Curriculum Vitae

CRYSTAL CARVER VERONIE

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EDUCATION

  • 2022: Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature, The University of Southern Mississippi; Dissertation:    Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Resistive Embodiment; Committee: Dr. Emily B.      Stanback (chair), Dr. Nicolle Jordan,  Dr. Leah Pope Parker, and Dr. Alexandra Valint
  • 2018: Study Abroad, British Studies, Children’s Literature
  • 2015: Master of Arts in English, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
  • 2008: Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing, Northwestern State University of Louisiana (summa cum laude)
  • 1999: Baccalaureate of Arts in Liberal Arts with a Concentration in Humanities and Social Thought,      Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University of Louisiana (summa cum laude); Thesis:     “Mending the Sacred Hoop: A Critical Examination of Three Novels Written by Native American Women:  The Grass Dancer, Ceremony, and Love Medicine.”

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • 2023-present: Full-time Instructor of English, The University of Alabama
  • 2022-2023: Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, The University of Southern Mississippi
  • 2020-2021: Adjunct Instructor of English, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
  • 2019-2020: Adjunct Instructor of English, Louisiana Christian University
  • 2018-2019: Writing Center Tutor, Louisiana Christian University
  • 2016-2018: Teaching Assistant, University of Southern Mississippi

Guest Teaching

  • 2023: “John Donne’s Poetry,” British Literature Survey (ENG 350)
  • 2023: “Ben Jonson’s Poetry,” British Literature Survey (ENG 350)
  • 2021: “Sara Coleridge’s Illness and Disability Poetry,” British Romanticism and Modern Disability, ENG 465, The University of Southern Mississippi
  • 2016: “Nursing Ethics Lecture,” History of Nursing, Louisiana State University at Alexandria

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2008-2022: Registered Nurse (BSN), Certified in Medical-Surgical Nursing; Experience in Critical Care, Emergency, Hospice, and Medical-Surgical Nursing
  • 1999-2000: AmeriCorps VISTA worker, Wabanaki Mental Health, Bangor, Maine and Native Youth Initiative, Old Town, Maine; compiled a directory of Mental Health Resources; wrote a successful grant for $3500.

AWARDS

Research Awards

  • 2024: Coleridge Summer Conference Travel Award, Grasmere, UK, The University of Alabama, International Capstone
  • 2023: International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Bursary, Rome, Italy
  • 2022: Coleridge Summer Conference Bursary, Kilve, Somerset, UK, Friends of Coleridge and Charles Lamb
  • 2020-2021: Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin
  • 2020: Coleridge Summer Conference Bursary, Keswick, Cumbria, UK, Friends of Coleridge and Charles Lamb [canceled due to pandemic]
  • 2019: Graduate Competitive Travel Award, Graduate School, The University of Southern Mississippi
  • 2018: Howard Wilson and Helen Bahr Research Award, College of Arts and Letters, The University of Southern Mississippi

Essay Awards

  • 2018: Kathanne W. Greene Paper Award, Committee on Services and Resources for Women, The University of Southern Mississippi
  • 2018: Linwood E. Orange British Literature Scholarship, College of Arts and Letters, The University of Southern Mississippi

Study Abroad Scholarship

  • 2018: Frances and Phil Sudduth British Studies Program Scholarship, The University of Southern Mississippi

Other Awards

  • 2000: AmeriCorps VISTA Award, $5000, Corporation for National and Community Service
  • 1995-1999: Presidential Excellence Scholarship, Northwestern State University of Louisiana

PUBLICATIONS

Chapter 

  • “Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda,” Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression, edited by Kathryn Ready and David Sigler. Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp. 106-125.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “‘When My Hands Are Empty / I Will Be Full’: Visualizing Two-Spirit Bodies in Chrystos’s Not    Vanishing,” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2019, pp. 83-114.
  • “Maternal-Child Bonds and Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing,” Essays in Romanticism, vol. 29, no. 2, 2022, pp. 169-185.

