Dan Bivona

Associate Professor of English

Director of the CLAS Learning Community Institute
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Email: dbivona@asu.edu

Web page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona/

Education

• Ph.D., English, Brown University, 1987
• M.A., English, Northeastern University, 1979
• B.A., University of Connecticut, 1974

Full-Time Administrative Appointments

• Divisional Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, July 2004-June 2007
• Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, January 2002-June 2004
• Chair of English Department, Arizona State University, 2000-2002
• Associate Chair of English Department, Arizona State University, 1998-99

Full-Time Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, 1999-present
• Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University, 1996-1999
• Assistant Professor of English, Rowan University, 1995-6
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1988-1995
• Assistant Professor of English, Rhode Island College, 1987-1988
• Instructor, Humanities, Lesley College, 1985-1987
• Instructor, English, Northeastern University, 1979-80

Part-time Administrative Appointments

• Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Learning Community Institute, July 2007-present (from January 2002 through June 2007 the directoriship of the Learning Community Institute was included as part of my duties as Associate Dean and then Divisional Dean)

Part-Time Academic Appointments

• Instructor, Community College of Rhode Island, 1981-83
• Writing Instructor, Stonehill College, 1983-84
• Teaching Assistant, Northeastern University, 1977-79
• Teaching Assistant, Brown University, 1981-85

Awards and Grants

• Research Award, The Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, 1992 (for British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940)
• Research Award, The Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, 1989 (for Desire and Contradiction)
• University Fellowship, Brown University, 1980-1981
• Preparing Future Faculty Mentoring Award, Arizona State University, 1999 & 2000
• Involved in preparing 4 successful Quality of Instruction grants from the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for English Department faculty (2000-1).
• Involved in preparing 3 successful Quality of Instruction grants from the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for English Department faculty (2001-2).
• P.I. on successful Arizona Board of Regents Grant to support development of freshman learning communities (2003-4) [$50,000].

Publications and Work in Progress

Books:

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, co-authored with Roger B. Henkle (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006). [Reviewed by Joseph Kestner in Victorian Studies 49.2 (Winter 2007): 329-331]
• British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [Reviewed by Anne E. Fernald in Modern Fiction Studies 45.2 (1999): 533-535; John McBratney in Nineteenth-Century Prose 26.1 (Spring 1999): 172-176; Philip Holden in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 3.3 (1999); V. G. Kiernan in Literature and History 9.2 (2000): 95-6; Deirdre David in Victorian Studies 43.1 (Autumn 2000): 142-144; Patrick Brantlinger in English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 43.3 (2000): 341-343; Brian Gasser in Notes and Queries 47.4 (Dec. 2000): 531-2; and Brian Young in Review of English Studies 52.208 (November 2001): 550-6].
• Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. [Reviewed by Bruce Robbins in Victorian Studies 35.2 (Winter 1992), pp. 209-214; by Peter Hulme in Literature and History (1992); by Patrick Brantlinger in Novel 26.1 (Fall 1992), pp. 112-115; by K.A. Robb in Choice 28 (May 1991), pp. 1481-2].

Work in Progress:

• Illusions of Character, Illusions of Mind: The Victorian Discourse on Character and Agency

Articles:

• "The House in the Child and the Dead Mother in the House: Sensational Problems of Victorian 'Household' Management." Nineteenth Century Contexts 30.2 (June 2008): 109-125.
• "Poverty, Pity, and Community: Urban Poverty and the Threat to Social Bonds in the Victorian Age" [forthcoming, Nineteenth Century Studies 21 (Winter 2007)]
• "Human Thighs and Susceptible Apes: Self-Implicating Category Confusion in Victorian Discourse on West Africa."Nineteenth Century Prose 32.2 (Fall 2005): 71-97.
• "The Erotic Politics of Indirect Rule: T. E. Lawrence's 'Voluntary Slavery.'" Prose Studies 20.1 (April 1997): 91-119.
• "Playing the Muslim: Sir Richard Burton's Pilgrimage and 'Negative' Cultural Identity." Borders of Culture, Margins of Identity. (New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 1993): 85-94.
• Conrad's Bureaucrats: Agency, Bureaucracy, and the Problem of Intention." Novel 26.2 (Winter 1993): 151-169.
• "Disraeli's Political Trilogy and the Antinomic Structure of Imperial Desire." Novel 22.3 (Spring 1989): 305-325. [Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 79. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1999].
• "Alice the Child-Imperialist and the Games of Wonderland." Nineteenth-Century Literature (September 1986): 143-171.

