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	Darby Lewes <lewes@lycoming.edu> Lycoming College

Address:	Lycoming College 700 College Place Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17701 United States

Primary Phone:	570 321 4114

Secondary Phone:	570 321 4000

Web Page:	http://www.lycoming.edu/~lewes

List Affiliations:	Advisory Board Member for H-Utopia

Interests:	Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Bio: DEGREES Ph.D. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, June 1991 Department of English. Major field of concentration: Nineteenth-century literature M.A. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 1985 Department of English. Master’s Thesis: “Public Blake” B.A. Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois, May 1984 Honors Department of English, GPA 4.0. Bachelor’s Paper: “George Bernard Shaw: The Quintessential Victorian” PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: IN PROGRESS: Revealing Texts: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literary Palimpsests. With Crescenda Long, expected Fall 2008. Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2006. A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Using Behavior Conditioning and Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation. Pennsdale PA: Folly Hill, 2003. A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Nudes from Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction 1870-1920. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Reviews of Dream Revisionaries CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: “The Site/Sight of Europa.” Figures d'Europe. Ed. Yves Meny and Luisa Passerini. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang-Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes, 2003. In English and French. "Gender Bending: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women." Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika Ebert. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000, 158-175. "[C]Loathing Womanhood." Where's love gone? : transformations in the romance genre. Vashon Island, WA : Delta Production, 1997, 286-303. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES: "Double entendre, erotic poetic enigmas"; "Somatopia." Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. Ed. Gaetan Brulotte and John Phillips Routledge, 2006. "Pornography." The Garland Encyclopedia of Feminist Theory. Ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997, 313-315. JOURNAL ARTICLES: "Literature for Linebackers: 'Natural' Aversion, the Distribution Course, and Pure Positive Reinforcement." Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. Under consideration. "The Last Temptation of Dimmesdale: Art and Action in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter." Art and Christianity. Under consideration. "Treating Women Like Dirt: Gynocartography." The Portolan 47 (Spring 2000) 42-52. "The Female Landscape." Mercator's World 4.1 (1999) 34-41. Feature article: view at Mercator's World "[C]Loathing Womanhood: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women." Para·doxa 3.1-2 (1997) 286-303. "Utopian Sexual Landscapes: An Annotated Checklist of British Somatopias." Utopian Studies 7.2 (1996) 167-195. "Nudes from Nowhere: Utopia, Pornography, and Empire." Utopian Studies 4.2 (1994) 1-8. "Middle-class Edens: Women's Nineteenth-century Utopian Fiction and the Bourgeois Ideal." Utopian Studies 4.1 (1993) 15-25. "Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth-century Utopias by American Women." Legacy 6.2 (Fall 1989) 29-41. LECTURES, PLENARIES, and ADDRESSES "The Site/Sight of Europa: Representations of Women in European Cartography." Featured presentation, Figures D'Europe / Figure D'Europa: Images and Myths of Europe. Florence, Italy European University Institute and the City of Florence, April 2002. "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Using Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." Plenary/featured sessions, Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, Ohio, November 2000-2006; Lilly East 2003-6. "The Feminine Landscape." Washington Map Society, Library of Congress, Washington DC, December 1999. Commencement address, Wilson College, Chambersburg PA, May 1997. Commencement address, University of Chicago Basic Program, Chicago IL, June 1993. "The Last Temptation of Dimmesdale: Art and Action in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter." University of Chicago First Friday Lecture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, September 1992. "The Prince's Bride: Machiavelli and the Politics of Gender." Plenary Session, University of Chicago Spring Weekend, Alpine Valley WI, April 1992. "Pancakes, Preserves, and Patriarchy: Women in Men's Utopias." University of Chicago First Friday Lecture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, January 1992. Valedictory address, Saint Xavier University, Chicago IL, June 1984. WORKSHOPS and FEATURED PRESENTATIONS "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Dog: Using Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." International Conference on College Teaching and Learning workshop, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2004-6. "Literature for Linebackers." International Conference on College Teaching and Learning featured presentation, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2004-6. "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Dog: Using Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." Lilly East Conference on College Teaching featured presentation, Towson, Maryland, April 2003. "A Portrait of the Student as a Young Dog: Using Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." National Lilly Conference on College Teaching featured presentation, Oxford, Ohio, November 2003. "Student Motivation: Theory and Praxis." Summer Retreat for Composition Instructors workshop, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, July 2003. "Student Motivation: Theory and Praxis." National Lilly Conference on College Teaching featured presentation, Oxford, Ohio, November 2002. "Using Behavior Conditioning and Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." Dean's Colloquium, Missouri Western State College, October 2002. "A Day With Darby Lewes and Folly the Dog: Using Behavior Conditioning and Canine Behavior Models to Increase Student Motivation." Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, March 2002. "Student Motivation: Theory and Praxis." National Lilly Conference on College Teaching plenary address, Oxford, Ohio, November 2001. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "Female Frontiers: Contrasts in British and American Utopia Texts by Nineteenth-century Women." Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Selinsgrove Pennsylvania, February 2004. "Lit for Linebackers: Motivating Undergraduates." International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning, Fort Collins, Colorado, October 2003. "Student Motivation: Theory and Praxis." International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2003. "Gynocartography: Mapping Womanhood." Arts of Calculation: 10th Annual Symposium of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies. University of Miami, Miami FLA, February 2001. "Prophet and Loss: The Situation of Women in P.B. Shelley's Utopian Project." Northeastern MLA, Buffalo, New York, April 2000. "'He plough'd her, and she crop'd': The Female Body as Agricultural Space in Early British Pornography." The Poetics of Space. Binghamton University, Binghamton NY, March 2000 "Literature for Linebackers." National Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, Ohio, November 1999. "Gynocartography: Mapping Womanhood." Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space. State College PA, May 1999. "Teaching Poetry to the Unwilling, the Unmotivated, and the Clueless." Lycoming College Conference on Teaching Excellence, Williamsport PA, May 1999. "Whorticulture: Woman as Pleasureground in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Pornography." Society for Utopian Studies, Montreal Canada, October 1998. "B.F. Skinner Goes to the Dogs." Society for Utopian Studies, Montreal Canada, October 1998. "The Pubic Hare and Other Beasts: Women as Game in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Pornography." The Politics of Women's Bodies. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster PA, March 1998. "A Womb of One's Own: Images of Women as Architecture in Pornographic Texts." Terrains: Landscapes/Bodyscapes. SUNY at Stony Brook NY, March 1998. "Treating Women Like Dirt: Maps and the Female Body." Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis TE, October 1997. "Topographical Females: British Sexual Utopias." Paper Landscapes: Maps, Texts, and the Construction of Space, Queen Mary College, London, England, July 1997. "Home-Bodies and Whore-Houses: Women as Architecture." Popular Culture Association, San Antonio TX, March 1997. "Nature vs. Culture: Images of Woman as Game in Eighteenth-century Pornographic Somatopias." Society for Utopian Studies, Nashville TE, October 1996. "Woman as Sexual Utopia." Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 1995. "Reconstructing the Utopian Canon: A Panel Discussion." Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 1995. "Worlds Apart: Contrasts in British and American Utopian Texts by Nineteenth-century Women." British Comparative Literature Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995. "[C]Loathing Womanhood: Role-reversal and Dress in Utopias by Nineteenth-century Women." Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia PA, April 1995. "Sex and the Singular Boy: Role-Reversal in Nineteenth-century Utopias by American Women." Northeastern MLA, Boston MA, April 1995. "Worlds Apart: Contrasts in British and American Utopian Texts by Nineteenth-century Women." Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 1994. "Nudes from Nowhere: Utopia, Pornography, and Empire." Northeastern MLA, Pittsburgh PA, April 1994. "Gender Bending: Nineteenth-century Role Reversal Utopias." Society for Utopian Studies, St. Louis MO, November 1993. "Marleen Barr's Feminist Fabulation: A Panel Discussion."Society for Utopian Studies, St. Louis MO, November 1993. "Women as Landscape in Eighteenth-century British Pornographic Utopias." Society for Utopian Studies, Baltimore MD, November 1992. "Middle-class Edens: Women's Nineteenth-century Utopian Fiction and the Bourgeois Ideal." Society for Utopian Studies, Las Vegas NV, November 1991. "Dream Weaving: Rationalism, Evangelicalism, and Vaticism." Popular Culture Association, San Antonio TX, March 1991. "Gynotopia: Women's Nineteenth-century Utopian Literature in Context." Society for Utopian Studies, University of Louisville, Lexington KY, November 1990. "The Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish: A Re-Visionary Gynotopia." Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference, Chicago IL, June 1990. "Marginal Blake: The Annotations to Reynolds's Discourses." Southeastern Nineteenth-century Studies Association, Washington D.C., April 1988. "The Reader as Voyeur: Involvement and Dramatic Irony in Conrad's The Secret Agent." International Graduate Summer School, Exeter College, Oxford, England, August 1985.