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Assistant Professor,
sheila.liming@und.edu
Department of English
701.777.2782
Merrifield Hall Room 110
SheilaLiming.com
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202
I. EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (2014)
Dissertation: The Natural Woman: Science and Sentimentality in Modern America
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies (2007)
College of Wooster: Wooster, OH
BA in English and Womens Studies (2005)
Cum Laude
II. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
CURRENT PROJECTS
Manuscript: What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Self-Made American Archive
This book project, drawn from my interactions with Edith Whartons personal
library materials at The Mount, her Massachusetts estate, argues that for Wharton,
and for other women like her in turn-of-the-century America, the compulsion to
collect books and library materials was framed by the stakes of democratic
disenfranchisement. Whartons library collection tells a story of autodidacticism, but
also one of ownership, possession, accumulation, and gendered disinheritance. We
furthermore see these themes reflected throughout her fiction. What a Library Means
to a Woman therefore examines the ways in which a personal library functions as both
a metaphoric space for the construction of the self-made American woman and
as a literal space and material enclosure. Whartons personal library and literary
products additionally connect to the institutionalization of public and private
libraries in the United States during this same era, and this project builds upon and
articulates the substance of those connections.
Digital: EdithWhartonsLibrary.org
This digital project seeks to establish a digital web archive that will grant scholars
and public users alike access to Edith Whartons personal library materials at The
Mount estate in Massachusetts. I am spearheading this project in cooperation with
The Mount (Lenox, MA), and have laid out a three-stage strategic plan outlining my
goals for digitization, data management, design, and use.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
Romancing the Interstitial: Howes The Hermaphrodite and the Substance of Sex in
Nineteenth-Century America. Nineteenth-Century Literature (revise and
resubmit).
An Impossible Woman: Henry James and the Mysterious Case of Anne Moncure
Crane. American Literary Realism (issue forthcoming).
A Month at The Mount: Research and the Unsearchable Archive. The Edith Wharton
Review, 31.1 (Spring 2015): 32-40.
Suffer the Little Vixens: Edith Wharton and Realist Terror in Jazz Age America.
JML: Journal of Modern Literature, 38.3 (Spring 2015): 99-118.
Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Traditions of Print Dissent. M/MLA:
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 14.1 (Fall 2011).
Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through
Textual Experience. Peele, Thomas, ed. Queer Popular Culture. New York:
Palgrave-MacMillan (2007).
Public Writing
A Legacy of Noise: Tracing the Bagpipes Role in the History of Rock. The Atlantic (issue
forthcoming: 9 July 2016).
The Puerility of Purity: How Jonathan Franzens Latest Rewrites an Edith Wharton Novel
Youve Never Heard Of. The Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 March 2016. https://
lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-puerility-of-purity-how-franzens-latest-novelrewrites-an-edith-wharton-novel-youve-probably-never-heard-of
From Nowhere, and Everywhere. The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education,
1 February 2016. http://chronicle.com/article/From-NowhereEverywhere/235071
Loving the Alien: or, Making Theory Useful to the Undergraduate American Literature
Classroom. Pedagogy in American Literary Studies (PALS) blog, 25 & 27 January
2016. Web. https://teachingpals.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/loving-the-alien-ormaking-theory-useful-to-the-undergraduate-american-literature-classroom-part-one/
Engaging the Ghost: Digitization, Preservation, and the Lessons of a Haunted Library.
The Mounts Blog, 31 July 2015. Web. <http://www.edithwharton.org/blog/
engaging-the-ghost-digitization-preservation-and-the-lessons-of-a-haunted-library/>
Reviews
Fantasies of Form. Review of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, by Caroline Levine
(Princeton UP, 2015). Criticism (issue forthcoming: 2017).
culminating in a public lecture and curated exhibit focusing on chosen materials from
the collection.
The College of Wooster
Best Senior Thesis Criticism: Department of English (2005)
EDITORSHIPS
Editor, The Edith Wharton Review (June 2016 present)
Select CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION / PRESENTATIONS
Organizer / Chair
Other Worlds, roundtable with Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Greene, Allison Leigh Holt,
and Frank Huyler. University of North Dakota Writers Conference. Grand Forks,
North Dakota: April 4-6, 2016.
Digital Media and the Reified Canon. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual
Convention. Austin, Texas: January 7-10 2016.
Critical, and Cultural, Approaches to Music. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24 - 26 2011.
Contemporary Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association Annual
Conference. The University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA June 1 -3 2009.
Presenter / Participant
Hugo Gellerts Capital in Lithographs and the Case for Actionable Aesthetics. Modern
Language Association (MLA) 2017 Conference. Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8 2017.
Its Painful to See Them Think: Edith Wharton, Fin de Sicle Science, and the Stakes of
Female Intelligence. Edith Wharton Society (EWS) 2016 Conference. American
University: Washington, D.C., June 2-4 2016.
I Am Not Your Enemy: Jamming, Clashing, and Locating Antagonism in Local Arts
Communities. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Annual
Conference. Clemson University: Greenville, SC September 24-27 2015.
A Flood of Material Ease: Edith Wharton and the Mediated Landscape of Modernist
Paris. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Duquesne University: Pittsburgh,
PA. Nov. 8 -11 2014.
Of Sex and Sentiment: Jazz Culture and Modernist Panic. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24-26 2011.
Zines and Traditions of Print Dissent. Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference. Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, MO: November
11-13 2009.
Technocracy and the Future of Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association