Curriculum Vitae

Ann M. Brunjes
Associate Professor of English
Bridgewater State College
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/abrunjes/ 

 


308 Tillinghast Hall
(508) 531-2435
abrunjes@bridgew.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, New York University, New York, NY 1995
MA, English, New York University, New York, NY 1989
A.B., magna cum laude, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1987

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College English Department, fall 2004-present (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State College English Department, fall 1997-spring 2004 (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Assistant Adjunct Professor, New York University General Studies Program, 1996-1997; New York University College of Arts and Sciences, 1997

Lecturer, New York University School of Continuing Education, Adult Non-degree Program 1991-1997

Preceptor, New York University Expository Writing Program, 1990-1995

TEACHING EXPERIENCE, LITERATURE

Bridgewater State College English Department
    
EN 231 Major American Writers to 1865
     EN 231 Major American Writers to 1865 (Honors)
     EN 251 Literature of the Atlantic World (Honors Learning Community)
     EN 309 Early American Literature
     EN 331 US Literature in the Nineteenth Century I (1820-1855)
     EN 332 US Literature in the Nineteenth Century II (1855-1900)
     EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: The Early American Novel
     EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: Real and Imagined: Nineteenth-Century
           African American Slave Narratives; Twentieth Century Re-Visions.
     EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: The American Sentimental Novel
     EN 570 Graduate Seminar in American Literature: Race and the Literary Imagination
           in Nineteenth-Century Literature

New York University College of Arts and Sciences, English Department
         American Literature I: Beginnings to the Civil War
         Literary Interpretation         

TEACHING EXPERIENCE, COMPOSITION

Bridgewater State College English Department
    
EN 101 and 102 Writing I and II
     EN 102-H1, Honors Writing II
     EN 203 Writing About Literature

New York University General Studies Program
    
Prose Composition I & II

New York University Expository Writing Program
    
Expository Writing Workshop 1 & II (6 semesters)
     International Writing Workshop II (4 semesters)
     Writing Tutorial (4 semesters)
     Honors Writing Workshop II (1 semester)

New York University School of Continuing Education, Adult Non-degree Program 
    
Improving Writing Skills (15 semesters)
     College Preparatory Writing Workshop (2 semesters)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Honors Program Award, Outstanding Faculty Contribution to the Honors Program at  
     Bridgewater State College (2004)
New York University Dean's Graduate Student Teaching Award, 1993
Teaching Fellowship, Expository Writing Program, New York University, 1990-1995
University Fellowship, New York University, 1988-1990
Phi Beta Kappa, Colgate University, 1987
Awarded Honors in English, Colgate University, 1987

COLLEGE SERVICE

Executive Committee Member, MSCA Bridgewater Chapter, 2004-2006
Co-Coordinator, Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research, fall 2004-present
Acting Co-Coordinator, Adrian Tinsley Program Summer Research Grants,
     summer 2002
Founding Member,
Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research
     (formerly BUROP) Advisory Board, fall 2000-present

Member, CART Advisory Board, fall 2003-spring 2006
Advisor, New Student Orientation, summer 2003
Mentor,
Glen dePontbriand, summer 2003 recipient of Adrian Tinsley Program Grant
Humanities Panelist,
GER Teaching Event, June 20, 2003   
Panel organizer and panlist, Bridgewater State College CART Celebration VII, " May 18, 2005.
Panelist,
Bridgewater State College CART Celebration VI, "Cross-Cultural Topographies and 
     Constructed Identities."  Participants:  Ann Brunjes, Leora Lev, Duilio Ayalamacedo.  May 19, 
     2004. 
  
Panelist, Bridgewater State College CART Celebration V, “Undergraduate Research,”
     May 15, 2003
Panelist, Bridgewater State College CART Celebration IV, "Body Talks:  Power, Gender
     and the Body," May 16, 2002
Panelist, Bridgewater State College CART Celebration, "Undergraduate Research,"
     May 2001
Panelist, Bridgewater State College CART Celebration, "Undergraduate Research,"
     May 18, 2000
Trustee, Barbara Chellis Fellowship, fall 2001-present
Writing Committee Member, NEASC Self-Study: Scholarship, Research & Instruction, 
     summer 2001
Judge, Entries for the Campus Climate Action Group Diversity Scholarship,
     March 2000 and 2001
Chair, Articulation Grant Sub-Committee on Assessment, spring 2000
Sponsor/Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honors Society),
     spring 1999-2002
Guest Associate Editor and Contributor, Bridgewater Review, Fall 2000  
Participant, Bridgewater State College Honors Program Retreat, Stonehill College,
     April 2000
Department Representative, Minority/Bilingual Student Awareness Day, April 6, 1999
Academic Issues Panelist, Bridgewater State College 1998 Fall Orientation,
     September 7, 1998
Panelist, "Can We Talk?"
Bridgewater State College June 1998 and June 2004 Family    
     Orientations

