Department of English, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
e-mail: mgould[at]usf.edu

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• Ph.D. in English, 2006, University of Iowa.
• M.A. in Southern Studies, 2001, University of Mississippi, Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• M.A. in English, 1998, University of Arkansas.
• B.A. in English, 1994, Tulane University.

• Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida, 2012-.
• Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida, 2006-12.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa, 2005-06.

• Ninenteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies. New York: Routledge, 2011.

• "Emblems of Authority in The Admirable Crichton." Modern Drama 54.2 (Summer 2011): 141-60.
• "Theatre." Dickens in Context. Ed. Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux. Cambridge UP, 2011.
• "Understanding the Literary Theme Park: Dickens World as Adaptation." With Rebecca Mitchell (University of Texas-Pan American). Neo-Victorian Studies 3.2 (2010): 145-71.
• "It Was the Worst of Times: A Visit to Dickens World. " With Rebecca Mitchell (University of Texas-Pan American). Victorian Literature and Culture 38.1 (Fall 2010): 285-316.
• "Insurrection and Integration: The Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities." In Gilles Teuile, ed. "Victorian Representations of War." Special issue of Cahiers Victoriens et Eduoardiens 66 ( Nov. 2007): 391-414.
• "Flirting with Disaster: Sexual Play in the Victorian Periodical." Victorian Periodicals Review 87.3 (Fall 2004): 273-88. (Winner of the VanArsdel Prize).
• "Anticipation, Transformation, Accommodation: The Great Exhibition on the London Stage." Victorian Review 29.2 (Winter 2003): 19-39.

• "Copperfield, Stage Sensation" (Under Review).

• “Staging the Page: Theatrical Networks of Textual Transmission.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Madison, WI. September 2012.

• Invited Paper: "Robinson Redux." Conference on Province, Nation and Empire on the Victorian Stage. University of Birmingham (UK). July 2012.
• "Filthy Workshops and Genesis Devices: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Adaptation." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). Lexington, KY. March 2012.
• "Play, Pip: Dramatizing Great Expectations." North American Victorian Studies Association, Nashville, TN. November 2011. Also presented at "The Other Dickens" Conference. Portsmouth (UK). July 2012.
• Invited Lecture: "Workshop of Filthy Creation: Frankenstein, Adaptation, and Homoeroticism." University of South Florida Honors College. October 2010.
• "Recasting Copperfield." Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference (London). July 2010.
• Round Table Presentation: "Teaching Empire." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) (Austin, TX). March 2010.
• "Teaching (through) Adaptation." American Comparative Literature Association (New Orleans, LA). April 2010.
• Invited Lecture: "Imperial Theatrics." Humanities Institute, University of South Florida. October 2009.
• Invited Lecture: "Copperfield, the Stage Sensation." Dickens Universe (Santa Cruz, CA). August 2009.
• "Victorian Pachydrama: Elephants and the Performance of Empire." Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages, and Literatures (Exeter, England). April 2009. Also presented at Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (Tampa, FL). April 2010.
• "Jane Eyre, Revisioned." British Women Writers Conference (Iowa City, IA). April 2009.
• "Narrative Spaces and the Literary Theme Park: The Case of Dickens World." American Comparative Literature Association (Cambridge, MA). March 2009.
• "Around the World in 80 Plays: Drama and Empire in the Nineteenth Century." Midwest Victorian Studies Association (Chicago, IL). April 2005.
• "Staging the Mutiny; Performing the Nation." Midwest MLA Annual Convention (St. Louis, MO). November 2004.
• Invited Panel Presentation: "Travel Grants and Research Fellowships." Midwestern Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Chicago, IL). November 2003.
• "Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century." Victorians Institute Conference (Bowling Green, KY). 2003. Also presented at the Dickens Universe (Santa Cruz, CA). August 2003.
• "'Rational, national show!': The Theatrical Career of the Great Exhibition." Midwest Victorian Studies Association (Chicago, IL). April 2003.
• "A Novel Victory: British Language and Literature as Tools of Imperial Conquest in Victorian Drama." South Central MLA (Austin, TX). 2002.
• "Flirting with Disaster: Sexual Play in the Victorian Periodical." Dickens Project Winter Conference (University of California at Riverside). February 2002.

External

• Director: "Great Adaptations: Teaching Dickens through Adaptation." NEH Summer Seminar for High School Teachers. Sponsored by the Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz. July 2011.
• Participant: "Reading Jude the Obscure." National Humanities Center Summer Institute in Literary Studies. Kate Flint, moderator. July 2010.
• Participant: NEH Summer Seminar, "Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations." Hillary Schor and Paul Saint-Amour, moderators. University of California, Santa Cruz. July 2007.
• Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship. 2007.
• Research Award, The Society for Theatre Research. 2003.
• Dissertation Research Fellowship, American Society for Theatre Research. 2003.
• Andrew W. Mellon Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Council for European Studies. 2002.
• Lilly Library Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship. 2002.
• Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research. 2002.