Reviews:

• Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces. Ed. Tim Youngs. London, New York, Delhi: Anthem Press, 2006. [forthcoming: Nineteenth Century Contexts]
• Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State by Bruce Robbins. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2007. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 49 (February 2008).
• Victorian Literature and Finance. Ed. Francis O'Gorman. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2007. Review of English Studies (January 31, 2008).
• Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class by John Kucich. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 [forthcoming: Modern Philology]
• Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel by Timothy L. Carens (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 2005) in Victorian Studies 49.2 (Winter 2007): 344-45.
• Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Simon Dentith.  New York and Cambridge :  Cambridge UP, 2006 in Nineteenth-Century Literature 62.1 (June 2007): 127-130.
• Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War by Paula M. Krebs (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999) in Nineteenth-Century Literature 55.3 (December 2000): 428-431.
• King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes by Neil Parsons (Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 1998) in Research in African Literatures 31.3 (Fall 2000): 206-8.
• Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing by Deirdre David (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995) in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies NS.8 (Spring 1999): 111-113.
• Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel by N. N. Feltes (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993) in South Central Review 13.1 (Spring 1996): 56-58.
• Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism and the Fin de Siècle by Chris Bongie, Nineteenth-Century Prose 20.1 (Winter 1993).
• Formations of Fantasy, eds. Victor Burgin, James Donald, and Cora Kaplan, Wilson Library Bulletin 62.1 (Sept. 1987): 103-104.
• Robert Graves: the Assault Heroic, 1895-1926 by Richard Perceval Graves, WLB 61.9 (June 1987): 88.
• Anger: the Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History by Carol Zisowitz Stearns and Peter N. Stearns, WLB 61.8 (April 1987): 70-1.
• Reviews of the journals Style and Language and Style in Serials Review 33.1 (Summer 1980), pp. 20 and 33.

Papers and Panels:

• Invited lecture/discussion, "The Problem of 'Character' and the Presidential Primaries," Spirit of the Senses Salon, Phoenix, AZ (February 1, 2008).
• Invited lecture, "T. E. Lawrence: the Man, the Myth, and the Movie," Spirit of the Senses Salon, Paradise Valley, AZ (October 12, 2007).
• Invited discussant, "Popular Culture and Constructions of Masculinity" panel, Western Social Science Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ (April 22, 2006).
• "Aesthetic Instinct and Sexual Taste: Krafft-Ebing and the Instinct of the Perverse." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, September 29-October 1, 2005, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
• “The House in the Child and the Dead Mother in the House: Sensational Problems of Household Management.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Notre Dame London Center, London, UK, July 8-10, 2003.
• "Teaching Technology Skills in a Literature Class." Workshop. CLTE. Arizona State University. February 19, 2003; English Department, ASU, March 31, 2003.
• Panel member, Curricular Change Panel, Rocky Mountain MLA convention, Scottsdale, AZ, October 10, 2002.
• "Crossing the Border of Hell: Jack London and Charles Masterman Represent the Abyss," Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 20, 2002.
• "Sympathy and Distance: Moments in the Victorian Imagination of Urban Poverty," Colloquium, English Department, Arizona State University, September 26, 2001.
• Debate Moderator, Debate on Darwinism between Michael Shermer and Duane T. Gish, Phoenix, Arizona, June 1, 2001.
• "Poverty, Pity, and Community: Urban Poverty and the Threat to Social Bonds in the Late Victorian Age," Pacific Coast British Studies Conference, Stanford University, April 6-8, 2001.
• Panel presentation: "Controlling and Assessing Online English Courses" (with Greg Glau and Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard). Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence. Arizona State University, October 18, 2000.
• Chair, "Deconstructing Discourse" panel, Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, September 15-17, 2000.
• "Suffering with the Sheep: Greenwood's 'Unsentimental' Journalism of Feeling and Lower Class Work." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Yale University, April 6-8, 2000.
• "The Insulating Element of Culture: James Greenwood Inoculates Himself against the Working Classes," The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10-12, 2000.
• "The Difference Bureaucracy Makes: Joyce Cary's Satire on Indirect Rule," Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York, April 16-17, 1999.
• Panel Moderator, Southwest Graduate Literature Conference, Arizona State University, March 14, 1999.
• "Poverty As Profession:  Jefferies, Wells, London and the "New Journalism," The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 25-7, 1999.
• "Baring in Cairo to Gordon in Khartoum: Indirect Rule and the Symbolic Uses of 'Personality,'" Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York, April 3-4, 1998.
• "Gordon in Khartoum: Indirect Rule and the Problem of "Personality," Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Long Beach, CA, March 27-29, 1998.
• Panel moderator, Colonial and Post-colonial Discourse panel, Southwest Graduate Literature Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 7-9, 1998.
• "Indirect Rule and the Pleasures of Self-Effacement: The Case of T. E. Lawrence," Colloquium, Arizona State University, April 16, 1997.
• "Inquisition as Behavioral Determination: Is Acting 'One of Us' All There Is To Being 'One of Us'?" Joseph Conrad Society Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 10-13, 1997.
• Panel moderator, British Literature and Empire panel, Southwest Graduate Literature Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 7-9, 1997.
• "The Jungle Boy in the Gray Flannel Suit: Kipling and the Management of Hatred," SCMLA Conference, Houston (October 27, 1995).
• "Dickens' Little Dorrit: the Novel, the Family, and the Police," lecture delivered at Fairfield University (March 22, 1995).
• "T. E. Lawrence Among the Bedouins," Semiotics Association Conference, Philadelphia (October 20-1, 1994).
• "White Father/White Master: H. M. Stanley Plays Father," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, William and Mary College (April 9-10, 1994).
• Faculty participant in a panel discussion on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Annenberg School of Communications, Philadelphia (October 28, 1993).
• "'Gladness of Abasement': Lord Cromer and the Professionalization of the Empire," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Arizona State University (April 1-2, 1993).
• "Disraeli and Gaskell: Reactionary and Liberal Crowds," Modern Language Association Convention, New York (December 27-30, 1992).
• "Why Africa Needs Europe: H. M. Stanley's 'Dark Continent,'" Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference, Rutgers University (April 24-26, 1992).
• "Playing the Muslim: Sir Richard Burton's Pilgrimage and Negative Cultural Identity," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans (April 10-12, 1992).
• "Alice's Game(s)," NYCEA Conference, Syracuse University (November 1988).
• "Empire As Field of Play," Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference, Wheaton College (April 1987).

