Amy M. King

Assistant Professor of English
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Staten Island Campus, DaSilva Hall, Rm. 346
(718) 390-4071
kinga@stjohns.edu

Office Hours, Spring 2006
Tuesday: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
Thursday: 10:30 - 12:30 P.M.

Teaching Interests
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction; Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture; Science and Literature; Feminist Theories of Gender and Culture; Narrative History; Theory of the Novel

Education
1998  Ph.D. in English and American Literature, Harvard University.
1990  B.A. in English Literature, Bates College. magna cum laude. Minor: French
1988-89  English studies, Kings College, University of london.

Awards and Grants
1996-7 Samuel Philip Colehour Scholarship, Harvard University

1995 Derek Bok Institute Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

1994 Derek Bok Institute Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

1995-6 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

1995 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship

1994 Annie Dexter Fellowship for Dissertation Research in England, Harvard University

1991-3 Harvard Prize Fellowship, Department of English & American Literature

Publications
Books
Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 02003.

Articles
“Taxonomical Cures: Herbalism, Natural History, and Social Catagorization in Gaskell’s Mary Barton.” The Commerce of Literature and Natural History. SUNY Press, 2003

“Linnaeus’s Blooms: Botany and the Novel of Courtship.” Eighteenth-Century Novel 1 (Fall 2001)
 
Conferences and Presentations
“Prospect and Particularity: A Genealogy of the Victorian Detail.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Bloomington, IN, October 2003

“Pansies and and Faded Rosebuds: Austen’s Blooming Heroines Reworked.” Modern Language Association (MLA). New York, NY, December 2002.

“Gilbert White and the Practice of Literary Detail.” Society for Science and Literature Conference, Pasadena, CA, October, 2002

“Austen’s Particularities: A Natural History of the Detail in Emma.” Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Lansing, MI April 2002

“Perception and Natural History: Or, How to Know What You See.”  Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Houston, TX, 2001

Invited Lecture. “Fascinated in Spite of Herself: Organic Realism and George Eliot’s Adam Bede.” University of California, Riverside, October 2000

“Taxonomical Cures: Herbalist Medicine and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Realism.” Victorian Institute, Columbia, SC, October 2000

“Seaweeds and Sorrel: Eliot, Courtship, and Taxonomical Realism.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1999

“Scientific Taxonomy and Courtship Narratives.” Experience and Experiment: New York University Victorian-Edwardian & Eighteenth-Century Studies Group Conference, New York, NY, February 1998

“Lovers Walk: Public and Private Pleasures in the Eighteenth-Century Garden.” Anonymity Conference, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, March 1997

“Improving Grounds, Improving Complexions: Austen, Whately, and the Landscapes of Courtship.” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 1996

The Sexual System: Linnaean Botany and the Later Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Northeast Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Worcester, MA, September 1996

“Traversing the Bloom: Representing Girlhood in Henry James’s The Awkward Age and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.”  American Studies Association, Nashville, TN, October 1994

Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English, California Institute of Technology

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Haverford College

Teaching Fellow, Harvard College

Professional Service
Co-Coordinator of the national meeting of the Society of Literature and Society (SLS), Pasadena, CA, October 10-13, 2002.

Panel organizer, “Early Stirrings: The Interdisciplinary, Then and Now” SLS, 2002.

Cal Tech Scholarship and Financial Aid Committee
Foreign Students Committee

Member
Society of the Study of Narrative Literature
Society for Literature and Science
North American Victorian Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies