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Siobhan Maria Carroll
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION
B.A. in English Literature, University
of British Columbia (2001)
SCHOLARSHIP
Authored or Co-Authored Books:
An Empire of Air and Water:
Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2015. *Runner-Up for the BARS First Book Prize in
Romanticism, 2017
Refereed Journal Publications
“Dangerous Energies: Agency and Energy Regimes in the Waverley Novels.” Studies
in Romanticism. 61.2 (Summer 2022): 255-277.
“Lost in
Space: Surviving Globalization in Gravity
and The Martian.” Science Fiction Studies. 46.1 (2019): 127-142.
“The Terror and the Terroir: The
Ecological Uncanny in New Weird Exploration Narratives.” Paradoxa: “Global Weirding” Special Issue. 28 (2017): 67-89.
“Play you must': Villette and the Nineteenth-Century Board
Game.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
39.1 (2017). 33-47. *Shortlisted for the Donald Gray Prize in Victorian
Studies, 2018
“Mary Shelley’s Global Atmosphere.” European
Romantic Review. 25.1 (2014): 3-17.
“Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818.” European
Romantic Review. 24.2 (2013): 211-230. (Reprinted in Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Johanna
M. Smith. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015).
“Imagined Nation: Place and National Identity
in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.” Extrapolation. 53.3 (2012): 307-326.
“Honor-bound: Self and Other in the Honor
Culture of Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son
series.” Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts. 18.3 (2007): 308-318. [at Indiana University]
Refereed
Essay Publications
Under Contract:
“The Imprinted Poles.” The Oxford Companion to Romantic Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming.
Published:
“Teetotum
Lives: Mediating Globalization in the Nineteenth-Century Board Game.” Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain
and America. Ed. Ann Hawkins. New York: State University of New York Press,
2021. 243-261.
“Romantic Board Games and the ‘World
in Play.’ Romantic Cartographies. Ed.
Julia Carlson, Sally Bushell and Damian Walford Davies. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2020. 151-170.“The Fan as
Public Intellectual in ‘RaceFail’09.’” The
Year’s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2017. 301-325.
“William
Falconer and the Empire of the Deep.” The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary
Culture. Ed. Martha Elena Rojas and Steven Mentz. New York:
Routledge, 2017. 15-27.
“On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden,
1791-1792.” BRANCH: Britain,
Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on
the Net. Web. 2016.
“Resurrecting
Redgauntlet: the Transformation of Walter Scott’s Nationalist Revenants in Bram
Stoker's Dracula.” Victorian Transformations: Genre,
Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. Bianca
Tredennick. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 115-132.
Non-Refereed Essay Publications:
Published:
“Networks. The Awful Prospect of
Eternity: Ocean Networks and the Wreck of the Kent.” A
Cultural History of the Sea: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Margaret Cohen.
Bloomsbury, 2021. 81-103.
“Industry.” The Routledge Handbook
of Victorian Literature. New York: Routledge, 2020. 517-526.
“Atopia /
non-place.” The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space. London and New
York: Routledge, 2017. 159-167.
Book Reviews and Notes:
“On Nnedi Okorafor.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
(2016)
"Victorian
Migrations.” Review of Literature, Immigration and
Diaspora in Fin-De-Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act, and Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin De
Siècle Literature. Victorian Studies.
58.1 (2015): 148-150
Review of The Ecology of British Romantic
Conservatism, 1790-1837. Studies in
Romanticism (2015): 142-146.
“Review of The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson
at the End of the World.” Nineteenth-Century Literature. 69.3
(2014): 416-419.
“Review of X Marks the Spot: Women
Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895.”
Victorian Studies. 54.3 (2012): 575-576.
“Review of The Novel and The Sea.” Nineteenth-Century
Contexts. 34.2 (2012): 196-198.
“Review of Becoming Imperial Citizens.”
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 54.3 (2011): 400-
403.
“Review of The
Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930.”
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 53.3
(2010): 500-504.
Public Scholarship
“The Ecological Uncanny: On the “Southern
Reach” Trilogy.” Los Angeles Review of
Books. Oct. 5, 2015.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/the-ecological-uncanny-on-the-southern-reach-trilogy
CREATIVE WORK
Television
*Consulting Writer. Blur Studios. Anthology TV series for Amazon Prime
Video, 2022
*“A Better Tomorrow” (concept short story). Blur Studios. Anthology TV
series for Amazon Prime Video, 2022-
Short Fiction (SFWA-qualifying)
[To qualify
as a professional writer in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers
Association one must have at least 3 sales to the top tier of SF markets.
