Dale M. Bauer
Department of English
317B English Building
University of Illinois 61801
Office Phone: (217) 244-1469
Home Phone: (217) 355-3665
Email: dbauer(at)uiuc.edu
Education
1981-85: Ph.D. English, University of California-Irvine
"The Failure of Community: Women and Resistance in Hawthorne's, James's, and Wharton's Fictions" Director: Wolfgang Iser
1979-81: M.A. English, UC-Irvine
1974-78: B.A. English, cum laude, UC-Irvine
Employment Record
Professor of English, University of Illinois , 2004-
Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2005
Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, 2003-
Professor, University of Kentucky , 1999-
Acting Director, English 100, 1997-98
Director, Women's Studies Research Center , UW-Madison, 1994-96
Principal Investigator for the Women's Studies Research Center ,
Ford Foundation Project on "Internationalizing Women's Studies"
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994-99
Department of English & Women's Studies
Associate Chair, Women's Studies Program, UW-Madison, 1992-94
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990-94
Department of English & Women's Studies
Summer Session Chair, Women's Studies Program, UW-Madison, 1992
Assistant Professor, Miami University, 1986-90
Department of English, Affiliate in Women's Studies
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1985-86
Department of English
Visiting Instructor, Franklin & Marshall College , 1984-85
Director, Writing 1, University of California , Irvine , 1983-84
Academic Awards
Sturgill Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, 2003
Tuggle Research Professorship, 2002
UK Summer Research Support, 2000, 2001
UW-Madison Humanities Institute, Fall 1999 (declined)
UW Graduate Student Teacher of the Year, English Department, 1998
Sabbatical Year, 1996-97
UW Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996
UW Graduate School Summer Stipend, 1994, 1996, 1998
UW Vilas Associates Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992-94
Wisconsin Student Association's 100 Top UW-Madison Professors
Faculty Research Semester Leave, Miami University , 1989
Committee for Improvement of Instruction Grant ($8,000), Miami University , 1988
Summer Research Grant, Miami University , 1987
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Brown University , 1986
Publications
BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing . Edited with Philip Gould. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. 336 pages.
New Cultural Edition of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Boston : Bedford Books, 1998. 360 pages.
Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics. University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. 225 pages.
Guest editor (with Kelly Oliver), Special Issue on "Feminism and Language" in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. April 1992. 232 pages.
Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Eds. Dale Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry. Albany : SUNY Press, 1992. 259 pages.
Feminist Dialogics. Albany : SUNY Press, 1988. 204 pages.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
"Embedded Pedagogy" in College English 65.4 (March 2003): 427-38.
"Refusing Middle Age" in ANQ 15.1 (Winter 2002): 46-60.
"Professing Women" in Reader 45 (Fall 2001): 58-72.
"`In the Blood': Sentiment, Sex, and the Ugly Girl" in differences. Eds. P. Gould and L. Tennenhouse. 11.3 (Fall 2000): 57-75.
"Complaining, Conversing, and Coalescing" (with Priscilla Wald). Signs 25,4 (Summer 2000): 1299-1303. Reprinted in Feminisms at a Millennium. Eds. Howard and Allen. Chicago : U of Chicago P, 2001: 287-91.
"Indecent Proposals: Teaching's Public Image." College English (Spring 1998). 301-17.
"`Just the Fax, Ma'am': Male Sentimentality in the Die Hard Films" (with Ann Ardis) in Arizona Quarterly 47,2 (Summer 1991): 117-29.
"Authority," NWSA Journal 3,1 (Winter 1991): 95-97..
"Jenny Holzer and The Rhetoric of Violence," Reader 23 (Spring 1990): 10-21.
"The Other `F' Word: The Feminist in the Classroom," College English (April 1990): 385-96.
"Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics," Arizona Quarterly 45,1 (Spring 1989): 49-71.
"The Joke Cure," Works and Days 13 7,1 (Spring 1989): 91-101.
"The Rune of History: Edith Wharton's `Roman Fever,'" College English (October 1988): 681-93.
"Identificatory Reading," Perigraph II (Spring 1988): 7-21.
"Language, Class, and Sexuality in Henry James's `In the Cage,'" (with Andrew Lakritz), New Orleans Review (Fall 1987): 61-69.
BOOK CHAPTERS
A Master Thoughts @ in White Scholars/Black Texts. Ed. Lisa Long. Newark : Rutgers UP (forthcoming 2005). Mss 18.
"The Other `F' Word." Reprinted in Gender and Composition. Ed. Gesa Kirsch, et al. . Boston : Bedford Books, 2003. 351-62. [Reprinted from College English.]
