SHEILA LIMING

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Assistant Professor,
sheila.liming@und.edu
Department of English
701.777.2782
Merrifield Hall Room 110
SheilaLiming.com
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (2014)
Dissertation: The Natural Woman: Science and Sentimentality in Modern
America: 1865-1937
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies (2007)
College of Wooster: Wooster, OH
BA in English and Womens Studies (2005)
Cum Laude
CURRENT PROJECTS
Manuscript: What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Self-Made American Archive
This book project, drawn from my interactions with Edith Whartons personal
library materials at The Mount, her Massachusetts estate, argues that for Wharton,
and for other women like her in turn-of-the-century America, the compulsion to
collect books and library materials was framed by the stakes of democratic
disenfranchisement. Whartons library collection tells a story of autodidacticism, but
also one of ownership, possession, accumulation, and gendered disinheritance. We
furthermore see these themes reflected throughout her fiction. What a Library Means
to a Woman examines the myriad meanings that lie within the library both as a
metaphoric space for the construction of the self-made American woman and as a
material enclosure, linking Whartons personal library as well as her literary products
to the institutionalization of public and private libraries in the United States during
this era.
Digital: EdithWhartonsLibrary.org
This digital project seeks to establish a digital web archive that will permit scholars
and public users alike access to Edith Whartons personal library materials at The
Mount estate in Massachusetts. I am spearheading this project in cooperation with
The Mount (Lenox, MA), and have laid out a three-stage strategic plan outlining my
goals for digitization and data management.
RESEARCH and TEACHING EXPERTISE
American Literature Since 1865
Cultural Studies / Theory
Print Culture, Media, and Technology

Sex and Sexuality Studies

Digital Media
Edith Wharton

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
Romancing the Interstitial: Howes The Hermaphrodite and the Substance of Sex in
Nineteenth-Century America. Nineteenth-Century Literature (under review).
Other Times, Other Places: Edith Wharton, Adjacency, and Mediated Space in Modernist
Paris. Modernism/Modernity (under review).
An Impossible Woman: Style, Supposition, and the Mysterious Case of Anne Moncure
Crane. American Literary Realism (issue forthcoming: Fall 2016).
A Month at The Mount: Research and the Unsearchable Archive. The Edith Wharton
Review, 31.1 (Spring 2015): 32-40.
Suffer the Little Vixens: Edith Wharton and Realist Terror in Jazz Age America.
JML: Journal of Modern Literature, 38.3 (Spring 2015): 99-118.
Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Traditions of Print Dissent. M/MLA:
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 14.1 (Fall 2011).
Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through
Textual Experience. Peele, Thomas, ed. Queer Popular Culture. New York:
Palgrave-MacMillan (2007).
Blogs and Journalism
On Being from Everywhere. The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education (issue
forthcoming: October 2015).
Engaging the Ghost: Digitization, Preservation, and the Lessons of a Haunted Library.
The Mounts Blog, 31 July 2015. Web. EdithWharton.org/blog.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS and GRANTS
The University of North Dakota
Senate Scholarly Activities Committee:
First-Year Faculty Grant (Spring 2015)
Competitive, paid research award funding the first stage of the
EdithWhartonsLibrary.org digital project; enabled me to reside and work at
Whartons estate in Lenox, MA for six weeks; funded the purchase of a contactless
digital scanner to support my work on the Wharton archive; funded the hiring of
undergraduate research assistants for the Fall 2015 term.
Senate Scholarly Activities Committee:
Faculty Travel Grant (Fall 2014)
Funds awarded in support of my travel to, and participation in, the Modernist
Studies Association Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
The Edith Wharton Society
The Mount Research Award (Summer 2013)

Competitive, paid research fellowship enabling me to reside and study at The Mount
Edith Whartons historical estate, in Lenox, MA.
Carnegie Mellon University
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences:
Graduate Student Teaching Award (Spring 2014)
Department of English:
Graduate Student Teaching Award (Fall 2013)
Schaffer Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2013)
A year-long fellowship, sponsored by endowed funds through the Department of
English, put towards completion of my dissertation project.
Posner Rare Book Collection Fellowship (2011-2012)
Paid research fellowship allowing me to work with the Posner Rare Book Collection,
culminating in a public lecture and curated exhibit focusing on chosen materials from
the collection.
The College of Wooster
Best Senior Thesis Criticism: Department of English (2005)
TEACHING
University of North Dakota, Department of English
Assistant Professor
521: Studies in American Literature
Narrative and the Natural World (Fall 2015)
511: Problems in Literary Contemporary Criticism
Theorizing the Digital in Literary Study (Spring 2015)
304: Survey of American Literature II: 1865-present (Spring 2015)
227: Introduction to Literature and Culture Gothic Fiction (Fall 2014)
271: Reading and Writing About Texts (Fall 2014; Fall 2015)
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of English
Graduate Student Instructor
76-309: Narrative and the Natural World (Spring 2014)
76-241: Introduction to Gender Studies (Spring 2012)
76-370: English Independent Study: Narrative, Story-telling, and Digital Media (Fall 2011)
76-234 American Women Novelists and the Century of Struggle:
1840 1930 (Spring 2011)
76-238 The Politics of Adaptation (Summer 2010)
76-101 Living Social in the Age of Social Media (Fall 2013)
76-101 Geeks and Intellectuals: The Culture, and Cult, of Intelligence (Fall 2011)
76-101 Punk and the Politics of Subculture (Fall 2008; Summer/Fall 2009;
Fall 2010; Spring 2011)
76-101 H Defining Difference in America (Fall 2007/Spring 2008)

