Resume

• 2000

  Master’s Degree

  Thesis: Fame

  Sexuality

  and Exile: Lord Byron’s Influence on Oscar Wilde.\nDirected by Dr. Paul Douglass. \nThesis Committee: Dr. Donald Keesey and Dr. William Wilson

  Comparative Literature

  San Jose State University

• 1998

  Bachelor’s Degree

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  The University of Texas at Austin

• 1993

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Radio-TV-Film

  The University of Texas at Austin

• 4.0

  Latin

  reading knowledge of German

  English

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Dissertation: Byron and “Scribbling Women”: Lady Caroline Lamb

  the Brontë Sisters

  and George Eliot

  examines Byron’s influence on five female novelists writing from 1816-1876. \n\nDirected by Dr. Elsie Michie. \nDissertation Committee: Dr. Jim Borck

  Dr. Becky Crump

  Dr. Sharon Weltman

  Dr. Dan Novak

  and Dr. Gerilyn Tandberg.

  19th Century British Literature

  Comprehensive Exams: \n19th Century British Literature

  British Literature 1660-1800

  and American Literature to 1900

  Louisiana State University

• Research

  Writing

  Teaching

  Editing

  Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment.

  Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment.

  “Gender and Sexuality in Measure for Measure’s Confession Scene”

  “George Eliot’s Felix Holt

  the Radical and Byronic Secrets”

  Rev. of The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

  by Caroline Franklin.

  “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year”

  “Lord Byron and George Eliot: Embracing National Identity in Daniel Deronda\"

  “The Effects of Fame on Lord Byron’s Canon\"

  “The Prisoner of Chillon”

  “The Failed Quest for ‘Anti-Self-Consciousness’: Angel

  Spike

  and Roderick Usher”

  I've been a professional researcher

  reader

  writer

  and editor in one way or another in my 12 years teaching in higher education. I have several publications to my credit including articles

  chapters

  reviews

  and one collection that I co-edited. I have also presented my research at a number of national and international conferences.

  Denise

  Millstein

  The University of Alabama

  Lone Star College

  Stephen F. Austin State University

  Created the Graduate Teaching Award for Composition

  as well as implemented and administered the FYW’s Mentoring Program. Facilitated GTA orientation

  completed teaching evaluations

  reviewed course syllabi and course evaluations

  and taught first-year writing courses

  sophomore literature surveys

  and upper division British literature classes.

  Assistant Director of First-Year Writing

  Tuscaloosa

  Alabama Area

  The University of Alabama

  Nacogdoches

  TX

  Created and taught core curriculum classes and English major courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Also served as undergraduate academic adviser

  Core Curriculum Assessment Coordinator

  and faculty adviser for Sigma Tau Delta and The Gender Studies Club.

  Assistant Professor of 19th Century British Literture

  Stephen F. Austin State University

  Developed and taught core curriculum classes in composition and literature

  face-to-face and online.

  Lone Star College