Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Washington
B.A., East Asian Studies, Middlebury College
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anne_cavender@redlands.edu
2000 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Washington
Major fields: Chinese & Anglo-American comparative poetics & hermeneutics Anglo-American modernism
1995 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Washington
1989 B.A. East Asian Studies, Middlebury College
Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Departmental High Honors
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Associate Dean of Academic Programs & Curriculum
2018-present, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Redlands
Associate Dean of Academic Programs
2018-2019
College of Arts & Sciences, University of Redlands
Chair, Humanities Board, University of Redlands
2010-2013, 2016-2018
Chair, Department of English
2010-2013
College of Arts & Sciences, University of Redlands
Faculty Review Committee, University of Redlands
2008-2010 (Chair 2009-2010)
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Assistant, Associate (tenured), and Professor of English, University of Redlands
2002-present
Affiliate Faculty: Asian Studies Program
Courses taught include: Comparative Ethics & Aesthetics; Literary Criticism & Theory;
Images of Women in Literature; Introduction to Chinese Literature; Modernism; Poetry East-West;
Single-Author Seminar on James Joyce
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Humanities
2000-2002
SELECTED ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Without Invention Nothing is Well-Spaced: A Spatial Approach to William Carlos Williams.” University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C. 2019.
“Gender & Pedagogy in H.D.’s HERmione.” Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Annual Meeting; Columbus 2018.
“ ‘Words from a Child’s Primer’: H.D. and Progressive Education.” Accepted for H.D. International Society Panel: H.D.’s Modernist Revolutions, MSA 2015.
“The Entomological Sublime in H.D. and William Carlos Williams.” MSA 2007.
“Erotic Hermeneutics in Williams and Joyce.” Co-organizer of panel and presenter. MSA 2005.
“Modernist Pedagogies” Seminar. MSA 2005.
“The Poetic Foundation of Civil Institutions in Giambattista Vico and Classical Chinese Poetics.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Penn State, 2005.
“’Everything We Know is a Local Virtue’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and the Act of Reading America.” American Literature Association Annual Meeting; Boston, 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
Literary Modernism and Progressive Education. Book manuscript in progress.
“The Aberrant is the Classic’: William Carlos Williams’s Philosophy of Education.” Revisions in progress.
Book Review: "Joyce on the Threshold," Anne Fogarty and Timothy Martin, eds. (UP Florida 2005). James Joyce Quarterly 44.3 (Spring 2007): 595-598.
“The Ass & the Four: Oppositional Figures for the Reader in Finnegans Wake.” James Joyce Quarterly 41.4 (Summer 2004): 665-687.
Book Review: "Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico’s New Science and Finnegans Wake,” by Donald Philip Verene. (Yale UP 2003). James Joyce Quarterly 41.3 (Spring 2004): 554-557.
INVITED TALKS
“The Terracotta Warriors: History and Culture of Pre-Han China.” University of Redlands Alumni Association; Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, 2008.
“James & Nora Joyce.” UoR Alumni Association; Old Globe Theater, San Diego, 2005.
“Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research at an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Institution.” The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Board of Trustees Meeting; Los Angeles, 2002.
“Ancient Chinese Cosmology.” UoR Alumni Association; Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts; Santa Ana, 2002.
“David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song.” UoR Alumni Association; Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2001.
“The Body of Bourne: Randolph Bourne and American Modernism.” UoR Alumni Association; Mark Taper Forum, 2001.
“The Poetic Foundation of Civil Institutions in Confucius and Vico.” Asian Studies Faculty-Student Research Colloquium, UoR, 2001.
HERS Institute, Bryn Mawr College, 2019. Higher education leadership development program for women.
Provost’s Grant Proposal Writing Fellowship, University of Redlands, 2018.
Faculty Review Committee Research Grant, University of Redlands, 2017
American Conference of Academic Deans Workshop, “Learning to Thrive ‘In-Between’: Succeeding as an Assistant/Associate Dean,” AAC&U Annual Meeting, 2018.
Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Redlands Faculty Review Committee, 2014.
Outstanding Teaching Award, Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, University of Redlands, 2011.
Faculty Review Committee Research Grant, University of Redlands, 2007.
Freeman Foundation Grant, ASIANetwork “College-in-Asia” Summer Institute, 2004.
National Endowment for the Humanities and Asian Studies Development Program Grant, 2001.
Blakemore Foundation Grant. National Taiwan University, 1999-2000.
American Conference of Academic Deans
American Comparative Literature Association
Association for Asian Studies
Association of American University Professors
Modernist Studies Association