Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2015 present

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1 CRISTINA RICHIERI GRIFFIN UCLA Department of English 149 Humanities Building, Box Los Angeles, CA * (858) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2015 present EDUCATION Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2015 Dissertation: Omniscience Incarnate: Being in and of the World in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Committee: Jonathan Grossman (chair), Joseph Bristow, Helen Deutsch, Kent Puckett M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010 Exam fields: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, Victorian literature, long eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel ( ) B.A. with honors and university distinction, English and Psychology, Stanford University, 2007 PUBLICATIONS George Eliot s Feuerbach: Sympathy, Omniscience, and Secularism, ELH (forthcoming) Experiencing History and Encountering Fiction in Vanity Fair, Victorian Studies (forthcoming Spring 2016). Writing the Rhythms of the Womb: Alice Meynell s Poetics of Pregnancy, Modern Philology 112, no. 1 (August 2014): CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS The Architectural and Psychological Interiorities of Trollope s Chronicles of Barsetshire, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Phoenix, Arizona, November 2016 (upcoming) Photographing the Mind: Private Lives, Public Photographs, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Huntington Library, California, April 2016 When Narrators Meet Characters: Sympathetic Relations and Omniscient Narration in George Eliot s Early Fiction, British Women Writers Conference, New York, June 2015 Trollope s Mobile Narrators: Negotiating Interiority and Free Indirect Discourse in a Material World, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2015

2 Griffin CV 2 Seen, Heard, and Touched: George Eliot s Metaleptic Narrators and the Sensory Spectrum of Omniscience, International Conference on Narrative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2014 Reimagining Omniscience: An Alternate History of the Omniscient Narrator in the Mid-Victorian Novel, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Riverside, California, March 2014 The History of Pumpernickel: Incarnating the Omniscient Narrator in William Makepeace Thackeray s Vanity Fair, UCLA Nineteenth-Century Group, October 2013 From Spinning Wheel to Printing Press: Networks of Single Women in Anne Thackeray Ritchie s Fairy Tales, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2012 Disabled Bodies and Disabled Texts: Narrator Prosthesis in The History of Mary Prince, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Vancouver, Canada, August 2010 Alice Meynell s Maternal Poetics: Writing the Rhythms of the Womb, Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle International Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, England, June 2010 Alice Meynell: Writing the Rhythms of Womb, Fetus, and Child, UCLA Nineteenth-Century Group, November 2009 Aphra Behn s Oroonoko and the Politics of Narrative Ownership, guest lecture for Prof. Sarah Kareem s English Literature , UCLA, April 2009 CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Co-coordinator, Dickens Project Graduate Conference, UCLA, February 2014 Session chair, Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture II Panel, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2011 Co-coordinator, Southland Graduate Conference Negation and Negativity: Theory, Form, Representation, UCLA, June 2011 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, English Department Conference Travel Grant, UCLA, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 English Department Dissertation Research Fellowship, UCLA, Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship for the Teaching of Literatures in English, 2013 Quarterly Outstanding Teaching Award, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2012 Humanities Division President s Fellowship, UCLA, , Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant, UCLA, 2010

3 Griffin CV 3 Teaching Excellence Award, UCLA, 2010 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society, 2007 Stanford University Advanced Study of the Humanities Award, 2007 Stanford University Undergraduate Research Major Grant ($5000), TEACHING Teaching experience: fiction, critical prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration through the fin de siècle; history of the novel; narrative theories and forms; genre studies; gender studies; women s writing; general education, lower division, and upper division courses; senior seminars; pedagogy practicum Lecturer, UCLA Department of English Marriage Plots and the Novel (fall 2015, winter 2016, spring 2016) An exploration of the marriage plot in novels of the long nineteenth century. Lectures and discussions investigate why so many novels structure their stories around the pursuit of a spouse, and how these novels define, challenge, and subvert marriage ideals. Major texts include Austen s Pride and Prejudice, Brontë s Jane Eyre, Braddon s Lady Audley s Secret, Hardy s Jude the Obscure, and Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway. Secondary texts include nineteenth-century marriage laws and the 2015 Supreme Court decision for Obergefell v. Hodges. Senior Seminar: Daniel Deronda (winter 2016) A seminar structured around reading George Eliot s last novel, Daniel Deronda, in its historical and theoretical contexts. In addition to reading Daniel Deronda in weekly installments that correspond with its original eight monthly parts, secondary texts include Eliot s shorter fiction ( The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil s Love-Story, The Lifted Veil), essays ( The Natural History of German Life, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, Notes on Form in Art ), as well as her translations of Strauss and Feuerbach. Gender and the Gothic (spring 2016) An examination of gender relations in gothic fiction, beginning with late eighteenth-century novels that established gothic conventions before turning to twentieth- and twenty-first-century forms novels, short stories, television shows, dystopias that respond to the gothic genre. Lectures and discussions interrogate how gothic novels represent women s bodies, the relationship between gender and violence, and how the gothic embodies political and cultural crises. Major texts include Radcliffe s A Sicilian Romance, Wollstonecraft s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Lewis s The Monk, Du Maurier s Rebecca, Carter s The Bloody Chamber, and Atwood s The Handmaid s Tale.

