CV
Emi Wood Scully
10816 Farragut Hills Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37934
860.759.4779 • egonza19@vols.utk.edu
EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2020 – present)
Doctorate of Philosophy in English: Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies (GPA: 4.0)
/ / Dissertation title:
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT (2016)
Master of Arts in English (GPA: 3.78)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2007)
Bachelor of Arts in English (GPA: 3.62)
/ / Also completed coursework at Penn State University and Keene State College.
/ / Activities: English Club, Guilford Poetry Guild, Guilford Art League (Secretary)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
/ / Late 19th–20th Century British Literature
/ / Modernism
/ / Virginia Woolf
/ / James Joyce
/ / Sound Studies
/ / Spatial Studies
RESEARCH EXperience
Research Assistant to Dr. Heidi Hartwig, New Britain, CT (2018)
Roman Fever: Conversion in Modern British Literature (in process)
/ / Assisted with research into conversion in modern British literature for a scholarly book still in process.
Independent Research, New Haven, CT (2017)
“From Childhood Memories to Adult Consciousness in Mina Loy’s The Child and the Parent”
/ / Conducted independent research into the unpublished manuscripts of Mina Loy at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
EDITORIAL EXperience
Social Media Editor, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 17
/ / Responsible for Grist’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and elsewhere.
/ / Work closely with the Managing Editor for Online Content, Art & Design Team, and other genre editors for various projects.
Editorial Assistant to co-editor, Dr. Nancy Henry, Knoxville, TN (2022–23)
Journal of Victorian Culture
/ / Assist with the journal’s production including corresponding with contributors, copy-editing, proofreading manuscripts, and its online presence.
Assistant Poetry Editor, Knoxville, TN (2022–23)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 16
/ / Assist with reading and voting for publication of poetry submissions.
Editorial Team, Knoxville, TN (2020)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 15
/ / Assisted with reading and voting for publication of fiction submissions.
PROFESSIONAL EXperience
20th-Century Reading Group, Knoxville, TN (2023)
Co-founder
/ / Organize, plan, and run discussions centered around 20th-century transatlantic literature. Research secondary source material and circulate to group members. Create handouts for each meeting to discuss in conjunction with the assigned text for that meeting. Meetings are held twice monthly.
Graduate Students of English, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
PhD Representative
/ / Serve as contact between PhD students, GSE, and department. Represent student concerns while helping convey information from the department.
/ / Assist with recruitment efforts and meeting with prospective students.
NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
Co-chair
/ / Apply for funding, finding keynote speakers, creating and circulating the call for papers, locating and contracting with the venue, scheduling the event, arranging for catering, managing volunteers, etc.
Publications
ARTICLES
“‘Now is the Moment’: Writing To Be in The Waves” (2024)
Revisiting Modernism: Texts and Contexts, Lexington Books
“‘They Were Alone in the Room’: The Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway” (2022)
Tennessee Philological Association Bulletin
“Who Wishes to Walk with Me:” The Poem as a Walk in Whitman and Ammon’s Poetry” (2018)
the quint, an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north
BOOK REVIEWS
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works Western and Non-Western Worlds (2024)
The Modernist Review
BLOG POSTS
POETRY
“It’s Always Only Been You,” The New River (2024)
“Deadheading,” Same Faces Collective (2023)
“View of My Neighbor’s Back Door,” The Harbour Journal (2023)
“Gestures of Love in Five Phases,” Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine (2022)
“June Flowers on Main Street,” Backchannels Journal (2022)
“Lines Composed Many Miles From Tucson,” Connecticut Literary Anthology (2020)
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Associate, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2020 – Present)
/ / First Year Composition: Instructor for English Composition 1 and 2
Conferences,Workshops and Presentations
GSE Publication Workshop, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023)
/ / Designed and ran a panel on turning seminar papers into publishable articles.
GSE Graduate Student Orientation, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023)
/ / ”Professionalization“ talk for all incoming MA and PhD students.
