CHERYL SPINNER

1214 BROAD STREET, APT 3, DURHAM, NC, 27705 | 347-216-0492 | CHERYLSPINNER@GMAIL.COM EDUCATION Duke University Ph.D. Candidate, English and Womens Studies Dissertation Committee: Priscilla Wald (director), Maurice Wallace, Joseph Donahue, Kim Lamm Georgetown University M.A. English High Pass, Orals Examination Thesis: Novel Experiments: Speculative Science in Early American Literature. Thesis Director: Dana Luciano Queens College, CUNY B.A. English 2005-2008

2010-Present

2008-2010

AWARDS Scholar at Duke Phd Lab in Digital Knowledges Duke Summer Research Fellowship, Stuart Irwin Harris Endowment. Graduate Student Instructor, Competitive Position at Dukes Thompson Writing Program Grant from Duke Womens Studies to Coordinate and Host the 19CAWWWG [19th-Century American Women Writers Working Group] Fully Funded by Duke University to attend the Dartmouth Institute in American Studies Institute. Fully Funded academic scholarship, Georgetown University English Fellow in Communications Department at Georgetowns CNDLS [Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship] Phi Betta Kappa, Queens College CUNY 2013-2014 Summer 2013 Fall 2012 Fall 2012 Summer 201 2008-2010 2008-2010 2008

TEACHING EXPIRIENCE Graduate Student Advisor to senior Jocelyn Steid (13) on Undergraduate Senior Thesis Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Duke University, Durham NC. Teaching AssistantProfessor Aarthi Vaades undergraduate lecture course The Contemporary Novel Guest lecturer, graded written work. Duke University, Durham, NC. Spring 2013 Graduate Student Instructor, Thompson Writing ProgramWriting 101, Queer Science: A History Fall 2012 Developed syllabus, assignments, graded all written work. Duke University, Durham NC Teaching ApprenticeProfessor Sean Metzgers undergraduate lecture course, AMI 112: Movie Worlds Spring 2012 Guest lectured twice, graded some written work, observed teaching technique. Duke University, Durham NC. Teaching ApprenticeProfessor Robyn Wiegmans undergraduate seminar, Lit 125: Queer Theory Spring 2011 Administered midterm review for students, shadowed professors teaching style. Duke University, Durham NC.

PAPERS, WORKING GROUPS, AND PRESENTATIONS Supernatural Public Policy and Nettie Colburn Maynards Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist(1891)? Paper to be presented at the Melville Society International Conference, Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War and After. Washington, D.C Summer 2013

Wired Love: 19th-Century Technoerotics; or, Online Dating before OKCupid. Paper to be presented at the ACLA 2013, University of Toronto Panel Queering Science, Queering Technology, Chairs: Cheryl Spinner, Xine Yao.

Spring 2013

Organizer and host of the Fall 2012 meeting of the 19CAWWWG at Duke University, discussion led by Jane Thrailkill (UNC-Chapell Hill), topic of discussion: Elizabeth

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Stuart Phelps Doctor Zay.

Fall 2012

"The Chemistry of Citizenship: Molecular Nationalism and Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the Ambiguities." Paper Presented at the South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA), Research Triangle Park, NC.

Fall 2012

Entrancing Histories: Experimental Feminism and Nettie Colburn Maynards Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist (1891)? Paper Presented at the Dartmouth Institute of American Studies.

Summer 2012

Attended the spring meeting of the 19CAWWWG, at Rutgers University.

Spring 2012

Queering Jewish Knowledge(s): Race, Nation, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth Century Notions of Jewish Population. Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Brown University, Providence, R.I. Spring 2012

Attended the fall meeting of the 19CAWWW), held at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, M.A.

Fall 2011

Chair. Environment and Culture Caucus Panel, American Studies Association (ASA) 2011, Baltimore, MD.

Fall 2011

Electric Publics and Electric Nation: The Creation of a National Identity in Herman Melvilles Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).

Summer 2011

Attended the 19th-Century Women Writers Working Group (19CAWWW) on Ghost Stories, led by Dana Luciano and Renee Bergland at Cornell University.

Fall 2010

Electrical Abolitionism: The Science of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century America. Paper presented at UVAs "Navigating the Body: Mapping Spaces, and Embodiment conference.

Spring 2009

Competing Electricities: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism and The Politics of It. Paper presented at the University of Marylands (Media)tions: Translating the Body Politic conference.

Spring 2009

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Novel: A Forum on Fiction Production Assistant Fact-check and copy edit articles for publication.

Fall 2010 Present

Georgetown Universitys Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) English Fellow, Communications Division Conducted faculty interviews on teaching pedagogies, worked with faculty to create course blogs, research blogs, e-portfolios, involved in University-wide assessment initiative, wrote copy for CNDLS brochures and digital content. January 2008 January 2010