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CARLA TERESA KUNGL

ctkung@ship.edu

1871 Old Main Drive
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PA 17257
(717) 477-1716

EMPLOYMENT

2007-present: Associate Professor, English Department, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

2001-2007: Assistant Professor, English Department, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

1999-2001: Instructor, Writing Program, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

1990-1999: Graduate Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., M.A. English Literature, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  • Areas of reading: Composition (ESL specialty), WB Yeats, Modernism, 19th Century British
  • MA: Spring 1992; Passed with Honors
• B.A. English and Psychology, Wittenberg University, Springfield OH
• Honors in Senior Comprehensives (English and Psychology)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Shippensburg University: Writing Courses

• English 050: Basic Writing
• English 101: College Writing
• English 106: Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminar (also Honors sections)
• English 238: Technical/Professional Writing (also for on-line delivery)
• English 323: Reviewing the Arts for Publication
• English 394: Special Topics: Rhetoric Past and Present
• English 394: Special Topics: Technical Editing (Individualized Instruction)
• English 420: Studies in Writing: The Politics of Literacy
• English 438: Technical/Professional Writing II (also for on-line delivery; for SU Degree Completion Program; as Individualized Instruction)
  

Shippensburg University: Literature Major

• English 107: Introduction to Literary Studies
  
• English 111: Introduction to Literary Studies II
  
• English 237: British Literature Survey II
  
• English 250: Introduction to Fiction (renumbered from ENG 150)
• English 318: Studies in Reniassance Drama: Shakespeare's Rivals
  
• English 333: Cultural Studies: Sensation, Scandal and Secrets in the Victorian Era
• English 377: Restoriation and 18th-Century Literature (mid-sememster replacement)
• English 394: Special Topics: Rhetoric Past and Present

Shippensburg University: Other Programs

• Honors English 106: Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminar
• Honors English 110: Honors College Writing
• Honors English 218: Honors Introduction to Fiction (Popular Culture and Literature)
• Honors English 249: Honors Introduction to Fiction (New York City and the Rise of Modernism)
• Honors English 381: 19th-Century British Literature (The Victorian Gothic)
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Arts 111: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts
• Interdisciplinary Arts 449: Senior Thesis

  Director of over 60 Student Internships as Technical/Professional Communications Minor Director or as Faculty sponsor
  

Writing Program, University of California at Santa Barbara

• Introduction to Engineering and Communication (1999, 2000)
• Academic Writing: "Modernism and World War I" (2000); "Men and Monsters" (2001); Writing for Art History (2001); Writing for Engineers (2000, 2001)
• Approaches to Academic Writing (2000, 2001): "Literacies: Private, Academic, Public"
• Writing and the Research Process: "Communication for Engineers" (2000); "Gender Roles in Society" (2001)

Department of English, Case Western Reserve University

• Women in Detective Fiction (1998)
• Introduction to Composition: Graduate ESL (1995), ESL (1992-1997), and Native Speaking (1993) Sections
• Expository Writing: ESL (1998) and Native Speaking (1990-1992) Sections
  
• Writing Tutorial (1992)
• Professional Communication/Technical Writing (1990)
  

Department of English, Cuyahoga Community College

• English 099: Language Fundamentals II
• English 101: College Composition I
• English 102: College Composition II

Secondary/High School-Age Instruction

• Academic Success Program/Summer Bridge (through Shippensburg University)
• Pittsburgh Partnership (on as-needed basis; through Shippensburg University)
• Harrisburg Leadership Academy: Gear Up! (through Shippensburg University)
• LTV Summer Scholars Program (partnership with CWRU)
• Minority Scholars Summer Bridge Program (through CWRU)
  

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Creating the Fictional Female Detective: The Sleuth Heroines of British Women Writers 1890-1940. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
  
• Editor. Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. At the Interface. Vol. 6. Oxford: The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2004. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/vampires-myths-and-metaphors-of-enduring-evil/

Articles:

• "Dorothy L. Sayers and Professional Authority." 20th Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 237. Gale Research Group, 2011.
  
