Vita
Amanda L. French
1 Georgia Ct.
Rexford, NY 12148
amanda@amandafrench.net
720-530-7515
http://twitter.com/amandafrench
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2004.
M.A. in English Language and Literature, concentration in Women’s Studies, University of Virginia, 1995.
B.A. in English, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992, cum laude.
DISSERTATION
Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle. Committee: Stephen Cushman (director), Mark Edmundson, Lisa Russ Spaar, Mary McKinley.
This extensively researched literary history of the villanelle argues that even fixed poetic forms have remarkably fluid rules and meanings. Central to the work is the unexpected revelation that the villanelle is not a French Renaissance form, as it is now commonly said to be; the villanelle form was born in 1844 and has been practiced almost exclusively in English. Discussing poetry in French and English from the Renaissance to the Victorian period to the twenty-first century, from Jean Passerat to Edmund Gosse to Elizabeth Bishop and beyond, this study is a geneaology of the past lives of a highly contemporary poetic form.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Research Scholar / Digital Curriculum Specialist, New York University, 2008-present.
Teaching Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, 2006-2007.
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists, North Carolina State University, 2004-2006.
Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia, 1996-2000.
PUBLICATIONS
Edmund Gosse and the Stubborn Villanelle Blunder, Victorian Poetry, forthcoming Fall 2010.
“Rondeau,” “Rondel,” “Roundel,” “Villanelle,” and other entries, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th edn., eds. Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, forthcoming.
The First Villanelle: A New Translation of Jean Passerat’s J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle (1574), Meridian 12 (Fall/Winter 2003): 30-37.
A Strangely Useless Thing: Iseult Gonne and Yeats, Yeats Eliot Review: A Journal of Criticism and Scholarship, 19:2 (2002 Aug): 13-24.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Wosh, Peter and Amanda French, “Digital History Across the Curriculum,” Digital Humanities (ACH/ALLC), College Park, MD, June 2009.
“Basic Digital Skills for Historians,” American Association for History and Computing Annual Conference, Fairfax, VA, April 2009.
“From Horse and Buggy to Hovercraft: My Research Before and After Google Book Search,” SHARP Special Session, “The Library of Google: Researching Scanned Books,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 2008.
Kendall, Tyler and Amanda French. Digital Audio Archives, Computer-Enhanced Transcripts, and New Methods in Sociolinguistic Analysis, Digital Humanities (ACH/ALLC), Paris, France, July 2006. Abstract reprinted in conference proceedings pp. 110-112.
Hybrid Cyber-Librarians: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship, Panel, Association for Computers and the Humanities / Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Annual Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2005.
The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship, Roundtable, Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Conference, 2005.
The Provincial Patriotism of In Flanders Fields, South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Houston, TX, 2005.
The Villanelle 1574-2005, Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2005.
Return to Villanelle of the Temptress, North American James Joyce Conference, Ithaca, NY, 2005.
Othering Poetic Form Through Translation, American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2004.
TEACHING INTERESTS
English poetry and poetic form, 19th-century British literature, digital humanities, scholarly research methods.
COURSES TAUGHT
Creating Digital History, graduate seminar, New York University, fall 2009.
The Victorian Period, North Carolina State University, spring 2007.
Literary Scandals and Controversies, North Carolina State University, spring 2007.
Victorian Poetry and Critical Prose, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.
Bibliography and Methodology, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.
History of English Literature II, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.
Academic Research Strategies and Contexts, North Carolina State University, spring 2005, spring 2006, and spring 2007.
Masterpieces of English Literature II: Blake to Woolf, University of Virginia, spring 2000.
Advanced Academic Writing: Analyzing Popular Culture, University of Virginia, spring 2000.
Studies in Poetry, University of Virginia, spring 1999.
Introduction to Composition, University of Virginia, spring 1998, spring 1996, and fall 1995.
Special Topics in Literature: Growing Up in Fiction, spring 1997.
History of Literature in English I, II, and III; fall 1996, spring 1998, fall 1998, and fall 1999.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Project Manager, North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, North Carolina State University, 2005-2006.
Staff Member, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, 2003-2004.
Research Assistant, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive: A Hypermedia Research Archive, ed. Jerome McGann, 1998-1999.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Coordinator of E-learning, Emory University Libraries, 2007-2008.
Teaching + Technology Support Partner, University of Virginia, 2001-2004.
Creator, Erotic Poetry Festival, Charlottesville, VA, 1998-2004.
Instructor, Medical Academic Advancement Program, University of Virginia, 2000-2003.
Editorial Assistant, Suicide and Law Enforcement, ed. Janet I. Warren (Quantico, VA: FBI, 2002), 2000.
Research Assistant, Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind, ed. Kathryn Neeley (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001), 1996-1997.
Instructor, Kaplan Educational Center, Charlottesville, VA, 1995-1996.
HONORS AND AWARDS
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists, 2004-2006.
University of Virginia Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching Semi-Finalist, 2000.
Academy of American Poets University and College Prize, 1997.
University of Virginia President’s Fellowship, 1995-1997.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
iTunes U Content Coordinator, Emory University Libraries, 2007-2008.
Digital Repository Committee, North Carolina State University Libraries, 2004-2006.
Web Site Redesign Committee, North Carolina State University Libraries, 2004-2005.
Student Member, University Council on Information Technology, University of Virginia, 2002-2004.
President, Graduate Student Council, University of Virginia, 1998-1999.
Secretary, Graduate Student Council, University of Virginia, 1997-1998.
Vice-President, Graduate English Student Association, University of Virginia, 1997-1998.
English Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, University of Virginia, 1996-1998.
LANGUAGES AND SKILLS
Spoken and written French (translation capability); some German, Spanish, and Italian.
(X)HTML and CSS; SGML, XML, XSLT; some JavaScript and PHP.
UNIX, Mac, and Windows; Microsoft Office and iLife.
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Fireworks.
Audacity, Peak, Morae, Camstudio.
WordPress, Omeka, MIT Simile tools, Drupal.
WebCT, Blackboard, EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, blogs, wikis, podcasts, research databases.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association; Association for Computers and the Humanities; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.
RECOMMENDERS
Peter J. Wosh, Associate Professor of History and Archives Program Director, New York University.
Antony Harrison, Professor of English and English Department Head, North Carolina State University.
Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University Libraries.
Stephen Cushman, Robert C. Taylor Professor, University of Virginia.
Jerome J. McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor, University of Virginia.
