Claire Laville

claville@tru.ca www.clairelaville.net

Citizenship: Canada, EU

E D U C A T I ON
Ph.D., English

Emory University, August 2014

Dissertation: Reading to the Test: Character, Method, and Complicity in
U.S. Writing from Emerson to Adorno

M.A., English

Emory University, May 2012

Hon. B.A.

Victoria University in the University of Toronto, June 2008

(high distinction)

Areas of specialization
American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; Literary and critical theory
Areas of competence
Composition (including digital writing); British literature from the 18th to the 20th century;
Gender and sexuality studies; Science studies; Disability studies; Linguistics; Creative writing

A P P OI N T M E N T S
May 2015-

Sessional Lecturer, Thompson Rivers University

Kamloops and Williams Lake, BC

2014-15

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Emory University

Atlanta, GA

P U B L I C A T I ON S
Refereed Journal Articles
Idiocy and Aberrancy: Disability, Paul de Man, and Wordsworths Idiot Boy. Mosaic: A
Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 47.2 (June 2014), special issue Romance
Other Scholarly Publications
Review of Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life, by Omri Moses.
Modernism/Modernity 23.1 (January 2016)

Laville 2

Review of Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology, by Bill
Ferster. Configurations 24.1 (January 2016)
Otto Weininger: entry in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross (peerreviewed, online), 2015
Empiricism and Intersubjectivity: entries in Why Social Theory?, a peer-reviewed, open-access
encyclopedia published by the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky,
forthcoming 2016

F E L L OW S H I P S & A W A R D S
2013-14

Deans Teaching Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University

Declined, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Fox Ctr. for Humanistic Inquiry

2008-13

George W. Woodruff Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University

2008

Jolliffe Gold Medal in English and Helen Maude Vokes Postgraduate

Scholarship, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Declined, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanada
Graduate Scholarship, Masters

P R E S E N T A T I ON S ( S E L E C T E D )
2016

Novels Make You More: The Psychology of Fiction in the Postcritical Age,
ACCUTE/Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Calgary, AB

2015

Reflexivity after Self-Consciousness: The Case of Hawthornes Ministers Black

Veil, MLA, Vancouver, BC: Literary History and Ideas of Mind panel

2013

Allegories of Reading in the Harvard Psychological Clinic, The

Phenomenology of Reading, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA

2013

Apart from Experience: In Gertrude Steins Laboratory, VariAbilities: The

History and Representation of the Body in its Diversity, Decatur, GA (coorganized by Emory and the University of Winchester): Disabling Science panel

2013

Disciplining Empathy, Strange Relations (Studies in Sexualities Fourth Annual

Graduate Conference), Emory University

2011

Using Nightwoods Objects, Northeast Modern Language Association, New

Brunswick, NJ: Persons and Things: A Roundtable in Memorial to Barbara
Johnson

2008

Watch me: Self-Mutilation and the Ethics of Spectatorship, Regarding Pain

panel, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON

Laville 3

Organizer
2013

Co-organizer, Re-Visioning Emory, Re-Engaging Scholarship: An

Interdisciplinary Symposium, Emory University

2011

Panel organizer and chair, Impersonality beyond Tradition, Modernist Studies

Association, Buffalo, NY

TE A C HING
First-Year Writing
Introduction to University Writing. 8 sections to date. Thompson Rivers University.
Writing about Literature: Writing in Tight Spaces. 3 sections. Emory University, Spring 2015.
Expository Writing: Technology and the Senses. 3 sections. Emory, Fall 2014.
Writing about Literature: Sinister Children. Emory, Spring 2011.
Expository Writing: Privacy. Emory, Fall 2010.
Interdisciplinary Topics
Literature and Science: Inventing Languages. Upper division. Emory, Summer 2014.
American Literature as a Human Experiment. Upper division, cross-listed in American
Studies, Comparative Literature, and Womens/Gender Studies. Emory, Spring 2014.
Teaching assistant, Foundations of Linguistics. 2 sections. Emory, fall 2011 and spring 2012.
Teaching assistant, Literature and Science before 1900 [British]. Emory, Fall 2009.
Core Courses for the English Major
Introduction to Fiction. Thompson Rivers, Summer 2016.
Introduction to Creative Writing. Thompson Rivers, Spring 2016.
Introduction to Poetry and Drama. Thompson Rivers, Summer 2015.
Poetry. Emory, Spring 2013.
Teaching assistant, British Literature since 1660. Emory, Spring 2010.

SE RV IC E ( SE L E C TE D)
2016-

Tutor at the Writing Centre, Thompson Rivers University

2015-

Reviewer, Twentieth Century Literature

2015-

Research assistant, Radio Free Stein (PI: Adam Frank, University of British
Columbia). Supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada

Laville 4

2015-

Essay Prize Committee, English and Modern Languages Dept., Thompson

Rivers Unversity

2014

Writing Program Assessment Working Group, Emory University. Norming and

best practices for traditional and digital writing projects.

2013-14

Presentations for the annual pedagogy workshop of the Graduate Program in

English: The Query Letter as a Research Genre and How to Make Peer
Review a Meaningful Experience

2013

English Department: Assistance with, e.g., compiling and managing documents

for reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; web and
print outreach materials; consulted on changes to official graduate program
handbook

2013

Co-facilitator of workshops on Using Writing as a Teaching Tool and Microteaching, as part of the Laney Graduate Schools teaching-assistant training
program

2011-13

Graduate English Advisory Committee. Faculty-student liaison, mentoring to

junior graduate students.

2009-12

Coordinated two speaker series: a Works in Progress series in which faculty and
graduate students exchange scholarly writing; a brown-bag lunch series related to
issues in pedagogy and professionalization for graduate students

2007-10

Research assistant to Simon Dickie, University of Toronto. Research and

manuscript preparation for Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and
the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

P R OF E S S I ON A L D E V E L OP M E N T
2014-15

Practicum in First-Year Composition, Emory College Writing Program.

Included the Domain of Ones Own Program (born-digital student portfolios)

2014

Safe Space training, Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life

2013

Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts, Oxford College of Emory University
Workshops: Enhancing Learning with Peer Instruction; Doing Digital
Humanities

2013

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp): Feminisms, Southeast

2012

Semester-long colloquium in the Pedagogy of Literature

2010

Presenting Content in the Digital Era, Emory Center for Interactive Teaching

Laville 5

2010

Semester-long workshop in the Teaching of Composition

2009

Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity, Laney Graduate School

A F F I L I A T I ON S
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
Modern Language Association