HILARY JANE ENGLERT

Department of English
New Jersey City University
319 Karnoutsos Hall
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305-1597
(201) 200-3099

314 Fourth Street
Apartment #6
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
(201) 369-1778

henglert@NJCU.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, 2002

      Dissertation: The Work and the Book: Locating Literary Value and Property in  
            Eighteenth-Century Britain
      Directors: Ronald Paulson and Frances Ferguson

M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, 1994

B.A. Amherst College, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, summa cum 
      laude, 1991

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Separately Budgeted Research Grant for “Where Do Books Come From?: The Found Manuscript and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture,” NJCU, Spring 2008

Separately Budgeted Research Grant for “Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne,” NJCU, Spring 2006

National Humanities Center Summer Institute in Literary Studies: “Benjamin Franklin: Reader, Writer, Printer,” led by Dr. Peter Stallybrass

Separately Budgeted Research Grant for “The Figure of the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Literary Property Discourse,” NJCU, Spring 2005

Separately Budgeted Research Grant for “Occupying Works: Inhabited Objects and the Struggle to Conceptualize Literary Property,” NJCU, Spring 2004

International Incentive Grant for the Globalization of British Literature I, NJCU, May 2004

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Travel Grant, July 2003

Montclair State University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999

The Johns Hopkins University Fellowship, 1991-95

Mellon Summer Seminar Fellowship, June 1994

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey – 2003 to present
Assistant Professor, English Department

Courses Taught

--Capstone Seminar: Current Issues in the Discipline of English (Histories of Reading, Readers, and Book Reception (Fall ’09; Spring ’10, Fall ‘10)

--The Short Novel (Fall ’08)

--Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines (Summers ’07, ’08, ‘09)

--The Victorian Age (Spring ’08)

–Introduction to the Study of Literature (Fall ’04; Spring ’06, Fall ’07; Spring ’07)

–British Literature I: Beowulf to 1601 (Spring ’04; Spring ’06)

–British Literature II: the Restoration to Early Romanticism (Fall ’04; Spring ’05)

–British Literature III: Romantic and Victorian (Fall ’03; Fall ’06; Fall ’07; Fall ‘08)

–Development of the Novel (Spring ’05; Fall ’07, Spring ’08; Fall ’09, Fall ‘10)

–The Female Body: Cultural Perspectives, Women’s and Gender Studies (Fall ’04; Fall ’05)

–Critical Analysis I: Poetry and the Critical Imagination, Honors Program (Fall ’06)

–Critical Analysis II, Honors Program (Spring ’04)

–English Composition I/Project 100 (Fall ’05; Fall ’07)

–English Composition II (Fall ’03; Spring ’04)

–Summer Bridge Intensive Reading and Writing (Summers ’04, ’05, ’06)

Honors Thesis Supervisor

--William Reynolds, Ancient Authorship in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries (Spring ’10)*

--Suzy Roushdy, Frankenstein as an Allegory of Authorship (Spring ’10)*

--Elizabeth Vosk, Harry and Hermione: The Destruction of Realistic Expectations for Literary Characters

(Spring ’10)*

--Heather Ferriera, Harry Potter and the Dangers of Female Reading (Fall ’09)***

--Enza Scibilia, Gothic Interiors: Setting and Character in Jane Eyre and Rebecca (Fall ’08)

--Josue Rodriguez, Surrealist Literary Theory and the Author Function (Spring ’08)

--Kimberly Carter, Typology and Sentiment in Early American Captivity Narrative (Fall ’06)

--Danielle Flora, National Identity and Nation Building in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Tales” (Fall ’06)

--Sarahi Mendoza, Literary Value and Cultural Capital: A Long View of the Culture Wars (Spring ’06- Fall ’06)

--William Piedrahita, Promethean Authorship in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Spring ’06-Fall ’06)

--Jaime Friscia, The Satanic Hero: Paradise Lost and the Milton Controversy (Spring ’06)

--Fatima Koura, Hysterical Subjection: A Foucaultian Analysis of ‘The Yellow-Wallpaper’ (Fall ’06)**

--Jessica Roscowiak, Gender Ideology in E.T.A. Hoffman (Fall ’05)**

*showcased at the NJCU Student Research Seminar

**showcased at the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Undergraduate Research Colloquium

Course Proposals

--Honors Thesis Virtual Seminar (under consideration)

--RWAD II (Permanently Approved 2009)

--Reading and Writing the City, General Studies Course (in progress)

--Senior Capstone Seminar (Approved by CAS C&I Committee; under consideration by University Senate)

Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1995– 2000

Pre-Doctoral Fellow and Full-Time Instructor, English Department

Courses Taught

–Honors Seminar: Great Books and Ideas I – Representation and Realism

–First Year Composition Special Section on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

–Introduction to Literature

–Survey in British Literature from Beowulf to the Restoration

–Survey in British Literature from the Restoration to the Present

–First Year Composition

–The Novel to 1900

–Augustan Age: Early Eighteenth Century Culture and Society

–Oversaw Independent Study on Samuel Richardson

–British Romanticism

–World Literature: Tradition and Challenge

UNIVERSITY-WIDE SERVICE, NJCU

Coordinator, and Committee Chair, First Year Experience Program (2008-present)

Coordinator and Committee Chair, Reading in Common (FYEP) (2008-present)

Coordinator, Project 100 (2005-2008)

Coordinator, Freshman Express (2007-present)