Administrative Conferences in which I participated:

• Reinvention Center Conference, Washington, DC (November 17-19, 2004)
• AAC&U Institute, Newport, RI (May 22-26, 2004)
• Reinvention Center Meeting, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (April 16, 2004)
  PAC-10+2 Deans' Conference, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii (March 22-24, 2004)
• Reinvention Center Meeting, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (March 19, 2002).
• PAC-10+2 Deans' Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (April 7-9, 2002).
• CASUU Conference, Tucson, AZ (April 14-16, 2002)
• Reinvention Center Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (November 13-15, 2002)..

Courses Taught Recently

At Arizona State University (1996-2007):

• The Empire and the Novel (undergraduate)
• Nineteenth Century Fiction (undergraduate)
• 19th Century Sexuality: Britain and France (graduate seminar, team-taught with Rachel Fuchs, Department of History)
• Victorian Masculinities (graduate and undergraduate)
• The Spectacle of Loss in the Nineteenth Century (graduate and undergraduate)
• Victorians and the Problem of 'Character' (graduate and undergraduate)
• "Human Disease and Society" Learning Community
• Victorian Sexuality (graduate and undergraduate)
• Victorian Sensations (undergraduate)
• Imagining Class in the Victorian Period (graduate and undergraduate)
• Victorian Sexuality (graduate and undergraduate)
• Advanced Composition (undergraduate)
• Victorian Masculinities (graduate and undergraduate)
• British Literature, 19th and 20th Centuries (undergraduate)
• Aestheticism and Decadence (graduate and undergraduate)
• Research Methods and Critical Methodology (graduate)
• Victorian Poetry (graduate and undergraduate)
• British Literature, 19th and 20th Centuries (undergraduate)
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction (graduate and undergraduate)
• Introduction to Literature (undergraduate)

At University of Pennsylvania except where noted (1988-1995):

• The Uses of Empire (graduate)
• "Unwholesome" Victorian Fictions: The Counter-Discourse of a Therapeutic Culture
• The Work of Ruling: Colonial Discourse as Managerial Discourse (graduate)
• Imagining Poverty During the Victorian Age (graduate)
• Dandies, Aesthetes, and 'Manly' Men: Aestheticism, Decadence, and Adventure
• Early 19th-Century British Novel (graduate)
• The British Adventure Novel
• Domestic Spaces and Foreign Places in the American Novel
• The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Imagining the 'Primitive' in the Age of Darwin
• The British Novel, 1660-1925
• British Poetry Since Pope
• The Gothic Novel and Its Victorian Progeny
• Darwin's Plots
• Conrad and Kipling
• The Work of Empire
• Dickens and Dostoyevsky
• Thomas Hardy in Context
• Transformational Grammar (Rhode Island College)
• History of the English Language (Rhode Island College)
• Postcolonial Fiction (Rowan)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (Rowan)

(In addition to the courses listed above, I have also taught a variety of writing and literature courses while filling the roles of instructor at Lesley College, teaching assistant at Brown University, Instructor at Northeastern University, and part-time Instructor at Stonehill College and the Community College of Rhode Island.)

