  in George Eliot-George Henry Lewis Studies 38-39 (2000): 101-103. Of Diane Long Hoeveler's Gothic Feminism  in Rocky Mountain Review   53.1 (1999):112-13. Of the BBC video of George Eliot's Middlemarch  in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies  24-25 (9/94). Of Michelle Masse's In The Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic  in Studies in the Novel  25.2 (l993):  241-3. Of Karen Chase's Middlemarch  in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes  Studies  20-21 (9/92): 78-80. Of Nancy Paxton's George Eliot and  Herbert Spencer in The George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Newsletter 18-19 (9/91): 104-7. Of Janet Todd's British Women Writers  in Annotated and Ennumerative  Bibliography, 4.4 (1990): 184-5.

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