SFWA’s list of qualifying markets takes into account a market’s prestige, its
circulation (at least a 1000 subscribers), and/or pay rate (at least 8c a word
as of 2019).]
*“Siolaigh.” Screams from the Dark: 29 Stories of Monsters and the
Monstrous. Ed. Ellen Datlow. July, 2022.
“For He Can Creep.” Tor.com
July 10, 2019. Eugie Foster Memorial Award Winner, 2020. Hugo Award
Finalist. Nebula Award Finalist. World Fantasy Award Finalist. Locus Award
Finalist. Reprinted in the Nebula Awards Showcase 55. Reprinted in Translation
by the Shanghai Guo Yue Cultural and Creative Co (China); in “Mir
Fantastiki" (Russia), 2020; in Nowa Fantastyka (Poland), 2022.
Adapted for audio, Cast of Wonders podcast, 2020.
“The Airwalker Comes to the City in Green.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. Nov/Dec 2019.
“The Air, The Ocean, the Earth, the Deep.” The Saga Book of Ghost Stories. Ed. Ellen Datlow. New York: Saga
Press, 2019. 608-627.
“The War of Light and Shadow, in
Five Dishes.” BCS. March 7, 2018. Finalist
for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, 2019.
“Haunt.” The Devil and the Deep.
Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. March 20, 2018. Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, 2018. Adapted for audio, Horror Hill
podcast, 2021.
“Nesters.” Children of Lovecraft.
Ed. Ellen Datlow. Dark Horse Books, 2016. 9-29. Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, 2016. Reprinted
in Best of the Best: 10 Years of
Essential Short Horror Fiction, 2018. Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine,
2019.
“Thermidor.” Eternal Frankenstein.
Ed. Ross E. Lockhart. Word Hord, 2016. 7-17.
“Travelling in the Grey Country,” AE: The Canadian Science Fiction
Review. Feb. 8, 2016. < http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/3302-travelling-in-the-grey-country>
“Wendigo Nights.” Fearful Symmetries.
Ed. Ellen Datlow. Chizine Press, 2014. 268-277. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 2.
Ed. Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly. Chizine Press, 2015.
“Lines found on a Pamphlet Found Near the Museum.” AE: The Canadian Science Fiction
Review. Nov 2014. < http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/2602-lines-on-a-pamphlet-found-near-the-museum>
“The Year of Silent Birds.” BCS.
Jan 9, 2014.
<http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-year-of-silent-birds/>
“The Correspondence between the
Governess and the Attic.” Lightspeed. Dec
17, 2013. <www.lightspeedmagazine.com>. Reprinted in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Ed. Sandra Kasturi
and Helen Marshall. Chizine Press,
2015.
"In the Gardens of the
Night." BCS. July 28 2011. < http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=154>
"Remains." AE - The Canadian
Science Fiction Review. June 2011.
<http://aescifi.ca/index.php/fiction/35-short-stories/579-remains>.
"The Strange Case of Madeleine Marsh (Aged 14 1/4)." By Von
Carr. Realms of Fantasy,
April 2011. 63-68.
"Sister Jasmine Brings the
Pain." By Von
Carr. IGMS, June 2010.
<http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com>
"The Black-Iron Drum." By Von Carr. Fantasy Magazine, Nov 2008. < http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fiction/the-black-iron-drum/>
"The White Isle." By Von Carr. Realms of Fantasy, Dec 2007. 90-98.
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS FOR
SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK
Scholarship
King Kenneth MacAlpin Research Grant, Order of Alba,
$2000 (2020)
Mary Valentine-Andrew
Cosman Research Fellowship, Strong Foundation, $1600 (2016)
Delaware
Division of the Arts Grant, State of Delaware, $6000 (2016)
General University Research Program,
University of Delaware, $6000 (2014)
General University Research Program,
University of Delaware, $6000 (2010)
Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana
University College of Arts and Sciences, $15,000 (2008-2009)
Chancellor’s Fellowship, Indiana
University, $102,000 (2002-2008)
Grants in Service of Graduate Program
Unidel Grand
Challenges Grant – Environmental Humanities Graduate Seminar (2019)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
Professional
Presentations of Scholarly Work:
* Participant, Book Proposal Workshop, Vcologies, Oostberg, WI. Sept 9,
2022.
* “The Ocean of Air: Revisiting Romantic Airspace in the Age of COVID-19.” Environmental
and Medical Humanities Lecture Series. The University of Vienna. May 16, 2022.
(Invited)
* “The Unsettling of Susanna Moodie.” Unsettling Victorian Ecologies
Roundtable, North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of British
Columbia. March 3rd, 2022.
Participant, “Petromyopia” roundtable. Society for Literature, Science,
and the Arts. Hosted online, via the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Oct. 1,
2021.