Administrative and Committee Work (at ASU):

• Interim Director, M.A. in Literature program, English Department (July 2007-January 2008)
• Director of the CLAS Learning Community Institute (July 2007-present)
• Divisional Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (July 2004-June 2007)
• Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (January 2002-June 2004)
• Chair of the English Department (2000-January 2002)
• Associate Chair of the English Department (1998-9)
• Faculty Senator (1997-1999)
• Member, Student-Faculty Policy Committee of the Academic Senate (1998-1999)
• Chair, Affirmative Action Committee of the English Department (1998-9)
• Chair, Subcommittee on Curriculum Review (1997-8)
• Member, Search Committee for Literary Theory (1997-8)
• Member, the English Department By-Laws Committee (1996-8)
• Member, the English Department Ph.D. Committee (1996-)
• Member, the English Department M.A. Committee (1998-)
• Member, the English Department Graduate Committee (1998-)
• Member, Gateway Course Subcommittee to the Curriculum Review Committee (1996-7)
• Member, Subcommittee to the Curriculum Review Committee to design Postcolonial courses (1996)
• Member, The Creative and Scholarly Activities Committee (1996-7)

Recent Past Administrative and Committee Work (at UPenn, except where noted):

• Director, Penn-in-London Program (Summer 1994).
• Director, Honors Program, English Department, 1990-91
• Director, The Writing Center, Brown University, 1983-84
• Chair, Assistant Professor Committee, English Department, 1989-1990
• Member, Senior Modernist Search Committee, English Department, 1989-1990
• Member, Committee on Graduate Admissions, English Department, 1993
• Member, Neighborhood Schools Subcommittee, Penn Faculty and Staff Neighbors (1992- 1993).
• Member, The Cultural Studies Discussion Group (1990-96)

Ph.D. Dissertations and M.A. Theses at ASU:

Completed:

• Directed Heather Hoyt (Ph.D); completed in Spring 2006
• Directed Courtney Tinnan (M.A.); completed in Spring 2006
• Directed Bina Mehta (M.A.); completed in Spring 2006
• Directed Sean Cleveland (M.A.); completed in Spring 2001
• Directed Ricky Fountain (M.A.); completed in Spring 1999
• Directed: Priscilla Van Dam (M.A.); completed in Spring 1998
• Directed: Kimber L. Knutson (M.A.); completed in Fall 1997

• Read: Kirsti Cole (Ph.D); completed in Spring 2008
• Read: Dana Tait (Ph.D.); completed in Fall 2007
• Read: Cajsa Baldini (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2005
• Read: Gary Walker (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2004
• Read: Nowell Marshall (M.A.); completed in Spring 2003
• Read: Rajeev Nair (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2002
• Read: Lisa Higa (M.A.); completed in Spring 2002
• Read: Tiffany Chen (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2001
• Read: Jeff Ritchie (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2000
• Read: Ahmed Almansour (M.A.); completed in Fall 1999
• Read: Tricia Farwell (M.A.); completed in Spring 1998

Ongoing:

• Directing: Kimber L. Knutson (Ph.D.)
• Directing: Amy D'Antonio (Ph.D.)
• Directing: Alana Briggs (M.A.)
• Reading: Leah Pate (Ph.D.)

Ph.D. Dissertations at UPenn:

• Directed: Ian Strachan, Ph.D. awarded 1995 [Carter Woodson Fellow, University of Virginia, 1998-9 and currently Assistant Professor of English, University of Nassau]
• Read: Vivienne Rundle, Ph.D. awarded 1992 [currently Associate Professor of English, University of Calgary]
• Read: Jennifer DeVere Brody, Ph.D. awarded 1992 [currently Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago]
• Read: Frederick de Naples, Ph. D. awarded 1995 [currently Professor of English and Chair, Bronx Community College, City University of New York]

Membership in Academic Organizations:

• Modern Language Association
• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
• North American Victorian Studies Association
• Pacific Coast British Studies Association
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association

Manuscript Reviewing and External Reviewing

• Reviewed manuscripts for Cambridge University Press, Novel, Contours, Ohio State University Press, Nineteenth Century Contexts, Victorian Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, University Press of Virginia, Stanford University Press
• Reviewed proposals for Broadview Press and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center of Canada.
• External reviewer for Dibner Institute Fellowship for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, 2001
• External reviewer on two tenure cases (2001 and 2002)

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