Ann-Barbara Graff
D. G. Rossetti, Pandora's Box
- Fields of Study/Areas of Interest
Victorian Literature, Politics and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century, Literature/Science, Gender Studies, Constructions of Empire, Curriculum Development, History and Philosophy of Education
Authors and Subjects of Scholarly Interest:
- Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, George Meredith, Olive Schreiner
- Edith Wharton, Gore Vidal, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Peter Hoeg
- Eugene O'Neill, Dion Boucicault, Lillian Hellman, George Bernard Shaw
- Walter Bagehot, Frances Power Cobbe, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau
- degeneration and dissent; history and historiography
PhD.
- Working Title: Displacement and Cultural Dislocation: Fiction(s)
of Empire, 1850-1900.
Supervisor: Mary Nyquist.
Department of English, University of Toronto.
Expected completion Spring 1999.
M.A.
- Victorian Literature and drama.
Thesis: Matthew Arnold's Middle-Class Audience and Rhetoric.
Department of English, University of Toronto, 1992.
B.A.
- Physics, Politics and the Selling of Figs: Walter Bagehot and the Metapolitics of Evolutionism.
Nineteenth Century Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. April 1998.
- England in the East: Charles Dilke's Historiography and the Imag(in)ing of India.
Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Conference, Toronto, ON. April 1998.
- 'Righting Evolution: Victorian Women's Responses to Darwin. MACBS 1997, New York, NY. April, 1997.
- 'Administrative Nihilism': The Evolution of Ethics in Utopian
(Science) Fiction After Darwin.
Literature and Ethics Conference, University of Wales at Aberystywth, UK. July, 1996.
- England in the East: Charles Dilke's Historiography and the Imagining of India.
NYU Graduate Student Conference, New York, NY. February 1996.
- 'Administrative Nihilism': The Evolution of Ethics in Utopian
Fiction After Darwin.
20th Annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, CAN.
October, 1995.
- Gender, Race and Resistance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Kate
Chopin.
The Fourth International Kate Chopin Conference, Natchitoches, LA.
April, 1995.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Liberating or Colonizing Narrative? The
Liberian Solution
The Canadian Association of American Studies Conference, Ottawa, CAN.
November, 1994.
1992-present (University of Toronto)
- Teaching Assistantships, University of Toronto
1998-99 - Writing Workshop -- Intensive first year course.
1997-98 - Fiction, 1830-1900 -- Third year intensive course.
1996/97 - Modern Fiction, 1900-1960 -- Third year intensive study course.
1995/96 - Literature for Our Time (a survey of 20th-century literature)
Fall 1994 - Technical Writing (a required course for students in the Engineering Faculty)
1993/94 - Eighteenth-Century Literature Survey (grading)
Fall 1992 - Technical Writing (a required course for students in the Engineering Faculty)
1992-94 (Sheridan College)
- Professor (part-time), Sheridan College (Oakville and Burlington Campuses)
Summer 1994 - Constructing Gender and Race In Story, Film and Song
Spring 1993 - ICE: Introduction to College English
Fall 1992 - ICE: Introduction to College English
Research Assistant to Ronald Baecker,
Department of Computer Science.
Administrative Director, Knowledge Media Design Institite.
- Authored:
A Case for Opportunities: A Proposal for an Undergraduate Program in KMD. August 1998
A Technical Writing Course for Computer Science Specialists. September 1995.
Report on Language Facility and Computer Specialists. May 1995.
- Research assistant:
Baecker, R.M., Grudin, J., Buxton, W.A., Greenberg, S.Readings in
Human-Computer Interaction: Towards the Year 2000, Second Edition
(1995).
- Conference coordinator:
KMDI Informal Seminar Series
The Internet: Beyond the Year 2000.
Program Committee: Ronald Baecker, Mark Chignell, Calvin Gotlieb, Alberto Mendelzon,
Lee Sproull. Spring 1996.
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