KRISTIN BLUEMEL
| Department of English | 229 Oak Street |
| Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ 07764 |
Ridgewood, NJ 07450 h: 201-670-4450 |
| 732-571-3622 kbluemel@monmouth.edu |
c: 201-280-1222 |
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ph.D., Literatures in English, 1994
M.A., with distinction, English, 1991
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
B.A., English, 1986
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Professor of English, 2007-
Associate Professor of English, 2000-2007
Assistant Professor of English, 1994-2000
College English (honors and general writing and research)
Literature I and II: The Ancient World to Contemporary Cultures (honors and general)
English Literature II
Modern British and Irish Literature (graduate and undergraduate)
Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory (graduate and undergraduate)
Novel in English (graduate and undergraduate)
Writing World War II in Britain
Seminar in English (Stevie Smith 1995, George Orwell 2004)
Language and Linguistics (graduate and undergraduate)
Intermodernism (graduate special topics)
Rutgers and Douglass Colleges, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Teaching Assistant, 1991, 1992, 1993-94
Principles of Literary Study: Prose (English Majors)
Expository Writing (Honors and Basic Composition)
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Teaching Assistant, Fall 1985
History of the Novel: Part I
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Graduate Faculty Status, Spring 2005
Sigma Tau Delta Distinguished Teaching Award (student elected), Spring 2004
Stanley Traveling Fellowship for Support of Teaching in the Humanities ($5400), Spring 2003
Sabbatical, Monmouth University, 2001-2002
Course Load Reductions in Support of Scholarship, Monmouth University, Spring 2001, Fall
2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1998, Fall 1994-Spring 1996
Grants-in-Aid-for-Creativity Awards ($1,000-$1,500), Monmouth University, Spring 2000, Spring 1998, Fall 1996, Spring 1995
Voluntary Professional Development Plan Completed, Summer 1998
Bonus Award for Scholarship ($500), Monmouth University, Spring 1997
Marion Johnson Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1989-93
Roger Maynard Award for Scholar-Athlete, Wesleyan University, 1986
Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University, 1985
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain. Editor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Under contact in 2007.
George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Articles
“Betty Miller and the Urban Geography of Antisemitism and Assimilation.” In Philosemitism and Antisemitism. Ed. Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz. Forthcoming from University of Delaware Press.
“Casualty of War, Casualty of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand in England.” In New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947. Ed. Shafquat Towheed. Stuttgart: Ibidem Studies, 2007. 279-304.
“Mulk Raj Anand’s Passage through Bloomsbury.” “The Thirties Now” special issue of Working Papers on the Web. Ed. Chris Hopkins and Mary Grover. Sheffield Hallam University. 6 (2004). <http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/thirties/thirties%20bluemel.html>.
“’Suburbs are not so bad I think’”: Stevie Smith’s Problem of Place in Thirties and Forties London.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 3 (2003): 64-82.
“St. George and the Holocaust.” Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 14 (2003): 119-47.
"Not Waving or Drowning: Refusing Critical Options, Rewriting Literary History." And in Our Time: Vision, Revision, and British Writing of the 1930s. Ed. Antony Shuttleworth. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2003. 65-94.
“There’s No Story There: Inez Holden’s Lost War Literature.” Challenging Modernism: New Readings in Literature and Culture, 1914-45. Ed. Stella Deen. Burlington and London: Ashgate, 2002. 115-34.
“Doodles and Poetry: Stevie Smith and the Dangers of Eccentricity.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Special issue on “Interarts.” 31 (1998): 111-32.
"‘Civilization is based upon the stability of molars’: Dorothy Richardson and Imperialist Dentistry." Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach. Ed. Lisa Rado. New York: Garland Press, 1997. 301-18.
"Missing Sex in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 39 (1996): 20-38.
"The Feminine Laughter of No Return: James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson." Look Who's Laughing: Studies in Gender and Comedy. Ed. Gail Finney. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994. 161-71.
