Nanora Sweet Curriculum Vitae

 

Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge, St. Louis, MO 63121
http://www.umsl.edu/~sweet/
Home: 7028 Dale Ave. Office: 314-516-5512
St. Louis, MO 63117-1929 Fax: 314-516-5781
314-647-1925 E-mail: sweet@umsl.edu

Education
A.B. University of Michigan, M.A. University of Missouri-Columbia, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1993, English Literature; Cognate, Women's Studies; Heberle Dissertation Award

Research Interests
British Romantic literature, work and life of Felicia Hemans, Byron and the Shelleys, Romantic histories and geographies, Stael's circle at Coppet, history of women's poetry, history of poetry.

Teaching Interests
British Romantic writing, Romanticism and feminism, modern American women's poetry, British literary history, Anglo-Orientalism, reading and writing of poetry, literary editing.

Academic Appointments
1964-1968 University of Missouri-Columbia: Teaching Assistant, Instructor
1976-1981 Webster Groves School District: Secondary Teacher of English
1981-1997 University of Missouri-St. Louis: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in English
1997-2000, Director, U.M.-St. Louis Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies
1997-present U.M.-St. Louis: Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies

Research Fellowships and Grants
University of Michigan: Non-traditional Fellowship, Center for the Education of Women Scholarship, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
University of Missouri-St. Louis: Research Award 2001, Small Grants Funding 1998, 2002, 2004

Pedagogical Awards and Grants
University of Missouri-St. Louis: Literature/Gerontology Course Development; Outstanding Organization Advisor, Student Activities Lecturer of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences

Administrative Grants
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies: Visiting Scholar Grants, Trio Foundation; McAffrey Family Endowed Scholarship, William A. Kerr
Foundation Graduate Assistantship Stipends and Endowment

Community Award
Woman of Worth, St. Louis Older Women’s League, 2005
Scholarly Publications

Edited Collection
Sweet, Nanora, and Julie Melnyk, eds. Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

Edition
Sweet, Nanora, and Barbara Taylor, eds. The Sceptic: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue (1820). A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition. Jan. 2004. Romantic Circles, U of Maryland. Essays contributed: “A Tour of the Sceptic,” “‘A darkling plain’: Hemans, Byron, and The Sceptic; A Poem,” and “Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans’s Reading of Byron.” http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/sceptic/index.html

Articles and Chapters
"Classics for Ninth Graders: Solace and Status." English Journal 72.3 (March 1983): 62-65

"Thirty-One Ways to Avoid Book Reports." English Journal 73.4 (April 1984): 86-89

"History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic Moment." At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism. Ed. Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. 170-84

"'Hitherto closed to British enterprise': Trading and Writing the Hispanic World circa 1815." European Romantic Review 8.2 (Spring 1997): 139-47

"Teaching Hemans's 'The Widow of Crescentius.'" Approaches to Teaching Women Poets of the British Romantic Period. Ed. Harriet Linkin and Stephen Behrendt. New York: MLA, 1997. 101-05

“Hemans, Heber, and Superstition and Revelation: Experiment and Orthodoxy at the Scene of Writing.” Romantic Passions, ed. Elizabeth Fay; in series Romantic Praxis, website Romantic Circles. March 1998. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/passions/sweet/sweet.html

"'Lorenzo's' Liverpool and 'Corinne's' Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education." The Lessons of Romanticism. Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert Gleckner. Durham: Duke UP, 1998. 244-60

"Corinne in England: Hemans, Jewsbury, and Browning." With Ellen Peel. The Novel’s Seductions: Staël’s Corinne in Critical Inquiry. Ed. Karyna Szmurlo. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press 1999. 204-20

“Felicia Dorothea Hemans, née Browne.” Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed. Vol. 4, 1800-1900. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2000. 351-60

“Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage: Hemans, Rushdie, and ‘the Moor’s Last Sigh.” Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. 181-95

Sweet, Nanora, and Julie Melnyk. Introduction: “Why Hemans Now?” Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. 1-15

“Felicia Hemans’ ‘A Tale of the Secret Tribunal’: Gothic Empire in the Age of Jeremy Bentham and Walter Scott.” European Journal of English Studies 6.2 (2002): 159-71

"’The Inseparables’: Hemans, the Brownes, and the Milan Commission.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 39.2 (2003):165-77

“The New Monthly Magazine and the Liberalism of the 1820s.” Prose Studies 25.1 (April 2002): 147-62. Rpt. Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture. Ed. Kim Wheatley. London: Frank Cass, 2003. 147-62.