4 Griffin CV 4 Instructor, UCLA Department of English Critical Reading and Writing: Embodied Language (winter 2010, spring 2010) An investigation of the relationship between bodies and language across history and genres, focusing particularly on issues of gender, race, sexuality, and disability. Major texts include poems by Rochester, Swift, C. Rossetti, Williams, and Mayer; short fiction by Kafka and Sontag; Haywood s Fantomina; Shelley s Frankenstein; Nichols Wit; and William s The Glass Menagerie. Critical Reading and Writing: The Young Adult (fall 2012) An exploration of the concept of the young adult as a subjectivity, a genre, an audience, and a historically contingent concept. Major texts include poems by Owen, Meynell, Silverstein, Atwood, and Armitage; short fiction by Bradbury and Jackson; Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland; Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go; Collins The Hunger Games; and Barrie s Peter Pan. Honors Critical Reading and Writing: The Art of Storytelling (winter 2012) An examination of narrative techniques across history and genres. Discussions explore narrative perspective, temporality, endings, and fictional spaces. Major texts include narrative poems by Swift, Browning, Pinsky, and Duffy; short fiction by Ritchie and Smith; 30 Rock; How I Met Your Mother; Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go (novel and film); and Trollope s The Warden. Teaching Assistant Consultant, UCLA Department of English Supervised Teaching Preparation (Part A) (spring 2013) The first pedagogy practicum for all graduate student teachers, co-taught with Dr. Christopher Mott. Prepares teachers to develop lesson plans, create classroom exercises, focus on students individually, evaluate student writing, and establish fair grading strategies. Discussions concentrate on student-centered learning techniques; workshops allow teachers to experiment with lesson plans and practice different pedagogical styles. Supervised Teaching Preparation (Part B) (fall 2012) The second pedagogy practicum for all graduate student teachers, co-taught with Dr. Christopher Mott. Prepares teachers to design and instruct the department s introductory critical reading and writing course. Units focus on text selection, teaching analysis across genres and historical periods, and writing instruction. Assignments include developing and workshopping a syllabus, and crafting a sample lesson plan. Teaching Fellow, UCLA Department of English Lower Division American Novel, fall 2008 English Literature to 1660, fall 2009 English Literature, , spring 2009, summer 2010 English Literature, 1832 Present, winter 2009 Upper Division Novel in English to 1850, fall 2011 Jane Austen and Her Peers, spring 2012

5 Griffin CV 5 Teaching Fellow for Digital Instruction, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television Introduction to Fiction (online course), summer 2013 SERVICE Invited Panelist, How to Rock the Conference, UCLA Department of English, 2010, 2014 Graduate Student Representative, Mellon Advisory Committee on Pedagogy, UCLA Department of English, Invited Talk, Teaching Fiction in 4W, UCLA Department of English, 2010, 2011, 2013 UCLA TA Conference Leader, 2011, 2012 Co-teacher, Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011 Co-coordinator, UCLA Nineteenth Century Group, Co-coordinator, UCLA Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Working Group, President, English Graduate Association, UCLA, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Editorial and Research Assistant, UCLA Department of English and UCLA Center for 17 th and 18 th Century Studies, Monograph Project: Professor Sarah Kareem, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder, Research Assistant, UCLA Department of English and Disability Studies Minor, , 2012 REFERENCES Jonathan H. Grossman, Professor of English, UCLA: grossman@humnet.ucla.edu Joseph Bristow, Professor of English, UCLA: jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu Helen Deutsch, Professor of English, UCLA: hdeutsch@humnet.ucla.edu Kent Puckett, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: kpuckett@berkeley.edu Christopher Mott, Sr. Continuing Lecturer of English, TA Coordinator, UCLA: mott@humnet.ucla.edu