Editor, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. (Previously titled Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature 1914-1945.) ISSN 1551-9309. A refereed interdisciplinary journal with an international readership. Articles and book reviews on literature and culture that emphasize research on lesser-known writers and understudied issues of the period, including literary and cultural responses to the First and Second World Wars. Initially published in 2000 by Fort Hays State University, I formed a Monmouth production team in Fall 2006 and by Spring 2006 had successfully campaigned to bring the journal to Monmouth University. The journal is now published annually by Monmouth University with the support of the Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. See <www.monmouth.edu/the_space_between/default.asp> for tables of contents of recent issues and sample articles.
Reviews and Shorter Publications
Review of The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire by John Marx. English Literature in Transition 50 (2007): 349-53.
Review of Stevie Smith: Between the Lines by Romanna Huk. The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 2 (2006): 147-50.
Editor’s Column, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 2 (2006): 7-9.
“Inez Holden” and “Betty Miller” entries in the Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900-1950. Ed. Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg, and Esme Miskimmin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 112-13, 164-65.
“George Orwell” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” entries in the Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Editor’s Column, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 1 (2005): 7-9.
Review of Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire by Phyllis Lassner. Modernism/Modernity 12 (2005): 186-88.
Review of Stepdaughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary by Jane Garrity. English Literature in Transition 48 (2005): 234-37.
Review of The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground by Michael T. Saler. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English 1914-1945. 2 (2004): 105-07.
Editor’s Column, Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English 1914-1945. 2 (2004): 5-6.
Review of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism by Paul Sheehan. English Literature in Transition 47 (2004): 86-90.
Review of Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War by Karen Schneider and British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own by Phyllis Lassner. Studies in the Novel 31 (1999): 249-52.
Review of History in Our Hands: A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture and Politics from the 1930s edited by Patrick Deane. International Review of Modernism 2 (1999): 27-28.
Review of Gender and Genre in Novels without End: The British Roman-Fleuve by Lynette Felber. English Literature in Transition 40 (1997): 95-98.
“Foreword.” A Reader’s Guide to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage. By George H. Thomson. Greensboro: ELT Press, 1996. ix-xi.
In Progress
“Feminist Fiction.” Invited chapter for the Cambridge Companion to the 20th-Century English Novel. Ed. Robert Caserio, Pennsylvania State University. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
“Mulk Raj Anand’s Passage through Bloomsbury.” In Recent Critical Considerations on Mulk Raj Anand. Ed. A. S. Dassan, University of Mysore. Collection under consideration by two Indian publishers.
"Mulk Raj Anand and Intermodernism: No Apology for Heroism." Invited keynote speaker. Investigating Asian Bloomsbury: 1870-1950. AHRC Making Britain Network. Oxford University, Oxford, England, 5 July 2008.
“Intermodernism in Literary London: From Suburbs to Spitfires.” Invited keynote speaker. Liminal London: Country/City, Work/Leisure, Past/Future, and States Between. 7th Annual Literary London Conference, London, England, 2-4 July 2008.
“Building Intermodernism: Fiction, Feminism, and Factories.” Invited speaker. Architexture: Textual and Architectural Spaces. Glasgow, Scotland, 15-17 April 2008.
“Publishing Scholarship on World War: Opportunities and Stumbling Blocks.” The Experience of War in the Space Between 1914-1945, Annapolis, MD, 8-11 June 2007.
“Kept out of the Archive: Inez Holden and the Origins of Intermodernism.” MSA8: Modernist Studies Association, eighth annual meeting on “Out of the Archives.” Tulsa, OK, 19-22 October 2006.
“Spitfires and the Beauty Shop: Immobility, Masculinity, and the Problem of the Popular in Richard Hillary’s The Last Enemy.” Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between, 1914-1945, Lewisburg, PA, 8-11 June 2006.
“Casualty of War, Casualty of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand in England.” Caught by the Empire at War: Representing Britain’s “Others” in World Wars I and II. Twentieth Century English Literature Division Panel, MLA, Washington, D. C., 30 December 2005.
