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1 CORIE SCHWEITZER 2100 Tannehill Drive #2097 Houston, Texas (713) EDUCATION Rice University (Houston, Texas) Master of Arts in English, May 2001 Primary Field British Victorian Literature American University (Washington, DC) Master of Arts in Literature, May 1997 Bachelor of Arts in Literature, May 1995 Minor in Communication: Film Studies PUBLICATIONS Public Good and Private Mischief: Daniel Defoe s Journal of Three Nations in A Journal of the Plague Year. Eighteenth-Century Novel 1 (2000): Publishing New Canons: The Politics Aesthetics of Recovering Texts. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 29, 4 (July 1998): TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Houston Community College, Department of English (Houston, Texas) Professor of English, 2003 present Teach at least five sections a semester Courses taught: Fundamentals of Grammar and Composition I, Fundamentals of Grammar and Composition II, Composition I, Composition II, Technical Writing, American Literature I, American Literature II, Women in Literature, Multicultural Literature, British Literature II, Film and Literature Teach traditional classroom, web-enhanced, and distance education courses Utilize Blackboard for both web-enhanced and distance education courses Assistant Chair of English, 2005 and 2007 Assisted department chair in administering a department of 20 full-time instructors, 30 adjunct instructors, four campuses, and 2,800 students at the second largest community college system in the United States Adjunct Instructor of English, Houston Community College, Department of Guided Studies (Houston, Texas) Adjunct Instructor of Reading, 2002 Course taught: Developmental Reading II Lone Star College, Department of English (Houston, Texas and Kingwood, Texas) Adjunct Instructor of English, Courses taught: Composition I and Composition II

2 University of Houston, Department of English (Houston, Texas and Clear Lake, Texas) Adjunct Instructor of English, Courses taught: Composition II and an upper-division survey of nineteenth-century European literature subtitled, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Its Aftermath University of St. Thomas, Department of English (Houston, Texas) Adjunct Instructor of English, 2001 Course taught: two sections of an American literature survey subtitled Self, Society, and Radical Individualism Rice University, Department of English (Houston, Texas) Teaching Fellow, 1999 Courses taught: a self-designed introduction to literature and literary theory course entitled Interpretations Teaching Assistant to Dr. Helena Michie, 1999 Assisted in administration of a survey of American literature, presented lectures on Elizabeth Gaskell s Mary Barton, Charles Dickens s Bleak House, and George Eliot s Middlemarch, counseled students about essays, graded and evaluated essays, conducted essay rewrite sessions Teaching Assistant to Dr. José Aranda, 1998 Assisted in administration of a survey of the British Victorian novel, presented lectures on N. Scott Momaday s House Made of Dawn, Gish Jen s Typical American, counseled students about essays, graded and evaluated essays SEL: Studies in English Literature, (Houston, Texas) Diana Hobby Editorial Fellow, Edited literary essays, proofread galleys for quarterly literary journal, formatted articles for publication, recommended submission for rejection or acceptance, designed and maintained World Wide Web page for journal San Jacinto College, Division of Language Arts (Houston, Texas) Adjunct Instructor of English, 1997 Taught developmental English American University, Department of Literature (Washington, DC) Research Assistant to Dr. Deborah Payne, Assisted in preparation of two books for publication, designed and maintained the World Wide Web page for the graduate program in Literature, and assisted graduate program director with administration duties Research Assistant to Dr. Anne Beaufort, 1996 Helped conduct a comparative study of freshmen writing programs at regional universities and assisted director of freshman writing program with administration duties Teaching Assistant to Dr. Frank Turaj, 1995 Assisted in preparation of two sections of an introductory film class, presented two lectures: Interpreting Film for Purposes of Written Analysis and The Graduate: Politics and Culture in the 1960s, counseled students about essays, graded and evaluated essays

3 HONORS AND AWARDS Title V Development Grants, for developing new distance education courses in Composition I, Composition II, British Literature, Film and Literature, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011 Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Fellowship, Rice University, Dean s Research Award Grant, supporting travel in England, Rice University School of Humanities, 1999 Diana Hobby Fellowship, SEL: Studies in English Literature , Graduate Fellowship, Rice University Department of English, Mellon Foundation Travel Grants, to support travel to literature conferences, 1996 Master s Degree awarded with Distinction, American University Department of Literature, 1997 Graduate Fellowship, American University Department of Literature, Louise M. Young Memorial Award, for Distinguished Work in Literature and Human Values at American University for senior thesis Think Visual: The Cinematic Influences of Modernist Poetry, 1995 Research Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and American University s College of Arts and Sciences, to conduct research on Asian cinema, 1994 Society of Professional Journalists First-Place Award, for Opinion Writing, 1992 Pennsylvania s Department of Human Services Community Development Grant, to support WXAC-FM s Radio Reading Service for the blind and elderly, 1991 National Council of Teachers of English Outstanding Achievement in Writing Award, for fiction and essay writing, 1990 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES Guest lecturer, Detecting Media Bias, college composition course at Houston Community College, October 2006 (professor: Randall Watson) Featured Speaker, Detecting Plagiarism Using Internet Resources, Madison High School In-Service Program, Houston, Texas, April 2003 Presenter, The Middle of the March: Progressive History in Kant, George Eliot, and Conrad, Conference on History and Literature at St. John s University in Annapolis, Maryland, October 2001 Panelist, Victorian Studies: The Cutting Edge, 2000 Dickens Universe, the Dickens Project at the University of California at Santa Cruz, August 2000 Seminar leader, Charles Dickens s Barnaby Rudge, 1999 Dickens Universe, the Dickens Project at the University of California at Santa Cruz, August 1999

4 Presenter, From Freud to Chaos: The Paradox of Control, Southwestern American Social Science Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 1999 Featured speaker, Chesterton and His Circle, Houston Chapter of Opus Dei, March 1999 Moderator, Eighteenth-century Irish Folk Songs Transformed in the Easter Rising and Beyond, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998 Presenter, Public Good and Private Mischief: Daniel Defoe s Journal of Three Nations in A Journal of the Plague Year, Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Boston, Massachusetts, December 1997 Guest instructor and lecturer, Writing a Research Essay, college writing seminar for adults returning to school and continuing their education at American University, May 1997 (professor: Frank Turaj) Presenter, Authenticity and Exploration: Robert Tressell s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Working Class Voice of Victorian England, Southeastern Modern Language Association of America Conference in Savannah, Georgia, November 1996 Presenter, The Subtle Thieves of Youth: John Milton and the Idea of Childhood in Seventeenth-Century England, Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 1996 Guest lecturer, Nathaniel Hawthorne s The May-Pole of Merry Mount, class surveying American literature from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War at American University, October 1996 (professor: Frank Turaj) Featured speaker, Clueless and Sense and Sensibility: Recent Cinematic Transformations of Jane Austen, The Johns Hopkins University Sunday Night Film Forums in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1996 Guest lecturer, T. S. Eliot s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, introductory interpreting literature class at American University, April 1996 (professor: Deborah Payne) Guest lecturer, T. S. Eliot s The Waste Land, class surveying British Literature from the Romantic to the contemporary periods at American University, April 1996 (professor: Richard Sha) Guest lecturer, Film and Modernist Poetics: Eliot, Pound, and Williams, class surveying American literature from 1865 to the present at American University, March 1996 (professor: Frank Turaj) Featured speaker, China s River Elegy: The Nexus of Film and History, New York City Asian Film Festival, January 1996 Guest lecturer, The Decline of the Progressive World View in Victorian England, class on the history of Victorian England at American University, November 1995 (professor: Terrence Murphy) Presenter, Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema Approaching 1997, College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Research Conference at American University, January 1995 Featured speaker, Approaching 1997: Future Tense in the Contemporary Hong Kong Film, New York City Asian Film Festival, January 1995

5 Guest lecturer, John Woo s Hard-Boiled and the Tradition of Film Noir, class on film genre studies emphasizing detective and crime films at American University, September 1994 (professor: Kevin Moore) OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graduate English Program, Rice University (Houston, Texas) Web Master, Graduate Student Association Yellow Pages, Rice University (Houston, Texas) Head Editor, The Folger Institute at The Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC) Seminar Participant, Spring 1997 Shakespeare and Film, directed by Peter Holland University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) Visiting Student in English, Summer 1994 and Summer 1995 Reading Eagle/Times, the daily newspaper of Berks County, Pennsylvania (75,000 circ.) Intern, Summer 1993 and Summer 1994 The Eagle, the weekly student newspaper of American University (Washington, DC) Managing Editor, April 1992 April 1993 Desktop and HTML Publishing, Systems Analysis, and Internet Training Independent Consultant, 1990 Present WXAC-FM Radio Reading Service, radio program for the blind (Reading, Pennsylvania) Executive Producer, September 1989 August 1991 COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Member, Disability Support Issues Committee, Houston Community College, 2005 Member, Distance Education Committee, Houston Community College 2004 Present Member, English Department Discipline Committee, 2003 Present Member, Campus Construction Council, Rice University, Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Rice University Department of English, Juror, Clear Creek Independent School District Annual District-Wide Short Fiction and Poetry Competition, 1998 Member, Grievance Committee, American University Department of Literature, Member, Executive Committee, American University Department of Literature,

6 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Composition Studies Multimedia Writing Technology in Education British Literature, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Film Adaptation of Literature Film Genre Studies