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Meagan Timney : Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise and Teaching

  • Digital Humanities and New Media
  • Scholarly Editing and Publishing
  • Technology and Pedagogy
  • Interface Design and Human-Computer Interaction
  • Textual Studies
  • Women’s Writing & Feminist Studies
  • Professional Writing
  • Working-Class Literature & Labour Studies
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature (British and American)
  • Victorian Poetry
  • Academic Reading and Writing

 

Education

PhD, Dalhousie University, English Literature, 2009.

PhD Thesis: ““Of Factory Girls and Serving Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain.”

MA, Dalhousie University, English Literature, 2005.

MA Thesis: “‘A Call to the People’: Partisan Poetics and the International Aesthetic in Chartist Verse, 1830-1860.” (Supervisor: Dr. Marjorie Stone)

BA Hons., University of Western Ontario, English Literature and Performing Arts, 2004. Honours

Thesis: “‘Bystander at the Banquet’: Female Consumption and Self-Abnegation in the Victorian Social Problem Novel.” (Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Keep)

 

Selected Honours and Scholarships

HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Fellowship (2010-2011).

Editing Modernism in Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2011).

Dalhousie President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2007-2008).

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2009).

Dalhousie English Research Scholarship (2004-2007).

Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship (2004-2007).

University of Western Ontario Gold Medal: English Literature and Performing Arts (Graduation 2004).

Kay McIver Memorial Award (2003-2004).

William Ware Tamblyn Scholarship (2002-2003).

 

Courses Taught

2010-2011: ENGL 503/CSC 489a-589a – History and Principles of Digital Literary Studies (Graduate Seminar, University of Victoria, Co-Instructor).

2010-2011: HUMA 150 – Tools, Techniques, and Culture of the Digital Humanities (University of Victoria).

2010-2011: ENGL 386 – Victorian Poetry (University of Victoria).

2009-2010: ENGL 503/CSC 589a – Literary Computing (Graduate Seminar, University of Victoria, Co-Instructor).

2009-2010: ENGL 200C – Victorian and Edwardian Literature (University of Victoria).

2009-2010: ENGL 135 – Academic Reading and Writing (University of Victoria).

2008-2009: ENGL 3031 – Nineteenth-Century Literature from Austen to Dickens (Dalhousie University).

2007-2008: ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature (Dalhousie University).

 

Pedagogical Training

Dalhousie Certificate in University Teaching and Learning.

CNLT 5000: “Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,” January-April 2008.

 

Refereed Articles

Timney, Meagan. “Mary Hutton and the Development of a Working-Class Women’s Political Poetics.”  Victorian Poetry [Forthcoming: Spring 2011]. 

Timney, Meagan. “Working-Class Women’s Writing in the Nineteenth-Century Radical Periodical Press: Chartist Threads.” Philological Quarterly (Special issue in 2011 on Nineteenth-Century Working Class Writing)[Forthcoming: 2011].

 

 

Book Chapters

Timney, Meagan and Dean Irvine.  “A New Build: Digital Tools for Archives, Commons, and Collaboration.” Archival Narratives for Canada: [Re] Telling Stories in a Changing Landscape.  Ed. Kathleen Garay and Christl Verduyn. Fernwood Publishing. [Forthcoming: 2011].

 

Reference Entries and Reviews

Timney, Meagan.  “Trade Unions and the Press.”  Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.  London: British Library, 2008.

Timney, Meagan. “Mary Hutton.” The Labouring-Class Writers Project. 2 April 2009. <http://human.ntu.ac.uk/research/labouringclasswriters/ExpandedEntries/Hutton.htm>

Review of: Forsyth, Margaret.  “Looking for Grandmothers: Working-Class Women Poets and ‘herstory.’”  Women’s Writing 12.2 (2005): 259-69. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2008.

Review of: Haywood, Ian.  The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2008.

Review of: Lang, Amy Schrager.  The Syntax of Class.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.

Review of: Louttit, Chris. “The Novelistic Afterlife of Henry Mayhew.” Philological Quarterly 85.3-4 (Summer and Fall): 315-42. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

Review of: Hiltner, Ken.  “Shirley and the Luddites.” Bronte Studies 33.2 (July 2008): 148-158. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

Review of: Garvey, Ellen Gruber.  “Less Work for ‘Mother’: Rural Readers, Farm Papers, and the Makeover of ‘The Revolt of “Mother”’.” Legacy 26.1 (2009): 119-149. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

 

Public Writing

Invited Guest Author.  Chronicle of Higher Education: Profhacker. “Using Mailplane to Manage Multiple Gmail Accounts.” September 28, 2010.  http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Using-Mailplane-to/27122/

 

Invited Guest Author.  Chronicle of Higher Education: Profhacker. “Nurturing the Mind-Body Connection.” July 28, 2010. http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Nurturing-the-Mind-Body/25807/

 

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