“Mulk Raj Anand and ‘The King-Emperor’s English’: A Case Study.” MSA7: Modernist Studies Association, seventh annual meeting. Seminar on “English/Not English/Not English Only.” Chicago, IL, 5 November 2005.
“Lost Voices: Mulk Raj Anand, the BBC, and the Campaign for a Free India.” Technology, Media, Culture in the Space Between, 1914-1945, Montreal, Quebec, 27-29 May 2005.
“The Urban Geography of Anti-Semitism and Assimilation: A Case Study.” The Metropolis in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Columbus, OH, 3-5 June 2004.
“Bridal Beauty and the New Nation: Secrets from Bombay.” Narrative Conference, Burlington, VT, 22-25 April, 2004.
“Despising Jews and Loving Suburbs Or, Why Stevie Smith Is Not a Modernist.” Central NY Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, 28 October 2002.
“Behind Orwell’s Back: Reconstructing Radical Writing in Wartime London.” 2002 World War II Conference, Loudonville, NY, 6-7 June 2002.
“Retrieving the Basics: George Orwell, Inez Holden, and Alternate Newspeaks.” Retrieving the 1940s, Leeds, England, 6-7 April 2002.
“St. George and the Holocaust.” MSA3 (Modernist Studies Association, third annual meeting), Houston, TX, 14 October 2001.
“Neither Town nor Country: English Suburban Fantasies in the Space Between.” Representing Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in the Space Between, 1914-1945, Fayetteville, AR, 19 May 2001.
“The Real Hogsnorton: The Story of Inez Holden and George Orwell at the BBC.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York City, 31 March 2001.
“Tears before Laughter: Satire and Survival in the Early Fictions of George Orwell and Stevie Smith.” The New Modernisms II, Philadelphia , PA, 13 October 2000.
“Glamour Girl to Socialist: The Case of Inez Holden.” Inroads and Outposts at Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women in the Thirties, Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, New York, NY, 15 September 2000.
“Mulk Raj Anand’s Apology for Heroism: Reinventing the Revolutionary Writer.” Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, London, Ontario, 18-20 May 2000.
“Passage to Bloomsbury: Mulk Raj Anand in the Heart of Britain.” The New Modernisms, State College, PA, 7-10 October 1999.
“There’s No Story There: Inez Holden’s Lost War Literature.” Border Crossings Conference: Refiguring Literature and Culture in the Space Between, 1914-1945, New Paltz, NY, 29-31 October 1998.
“Behind Orwell’s Back: Reconstructing Radical Anti-Fascist Writing in Wartime London.” Delivered by Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University) at the North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, 16 October 1998.
“Not Waving or Drowning: Refusing Critical Options, Rewriting Literary History.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, 4-6 November 1997.
“‘Hurrah to be a goy!’: Stevie Smith’s ‘Comic’ Fictions of the 1930s.” Also, invited speaker with Dr. Patrick Deane and Dr. Patrick Quinn for featured discussion panel on Interwar Literature. Bang, Boom, Bust, and Bang (Again)--The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, 1915-1945, Reno, NV, 2-4 October 1997.
“Elastic Fibers and Suspended Particles: Virginia Woolf Reads Dorothy Richardson.” Seventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Plymouth, NH, 12-15 June 1997.
“One Writer’s Story: Publishing Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism.” Monmouth University Faculty Forum. West Long Branch, NJ, 19 March 1997.
“Undone by Laughter: Redefining War Literature through the Fiction of Stevie Smith.” Siena College 1996 World War II Conference, Loudonville, NY, 30 May 1996.
"Doodles and Poetry: Stevie Smith and the Costs of Eccentricity." Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, Quebec, 19 April 1996.
"The New Jersey Project: A Resource for Monmouth University." Monmouth University Conference on Gender and Diversity: Issues for the 21st Century. (Also, Conference Co-Organizer). West Long Branch, NJ, 5 October 1995.
"Imperial Anxieties in British Dental Science: Modernism, Feminism, and Racism." Also, Chair for Panel on “Poetry and Technology.” Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, New Orleans, LA, 13 November 1994.
