Lauren Cameron, ABD (formerly Klapper-Lehman)
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
laurenkl@email.unc.edu
1000 Smith Level Rd., Apt. L14
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919)257-9211
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Expected May 2013)
Areas of Research: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Rhetoric of Science
Dissertation: “Renegotiating Science: British Evolutionary Discourse and Women Novelists, 1826-1876”
Director: Beverly Taylor
Committee: Jordynn Jack, Jeanne Moskal, Jane Danielewicz, Pamela Cooper
M.A. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2009
Thesis: “Objects of (Mis)interpretation: The Nervous Narratives of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and
Villette”
Director: Beverly Taylor
B.A. High Honors in English, Summa Cum Laude, The College of William and Mary, May 2007
Honors Thesis: “‘That All-Presupposing Fact’: Darwinian Narrative and Gender Concerns in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and Wives and Daughters and George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda”
Director: Deborah Denenholz Morse
PUBLICATIONS
“Mary Shelley’s Malthusian Objections in The Last Man.” Accepted, forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century
Literature.
“Marginalia and Community in the Age of the Kindle: Popular Highlights in The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes.” Accepted, forthcoming in special issue of Victorian Review 45.3 (Fall 2012) on Digital
Victorians.
“‘A Child’s Cry Caught His Ear’: The Voices of Children on the Street in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton.”
Provisionally accepted, forthcoming in Gaskell Journal 26 (2012).
Review of Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel, ed. Tamara S. Wagner. Women's Studies 40.4 (2011).
CONFERENCE PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Sherlock in the Age of the Kindle.” Presenter. November 2011. Popular Culture: Detective Fiction panel,
Annual Convention, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, Georgia.
“Ethical Interventions in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” Presenter. April 2011. Literary Darwinism and
Social Justice panel, Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association. New Brunswick, New
Jersey.
“‘A Child’s Cry Caught His Ear’: Children Witnessing to the Unspeakable in Mary Barton.” Presenter. April
2010. Children in 19th-Century English Literature panel, Annual Convention, Northeast Modern
Language Association. Montreal, Canada.
Digital Poster Presentation on the William Blake Archive. Presenter. February 2010. Collaborations:
Humanities, Arts & Technology (C.H.A.T.) Festival. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“‘An Owl in the Desert’: The Preservation of Sorrow in the Journals of Lady Anne Clifford.” Presenter.
February 2008. The Ninth Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies:
Passions, Affect, and Zeal. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
HONORS AND AWARDS
George Mills Harper Fund Award-First place in competitive award for graduate student travel expenses
to SAMLA conference. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 2011.
APPLES (Assisting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service) Course Enhancement GrantCompetitive $300 grant available to service-learning instructors, used to fund a farm-to-fork dinner
planned, prepared, and served by APPLES students in my course to each other and service organizers at
the end of the semester. UNC-Chapel Hill. 2011.
Ueltschi Course Development Grant-Competitive, university-wide $1,500 grant available to both faculty
and graduate students for development of service-learning course. UNC-Chapel Hill. 2010.
2009 C. Carrol Hollis Award-Presented to PhD student who completed the best master’s thesis in the
UNC-Chapel Hill English and Comparative Literature Department in the past calendar year.
University Merit Fellowship-Competitive, university-wide fellowship providing full academic support for
one year awarded by the Graduate School in recognition of academic excellence, UNC-Chapel Hill. 20072008.
2006 Trollope Prize-Won third prize in a national undergraduate essay contest sponsored by the
Expository Writing Program at Harvard University with a project entitled “Avoiding Extremes: Women
and Work in Castle Richmond.”
Alpha of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa-Awarded to students during their senior year in
recognition of academic and extracurricular excellence at the College of William and Mary. 2006.
Chappell Research Fellowship-Competitive, funded undergraduate fellowship for summer research
under the oversight of a faculty mentor at the College of William and Mary. Award enabled the project
“Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, 1810-1855,” resulting in a brief 16-page summary of
significant themes discovered in material as well as overviews of 5 regions (South, West, Boston,
Philadelphia, and New York), 858 pages of primary source material, and eight pages of indices. 2006.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2008-Present
Introduction to Fiction: Literature and Science (English 123 / 1 section) Designed and had full
responsibility for literature class meeting general education requirement. Course focused on how British
and American literature has responded to anxieties about cultural developments, particularly in science,
since the industrial revolution. Authors covered included M. Shelley, Wells, Huxley, Bradbury, and
Atwood.
APPLES Service-Learning (English 102 / 1 section) Designed and had full responsibility for servicelearning first-year writing class. Students completed 30 hours of service outside of class with on-campus
environmental organizations, focusing on issues of mountaintop removal mining; environmental racism;
and the fair, local, and organic food movement. Writing assignments included an EPA-style “Know the
Issue” press release, policy memos or petitions, and reflection blog posts.
