SHARON LYNNE JOFFE, Ph.D.
Assistant Head for Scheduling
Teaching Associate Professor
Department of English
North Carolina State University
EDUCATION:
2004
Ph.D. in English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of English
Major: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Minor: Renaissance
Dissertation: "The Kinship Coterie and the Literary
Endeavors of the Women in the Shelley Circle."
Dissertation Director: Professor Jeanne Moskal
1995
Master of Arts
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of English
Thesis Director: Professor Jeanne Moskal
1986
Master of Science in Education (Education)
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
1984
Higher Diploma in Education (H.D.E.)
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Faculty of Education
1983
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in French
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Faculty of Arts
1982
Bachelor of Arts
Major Subjects: French and English
Minor Subjects: Psychology and Political Science
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Faculty of Arts
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FELLOWSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS:
Teaching Associate Professor (Fall 2013 - present) and
Assistant Head for Scheduling (Fall 2011 - present)
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Teaching Assistant Professor (2006 - Spring 2013) and
Assistant Head for Scheduling (Fall 2011 - present)
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Visiting Assistant Professor (2005 - 2006 Academic Year)
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Adjunct Assistant Professor (2004 - 2005 Academic Year)
Department of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social Medicine Fellowship (2002 - 2004 Academic Year)
Department of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Senior Teaching Fellow (2002 - 2003 Academic Year)
(Declined so that I could accept the Social Medicine
Fellowship)
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Fall 2005 - present
Teaching Associate Professor (Fall 2013 - present)
Teaching Assistant Professor (2006 - Spring 2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor (2005 - 2006)
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Courses: English 208, English 262, English 394, English
453, English 460 (Spring 2014), English 550, English 636,
Honors 202 and Honors 293
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
Instructor of English
Meredith College
Courses: English 090 and English 111
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Fall 2002 - Spring 2004
Senior Fellow, Department of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Courses: Medicine 231
Fall 1998 - Spring 2002
Teaching Fellow, Department of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Courses: English 11, English 12 and English 21
Service: Peer Review Committee
2001- Fall Semester
Lecturer, Department of English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Courses: English 101 and English 212
1992 - 1993
English Teacher
Trinity School of Durham, Durham, North Carolina
1989 - 1992
English Teacher
Jordan High School, Durham County School District, North
Carolina
1986 - 1989
French Teacher
Strath Haven High School and Nether Providence Middle
School, Wallingford-Swarthmore District, Pennsylvania
COURSES TAUGHT:
North Carolina State University:
ENG 636 - The Gothic (Independent Study Course at the
graduate level)
ENG 636 - South African Literature (Independent Study
Course at the graduate level)
ENG 550 - English Romantic Period (Graduate course)
ENG 460 - Major British Author ("Mary Wollstonecraft
and Mary Shelley," forthcoming Spring 2014)
ENG 453 - The Romantic Period
ENG 394 - Studies in World Literature - South Africa
ENG 262- English Literature II (Survey from 1785 to the
present)
ENG 208 - Studies in Fiction (The class was designed for
120 students)
HON 293 - South African Literature and Culture Before,
During, and After Apartheid
HON 293 - The Holocaust in Literature and Film
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HON 293 - Cross-Cultural Representations of Disease and
Healing
HON 202 - South African Literature and Culture Before,
During, and After Apartheid
Served as director/reader/chair on eleven MA Thesis
Committees or MA Capstone Project Committees
Meredith College:
ENG 111 - Principles of Composition
ENG 90 - Preparation for Freshman Composition
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
MEDICINE 231 - "All The World's A Stage": Chronicling
the Stages of the Human Life Cycle
MEDICINE 231 - Literature and Illness: Representations
of Catastrophic Illnesses
ENG 21 - British Literature (19th and early-20th centuries)
ENG 12 - Freshman Rhetoric and Composition
ENG 11 - Freshman Rhetoric and Composition
University of North Carolina at Greensboro:
ENG 212 - Survey course in British Literature (Romantics
to Modern Authors)
ENG 101 - Freshman Composition
PUBLICATIONS:
Forthcoming 2014
"' I was Determined to Fight Him': Sex and Violence in
Recent South African Literature and Film." Journal of the
African Literature Association (Volume and date to be
announced). Print.
Forthcoming 2014
"Connections: 'Ich bin doch immer unterwegs' ('I am always
on the way')." Lituanus: The Lithuanian Quarterly Journal
of Arts and Sciences (Volume and date to be announced).
Print.
November 2013
"immersiVerse: A Digital Humanities Work." Digital
Humanities Installation. Fish Market Gallery. North
Carolina State University, College of Design.
