EDUCATION
Ph.D. | University of Iowa, English, May 2019
M.A. | University of Iowa, English, 2016
BA | Saint Olaf College, 2012 (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of English, Central College, Pella, IA, 2019-Present
AWARDS & HONORS
Fellowships & Grants
The Katharine Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades, The Bibliographic Society of America, 2020
Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Award, Huntington Library, 2018
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2018
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2017
Summer Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2017
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Center for Renaissance Studies, 2016
Teaching Awards
W.R. Irwin Award for Teaching Excellence, English Department, University of Iowa, 2017
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, 2016-2017
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Council on Teaching, University of Iowa, 2016
Honorarium, “Hawkeye Shakespeare”: Teaching Shakespeare in Iowa, 2016
Prizes
Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies--Honorable Mention, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 2019
William and Mary Burgan Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 2018
Best Essay Prize, English Department, University of Iowa, 2018
First Prize Paper in the Humanities, Jakobsen Conference, University of Iowa, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Improving Ears: Elizabeth Gaskell's Charitable Listener and the Social-Problem Novel," English Literary History, vol. 87, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 149-178. (Forthcoming)
“Revising Respiration: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and the Shared Breath of Poetic Voice in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Poetry, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 213-232.
“Melodrama’s Wordless Elocution: The Vestigial Voice in the Orchestration and Pantomime of Thomas Holcroft’s A Tale of Mystery.” European Romantic Review, vol. 27, no. 5, Fall 2016, pp. 583-600.
“‘Taste in noises’: Registering, Evaluating, and Creating Sound and Story in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 47, no. 4, Winter 2015, pp. 451-468.
Manuscripts in Submission
Knight, Megan and Kate Nesbit. “Towards the Learning to Teach Statement.” Writing for and about the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres. Edited by Stephen Neaderhiser. (Accepted, Collection Under Review)
Online Publications
“From Ink to Hyperlink: Experimenting with an Online Comprehensive Exam Portfolio.” Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant blog post. The Newly Composed PhD: Writing Across Careers, April 28, 2017.
“Ivan Kreilkamp on Creating a Twitter Voice.” Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant blog post. The Newly Composed PhD: Writing Across Careers, October 25, 2016.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Sense, Sensitivity, and Censorship: The Delicate Listener as Redactor and Romantic Heroine.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Columbus, OH, October 2019.
“Sound Escapes: News Leaks, Sneaky Listeners, and Thomas Hardy’s Case for Candid Fiction.” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2018.
“Rest and the Resistant Listener: Reading Husbands and Snoring Wives in Fin de Siècle Literature.” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 2018.
“Feasting on Morality: Teaching Sympathy and Constructing Class through the ‘banquet that is Shakespeare.’” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Oberlin, OH, April 2017.
“Teaching Character: Pedagogy of the Person and Victorian Shakespeare in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley.” Craft Critique Culture Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 2017.
“The Phonograph Trick: Sound Forms and Transformations in Conan Doyle’s Detective Fiction.” Jakobsen Memorial Conference, Iowa City, IA, March 2017.
“Sound Detection: Fugitive Sounds, Vocalic Bodies, and Conan Doyle’s ‘phonograph tricks.’” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2017.
“Remembering the Body: Incorporating Kinesthetic Learning into Writing Center Peer Consulting.” Midwest Writing Centers Conference. Cedar Rapids, IA. March 2016.
“Graduate Killjoys: A Roundtable on Contestation, Containment, and Resistance amidst the Precarity of Graduate Life.” National Women’s Studies Association. Milwaukee, WI, November 2015.
“Somatic Changes in Poetic Exchanges: Recitation, Memorization, and the Body in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2015.
“‘I cannot unself myself for ever and ever’: Poetic Attempts to Transcend the Self in Christina Rossetti’s A Pageant and Other Poems.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Houston, TX, March 2014.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"Listening to Reading Aloud and the Nineteenth-Century English Novel." British Studies Colloquium, Yale University, Spring 2019.
"Serious Fun: Teaching with Play." Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, March 2017.
"Writing for the Sciences." Video Presentation, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, March 2017.
"Sounding Shakespeare: Recitation, the Dramatic Passions, and Teaching Hamlet." Hawkeye Shakespeare: Teaching Shakespeare in Iowa Conference. University of Iowa, September 2016.
"Digital Teaching Portfolios." Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa, December 2016.