“’Under the subtle wreath’: Louise Bogan, Felicia Hemans, and Petrarchan Poetics.” The Transatlantic Poetess. Ed. Laura Mandell. Romanticism on the Net 29-30, March 2003 http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n29/007714ar.html

“Hemans, née Browne, Felicia Dorothea.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. 60 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 26: 274-77

Scholarly Reviews
"Niobe and Niobe's Daughter," rev. of poetry by Kate Daniels and Leslie Ullman. minnesota review n.s. 34/35 (spring/fall 1990): 148-51

Rev. of Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt against Theory, David Simpson. Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 30.1 (Summer 1996): 23-25. Co-authored with Michael Gamer and Paul Rodney

Rev. of Byron's Heroines, Caroline Franklin. Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 467-70

Rev. of Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen, Adela Pinch. The Wordsworth Circle 28 (1997): 257-59

Rev. of Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices, ed. Paula Feldman and Theresa Kelley. Keats-Shelley Journal 47 (1998): 204-06

Rev. of Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author, Sonia Hofkosh, and Romanticism and Masculinity, Tim Fulford. European Romantic Review 11 (2000); 463-67

Rev. of Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 30 (Fall 2000): 128-34

Rev. of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, Nicholas Roe. Modern Philology 98 (May 2001): 689-92

Rev. of Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia, Diego Saglia. European Romantic Review 13 (March 2002: 123-25

Rev. of Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837. Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright, eds. Modern Philology 99.4 (May 2002) : 654

Rev. of Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy, ed. Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler. Nineteenth-Century Literature 58.4 (March 2004): 555-59

Rev. of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Selected Poetry & Prose, ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft. and Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810, Harriet Guest. The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text, ed. Susan Wolfson and Elizabeth Fay: in press at Keats-Shelley Journal 53 (2004): 182-85

Popular Press Reviews
Rev. of Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot, Mary Shelley, ed. Claire Tomalin. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 22 Nov. 1998. D6

Rev. of Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Benita Eisler. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9 May 1999. C5

Rev. of George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large, Belinda Jack. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3 Sept. 2000. F11

Rev. of A Whistling Woman, A. S. Byatt, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 22 Dec. 2002. G10

Creative Publications

Edited Book
Breathing Out: Poems by Loosely Identified, ed. with Rebecca Ellis. Glen Carbon, IL: Cherry Pie Press, 2004.

Authored Books
Mix of Securities. A chapbook. O’Fallon, IL: Snark Publishing, 2005

Rotogravure. A chapbook. Midwest Women Poets Series #2. Glen Carbon, IL: Cherry Pie Press, 2006

Poems
"The Cleanest Wound." Poetry Bag 1.7 (Spring/Summer 1968): 33

"A Girl for the Rock." Quartet 7.48-49 (Fall-Winter 1974-75): 10

"After the Sirloin" and "Eleven Line Poem." Concerning Poetry 10.2 (Fall 1977): 23-24

"During Epiphany, 1975" and "Letter to the Editor as Dada." Axeltree (1978): n.p.

"A Choice of Metaphor." Axeltree (1979): n.p.

"Squares and the Light." Confrontation No. 22 (Summer 1981): 44

"St. Agatha's Windows." River Styx No. 6 (1980): 23

"Demonstration by a Window." River Styx No. 8 (1981): 48-49

"If in the Movies of Jean Luc Godard." Ascent 8.2 (1983): 52-53

"The Rungs." River Styx No. 17 (1983): 52-53

"The One Animal" and "Scattered Lagoons." Image 13.1-2 (1985): 81-83

"The Northern Provinces." Webster Review 10.2 (1985): 82-83

"Arctic Air.” Delmar No. 1 (1989): n.p.

"Allegheny." Delmar No. 2 (1990): 7-8

"Mix of Securities." River Styx No. 35 (1991): 74-75

"Lackluster Performers." Delmar No. 4 (1992-93): 34-35

“Rotogravure.” River Styx 48 (1996): 66-67

"Father's Desk." River Styx 53 (1998): 48

“Pipeliners’ Picnic,” “List of Liabilities.” Delmar (1999): 41-42

“Gr. Tom. Pickle,” “Academic Festival Overture.” Breathing Out (2004): 65, 67

Works in Press, Forthcoming, in Progress, in Planning

Books
Hemans and the Shaping of History, A Romantic Poetics, critical book under revision

My Life, Someone Else’s Life, poetry manuscript in progress

The Fever: A Life of Felicia Hemans, literary biography in planning

Edited Journal
Natural Bridge #16 (Special Section: Writers Responding to Women Writers), Fall 2006

Articles/Chapters
“Laureate Triumph in Childe Harold IV: Staël, Hemans, Hobhouse, Byron.” Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies. Ed. Jane Stabler. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. In press.