Featured speaker, “Economies and Ecologies” salon, British Association
for Romantic Studies International Conference. Hosted online, via the
University of Glasgow. Aug. 16, 2021.
“Climate Change and Fantasy.” Panel
Respondent. International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. March 18,
2021.
Featured Respondent. “Romanticism and
Ecological Temporalities.” Virtual Vcologies, Sept. 20, 2020.
“What is Visionary about Romanticism?
Looking Back, Looking Forward.” Featured Roundtable. North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Conference University of Toronto, August 6 2020. (Invited) *Canceled due to
Coronavirus
Featured Respondent, Roundtable on the
Studies in the Fantastic Special Issue on “Weird Temporalities,”
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 18 2020 (invited) *Canceled due to
Coronavirus
“Ruskin’s Ecologies.” Ruskin Conference. University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame. Feb. 8, 2020. (invited)
“Jane Austen’s Oceanic Ecologies.” Oceanic Humanities Symposium, Texas
A&M, College Station. Nov 7, 2019. (invited)
"Experimental Futures Workshop”, U.C. Riverside, Sept. 2019, (invited,
declined)
“Romantic Energies.” International Conference on Romanticism,
Manchester, U.K. July 31-Aug 3, 2019.
Participant, “Romantic Oceans, Then and
Now” Roundtable. International Conference on Romanticism, Manchester,
U.K. July 31-Aug 3, 2019.
“Settler Colonialism and 19th Century Theories of Weather Control.” Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment. U.C. Davis, Davis. June 29,
2019.
“Peat Archives
and Coal Plots: Suspect Energies in the Historical Novel.” “Victorian Ecotime:
Inventing, Forecasting, Temporalizing” Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center, New
York. May 4 2018. (Invited Talk).
Participant, Annihilation:
The New Weird in Film. Roundtable. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Fla.
March 17, 2018. (invited)
”Is this place worth preserving?’: Ecological
Identities and Environmental Racism in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic.” North American Victorian Studies
Association Conference. Banff, Nov. 16-19, 2017.
Participant, N.E.H. seminar: “City/Nature: The Urban Environmental
Humanities.” University of Washington, June-July, 2017.
“Ecologies of Destruction: The Politics and Poetics of the Planetary.”
Roundtable. World Congress of Scottish Literatures. Vancouver, June 21, 2017.
“Mourning McWorld: Elegizing Globalization in Station Eleven.” International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Fla. March 23, 2017.
“The Politics
of the Human in N.K. Jemisin's Fiction.” Discussion Panel. International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Fla. March 24, 2017. (invited)
”Objects of Play, Objects of Refuge.” Objects of Refuge / Refuge of
Objects. Obama Institute, Mainz, Germany. Dec. 15, 2016.
Roundtable on Romantic
Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830, Romantic Circles, Sept. 2, 2015
(invited)
“Reading Prometheus
in the Anthropocene.” (invited talk) The Unbinding Prometheus Project,
University of Pennsylvania, May 14 2015.
Talks for Public Audiences:
“The
Evolution of Cities in the Twenty First Century." Nebula Convention, May
30, 2020.
“Speculative Fiction: A Conversation Larger than the Universe.”
Grolier Club, New York City, March 6 2018. (invited)
“Cli Fi and Environmental SF.” World Science Fiction
Convention, Helsinki. Aug 10, 2017.
“Writing Darwin, Reading Darwin.” International Darwin Day Event. Feb
13, 2017. (invited)
“The Ends of the Earth: Ecology and Science Fiction” Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society. Feb 10, 2017. (invited)
“The North Pole and the Horrors of Ikea Furniture: Atopia in the
Geographical Imagination.” Department of Geography, University of Delaware,
Newark, Feb. 26, 2016. (invited)
“The Future of Philly Sci-Fi and Fantasy.” Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, P.A.
Sept 9. 2015 (invited)
“Frankenstein’s Climate: Geoengineering and Poetry in 1816” ISLL Lecture
series: Earth, Equity, Environment.” Newark, DE. April 6, 2015. (invited)
“Alice Munro: Master of the Contemporary Short Story.” University of
Delaware Symposium on the 2013 Nobel Prizes. Newark, DE. Nov 6, 2013. (invited)
“Reading Harry
Potter.” Russell, Lane, and Thompson complex. Newark, DE, April 18 2012.
