Christine Alfano-curriculum vitae

| education | academic positions | awards & fellowships |

| publications | professional activities | teaching experience | service |

| academic & technology training | memberships | references|

PhD, 1995. English and American Literature. Stanford University, Stanford CA. Dissertation: Under the Influence: Drink, Discourse & Narrative in Victorian Fiction.

BA with Honors, 1989. English Literature. Brown University, Providence RI. Honors Thesis: Marginalized Femininity in Nineteenth-Century British Sensation Fiction

Lecturer, Program in Writing & Rhetoric and Department of English, Stanford University, 1998-present.

Assistant Professor of Literature, Department of English, University of Colorado at Denver, 1996-1998.

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English, Stanford University, 1994-1996.

Lecturer, Program in Writing and Critical Thinking, Stanford University, 1994-1995.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1992-1993.

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Stanford University, 1989-1992.

Alden Dissertation Award, Stanford University, June 1996.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 1995-1996.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1993-1994.
Stanford University English Department Fellowship, Stanford University, 1989-1993.
Donald R. Howard Memorial Prize for Medieval Literature, 1990.
Avon Foundation Scholarship (undergraduate), 1985-1990.

Published books & articles

Envision: A Student's Guide to Visual Rhetoric. Co-author Alyssa J. O'Brien. Longman, 2005.
Review: Kathleen McCormack, George Eliot and Intoxication. Victorian Institute Journal. Volume 28 (2000) 174-177.
"Breaking the Pathetic Silence: Helen's Journal and Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." The Dickens World 8 (Summer 1992).
"The Issue of Feminine Monstrosity." Comitatus (Fall 1992)
Works in Progress
Envision In Depth. Manuscript under development.
E-Rhetorics: Readings about electronic writing. Manuscript in development.
Under the Influence: Drink, Discourse and Narrative in Victorian Britain. Manuscript revision in process.
Readerships
Reader for Broadview Press, summer 2002.
Reader, Pedagogy, Fall 2000.
Reader, Victorian Institute Journal, Fall 1999.

Presentations

"Choose Your Own Adventure? The Complexities of Argument in Hypertext Form." Computers & Composition. Stanford, June 2005.
"Interactive Authorship on Manuscripts-in-Progress: Collaborations, Conversations, Classroom Dynamics," collaborative paper with Alyssa O'Brien, CCCC, San Antonio, March 2004.
"Multivocal, Multimedia: A Bakhtinian Approach to Visual Rhetoric," collaborative paper with Alyssa O'Brien, MLA, San Diego, December 2003.
"(De)Constructing American Adcult: Toward a Theory and Pedagogy of Visual Rhetoric," CCCC [Conference on College Composition and Communication], New York City, March 2003.
"Pulp Fiction: Authoring Victorian Violence." "Victorian Violence," Dickens Project Summer Conference, U. C. Santa Cruz, August 1998.
"Pledged to Success: Fictions of Temperance in Victorian England." Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference, California State University, Northridge, California, November 1996.
"Beyond the Gin Shop(s): George Cruikshank's Temperance Narratives." Addiction and Culture Conference, Claremont, California, March 1996.
"Domestic Solutions, Selective Amnesia, and Temperance Reform." North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver, Canada, October 1994.
"Great Escapes: Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard and Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture." Victorian Institute Conference, University of Richmond, September 1994.
"Driving the Worker from Drink: The Temperance Movement and the New Paternalism." "Victorian Work," Dickens Project Summer Conference, U. C. Santa Cruz, August 1994.
"Drink, Sin, & Redemption in George Eliot's 'Janet's Repentance.'" 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers, University of Washington, May 1993. Also presented at Dickens Project Winter Conference, U. C. Riverside, February 1993.
"Breaking the Pathetic Silence: Helen's Journal and Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 1992. Also presented at Dickens Project Winter Conference, U. C. Riverside, February 1992.
"The Issue of Feminine Monstrosity." Medieval Association of the Pacific, U. C. Davis, March 1991.
Panel Moderation
"Terrible Visions." Victorian Terrors Conference. Santa Cruz, California, August 2004.
"Theorizing Visual Rhetoric." Modern Language Association. San Diego, CA, December 2003.
"Resonance." Victorian Soundings Conference. Santa Cruz, California, July 2003.
The Victorian Mind Conference. Santa Cruz, California, July 1996.
The Victorian Work Conference. Santa Cruz, California, July 1995.
INCS Conference. Santa Cruz, California, April 1995.

