Department of Literature and Languages

Catherine Ross - Curriculum Vitae

Catherine Elizabeth Ross, PhD.

Associate Professor of English

The University of Texas at Tyler

Department of Literature and Languages

3900 University Blvd.

Tyler, Texas 75799

Phone (903) 566-7275

Fax: (903) 565-5700

Catherine_Ross@uttyler.edu

 

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, British Literature

The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Major Concentration: The Romantic Period

Minor Concentrations: Science and Literature, Rhetoric

Dissertation: Rivals in the Public Sphere: Humphry Davy and Romantic Poets

Dissertation Committee Chair:

Dr. Theresa M. Kelley

 

Honors:

2010 Winner, Outstanding Faculty Award, Alphi Chi, UTT

NEH Summer Seminar Grant, "The Aesthetics of British Romanticism"

2006 Nominee, Piper-White Fellowship Award, UT Tyler

2004 Research & Travel Grant, CAS, UTT; Nominee, UT Tyler Excellence in Teaching Award.

2002 Nominee, UTT Faculty Teaching Award

2001 Winner, Outstanding Faculty Award, Alpha Chi, UTT

2000 Junior Faculty Summer Research and Writing Grant, UTT

1999 Winner, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize, The University of Texas at Austin. Nominee of University of Texas at Austin for CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award

1999 Winner, travel stipend, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, Illinois.

 

Teaching Experience:

2003–Present Associate Professor of English, UT Tyler

1998-2003 Assistant Professor of English, UT Tyler h

1992-1997 Assistant Instructor of English, UT Austin

1990-1992 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, UT Austin

1973-1990 English teacher, grades 7-12, St. Mark's School, Hockaday School,

Episcopal School of Dallas, University Liggett School

 

University Courses Taught:

ENGL 306 Rhetoric and Composition (UT Austin)

ENGL 316 British Literature Survey (UT Austin)

UNIV 1300 Freshman Seminar (UT Tyler)

ENGL 1301 Grammar and Composition I (UT Tyler)

ENGL 1302 Grammar and Composition II (UT Tyler)

HNRS 1352 World, Text, and Image II

ENGL 2310 Literature of Science and Medicine

ENGL 2323 English Lit from 1780 to the Present

ENGL 3308 Writing Literary Analysis and Interpretation

ENGL 3390 Advanced Composition

ENGL 4320 The Romantic Period

ENGL 4325 The Victorian Period

ENGL 4335 The English Novel

ENGL 4365 19th-Century British Women’s Writing

ENGL 4380 Aristotle to Burke: The History of Rhetoric

ENGL 4397 Senior Seminar: Wordsworth and Coleridge

ENGL 4397 Senior Seminar: Constructions of Masculinity in 19th-Century British Fiction

ENGL 4397 Senior Seminar: Poetry and Prosody

ENGL 5323 Studies in Romantic Literature

ENGL 5325 Studies in Victorian Literature

ENGL 5386 Studies in the History of Rhetoric

ENGL 5390 Studies in Rhetoric and Composition

ENGL 5395 Thesis supervision

ENGL 5396 Thesis director

 

Refereed Publications (selected):

“Assessing the Integration of Embedded Metacognitive Strategies in College Subjects for Improved Learning Outcomes: A New Model of Learning Activity,” w/ Katherine Pang. The Journal of Effective Teaching, 10(1). Spring 2010

Review: Jackson, Noel. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (CUP, 2008). The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation. Winter 2009

“‘Restore me to Reality’: Revisiting Coleridge’s Figure of ‘My Pensive Sara’.” The Coleridge Bulletin. New Series 24 (NS). Winter 2005. 74-82.

“ ‘Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes’: The Professional Rivalry of Humphry Davy and William Wordsworth,” Chapter 1 in Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History. Ed. Noah I. Heringman (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003/2004).

“How the public successes of a poetic scientist—Humphry Davy (1778-1829)—changed English literature,” in Proceedings of the International Society for the History of Anesthesia, Vol. XXX, Excerpta Medica International Congress Series (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, Spring 2003).

“Coleridge’s ‘The Eolian Harp’.” The Explicator, Fall 2002. 17-20.

“Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’,” The Explicator, Vol. 60, No. 2, Winter 2001. 68-72.

“ ‘Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes’: Humphry Davy and Romantic Poets.” Abstract in The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings. Vol. 25, 2000.

