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Laura Rigal Department of English, 308 English Philosophy Building Phone 319-335-0454 FAX 319-335-2535 Department of American Studies, 201 Jefferson Building Phone319-335-0320 FAX 319-335-0314 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 E-mail : laura-rigal@uiowa.edu EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORYEDUCATIONPh.D. 1989, Department of English, Stanford University B.A. 1982, Oberlin College. majors: English; Greek Language and Literature ACADEMIC POSITIONSAssociate Professor, 9/97 - present, The University of Iowa, Departments of English and American Studies Assistant Professor, 9/91 - 9/97, University of Chicago, Department of English TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS 18th and 19th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture; Visual Culture Studies; Cultures of U.S. Imperialism; Science and Technology Studies; Public History; American Indian Studies SCHOLARSHIPInvited Essay in a Collection “Benjamin Franklin, The Science of Flow, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment,” A Blackwell Companion to Benjamin Franklin, ed. David Waldstreicher, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (Spring 2011), 308-334. Essay in a collection “Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby Dick” New Essays on Melville and Aesthetics, eds. Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn, Palgrave-MacMillan (Spring 2011), 103-116. Invited Review Essay, “Beyond ‘The Trouble with Wilderness’” The American Quarterly, Journal of the American Studies Association (Winter 2010), 989-1001. Book Review Remembering Kensington and Fishtown: Philadelphia’s Riverward Neighborhoods by KENNETH W. MILANO (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2008); The History of Penn Treaty Park by KENNETH W. MILANO (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2009); The History of the Kensington Soup Society by KENNETH W. MILANO (Charleston, SC: The History Press 2009). Review published The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134 (January 2010): 97-100. Journal Article “Watershed Days on the Treaty Line, 1836-1839” The Iowa Review, special issue on the Iowa River and the flood of 2008 (Fall 2009) 9:2 202-223. Journal Article Invited article for Special Issue on “Politics.” “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life Volume 9, Number 1 (October 2008). Review Essay, “The Comedy of Colonial Contact,” Wapsipinicon Almanac 15 (December 2008), 124-130. Journal Article “The Chickasaw County Massacre,” Wapsipinicon Almanac 14 (December 2007), 116-123. Journal Article (invited issue commentary), “In the Eye of the Pyramid: Geographic Enterprise from John Smith to America Incorporated,” American Literary History (Winter 2003), 793-808. Book Review, “Local Haunts,” review of Judith Richardson. Possessions, The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Commonplace: the Journal of Early American Life (Winter 2003). Essay in a collection, “Imperial Attractions: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751” in Memory Bytes: Historical Perspectives on American Digital Culture, eds. Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003), 23-46. Journal Article, “Electric Books of 1747: Franklin’s Luminous Gilt,” Commonplace: the Journal of Early American Life (December 2000). Journal Article, "Framing the Fabric: A Luddite Reading of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania, American Literary History Special Issue: History in the Making, Summer 2000 Journal Article, (invited essay) “Whose Affirmative Culture?” response to Joel Pfister, “Complicity Critiques,” American Literary History Special Issue: History in the Making, Summer 2000. Book Review of David Brigham, Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience. William and Mary Quarterly, Spring 1999. Book: The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, October 1998). Journal Article: "Empire of Birds, Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, 1807-1814," The Huntington Quarterly 59, Special Issue on Science and Art, Spring 1998. Journal Article: "Raising the Roof: the Grand Federal Procession of 1788 as Republican Festival." Theatre Journal 48, Fall 1996. Essay in a collection: "Peale's Mammoth," in American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth Century Art and Literature, ed. David Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Book review of Larzer Ziff, Writing in the New Nation. Modern Philology, Fall 1993. Book review of Jeffrey A. Smith, Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic. William and Mary Quarterly, July 1991. WORKS IN PROGRESS Book Manuscripts __Overlooking Ralston Creek: Science and Society in a Fluid Landscape __Rivers of Light: American Hydrodynamics and the Empire of Enlightenment HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS2010 University of Iowa Faculty Support Award, Summer 2010 2009 University of Iowa Career Development Award, Fall 2009. 2007-2008 John Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, University of Iowa, 2005 University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award 2004 YAH, Year of the Arts and Humanities Award $3000.00 The Office of the President, University of Iowa. for The Arts In America: History, Politics, Practice (lectures; performance; new media installation) 2001-3 University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award, 9/2001-9/2004 (awarded 11/2000) 2000 Obermann Center For Advanced Studies Summer Seminar: The Useable Past: Historical Perspectives on Digital Culture (5/2000) Chicago Humanities Institute Faculty Working Group, "Nation and Gender in Visual Culture: The Emergence of Modernity," University of Chicago, 1993-4. Individual Research Fellowship, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, Spring 1993. University of Chicago Summer Research Fellowship, 1992. Alden Dissertation Prize of 1990 for the most distinguished dissertation in the Department of English, Stanford University. Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize Fellowship, 1988-89. CBS Bicentennial Narrators Scholarship, 1987-88. INVITED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Colloquium Paper “Overlooking Ralston Creek: Science and Society in a Fluid Landscape,” Department of English Faculty Colloquium, February 2012. Invited Speaker “Fishing as an Industrial Art, Thomas Eakins in New Jersey,” American Studies Department Floating Friday Series, The University of Iowa, January, 2011. Invited Speaker “The Art of American Aquaculture,” “Grid and Flow: Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies Through the Arts and Humanities,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011. Conference Paper ”The Art of American Aquaculture: Thomas Eakins In New Jersey,” panel Fantasy Reparation, and Ideology in the Environmental imagination,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 2011. Organizer and Discussion Leader, Public History Event, The State Historical Society of Iowa, “Telling Your Own Story” & “Ralston Creek Reminiscences,” with Iowa City book author Bob Bream, March 22, 2011, 12-2, State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City. Invited Panel Commentator, Causes and Consequences: Global Perspectives on Gender and the History of Slavery, October 13-15, 2010. Conference Paper “Fear of the Water: Hydropower and Bio-power in the Newtonian Public Sphere,” Green Politics, 2nd Annual European Studies Conference,” Dec. 3-4, 2010. Invited Speaker, “The Meskwaki of Johnson County, 1836-1839” “The Meskwaki in the Iowa River Valley: a Symposium,” March 31, 2010, 1-5pm. Meskwaki Casino Veterans Convention Center, Tama Iowa (Meskwaki Setttlement). Organized by the Iowa State Historical Society and the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development, March 31, 2010. Invited Speaker, “The Meskwaki, The American Fur Company, and the Founding of Iowa City,” History Lecture Series, SHSI Centennial Building, Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Invited Lecture, “Electric Sangha: Electricity and Enlightenment in Franklin’s Book,” Reading the Book of Nature, 5th Annual Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts, University of Iowa, April 4, April 3, 2009 Panel Chair, “Figuring Nature in Art and Literature: Cultural Approaches,” Reading the Book of Nature, 5th Annual Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts, University of Iowa, April 4, 2009. Invited Course Lecture, “Visual Sources for 19th Century Social History,” Graduate Seminar in 19th Century American Social History, 016:265:001 (Leslie Schwalm), The University of Iowa, March 3, 2009. Invited Speaker, “Cultures in Contact on the 19th Century Iowa River,” Trinity Episcopal Church, Speaker Series on the Iowa River, February 1, 2009. Conference paper, “Writing the Environmental History of the Iowa River,” panel, “Writing the Iowa River,” Writing Science at the Writing University, The University of Iowa, October 10, 2008. Invited Reading, “The Chickasaw County Massacre,” Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, January 25, 2008. Panel Chair and Commentator: “Imagined Empires” 13th Annual Society of Early American Studies/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, June 9, 2007 Moderator for Maria Damon, “Textual Abjection, the Place of Bad Poetry in American Studies,” Poetries Symposium, University of Iowa, April 5, 2007 Invited Lecture, “Hijacked Language,” UMI Teach-in on the Second Iraq War, November 11, The University of Iowa, 2005. Seminar Paper, “Moby Dick and the Politics of Terror,” POROI Rhetoric Seminar, The University of Iowa, Sept 23, 2005 Chair, Conference Roundtable, Arts in American Studies Scholarship Symposium, February 25-6, 2005 Invited Presentation, “Mining Empire’s Strata: Mark Tansey’s Constructing the Grand Canyon,” American Tableaux Exhibit, University of Iowa Art Museum, March 26, 2004 Panel Chair, “Grave Matters, Digging for History in Nineteenth Century America,” Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Memphis, TN, April 5, 2003 Conference Paper, “A Little Power: The Early National Tourist at the City Pump,” Midwest American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Iowa City, IA, April 15, 2003 Panel Commentator, "Vision, Visuality, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century America, 1800-1850" (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus) American Studies Associations, Houston, Texas, on November 14-17, 2002. English Department Faculty Colloquium, Feb. 15, 2002, “Sunshine Law: Representing the Ballot in Bingham’s The County Election” Invited Lecture, “Imperial Attractions: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751,” English Department, the University of Pennsylvania, November 13, 2001. Conference Paper, “Representing the Ballot,” in “The Technology of Democracy: Workshop on the Material History of the U.S. Ballot,” Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) July 20, 2001, Williamsburg, Virginia. Conference Paper, “Electric Books: Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751,” Obermann Center Symposium, “Fleeting Objects: Material Culture and Social Transformation,” April 6, 2001. Invited Lecture, “American Electricity: Technology and Consensus in the Digital State, 1750/2000,” Boston University, Department of American Studies, March 15, 2001. Panel Commentator, “What Stands between the Nation and the Novel? Races, Readerships, and Epidemic Pretexts; or, Arthur Mervyn at Two Hundred,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. December 28, 2000. Panel Commentator, “Early American Science: Boundaries, Bodies, and Exclusions,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York, July 21-23, 2000. Symposium paper, “Frame and Fabric: A Luddite Reading of Penn's Treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania." History in the Making, a symposium sponsored by American Literary History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 25-28, 1999. Conference paper, "The Brothertown Letters," Cultural Crossroads of Religion and Literacy in Colonial America," Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 28, 1998 TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS 2011