General Studies Coordinating Committee (2009-present)

Chair, General Studies Revision Working Group dedicated to FYE, Learning Communities, and

Writing Across the Curriculum Initiatives (2009-present)

Freshman Express Task Force (2007-present)

Chair, Project 100 Advisory Committee (2006-2007)

Program Co-Director, Summer Bridge Program (2005-2006)

Steering Committee, Title V Grant on Minority Student Performance in Math and Science (2008)

Middle States Commission on Higher Education NJCU Self-Study 2010, Institutional Assessment and Student Learning Assessment Work Group (2008-present)

Reading, Writing and Speaking Across the Curriculum Task Force (2007-present)

University Committee on Assessment of Student Learning (UCASL) (2006-present)

Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority Students (BEAMS) Faculty Engagement Working Group Member (2005-present)

Office of Academic Affairs High School to College Liaison Team (Union City School System Partnership) (2007-present)

Bayonne School System Partnership Project (2007-present)

Guarini Library Committee on Information Literacy Assessment (2007-present)

Academic Foundations Coordinating Committee (2005-present)

First Year Experience Program Review Committee (2004-2008)

Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee of the Strategic Enrolment Management Committee with Focus on Summer Enrollment (2008-present)

Office of Admissions Special Interview Committee (2005-2006)

Search Committee for Coordinator of International Students and Study Abroad (2009)

Search Committee for Director of The Learning Communities (TLC) Trio Program (2007)

Search Committee for Director of Specialized Services for Students with Disabilities (2006-2007)

Search Committee for University Advisement Center Testing Coordinator (2005)

Reader of NJCU Submissions for the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium

Undergraduate Research Colloquium (2007, 2009)

Freshman Workshops Program Committee (2005-2006)

English Department Senator (University Senate) (2003-2005)

Transformations Editorial Board Member and Reader (2004-present)

Member, Affiliated Faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program (2003-present)

Reader for NJCU submissions to the 4^th and 6^th Annual New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Undergraduate Research Colloquium

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE, NJCU ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Co-Chair (October 2008-Present)

Assistant Chair (January 2008-October 2008)

Chair, Curriculum Committee (January 2008-January 2010)

Co-Chair, Writing and Reading Assessment Profile (WRAP) Test Development Pilot Committee (2006-2008)

Search Committee for British/World Literature Specialist (2007-2008)

Co-Chair, Composition Program Faculty Development Workshop Series (2007-present)

Co-Chair, Bedford/St. Martin’s Student Essay Writing Contest (2008-present)

Writing Assessment Committee, English Department (Spring 2007-Spring 2008)

Search Committee for British Literature Generalist (2004-2005)

Advisor, Explorations, English Department-sponsored Journal of Expository Writing (2003-present)

Chair, Adjunct Committee, English Department (2003-2008)

English Composition Committee, English Department (2003-present)

English Department Curriculum Committee (2004-2006)

Planning Committee, Speaking of Literature Series (2006-present)

Women’s and Gender Studies Curriculum Committee (2003-present)

Women’s and Gender Studies Research Group (2003-2004)

Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Group (2005-2007)

PUBLICATIONS

“Introduction to the Major Themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Science and Technology” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Education in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Responsibility in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Introduction to the Major Themes in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Commodification and Commerce in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Gender in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Violence in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Introduction to the Major Themes in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Death in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Pride in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“Tradition in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess,” G eneral Themes in Literature, ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Facts on File, Inc., Forthcoming 2010

“’This Rhapsodical Work’: Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 Spring 2008

“Occupying Works: Literary Property and the Transmigrating Narrator in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction” in The Secret Life of Things: Animals and Objects in Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Circulation, ed. Mark Blackwell, Bucknell University Press, 2007

Foraged Fiction: Locating Literary Property and Value in Eighteenth-Century Britain, book proposal accepted; manuscript in preparation for submission to Cambridge University Press

“Wollstonecraft Rewrites Rousseau” – article in progress

GRANT S

The Wal-Mart Minority Student Success Initiative: The Language and Literacy Partnership (2009)
     --Awarded in March 2010; $100, 000 over two years

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

“The 411 on College English,” NJCU New Student Orientation, Jersey City, June 2009

“From Found Manuscript to Commercial Publication: Literary Objects in the Eighteenth-Century Novel” Speaking of Literature, the NJCU English Department Faculty Speaker Series, Jersey City, May 2007

“Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne” at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Canada March 2006

“Literary Objects in Late Eighteenth-Century Fugitive Fiction” at the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Group at the CUNY Graduate Center, April 2005

“Making up a Book: the Literary Object in Late Eighteenth-Century Fugitive Fiction” at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2005

“The Vesting of Literary Property in the Eighteenth-Century Popular Novel” at the Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Scripps College, Claremont, California, July 2003

Prose Fiction Division Panel: Matter Out Of Place, “‘A Piece of Written Paper to Hold their Butter’ – The Found-Manuscript Anecdote and the Eighteenth-Century Literary Object” at the Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, New York, New York, December 2002

“The Found Manuscript: A Narrative Device of the Early British Novel” at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1999

TEACHING INTERESTS

Eighteenth-Century British Literature Restoration Literature
History of the Novel Gender Studies and Feminist Literary Theory
History of the Book, Reading, and Print Culture Copyright, Plagiarism, and    
     Piracy

LANGUAGES

French and German – reading fluency

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing