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Benjamin Jude Wright

bjwright[at]mail.usf.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of South Florida May 2013
  • Dissertation: “Of That Transfigured World” : Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature. Co-Directed by Marty Gould and Pat Rogers
• M.A., English, Boston College May 2007
• B.A., English, Philosophy/Religion, Flagler College December 2003

Research and Teaching Interests

Victorian Literature, Romanticism, Victorian Responses to Romanticism, History of the Novel, Poetry, Realism, Fantasy, Religious Studies, Nineteenth-Century Epistemologies, Hermeneutics, Anthropology, Adaptation Theory, Film, The Gothic, Metacognitive Pedagogy, Dickens, Wilde, The Brontës, Angela Carter, China Miéville

Academic Employment

Loyola University Maryland. Visiting Affiliate Assistant Professor       August-2014-Present
University of New Haven, English Instructor                                         August 2013-May 2014
University of Hartford, English Instructor                                    August 2013-December 2013
University of South Florida, Presidential Doctoral Fellow                  August 2008-May 2013
EF International Language School, Instructor                                           July 2007-July 2008
Quincy College, English Instructor                                                          August-2007-May 2008
Boston College, Teaching Fellow                                                              August 2006-May 2007

Publications

Books

• Of That Transfigured World: Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature. (Manuscript complete)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “Listening to the Monster: Eliding and Restoring the Creature’s Voice in Adaptations of Frankenstein.” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 8.3 (2015)
• “‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’ : Pagans, Christians, and Marius the Epicurean’sAestheticized Religiosity.” Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens 80 (2015)
• “‘I Had Peopled Else This Isle With Dudleys: The Tempest in Uncle Silas.” Victorians Institute Journal 42 (2015)
• “The Penance of Life: the Testimonial Paradigm in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 65 (forthcoming 2015)

Pedagogy Related

• “Staging the Scene.” The Pocket Instructor: Literature. Princeton UP (2015)

Courses Taught

19^th-Century Literature

• Major English Writers- Monstrous Fictions (Loyola U Maryland)
• Major English Writers- Faith and Doubt: Religious Crises in Modernity (Loyola U Maryland)
• British Literature 1780-1900 – Romantic and Victorian Connections (U of South Florida)
• 19^th Century British Novel. Co-Taught with Dr. Marty Gould (U of South Florida)

General Literature

• Introduction to Literature- Telling and Retelling the Tale (U of South Florida, U of Hartford, Loyola U Maryland)
• Introduction to Literature- Villains, Rogues, and Wastrels (Loyola U of Maryland)
• Modern Drama- Dramatic Tensions (Quincy College)

Writing Focused

• First-Year Writing Seminar- Varieties of Text (Boston College)
• English Composition I – The Cave, Idols, and You (U of New Haven)
• Composition and Literature – The Uses (and Abuses) of Literature (U of New Haven)
• English Composition I (Quincy College)
• English Composition II- Writing About Literature (Quincy College)
• Advanced Academic Skills- University Writing (EF Brittin College Prep Program)
• Writing Fundamentals for University First-Years (EF Brittin College Prep Program)

General Education

• Pre-MBA Intensive Reading (EF Brittin College Prep Program)
• Pre-MA Intensive Reading (EF Brittin College Prep Program)

Presentations

• “‘Is He a Ghoul or a Vampire?’: The Fantastic Hermeneutics of Wuthering Heights,” Victorians Institute Conference,  Middle Tennessee State U, Murfreesboro, TN, Nov. 2013
• “Painting Dorian and Christening Jack: Identity and Fantasy in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2012
• “Romantic and Familiar: Realism and Fantasy in Dickens’s Bleak House,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2011
• “Mapping Meaning: Realism and Fantasy in Dickens’ Bleak House,” U of South Florida Graduate Student Research Symposium, Tampa, FL, Oct. 2009
• “Reconstructing the Reconstruction: Recovering the Temporal in Walter Pater’s ‘Apollo inPicardy’ and ‘Denys L’Auxerrois,’” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2009
• “I Had Peopled Else This Isle With Dudleys: The Tempest in Uncle Silas,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2007
• “Disciplining the Body,” Roundtable Discussion on Literature and the Body, Boston College English Graduate Department, Fall Colloquium, Oct. 2006

Service

• Assessment Committee Member, English Department, Loyola University Maryland, 2014-Present
• Deputy Chair and Associate Representative, Student Caucus of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 2008-2012
• Conference Organizer, “Anything But Safe: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” English Graduate Student Association International Conference, University of South Florida, March 2009

References

• Marty Gould, Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida
• Mark Osteen, Chair, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland
• Laura Runge, Professor of English, University of South Florida
• Robert Stanton, Associate Professor of English, Boston College