Donna Heiland

TALKS: ON LITERATURE (Conference Papers, Panels, Lectures)

"Sublime Subjectivity: Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Fiction of Peter Ackroyd" (printed program title, changed to “Sublimity and Serial Killing: The Case of Hawksmoor” in presentation). Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, New York, NY, December 2002.

“Displacing the Gothic: Genre and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Fiction.” Also co-organized and chaired the session on “Current Issues in Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies” at which this paper was presented. Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada, October 2001.

Panel Chair, “Sex and Sexuality Over Time.” Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 2000.

Participant in a round-table discussion entitled "The Project of Enlightenment: Teaching the 18th Century in the 21st." Annual Meeting of the North-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamstown, MA, September 1998.

Panel Chair, "The Battle of the Books: Gender and Genre in the 18th Century." Annual Meeting of the North-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, MA, December 1997.

"Shaping Sensibility: Questions of Masculinity in Boswell's Relationship with John Johnston of Grange." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nashville, TN April 1997.

"Transforming and Transcending the Body in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor ." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1997.

"Forms of the Sublime in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry .” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Houston, TX, April 1996.

"Lines of Descent, Forms of Alliance: Thinking About History in Thomas Keneally's The Playmaker." American Association of Australian Literary Studies, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 1994.

"Manifestos for Early Modernists: Haraway's Challenge to Marx.” Co-chaired and read a short paper. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1492-1848, Norman, OK, October 1993.

"Masters and Slaves in Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor." Annual meeting of the North-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Haven, CT, October 1993. Also presented--revised and re-titled "Motherhood and Miscegenation in Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor ”--at the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York, NY , April 1994, and at the Annual Meeting of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, LA March 1995.

"Anne Rice and the Enlightenment Vampire." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence RI, April 1993.

"Postmodernism and the 18th Century." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, WA, March 1992. Presented as part of a roundtable discussion on "20th-Century Uses of the 18th Century."

"Authorship and Alienation: 20th-Century Strategies for Engaging 18th-Century Texts." Conference on "Alienation: The Production of Strangers and the Boundaries of Culture," Bay Area 18th-Century Studies Group, at the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, November 1991. Also presented as a talk for the English Department at Florida State University / Tallahassee with the title "From Pope to Postmodernism: Teaching the 18th Century in a 20th-Century Classroom," October 1992.

"The Gentleman Fathers Himself: The Correspondence of James Boswell." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1990.

"When Americans Think of Canada: Images of Canada in American Media." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1990.

"Lytton Strachey's Portrait of Florence Nightingale." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989.

"Reading Coetzee Reading Crusoe." Annual Meeting of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, November 1989.

"Johnson's Body, Boswell's Text." New York Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar, Barnard College, October 1988.

"From Letters to Literature: The Correspondence of James Boswell and Anna Seward." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA December 1987.

"Boswell's Journal: Author, Audience, Text." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL December 1985.

"Reading Boswell: Routine Romance." The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, September, 1985.

TALKS: ON LITERATURE (Public Lectures, Discussions, Interviews)

Interview about Margaret Atwood, for a program on Anglophone Canadian Writers, in the Modern Language Association radio series, “What’s the Word?” Taped June 2001.

I have facilitated discussions at libraries in Nyack, NY and Valley Cottage, NY on Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation (Spring 1999), Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (Spring 1997), Marguerite Duras' The War (Spring 1997), David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars (Fall 1996), Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries (Spring 1996) and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (Fall 1995).

"Boy meets girl and they live happily ever after? Marriage in Pride and Prejudice." A lecture followed by discussion, New City Library, New City, NY, October 1989.

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Newberry Library / ASECS Fellow, Summer 1990

Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1985-86

Yale University Fellowship, 1984-85; 1983-84; 1981-82

Warnock Fellowship, Yale Boswell Editions, Summer 1984

Edward Griffin Selden Fellowship, Yale University, 1982-83

Helen M. B. Allison Gold Medal for Studies in English Language and

Literature, The University of Western Ontario, 1981

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member, Board of Directors, Community for Education Foundation (beginning Summer 2008).

Judge, Prize for Best Essay in Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, or Literary History, Adelphi University English Department, Spring 2005, Spring 2007.

Manuscript reviewing for PMLA, Bucknell University Press, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.

Member of the Program Committee for the Northeast/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, New York, NY, October 17-19, 2002.

External examiner for Department of English Honors Program, Kenyon College, April 1995.