“Teaching the Great American Short Story,” College English Association Annual
... Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship, 2011.
MARTIN GREENUP Dept. of English, Harvard University Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA PhD English, expected May 2014 MA English, 2008 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK BA English, 2004 DISSERTATION “The Aesthetics of Animation in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson” Advisors: Stephen Burt (chair), Elisa New, Elaine Scarry, Helen Vendler PUBLICATIONS “Poe and the First Use of the Term ‘Short Story.’” Notes & Queries 60.2 (2013): 251-54 Review of William C. Spengemann’s Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville, The Emily Dickinson Journal 19.2 (2010): 119-21 “Irish Dickinsonians: Plenary Panel 1.” The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 22.2 (2010): 11 “The Glimmering Frontier: Emily Dickinson and Publication.” The Cambridge Quarterly 33.4 (2004): 345-62 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Dickinson’s Hyper-Visual Manuscripts,” MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, 9 January 2014 “Depth Sounding: Thoreau’s Ecological Echoes of Shakespeare,” Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, 13 July 2013 “American Ecocritical Elegy,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, 25 May 2013 “Teaching the Great American Short Story,” College English Association Annual Conference, Savannah, 5 April 2013 “Emily Dickinson’s Spiritualist Speakers,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 25 May 2012 “For Poets - I have Keats: Emily Dickinson and Allusion,” Emily Dickinson International Society International Conference, Oxford, UK, 6 August 2010 “New England Literary Scripturism: The Exceptional Case of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 27 May 2010 “Inventing a Demotic Language: the American English of Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, 24 May 2009 “Title divine - is mine!: Emily Dickinson and Titles,” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 25 October 2008
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INVITED TALKS “Defining Dickinson’s Domestic Sublime,” Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, 15 November 2013 “Dickinson’s Poems with Dead Speakers,” Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, 16 November 2012 “Inventing a Demotic Language: the American English of Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium,” Editorial Institute, Boston University, 11 November 2009 (40-minute talk, expanded from earlier conference presentation) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art, Third Prize, 2013 Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-2013 Dexter Summer Research Fellowship, 2012 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship, 2011 Helen Choate Bell Term-Time Fellowship Prize, Fall 2010 Douglas Dillon Fellowship Fund, 2007-2008 Thouron Award, University of Pennsylvania (declined), 2006-2007 The Cambridge Quarterly Prize (for best undergraduate dissertation), 2004 Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust Undergraduate Bursary, 2002-2003 TEACHING PRIZES Francis James Child Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Fall 2011, Fall 2008 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard College Writing Program Departmental Writing Fellow in English, 2013-2014 (selected for year-long position of pedagogical leadership and writing support within Department of English)
Work closely with the teachers and students of the Junior Tutorial program in the Department of English Organize and conduct initiatives (such as meetings, workshops, and handouts) to improve both student writing and the quality of writing instruction Hold weekly writing clinic, offering consultations tailored to the needs of individual students
Harvard College Instructor (designed syllabus and instructed honors-level seminar for juniors majoring in English; supervised writing of 25-page final paper)
“The Great American Short Story,” Spring 2014 “The Great American Short Story,” Spring 2012 “The Great American Short Story,” Spring 2011 “Forms of the Sublime in Modern American Poetry,” Spring 2010
Head Teaching Fellow (managed course, led weekly discussion sections, and evaluated student work)
“Ballads, Sonnets, Literary History, and Poetic Form,” Department of English, with Professor Peter Sacks, Spring 2011 “Poetry in America,” General Education, with Professor Elisa New, Spring 2010
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Teaching Fellow (led weekly discussion sections and evaluated student work)
“Literature and Sexuality,” Department of English, with Professor Matthew Kaiser, Fall 2011 “Wit and Humor,” Department of English, with Professor Leo Damrosch, Spring 2009 “Poems, Poets, Poetry,” Core Program, with Professor Helen Vendler, Fall 2008
Senior Thesis Graduate Adviser (advised honors seniors on research, organization, and writing of 15,000-word thesis)
The modernist marriage plot in Fitzgerald, Cather, and Hemingway, 2013-2014 The role of objects in Bishop’s poetry, 2013-2014
Guest Lecturer (90-minute lectures for “Poetry in America”)
“Robert Frost,” Cambridge, 22 March 2010 “Emily Dickinson,” Cambridge, 1 March 2010 “Longfellow and Poe,” Cambridge, 8 February 2010
Harvard Extension School Teaching Assistant (led weekly discussion sections online with adult learners and evaluated their work)
“Literature and Sexuality,” with Professor Matthew Kaiser, Fall 2011
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant (part-time) to the Events Coordinator, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 20102013 CELTA qualification (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Embassy School, Cambridge, UK, 2004 ACADEMIC SERVICE Examined Senior Thesis on the topic of spirituality in Emerson, Thoreau, and D. T. Suzuki, Harvard College, April 2010 Chaired panel (by invitation), “Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, 27 May 2007 Served as Elected Undergraduate Representative on the English Faculty Board, University of Cambridge, 2001-2002 FOREIGN LANGUAGES Italian (reading knowledge); French (reading knowledge) REFERENCES Professor Stephen Burt Dept. of English, Harvard University Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected] 617-496-0285
Professor Elisa New Dept. of English, Harvard University Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected] 617-496-2552
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Professor Elaine Scarry Dept. of English, Harvard University Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-547-7397
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Professor Helen Vendler Dept. of English, Harvard University Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected] 617-496-6028