"Afterword" to Intertexts. Ed. Marguerite Helmers. Lawrence Erlbaum. Fall 2002. 219-25.
"Wharton's `Others': Intimacy and Addiction" in The Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. Ed. Carol Singley. New York : Oxford UP, 2002. 115-45.
"Academic Housework" in Women's Studies on its Own. Ed. Robyn Wiegman. Durham : Duke UP, 2002. 245-57.
"Content or Costume? Henry James and Cultural Capital" in Henry James Goes to the Movies. Ed. Susan M. Griffin . Lexington : UP Kentucky , 2002. 240-53.
"Afterword" to Insurrections. Ed. Andrea Greenbaum. Albany : SUNY Press, 2001. 185-89.
"Fiction" in Encyclopedia of American Intellectual and Cultural History. Eds. Mary Cayton and Peter Williams. New York : Scribner's, 2000. 589-99.
"The Other `F' Word" in Critical Literacy in Action. Eds. Ira Shor & Caroline Pari. (Rpt. of College English 1990 essay). Portsmouth , NH : Boynton/Cook, 1999. 225-37.
"'My Kinsman, Major Mailloux': Feminist Rhetorical Criticism" in Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies. Ed. William Cain. Boston : Garland Press, 1996. 159-67.
"Student Resistance and Feminist Style" (with Katherine Rhoades) in Antifeminism in the Academy. New York : Routledge, 1996. 95-113.
"Personal Criticism and the Academic Personality" in Who Can Speak? Eds. Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1995. 56-69.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" (with Mary V. Marchand). Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993. Ed. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Westbury , CT : Greenwood Press, 1994. 359-78.
Entries on Hysteria, Beauty (with Jean Lutes), Political Writings (with Colleen Kennedy) for the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the U.S. Eds. Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner- Martin. New York : Oxford UP, 1994.
"Feminist Sophistics: Teaching with an Attitude" (with Susan Jarratt). Changing Classroom Practices. Ed. David Downing. Urbana : NCTE, 1994. 149-65.
"The Meanings and Metaphors of Student Resistance." Styles of Cultural Activism. Ed. Philip Goldstein. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1994. 64-76.
"Reading Ambivalence." Gilbert and Gubar's Influence on American Feminist Criticism. Ed. William Cain. Boston : Garland Press, 1994. 183-95.
"Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival" in Feminisms. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick : Rutgers UP, 1991. (Rpt. of Introduction to Feminist Dialogics). 671-84.
"The Politics of Collaboration in The Whole Family." Old Maids to Radical Spinsters, ed. Laura Doan. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990: 107-22.
"The Awakening and the Woman Question," (with Andrew Lakritz), PMLA Teaching Series on The Awakening, ed. Bernard Koloski, 1988: 47-52.
Reviews in Studies in Short Fiction, SIGNS, Women's Review of Books, The Henry James Review, Legacy, Novel, Pedagogy, CCC, College English, ANQ , NEQ, JAC.
Work in Progress
"Sex Expression and American Women." This project traces the advent of American women's "sex expression" in literature, from Phelps and Davis in the 1860s and '70s to previously unexplored mass-market writers in the 1930 and 1940s
Invited Lectures and Conference Panels
"Ethnic Sex," Invited Lecture, University of Kansas , September 2003.
"Radical Teachers," CCCC, NYC, March 20, 2003.
"Master Thoughts," MLA, NYC, December 29, 2002.
Invited Speaker, Humanities Colloquium, Wesleyan University , March 2002.
"Losing a Teacher," CCCC, Chicago , March 2002.
"The Teaching of Literature," Keynote Lecture, Rutgers University , April 2001.
"Feminist Pedagogy Ten Years Later," CCCC, Denver , March 2001.
"Wharton's Addiction and Intimacy," Keynote Lecture, 20th-century Literature Conference, February 2001.
"Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman," Roundtable at the Society for the Study of American Women's Writing, San Antonio , February 15-17, 2001 .
"Defying Middle Age" and "Teaching Literature," MLA, Washington , D.C. , December 30, 2000.
"The Lady Professor," CCCC, Minneapolis , MN , April 13, 2000 .
"Transatlantic Sexualities," an MLA Special Session, December 1999, Chicago .
Respondent, Charlotte Perkins Gilman panel, MLA Special Session, December 1999.
"The Ugly Girl," Invited Lecture, North Central College , April 1999.
"Feminist Accountability," an MLA Special Session, December 1998, San Francisco .
"Aesthetics and Difference," Conference on the Future of American Studies. UC-Riverside. October 22-25.
"American Pedagogies," The Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth , August 12, 1997 .
"Sex Expression and American Exceptionalism," SSNL Conference, Gainesville , April 4, 1997 .