An Interdisciplinary Conference, Kings College, London (2023)
“Sounding Modernism”
/ / “Ephemeral Subjectivity and Woolf’s Silent Revolution in Jacob’s Room”
32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fort Myers, FL (2023)
“Virginia Woolf and Ecologies”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Knoxville, TN (2023)
“Nineteenth-Century Movement(s)”
/ / “Walking into Modernity: Tess as fieldwoman and flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Tennessee Philological Association, Clarksville, TN (2023)
“Flora and Fauna”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
SESA Symposium, Fresno, CA (2002)
”Transcending Boundaries: Finding Hope in the Now.“
/ / ”’Now is the Moment‘: Writing To Be in The Waves“
MMLA 63rd Convention, Minneapolis, MN (2022)
”Post-Now“
/ / Moderator for Panel: ”Literary Studies and Real-world Applications“
ACLA Annual Conference, Chicago, Il (2022)
“(Re)Mapping Gender”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Conference on Christianity & Literature, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
“Literary Geographies: Space, Place, and Environments”
/ / ‘“They Were Alone in the Room’: the Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway”
Craft Critique Culture Graduate Student Conference, Virtual (2022)
“Margins, Marginalized, Marginalia: Haunted Histories”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Virtual (2022)
“Memory & Representation I: Life and Memory in the Text”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
Dickens Project Winter Graduate/Postdoc Conference, Santa Cruz, CA (2022)
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
VI Victorians Institute, Charlotte, NC (2021)
“Refractions/Reflections: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
40th Annual Dickens Universe, Virtual (2021)
“A Christmas Carol”
/ / Co-taught Graduate-led Workshop on the Novel
/ / Faculty-led Graduate Seminar
/ / Graduate Writing Workshop
42nd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Virtual (2021)
“Myth & Fairy Tales”
/ / ‘Narrative Identity, Landscape Symbolism, and Spatial Theory in “The Little Mermaid”’
Tennessee Philological Association, Virtual (2021)
“Women”
/ / ‘“They Were Alone in the Room’: the Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway”
43rd Annual Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL (2019)
“Moves Toward Modernism: British Theatre Before WWI”
/ / “New Women in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Shaw’s Candida”
University of Kansas Chimères Graduate Student Conference, Lawrence, KS (2018)
“Appetites and Aversions”
/ / “Proust’s ‘Religion de Fleurs’: Perceptions of the Progression of Flowers in Swann’s Way”
Rowan University Film and Media History Conference, Glassboro, NJ (2018)
“Stars and Screen”
/ / “Interior and Exterior Reflections of Self-Identity in Vivre se vie and Cléo de 5 à 7”
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Kansas City, MO (2018)
“Consuming Cultures”
/ / “‘Who Wishes to Walk with Me?’: The Poem as a Walk in Whitman and Ammons’s Poetry”
Southern Connecticut State University Graduate English Conference, New Haven, CT (2016)
“The Text and Time: Past, Present, and Future”
/ / “Proust’s ‘Religion de Fleurs’: Perceptions of the Progression of Flowers in Swann’s Way
Readings and Exhibitions
/ / Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 65, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN (2023)
/ / Connecticut Literary Anthology Reading, Virtual (2020)
Fellowships
Richard Beale Davis Editorial Fellowship (2022–23)
/ / Assisting Dr. Nancy Henry with the production of the Journal of Victorian Culture
CERTIFICATIONS
Online Teaching & Learning Certificate Program (2022)
/ / The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Professional Affiliations
/ / International Virginia Woolf Society
/ / Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
/ / Modern Language Association
/ / Midwest Modern Language Association
/ / Modernist Studies Association
/ / Golden Key International Honour Society
/ / Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society
/ / Northeastern University Honor Society
LANGUAGES
/ / English (Native)
/ / Spanish (Academic reading), Proficiency exam passed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2022)
References
CV
Emi Wood Scully
10816 Farragut Hills Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37934
860.759.4779 • egonza19@vols.utk.edu
EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2020 – present)
Doctorate of Philosophy in English: Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies (GPA: 4.0)
/ / Dissertation title:
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT (2016)
Master of Arts in English (GPA: 3.78)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2007)
Bachelor of Arts in English (GPA: 3.62)
/ / Also completed coursework at Penn State University and Keene State College.