• "Shippensburg University's Technical/Professional Communications Minor: A Multidisciplinary Approach." With S. Dev Hathaway. Composing and Revising the Professional-Technical Writing Program. Eds. David Franke and Alex Reid. Michael Palmquist Publishers, 2010.
  
• "'The secret of my mother's madness'": Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic Instability." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. ed. Ruth Anolik. McFarland, 2010.
  
• "Diana Holman-Hunt." Twentieth Century British Humorists. Ed. Paul Matthew St. Pierre. Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research Group, 2010.
  
• "'Long Live Stardoe!' Can a Female Starbuck Survive?" Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica. Eds. Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall. Continuum, 2007.
  
• "Fears and Femininity at the Fin de Siecle: Of Vampires and Vampire Slayers." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Ed. Carla T. Kungl. At the Interface. Vol. 6. The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2004. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/vampires-myths-and-metaphors-of-enduring-evil/
  
• "Family, Slivovitz, and the Burden of Narrative." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. (Fall 2003): 29-33.
  
• "Discovering the Outside World: One Technical Writing Assignment." English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) Conference Proceedings. Kutztown University, October 18-19, 2001.
  
• "Women's Literary Authority and the 1890s Female Detective: The Case of Elizabeth York Miller's Valeska." Virginia Humanities Conference Proceedings. Mary Baldwin College, March 19-20 1999.

Works in Progress:

• Book-In-Progress: Female Detectives of the Fin de Siecle (solicited for review by Broadview Press)
• "Dorothy L. Sayers and Children's Literature" (article stemming from sabbatical research)
  
• Which Country Next? My Father's Memoir (non-fiction)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Why Can’t Technical Writing Be Creative?” Conference of English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU), California University of Pennsylvania. October 2014.
• “Computers in the Victorian Literature Classroom.” Roundtable presentation. Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA. April 2014.
• “J.S. LeFanu and the Motherless Girl in Gothic Fiction.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Harrisburg, PA. April 2014.
• “Reopening Futures: Empowering Basic Writers through a Writing Fellow Program.” Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN. Mar 19-22.
•  “Incorporating the Writing Fellow Model into Basic Writing Classes.” Workshop for Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association, California University of Pennsylvania (April 5-6, 2013). Co-presenter with Dr. Karen Johnson and Dr. Laurie Cella.
• "Anti-Catholicism and Metaphor in Charlotte Bronte's Villette." Conference of English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Shippensburg University (October 22-24, 2009)
  
• "Of Death Note and Dying." The John Taylor Douglas Conference 2008: The Iconography of Death. McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario (October 24-25, 2008)
  
• "Working Workshops." Poster presentation. Pennsylvania Association of Developmental
  Educators Conference. Hershey, PA (April 2007)
  
• "Women Police and the Female Detective: Tracing the Relationship after World War." Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH (November 8-11, 2007)
  
• "Of Madness and Epilepsy: the Gendering of Illness in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Thou Art the Man." Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA (March 1-3, 2006)
  
• "Writing as Struggle in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Thou Art the Man." Conference of English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Erie, PA (October 19-20, 2005)
  
• "Female Detectives: At Home, In the World." Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA (April 1-3, 2005)
  
• "Narrative Irrelevancy: Power and Orality in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White." English
  Department Professional Development Committee Reading. Shippensburg University
  (March 30, 2004)
  
• "Fears and Femininity at the Fin de Siecle: Of Vampires and Vampire Slayers." The First Global Conference of Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Budapest, Hungary (May 22-25, 2003)
  
• "Community Across Disciplines: The Technical/Professional Communications Minor at
  Shippensburg University" (with Dev Hathaway). Conference of English Association of
  Pennsylvania State Universities. West Chester University (October 23-24, 2003)
  
