
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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