CLARA BUSBY
EDUCATION
University of Alabama, 2015-Present
Ph.D. English Literature, ABD
Special Field: British Romanticism/Poetry
Graduate Minors: Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013-2014
M.A. English Literature
University of Montevallo, 2009-2012
B.A. English, summa cum laude
DISSERTATION
“Wordsworthian Audio”
Advisor: Stephen Tedeschi
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
“Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe’s Faustus,” forthcoming in Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western Hemisphere, Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy, Peter Lang Publishing.
Other Scholarship
“John Keats and the Perceiving Subject in The Fall of Hyperion: Poetics, Symbol, and Play.” ProQuest. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2014.
AWARDS & HONORS
2019-2020 Graduate Council Fellowship, The University of Alabama
2015-Present Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The University of Alabama
2014 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Dean’s Award, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2014 Waldrep Scholarship, Southeastern Writing Center Association
2013-2014 Graduate Assistantship, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2013 Harbert Scholar-Tutor Award, University of Montevallo
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Wordsworth’s ‘To a Sky-Lark’: A Literary Hymn of Symbolic Public and Private Worship.” Wordsworth Summer Conference. Rydal, Cumbria, UK. August 7-17, 2017.
“Transgressing Generational Boundaries of Genre and Gender: EBB’s Syncretic Poetics of Androgyny in Aurora Leigh Translate Influence.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Generations. Chapel Hill, NC. June 21-24, 2017.
“Body Consciousness in College Composition: Finding Comfort in Collaborative Spaces.” The 69th Annual Conference of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA). Montgomery, AL. March 3-4, 2017.
“John Barth’s Narrative Structure in ‘Ad Infinitum: A Short Story.’” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 2017.
“Attribution, Appropriation, Translation, and Irresolution: Coleridgean Logosophia, Benjaminian ‘Pure Language,’ and Goethean Tragedy.” The 24th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Berkeley, CA. August 11-14, 2016.
“Identifying Anonymous Translators through Vocabulary Similarities: Considering Attribution Methodology and Benjaminian ‘Pure Language.’” UMASS Translation Conference. Amherst, MA. April 22-24, 2016.
“From Tutor to Teacher: Examining Tutoring-Influenced Teaching Practices.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: Identities in Consultation: Diversity in the South and Beyond. Nashville, TN. February 19-21, 2015.
“‘With Eager Pace, and No Less Eager Thoughts’: Wordsworth Climbs Mount Snowdon to ‘Play.’” 2014 International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Reflections: Twins, Echoes, and Appropriations. Minneapolis, MN. September 25-28, 2014.
“Consuming Romantic Ideals Destructs Victorian Reality: Reflections on Reading in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Reflections. Binghamton, NY. June 19-21, 2014.
“Welcoming Student Writers’ Conversation into the Academic Discourse Community: Debunking the Oppressive Myths of ‘Privilege’ in University Writing Centers.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: Our Language, Ourselves: Rethinking Our Writing Center Communities. Greenville, NC. February 6-8, 2014.
“Performing Byronic Gender: Anne Lister Reads, Relates, and Projects.” 2013 International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Relations. Rochester, MI. September 26-29, 2013.
“Anne Lister’s Narrative of Female Masculinity Confesses Repressed Femininity of a Lesbian Coded in the Heteronormative.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Customs. Albuquerque, NM. April 4-6, 2013.
“Dialogic Disclosure in Three Women’s Memoirs.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 21-23, 2013.
“Open Dialogue: Writing Centers as Places for Intellectual Conversation.” Southeastern Writing Center Association in Alabama Spring Tutoring Conference: Establishing Rapport in Writing Center Conferences. Birmingham, AL. January 25, 2013.
“Observing Assignment, Instruction, Engagement, and Completion in Fourth Grade Composition.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: NextGen Writing Center. Richmond, KY. February 16-18, 2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Alabama, 2015-present
English Composition I
English Composition II
Advanced English Composition: Romantic and Pragmatic Rhetoric
English Literature Survey from 1785
Honors English Literature Survey to 1785
Honors English Literature Survey from 1785
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2014-present
Introduction to College English
English Composition I
English Composition II
Introduction to Freshman Writing I
Introduction to Freshman Writing II
American Literature Survey from 1865-Present
University of Montevallo, 2014-present
English Composition I
English Composition II
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Judge for Poster Presentations in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference. University of Alabama. 2019.
Creative Showcase Judge for Literary Arts Category. The Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference. University of Alabama. 2018.
Panel Discussion Moderator. The 68th Annual Conference of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA). University of Alabama. 2016.
College Board. AP Reader for English Language. Educational Testing Service. 2015-Present.
University Writing Center. Writing Consultant. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2013-2014.
English Department. Writing Fellow. University of Montevallo. 2013.
Learning Enrichment Center. Graduate Assistant & Supplemental Instruction Tutor. University of Montevallo. 2013.
Harbert Writing Center. Writing Consultant. University of Montevallo. 2013.
