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Patricia Gael is a PhD candidate in English at Penn State University studying 17th and 18th century literature and print culture. Her research focuses on the origins of book reviews and reprints of Lyrical Ballads in British periodicals. She has taught several English courses at Penn State and held various research and technical writing positions.

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Gael CV 2012

Patricia Gael is a PhD candidate in English at Penn State University studying 17th and 18th century literature and print culture. Her research focuses on the origins of book reviews and reprints of Lyrical Ballads in British periodicals. She has taught several English courses at Penn State and held various research and technical writing positions.

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Patricia Gael

email: [email protected] phone: 512-853-0784 address: 129 Burrowes Building / University Park, PA 16802 Research Focus My work examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and literary culture, with an emphasis on print culture and publication history in the mid-eighteenth century. Pennsylvania State University 2008present M.A. in English Spring 2010 Ph.D. in English In progress; passed comprehensive exams and defended prospectus Iowa State University B. S. in English and Chemistry Publications The Origins of the Book Review in England, 1663-1749 The Library 13.1 (March 2012): 63-89. Reprints of the Poems of Lyrical Ballads in British Periodicals, 1798-1800 Forthcoming from The Wordsworth Circle; 25 pages typescript. William Congreve as Satirist Forthcoming from 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era; 38 pages typescript. Dening Kingship and Debating Catholicism: Posthumous Representations of Charles II, 16851714 Under review (revise and resubmit) at HLQ; 41 pages typescript. Conference Presentations Dening Kingship and Debating Catholicism: Posthumous Representations of Charles II, 1685-1702 EC/ASECS, Pennsylvania State University, November 2011 Anonymous Publication in London, 1740-1749 SHARP, Washington, D.C., July 2011 The Importance of Satire in William Congreves Comedies EC/ASECS, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010 The Book Review in England Before 1749 EC/ASECS, Bethlehem, PA, October 2009 Professional Development Rare Book School at the University of Virginia July 4-8, 2011 Attended a course entitled Printed Books to 1800: Description and Analysis and learned about handpress era book production and the principles of bibliographical analysis of works from that period. Penn State InstructorEnglish 30 Spring 2012 Developed and taught a freshman honors course on utopian and dystopian rhetoric in which students read and analyzed utopian literature and philosophy and completed related research projects involving the Penn State Special Collections library. Responsible for all course design, instruction, and grading. Penn State InstructorEnglish 202C Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Summer 2012 Taught one section each term of technical writing for junior- and senior-level science and engineering students. Responsible for all instruction and grading. 20022006

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Penn State InstructorEnglish 15 Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009 Taught one section each term of basic rhetoric and composition each semester. Responsible for all instruction and grading. Relevant Work Experience Graduate AssistantScholarly Communication Services, Penn State Libraries August 2012Present Investigating and documenting new and emerging technologies to support publishing; participating in the development of documentation, policies, and training in support of library services. Composition Oce AssistantPenn State English Department August 2011May 2012 Contributed to the training and support of composition course instructors; handled student and faculty complaints and concerns; organized departmental events. Research AssistantPenn State English Department August 2010May 2011 Assisted Professor Robert D. Hume with research on book history and the economics of publishing. Graduate AssistantPenn State Educational Technology Services August 2009August 2010 Investigated reference management software and assisted investigations of the eects of social networking tools and iPads in university courses. Technical WriterNational Instruments July 2006July 2008 Responsible for writing and editing all manuals, help les, and specications for the companys signal generator product line. Societies ASECS American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; member since 2012. MLA Modern Language Association; member since 2012. EC/ASECS East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; member since 2009. SHARP Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing; member since 2009. Service Public Writing Initiative Fellow, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 EC/ASECS Conference Organizing Committee Fall 2011 Awards and Honors Phi Beta Kappa Liberal arts honor society; member since 2005.

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