SAMANTHA CHRISTINE WEBB
Associate Professor
Department of English, Station 6420
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
(205) 665-6420
PROFESSIONAL
Associate Professor of English, University of Montevallo. Tenure awarded 2004
Assistant Professor of English, University of Montevallo, 1998-2004
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English Literature, 1998
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Literary Mediators: Figures of Authority and Authorship in English Romantic Prose
Director: Timothy Corrigan
M.A. in English Literature, 1991
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
B.A. (Honours) in English Literature, 1988
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Research and Special Projects Grand, University of Montevallo, 2008-9 (travel to Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX)
Research and Special Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2005-6 (travel to British Library)
Sabbatical leave, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “Re-reading Romantic Fiction.” University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Summer 2003.
Research and Special Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2002-3.
Dissertation Fellowship, Temple University, 1997-1998
ATTIC Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Temple University, Spring 1997.
PUBLICATIONS
“One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Dinner: Food and the Poetics of Scarcity in the Cheap Repository Tracts. European Romantic Review. 17.4 (October 2006): 419-436.
“Not So Pleasant to the Taste: Coleridge in Bristol during the Mixed Bread Campaign of 1795.” Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Literature and Culture. Food Studies special issue. Edited by Timothy Morton. 12.1 (2006): 5-14.
“In-appropriating the Literary: James Hogg’s Poetic Mirror Parodies of Scott and Wordsworth.” Studies in Hogg and His World. 13 (2002): 16-35.
Critical Introduction. “Eliza.” Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Eds. Steven Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2002.
Critical Introduction. “Harriet and Maria Falconar.” Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Eds. Steven Behrendt and Nancy Kushigian. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2002.
“Reading the End of the World: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and the Agency of Romantic Authorship.” Mary Shelley in Her Times. Eds. Stuart Curran and Betty T. Bennett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 119-133.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Freedom Isn’t Free, But Freem Is” (with Michael F. Patton). Stephen Colbert and Philosophy. Open Court Press, 2009.
“Marguerite Power.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Anne Lister” (399-400); “Mary Ann Radcliffe” (523-524 with Leonard Ashley). Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Second Edition. Ed. Paul and June Schlueter. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
“Samuel Taylor Coleridge” (148-9); “Lord Byron” (88-9); “Joanna Baillie” (38); “Poetry and Poetics” (553-5). Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837. Ed. Gerald Newman. Garland Publishing, 1997.
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
“Exhausted Appetites, Vitiated Tastes: Romanticism, Mass Culture and the Pleasures of Consumption.” Romanticism and Pleasure. Eds. Thomas Schmid and Michelle Faubert.
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
“Diet Studies in the Romantic Period.” Literature Compass. Chichester: Basil Blackwell. Online.
IN PROGRESS
Book manuscript, Romanticism in a Season of Scarcity: Food and Finitude in British Literature, 1795-1832.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Ruined Cottage and the Labor of Consumption.” International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Rochester, MI. October 16-19, 2008.
“Exhausted Appetites, Vitiated Tastes: The Romantic Novel as Edible Object.” International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Baltimore, MD. October 18-21, 2007.
“Goldsmith versus Adam Smith: Arthur Young’s Art and Science of Subsistence.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism/North American Victorian Studies Association joint conference (NASSR/NAVSA). West Lafayette, IN. August 31-Sept. 3, 2006.
“Defying the Economists: Mary Shelley, Godwin and the Malthusian Sublime.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) annual conference. Montreal, Qc, Canada, August 12-16, 2005.
Chair, panel on The Fallen Woman, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV, March 31-April 3, 2005.
“Nature Rumfordized: Freedom and Agency in Count Rumford’s House of Industry.” Romantic Cosmopolitanism. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Annual Conference. Boulder, CO, September 6-9, 2004.
“Calling All Domestic Goddesses: Food as Trope in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) Annual Conference. Santa Fe, NM. March 3-6, 2004.
“Not So Pleasant to the Taste”: Coleridge in Bristol during the Mixed Bread Campaign of 1795.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Annual Conference. New York, NY, August 1-5, 2003.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, University of Montevallo
English 405/505: Jane Austen, Romanticism and Postmodernism (and Zombies)
English 301/Honors 309/Sociology 303: Children’s Literature and Culture
English 426/526: Romantic Poetry and Philosophy (interdisciplinary team-taught cross-
list with Philosophy 465: Studies in Aesthetics)
English 590: Graduate Seminar – Lyric, Labor and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
English 427/527: Feasts and Famines in Victorian Literature
English 426/526: Radical Romantic Women Writers
English 404/504: Literature for Adolescents
English 485: Senior Capstone Seminar
English 427/527: The Victorian Period
English 526: Graduate Seminar on the Romantic Period – Gender and Genre
English 405/505: John Keats
English 180/411/511: Theater in the Mind/Studies in Drama
English 452/552: Studies in Critical Theory
English 405/505: Wordsworth and Coleridge
English 306: Survey of British and American Literature II
English 489/589: Tales of Two Cities: the Literature of London and Paris
English 310: Literature for Children
English 101-102: Composition I and II
English 419/519: Studies in the Gothic
English 426/526: The Romantic Period
English 589: Graduate Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Poetry
English 231-232: World Literature I and II
English 232: World Literature II – Folktales, Fairy Tales and World Cultures
English 233-234: Honors World Literature I and II
English 405/505: Studies in the Shelleys
English 419/519: Studies in Satire
CURRENT DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Chair, English and Foreign Languages Advancement and Recruitment Committee, Fall 2007-
present
Member, English Major Committee, Fall 2000-present
Member, Graduate Committee, Fall 2006-present
Member, Assessment Committee, Fall 2000-present
CURRENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE
ENGFLP representative, Faculty Senate, Fall 2008-Spring 2010
SACS Readiness Audit Team, Fall 2008-
English Department representative, Teacher Education Committee, Spring 2001-present
Chair, Hallie Farmer Lecture Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
ADDITIONAL SERVICE
Panelist, Panel on the Holocaust, Remembrance Day, University of Montevallo,
October 21-22, 2008.
Speaker, “Everything you always wanted to know about poetry in 20 questions
or less,” UM Homecoming Activity, February 2008.
Co-ordinator, NCATE/SDE Accreditation Review of Teacher Education Program,
Language Arts Program, 2006-7.
Co-ordinator, NCATE/SDE Accreditation Review of Teacher Education Program,
Language Arts Program and Foreign Language Program, 2001-2
Member, British Modernism Search Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Member, Arts and Sciences Decanal Search Committee, Spring-Fall 2005
Assistant to the Chair, English Department course rotation plan. Spring-Fall 2004.
Chair, British Modernism Search Committee, Fall 2002
Presentation, “Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin in the Canadian context,” AAUW Book Talk,
March 6, 2002
Chair, Medieval/Early Modern Search Committee, Fall 2001
Co-organizer, English Department annual Spring Break trip (London and Paris), March 2001
Presentation, “Chick Flicks and Date Movies: Is Feminism Dead?” Women’s and Gender Studies
Brown Bag Lunch Series, November 16, 2000
Faculty speaker, “Why Do You Research?” Undergraduate Research Day, March 2000
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Regional representative to the South. Delegate Assembly of the Modern Languages Association.
2005-2008.
Presenter, Birmingham International Festival Salute to Canada. February 2003.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCSECS)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)