Samantha Webb
Associate Professor of English
Department of English, Station 6420
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
(205) 665-6426
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
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate Seminar: Lyric, Labor and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Feasts and Famines in Victorian Literature
Radical Romantic Women Writers
World Literature II: Folktales, Fairy Tales and World Cultures
Literature for Children
Literature for Adolescents
The Shelleys
Survey of British and American Literature II
Senior Capstone Seminar
The Victorian Period
Graduate Seminar on the Romantic Period: Gender and Genre
John Keats
Theater in the Mind/Studies in Drama
Studies in Critical Theory
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Tales of Two Cities: the Literature of London and Paris
Studies in the Gothic
The Romantic Period
Graduate Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Studies in Satire
World Literature I and II
Honors World Literature I and II
Composition I and II
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. 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.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Marguerite Power.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. London: British Library. Ghent: Academia Press, forthcoming 2008.
“Marguerite Power.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Anne Lister.” “Mary Ann Radcliffe” (co-authored). Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Second Edition. Ed. Paul and June Schlueter. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
“Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” “Lord Byron.” “Joanna Baillie.” “Poetry and Poetics.” Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837. Ed. Gerald Newman. Garland Publishing, 1997.
BOOK IN PROGRESS
Romanticism in a Season of Scarcity: Food and Finitude in British Literature, 1795-1819.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“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.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
Research and Special Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2005-6 (research at British Library)
Sabbatical leave, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “Re-reading Romantic Fiction.” University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. Summer 2003.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Contributing Editor (Romantic period) Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge, 2007.
Manuscript review, Romantic Pedagogy Commons. Romantic Circles www.rc.umd.edu.
2007.
Regional Delegate for the South, Modern Languages Association Delegate Assembly, 2005-8.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)