CV
Curriculum vitae: Katharine Beutner
- Email: katharinebeutner at gmail dot com
- Web: www.katharinebeutner.com
Education
Ph.D., English, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2011.
- Dissertation: Writing for Pleasure or Necessity: Conflict Among Literary Women, 1700-1750 (link goes to Texas Digital Libraries page with downloadable PDF copy)
- Committee: Lance Bertelsen (Chair), Elizabeth Cullingford, Janine Barchas, Catherine Ingrassia, Margaret Ezell (with thanks also to Elizabeth Hedrick)
M.A., Creative writing, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
- Thesis: Alcestis, a historical novel that retells the myth of a Mycenaean queen who journeys to the underworld.
B.A., Classical Studies, Smith College, 2003.
- Magna cum laude.
- Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Trinity College Dublin, 2001-2002. Junior year abroad. Studied classics, Irish literature.
Publications
Creative
Alcestis. Soho Press, 2010.
“Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster.” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 19 (Nov. 2006): 35.
Academic
“Remixing the Outline: a Middle-State Moment of Revision.” Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process.
Curated by Kari Kraus. Forthcoming digital collection on MediaCommons’ The New Everyday.
“’The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances’: Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote.” Forthcoming in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Ed. Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, May 2011. 165-181.
Review of A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley, Rachel Carnell. Women’s Writing 17.1 (April 2010): 196-198.
Journalism
“War Stories.” Humanities 23.6 (Nov./Dec. 2002): 48.
“In Focus: The Great Migration.” Humanities 23.5 (Sept./Oct. 2002): 38.
Awards and honors
Winner, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, 2011, from the Publishing Triangle (for Alcestis).
Finalist, Lesbian Debut Fiction Award, 2011, Lambda Literary Foundation (for Alcestis).
Finalist, Compton Crook Award, 2011, BSFS (for Alcestis).
American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellow, 2010-2011. One of 44 Dissertation Fellows.
PEO Scholar Award, Philanthropic Educational Organization, 2010-2011.
- Selected as Carolyn Lindley Cooley, Ph.D., Named PEO Scholar, by an international organization dedicated to women’s advancement in education. One of 85 Scholar Award recipients; one of six Named Scholars.
UT Austin Graduate Dean’s Fellowship Supplement, 2010-2011.
UT Austin Maureen Decherd Dissertation Fellow, Spring 2010.
Norman Mailer Writers Colony workshop scholarship award, June 2009.
Graduate Paper Prize, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008, for “’A Tolerable Opinion of My Labours’: Debt, Profession and Paratext in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke.”
James A. Michener MA Completion Fellowship (one-semester grant), Spring 2006.
First Prize, Fall 2005 University of Texas English Department Fiction Contest, for “The Interior Man.”
Zollman Scholar, Smith College, 1999-2003.
Academic appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, the College of Wooster. Beginning fall 2011.
- English Department
- First Year Seminar: “Coming of Age at the End of the World”
- ENGL 161: Introduction to Poetry and Fiction Writing
- ENGL 120: Investigations in Literary and Cultural Studies
- ENGL 261: Advanced Fiction Writing
- Advising: four senior Independent Study students conducting year-long projects.
Assistant Instructor, UT Austin:
- English Department
- Fiction: E s325, intermediate workshop, Summer 2010.
- Introductory literature: Women’s Popular Genres: E 314L, Fall 2009.
- Department of Rhetoric & Writing
- Rhetoric and Writing: RHE 306, 2006-2007.
- Also took associated pedagogy course, Fall 2006.
- Rhetoric and Writing: RHE 306, 2006-2007.
Assistant Director, The eCommentary Machine (eComma) Project, UT Austin Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, 2007-2009.
Staff Member and Proctor, Digital Writing & Research Lab, UT Austin, Fall 2009. Member of Communications Group, involved in blogging and social media for the DWRL.
Public Services Intern, Harry Ransom Center, Office of the Associate Librarian, UT Austin, 2007-2009.
Graduate Co-Instructor, Dickens Universe, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2008.
Writing Counselor, Undergraduate Writing Center, UT Austin, 2006-2007.
Teaching Assistant, English Dept., UT Austin, 2004-2005.
- Masterworks of British Literature: E 316K, literature survey class for sophomores, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
- Also took associated pedagogy course, Fall 2004.
- Fiction: E 318L, introductory fiction workshop class, Fall 2005.
Conference presentations & exhibitions
“Delarivier Manley Understands the Ladies Better Than You: The Female Wits and Feminocentric Satire.” To be presented March 2012, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS).
“The Problem of Genre in Studying Women’s Literary Histories.” Presented March 2009, ASECS.
“Women’s Autobiographical Narratives.” Chair. March 2009, ASECS.
“Modal Ambiguity and the Ends of Persuasion.” Presented February 2009, Dickens Universe Winter Conference.
The Persian Sensation: the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West. Curatorial assistant. Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin. Spring 2008-August 2009.
- Supervised development of the Collaborative Rubáiyát, a variorum edition of FitzGerald’s poem with annotations added by gallery and website visitors and Ransom Center staff.
Harry Huntt Ransom: A Celebration. Video; scriptwriter. Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin. November 2008.
“’A Tolerable Opinion of My Labours’: Debt, Profession and Paratext in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke.” Presented February 2008, SEASECS.
“Elizabeth Hardwick.” Small exhibition. Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin. December 2007.
“The Romance Plot and the Problem of Daughter/Father Desire in The Female Quixote.” Presented March 2007, ASECS.
“Drip, Drip, Drip: an Incomplete History of Ellipsis Marks.” Small exhibition; co-curator. Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin. November 2006.
Research and travel support
Research travel award, University of Texas at Austin English Department, June 2009 (awarded to fund travel to Mailer Writers Colony and research at Mt. Holyoke College Special Collections).
Level II Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009.
- Wrote successful grant application for The eComma Project, which was awarded a $50,000 grant.
Traveling Jam Pot Award. Graduate student travel award for the ASECS annual conference, March 2009.
Professional Development Awards, UT Austin Graduate Studies, 2007-2009.
Other academic work experience
Reading: Kelly Link. University of Texas at Austin, November 2007. Event Organizer.
Bat City Review, University of Texas at Austin, 2004-2005. Associate Fiction Editor, founding staff member.
Southern Oregon University Office of Institutional Advancement, 2003-2004. SOU Fund Assistant.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2002. Office of Publications Editorial Intern.
Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning, Smith College, 2002-2003. Peer Writing Assistant.
Smith College Classics Department, 1999-2001. STRIDE Research Assistant.
Service
University
Founder, Eighteenth Century Interest Group, UT Austin, 2007-present.
Reader, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Summer 2010.
Graduate Mentor, McNair Scholars Program, UT Austin/St. Edward’s University, Fall 2009.
Panelist, ‘First Time Published’ panel, UT Undergraduate Writing Center, October 2007.
Department
Member, Writing Prizes Committee, English Dept., College of Wooster, 2011.
Member, Donaldson Committee (funds writer visits), English Dept., College of Wooster, 2011.
Mentor, Feminist Solidarity Group, UT Austin, 2006-2008, 2010-present. Member 2006-present.
Planning Committee Member, Feminist Solidarity Group, UT Austin, 2006-2008.
Panelist, Feminism in the Classroom panel, Feminist Solidarity Group, UT Austin, October 2006.
Local
Adoption follow-up volunteer, Austin Pets Alive!, Summer 2010-spring 2011.
Referees
Lance Bertelsen, Iris Howard Regents Professor in English Literature, Dept. of English, UT Austin. Dissertation Chair.
Michael Adams, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of English, UT Austin.
Elizabeth Cullingford, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in English Literature, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Chair
Janine Barchas, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of English, UT Austin.
Elizabeth Hedrick, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of English, UT Austin.
Samuel Baker, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of English, UT Austin. Principal Investigator, The eComma Project.
Works in Progress
Creative
Killingly, novel centered on the disappearance of a Mt. Holyoke College student in 1897.
Academic
“Modal Ambiguity and the Ends of Persuasion,” essay adapted from conference paper on Austen’s modal verbs.
“’A Tolerable Opinion of My Labours’: Debt, Profession and Paratext in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke,” essay adapted from conference paper on Charke’s memoir.
“Pornotopia and Textual Variation in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines,” essay on a late seventeenth-century political pamphlet published in various forms.
