Theresa Habbestad theresah@tamu.

edu fax: (979) 862-2292

Education

PhD English in progress Texas A & M University, College Station August 2010 present Dissertation: Under Western Ideals: Politicized Portrayals of Indigenous Women in late Nineteenth Century Anglophone Literature MA in English California State University, Fullerton 2010 BA in English with an Emphasis in Secondary Education Biola University 2004
Publications

Amy Earhart, Theresa Habbestad, et al., eds. Alex Haleys Malcolm X: The Malcolm X I Knew and Notecards from The Autobiography of Malcolm X.Scholarly Editing 34 (forthcoming, 2013). Refereed. Article Review Marez, Curtis. Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars. Race After the Internet. Ed. Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White. (see reference in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Awards, Fellowships, Grants

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Fellow 2012-2013 ($300) Innovation in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability (IIDEA) Grant from the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University for Atravesado Speaker and Workshop Series (Member of Coordinating Team) Digital Humanities Summer Institute Sponsor Institution Tuition Waiver, Summer 2012 HASTAC Fellow 2012-2013 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Travel Grant, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M, Summer 2011 ($500) Travel Funding for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, English Department Texas A&M, Summer 2011 ($800) 1 Habbestad CV January 2013

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Sponsor Institution Tuition Waiver, Summer 2011 Travel Funding for Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western United States Conference, English Department Texas A&M, Fall 2010 ($500) University Diversity Fellowship, Texas A&M ($39,000 over three years)
Conference and Panel Presentations

The President and the Doa: Mara Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Critique of Nineteenth-Century America Accepted for Presentation in the Looking Forward: Recovering and Reassessing 19th-Centry American Women Writers Seminar at 44th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association March 21-24, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts Grads, #alt-ac, and Publication Shifts: Digital Journals as Collaboration Opportunity Accepted for Presentation at Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University, A Digital Humanities Symposium hosted by the Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program, February 15-16, 2013 The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Ambiguous Terms: Race and TEI Markup TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d 2012 Annual Conference and Members Meeting of the TEI Consortium, November 8-10, 2012 Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, College Station, TX Digital Humanities Roundtable Retrofitting English Studies: When Diversity Becomes an Afterthought English Graduate Students' Association Conference April 14-15, 2012 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Gender, Child Abuse, and the Female Bilndungsroman of Jane Eyre Presented at The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores the 16th annual conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States October 13-15, 2011 Houston, TX A Means to Means: The Victorian Commodification of India in Cranford Presented at Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination, the 15th annual conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States October 28-30, 2010 Honolulu, HI The Other in the House: Trollope's and Bronte's Treatment of the Female Other as a Means to an End Presented at Western Conference on British Studies September 23-25, 2010 Austin, TX 2 Habbestad CV January 2013

The Empire on Which the Sun Never Rose Presented at The Acacia Conference February 5-6, 2010 California State University, Fullerton "Sugar and Spice or Not Playing Nice: The Balance of Femininity in Stoker's Dracula and Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Presented at The Acacia Conference March 6-7, 2009 California State University, Fullerton "It Aint Easy Being In-Between: The Search for Acceptance in Wide Sargasso Sea and White Teeth" Presented at The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 February 18-20, 2009 University of Louisville
Works in Progress

Exploration of 19th century American literary tendency to create distance between the reader and miscegenation through temporal distance from initial miscegenation Comparative analysis of women of color in 19th century Anglophone literature set in India and the United States.
Relevant Employment

Graduate Research Assistant, The Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP), The Initiative for the Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture; Texas A&M 2012-2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department Texas A&M 2011-2012 Editor, Special Issue paj: The Journal of the Initiative for the Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Winter 2013 Managing Editor paj: The Journal of the Initiative for the Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture February 2012present Contributor World Shakespeare Bibliography 2010-2011 Graduate Assistant, California State University, Fullerton English 99 Spring 2010 Vampire Literature Fall 2009 California State University, Fullerton Writing Center Writing Tutor Fall 2009-Spring 2010

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Courses Taught

Texas A&M English Department English 301 Technical Writing Summer 2012 English 203 Introduction to Literature Spring 2012 English 104 Composition and Rhetoric Fall 2011 Los Altos High School, Hacienda Heights, CA Secondary English Teacher including work in Special Education and TESOL/ESL Fall 2004-Spring 2009
Continued Professional and Pedagogical Development

Digital Humanities Certificate (pending project completion), Texas A&M University Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, -Online Tools for Literary Analysis with Susan Brown and Stan Ruecker June 4-8, 2012 -Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application with Robin Davies and Michael Nixon June 6-10, 2011 Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development Certificate, Biola University May 2004 California Clear Teaching Credential, Secondary English, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing June 2008
Research Interests

World Anglophone literature of the long 19th century, Digital Humanities, Critical Race studies, the Other in 19 th century literature, Women's studies, Mixed-race studies
Teaching Interests

Victorian literature, Literature of the 19th century British Empire, Race in 19th American Literature, Century 19th century World Anglophone literature, the fin de sicle
Languages

Spanish (reading knowledge), French (reading knowledge), TEI (basic), HTML, CSS
Service

Co-President, English Graduate Students' Association Texas A&M University 2012-2013

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Graduate Assistant coordinating Spring Break trip to London incorporated in ENGL 390: Studies in British Literature (Urban Letters: London in Literature) Texas A&M University Spring 2013 Conference Committee, English Graduate Students' Association Texas A&M University 2011-2012 English Graduate Students' Association Officer Texas A&M University 2011-2012 Acacia Co-President California State University, Fullerton 2009-2010 Proposed and Moderated Panel The Acacia Conference February 5-6, 2010 California State University, Fullerton 9th Grade English Course Lead, Los Altos High School, January 2008-June 2009

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