(invited)
Creative
Reading,
Siobhan Carroll. Philadelphia Free Library, July 22, 2020. (invited)
Reading,
Siobhan Carroll and Patrick McGrath. KGB
Bar Fantastic Fictions series, New York City (invited). Sept 19, 2018
Courses Offered:
Graduate:
ENGL 846: Ocean
Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century
ENGL 870:
Planetary Thinking: Ecocriticism and Science Fiction
ENGL 875: Invasive Species and Crying Indians: Ecological
Imperialism and its Discontents
ENGL 834:
Nature’s Empire: Imperialism, Ecology, and the Invention of the Global
ENGL 671: Weird Bodies in Strange Spaces:
Speculative Fiction in the Post(?)-Pandemic
ENGL
671: New Futurisms: Speculative Fiction thinks Race, Sexuality, and the
Environment
ENGL 634:
The Transatlantic Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
ENGL 634:
Beyond Orientalism: Re-reading the British Empire in an Era of Globalization
ENGL 634:
Lost in Space: Place and Displacement in British Literature (1750-1850)
ENGL 866:
Independent Study with Jordan Howell: Theory & History of the Novel
ENGL 866:
Independent Study with Megan O’Donnell: Nineteenth-Century Literature and
Science
ENGL600:
Intro to Graduate Studies
Undergraduate:
ENGL 480:
Fantasy from Tolkien to Rowling
ENGL 371: Horror Stories
ENGL 333:
British Romanticism
ENGL306:
Creative Writing Seminar - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing
ENGL 206:
British Survey II
ENGL 151: Fighting
the Future from Hunger Games to The Matrix: The Dystopian Tradition in
the 21st Century
ENGL 150:
The Monstrous (graduate pedagogy course)
ENGL 102:
Texts in Time – “The History of the Future: American Science Fiction from the
1940s to the Present”
ENGL 102:
Texts in Time – “Dangerous Victorians”
Honors, Awards, and Grants for Teaching:
Nominated for Faculty Senate Undergraduate Academic Advising and
Mentoring Award, May 2016.
Nominated for College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award.
Jan. 2013.
SELECTED SERVICE TO THE INSTITUTION
University:
*RSO
Faculty Sponsor. Creative Writing Club. Fall 2021-present
*Organizer, Environmental
Humanities Faculty Research Group, 2017- present
*Reviewer, 2022 Andrew Carnegie
Fellows program, November 2021
English Representative to Game
Studies Major, Spring 2020.
* Representative, Graduate College Council, Sept. 2019 – June 2020
* Middle States Consortium on Higher Education Learning
Assessment Taskforce, Sept. 2019- Present
Chair, Curriculum Committee for African American Public Humanities Initiative
(AAPHI), 2017-2018
RSO Faculty
Sponsor – “Write Out Loud” 2015- 2018
Board of Senior Thesis Readers,
2016-2016
International
Film Series Committee (2009 – 2015)
Department:
Director of
Graduate Studies (June 2017 – July 2020)
Executive
Committee (Chair, 2014-2015; member, 2013-2014, 2017-2020)
Chair,
Environmental Humanities Assistant Professor Search (2 positions) Fall
2018-Spring 2019
Chair, Faculty
Review Committee (2015-Jan 2017)
EFGF
Committee, Transatlantic Series (2015-2016)
Graduate
Committee (2010 – Spring 2011, Fall 2012 – Spring 2014, 2017- 2020, 2021-present)
Winterthur
Committee (Spring 2012)
Workshops:
*Organizer, “Book Proposal Workshop” for Post-Docs
and Junior Faculty, Jan 25, 2023
*Organizer, “How to Apply for Things” Workshop for
Graduate Students, June 13, 2022.
Organizations:
Advisory
Board, Central Online Victorian Educator Digital Humanities Project, 2018 --
Committee Chair, Pioneer Award for the
Best Critical Article, Science Fiction Research Association, 2017-18. Judge 2016-2018.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Instructor. “Frankenstein’s Secrets: The Science, The Scandals, The
Monster.” Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, Oct-Nov 2017.
Director of Writing, Ese’eje Indigenous Peoples Cultural Mapping
Project, 2014-2016
Panel Organizer. “Place Matters: Geography and Fantasy: A Roundtable.”
World Fantasy Convention, Washington D.C, Nov 11. 2015
Judge, 2013 Philip K. Dick Award (Best Original SF Paperback, USA), Philip K. Dick Trust, Jan 2013 – Feb
2014.
Judge, 2013 Writing Competition (Flash Fiction), Indiana University, Southeast. November 2013.
Kalmar Nykel Foundation, Wilmington, DE. Maritime Educator.
Jan 2012 – 2014
Poor Kit Smart
ReplyDeleteHi, Siobhan,
Here's my feeble attempt at something similar. Enjoy.
https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/pages-missing-from-the-diary-of-samuel-pepys-esq-david-berger/