Lorna Clymer
Professor of English, Emerita
Curriculum Vitae
Education
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- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994: English.
- Dissertation: “Engraved Absences: British Poetry About Death, 1700-1832.”
- M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989: English.
- B.A., cum laude, University of California, Berkeley, 1978: Classical Languages.
Teaching Experience
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- University of Virginia, Visiting Professor of English, Spring 2008:
- Graduate survey of British literature, 1750-1800.
- California State University-Bakersfield, Professor, 1994-2006:
- Undergraduate and graduate courses, including 18th-century literature, Romanticism, 19th-century poetry,
Intro. to Criticism and Theory, Gothic Worlds, Introduction to Literature, Survey of World Literature,
Senior Seminar, Women in Literature and Film, Freshman and Upper Division Composition.
- Brandeis University, Lecturer, 1993-94:
- Undergraduate courses: British Poetry About Death (1700-1832), Romanticism, Introduction to Literary Methods.
- University of California-Santa Barbara, Teaching Associate and Assistant, 1988-91, 1993:
- English Literature surveys; Freshman Composition.
Related Professional Activities
- Organized conferences:
- Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, September 2006.
- Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Institutions of Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures, UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, February 2001.
Honors and Awards
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- Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2006-October 2007.
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short-Term Fellowship, April-May 2001.
- California State University Faculty Development Grant, Spring 2001.
- British Academy/Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, Summer 1999.
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Kolb Research Travel Fellowship, Spring 1999.
- Huntington Library/Lincoln College, Oxford Exchange Fellow, Summer 1998.
- NEH Summer Seminar participant: “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” directed by Leo Damrosch, Harvard University, Summer 1998.
- Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Fall-Winter 1996/97.
- California State University Research Council Grant, Fall, 1996 and Spring 1995.
- California State University Affirmative Action Grant, Fall 1995.
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short-Term Fellowship, August 1995.
- University of California-Santa Barbara Graduate Humanities Research Grant, 1991-1992.
Last Modified May 16, 2011