TEACHING
Central College, Pella, IA
Advanced Studies in British Literature
"Lit Out Loud: Speaking and Hearing Literature, 1800-1900" (Fall 2019)
Intermediate Studies in World Literature
"Literatures of the Middle East and North Africa" (Fall 2019)
Introductory Literary Studies
"The Literary Imagination: On Mystery" (Fall 2019)
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
The Interpretation of Literature, English Department, University of Iowa
“Voice and the Storyteller: Service Learning Section” (Spring 2018)
“Tech Knowledge: Literature, Media, and Information” (Spring 2017)
“Reading Bodies: Literature and the Senses” (Fall 2016)
Rhetoric, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa
“All Sides of the Story: Argument and Narrative” (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
“Persuade Me: Identity and Identification” (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS
Writing and Speaking Tutor, Frank Business Communications Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2014- Spring 2018
Writing Tutor, The Writing Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Writing Tutor, Gerdin Athletics Support Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Online Writing Consultant, The Writing Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Peer Writing Tutor, The Writer's Place, Saint Olaf College, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
SERVICE
Professional & Departmental Service
Member, Graduate College External Advisory Board, University of Iowa, 2020-Present
Member, Working Group on Building an Culture of Inclusion, Central College, 2020-Present
Co-Founder, Writing Initiative for Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Fall 2017-Present
Co-Founder and Facilitator, Placement and Professional Development Collaborative, University of Iowa, Summer 2018
General Education Literature Textbook Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Panel Moderator, Craft Critique Culture Conference, Spring 2018
Invited Panelist, "Dissertation Writing" Roundtable, Spring 2018
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Primary Representative, Association of Graduate Students in English, University of Iowa, Fall 2017-Spring 2017
"Papers of Recognition" Selection Committee, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2016
Conference Organizer, Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, 2016
Invited Panelist, "Introduction to Graduate Study" Roundtable, Fall 2016
Paper Acceptance and Panel Compilation Committee, Craft Culture Critique Conference, 2015
Community Engagement
Instructor, Reading Buddies Partnership, Grant Wood Elementary School, Iowa City, IA, Spring 2018
Volunteer, Four Oaks Foster and Adoptive Family Connections, Iowa City, IA, 2014-2016
College Prep Coach (AmeriCorps Volunteer), College Possible, St. Paul, MN, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Volunteer, HOPE Sexual and Domestic Violence Center, Faribault, MN, Summer 2011
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
Ph.D. | University of Iowa, English, May 2019
M.A. | University of Iowa, English, 2016
BA | Saint Olaf College, 2012 (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of English, Central College, Pella, IA, 2019-Present
AWARDS & HONORS
Fellowships & Grants
The Katharine Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades, The Bibliographic Society of America, 2020
Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Award, Huntington Library, 2018
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2018
Post-Comprehensive Research Award, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2017
Summer Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2017
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Center for Renaissance Studies, 2016
Teaching Awards
W.R. Irwin Award for Teaching Excellence, English Department, University of Iowa, 2017
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, 2016-2017
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Council on Teaching, University of Iowa, 2016
Honorarium, “Hawkeye Shakespeare”: Teaching Shakespeare in Iowa, 2016
Prizes
Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies--Honorable Mention, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 2019
William and Mary Burgan Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 2018
Best Essay Prize, English Department, University of Iowa, 2018
First Prize Paper in the Humanities, Jakobsen Conference, University of Iowa, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Improving Ears: Elizabeth Gaskell's Charitable Listener and the Social-Problem Novel," English Literary History, vol. 87, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 149-178. (Forthcoming)
“Revising Respiration: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and the Shared Breath of Poetic Voice in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Poetry, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 213-232.
“Melodrama’s Wordless Elocution: The Vestigial Voice in the Orchestration and Pantomime of Thomas Holcroft’s A Tale of Mystery.” European Romantic Review, vol. 27, no. 5, Fall 2016, pp. 583-600.
“‘Taste in noises’: Registering, Evaluating, and Creating Sound and Story in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 47, no. 4, Winter 2015, pp. 451-468.
Manuscripts in Submission
Knight, Megan and Kate Nesbit. “Towards the Learning to Teach Statement.” Writing for and about the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres. Edited by Stephen Neaderhiser. (Accepted, Collection Under Review)
Online Publications
“From Ink to Hyperlink: Experimenting with an Online Comprehensive Exam Portfolio.” Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant blog post. The Newly Composed PhD: Writing Across Careers, April 28, 2017.
“Ivan Kreilkamp on Creating a Twitter Voice.” Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant blog post. The Newly Composed PhD: Writing Across Careers, October 25, 2016.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Sense, Sensitivity, and Censorship: The Delicate Listener as Redactor and Romantic Heroine.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Columbus, OH, October 2019.