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SERVICE UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTALSpring 2011 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (Craig Just, Committee Chair: Provost’s Office) Spring 2011 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2011 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2011 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2011 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies Fall 2011 Steering Committee Member, American Indian and Native Studies (Chair, Erica Prussing). Fall 2011 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (Craig Just, Committee Chair: Provost’s Office) Fall 2011 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2011 Director, English@Work program for English Majors, Department of English Spring 2010 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2010 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2010 Graduate Admissions Committee, English Department Spring 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop. American Studies Summer 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies (co-led with Kim Marra in Summer 2010) Fall 2010 Director/ Organizer, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, American Studies Fall 2010 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (the Provost’s Office) Fall 2010 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Fall 2010 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2009 Sustainability Curriculum Advisory Committee (the Provost’s Office) Spring 2009 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Spring 2009 Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Fellowship Committee (Graduate College) Spring 2009 Faculty Judge, Jacobson Graduate Student Conference Spring 2009 member-at-large nominating committee, UI Graduate Council, Spring 2009 Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies Spring 2009 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Spring 2009 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Spring 2009 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Fall 2008 Member, University of Iowa Graduate Council (3-year term) Fall 2008 Sustainability Curriculum Committee (Provost’s Office) Fall 2008 Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies Fall 2008 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2008 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Fall 2008 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Summer 2008 Sustainability Curriculum Task Force (Provost’s Office) Spring 2008 Director of Graduate Studies American Studies Spring 2008 Chair, Tenure Committee, Nick Yablon Spring 2008 Steering Committee, American Studies Spring 2008 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (4 lectures) Service 2007 Fall 2007 Steering Committee, American Studies Department Fall 2007 Plan of Study Committee, American Studies Fall 2007 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series: (6 lectures) Fall 2007 Board Member CESA, Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, Fall 2007 DGS American Studies Spring 2007 Chair, English Department Task Force on the Gateway Course for Undergraduate English Majors Spring 2007 Steering Committee, American Studies Spring 2007 Chair, Search Committee, American Studies Latin@ Studies search Spring 2007 Admissions Committee, American Studies Spring 2007 Organizer, American Studies Floating Friday series (7 lectures) Spring 2007 Board Member CESA, Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, Spring 2007 Colloquium Co-chair, Center For Ethnic Studies and the Arts Colloquium on Walter Benn Michaels’ The Trouble with Diversity, How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, University of Iowa, Feb. 22, 2007 Spring 2007 DGS American Studies
Patricia Crain, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Fall 2002 MANUSCRIPT REVIEWINGFall 2011, manuscript reader (article) Early American Literature Fall 2010, manuscript reader (article) American Literary History January 2008 manuscript reader (book) Stanford University Press September 21, 2008 manuscript reader (article) William and Mary Quarterly December 22, 2008, manuscript reader (article) American Literary History August 2007 manuscript reader (journal article) Journal of the Early Republic November 2006, manuscript reader (journal article) Journal of the Early Republic December 2006, manuscript reader (journal article) Annals of Iowa May 2005, book manuscript reader, The University of Alabama Press September 2003, manuscript reader, (journal article) October 2003, book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA February 2002, book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and October 2002, book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA December 2001, book manuscript reader, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA September 2000, manuscript reader, (journal article) American Literary History Directory: files -> english -> field field -> Barbara eckstein english -> Ante-nicene fathers english -> Henry wace, D. D english -> Henry wace, D. D english -> Henry wace, D. D english -> William Shakespeare The Greatest poet, playwright and actor of all time Download 234.65 Kb. Share with your friends:
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