The Citadel
jennifer.bernstein@citadel.edu
(843) 953-7906
2003 Ph.D. in English, The
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Dissertation title: “American Antinomianisms from Anne Hutchinson to Pragmatism”
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Dissertation committee: William
Kelly, David S. Reynolds, Joan Richardson (Director)
1995 M.A.
in English,
1992 B.A.
in Literature and Critical Theory,
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING
2004 - Assistant
Professor of Early American Literature, The Citadel
Undergraduate
Courses: American Romanticism, Early American Literature, Major
British Writers I (Beowulf to Pope), and Literature and Composition
(I & II).
Graduate
Course: Colonial and Revolutionary
American Literature
1993-2000 Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Graduate
Assistant “B,”
Courses: Introduction to
American Literature, Introduction to English Literature,
Shakespeare,
Women in Literature, and composition courses from
elementary to advanced levels.
2005 National
Endowment for the Humanities Seminar (“Reading Emerson’s Essays”)
2003-2004 Post-Doctoral
Fellowship, The
2004 Alumni
and Doctoral Faculty Dissertation Award for Most Distinguished Dissertation
2001-2003 Writing
Fellow,
2001
2000-2001 Jewish Foundation for Education
of Women Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities
1999 Passed Second
(“Orals”) Examination with Distinction
1997-1999
University Fellowship, The
1995-1998 Graduate
Teaching Fellowship, The
1994 Award
for Best Scholarly Essay by a Graduate Student,
PUBLICATION UNDER REVIEW
“The Unsettling
Effect of Anne Hutchinson and the Birth of American Philosophy.”
(Under review
at The
2006 Review
of John McWilliams’
History, Religion, 1620-1860 in Early American Literature
[forthcoming].
2004 Encyclopedia
entries on Charles Brockden Brown, William Cullen
Bryant,
John de Crèvecoeur, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Freneau,
Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Cotton Mather,
Increase Mather, Thomas Paine, Mary Rowlandson, John Smith, Edward Taylor, and Phillis Wheatley. World
Writers to 1800: Masters and Masterpieces (Facts on File).
[2006 “The
Thought Experiments of Jonathan Edwards.” Modern Language Association Convention,
2006 *“Emerson
and the Evolution of American Philosophy.” American
Literature Association
Conference,
2006 “The
Antinomian Controversy:
Historical Association
Conference,
2005 “Morality
and Antinomianism in Emerson.” National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Seminar,
2004 *“Style and Imagination in Jonathan Edwards’ Natural
Philosophy.”
The
Edwards
Conference,
2003 “Experiencing Jonathan Edwards: Sentences as Thought Experiments.” The
(03-05 October).
2002 “Antinomian Epistemologies and Aesthetics.” Modern Language Association Annual
Convention,
2002 *“Actual Ideas: Jonathan
Edwards and Empiricism.” Guest lecture
in seminar on
American Aesthetics, The
2000 “Repunctuating
Jonathan Edwards.” Modern Language Association Annual
Convention,
RELATED WORK WITHIN ACADEMIA
2004 Organizer
of The
Created
the focus for the annual conference and devised panels.
Invited distinguished speakers.
Composed
the call for papers, which was posted on the UPenn
listserv and the
Announcements
page of the Society for Early Americanists website.
Evaluated and selected submitted proposals.
2003-2004 Post-Doctoral
Fellow/Academic Honors Advisor,
The
Provided academic advising services
to fifty-five freshmen and sophomores.
Served
on the search committee for new Honors Advisors.
Worked
with the Director of Student Affairs to run the college’s internship program.
Helped students find
challenging internships and research opportunities.
Assisted
students in preparing personal statements for scholarship and internship
applications.
Worked
with faculty in disciplines other than English to design and implement
writing-intensive
versions of their courses.
Served
as a co-coordinator of small groups that helped recently hired faculty members
and
long-time adjuncts make writing an integral
part of their classes.
Conceptualized,
edited, and oversaw the production of a handbook for faculty
that
explains the basic principles of the Writing in the Disciplines Program and
addresses different aspects of developing writing-intensive courses.
Served as the
primary developer, editor, and writer for the college’s Writing in
the Disciplines website
(http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/wid).
Created
a newsletter about writing-related issues that was distributed to
members of all academic departments.
Edited and proofread manuscripts
on meditation and the nondualistic
philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism,
which flourished during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. Books that I have worked on include The Heart of Meditation and a commentary on the Pratyabhijna Hrdayam (The
Heart of Recognition).
1997-1998 Editor, Found Object (a Cultural
Studies journal)
Edited
articles such as “Imaging Beauty and Health:
The Sight and Site of Body
Management in Women’s Magazines”
and “Hassiba Boulmerka’s Raised
Fist: The Body of Evidence and
Muslim Herstory.”
1992-2003 Freelance Editor and Copywriter,
Harlequin Enterprises
Edited contemporary
romance novels, wrote cover copy, composed short blurbs for
upcoming books, and accepted and rejected manuscripts.
1989-1990 Assistant to the Senior Editor and
Editorial Intern,
SPIN Magazine
Researched cover and
feature stories, edited articles on popular culture, and participated
in interviewing rock musicians and rap artists.
LANGUAGES
French and Spanish (reading knowledge) and
Sanskrit.
Emerson Society, Modern Language Association, Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy, Society of Early Americanists.