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2012
"Connections: Egadini." Office of International Affairs
Website, North Carolina State University. Web.
2011
Book Review of Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a
Literary Family, by Stephen Hebron and Elizabeth
Denlinger. Keats-Shelley Journal Dec. 2011: 152-4. Print.
2008
"Vieksniai." Lituanus: The Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of
Arts and Sciences 54:4, Winter 2008. Print.
2007
The Kinship Coterie and the Literary Endeavors of the
Women in the Shelley Circle. New York: Peter Lang
Publishers, 2007. Studies in Nineteenth-Century British
Literature Ser. 24. Print.
2007
"'The Instinct of Nature Spoke Audibly:' Mothers in Mary
Shelley’s Fiction." The Literary Mother. Ed. Susan Staub,
Jefferson: McFarland Press, 2007. 117-137. Print.
2001
"The Influence of African American Poetry of Resistance on
South African Poetry of the Oppressed." Peace Review
13:2 (Summer 2001): 201-208. Print.
1997
"Mary Shelley’s Mothers: The Weak, The Absent,
and The Silent in Lodore and Falkner." European Romantic
Review 8 (1997): 298-322. Published under my former name,
Sharon Lynne Jowell. Print.
CURRENT PROJECT WORK:
2014
Co-investigator : "Victoria's Lost Pavilion: Reconstructing
the Arts in Digital Space" Collaborative project with the
Department of English and the Department of Art and
Design.
2014
Clairmont Letters. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of
Shelley and His Circle. New York Public Library. Working
on a project to transcribe and annotate the Antonia Clairmont
family documents. Project commences Spring 2014.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS:
November 2012
"Social and Political Catastrophes: Romantic Writers and
the Cape Colony." Presented at the International Conference
on Romanticism. Arizona State University.
November 2010
"Pioneers in the Field of Maternal Care: Claire Clairmont
and Maria Gisborne." Presented at the International
Conference on Romanticism. Texas Tech University.
October 2008
"Literary Production in Early Nineteenth-Century South
Africa." Presented at the International Conference on
Romanticism. Oakland University.
August 2008
"Diversifying the Canon." Presented at the North American
Society for the Study of Romanticism. University of
Toronto.
March 2007
"Writing With Authority: Claire Clairmont’s Life Writing
and the Acquisition of Power." Presented at the British
Women Writers Conference. University of Kentucky.
March 2006
"Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and The Kinship Coterie."
Presented at NeMLA. Philadelphia, PA.
October 2001
"The Absent Mother in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda." Read in
my absence at Rocky Mountain MLA.
April 2001
"Mary Shelley’s Mothers." Presented at AGES
Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
NC.
April 2001
Creative Speakers Panel: "Poetry In Memory." Presented at
the Blue Ridge International Conference for the Humanities
and the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
March 2000
"Poetry as Politics." Presented at the George Moses Horton
Society. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR:
October 2008
Chair: "The Text as Political Work"
International Conference on Romanticism
Oakland University. Chair for two separate panels.
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October 2001
Chair: "Rethinking the Victorian."
Victorians Institute Conference
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 2001
Chair: "Representations of Women in 18th and 19th
Century British Literature"
Blue Ridge International Conference for the Humanities and
the Arts
Appalachian State University
November 1993
Chair: "Feminism"
Graduate Student Conference on Re-Reading Romanticism
Duke University
TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT:
Summer 2014
Digital Humanities Summer Institute. University of Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada.
Summer 2013
Digital Humanities Summer Institute. University of Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada.
Summer 2008
Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications
Summer Institute. North Carolina State University.
JOURNAL REFEREE:
2012
Referee for the Keats-Shelley Journal
SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
2012
Planning Committee: "North Carolina State University
and the Changing Faces of Africa." Organized by the
NCSU Office of International Affairs
2009
Leader of the Pack Review Committee: North Carolina
State University
2006 - Present
Reviewer: Honors Department Applications, North
Carolina State University
Fall 2002 - Spring 2004
Faculty Advisor for iris (University of North
Carolina Journal of Literature, Medicine, and
Art)
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Fall 2000 - Spring 2002
Co-Chair, Graduate Forum, Association of Graduate
English Students, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Fall 2000
Treasurer, Association of Graduate English
Students, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spring 2000
Member of committee to select new writing textbook for
three-year textbook cycle at University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
AWARDS:
2013
Recognized by the "Thank a Teacher Program" for
dedication to teaching and learning. North Carolina State
University.
2011
Recognized by the "Thank a Teacher Program" for
dedication to teaching and learning. North Carolina State
University.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Modern Language Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
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