CURRICULUM VITA Eleanor J. McNees
University of Denver Department of English
(2040 S. Race St. Denver, CO 80208 (303) 871-2861
E-mail address: emcnees@du.edu
EDUCATION
1980-1984 Ph.D. in English Literature, 1984
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1980 Lincoln College, Oxford University
1973-1974 M.A. in English Literature, 1974
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1971-1973 B.A. in English, 1973
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
1969-1971 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
1968-1969 Gymnasiet, Skövde, Sweden (Rotary Exchange Student)
EMPLOYMENT
1993-1999 Chair, Department of English, University of Denver
Fall 1999: Director, University of Denver London Program
Fall 1995: Director, University of Denver London Program
Spring 1992: Director, University of Denver London Quarter
1991-Present: Associate Professor of English,University
of Denver
1985-1991: Assistant Professor of English,University of
Denver (Victorian & Modern British Literature)
Spring 1988: Director, University of Denver London Quarter
1983-1985: Assistant Editor of English Language Notes,
Boulder, Colorado
1980-1985: Instructor in English, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado
1985: Bookseller, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado
1978-1980: Chair, English Department, Colorado Academy,
Englewood, Colorado
1974-1980: English Instructor, grades 10-12, Colorado Academy
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Eucharistic Poetry: The Search for Real Presence in John Donne,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dylan Thomas and Geoffrey Hill. Lewisburg: PA:
Bucknell UP, 1991.
Reviews
Review of The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and
Manic-Depressive Illness by Thomas Caramagno and The Unknown Virginia
Woolf by Roger Poole, in Woolf Studies Annual 3 (1996): 237-242.
Review of Gendered Interventions by Robyn Warhol, in Philosophy and Literature 15.1 (April 1991): 170-172.
Review of Geoffrey Hill's The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy and The Lords of Limit in ELN 23.3 (March 1986): 75-76.
Review of Edith Sodergran's Love and Solitude in Bloomsbury
Review January, 1984.
Essays
Revision of On-Line Bibliography of Geoffrey Hill’s works for Concise
Dictionary of British Literary Biography, "Contemporary Writers, 1960-Present,"
vol. 8, GaleNet, Publishers
"Colonizing Virginia Woolf: Scrutiny and Contemporary Cultural Views." Virginia Woolf and the Essay. Eds. Beth Rosenberg and Jeanne Dubino. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
"Reverse Typology in Jude the Obscure." Christianity and Literature 39.1 (Fall 1989): 35-49.
"Beyond the Half-Way House: Hopkins and Real Presence." TSLL 31.1 (Spring 1989): 85-104.
"John Donne and the Anglican Doctrine of the Eucharist." TSLL 29.1 (Spring 1987): 94-114.
Poems
published in Cape Rock, Colorado-North Review, Poem,
Poet Lore, Sing, Heavenly Muse
Edited Collections
Critical Assessments of Virginia Woolf, 4 vols. Ed. Eleanor
McNees. London: Helm Information Ltd. East Sussex, England, 1993.
Critical Assessments of the Brontë Sisters, 4 vols. Ed. Eleanor McNees. London: Helm Information Ltd. East Sussex, England, 1996.
Sources and Documents of the Novel, 3 vols. Ed. Eleanor McNees.
London: Helm Information Ltd. East Sussex, England, forthcoming 1999.