Discussant, "Responding On/Off Line," CCCC, Phoenix , March 14, 1997.
Respondent, Special Session on Bakhtin, MLA 1996, Washington , D.C.
"Gilman's Sex-Expression," American Literature Association, Baltimore , May 29, 1995.
"Resistance to Feminism," Women's Caucus Panel, MLA, San Diego , December 28, 1994 .
"Feminist Style and Pedagogy," Invited Lecture, Texas A&M, November 21, 1994 .
"Sex, Lives, and Videotape," Women's Studies Consortium, UW-Stevens Point, November 11, 1994 .
"The Challenge of Feminist Teaching," Keynote Speaker, Winona State University , April 5, 1994 .
"Edith Wharton and the New America ," Invited Lecture, University of Arizona , Arizona Quarterly Symposium, March 2-6, 1994 .
Swarthmore College Honors Examiner in American Literature, May 1993, 1994.
"`Edith Agonistes': Wharton's Challenge to Eugenics," MLA Special Session on Eugenics and American Literary Nativism. MLA, Toronto , December 27, 1993 .
"Feminist Pedagogy and Personal Criticism," Invited Lecture, University of Washington , December 6, 1993 .
"Feminist Teaching and Identification," Invited Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 22, 1993 .
"Feminism and Academic Authority," Panel on Problems in Feminist Pedagogy, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego , April 2, 1993 .
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Good Mothering," Panel on Teaching "The Yellow Wallpaper," American Literature Association, San Diego , May 28, 1992 .
"Another `F' Word: The Meanings and Metaphors of Student Resistance," Conference on College Communication and Composition, Cincinnati , March 26, 1992 .
"Wharton and Eugenics," Panel on Reproductive Anxieties, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville , February 26, 1992 .
"Feminist Teachers and Student Evaluations: Meanings and Metaphors of Resistance," MLA, San Francisco , December 29, 1991 .
"Anti-Feminism and the Academy," Invited lecture, SAMLA Women's Caucus, November 16, 1991 .
"The Dialogic Classroom," Invited lecture, Carleton College , April 1991.
" Summer and Maternal Culpability," Edith Wharton in Paris Conference, June 29, 1991.
"The Die Hard Films and Post-WWII Politics," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Conference, Nice, June 12, 1991.
"Feminism and Cultural Studies," College Composition and Communication Conference, Boston , March 18, 1991 .
"Feminism and Sentimentality," MMLA, Kansas City , November 1-3, 1990 .
"Feminist Sophistics," Reading and Writing (in) the Academy: Power, Pedagogy, and Politics Conference, University of New Hampshire , October 5-7, 1990 .
"Why Gentlewomen Prefer Blondes; Wharton in the Twenties," American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 31-June 2, 1990.
Conference Organizer. Feminist Sophistics. Miami University , June 21-23, 1990 .
"Male Sentimentality in Popular Culture" (with Ann Ardis), Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Conference, New Orleans , LA , April 1-3, 1990 .
"Beyond Feminist Dialogics," CUNY Bakhtin Symposium , New York , NY , March 8-9, 1990 .
"Feminist Bywords: Authority," MLA, Washington , D.C. , December 28, 1989 .
"Feminism in the First-Year Classroom," Invited Lecture, Southern Connecticut State University , December 6, 1989 .
"Early Reproductive Technology," Invited Lecture, University of Delaware , September 29, 1989 .
"Feminism and the Politics of Pedagogy," Invited Lecture, University of Vermont , October 29, 1989 .
"Feminisms: The Many-Headed Monster" (with Kris Straub), Feminism and Representation, Providence , RI , April 22, 1989 .
"The Other `F' Word: Feminism in the Classroom," Invited Lecture, University of Louisville , April 14, 1989 .
"`Reader, I Buried Him': Textual Violence in Blow Your House Down," SSNL Conference, Madison , WI , April 6, 1989 .
"Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep and the Politics of Reproduction," Florida State Conference on Film and Literature, January 28, 1989 .
"The Politics of Collaboration in The Whole Family," MLA, New Orleans , December 28, 1988 .
"Empathy and Identification" (with Herman Rapaport), MLA, December 29, 1988 .
"The Joke Cure," MMLA, St. Louis , November 3, 1988 .
"History with an Attitude: The Case of Edith Wharton," MMLA, November 4, 1988 .
"A Brave New Politics: Wharton in the Thirties," Edith Wharton: Woman of Letters Conference, Long Island University , October 8, 1988 .
" Robocop and the Violence of Rhetoric," Science Fiction Research Conference, Corpus Christi , TX , June 30, 1988 .
