Curriculum Vita--Melanie Ulrich

Curriculum Vita
Education \| Teaching \| Honors & Awards \| Conference Papers \| Service \| Other Professional Experiences \| References
Education
2000-present	Ph.D. expected 05/05, English Literature, University of Texas Dissertation in progress: Victoria's Feminist Legacy: How Nineteenth-Century Women Imagined the Queen Dissertation director: Professor Carol MacKay
1998-2000	M.A., English Literature, University of Texas Master's Report: Charles Kean's The Winter's Tale: At the Heart of the Victorian Century Supervised by Professor Carol MacKay
1992-96	B.S., Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University Graduated magna cum laude, with University Honors University Honors Thesis: The Micropropagation of Crinum ‘Ellen Bosanquet’ by Tri-Scales Supervised by Professor Fred Davies
Teaching Experience
2000-present	Assistant Instructor, University of Texas Reading Women Writers (computer-assisted) Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition (some sections computer-assisted) The Rhetoric of Anglo-American Feminism (computer-assisted) Taught college students basic compositional and critical reading skills, as well as computer literacy, HTML and web design, and research praxes. Also taught rhetorical analysis of early feminist texts and strategies and textual analyses of major literary works.
1998-2000	Teaching Assistant, University of Texas Discussion sections for masterworks survey courses in British Literature Discussion section for masterworks survey course in American Literature Discussion section for masterworks survey course in World Literature
Honors and Awards
2003	International Education Fee Scholarship for independent study in England
2000	Scholarship to attend Dickens Universe at the University of California , Santa Cruz
2000	Scholarship to attend Dickens Project Winter Conference at the University of California , Davis
Conference Papers
2003	“Feminist Intimations: Three Poets Imagine Victoria .” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States; University of Texas , Austin
2003	“Big Queen Victoria Goes to South Africa : The Queen and Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man.” 18^th- and 19^th-Century British Women Writers; Texas Christian University , Dallas
2003	“The Eye of the Beholder: Feminism & Visual Constructions of Queen Victoria .” Women and Gender Studies; University of Texas , Austin
2001	“The Poems of Edith Nesbit Reconsidered.” Dickens Project Winter Conference; University of California , Davis
Service
2004	Copyeditor for UT’s Journal of Women and Gender Studies
2003-2004	Library Committee Graduate Student Representative
2003-2004	Student Library Council Graduate Student Representative
2002-2004	English Department Representative to the University of Texas Graduate Student Assembly
2002-2003	Reviewer for the online journal on computers and pedagogy, Currents
2001-2003	Designed online presentations on basic rhetorical and computer skills for the use of incoming instructors
2001-2002	Member of the Computers and Writing Resources Lab Web Development Group
Other Professional Experiences
2001-2004	Writing Tutor for the UT Women’s Athletic Department
2003	Writing Tutor for the UT Undergraduate Writing Center
2000-2004	Proctor for the UT Computers, Writing, and Research Laboratory
1999	Technical Writer, Texas Department of Human Services
References
Dr. Carol MacKay, Professor, English Department, University of Texas , Austin
Dr. Susan S. Heinzelman, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Texas , Austin
Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, Professor, English Department, University of Texas , Austin
Dr. Betty Sue Flowers, Director, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin , TX
Dr. Patricia Kruppa, Associate Professor, History Department, University of Texas , Austin