Digital Publication

Chapter-in Progress

  • “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Resistive Embodiment” for “Resilience and Resistance: Embracing Disability Narratives in 19th-Century British Fiction”, edited by Sara Dorsten, Vernon Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • April 2024: “find your kulture & your spirituality in our mutual history”: Chrystos’s Fugitive Colors and Being a Proper Ally,” Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL) Virtual Conference: “Archives and Kinships: Growing Connections in Indigenous Literary Studies”
  • July 2023: “Eighteenth-Century Medical Texts and Sara Coleridge: A Case Study,” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), (Rome, Italy)
  • April 2023: “Impaired Mobility: Sara Coleridge’s Phantasmion and (Dis)ability,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS): “Nineteenth-Century Movement(s),” (Knoxville, TN)
  • April 2023: “Beyond Chrystos’s Not Vanishing and Survivance: Healing through the Erotic,” 2023 ASAIL Virtual Conference, (Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures)
  • March 2023: “Wuthering Heights and Medical Noncompliance: Considerations for Empathetic Engagement,” 2023 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference: “Mobilizing Selves, Transforming Structures,” (Cleveland, OH)
  • July 2022: “Sara Coleridge, Illness, and the Embodied Imagination,” Friends of Coleridge Summer Conference 2022, (Kilve Court, Somerset, UK)
  • June 2022: “Nature and the Ill Child in Sara Coleridge’s Phantasmion,” Children’s Literature Association (ChLA): “City in a Forest,” (Atlanta, GA)
  • May 2022: “Sara Coleridge, Medical Men, and Advice Manuals for Early Child Care,” British Women Writers Conference (BWWC): “Borders,” (Waco, TX)
  • February 2022: “Reading Wuthering Heights in the Age of COVID: The ‘Naughty’ Child and Fears of Contagion,” 2022 English Graduate Organization Conference: “The Company We Keep: (Re)Conceptions of Community,” (Hattiesburg, MS)
  • October 2021: “‘Looking for the Worms’: Resistive Embodiment in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh,” Victorians Institute Conference: “Refractions / Reflections: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing,” (Charlotte, NC)
  • October 2021: “Obstetrics, Bonds, and Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing,” International Conference on Romanticism: “Bonds,” (Charleston, SC)
  • Aug. 2021: “Sara Coleridge and Disability Studies,” British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS): “Romantic Disconnections/Reconnections,” (International Digital Conference, BARS)
  • June 2021: “Resistive Embodiment and Imagination in Sara Coleridge’s Phantasmion,” Children’s Literature Association Conference (ChLA): “The Arcade,” (Emory, Georgia Tech and SCAD, Atlanta, GA)
  • Aug. 2020: “Empirical Medicine and Resistive Embodiment,” Distance Conference 2020: International Postgraduate Conference (Virtual), (Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (CECS), University of York and Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture (ERCC), University of Melbourne)
  • July 2020: “Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing,” Coleridge Summer Conference, (Friends of Coleridge, Keswick, Cumbria, UK) [canceled, owing to the Coronavirus pandemic]
  • Mar. 2020: “Gender, Subjectivity, and Narrative Power in Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh,” International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), (Mississippi State University, University of New Orleans, and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana)
  • Feb. 2020: “Resistive Embodiment and Feminine Subjectivity in Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh,” English Graduate Conference, (The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
  • Aug. 2019: “Subverting the Medical Gaze: Vision and Gender in Mary Shelley’s Stories about Reanimated Men,” 2019, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference (NASSR), (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)
  • Apr. 2019: “Scientific Vision and Narrative Power in Mary Shelley’s Stories about Reanimated Men,” 2019, British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama)
  • Mar. 2019: “Turning the Medical Gaze: Visualizing Rochester’s Pathology in Jane Eyre,” 2019, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS), (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas)
  • Oct. 2018: “‘Devoured in the Bud’: Margaret Fuller’s Aesthetics and Health,” 2018, International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), (Clemson University, Greenville, South Carolina)
  • Sept. 2018: “Resisting Medical Authority: Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions as a Pathography of Addiction,” “Resistance in the Spirit of Romanticism” Conference, (University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado)
  • May 2018: “‘When my hands are empty / I will be full’: Rhetorical Erasure and Chrystos’s Not Vanishing,” MELUS Conference, (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada)
  • Dec. 2017: “Dangerous Confessions: Thomas De Quincey’s Narrative as a Pathography of Addiction,” Romanticism Conference, (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
  • Oct. 2017: “‘I am faultering, sinking on my way’: Sara Coleridge’s Poems as Illness Narrative,” International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), (University of Texas, El Paso, Texas)
  • Oct. 2017: “‘When Who Can Uncreate Thee Thou Shalt Know’: Divine Violence in Paradise Lost,” The Conference on John Milton, (University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama)
  • Sept. 2015: “‘Cowboys’ and ‘Cowgirls’: Horseback Riding and Community Identity in Ruby, Louisiana,” Louisiana Studies Conference, (Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, Louisiana)
  • Mar. 2015: “Bringing the Rain: From Sand Creek and Indigenous-American Identity,” 2015, Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, (The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

  • 2023: Panel Moderator, “Antiquities, Archives, and Architecture,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
  • 2023: Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Poetic Hybridity, 2023 ASAIL Virtual Conference
  • 2022: Panel Moderator, “Communing with the Classics: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Intertextuality,” British Women Writers Conference
  • 2021: Panel Moderator, “Perceiving Bodies,” Victorians Institute Conference
  • 2021: Roundtable Organizer and Moderator, “Romanticism, Disability, and Intersubjectivity,” International Conference on Romanticism
  • 2019: Panel Moderator, BWWC
  • 2018: Panel Moderator, English Graduate Organization Conference

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023-2024: Instructor of Record (Full-time Instructor) at The University of Alabama

  • EN102: English Composition
  • EN381: Science Writing
  • EN206: English Literature II (1800-present)
  • EN311: Special Topics–Native American Literature
  • UH401: Senior Capstone: “Signature Work”

2022-2023: Instructor of Record (Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor) at The University of Southern Mississippi:

  • ENG 102: English Composition II
  • ENG 333: Technical Writing
  • ENG 203: World Literature
  • ENG 100E: English Composition

2020-2021: Instructor of Record (Adjunct Instructor of English) at Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts:

  • EN110: Introduction to Writing and Literature (year-long course)

2018-2020: Instructor of Record (Adjunct Instructor) at Louisiana College:

  • EN091: English Fundamentals
  • EN101: English Composition I
  • Writing Center Tutor at Louisiana College

2016-2018: Instructor of Record (Teaching Assistant) at University of Southern Mississippi:

  • ENG 99E: Writing Studio Component for Composition I Expanded
  • ENG 101: English Composition I
  • ENG 102: English Composition II
  • ENG 203: World Literature

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Friends of Coleridge
  • British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
  • North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
  • British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
  • International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
  • Victorians Institute and Journal (VIJ)
  • Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)
  • International Society for the Study of the Narrative (ISSN)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Sigma Tau Delta—International English Honor Society