“British Writing in a Sismondian Frame.” Article under revision for Nineteenth-Century Literature. In progress.

“‘Those syren-haunted seas beside’: Naples in the Work of Staël, Hemans, and the Shelleys.” Invited for Romanticism’s Debatable Lands. Ed. Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. In press.

Scholarly Reviews
Rev. of Tracing Women’s Romanticism, by Kari Lokke, for European Romantic Review. In press.

Rev. of Romantic Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, by Simon Bainbridge, for Nineteenth-Century Literature. In progress.

Rev. of Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism, by Jeffrey C. Robinson. In progress.

Presentations

Academic Papers
"A Feminist Criticism for the Woman Poet." Midwest Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 1986

"The Women Love Poets Protest!" National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, 24 July 1988

"Yeats' At the Hawk's Well and the Aesthetic of the 1917 The Wild Swans at Coole." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Brandeis University, 11 March 1989

"Mary Wollstonecraft and the Sublime." Association of Graduate Students in English Annual Meeting, University of Iowa, 15 October 1989

"Felicia Hemans, the Beautiful, and a Feminist Dialectics of Romanticism." Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 30 December 1991

"Fugitive Places: Felicia Hemans's Feminist Grand Tour." Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 5 November 1992

"The Orientalist Frontier and its Romantic Unraveling." 1492 and the Refusal of "Discovery": The Expulsion of Arabs and Jews from Spain, University of Wisconsin, 13 December 1992; American Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee, 23 September 1995

"Corinne's Curriculum; or, a Salon for the Provinces." Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 4 November 1993

"Romantic Education and the Culture of Disestablishment." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Durham NC, 13 November 1994

"Skepticism and its Cost: Hemans's Reading of Byron." Byron Society, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, 28 December 1994

"Trophies in Triumph: Women Writers and the Romantic Imagination." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Baltimore County, 20 July 1995; previewed in the U.M.-St. Louis Institute for Gender and Women's Studies Colloquium March 1995

"'The Bowl of Liberty': Felicia Hemans and the Poetry of Reform in the 1820s." British Women Writers 18th-19th Centuries Conference. Columbia, South Carolina, 21 March 1996

"'Hitherto closed to British enterprise': Trading and Writing the Hispanic World circa 1915." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Boston, 15 November 1996

“Sismondi’s Historiography: Republican Martyr as Male ‘Other’ at Coppet.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Hamilton, Ont., 26 October 1997

“’An end to frontiers’: Hemans, Rushdie, and the Moor’s Last Sigh.” 18th-19th Century British Women Writers Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27 March 1998

“Hemans, the Battle of the Nile, and a Poetics of Dispersal.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies Joint Annual Meeting, Strawberry Hill, England, 10 July 1998 and Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Boulder, Colorado, 20 February 1999

"Romanticism Degree Zero: Stylelessness among the Rank and File." Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 28 December 1998

“Recreating ‘The Forest Sanctuary’ at Halifax: Felicia Hemans and T. H. Browne.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 12 August 1999

“’Under the subtle wreath’: Louise Bogan, Felicia Hemans, and Petrarchan Poetics.’ 18th-19th Century British Women Writers Annual Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, 15 March 2001

“The Subject of the Vespers, Hemans, Delavigne, Verdi: The Risorgimento and Sturm und Drang.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 18 August 2001

“Hemans, Sismondi, and Risorgimento Historiography.” European Literary Relations Division Session on Women Writing History in Pre-20th-Century Europe. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, 29 December 2001

“The New Monthly Magazine and the New Liberalism.” Keats-Shelley Association Session on Romantic-era Periodicals. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, 30 December 2001

“Staging the Secret Tribunal: Goethe, Boaden, Scott, and Lawrence.” Keats-Shelley Association Session on Romantic Theater, Theatrical Romanticism. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, 30 December 2002

“Hemans’s ‘Casabianca’ and Its (Doubly) Romantic Reading.” Missouri Philological Association 28th Annual Meeting. Kirksville, Missouri, 1 March 2003

“Sceptic and Heroic: Gibbon’s Heirs in the East, Byron, Disraeli, Lawrence.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Notre Dame London Centre, 11 July 2003

“’A most unexpected resemblance to New York’: Unromantic Liverpool and Its Municipal Culture.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting. New York City, 3 August 2003

“Gibbon, Scepticism, and Anglo-Orientalism.” Midwest American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri, 8 October 2004

“Those syren-haunted seas beside”: Naples in the Work of Staël, Hemans, and the Shelleys.” British Association for the Study of Romanticism Biennial Conference. Newcastle, England. 29 July 2006