Internal

• University of South Florida Humanities Institute Summer Fellowship. 2013.
• University of South Florida Proposal Enhancement Grant. 2012.
• University of South Florida Matching International Travel Grant. 2012.
• University of South Florida Creative Scholarship Grant. Summer 2011.
• University of South Florida New Researcher Grant. Summer 2008.
• University of South Florida Humanities Institute Summer Fellowship. 2007.
• University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Award. 2006.
• University of Iowa Seashore Dissertation Fellowship. 2004-05.
• University of Iowa Department of English Frederick F. Seely Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for Teaching and Research. 2002-03.
• T. Anne Cleary Fellowship for International Research (University of Iowa). 2003.
• Stanley Graduate Fellowship for Research Abroad (University of Iowa). 2002.
• University of Iowa Student Government Research Grant. 2002.

• Outstanding Research Achievement Award, University of South Florida. 2011.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Florida. 2010.
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association William and Mary Burgan Prize for the Outstanding Presentation by a Graduate Student. 2005.
• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals VanArsdel Prize. 2003.
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association William and Mary Burgan Prize for the Outstanding Presentation by a Graduate Student. 2003.

Graduate Courses

• Introduction to Graduate Studies
• Survey of Victorian Prose, Poetry, and Plays
• Victorian Literature and Empire (2006), (2011)
• Victorian Adaptations
• Sensational Fictions
• Victorian Fiction and Periodicals

Undergraduate Courses in British Literature

• Victorian Adaptations (Honors) (2009), (2010)
• The Victorian Novel (2007), (2009), (2010), (2011), (2012)
• Victorian Fiction and Periodicals
• Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy
• British Literature, 1780-1900
• Family, Law, and Society in Dickens and Eliot
• Selected British Authors: Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster
• Introduction to Drama: British Comedy, Medieval to Modern
• Literature and Culture of the Nineteenth Century: Theatricality and Empire

Undergraduate Courses in American Literature

• Literature of the American South

Undergraduate Composition Courses

• Interpretation of Literature
• Rhetoric I
• Rhetoric II
• Accelerated Rhetoric
• Introduction to Composition
• Writing about Literature

• Reviewer for Modern Drama and Ninenteenth-Century Contexts.
• Manuscript Review for Continuum Press. 2011.
• Panel Moderator, "Adapting Dickens." MLA Annual Convention (Los Angeles, CA). January 2010.
• Seminar Co-Leader (with Rebecca Mitchell, University of Texas-Pan American, and Crisi Benford, Stanford University), "Nineteenth-Century Afterlives." American Comparative Literature Association (New Orleans, LA). April 2010.
• Moderator, Panel on Victorian religion. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference (University of Iowa). March 2004.
• Manuscript review for Broadview Press. 2005.
• Cruise Director (Social Activities Coordinator). The Dickens Universe (University of California at Santa Cruz). July 2003.
• Graduate discussion leader and conference participant. The Dickens Universe (University of California at Santa Cruz). July 2001 and July 2002.

Service to the University of South Florida

• Chair: School of Humanities Undergraduate Committee, College of Arts and Sciences. 2013-.
• Member: School of Humanities Undergraduate Committeel, College of Arts and Sciences. 2011-2013.
• Member: General Education Committee. 2010-2013.
• Elected member: Faculty Senate. 2010-2013.
• Member: Review Committee, Graduate Student Teaching Award. 2012.
• Member: Internal Faculty Awards Review Committee. Spring 2009.
• Member: Internal Faculty Awards Review Committe. Fall 2006-Fall 2007.

Service to the Department of English, University of South Florida

• Acting Director of Graduate Studies. Fall 2013.
• Director of Undergraduate Studies. 2011-2015.
• Member: Literature Program Committee. 2006-
• Member: Student Grievance Committee. 2009-2011.
• Member: Department Chair Search Committee. 2010-2011.
• Chair: Graduate Placement Committee. 2008-2011.
• Chair: Department Website Redesign. 2006-2009.

Service to the University of Iowa

• Invited speaker: “Success in Today’s Classroom,” an orientation seminar for First-Year students. July 2004.
• Participant: AGSE (University of Iowa Association of Graduate Students in English) forum on conference presentations. November 2002.
• Participant: Panel discussion of comprehensive exams for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class. September 2002.
• Member: Graduate Admissions Review Committee. January 2002.
• Participant: Panel discussion of comprehensive exams for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class. November 2001.
• Participant: Panel discussion of candidacy procedures. Association of Graduate Students in English. October 2001.
• Participant: Panel discussion of the graduate admissions process for undergraduate majors. February 1999.

• Co-Director (with Pat Rogers): Jude Wright, “Of That Transfigured World”: Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature. Defended December 2012.
• Co-Director (with Pat Rogers): Joseph Good, The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction. Defended April 2012.
• Member: Gary Simons, “Show me the Money!”: A Pecuniary Explication of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Critical Journalism. Pat Rogers, director. Defended April 2011.
• Co-Director (with William H. Scheurle): Michelle Lattanzio, Enclosure, Transformation, Emergence: Space and the Construction of Gender Roles in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë. Defended April 2010.
• Co-Director (with Pat Rogers): Lisa Hoffman-Reyes: Radically Beautiful: Victorian Bodies of Expression. Pat Rogers, co-director. To be defended Fall 2013.
  

• Director: Jennifer Yirinec. MA Portfolio. Completed Spring 2012.
• Member: Audrey Grounds. MA Thesis. Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Completed Fall 2011.
• Director: Dorinda Davis. MA Thesis. Completed Spring 2011.
• Director: Haley Anderson. MA Thesis. Completed Summer 2010.