"Undoing and Redoing Feminism and Theory" (with Colleen Kennedy), Theory Between the Disciplines Conference, London , Canada , April 9, 1988 .
Moderator, "Body, Absence, Desire" panel at the Literature and Science Conference, Louisville , KY , February 26, 1988 .
Co-director and presenter, Special session on Feminist Dialogics, MLA, San Francisco , December 28, 1987 .
Co-coordinator and discussant, Feminist Political Strategies and Feminism and Other Discourses, SCE, MMLA, Columbus , OH , November 12, 1987 .
"Edith Wharton and the Family Romance in Summer" (with Pat Sharpe), The Edith Wharton Conference at The Mount, June 8, 1987 and SSNL Ann Arbor , April 4, 1987 .
Response to William Cain, Literary Theory and Textual Scholarship Symposium, SCE, Miami University, March 28, 1987 .
"Having a Carnival with Bakhtin," Literature and History Conference, Louisville , KY , February 27, 1987 .
"Reading the Holocaust in the Silence of Edith Wharton's `Roman Fever,'" MLA, New York , December 29, 1986 .
"Words as Things, Things as Words" (with Andrew Lakritz), MMLA, Chicago , November 9, 1986 .
" The Awakening: Having and Hating Tradition," Narrative Poetics Conference, Columbus , OH , April 11, 1986 .
Moderator, "Theory, Temporality, Indeterminacy, and Incongruity in Twentieth-Century Art," Literature and the Other Arts, Louisville , February 28, 1986 .
"Henry James and the Art Critic: A Response to Adeline Tintner," MMLA, St. Louis, November 8, 1985 .
"Gender and Reading in Hawthorne's and Wharton's Fictions," Gender and Difference, Carlisle , PA , April 13, 1985 .
"The Dissolution of the Family Romance in The Golden Bowl," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville , February 21, 1985 .
"The Rhetoric of Repression: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts" (with Deborah Wilson), Politics of Literature Conference, Louisville , February 23, 1984 .
Community Service:
Public Radio Program on Edith Wharton, "The Courage to Write," December 1993.
Guest lectures at Retired Women's Club (March, October 1994), GRRRL Club (1994-95).
Professional Service
Review of Gender Studies Program, Lawrence University , May 1999.
Editorial Board: Arizona Quarterly
Reader for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, American Literary History, American Journal of Semiotics, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Advanced Composition, Written Communication, College English, Hypatia, Modern FictionStudies, South Central Review, Arizona Quarterly, Rhetoric Review.
Manuscript Reader for Oxford University Press, University of Georgia Press, University of California Press, SUNY Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Minnesota Press, St. Martin's Press, University Press of New England, University of Alabama Press, Duke University Press, Stanford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harper/Collins, Longmans, University Press of Florida, Susquehanna University Press, Chicago University Press, University of North Carolina Press, OSU Press, U Missouri Press.
Tenure and Promotion Decisions: St. Olaf College, University of Nevada-Reno, New Mexico State University, Michigan Technological University, Washington State University, University of Toledo, Texas A&M University, North Carolina State University, University of California-Riverside, Indiana University, Drake University, Kent State University, University of Pennsylvania, Florida State University, University of Illinois, University of Hawaii, North Carolina State University, Kansas State University .