/ / Activities: English Club, Guilford Poetry Guild, Guilford Art League (Secretary)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
/ / Late 19th–20th Century British Literature
/ / Modernism
/ / Virginia Woolf
/ / James Joyce
/ / Sound Studies
/ / Spatial Studies
RESEARCH EXperience
Research Assistant to Dr. Heidi Hartwig, New Britain, CT (2018)
Roman Fever: Conversion in Modern British Literature (in process)
/ / Assisted with research into conversion in modern British literature for a scholarly book still in process.
Independent Research, New Haven, CT (2017)
“From Childhood Memories to Adult Consciousness in Mina Loy’s The Child and the Parent”
/ / Conducted independent research into the unpublished manuscripts of Mina Loy at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
EDITORIAL EXperience
Social Media Editor, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 17
/ / Responsible for Grist’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and elsewhere.
/ / Work closely with the Managing Editor for Online Content, Art & Design Team, and other genre editors for various projects.
Editorial Assistant to co-editor, Dr. Nancy Henry, Knoxville, TN (2022–23)
Journal of Victorian Culture
/ / Assist with the journal’s production including corresponding with contributors, copy-editing, proofreading manuscripts, and its online presence.
Assistant Poetry Editor, Knoxville, TN (2022–23)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 16
/ / Assist with reading and voting for publication of poetry submissions.
Editorial Team, Knoxville, TN (2020)
Grist Literary Journal, Issue 15
/ / Assisted with reading and voting for publication of fiction submissions.
Professional Experience
20th-Century Reading Group, Knoxville, TN (2023)
Co-founder
/ / Organize, plan, and run discussions centered around 20th-century transatlantic literature. Research secondary source material and circulate to group members. Create handouts for each meeting to discuss in conjunction with the assigned text for that meeting. Meetings are held twice monthly.
Graduate Students of English, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
PhD Representative
/ / Serve as contact between PhD students, GSE, and department. Represent student concerns while helping convey information from the department.
/ / Assist with recruitment efforts and meeting with prospective students.
NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, Knoxville, TN (2023–24)
Co-chair
/ / Apply for funding, finding keynote speakers, creating and circulating the call for papers, locating and contracting with the venue, scheduling the event, arranging for catering, managing volunteers, etc.
Publications
ARTICLES
“‘Now is the Moment’: Writing To Be in The Waves” (2024) Revisiting Modernism: Texts and Contexts, Lexington Books
“‘They Were Alone in the Room’: The Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway” (2022) Tennessee Philological Association Bulletin
“Who Wishes to Walk with Me:” The Poem as a Walk in Whitman and Ammon’s Poetry” (2018) the quint, an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north
BOOK REVIEWS
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works Western and Non-Western Worlds (2024) The Modernist Review
BLOG POSTS
POETRY
“It’s Always Only Been You,” The New River (2024)
“Deadheading,” Same Faces Collective (2023)
“View of My Neighbor’s Back Door,” The Harbour Journal (2023)
“Gestures of Love in Five Phases,” Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine (2022)
“June Flowers on Main Street,” Backchannels Journal (2022)
“Lines Composed Many Miles From Tucson,” Connecticut Literary Anthology (2020)
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Associate, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2020 – Present)
/ / First Year Composition: Instructor for English Composition 1 and 2
Conferences,Workshops and Presentations
GSE Publication Workshop, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023)
/ / Designed and ran a panel on turning seminar papers into publishable articles.
GSE Graduate Student Orientation, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023)
/ / ”Professionalization“ talk for all incoming MA and PhD students.