“Sound Escapes: News Leaks, Sneaky Listeners, and Thomas Hardy’s Case for Candid Fiction.” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2018.
“Rest and the Resistant Listener: Reading Husbands and Snoring Wives in Fin de Siècle Literature.” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 2018.
“Feasting on Morality: Teaching Sympathy and Constructing Class through the ‘banquet that is Shakespeare.’” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Oberlin, OH, April 2017.
“Teaching Character: Pedagogy of the Person and Victorian Shakespeare in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley.” Craft Critique Culture Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 2017.
“The Phonograph Trick: Sound Forms and Transformations in Conan Doyle’s Detective Fiction.” Jakobsen Memorial Conference, Iowa City, IA, March 2017.
“Sound Detection: Fugitive Sounds, Vocalic Bodies, and Conan Doyle’s ‘phonograph tricks.’” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2017.
“Remembering the Body: Incorporating Kinesthetic Learning into Writing Center Peer Consulting.” Midwest Writing Centers Conference. Cedar Rapids, IA. March 2016.
“Graduate Killjoys: A Roundtable on Contestation, Containment, and Resistance amidst the Precarity of Graduate Life.” National Women’s Studies Association. Milwaukee, WI, November 2015.
“Somatic Changes in Poetic Exchanges: Recitation, Memorization, and the Body in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2015.
“‘I cannot unself myself for ever and ever’: Poetic Attempts to Transcend the Self in Christina Rossetti’s A Pageant and Other Poems.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Houston, TX, March 2014.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"Listening to Reading Aloud and the Nineteenth-Century English Novel." British Studies Colloquium, Yale University, Spring 2019.
"Serious Fun: Teaching with Play." Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, March 2017.
"Writing for the Sciences." Video Presentation, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, March 2017.
"Sounding Shakespeare: Recitation, the Dramatic Passions, and Teaching Hamlet." Hawkeye Shakespeare: Teaching Shakespeare in Iowa Conference. University of Iowa, September 2016.
"Digital Teaching Portfolios." Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa, December 2016.
TEACHING
Central College, Pella, IA
Advanced Studies in British Literature
"Lit Out Loud: Speaking and Hearing Literature, 1800-1900" (Fall 2019)
Intermediate Studies in World Literature
"Literatures of the Middle East and North Africa" (Fall 2019)
Introductory Literary Studies
"The Literary Imagination: On Mystery" (Fall 2019)
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
The Interpretation of Literature, English Department, University of Iowa
“Voice and the Storyteller: Service Learning Section” (Spring 2018)
“Tech Knowledge: Literature, Media, and Information” (Spring 2017)
“Reading Bodies: Literature and the Senses” (Fall 2016)
Rhetoric, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa
“All Sides of the Story: Argument and Narrative” (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
“Persuade Me: Identity and Identification” (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS
Writing and Speaking Tutor, Frank Business Communications Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2014- Spring 2018
Writing Tutor, The Writing Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Writing Tutor, Gerdin Athletics Support Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Online Writing Consultant, The Writing Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Peer Writing Tutor, The Writer's Place, Saint Olaf College, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
SERVICE
Professional & Departmental Service
Member, Graduate College External Advisory Board, University of Iowa, 2020-Present
Member, Working Group on Building an Culture of Inclusion, Central College, 2020-Present
Co-Founder, Writing Initiative for Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Fall 2017-Present
Co-Founder and Facilitator, Placement and Professional Development Collaborative, University of Iowa, Summer 2018
General Education Literature Textbook Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Panel Moderator, Craft Critique Culture Conference, Spring 2018
Invited Panelist, "Dissertation Writing" Roundtable, Spring 2018
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Primary Representative, Association of Graduate Students in English, University of Iowa, Fall 2017-Spring 2017
"Papers of Recognition" Selection Committee, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2016
Conference Organizer, Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, 2016
Invited Panelist, "Introduction to Graduate Study" Roundtable, Fall 2016
Paper Acceptance and Panel Compilation Committee, Craft Culture Critique Conference, 2015
Community Engagement
Instructor, Reading Buddies Partnership, Grant Wood Elementary School, Iowa City, IA, Spring 2018
Volunteer, Four Oaks Foster and Adoptive Family Connections, Iowa City, IA, 2014-2016
College Prep Coach (AmeriCorps Volunteer), College Possible, St. Paul, MN, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Volunteer, HOPE Sexual and Domestic Violence Center, Faribault, MN, Summer 2011
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