Writing Courses

The Rhetoric of the News, Stanford University, Fall 2005.
E-Rhetorics: Writing Persuasively in a Digital Age, Stanford University, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2004, Winter 2004.
Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Culture, Stanford University, Spring 2004.
Visual Rhetoric and Strategies of Persuasion, Stanford University, Fall 2003
Visual Rhetoric: Composing Arguments in a Multi-Textual World, Stanford University, Spring 2003; Fall 2002.
The Rhetoric of Advertising Part II: Text, Images, and Researched Arguments, Stanford University, Winter 2003.
The Rhetoric of Advertising: Text, Image, and Modes of Persuasion, Stanford University, Fall 2002.
Image Text Argument: Writing and the Rhetorics of Persuasion,Stanford University, Spring quarter 2002; Winter quarter 2002.
Writing & Rhetoric in the Material World, Stanford University, Fall quarter 2001.
Writing & Rhetoric in the Material World, Stanford University, Summer College for High School Students, Summer 2001.
Reading and Writing Contemporary Culture, Stanford University, Winter and Spring quarters 2001; Winter and Spring quarters 1999; Fall quarter 1995; Fall quarter 1994.
The Politics/Poetics of Television, Stanford University, Fall 2000.
Critical Writing: Literary theory and critical writing, UCD, Fall 1996, Spring 1998.
Reading and Writing Popular Culture, Undergraduate seminar, UCD Spring 1997.
Reading and Writing the Future, Undergraduate seminar, UCD Fall 1996.
Cybertexts: Reading and Writing into the Twenty-First Century, Stanford University, Winter quarter 1996.
Silences and Silencing: Censorship Issues in Contemporary Culture, Stanford University, Spring quarter 1995, Winter quarter 1995.
The Writing Process, North Carolina State University, Fall 1992.
Critical Reading and Writing, North Carolina State University, Spring 1993.
The Writer's Identity: Personal Voice & Points of View, Stanford University, Winter and Spring quarters 1991.
Literature Courses
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, Undergraduate seminar, Stanford University, Fall 2004, Winter 1999.
The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Undergraduate survey course, Stanford University, Summer 2002; Fall 2001; Fall 1999.
Sex & Death in Victorian Fiction, Upper-Level Undergraduate seminar, Stanford University, Spring 2002.
Masterpieces of English Literature II, Undergraduate lecture course, Stanford University, Spring 2001.
Jane Austen, Graduate/undergraduate lecture course, Stanford University, Fall 2000.
Reading Dickens: A Study in Fiction and Culture, Undergraduate seminar, Stanford University, Fall 1998.
The Victorian Age, Undergraduate and graduate survey course, UCD Spring 1998.
Great Works of British and American Literature, Undergraduate seminar, on-line course, UCD Spring 1998.
Jane Austen & Charlotte Brontë, Graduate seminar, UCD Fall 1997.
Dickens: Texts and Contexts, Undergraduate and graduate seminar, UCD Spring 1997.
Masterpieces of Literature in English II, Undergraduate seminar, UCD Spring 1997.
Victorian Science (and) Fiction: Nineteenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural, Seminar, Stanford University, Spring quarter 1996.
Guest Lectureships and Collaborative Teaching
Panelist, "Teaching Diverse Students," New Instructor Orientation, Stanford University, September 2004.
Round Table Participant, Academia and Parenting Panel, "Romanticism and Parenting" conference, Stanford University, June 2004.
Panelist, OCT Teaching Practicuum, April 2004.
Facilitator, hands-on technology workshop with Advisory Board members, November 2003.
Guest speaker, "Spring Forward: Approaches to Visual Rhetoric," Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Lecturer Workshop, Stanford University, March 8, 2002.
Guest speaker, "On teaching a literature course," Brown bag lunch session, Stanford University, October 25, 1999.
Guest lecturer on the temperance movement, "The Brontës," seminar, Stanford University, Spring quarter 1999.
Guest lecturer on Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market," "Telling Tales" core course, UCD, Spring 1997.
Workshop Team Teacher. Dickens Universe, Dickens Project Summer Conference, U.C. Santa Cruz, Aug. 3 - 7, 1992 and Aug. 5 - 9, 1991. Focused on Nicholas Nickleby (1992) and The Pickwick Papers (1991).
Tutoring, Mentoring, Advising, and Direction of Student Projects
Writing Center Tutor, Stanford Writing Center, Fall 2003-present.
Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Stanford University, Fall 2004-present.
Mentor to Graduate Students, "Writing and Rhetoric", Stanford University, 2001-present.
Mentor to One Graduate Student, "Writing and Critical Thinking," Stanford University, 1995-1996.
Faculty Director for Directed Reading: "Jane Austen," Stanford University, Winter 2002.
Faculty Director for Directed Reading: "Dickens," Winter 2001.
Faculty Director for Directed Reading: "The Eighteenth-Century Comic Tradition," Fall 2000.
Faculty Director for Directed Reading: "Victorian Imperialist/Colonial Narratives," Winter and Spring quarters 1996.
Faculty advisor for Three Senior Writing Projects, UCS, 1997-1998.
Faculty advisor for Two Senior Writing Projects, UCD, 1996-1997.

