Katherine Larsen

4209 Longfellow Street

Hyattsville, MD 20781

Home phone:(301) 779-7040

Office phone:(202)994-2035

E-mail: klarsen@gwu.edu

Education

•1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Literature

University of Maryland at College Park

•1986 Master of Arts, Twentieth Century British Literature

Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

(Magna Cum Laude)

Thesis: "Memory, Censorship and the Position of the Writer

in the Novels of Christa Wolf, Milan Kundera and Nadine Gordimer"

•1980 Bachelor of Arts, English Literature/Education

State University of New York at Albany

(Magna Cum Laude)

Teaching Positions

•2004-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, The George Washington University: University Writing Program

•Summer 2003 Assistant to the Director of the Georgetown Summer Shakespeare in Oxford

Program, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

•1995-2004 Assistant Professorial Instructor, The George Washington University: Department of English

•1999-2000 Lecturer, Georgetown University

•1988-1990 Assistant Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park

Advising Experience

•May 2000 Nominated for Excellence in Advising Award

•1998-Present Freshman Faculty Advisor, The George Washington University

•1998 Faculty sponsor for “Professor’s Choice” film series

Awards/Academic Service Positions

•March 2006 – Examining Committee for Dissertation Defense of Sara Davis at The George Washington University. Tara Wallace Director.

•May 2000 - Nominated for Excellence in Academic Advising Award

•May 2000 - Examining Committee for Dissertation Defense of Patricia J. Ortmayer at The George Washington University. Tara Wallace Director.

•Fall 1999-Spring 2001 - Co-organizer of the Colloquium on Women in the

Eighteenth Century

•October 1998 - Commendation from Student Association, Disability Support

Services for Work with Disabled Students

•1998-2001 -Alumni Admissions Program Interviewer for Georgetown University.

Courses Taught

•Honors English/ Survey Romantic through Modern: including Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Dickens, Wilde, Waugh

•Eighteenth Century Novel: including Defoe, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, Wollstonecraft, Lewis

•Eighteenth Century Drama: including Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Wycherly, Centlivre, Sheridan, Goldsmith

•Introduction to the Novel: including DeFoe, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Turgenev; Kundera,

•Composition: Language as Communication (English 9 and English 10): Nature of Narrative in Film and Ficton; Writing and Technoculture; Self-fashioning and Self-Re-presentation.

•Composition: Language and Arts and Science (English 11) :Gothic Literature; Monsters Among Us; To Be Continued: Texts and their Modern Reinterpretations; Film and Technoculture; The Literature of Dis-ease.

Colloquia/Seminars/Workshops

•Folger Colloquium on Women in the Eighteenth Century Fall 1989-Spring 2001

•Folger Seminar - Fictions and Protofiction: The Evolution Fall 1992

of the Novel in Eighteenth Century England

•Listserve Owners Workshop Spring 1999

•Webpage construction using Netscape Communicator Fall 1998

•Photoshop, CD-Rom construction, and Video for the Web Fall 1998

•Syllabi on the Web Summer 1998

•Advanced Webpage Construction Fall 1997

•Basic Webpage Construction Fall 1997

Dissertation

John Dunton's A Voyage Round the World: A Critical Edition

Director: Calhoun Winton

Readers: Susan Lanser, Vincent Carretta, Paula McDowell, William Pressly

Today’s technology impacts our methods of communication and indeed changes the very concept of communication. At such moments it is instructive to look back to another period that experienced the same processes of redefinition, both of its political, social and religious identities and how those identities were in turn communicated to an ever widening, ever diversifying audience. My dissertation examines the overlapping effects of the impact of print, self-fashioning, and the growing (and indeed on-going) cultural literacy debate as they are addressed in John Dunton’s narrative, A Voyage Round the World (1691). Dunton, himself a publisher, borrowed heavily from almost every extant genre of the late seventeenth century and his proto-novel can be seen as a bridge between late Renaissance literary forms and the explosion of narrative prose that so dominated the eighteenth century. My annotations underscore the context in which the work was written and the issues it raises concerning authorship, publishing, and the right to write, issues that remain relevant to our own cultural moment.

Publications

•“Eighteenth Century Resources at the Folger” (with Ann Kelly).

East Central Intellegencer Fall, 1998

• Women Critics 1660-1820: An Anthology

Ed: Folger Collective on Early Women Critics

Indiana University Press, 1995

Papers Given

•”Star Equilibrium: Issues of Censorship in Adapting Sons and Lovers to the Screen” (written with Divya Saksena).

Film and Literature Association, Towson Maryland November 2003

•”Virtual Textile Workers in the Eighteenth Century”

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, New Orleans

April 2001

•”Morality made Material: Production, Consumption and Female Virtue”

Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Toronto, Canada,

October 2000

•”Spinning Yarns: Privileged Text/iles in the Eighteenth Century”

North East American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies,

Portsmouth, NH, December 1999

•”Privileged Voices: John Dunton, Matt Drudge, their Media, and their Messages”

Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment. Dublin, Ireland.

July 1999.

•”The Salon in the Library: A Folger Institute Roundtable

Discussion with members of the Folger Colloquium on Women in the

Eighteenth Century” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies,

Notre Dame April 1-4, 1998

•"The Dream Turned Upside Down: John Dunton's Secularization of Pilgrim's Progress"

North East American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Boston, MA

December 11-14, 1997

•"Dangerous Things to Meddle With: John Dunton, Print, and Sexual Harassment"

Patristic Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova.

September 15-17, 1995

Work in Progress/Completed

•Beautiful Abomination – a novel. Completed.

•Between a Rock and a Hard Place - a consideration of real world conditions of eighteenth century female textile workers and how their image was used for various political, philosophical and social agendas.

•Ongoing research into the gay subculture of Eighteenth Century London for a novel in progress entitled Exchange

•Co-author of a film adaptation of Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Areas of Special Interest

•The Eighteenth Century

•Women Writers from the 17thC to 19thC

•History of the novel as a genre

•The impact of technology on writing

•Marginalized groups/genres

Professional Memberships

•Modern Language Association

•American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

•East Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

•North East Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

•Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

•Film and Literature Association

Scholarly Web Pages Maintained

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/wacec.html•Electronic Syllabus for “Eighteenth-Century Drama”

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/drama.html

•Electronic Syllabus for “Nature of Narrative in Film and Fiction”

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/narrative.html

•Electronic Syllabus for “Gothic Literature”

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/gothic.html

•Electronic Syllabus for Honors Survey of British Literature Romantics

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~klarsen/honors.html

•Electronic Syllabus for “Monsters Among Us”

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/monsters.html

•Resource Page for a Freshman Advising Workshop

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~klarsen/csas.html

•John Dunton Homepage - Resources for information on Dunton, including a bibliography of materials by and about the publisher and writer, resources on

the 17th-18th century print trade, and on related areas of cyberculture and hyperfiction.

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/`klarsen/dunton.html

•"Between a Rock and a Hard Place" - Materials relating to textile workers in the 17^th and 18th centuries.

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/`klarsen/sheep.html

•Sample syllabi for three courses on the Eighteenth Century

http://www.gwu.edu/~klarsen/samples.html