Conference Papers
"Twice Removed: The Ethics of Editing," Reconcilable (In)differences
Conference, University of Denver, 1997
"An Educated Man’s Daughter vresus Educated Daughters: The Case of
Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes and Woolf’s Educated Women," Virginia
Woolf Conference, Plymouth
State College, 1997
"Colonizing Virginia Woolf," MLA, Toronto, Canada, 1994
"The Failure of Real Presence in Hopkins's Terrible Sonnets," Conference
on Christianity
and Literature, Santa Clara, CA, 1989
"Self-Realization and the (M)other in Brontë’s Shirley and Villette,
Southwest Women's Studies
Conference, Houston, TX, 1989
"Victorian Versions of Shipwreck," INCS Conference, Santa
Clara, CA, 1987
"`Distant Fury of Battle': Voices of Geoffrey Hill," Colorado Seminars
in Literature, 1985
"Two Routes Towards a Poetics of Real Presence: Donne's Divine Poems
and Hopkins' `The Wreck of the Deutschland,'" Conference on Christianity
and Literature, 1984
"Wine Into Blood: Eucharistic Typology in thePoetry of Dylan Thomas
and Geoffrey Hill," RMMLA, 1983
"The Incarnation of the Word: Paradise Regained as a Misreading of
Paradise Lost," RMMLA, 1981
Professional Talks
Discussion Leader, ADE Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1998 "Virginia
Woolf and Marie Stopes," Women’s Studies Luncheon Talk, University of Denver,
1998
"Virginia Woolf and A Room of One’s Own," Women’s College, University of Denver, 1997
"`I Wander’d Through Each Chartered Street’: London and its Envrions," Provost’s Luncheon Talk, University of Denver, 1997
Panel Discussion Moderator, ADE Conference, Snowbird, Utah, Summer 1996
Discussion Leader, Pride and Prejudice, Denver Book Group, Spring, 1996
Discussion Leader, ADE Conference, University of British Columbia, Summer 1995
Discussion leader, A Room of One's Own, Rocky Mountain Women's Institute,
November 1996
HONORS AND AWARDS
Internationalization Grant, University of Denver, 1997
Faculty Research Grant, University of Denver, 1997
Faculty Research Grant, University of Denver, 1994
Internationalization Grant, University of Denver, 1994
Faculty Research Grant, University of Denver, 1992
University of Colorado Dissertation Award, 1985
Distinction on dissertation defense, 1984
University of Colorado Doctoral Fellowship, 1982
McHugh Teaching Award, Colorado Academy, 1980
Outstanding Teacher Award, Colorado Academy, 1979
Phi Beta Kappa, Colgate University, 1973
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
University Self-Study Committee, 1997-present
Department Chairs Committee, 1993-present
Search Committee for Director of Study Abroad, 1996
Strategic Planning Committee on Study Abroad, 1995-1996
Faculty Senate, Fall 1994
Study Abroad Committee, 1989-present
Task Force for International Studies, 1989-1991
Committee for Women on Campus, 1987-1989
University of Denver Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1987-1989
EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
President, Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1992-97
Editorial Board Member, English Language Notes
Manuscript Reader for Virginia Woolf Annual and Christianity and Literature
Founder and first director, London Core, 1995
Lecturer for Women's Studies Colloquium
Team teacher for Women in Nineteenth-Century
British Art & Literature (Fall 1989) in Women's Studies Department
Making of the Modern Mind Core lecturer and
winter seminar teacher (1987-1990)
Lecturer for Humanities Institute, University of Denver (1998-99)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
MLA, RMMLA, Phi Beta Kappa, Brontë Society, Virginia Woolf Society,
ADE
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Colorado:
Composition, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to the Short Story
University of Denver
Undergraduate courses: English Literature: Wordsworth to Beckett; World
Classics: The Origin of The Waste Land; Making of the Modern Mind seminars;
Composition Team
Leader & Coordinator; London Culture: Elizabeth I to World War
I; London Authors: Shakespeare to Woolf; Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury;
Bibliography and Research Methods; Women in 19th Century British Art &
Literature
Graduate courses: Skepticism and Faith in Victorian Literature; Social
Problem Novel in Victorian England; Virginia Woolf seminar; Hopkins/Hardy
seminar; Brontë seminar; Survey of Victorian Literature; Victorian
Poetry; Victorian Women and Literature; History of the Lyric; Metaphysical
Prose and Poetry; Victorian Novel; Modern British Literature; Bibliography
and Research Methods, Victorian Art and Literature
Dissertations Directed: Hardy; Brontë (2); Woolf; Victorian Women
Writers
In process: Atwood, Victorian Women
MA Theses Directed: George Eliot; Dickens, Eliot & Gaskell
Undergraduate Honors Theses Directed: George Eliot; Lewis Carroll;
Angela Carter; Hardy and Modern British Composers
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Designed and implemented weekly poetry program for second and fourth
grades, Willow Creek Elementary School, 1997-1998
Devised and currently direct Shakespeare Club for fifth
Grade elementary students, Willow Creek Elementary School, 1998-1999