Academic Service
Department of English, University of Kentucky
Job Placement Co-Chair (2000-)
Graduate Admissions Committee (2000-)
Graduate Committee (1999, 2001-2003)
Bryan Chair Search Committee (2000)
Executive Committee (2000-2001)
Women's Studies Development Chair (2000-2001)
Hiring Search, Composition and Rhetoric (1999-2000)
University of Kentucky College Committee
Advisory Committee (2000-2003)
Tenure and Promotion, Chair (2001-2003)
1990-99, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advanced Opportunity Fellowship Committee (1998-99)
Rhetoric and Composition Searches (1997-98)
Master's Exam Committee (1998)
Special Nominations (1994-95)
Curriculum Committee (1993-96)
Graduate Student Job Advisor (1990-93)
Advisory Committee (1990-91, 1992-93)
American Literature Search Committee (1990-91)
Nineteenth-Century British Literature Search Committee (1991-92)
Teaching/TA Review Committee (1991-92)
Three Tenure Committees (1990-96)
1990-99, University of Wisconsin Committees
UW Admissions Committee (1998-99)
University Library Committee (1998)
UW Distinguished Teaching Award Committee (1997-1999)
UW Sabbatical and Faculty Development Committee (1997-1999)
UW Memorial Library Committee Chair (1994-96)
UW Graduate School Fellowships Committee (1994-98), Chair (1998-99)
UW Intellectual Property Committee (1994-96)
UW Memorial Library Committee (1993-96)
UW Press Committee (1993-96)
UW-Madison, L&S Senate(1993-95)
UW-Madison Senate Alternate, L&S Faculty Senate (1992-93)
1990-99, Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director, Women's Studies Research Center (1994-96)
Research Committee (1994-96)
Associate Chair (1992-95)
Summer Sessions Chair (1992)
Curriculum Committee (1991-93)
Anti-Racism Committee (1192-93)
Personnel Committee (1990-91, 1997-98)
Restructuring Committee (1991)
Program Committee (1990-95)
Tenure Review Committee (1990-92)
Brittingham Visiting Scholar Grant, (1993, 1998) author and organizer
1986-90, Miami University
Women's Studies Program Board (1987-90)
Hiring Committee for two assistant professors (1988-89)
Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (1987-89)
Advisor, Association of Women Students (1988-89)
American Studies Advisory Committee (1988-89)
Alma Mater Revision Committee (1988-89)
Feminist Pedagogy Program Grant (1988-89)
English Department Advisory Committee (1988-89)
Houtchens Award Committee (1988-89)
Academic Challenge Grant Committee (1987-88)
Faculty Research Committee (1987-88)
Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1987-88)
Hiring Committee for two assistant professors (1986-87)
Graduate Committee (1986-87)
1985-86, College of the Holy Cross
Black Student Advising Committee
1984-85, Franklin & Marshall College
Nelson Prize Committee
Courses Taught
Franklin and Marshall College (1984-85)
Traditions of American Literature
Senior Seminar on Henry James and Edith Wharton
First-Year Composition
Introduction to Literary Study
College of the Holy Cross (1985-86)
Survey of American Literature
Introductory Composition
Women in Literature
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Miami University (1986-90)
Literature and Composition
American Realism
Gender Theory
Introduction to Women's Studies
American Literature and Culture
Feminist Sophistics (graduate seminar)
Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory (graduate seminar)
Nineteenth-Century American Novel (graduate seminar)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990-99)
The Meanings of `Woman' in Western Culture
Advanced Seminar in Women's Studies
Major American Authors
Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pauline Hopkins, Edith Wharton, and Henry James
American Realism and Naturalism
Crossing National Boundaries
American Literature from Vespucci to Vietnam
Intensive Course on Nineteenth-Century Novel (graduate seminar)
American Literary Studies (graduate seminar)
Feminist Criticism and the American Novel (graduate seminar)
Sex Expression and American Literature (graduate seminar)
University of Kentucky (1999-)
American Literary Studies (graduate seminar)
Rhetoric of Teaching (graduate seminar)
James, Hopkins, Wharton (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Women's Studies
Survey of American Literature (English 251)Nineteenth-century American Novel
Ph.D. Committees
University of Kentucky
Director (in progress): Amy Birk, Shelia Collins, Rynetta Davis, Chris Green, Joy Myree, Katherine Rogers-Carpenter, Mark Wood
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director: Nicola Pitchford, "Rereading Postmodernism" (August 1994)
Debra Bernardi, "Domestic Horrors, 1860-1903" (August 1996)
Lisa Long, "The Civil War and Cultural Disease" (August 1997)
Jean Lutes, "American Women and the Culture of Expertise" (August 1997)
Edie Thornton, "Elegance is Refusal" (August 1998)
Kirsten Jamsen, "Voices Carry" (December 1998)
Amy Kort, "Domesticity and the Nation" (May 2000)
Mary Templin, "Panic Fictions" (May 2001)Reader: Phil Gould, Craig White, Steve Fox, Lisa Photos, Marcia Reddick, Pam Smiley, Charles Harmon, Chris Pawley, Dawn Keetley, Theresa Gaul, Lisa Woolfork, Thomas Allen, Elana Crane (UW-Milwaukee), Julie Fromer, Andrea Kaston, Emily Hall
Miami University
Director: Susan Sipple, "American Fiction and Social Engineering" (August 1993)
Recommendations
Professor Ann Ardis, Department of English, University of Delaware , Newark , DE 19711 .
Professor Sargent Bush, Department of English, Unviersity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison , WI 53706 .
Professor William Cain, Department of English, Wellesley College , Wellesley , MA 02181 .
Professor Maria Lepowsky, Department of Anthropology & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
Professor Steven Mailloux, Department of English & Comparative Literature, University of California-Irvine , Irvine , CA 92717 .
Professor Priscilla Wald, Department of English, University of Washington , Seattle , WA 98195 .
Professor Lynda Zwinger, English and Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona , Tucson , AZ 85721 .
University of Illinois