"Dorothy Richardson and the Missing Sex of Pilgrimage." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, 17 October 1994.
"Science and Secrecy in Bacon's New Atlantis." Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Boston and Cambridge, MA, 21 November 1993.
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Miriam Henderson in the Dental Surgery." Celebration of Our Work XI, Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, 25 May 1993.
"Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: Bodies and Bedrooms in the Modernist 'Margins.'" Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 25 February 1993.
"Ulysses and Pilgrimage: Inf(l)ected by Science, Or, Medicine, Manliness, and the Modern Novel." Central New York Conference on Languages and Literature, Cortland, NY, 19 October 1992.
"Ulysses and Pilgrimage: Medicine and Machismo in the Modern Novel." XIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 19 June 1992.
"The Feminine Laughter of No Return: James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson." Joyce in Vancouver, British Columbia, 14 June 1991.
CONFERENCE PANELS OR CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Campus organizer of the New Jersey Project 2006 Spring Conference. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 7 April 2006.
“From Barcelona to Berlin: Modernism Goes to War.” Seminar leader with Phyllis Lassner. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 6 November 2005.
“New Modernist Humor.” Panelists: Stella Deen, SUNY-New Paltz, Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University (and myself). Modernist Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia , PA, 13 October 2000.
“Integrating Feminist Scholarship into General Education Courses.” By invitation for The New Jersey Project, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ, 25 April 1996.
“Juggling the Personal, Professional, and Political.” Women’s Survival Series, Institute for Research on Women. (Also, Series Co-Organizer). New Brunswick, NJ, 10 April 1994.
“Dorothy Richardson: Renewing the Pilgrimage.” Panelists: Robert Caserio, U. Utah; Ellen G. Friedman, Trenton State; David C. Smith, U. Maine. MLA Convention, Toronto, Ontario, 28 December 1993.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
Faculty Peer Reviewer (appointed), 2007-
General Education Oversight Committee (elected), 2007-
Departmental Advising Coordinator (elected), 1996-2001; 2006-
Chair, Voluntary Professional Development Committees (Dr. Gorelick, Dr. Maginn), 2005-
Member, FAMCO Committee on Scholarship Track, 2005-2006
English Graduate Program Committee, Fall 2005-
Honors School Dean Search Committee, Spring 2005
Member, Panel A (elected), 2001-2003
Member, Committee of the Department, 2000-
M.A. in Liberal Studies Advisory Board, 1997-2000
Governance Committee (elected), 1996-2000
Experiential Education, Faculty Evaluator, annual
Liaison for The New Jersey Project (appointed), 1996-2006
Human Relations Council (appointed), 1995-1999
Grants and Sabbaticals Committee (elected), 1995-1998; Co-Chair Fall 1998
Department Committee on Reviewing the Major, 1995-1996
Co-Organizer, Conference on Gender and Diversity: Issues for the 21st Century, Fall 1995
University Representative to the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, Summer Institute, 9-13 June 1995
English Department Search Committees, Spring 1995, regularly thereafter
Gender Studies Committee, 1994-2004
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Co-President, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Leader of an interdisciplinary academic society devoted to cultural study of the period bracketed by the First and Second World Wars. In addition to the above mentioned journal, The Space Between, the society sponsors an annual conference and runs a web page. I was a founding member of the Society in 1997 and co-president thereafter until resigning in 2006.
External Scholarly Reviewer, Tenure Applications:
Humanities Department, Babson College, 2007
Rhetoric and Humanities Division, College of General Studies, Boston University, 2006
Department of English, Oakland University, 2004
“Chat with an Editor.” MLA, Washington, D. C., 29 December 2005.
Served as one-on-one editor-advisor to junior faculty interested in publication process (two hour session).
Manuscript Reader
Palgrave Macmillan (2003, 2005), PMLA (2005), National Women’s Studies Journal (2003), Wayne State University Press (2001), ELT Press (1995-).
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
The Space Between: Society for the Study of Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 (ex-Co-President, Founding Member)
Council of Editors of Learned Journals