JANICE HEWLETT KOELB
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
jancook@email.unc.edu
EDUCATION
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2004: PhD in Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1997-2004: Doctoral student, Curriculum in Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill.
1994-97: Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria CA. M.A. June 1997, Counseling
Psychology.
1979-82: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduate work in Mathematics.
1974-78: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. B.S. Dec. 1978, Mathematics.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book:
 The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edited Book:
 Advising Editor, Marcabru. In the Gale Cengage series Classical and Medieval
Literature Criticism. Columbia, SC: Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.
Articles and Book Chapters:
 “Freud, Jung, and the Taboo of Rome.” Arethusa 48.3 (September 2015): 391-430.
 “Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake’s Thel.” Literary Studies
and the Pursuits of Reading. Ed. Eric S. Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V.
Benson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. 148-67.
 “‘This Most Beautiful and Adorn’d World’: Nicolson’s Mountain Gloom and Mountain
Glory Reconsidered.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 16.3
(Summer 2009): 443-68.
 “The Owl in Winter: The Final Tornada of Marcabru’s Pastourelle ‘L’autrier jost’una
sebissa.’” Florilegium 25 (2008): 53-74.
Review:
 Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, by Juliet McMaster. The Wordsworth
Circle 36.4 (Autumn 2005): 152-3.
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
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“Reimagining the Natural World.” Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 27 August 27, 2014.
“Decoration, Decadence, and Significant Form: The Blake Revival and Art Nouveau.”
Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 6 October, 2010.
“A Fresh Look at the Art of Landscape,” Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 28 January 2010.
“Discreetly Disavowing Emulation: Coburn’s Landscape Frontispieces to James’s The
Portrait of a Lady,” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Literature and Visual
Arts Seminar, Annual Conference, Chicago, October, 2007.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
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07/07-present: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative
Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill.
07/04-12/04: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS,
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AND AWARDS
2011: Mellon Foundation/Ackland Art Museum Course Development Grant for
“Landscape: Reimagining the Natural World.”
2004: Finalist, American Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award
2003-04: UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship
RECENT SERVICE TO UNC
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English Undergraduate Program Curriculum Working Group, 2015.
Interim Director of Comparative Literature Undergraduate Studies, Department of
English and Comparative Literature, Spring 2014; 2015-2016.
SURF Faculty Advisor: Alexander Buckley, 2015.
SURF Faculty Advisor: Mandy Jane Eidson, 2013.
Honors Thesis Advisor: At the Window: A Romantic Art Motif in Madame Bovary and
Mrs. Dalloway, by Katherine Heidrich, 2015.
Honors Thesis Advisor: Wordsworth, Thoreau, and the Making of Modern Watershed
Consciousness, by Mandy Eidson, winner of 2014 Whitfield Prize.
Honors C-Start mentor: “Through the Looking-Glass: The Return to Childhood in
Reading and Writing.” Course developed by Taylor Bryant, offered Spring 2014.
Honors C-Start mentor: “A Cultural Biography of Water.” Course developed by Mandy
Eidson, offered Spring 2014.
Member, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grants and Study
Scholarship Review Committee, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
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LANGUAGE/LITERATURE/CULTURE COURSES TAUGHT (UNC-CHAPEL HILL)
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English 121. British Literature, Blake to T.S. Eliot
Comparative Literature 460. Transnational Romanticism
Comparative Literature 260. Landscape: Reimagining the Natural World
Comparative Literature 130. Great Books II
English 260. Creative Reading
English 123. Introduction to Fiction
English 390. Transatlantic Romanticism: Ruptures and Continuities
Comparative Literature 471. Classical Rhetoric and Modern Theory
Comparative Literature 393. Adolescence in Modern Literature
German 50. Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (discussion section leader)
English 12. English Composition and Rhetoric (second semester)
Comparative Literature 21. Great Books I (antiquity to the late 18th century)
English 11. English Composition and Rhetoric (first semester)
Latin 2. Elementary Latin (second semester)
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