English Department || Carnell

Dr. Rachel Carnell

Dr. Rachel Carnell
Associate Professor
18th century British Literature; the rise of the novel; feminist theory; Graduate Director
Office: RT 1837
Phone: (216) 687-2222
Email: r.carnell@csuohio.edu
Office Hours:

Specialties, Courses Taught:

As the English Department's specialist in eighteenth-century British literature. I teach a variety of courses on the eighteenth century, including ENG 333, The Eighteenth Century, and ENG 350/553, The Rise of the Novel. I also offer courses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women authors, including Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. Additionally, I teach courses in various types of critical theory, including ENG 363, Feminist Literary Theory, and ENG 511, Critical Approaches to Literature.

Educational Background

B.A. (French), Haverford College, 1984
M.A. (English), Boston University, 1989
Ph.D. (English), Boston University, 1995

Education

1995 Ph.D., English, Boston University
1989 M.A., English, Boston University
1984 B.A., French, Haverford College

Employment

Associate Professor, Cleveland State University 2001 –
Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University 1996 – 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University 1994 – 96

Academic Awards and Grants

2007-08	National Endowment for the Humanities, year-long fellowship
2004	Established Full-Time Faculty Research Grant, Graduate College , CSU
2000	Scholarly Travel Award, Arts and Sciences Dean's Office, CSU
1997	Established Full-Time Faculty Research Grant, Graduate College , CSU
1996	Cleveland State University 's Nominee for junior faculty NEH Summer Stipend
1993	Angela J. and James J. Rallis Scholarship, Humanities Foundation, Boston University
1983	Phi Beta Kappa, Haverford College

Books (accepted after disinterested peer review)

Carnell, Rachel. Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel , ( New York : Palgrave, 2006).

Carnell, Rachel and Ruth Herman, eds. The Selected Works of Delarivier Manley , 5 volumes ( London : Pickering & Chatto, 2005).

Books under contract

Carnell, Rachel. A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley under contract for Pickering & Chatto (anticipated 2008).

Carnell, Rachel. A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood under contract for Pickering & Chatto (anticipated 2010).

Articles (all peer-reviewed, and all single-authored)

“More Borrowing from Bellegarde in Delarivier Manley's Queen Zarah and the Zarazians, ” Notes and Queries , 249: 4 (December 2004), 377-379.

“The Very Scandal of Her Tea-Table: Eliza Haywood's Response to the Whig Public Sphere.” Presenting Gender: Sex Change in Early-Modern Culture . Ed. Chris Mounsey
(Bucknell , PA : Bucknell University Press, 2001), 255-273.

“Revising Tragic Conventions: Aphra Behn's Turn to the Novel.” Studies in the Novel 31:2
(Summer 1999), 133-151.

“It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender and Friendship in Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals.”
Eighteenth-Century Studies 32:2 (Winter 1998-99), 199-214.

“Feminism and the Public Sphere in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall .”
Nineteeenth-Century Literature 53:1 (June 1998.), 1-24. Reprinted in
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism ( Detroit : Gale Research Publications, 2001).

“Clarissa's Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, and the Public Sphere.”
Eighteenth-Century Fiction . 10:3 (April 1998), 269-287. Reprinted in Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson . Ed. David Blewett ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001).

Book Reviews

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 by Scott Paul Gordon.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15 (January 2003), 304-06.

Conference Papers (all talks represent peer-reviewed proposals, except where indicated otherwise). Invited talks are indicated by an asterisk.

“Outing Delarivier Manley's Illegitimate Children” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford , England . January 2007

Panel moderator: “Eliza Haywood in Context” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.Montréal, Canada . March 2006

“ Delarivier Manley's “Postmodern” Critique of the Whig Public Sphere” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Las Vegas , NV . March 2005.

Panel Moderator: “Delarivier Manley: Politics and Contexts” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Las Vegas , NV . March 2005.

“Using Eighteenth-Century Collections Online: Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and the Evolving Literary Canon. ” Jane Austen/Eighteenth-Century Collections Online Symposium. Case Western Reserve University . Cleveland Ohio . October 2004 (invited talk).*

“Homoeroticism and Jacobite Politics: The Real Scandal in Haywood's Oeuvre ? Queer People II: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1580-1850.” Cambridge , England . July 2004.