Invited Talks
"Byron and Byronism in Arcadia." Arcadia Symposium, U.M.-St. Louis's Center for the Humanities, 19 February 1997

“Current State of Hemans Studies.” Felicia Hemans Society of North Wales, 6 September 2000, St. Asaph, North Wales

“The Milan Commission.” Felicia Hemans Society of North Wales. Pensychnant, Conway, North Wales, 18 July 2003

Conference Panels and Workshops Organized
“Feminist Criticism.’ Midwest Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting. St. Louis, April 1986

“Felicia Hemans: Romantic Deferred? Victorian Madonna?” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 30 December 1991

“Politics and Culture in Romantic Period Women’s Poetry.” 18th-19th Century British Women Writers Association Annual Meeting. Columbia, South Carolina, 21 March 1996

“Will the Real Felicia Hemans Please Stand Up?” Double Session. Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Kansas City, Missouri, 6 October 2000

”Reading Romantically.” Double Session. Missouri Philological Association 28th Annual Meeting. Kirksville, Missouri, 1 March 2003

“Neapolitan Readings.” A workshop co-conducted with Julie Melnyk. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting. Boulder, Colorado. 11 September 2004

Program Notes, Internet, Interview
Arcadia Program Notes, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, February 1997

Five Postings in “Reading Hemans, Aesthetics, and the Canon: An Online Discussion.” Extracted, and slightly edited, from postings to the NASSR-L discussion list, 16-19 July 1997. Romantic Circles. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/anthologies/hemans.htm>

Clerihews, The Romantic Women Poets. A Celebration of Women Writers. Ed. Mary Mark Ockerbloom. <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/>

Interview and Extract in “How It Is: Teaching Women’s Poetry in British Romanticism Classes” by Harriet Kramer Linkin, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture 1.1 (Winter 2001); 91-115

Interviewed for Feature on Loosely Identified by Patricia Corrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Everyday section, 24 May, 2004).

Poetry Prizes
Graduate Prize, Washington University, Academy of American Poets
First Prizes, St. Louis Wednesday Club, St. Louis Poetry Center First and Second Prizes
Finalist, Denver Quarterly

Poetry Readings

Juried Readings, Last 10 Years

Poetry Reading. River Styx at Duff's 9 December 1996

Poetry Center Reading, 12 July 1997, Borders Books, Sunset Hills

Underwood Readings. Café Danielle, 1997, 9 January 1998, 24 April 1999

"History and the Perfect Past." River Styx at Duff's 9 June 1997

Writers' Series. National Women's Studies Association. 26 June 1997

“Studio St. Louis.” Poetry Reading with Carol Niederlander. U.M.-St. Louis Center for the Humanities. 6 April 1998

“Women in the Arts” Series at U.M.-St. Louis. 19 October 2005

“Words on Purpose” Series at Soulard Coffee Garden. Benefit for Women’s Support and Community Services. 8 April 2006

Readings Compendium

University of Nebraska at Omaha 1974
Women's Poetry Workshop 1975, 1976, 1979, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
(aka Loosely Identified)
KWUR (Washington University) 1979
River Styx Duff's Series 1980, 1984, 1997
Missouri Botanical Garden 1982
Poetry Center Neighb'd. Series 1981, 1985
U.M. St. Louis classes, alums 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994
KWMU (St. Louis NPR) 1985, 1998 (Cityscape)
Guild House, Ann Arbor 1988
KDHX (St. Louis community radio) 1989, 1998
Delmar benefits 1989, 1990, 1993
Litmag readings 1997 and other
Benefit, Missouri Coalition for the Environment 1998
Poets against the War, ImagineInk, Genesis House 2003
With Loosely Identified – KDHX, Duff’s, Cyrano’s, Well Fed Head 2004

Selected Consultancies
Artist in the Schools, 1974, Omaha, Nebraska
Literary Consultant, Wishbone, PBS Children’s Literary Programme, 1996-1997, Dallas, Texas

Peer Reviewing
I review scholarly articles submitted for publication in Eighteenth-Century Life, European Romantic Review, Keats-Shelley Journal, PMLA, South Atlantic Review, and elsewhere and scholarly books for Broadview, UP of New England, and elsewhere

Memberships
Board member, River Styx, 1999-; Romantic Chronology, 1995-; Blackwell’s Literature Compass

Member, British Association for Romantic Studies, Byron Society, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Keats-Shelley Association, “Loosely Identified” A Women’s Poetry Workshop, Modern Language Association, National Organization for Women, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, St. Louis Poetry Center, Société des études staëliennes

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