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Acting Department Chair, October 2006 - present.
Editor,
Department Newsletter “The English Update,” fall 2003-present
Advisor to Corie Dias, English Honors Project, fall 2004-spring 2005  
Advisor to Glen dePontbriand, English Honors Project, fall 2003-spring 2004
Chair, Search Committee, English Department Rhetoric and Composition Position, fall 2004-
     spring 2005
Member,
Committee on Curriculum and Assessment, fall 2002-present
Member, Search Committee, English Department African American Literature Position,
fall 
      2001 and spring 2002
Member, Massachusetts Teacher Test Preparation Workshop Committee,
fall 2000-present
Member, Curriculum Committee, spring 2001
Chair, English Honors Committee, fall 2000-present
Member, Chair’s Executive Committee, fall 2000-present
Member, Search Committee, English Department Anglogophone Literature Position,
fall 2000 and 
     spring 2001
Advisor to Christine Mavrelion, English Honors Project, spring 2000-spring 2001
Advisor to Ryan McCarthy, Directed Study, spring 2001
Chair, NEBHE Dissertation Fellow Search Committee, May 2000
Member, Search Committee, English Department Irish Literature Position, spring 2000
Member, Search Committee, NEBHE Dissertation Fellow, March-April 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Timothy Dwight’s Travels in New England and New York, Samson Occom’s A Short Narrative of My Life, and the Rhetoric of Race,” chapter in Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature, ed. Robin DeRosa.  Newcastle, UK:  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.

“Hugh Henry Brackenridge,” “David Humphreys,” and “Royall Tyler,” entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry [Seven Volumes] edited by Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005.

"Walled Off," Bridgewater Review, January 2001

"Pocket Diaries," Bridgewater Review, January 2001

"Female Writers and Inquisitorial Repression in Colonial Latin America of the 17thCentury," Bridgewater Review, January 2001

"The American Struggle for Identity in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Verse," Bridgewater Review. June 1998

BOOK REVIEWS

Rev. of A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. South Atlantic Review. Winter 2001.

Rev. of States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel, by Elizabeth Barnes. South Atlantic Review Summer 1998: 104-106.

Rev. of Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America, by William J. Scheick.  Women’s Studies Spring 1999.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Timothy Dwight’s Imaginative Conundrum:  Resistant Landscapes and the Aboriginal ‘slack 
 hand,’” presented at the Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Alexandria , VA.   April 2, 2005.

"Varieties and Pitfalls of Mentoring," presented with Dr. Kevin Curry and Dr. Andrew Harris at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Tenth National Conference, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse.  June 25, 2004.

“Imperial Culture in the Atlantic World,” presented with Dr. Andrew Harris at the Commonwealth Honors Program Council Forum on Teaching Honors Courses,  Salem State College, Salem, MA.  February 27, 2004 . 

“‘A Poor, Degraded, Miserable Race of Beings’: Dwight’s Travels, Occom’s A Short Narrative of My Life, and the Inadequacies of the Text,” presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, CA.  December 28, 2003 .

"Gender Violations:  Dangerous Thresholds in 19th Century Domestic Fiction," accepted at the NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Conference, Toronto, Canada.  March 1, 2002.

"(Mis)Representing the Self in Image and Word," (panel organizer and chair), presented at Society of Early Americanists Conference, Norfolk, VA.   March 9, 2001

"The Furious Politics of Poetry:  Rural Massachusetts Newspapers in Election Season, 1800-1804" presented at Society of Early Americanists Conference, Norfolk, VA.  March 10, 2001 (also presented to the Bridgewater State College History Department Colloquium, March 1, 2001)

"Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal and the Rhetoric of Urban Britain," presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C.   December 28, 2000

"Timothy Dwight and the Idea of Virtuous Communication," presented at the Society of Early Americanists Conference, Charleston, SC. March 4-7, 1999

"'Characters Sustained in Reality': Stephen Burroughs and the Created Authentic," presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD. April 17-18, 1998

"Elusive or Authoritative? Readers, Writers, and Trust in Early Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals," presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 4-5, 1997

"'Sing them into peace': Joel Barlow as the Evangelical Republican Poet," presented at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. March 1996

"Team Teaching in the Composition Classroom," presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN. March 1994

GRANTS
Co-Author and Developer (with Dr. Andrew Harris), NCUR-Lancy Program Grant: 
    
Contact, commerce and conquest: imperial culture in the Atlantic World, c. 1400-
     1800,”
spring 2003.
CART Travel Grant, spring 2005

CART Travel Grant, fall 2003
CART Travel Grant, spring 2002 
CART Travel Grant, fall 2000
CART Faculty and Librarian Research Grant, spring 2000
CART Travel Grant, spring 1999

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Puritan poetry and prose
Constructions of Authorship in Early America
Early American Newspapers and Periodicals

LANGUAGES
Latin: reading knowledge (City University of New York Summer Latin Institute, 1988).
Spanish: reading knowledge.

MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Northeast Modern Language Association
Research Society for American Periodicals
Society of Early Americanists
Society for the Study of American Women Writers

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Instructor/Catechist, St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church CCD, Grade 1 (2002-3) and
     Grade 2 (2003-4)
Member, Bridgewater State College Catholic Center, Concerned Catholics of
     Bridgewater (Local chapter of Voice of the Faithful)
Member, Bridgewater Ad Hoc Citizens' Group, fall 2000
Member, Bridgewater Improvement Association
Module Leader, Bridgewater/Raynham High School, fall 2000.
     "Teaching Non-fiction Texts"
Module Leader, Bridgewater/Raynham High School, fall/winter 1999-2000
     "Early American Literature" 
Class President, Colgate University Class of 1987

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