Lecturer Search Committee, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Fall 2004.
Writing Program Administrator's Reading Group, Stanford University, Fall 2004-present.
Technology & Teaching Subcommittee, Facilitator. Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Winter 2001-present.
Publications committee, Newsletter sub-committee. Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Fall 2002-present.
PWR Summer Institute Planning Committee. Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Summer 2004.
WR2 Technology Subcommittee. VPUE committee. Winter 2004-present.
Community Service Writing Prize Committee, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Spring 2003.
Boothe Prize committee, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Winter 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2003.
On-line Committee, UCD 1997-1998. Chair, January 1998-June 1998.
Webmaster for English Department, UCD, 1996-1998.
Adviser to English Department Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, UCD 1996-98
Curriculum Committee, UCD 1996-1998
Salary Committee, UCD Spring 1997; Spring 1998
Tenure Subcommittee, UCD 1996-97
Honors Committee for Honors Theses, UCD, 1996 - 1998.
Faculty sponsor for Student Internship, UCD, 1997.
Audio-Visual Technician for the English Department: Speciality-photographing & masking slides. Stanford University, 1995-1996.
Qualifying Examination Revision Committee, Stanford University 1994.

Academic Training in Writing, Composition, and Rhetoric

Workshop on Visual Information (full-day) with Edward Tufte, Palo Alto, CA, December 2004.
Workshop on Visual Rhetoric (full-day), CCCC Conference, New York, March 2003.
Retreat for Instructors, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, September 2002.
Retreat for Instructors, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, September 2001.
Retreat for Instructors, Program in Writing and Critical Thinking, Stanford University, September 2000.
Pedagogy Seminar, English Department, Stanford University, Fall quarter 1990.
Technology Training for Pedagogical Purposes
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "Using Dreamweaver," Session instructor, November 2004, September 2004.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "The Audio Essay," Organized and Facilitated session, April 2004.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "Using PanFora in the Classroom," Delivered presentation, February 2003.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "Powerpoint in the Classroom," Delivered presentation, November 2002.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "Dreamweaver Strategies," Attended workshop, April 2002.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, "Teaching with Technology in the Flex Classroom," Audience Participant at Training Session, September 2001.
University of Colorado, "Constructing Course Websites," Attended workshop, Winter 1997.
Stanford University Brown Bag Technology Series, "Using the Web in Teaching and Scholarship," George Landow guest speaker. Attended talk, Winter 1996.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Winter 2002-present.
College Composition and Communication (CCC). Winter 2002-present.
The Modern Language Association. MLA. Fall 1993-present.

Robert Polhemus, Professor, English Department, Stanford University | polhemus@stanford.edu | (650) 723-2635

Andrea Lunsford, Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric; Professor of English, Stanford University | lunsford@stanford.edu | (650) 723-2631

Marvin Diogenes, Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University | marvind@stanford.edu | (650) 723-2631

Alyssa O'Brien, Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University | aobrien@stanford.edu | (650) 723-3802

Hilary Schor, Director, Center for Feminist Research; Professor of English, University of Southern California | schor@rcf.usc.edu | (213) 740-2808