Daniel Bivona
Associate Professor of English
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Email:  dbivona@asu.edu
Web page:  http://www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona/

Education

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

Part-time Administrative Appointments

  • Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Learning Community Institute, July 2007-July 2009 (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:

  • Bivona, Daniel (and Roger B. Henkle). The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006). [Reviewed by Joseph Kestner in Victorian Studies 49.2 (Winter 2007): 329-331; Ellen B. Rosenman in ELT 51.3 (2008): 337-340; Frank Christianson in Novel 41.1 (2007): 162-5.]
  • __________. 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:

  • Bivona, Daniel. The Natural and Social History of Pluck: The Victorian Discourse on Character and Agency.
  • __________. “Aesthetic Instinct and Sexual Taste: Wilde, Krafft-Ebing, and Perverse Instincts” [circulating]

Articles:

  • Bivona, Daniel. “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.” Nineteenth Century Studies 21 (Winter 2007): 67-83 [appeared in 2009].
  • __________. “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.

Invited Essays:

  • Bivona, Daniel. “Introduction: The Condition of England: Industrialism and Social Reform.” Victorian Non-Fiction Prose. Eds. Lisa Surridge and Mary Elizabeth Leighton. [forthcoming, Broadview Press].
  • __________. “Mormon Houris and American Bedouins: Richard F. Burton’s Worlding of the American West.” Victorian World Literatures : A Special Issue of Yearbook of English Studies. Ed. Pablo Mukherjee [forthcoming in 2011]

Books Reviewed:

  • Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces.  Ed. Tim Youngs. London, New York, Delhi: Anthem Press, 2006. [forthcoming: Nineteenth Century Contexts 31.4]
  • Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class  by John Kucich. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 in Modern Philology 107.2 (November 2009).
  • 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).
  • 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:

  • Upcoming: “ ’The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’:  the Changing Face of Hyde in Twentieth Century Hollywood Film Versions of   Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” “Popular Darwinism” panel (Panel organizer). Southwest Texas PCA/ACA conference. Albuquerque, NM (February 10-13, 2010).
  • Commentator, “Masculinities and Modern Literature” panel. Western Conference on British Studies. Tempe, AZ. (October 23-4, 2009).
  • Invited lecture/discussion: "Subjectivity and the British Novel," Spirit of the Senses Salon, Tempe, AZ (September 17, 2008).
  • 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 (1996-2009):

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):

  • Member, English Department Personnel Committee (August 2008-present)
  • Interim Director, M.A. in Literature program, English Department (July 2007-January 2008)
  • Director of the CLAS Learning Communities Institute (July 2007-July 2009)
  • 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 Amy D'Antonio (Ph.D.); completed in Spring 2009
  • Directed Alana Briggs (M.A.); completed in Fall 2008
  • 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.)
  • Reading: Leah Pate (Ph.D.)
  • Reading: William Martin (Ph.D.)

Honors Theses:

  • Read: Laurel Warner (Fall 2009)
  • Directed: Sarah Maschoff (Spring 2009)
  • Read: Katrina Bender (Spring 2009)
  • Directed: Lindsay Heyen (Spring 2005)
  • Directed: Lauren Simek (Spring 2003)

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, External Reviewing, and Other Professional Service

  • Co-chair, Local Arrangements Committee for the 2011 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference in Arizona (March 2011)
  • Board Member (2009-12), Nineteenth Century Studies Association.
  • Contributor to Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies since 2008
  • Reviewed manuscripts for Cambridge University Press (2), Novel, Contours, Ohio State University Press, Nineteenth Century Contexts, Victorian Studies (2), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, University Press of Virginia, Stanford University Press (2), Victorian Review
  • Reviewed proposals for Broadview Press (4) 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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