SHEILA LIMING

SheilaLiming.com

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Department of English
sheila.liming@und.edu
1209 5th Ave N
Merrifield Hall Room 110
Grand Forks, ND 58203
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
701.777.2782
Grand Forks, ND 58202

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (2014)
Dissertation: The Natural Woman: Science and Sentimentality in Modern
America: 1865-1937
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies (2007)
College of Wooster: Wooster, OH
BA in English and Womens Studies (2005)
Cum Laude
PUBLICATIONS
Other Times, Other Places: Edith Wharton, Adjacency, and Mediated Space in Modernist
Paris. Modernism/Modernity (under review).
A Month at The Mount: Research and the Unsearchable Archive. The Edith Wharton Review
(issue forthcoming: spring 2014).
Suffer the Little Vixens: Edith Wharton and Realist Terror in Jazz Age America.
JML: Journal of Modern Literature (issue forthcoming: spring 2014).
Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Traditions of Print Dissent. M/MLA:
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 14.1 (Fall 2011).
Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through
Textual Experience. Peele, Thomas, ed. Queer Popular Culture. New York:
Palgrave-MacMillan (2007).
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERTISE
American Literature Since 1865
Cultural Studies / Theory
Science and Technology Studies

Sex and Sexuality Studies

Digital Media
Edith Wharton

FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS

The Edith Wharton Society
The Mount Research Award (Summer 2013)
Competitive, paid research fellowship enabling me to reside and study at The Mount

Estate, Edith Whartons historical estate, in Lenox, MA.

Carnegie Mellon University
Schaffer Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2013)
A yearlong fellowship, sponsored by endowed funds through the Department of
English, put towards completion of my dissertation project.
Posner Rare Book Collection Fellowship (2011-2012)
Paid research fellowship allowing me to work with the Posner Rare Book Collection,
culminating in a public lecture and curated exhibit focusing on chosen materials from
the collection.
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award
(Spring 2014)
Department of English Graduate Student Teaching Award (Fall 2013)
The College of Wooster
Best Senior Thesis Criticism: Department of English (2005)
TEACHING
University of North Dakota, Department of English
Assistant Professor
511: Problems in Literary Contemporary Criticism
Theorizing the Digital in Literary Study (Spring 2015)
304: Survey of American Literature II: 1865-present (Spring 2015)
227: Introduction to Literature and Culture Gothic Fiction (Fall 2014)
271: Reading and Writing About Texts (Fall 2014)
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of English
Graduate Student Instructor
76-309: Narrative and the Natural World (Spring 2014)
76-241: Introduction to Gender Studies (Spring 2012)
76-370: English Independent Study: Narrative, Story-telling, and Digital Media (Fall 2011)
76-234 American Women Novelists and the Century of Struggle:
1840 1930 (Spring 2011)
76-238 The Politics of Adaptation (Summer 2010)
76-101 Living Social in the Age of Social Media (Fall 2013)
76-101 Geeks and Intellectuals: The Culture, and Cult, of Intelligence (Fall 2011)
76-101 Punk and the Politics of Subculture (Fall 2008; Summer/Fall 2009;
Fall 2010; Spring 2011)
76-101 H Defining Difference in America (Fall 2007/Spring 2008)
Carnegie Mellon University, Office of Academic Development
Workshop Instructor / Assistant Director of Academic Counselor Training

AC 108 Professional Communications: Communicating with Professors

(2010-2013)
AC 104 Citing Sources (2008-2013)
AC 105 Giving Academic Presentations (2008-2013)
AC 200 Academic Counselor Training (Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
College of Wooster, Department of English
Writing Center Administrative Intern
ENG College Writing Tutorial (2006)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of English
Assistant Director: Masters (MA) Program in Literary and Cultural Studies (2008 2010)
Administratively oversaw the MA-LCS program during the course
of two academic years (2008-2009; 2009-2010). Read and reviewed incoming
students application; coordinated outreach events, career counseling, and job
placement opportunities; led workshops in applying to doctoral programs;
developed advertising materials for the MA-LCS program and distributed them;
conducted entrance and exit interviews with MA-LCS students and produced
statistical data for the program from those interviews.
Carnegie Mellon University, Office of Academic Development
Assistant Director of Academic Counselor Training
Oversaw and led training sessions for newly hired Academic Counselors (ACs),
undergraduate students who were selected to serve as mentors and counselors to
their peers and classmates. Devised and led workshops; oversaw assessment;
observed ACs and offered constructive feedback; guided ACs in the design of
presentations, workshops, and classes; arranged student employee schedules;
recorded progress of ACs working with individual student clients.
College of Wooster, Writing Center
Administrative Intern (2005-2006)
Advised several undergraduate student clients on a regular, weekly basis; assisted
these students in researching and writing their I.S. (Independent Study) thesis
projects; advised walk-in clients on basic areas of writing and research; edited and
produced first-year writing magazine, Year One, in both hard copy and digital
formats.
SERVICE
Carnegie Mellon University
LCS 25th Anniversary Planning Committee (Spring 2012-Fall 2012)
Helped to plan and orchestrate events related to the Literary and Cultural Studies
Programs 25th Anniversary Celebration; organized lectures, roundtables, worked
with invited speakers, performed administrative duties relative to the event.
Graduate Representative to the English Department Faculty (Fall 2011 present)

Attended faculty meetings and reported back to students in the PhD-LCS program;
collected questions and concerns from PhD-LCS students and presented them to the
faculty; offered student input to faculty on curriculum planning and policy.
Advisor, Carnegie Mellon Imagine Cup 2011 (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)
Undergraduate Product Development Contest
Advised four-person undergraduate team in their creation and development
of In Plain Sight, a computer game designed to educate children
ages 7-12 about exploitative child labor practices in the US
Graduate Student Representative, Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium
Committee (2009 2012)
Served as graduate student representative to LCS Colloquium Committee; planned
and devised roundtable discussion, workshops, and LCS lecture series events
featuring visiting lecturers; personally oversaw events relative to visits from Dr. Paula
Rabinowitz (University of Minnesota) in the spring of 2010, and Dr. Lori Merish
(Georgetown University) in the spring of 2011.
Assistant Director: Masters (MA) Program in Literary and Cultural Studies (2008 2010)
Oversaw, along with Dr. Kathy Newman, the MA-LCS program during the course
of two academic years (2008-2009; 2009-2010). Read and reviewed incoming
students application; coordinated outreach events, career counseling, and job
placement opportunities; led workshops in applying to doctoral programs;
developed advertising materials for the MA-LCS program and distributed them;
conducted entrance and exit interviews with MA-LCS students and produced
statistical data demonstrating the programs overall success.
LCS Representative: Committee for Annual Teacher Orientation and Training
(2008 2010)
Helped to plan workshops to be presented as part of the annual First Year Writing
Teacher Orientation and Training. Presented workshop (with David Haeselin) on
integrating media technology into first-year writing syllabi and classroom procedures;
demonstrated how to set up class pages, blogs, and other tools.
Graduate Representative: Ph.D. Selection Committee (2009)
Read and reviewed applications for incoming PhD students; met with faculty
members to discuss admitted students; served as guide to prospective students
during their visits to campus.
College of Wooster
Student Chair: Womens Studies Curriculum Committee (2004-2005)
Student Chair: Sexual Harassment and Complaint Committee (2002-2003)
Devised a manual for responding to instances of sexual assault, harassment, and
complaint; met with faculty members and administrators to revise college procedures
and policies and to develop a protocol for reporting instances of sexual harassment
on campus.

Professional Internship
Intern Director of Youth Projects: Seattle LGBT Community Center (2003)
Coordinated youth outreach programs and projects for Seattle LGBT Community
Center; worked at the Centers help desk and answered phone calls to the Centers
anonymous helpline; worked with displaced teens and counseled them to find
shelter, community resources, etc.
Select CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION / PRESENTATIONS
Panel Chair
Critical, and Cultural, Approaches to Music. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24 - 26 2011.
Contemporary Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association Annual
Conference. The University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA June 1 -3 2009.
Panel Presenter
A Flood of Material Ease: Edith Wharton and the Mediated Landscape of Modernist
Paris. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Duquesne University: Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 8 -11 2014.
Of Sex and Sentiment: Jazz Culture and Modernist Panic. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24-26 2011.
Zines and Traditions of Print Dissent. Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference. Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, MO: November 11-13
2009.
Technocracy and the Future of Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association
Annual Conference. The University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA June 1-3 2009.
Sacred Text, Secular Use: The Nineteenth Century Meets the New Literary Canon.
Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference. Kansas City, April 15-18 2009.
Transfiction and Heteronormative Conclusion in The Well of Loneliness and Herculine
Barbin. Northeast Modern Language Association. Buffalo, New York April 1113 2008.
The Inheritance of Empire: a Modern Dilemma. The 10th Annual Conference of the
Marxist Reading Group. The University of Florida: Gainesville, FL March 21-24 2008
Reading for It: Lesbian Readership and Identity. Popular Culture Association. Boston,
MA March 11 13 2007.
FILM PROJECTS
Co-Producer
Times New Roman (2014)

Produced, along with David Haeselin and Austin Vanasdale, a music video for the
Pittsburgh-based band The Armadillos, in cooperation with Wild Kindness Records;
filmed narrative sequences; edited footage; edited soundtrack.
Tributaries: 25 Years of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University
September 2012
Produced, along with David Haeselin, this 30-minute documentary film showcasing
the history and development of the program in Literary and Cultural Studies at
Carnegie Mellon University; interviewed documentary participants; filmed interviews
and captured stock footage; edited video footage and sound; presented the final film
as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration in Literary and Cultural Studies
(September 20-21, 2012).
LECTURES
Invited Lecture: Presenting Your Research (and Convincing Your Audience)
Small Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) annual grant recipient training
Carnegie Mellon University
(Fall 2009; Spring 2010; Fall 2010; Spring 2011; Fall 2011)
Invited Lecture: The IWW: Radical Folks, Radical Folk Music
Dr. Nicholas Coles class, ENG 6841: Working Class Literature
The University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2010)
Invited Lecture: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Damnable Mob of Scribbling Women
Dr. Mario Castagnaros class, 76-231: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2009)
LANGUAGES
French translation
Spanish speaking and translation
Scottish Gaelic speaking and translation
SOFTWARE and DIGITAL MEDIA
Adobe Creative Suite
including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premier, and Fireworks software
Omeka (open-source publishing platform)
Zotero (open-source bibliography software)
Gephi (open-source data visualization software)
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
American Studies Association (ASA)
National Womens Studies Association (NWSA)