 

Scholarly Work in Progress:

Romantic Polymathy. Book project

Invited Manuscript Reviews:

For Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Poetic Knowing. (2007)

For the English Group, Longman Publishers, New York/London: Word Play: Argument and Research in the Academy (2004), Everyday Arguments (2003), Composing Ourselves: Reading and Writing in the Age of the Image (2002), Academic Genres: A Student’s Guide to Learning and Writing in College (2001)

For McGraw-Hill, New York: Exploring Community (2002), Language and Power (2002), The Process Reader (2002)

 

Conferences:

2009 Lily Conference Presenter: Activity-Based Learning

2007 Lily Conference Presenter: “Using the Progymnasmata and Other Classical Pedagogies in Freshman Writing Classes”

2004: Invited Presenter: “’Restore me to reality’: Revisiting the Figure of ‘My pensive Sara’.” Coleridge Conference. TCTELA 39th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas. “Classical Rhetoric : A Forgotten Tool for English Teachers” (see attached emails from audience members).

2003: Mystery and Meaning in the Arts. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Panel organizer: “Victorian Doubt.” Presenter: “Carlyle’s Baphometic Fire Baptism”

2002: Local Colors: Contexualizing Teaching, Reading, and Writing. English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities. Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pa. Paper: “The Poetry Project: teaching students who ‘hate’ poetry." Craft, Critique, Culture. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Paper: “ ‘The knowledge of both the Poet and the Man of Science is pleasure’: Romantic Polymathy and Romantic Rhetoric." Panel Moderator for “Writing in the Sciences.”

2001 Fifth International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia. School of Medicine, The University of Santiago, Santiago, Spain. Invited plenary speaker for session on “Anesthesia and the Arts.” Paper: “How the public successes of a poetic scientist —Humphry Davy (1778-1829)—changed English literature.”

2000 Centers and Peripheries, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Ct. Panel moderator: “Cultivating Taste.”

1999 Davy Bicentenary Meeting. Joint meeting of the History of Anaesthesia Society, UK, and the Anesthesia History Association, US, Bristol University, Bristol, England. “ ‘Twin Labourers and Heirs of the Same Hopes’: Humphry Davy and Romantic Poets.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Ga. Panel: “Public Spheres Made Visible in the Classroom and Beyond.” Paper: “Reading for Publics: Humphry Davy and Romantic Poets”

1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, Wisc. Panel: “Interrogating the Boundaries Between Writers and Authors: Rhetorical Approaches to Literature in the Writing Class.” Paper: “Observations of a Double Agent: Topics Courses, Some Philosophical and Practical Concerns.”

1995 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C. Panel: “Lived Literacies.” Paper: “Teaching the Language of Science: Contributions of a 19th-century Natural Philosopher to 20th-century Discussions of Literacy, Pedagogy, and Employment.”

 

Service:

University Committees and Service

Co-editor of university Strategic Plan (2009)

SACS Subcommittee on Financial Responsibility (1999)

University Hearing Committee, elected (2004-2006)

Core Curriculum Committee (2000-2001, Vice Chair; 2002)

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2001-2004, Chair 2002-3)

.Library Council 2005-2007

Admissions/Recruitment Committee 2005-2007

Graduation and Retention Task Force 2007-2008

Search committee first NCAA soccer coaches

Mentor, advisor to incoming freshmen

College Committees and Service

Invited member for tenure and third-year review committees for the Art Dept and Speech Communication Dept

Elected member, CAS Tenure and Promotion Committee (2005-2007)

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee (2006-2007)

Theater Program Review Committee (2005-2006)

Long-Range Planning Subcommittee on Teaching

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Delegate to NEH Technical Assistance Workshop Workshop IN Washington, D.C

Leader NEH Grant workshop for CAS faculty

Faculty Senate Committees and Service

Senator, At Large, (2009-201)

Alternate Senator for College of Liberal Arts (1999-2000)

Special Task Force on the Future of the University, Chairperson (2006)

Student Affairs Committee (2003)

Organizer, Faculty Discussion Group for Women’s Ways of Knowing

Dept. of Literature and Languages

Chair, Curriculum Committee (2009 to the preseent)

Member, Writing Committee, Graduate Committee (2009-to the present)

Acting Director, UTT Writing Center (January to June 2009)

Acting Chair, Dept. of Literature and Languages (summer 2006, 2008)

Undergraduate English Advisor (1999-2003; 2008-present)

Graduate Advisor (2003-2008);

Founder, English Graduate Students’ Association

Theater Studies Committee, chair (2005-2006)

Member Third Year Review Committees and Post Tenure Review Committee

Member Freshman Composition Committee

Member Hamm Chair committee

Service to the Community

Invited commentator, Channel 56, 5 O’Clock News, Jan 20, 2008

Editor of on-line newsletter “Where’s the Outrage” created by trauma surgeon, Dr. Errington Thompson (2003-2005)

Chair, Subcommittee on Adult Education, First

Presbyterian Church, Tyler; organized First annual Distinguished Preacher event

Frankenstein Tour scholar for Bullard Community Library Grant

Writing, editorial consultant for Executive Director of PATH

 

Professional Organizations:

Modern Language Association

Wordsworth Circle

North Atlantic Society for the Study of Romanticism

Friends of Coleridge Society

NAVSA