ANNA L.

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Temple University 1801 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 204-8293 anna.peak@temple.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010 M.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007 B.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College, 2002 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Temple University, Intellectual Heritage Program, Assistant Professor, 2011-present Rowan University, Department of English, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2010-present Chestnut Hill College, Department of English, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2009-2011 Temple University, Department of English, Adjunct Instructor, 2008-2011 PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and the Jew in The Way We Live Now. The Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Submitted and accepted. Forthcoming from Ashgate in 2015. Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Forthcoming in 54.4 (Autumn 2014). Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Cairds The Daughters of Danaus. Victorian Review. Forthcoming in 40.1 (Spring 2014). Reviews and Reference Review of George Gissing and the Woman Question, ed. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James. English Literature in Transition. Forthcoming. Review of The Bronts in the World of the Arts, ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells. Womens Writing 20.3 (2013), 417-419. Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2009-2011, ed. Katherine Malone. Victorian Periodicals Review 45.3 (Fall 2012), 320-357. Review of Michelle Fillions Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster. Studies in the Novel 44.2 (Summer 2012), 248-250. New Editions. Review of new editions and anthologies (New Grub Street, Workers in the Dawn, Enchanted Ideologies, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, and A Defense of Uranian Love). English Literature in Transition 54.4 (2011), 548-551. Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2007-2009, ed. Alexis Easley. Victorian Periodicals Review 43.3 (Fall 2010), 217-261.

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Dance in the Nineteenth Century. Review of Cheryl A. Wilsons Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman. English Literature in Transition 53:4 (2010), 498-500. Literary Housekeeping. Review of Beth Sutton-Ramspecks Raising the Dust: Literary Housekeeping in the Works of Sarah Grand, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Mary Ward. English Literature in Transition 49:2 (2006), 205-208. Entries on Susan B. Anthony and Margaret Mitchell, Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Miles Orvell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. Manuscripts in Submission The Chinese Language and The Saturday Review: A Case Study in Sinophobias Scholarly Roots. Under review for a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. AWARDS AND HONORS 2013 2013 2013 2012, 2013 2012, 2013 2007 2006 2006 2003-2008 Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University Technology Fellow, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple University Working with ESL Students Award, jointly sponsored by the Intellectual Heritage Program and the First-Year Writing Program, Temple University Diamond Peer Teaching Program Mentor Award, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple University Travel and Research Award, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University Newton Prize for Best Essay on Pre-20th Century Literature, Department of English, Temple University Graduate Student Excellence Fund, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University Outstanding Teacher Award, First-Year Writing Program, Temple University Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate Division, Temple University

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The Arts and the Body. Moderator and presenter. Northeast Modern Language Association, Susquehanna University, 3-6 April 2014 (scheduled). The Blind Leading the Blind: Chinese Braille and Victorian Missionaries. Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies, University of Delaware, 1-3 November 2013 (scheduled). That Terrible Language: Chinese, Typewriters, and Late-Victorian Sinophobia. North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Southern California Dornsife, 23-27 October 2013 (scheduled). Technology, Imperialism, and Victorian Perceptions of China. New York Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), 27-28 September. Inventing Inscrutability: The Chinese Language in The Saturday Review. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of Texas at Austin, 14-15 September 2012. Listening to Vernon Lee. Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State University at Abington, 26-27 March 2011. The Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet. Victorians Institute Conference, Converse College, 16-17 October 2009. Trollopes Anti-Anti-Semitism. Trollope and Gender, University of Exeter, 17-19 July 2006.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lower-Division Courses Introduction to English Studies Introduction to Literature Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I and Honors Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I The Short Story Survey of British Literature, Beginnings to 1660 Survey of British Literature, 1660-1900 Women in Literature Upper-Division Courses English Romanticism English Seminar I: Representations of Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain English Seminar I: Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, and the British Empire Feminist Theory Themes and Genres in Womens Literature: Literary Foremothers Victorian Literature Composition Courses Business Writing College Composition Developmental Writing SERVICE Blackboard Feedback Team, Temple University, 2013Editorial Board, Temple University Faculty Herald, 2013Student Award Selection Committee, Temple University Faculty Senate, 2013Representative Senator, Temple University Faculty Senate, 2012Leader, faculty workshop, Strategies for teaching Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex, Intellectual Heritage Program Faculty Workshop Series, Temple University, Fall 2012 Placement essay reader, Chestnut Hill College, Summer 2009, Summer 2011 Member, Faculty Search Committee, Romantic literature, Temple University, 2007-2008 Editor, Schuylkill (Temple University graduate journal), 2007 Vice-President, Temple University Graduate English Association, 2006-2007 LANGUAGES Reading knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish