Claudia J Stumpf

1 Pleasant Street Terrace  Stoneham, MA 02180

Phone: 617-981-2276  E-Mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Tufts University, Medford MA
PhD, English, May 2015
Dissertation: “The Road of Excess: Writing Trauma in Sentimental and Gothic Texts
1745-1810”
MA, English, May 2008

Yale University, New Haven CT

BA, English, May 2003 Cum laude, with distinction in the major

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
Bentley University, Waltham MA, 2014-present
Lecturer in the English and Media Studies Department
Gender Studies Minor Coordinator

PUBLICATIONS
“Moralizing Among Ruins: Christianity, Patriarchy, and the Struggle for Narrative Authority.”
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Charlotte Dacre. Gale/Cengage, November 2019.
“Shattering Trauma: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Problem of Making Meaning”
Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature 2.2 (June 2012).
“Lions of Flaming Fire: The Violence of Meaning in William Blake” in Literary and Poetic
Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia During the Romantic Era: Charting a
Motif Across Boundaries of Culture, Place, and Time. Mellon Press, 2011.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS

“Teaching Through Role-Playing Games.” Innovations in Teaching Showcase, May 2018

Bentley Learning and Teaching Council, Waltham MA.

Chair. “Imagined Connections: The Space of Empathy in the Undergraduate April 2018
Classroom.” 49th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language
Association, Pittsburgh PA.

"Frankenstein: An Introduction." Waltham Public Library’s Watch Read Listen June 2017
Program, Waltham MA.

"Teaching Transamerica: Trans Bodies in the Spotlight." 48th Annual Meeting March 2017
of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore MD.

“Little Bee and the Violence of Empathetic Reconciliation.” 47th Annual March 2016
Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford CT.
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“Hybridity, Trauma, and Narrative: Equiano's Gothic Narrative.” The 46th March 2015
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Los Angeles, CA.
“Telling It Over, Over Again: The Castle of Wolfenbach, Traumatic Repetition, November 2012
and the Failure of Closure in the Gothic Novel.” The 2012 International
Conference on Romanticism, Tempe, AZ.

“Clarissa and Narrative Excess.” New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century II: A December 2010
Symposium of Graduate Student Work. The Harvard Humanities Seminar
on Eighteenth-Century Studies. Cambridge, MA.

“The Printing Press of Los: The Hard Work of Reading Blake’s Illuminated October 2008
Books.” The 2008 International Conference on Romanticism, Rochester,
MI.

“The ‘Voluptuous’ Language of Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya.” British Women March 2008
Writers Conference, Bloomington, IN.
“The ‘Triumphing of the Wicked’: The Book of Job in Samuel Richardson’s October 2006
Clarissa.” Annual Meeting of the Midwestern American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, MN.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Bentley University, English and Media Studies Department, 2014-present
Lecturer and Gender Studies Minor Coordinator
Courses: The Victorian Period; Women in Literature; Introduction to Gender
Studies, Special Topics in British Literature: The Literature of the French
Revolution; Expository Writing I: Critical Thinking and Writing; Expository Writing
II: Advanced Inquiry in Writing

Suffolk University, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2013

Part-time Lecturer
Course: Women, History, and Culture

MCPHS University, School of Arts and Sciences, 2013-2014

Adjunct Instructor of English
Courses: Expository Writing I; Expository Writing II (Introduction to Literature)

Tufts University, Department of English, 2006-2013

GIFT Teaching Fellow
Course: Frankenstein's Sisters
Graduate Lecturer
Courses: Expository Writing; Family Ties; Love and Sexuality
Teaching Assistant
Courses: Black World Literature; General View of English Literature
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ADVISING AND MENTORING
Coordinator and Advisor, Gender Studies minor, Bentley University 2018-present
First Year Advisor, First Year Seminar Program, Bentley University 2016-present
Mentor, Liberal Studies Major, Bentley University 2015-present

SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Faculty Affairs Committee Professional Development Grants, Bentley University 2016, 2019
GIFT (Graduate Institute for Teaching) Fellowship, Tufts University 2011
Provost’s Fellowship, Tufts University 2005-2007

DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Advisory Board, Bentley Equity Center 2018-present
Research and Pedagogy Committee, Bentley EMS Department 2016-present
Literature/Cinema Committee, Bentley EMS Department 2014-2015
Professional Development Committee, Tufts English Graduate Student Org. 2007-2009

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association National Women’s Studies Association
Boston Rhetoric & Writing Network National Council of Teachers of English
International Conference on Romanticism Professional & Organizational Development Network

LANGUAGES
German: proficient reading and speaking French: proficient reading

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Community Research Initiative of New England, Boston, MA
Communications and Development Specialist –2006 to 2014

Lexington Symphony Orchestra, Lexington, MA

Grant writer and Communications Director – 2010 to 2013