Graduate Research Consultant (English 102 / 1 section) Advised 20 students working on submitting
original research to an undergraduate, peer-reviewed journal on structuring their arguments and
presenting research persuasively.
Reading Children’s Literature, TA (English 284 / 2 sections) Led two groups of twenty students in
discussion sections of a larger lecture class that introduced students to the study of children’s literature.
The course focused on the tradition of children’s literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
America and Britain and how such literature constructed childhood and conveyed cultural values in a
variety of historical settings. Authors covered included Carroll, Alcott, Twain, Baum, Nesbit, Barrie,
Milne, Grahame, Tolkien, and Rowling.
Writing across the Disciplines (English 102 / 2 sections) Designed and had full responsibility for sections
of a required first-year writing class focused on the conventions of rhetorical strategies and research
methods for the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students in my sections have written
grant proposals and lab reports on computational simulations, rhetorical analyses of popular and
professional portrayals of disease, research proposals and short articles on psychology surveys and
anthropological studies, poetry explications, and literature reviews.
English Composition and Rhetoric (English 101 / 2 sections) Designed and had full responsibility for
sections of a required writing class focused on developing argumentation and analysis in academic
writing and oral communication skills in first-year students. Students in my sections have investigated
stereotyping in advertising, politicians’ use of new media, and scholarly research publishing.
FURTHER TRAINING
eQuality Essentials, September 2011, January 2012
Completed a two-part online course on principles of online course design.
Faculty Development Institute on Service Learning, May 2009, May 2010
Participated in two-day training seminar on service learning, focusing on course development and
assessment, building campus and community partnerships, effective reflection strategies to improve
student learning, and preparing students for serving with communities.
Foreign Language Proficiency Exams, French: spring 2008, Spanish, fall 2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Peer Review Committee Member, August 2011-present
Elected by peers to observe English and Comparative Literature teaching fellows in the classroom each
semester. Evaluated teaching effectiveness of composition and literature instructors as well as teaching
assistants in large lecture classes to identify areas of excellence, help set goals for improvement, and
ensure high departmental standards are met.
SITES Intern (Studio for Instructional Technology in English Studies), August 2010-present
Worked on and with instructional technology for research and teaching by updating Department
website; providing support for faculty, graduate students, and staff teaching with multimedia
technology; and working on targeted technology projects. Tagged by Prof. Dan Anderson to project
manage other SITES interns digitizing doctoral exam reading lists. Co-organized a workshop on how to
use MS Word and RefWorks to format dissertations in progress.
Assistant Editor, Keats-Shelley Journal, December 2009-present
Assisted editor, Prof. Jeanne Moskal, in preparing 2010 and 2011 issues of Keats-Shelley Journal for
publication. Duties included coordinating communication between general editor, section editors,
contributors, blind reviewers, and publishers; copyediting; proofreading; maintaining records; and
ensuring deadlines were met.
Editorial Assistant, Keats-Shelley Journal, August 2008-December 2009
Helped editor, Prof. Jeanne Moskal and assistant editor Emily Brewer while learning the preparation of
manuscripts for publication in the Keats-Shelley Journal. Duties included copyediting, proofreading,
contacting contributing authors via e-mail, and organizing records.
Editorial Assistant, William Blake Archive, May 2008-present
Wrote textual and encoded descriptions and classifications for digitized illustrations of William Blake’s
illuminated books, as well as proofed transcriptions of the poetry.
Research Assistant, William Blake Archive, August 2007-May 2008
Assisted editor, Prof. Joseph Viscomi, in organizing and maintaining digital and paper records for the
Blake Archive. Duties included copyediting and proofreading of all written material on the archive’s
website, editing of xml files, entering and organizing data in a new digital database, and standardizing
copy information.
SERVICE
Panelist, Comprehensive Exam Roundtable, January 2011
Spoke to and answered questions from English and Comparative Literature graduate students about
preparing for PhD comprehensive exams.
Coordinating Group Leader, September 2010-May 2012
Served as a peer coach for other teaching fellows by holding regular meetings to discuss classroom ideas
and teaching concerns. Acted as a liaison between the writing program administration and graduate
teaching fellows. Led special interest Pedagogy Interest Group meetings on teaching with readings.
Peer Reviewer, Victorian Network August 2010-present
Screened, blind reviewed, and produced evaluation reports on manuscripts submitted to the Victorian
Network, an online journal publishing articles by graduate students.
Honors Thesis Committee Member, April 2010
Served on an honors committee for a senior honors student: "Victorian Masculinity in the Works of
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.”
M.A. Mentoring Program, August 2009-present
Mentored incoming M.A. students on adjusting to graduate life, course planning, and navigating the first
year of graduate school.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association