• "Discovering the Outside World--One Technical Writing Assignment." Conference of English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Kutztown University (October 18-19, 2001)
  
• "'I Want to Know if What I Saw in One Newspaper Is True:' Women Writers, Female Detectives, and Print Culture in Early Women's Detective Fiction." North American British Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario (November 2-4, 2001)
• "Women's Literary Authority and the 1890s Female Detective: The Case of Elizabeth York Miller's 'Valeska." Virginia Humanities Conference: "Anticipating the End: Experiencing the Nineties." Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA (March 19-20 1999)
  
• "Teaching Women's Detective Fiction." Canonizing Crime Conference, University of Reading,England (July 16-17 1998)
  
• "Feminism and the ESL Class: How Do We Teach It?" Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA (April 4-5 1997)
  
• "Effective Writing: Expectations, Standards, and Strategies." Panel moderator. Educational Support Services of CWRU, Annual Conference of Teaching and Learning. Cleveland, OH (January 1994)

In-House (Shippensburg University) Workshops, Co-Presenter

• "WIFYS: Common Final Selection, Outcomes Assessment, and the New SAT Writing Test for Placement 2006." General Education/Writing Committee Workshop (November 9, 2006)
  
• "College Writing: Outcomes Assessment, Student Survey, and Discussion of the Writing-
  Intensive First-Year Seminar." Composition Committee Workshop (October 25, 2005)
  
• "College Writing: Outcomes Assessment, Student Survey, and Using the New SAT Writing Test for Placement 2006." Composition Committee Workshop (April 5, 2005)
  
• "Administering and Evaluating the Common Final Assignment in College Writing." Composition Committee Workshop (November 2, 2004)
  
• "Advising Workshop." English Department Fall Retreat (September 15, 2004)
  
• "Administering and Evaluating the Common Final Assignment in College Writing." Composition Committee Workshop (April 8, 2004)
  
• "Integrating College Writing Goals Statement into Our Spring 2004 Syllabi." Composition
  Committee Workshop (November 6, 2003)

Workshops, Participant

• "Bridging the Gap: Preparing Developmental Students for Further Success." Pennsylvania
  Association of Developmental Educators Southeastern Regional Workshop (November 8, 2005)
  
• Library Professional Development Workshops: Camtasia, Dreamweaver, Setting up Quizzes on Blackboard (2005)
  
• "Writing for Citizenship: Opportunities Across the Curriculum." Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA (October 9, 2004)
  
• "Re-Defining English 101: Ten Years Later." Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA (October 25, 2003)
  
• "Copyright in the Digital Age: Challenges Facing the Academy." Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright. University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD (April 3-4, 2003)
  
• Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Chicago, IL (March 19-20, 2002)
  

Administrative Experience

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Shippensburg University

• Sabbatical Leave, Spring semester 2009
  
• CFEST Grant of $1000 for travel to Iconography of Death Conference, Hamilton, ONT
  
• CFEST Grant of $500 for travel to Conference of English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Erie PA ( 2005)
  
• General Education Grant of $900 to help fund Write the Ship (2005, 2006)
  
• CFEST Grant of $760 for travel to Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA (2005)
  
• PDC Grant of $760 for travel to The First Global Conference of Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary (2003)
  
• Center for Teaching and Learning Grant of $500 for travel to Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), Chicago, IL (2002)
  
• Center for Teaching and Learning Grant of $100 for the Paired Course Initiative Grant (2002)
  
• PDC Grant of $800 for travel to North American British Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario (2001)

Case Western Reserve University

• Arthur Adrian Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-1999
  
• Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1998
  
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, 1997-1998
  
• R. Maurine Brunner Endowment Fund Recipient, 1996-1998

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Committees

• Chair, University Curriculum Committee (2011-12; elected position)
• Member, University Forum (2011-12)
• Member, Environmental Steering Committee (2005-present)
• Member, College of Arts & Sciences Executive Council (2008-9)
  