An Interdisciplinary Conference, Kings College, London (2023)
“Sounding Modernism”
/ / “Ephemeral Subjectivity and Woolf’s Silent Revolution in Jacob’s Room”
32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fort Myers, FL (2023)
“Virginia Woolf and Ecologies”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Knoxville, TN (2023)
“Nineteenth-Century Movement(s)”
/ / “Walking into Modernity: Tess as fieldwoman and flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Tennessee Philological Association, Clarksville, TN (2023)
“Flora and Fauna”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
SESA Symposium, Fresno, CA (2002)
”Transcending Boundaries: Finding Hope in the Now.“
/ / ”’Now is the Moment‘: Writing To Be in The Waves“
MMLA 63rd Convention, Minneapolis, MN (2022)
”Post-Now“
/ / Moderator for Panel: ”Literary Studies and Real-world Applications“
ACLA Annual Conference, Chicago, Il (2022)
“(Re)Mapping Gender”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Conference on Christianity & Literature, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
“Literary Geographies: Space, Place, and Environments”
/ / ‘“They Were Alone in the Room’: the Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway”
Craft Critique Culture Graduate Student Conference, Virtual (2022)
“Margins, Marginalized, Marginalia: Haunted Histories”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Virtual (2022)
“Memory & Representation I: Life and Memory in the Text”
/ / “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
Dickens Project Winter Graduate/Postdoc Conference, Santa Cruz, CA (2022)
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
VI Victorians Institute, Charlotte, NC (2021)
“Refractions/Reflections: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing”
/ / “Landscape Symbolism and Tess as flâneuse in Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
40th Annual Dickens Universe, Virtual (2021)
“A Christmas Carol”
/ / Co-taught Graduate-led Workshop on the Novel
/ / Faculty-led Graduate Seminar
/ / Graduate Writing Workshop
42nd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Virtual (2021)
“Myth & Fairy Tales”
/ / ‘Narrative Identity, Landscape Symbolism, and Spatial Theory in “The Little Mermaid”’
Tennessee Philological Association, Virtual (2021)
“Women”
/ / ‘“They Were Alone in the Room’: the Room and Mind as Literary Containers in Mrs. Dalloway”
43rd Annual Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL (2019)
“Moves Toward Modernism: British Theatre Before WWI”
/ / “New Women in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Shaw’s Candida”
University of Kansas Chimères Graduate Student Conference, Lawrence, KS (2018)
“Appetites and Aversions”
/ / “Proust’s ‘Religion de Fleurs’: Perceptions of the Progression of Flowers in Swann’s Way”
Rowan University Film and Media History Conference, Glassboro, NJ (2018)
“Stars and Screen”
/ / “Interior and Exterior Reflections of Self-Identity in Vivre se vie and Cléo de 5 à 7”
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Kansas City, MO (2018)
“Consuming Cultures”
/ / “‘Who Wishes to Walk with Me?’: The Poem as a Walk in Whitman and Ammons’s Poetry”
Southern Connecticut State University Graduate English Conference, New Haven, CT (2016)
“The Text and Time: Past, Present, and Future”
/ / “Proust’s ‘Religion de Fleurs’: Perceptions of the Progression of Flowers in Swann’s Way
Readings and Exhibitions
/ / Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 65, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN (2023)
/ / Connecticut Literary Anthology Reading, Virtual (2020)
Fellowships
Richard Beale Davis Editorial Fellowship (2022–23)
/ / Assisting Dr. Nancy Henry with the production of the Journal of Victorian Culture
CERTIFICATIONS
Online Teaching & Learning Certificate Program (2022)
/ / The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Professional Affiliations
/ / International Virginia Woolf Society
/ / Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
/ / Modern Language Association
/ / Midwest Modern Language Association
/ / Modernist Studies Association
/ / Golden Key International Honour Society
/ / Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society
/ / Northeastern University Honor Society
LANGUAGES
/ / English (Native)
/ / Spanish (Academic reading), Proficiency exam passed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2022)