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

• Ph.D. in English, 2006, University of Iowa
  • Dissertation: Role Britannia: Theatricality and Empire in the Victorian Period.
  • Director: Teresa Mangum
• 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

• Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida, 2006 -
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa, 2005-06

• “It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times,” with Rebecca Mitchell (Invited review under submission at Victorian Literature and Culture)
"'Please, Sir, We Wanted More': Re-Visioning Dickens World" (Rebecca Mitchell, co-author. Under review)
• "Theatre" in Sally Ledger (ed.), Dickens in Context, Cambridge UP (Forthcoming)
• "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 (VanArsdel Prize Essay)
• “‘Rational, National Show!’: The Theatrical Career of the Great Exhibition,” Victorian Review 29.2 (Winter 2003): 19-39

• “Copperfield, Stage Sensation,” Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, CA, Aug. 2009 (invited)
• “Victorian Pachydrama: Elephants and the Performance of Empire,” Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages, and Literatures, Univ. of Exeter, England, Apr. 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, Nov. 2004
• Panel presentation on travel grants and research fellowships, Midwestern Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2003 (invited)
• “Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century,” Victorians Institute Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 2003
• Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century,” Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz, CA, 2003 (invited)
• “‘Rational, national show!’: The Theatrical Career of the Great Exhibition,” Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 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, 2002

External

• 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 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, 2003
• Stanley Graduate Fellowship for Research Abroad, 2002
• Student Government Research Grant, 2002

• 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

Courses Taught

British Literature--Graduate

• Victorian Literature and Empire
• Victorian Adaptations
• Sensational Fictions

British Literature--Undergraduate

• The Victorian Novel
• 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

American Literature

• Literature of the American South

Rhetoric and Composition

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

• Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, “Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations." Schor and Paul Saint-Amour, moderators.  University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2007
• Moderator, Panel on Victorian religion, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference, University ”of Iowa, March 2004
• Manuscript review for Broadview Press (invited)
• 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

• Chair, Graduate Placement Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2008-9
• Internal Faculty Awards Reviw Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Spring 2007
• Website Redesign, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-9
• Job Search Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-7
• Literature Curriculum Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-9
  
• Internal Faculty Awards Reviw Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Fall 2006
• Invited speaker, “Success in Today’s Classroom,” an orientation seminar for First-Year students, Jul. 2004
• AGSE (Association of Graduate Students in English) forum on conference presentations, Nov. 2002
• Panel discussion of comprehensive exams for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class, Sept. 2002
• Graduate Admissions Review Committee, Jan. 2002
• Panel discussion of comprehensive exams for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class, Nov. 2001
• Panel discussion of candidacy procedures for Association of Graduate Students in English, Oct. 2001
• Panel discussion of the graduate admissions process for undergraduate majors, Feb. 1999