ALICIA PEAKER
Curriculum vitae
Department of English
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
a.peaker@neu.edu
68 Summer St., Apt. #221
Malden, MA 02148
(509)389-5735
aliciapeaker@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English Literature
with a Certificate in Women’s Studies
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
scheduled April 2014
B.A. in English: Literary Studies, summa cum laude
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Minor in Humanities
2005
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Friends of the Libraries Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Smith College
2014
NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks Fellow, NU
2013-2014
NULab Digital Humanities Travel Grant, Northeastern University
2013
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Northeastern University (declined)
2013
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship, University of Victoria
2013
Graduate Student Scholarship, Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association 2012
Senior Teaching Assistantship, Northeastern University
2008-2013
Travel Grant, Northeastern University
2008
Teaching Assistantship, Northeastern University
2005-2008
Ronald E. McNair Summer Research Grant, Eastern Washington University
2004
HONORS AND AWARDS
Northeastern University’s Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination
Northeastern University Graduate Student Essay Prize Honorable Mention
Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program Scholar
2011
2007
2004-2005
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Project Manager, Women Writers Project
Northeastern University
www.wwwp.brown.edu
Development Editor, GradHacker
Inside Higher Ed
www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker
Project Director, Our Marathon Digital Archive
NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Northeastern University
www.northeastern.edu/marathon
September 2013-current
August 2013-current
May 2013-current
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record, Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
Northeastern University
Taught 5 times
Summers 2008-2013
Instructor of Record, First-Year Writing
Fall 2005-Spring 2013
Northeastern University
Taught 20 times
Sample Courses: “Living Landscapes/Living in Landscapes,” “Writing and Social Satire,”
“Beautiful Bodies: From Madonna of the Rocks to Madonna on MTV”
Instructor of Record, Advanced Writing in the Sciences
Northeastern University
Spring 2011
Instructor of Record, Honors First-Year Writing
Fall 2008, Fall 2010
Northeastern University
Courses: “Inquiry, Advocacy, and the Social World,” “Imagined Geographies”
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
“Our Marathon: Boston Bombing Digital Archive,” New England Archivists Association,
Portsmouth, NH, March 2014.
“Navigating the Job Market,” Panel by Inside Higher Ed, Modern Language Association,
Chicago, IL, January 2014
“Community Projects: Our Marathon,” Association of College & Research Libraries, Tufts
University, Medford, MA, December 2013.
“The Role of Collaboration at Our Marathon.” Conversations in History, Boston University,
Boston, MA, October 2013.
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“Cultivating Landscapes: Vita Sackville-West’s ‘Gumboot’ Poetry,” Pacific Ancient and
Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, October 2012
“Fantasies of Feminism: A Critical Look at Female Protagonists in Young Adult Fantasy
Novels,” At Work Graduate Conference, Boston, MA, March 2011
“Mapping Women’s Bodies, Mapping Landscapes in Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth and Willa
Cather’s Song of the Lark,” The Drawn Map Graduate Conference, Boston, MA, March 2010
“Gender, Genre, and Geography in Catalina de Erauso’s Lieutenant Nun,” Figuring Genre
Graduate Conference, Boston, MA, March 2009
“Teaching New Media,” Annual Pedagogy Workshop, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,
April 2009
“‘We were dancing’: The Intersection of Dance and Poetry in Rita Dove’s American Smooth,”
Placing Poesis: The Work of Art and the Future of Literary Studies Graduate Conference,
Baton Rouge, LA, March 2008
“An Application of Performance Studies to Rita Dove’s American Smooth,” Textual Spaces
Graduate Conference, Boston, MA, March 2007
PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Conference Planning
Memory Remains with keynote address by Marita Sturken (New York University), Northeastern
University, 2012
Graduate Consortium of Women Studies 2012 Conference: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces
with keynote address by Petra Doan (Florida State University), MIT, 2011
Raw Materials with keynote address by Ann Laura Stoler (The New School), Northeastern
University, 2011
The Drawn Map with keynote address by Martin Brückner (University of Delaware),
Northeastern University, 2010
Figuring Genre with keynote address by Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota Morris),
Northeastern University, 2009
At Work with keynote address by Nancy Armstrong (Duke University), Northeastern University,
2008
Workshops Given
“Our Marathon’s Introduction to Omeka,” Northeastern University, June 2013
“Graduate Thesis Writing Workshop,” College of Professional Studies, Northeastern
University, Boston, MA, 2012-2013
“Solving the Mystery of American Academic Writing,” The Writing Center, Northeastern
University, Boston, MA, February, March 2012
Workshops Taken
“Accessible Futures,” sponsored by Maryland Institute of Technology and the Humanities, at
Northeastern University, November 2013
“Ruby Rails for Girls,” Center for History and New Media, George Mason University,
September 2013
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“Geographic Information Systems in the Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Summer
Institute, University of Victoria, June 2013
“Digital Humanities Reading Group,” Northeastern University, 2012-2013
Committee Service
Ph.D. Representative, English Graduate Student Association, 2009-2010
Vice President, English Graduate Student Association, 2008-2009
Reviewing Activity
Digital Humanities Now, Editor-at-Large, April 2013
Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces: Collection of Working Papers, Graduate Consortium of
Women’s Studies, Editor, 2012
Intersections Interdisciplinary Gender and Women’s Studies Journal, Issue 8: Gender & Social
Justice, Reviewer, 2011
Pedagogical and Volunteer Work
Volunteer Writing Center Tutor, Write Boston at the English High School, Boston, MA, 2013
Volunteer Tutor, College Essay Boot Camp, 826 Boston, Boston, MA, 2010-present
Selected Instructor for E-portfolio Pilot Program, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 20102013
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
DHCommons
HASTAC Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
Modern Language Association
The American Association of University Women
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Modernist Studies Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Omeka, WordPress, ArcGIS, CSS, HTML, Python (basic), PHP (basic)
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