• Member, University Curriculum Committee (2008; elected two-year position)
  
• Member, Web Content Advisory Committee (2007-present)
  
• Member, Arts & Sciences College Council (2006-present)
  
• Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (2005-6)
  
• Member, APSCUF Representative Council (Faculty Union; 2004-2007)
  
• Member, Black Heritage Committee (2004-2007)
  
• Member, ACT 101 Advisory Board Member (2001-2007)
  
  
• Volunteered for Welcome and Registration for new students in the Academic Success Program (June 2003)
  
• Helped assess Summer Residential Pre-college Experience Program (Summer 2004)
  
• Helped coordinate yearly awards banquet (Spring 2005)
  
• Member, Environmental Steering Committee (2002-present); recording secretary (2003-2004)

Special Contributions/Assignments

• Member, Teaching Team (2004, 2005)
  
• Participant, Distance Education Focus Group (October 2004)
  
• Participant, Pairings in General Education Workshop (May 2003)
  
• Member, SU Peace and Justice Committee (2003-2004)
  
• Member, Technical/Professional Communication Minor Development Committee (2001-2003)
  

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Committees

• Chair, Curriculum Committee (2011-12)
• Member, Curriculum Committee (2008-2010)
• Member, Assessment Committee (2011-12)
  
• Member, Departmental Professional A???? Committee (2006-8)
  
• Chair, General Education/Writing Committee (2006)
  
• Member, Five-year Review Committee (2005-2006)
  
• Member, Public Relations Committee (2001-2009)
  
• Member, Composition Committee and Basic Writing subcommittee (2001-present)
  
• Member, English Department Writing Position Search Committee (2002, 2005)
  
• Member and Secretary, English Department Creative Writing Position Search Committee (2004)
  
• Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society (2003-6)
  
• Editor/Co-Editor, Write the Ship (Fall 2002-Spring 2008)

Service

• Reader, placement exams for College Writing (summers 2001-2005)
  
• Participant, English Scholarship Committee Book Sale (Spring 2005)
  
• Interim Director, Technical/Professional Communications Minor (summer 2004)
  
• Participant, Open House (October 23, 2004)
  
• Member, Planning Committee, English Department Fall Retreat (Fall 2004)
  
• Webmaster: revised the department's webpage (2004); remained in charge of all updates
  
• Coordinator, departmental response to NSSE report: created survey for students and helped collate results (2003)
  
• Editor and writer, English Department Newsletter (2001-2003)

Special Contributions to Student Life

• Podcast " Why Am I A Practicing Catholic?" Catholic Campus Ministry (2011)
• Discussion Leader, Honors College Book Club (November 2005)
  
• Participant, APSCUF Faculty/Student Initiative Move-in Day (August 2005, 2008)
  
• Faculty Sponsor, "Swing-Sensations" Dance Swing Club (2004-present)
  
• Discussion Leader, Academic Day (2003, 2004)
  
• Participant, Thurgood Marshall Mentoring Program (2003, 2004, 2008)
  
• Participant, Honors Program Picnic (Fall 2003)
  
• Leader, Learning Center Supplemental Instructor Training (May 2003, August 2003, January 2004)
  

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Instructor, Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Church Kindergarten Religious Education Class
• Editor and proofreader, WEMA Modeling Company's "Hurricane Katrina Relief Fashion Show" (2005) and Shoes and Coats for Kids Campaigns (2003)
  
• Participant, HACC Degree Completion Program
  
• Instructor, Institute for Municipal Secretaries, Clerks and Administrators (2002)
  

RELATED WRITING EXPERIENCE

• Technical Writing Consultant: Environmental Services and Consulting, Lakewood, OH (1997-2000)
  
• Technical Writer: Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (1992-1999)
  
• Medical Editor: assisted in preparation of articles for publication, Cleveland, OH (1996-1998)
  

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