“Realism and Partisan Politics in Delarivier Manley's Political Fictions,” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford , England . January 2004.

Panel moderator: “Sexual Identities,” and “Fanny Burney in Context.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford , England . January 2004. (invited to moderate these panels).

“Delarivier Manley: Performing Partisan Propaganda as Proto-novelist.” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Rosemont , Pennsylvania . October 2002.

“Jane Austen's Predecessors.” Women's Voices Week. Symposium on Jane Austen's World. Case Western Reserve University . Cleveland , Ohio . October 2001 (invited talk).*

“Conceiving Women's Work.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. New Orleans , Louisiana . April 2001.

Panel Chair for “Eliza Haywood's Politics.” Amercan Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. New Orleans , Louisiana . April 2001.

“The Politics of Cross-Dressing in Jacobite and Anti-Jacobite Discourse. ” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , April 2000.

“Coffee, Tea, and the Exclusionary Mechanisms of the Public Sphere.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Milwaukee , Wisconsin . April 1999.

“Cross-Dressed Testimony: Eliza Haywood and the Gendering of the Public Sphere.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Notre Dame, Indiana. April 1998.

“Defoe and the Politics of Anecdote.” Joint Conference on Urban Culture, Mid-West American Society for 18th-Century Studies and the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Chicago , Illinois. October 1997.

“Affective Humanism and the Family: Habermas's Misreading of Richardson .” Northeast Modern Language Association. Montréal , Canada . April 1996.

“The Scandal of Her Early Fiction: Eliza Haywood's Depictions of Incest,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Austin , Texas . March 1996.

“Fictions of Reason: Citizenship, Rationality, and Women's Rights,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Sudies. Tucson , Arizona . April 1995.

“Historicizing the Difference: Rights and Fiction from 1688 to 1848.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston , Massachusetts . March 1995.

Panel Moderator for “The Merchant and Mercantilism.” New Economics Criticism Conference at Case Western Reserve University . Cleveland , Ohio . October 1994.

“Revolution in the Family: Private Crimes, Public Treason.” Aphra Behn Society. Portland , Maine . September 1993.

“Daniel Defoe Meets Murphy Brown: The Cultural Politics of the Family.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . March 1993.

Peer Reviews (for the following journals and presses)

British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1 (2006)
Studies in the Novel: 1 (2005)
Eighteenth-Century Fiction: 3 (2000, 2002, 2004)
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: 1 (2002)
Mosaic: 1 (2004)
Broadview Press: 3 (2000, 2001, 2003)
third space: 1 (2004)

CSU Service

Departmental Service

Director of Graduate Studies in English (2004 – ongoing)
Faculty Affairs Committee (1999 – 2004), chair Fall 2003, Fall 2004
Peer Review Steering Committee, chair (2004)
Committee on Instruction (1996-99, 2004- ongoing)
Undergraduate Committee and Advisor (1996-98)
Library Committee (1996-97)
Graduate Committee and Advisor (1998 – ongoing)
Departmental Pre-law Advisor (1995 – ongoing)
Hiring Committee (chair) for Medievalist position (2005-06)
Hiring Committee (chair) for Twentieth-Century British Literature (2000)
Hiring Committee for Nineteenth-Century British Literature (1999)
Hiring Committee for Director of Freshman Writing (1998-99)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Sonstegard (2006)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Engelking (2006)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Geither (2005-06)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Marino (2005)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Karem (2004)
Teaching evaluation committee for Professor Dyer (2002)

College Service

Professional Leave Committee (2005 – ongoing)
Women's Comprehensive Program (1995 – 2000)
Advisor to the Student Women's Association (1998 – 2000)

University Service

Project Director for the Millennium Lecture Series in the Humanities (1998 – 2001)
“Cultural Crossings: Defining the Humanities for the 21 st Century.”
President's Committee on the Role and Status of Women (1998 – 2000)
Equity Sub-committee for the PCRSW (1998 – 2000).

Other Service

Lobbyist – Sole representative from Ohio to lobby for the NEH during the Jefferson Day
lobbying effort – March 27-28, 2000.
Post-Theatre Lecture on “Hogarth and Fielding's World” for Dobama Theatre's production of
“The Art of Success” – April 27, 1997.
Panel Moderator – Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematics Day – April 26, 1997.

Date of Preparation : January 2007