Carnegie Mellon University, Office of Academic Development

Workshop Instructor / Assistant Director of Academic Counselor Training
AC 108 Professional Communications: Communicating with Professors
(2010-2013)
AC 104 Citing Sources (2008-2013)
AC 105 Giving Academic Presentations (2008-2013)
AC 200 Academic Counselor Training (Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
College of Wooster, Department of English
Writing Center Administrative Intern
ENG College Writing Tutorial (2006)
Select CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION / PRESENTATIONS
Organizer / Chair
Digital Media and the Reified Canon. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual
Convention. Austin, Texas: January 7-10 2016.
Critical, and Cultural, Approaches to Music. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24 - 26 2011.
Contemporary Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association Annual
Conference. The University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA June 1 -3 2009.
Presenter / Participant
I Am Not Your Enemy: Jamming, Clashing, and Locating Antagonism in Local Arts
Communities. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Annual
Conference. Clemson University: Greenville, SC September 24-27 2015.
A Flood of Material Ease: Edith Wharton and the Mediated Landscape of Modernist
Paris. Modernist Studies Association Conference. Duquesne University: Pittsburgh,
PA. Nov. 8 -11 2014.
Of Sex and Sentiment: Jazz Culture and Modernist Panic. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Columbia College: Chicago, IL March 24-26 2011.
Zines and Traditions of Print Dissent. Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference. Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, MO: November
11-13 2009.
Technocracy and the Future of Knowledge Work. Working Class Studies Association
Annual Conference. The University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA June 1-3 2009.
Sacred Text, Secular Use: The Nineteenth Century Meets the New Literary Canon.
Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference. Kansas City, April 15-18 2009.

Transfiction and Heteronormative Conclusion in The Well of Loneliness and Herculine

Barbin. Northeast Modern Language Association. Buffalo, New York April 1113 2008.
The Inheritance of Empire: a Modern Dilemma. The 10th Annual Conference of the
Marxist Reading Group. The University of Florida: Gainesville, FL March 21-24 2008
Reading for It: Lesbian Readership and Identity. Popular Culture Association. Boston,
MA March 11 13 2007.
Invited LECTURES
Designing and Delivering with PowerPoint.
University of North Dakota: Office of Instructional Research
February 5, February 12 2015
Designing and Delivering with PowerPoint
University of North Dakota: Department of English
Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightowers class, ENGL 408: Senior Capstone in English
April 15, 2015
Network Visualization and the Dream of the Digital Archive
University of North Dakota: Department of English
Dr. Crystal Alberts class, ENGL 430: Digital Humanities
September 14, 2014
Presenting Your Research (and Convincing Your Audience)
Carnegie Mellon University
Small Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) annual grant recipient training
Fall 2009; Spring 2010; Fall 2010; Spring 2011; Fall 2011
The IWW: Radical Folks, Radical Folk Music
The University of Pittsburgh: Department of English
Dr. Nicholas Coles class, ENG 6841: Working Class Literature
Fall 2010
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Damnable Mob of Scribbling Women
Carnegie Mellon University: Department of English
Dr. Mario Castagnaros class, 76-231: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
Fall 2009
FILM PROJECTS
Co-Producer
Times New Roman (2014)
Produced, along with David Haeselin and Austin Vanasdale, a music video for the
Pittsburgh-based band The Armadillos, in cooperation with Wild Kindness Records;
filmed narrative sequences; edited footage; edited soundtrack.

Tributaries: 25 Years of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University

September 2012
Produced, along with David Haeselin, this 30-minute documentary film showcasing
the history and development of the program in Literary and Cultural Studies at
Carnegie Mellon University; interviewed documentary participants; filmed interviews
and captured stock footage; edited video footage and sound; presented the final film
as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration in Literary and Cultural Studies
(September 20-21, 2012).
SERVICE
University of North Dakota
Department of English:
English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Faculty Representative (Fall 2014-present)
College of Arts and Sciences:
AH! (Arts and Humanities) Talks: Series Coordinator (Summer 2015-present)
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of English:
Assistant Director: Masters (MA) Program in Literary and Cultural Studies (2008 2010)
LCS 25th Anniversary Planning Committee (Spring 2012-Fall 2012)
Graduate Representative to the English Department Faculty (Fall 2011 Spring 2012)
Graduate Student Representative, Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium
Committee (2009 2012)
LCS Representative: Committee for Annual Teacher Orientation and Training
(2008 2010)
Graduate Representative: Ph.D. Selection Committee (2009)
Office of Undergraduate Research:
Advisor, Carnegie Mellon Imagine Cup 2011 (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)
College of Wooster
Student Chair: Womens Studies Curriculum Committee (2004-2005)
Student Chair: Sexual Harassment and Complaint Committee (2002-2003)
LANGUAGES
French translation
Spanish speaking and translation
Scottish Gaelic speaking and translation

SOFTWARE and DIGITAL MEDIA

Adobe Creative Suite
including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premier and After Effects software
Omeka (open-source publishing platform)
Zotero (open-source bibliography software)
Gephi (open-source data visualization software)
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
Edith Wharton Society (EWSA)
Association for the Study of the Arts of Present (ASAP)
REFERENCES
Dr. Irene Goldman-Price (Professor Emeritus, Ball State University)
Nynke Dorhout (Librarian, The Mount: Lenox, MA)
Dr. Meredith Goldsmith (Associate Professor of English, Ursinus College; Editor, The Edith
Wharton Review)
Dr. Richard Purcell (Associate Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University)
Dr. Kathy Newman (Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University)