LANGUAGES
Spanish (reading)
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Association
College Board
Educational Testing Service
International Conference on Romanticism
Modern Language Association of America
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society
Southeastern Writing Center Association
University of Alabama at Birmingham Composition Program
University of Alabama English Honors Program
University of Alabama First-Year Writing Program
University of Montevallo
Wordsworth Summer Conference
University of Alabama, 2015-Present
Ph.D. English Literature, ABD
Special Field: British Romanticism/Poetry
Graduate Minors: Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013-2014
M.A. English Literature
University of Montevallo, 2009-2012
B.A. English, summa cum laude
DISSERTATION
“Wordsworthian Audio”
Advisor: Stephen Tedeschi
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
“Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe’s Faustus,” forthcoming in Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western Hemisphere, Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy, Peter Lang Publishing.
Other Scholarship
“John Keats and the Perceiving Subject in The Fall of Hyperion: Poetics, Symbol, and Play.” ProQuest. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2014.
AWARDS & HONORS
2019-2020 Graduate Council Fellowship, The University of Alabama
2015-Present Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The University of Alabama
2014 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Dean’s Award, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2014 Waldrep Scholarship, Southeastern Writing Center Association
2013-2014 Graduate Assistantship, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2013 Harbert Scholar-Tutor Award, University of Montevallo
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Wordsworth’s ‘To a Sky-Lark’: A Literary Hymn of Symbolic Public and Private Worship.” Wordsworth Summer Conference. Rydal, Cumbria, UK. August 7-17, 2017.
“Transgressing Generational Boundaries of Genre and Gender: EBB’s Syncretic Poetics of Androgyny in Aurora Leigh Translate Influence.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Generations. Chapel Hill, NC. June 21-24, 2017.
“Body Consciousness in College Composition: Finding Comfort in Collaborative Spaces.” The 69th Annual Conference of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA). Montgomery, AL. March 3-4, 2017.
“John Barth’s Narrative Structure in ‘Ad Infinitum: A Short Story.’” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 2017.
“Attribution, Appropriation, Translation, and Irresolution: Coleridgean Logosophia, Benjaminian ‘Pure Language,’ and Goethean Tragedy.” The 24th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Berkeley, CA. August 11-14, 2016.
“Identifying Anonymous Translators through Vocabulary Similarities: Considering Attribution Methodology and Benjaminian ‘Pure Language.’” UMASS Translation Conference. Amherst, MA. April 22-24, 2016.
“From Tutor to Teacher: Examining Tutoring-Influenced Teaching Practices.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: Identities in Consultation: Diversity in the South and Beyond. Nashville, TN. February 19-21, 2015.
“‘With Eager Pace, and No Less Eager Thoughts’: Wordsworth Climbs Mount Snowdon to ‘Play.’” 2014 International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Reflections: Twins, Echoes, and Appropriations. Minneapolis, MN. September 25-28, 2014.
“Consuming Romantic Ideals Destructs Victorian Reality: Reflections on Reading in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Reflections. Binghamton, NY. June 19-21, 2014.
“Welcoming Student Writers’ Conversation into the Academic Discourse Community: Debunking the Oppressive Myths of ‘Privilege’ in University Writing Centers.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: Our Language, Ourselves: Rethinking Our Writing Center Communities. Greenville, NC. February 6-8, 2014.
“Performing Byronic Gender: Anne Lister Reads, Relates, and Projects.” 2013 International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Relations. Rochester, MI. September 26-29, 2013.
“Anne Lister’s Narrative of Female Masculinity Confesses Repressed Femininity of a Lesbian Coded in the Heteronormative.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Customs. Albuquerque, NM. April 4-6, 2013.
“Dialogic Disclosure in Three Women’s Memoirs.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 21-23, 2013.
“Open Dialogue: Writing Centers as Places for Intellectual Conversation.” Southeastern Writing Center Association in Alabama Spring Tutoring Conference: Establishing Rapport in Writing Center Conferences. Birmingham, AL. January 25, 2013.
“Observing Assignment, Instruction, Engagement, and Completion in Fourth Grade Composition.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference: NextGen Writing Center. Richmond, KY. February 16-18, 2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Alabama, 2015-present
English Composition I
English Composition II
Advanced English Composition: Romantic and Pragmatic Rhetoric
English Literature Survey from 1785
Honors English Literature Survey to 1785
Honors English Literature Survey from 1785
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2014-present
Introduction to College English
English Composition I
English Composition II
Introduction to Freshman Writing I
Introduction to Freshman Writing II
American Literature Survey from 1865-Present
University of Montevallo, 2014-present
English Composition I
English Composition II
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Judge for Poster Presentations in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference. University of Alabama. 2019.
Creative Showcase Judge for Literary Arts Category. The Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference. University of Alabama. 2018.
Panel Discussion Moderator. The 68th Annual Conference of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA). University of Alabama. 2016.
College Board. AP Reader for English Language. Educational Testing Service. 2015-Present.
University Writing Center. Writing Consultant. University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2013-2014.
English Department. Writing Fellow. University of Montevallo. 2013.
Learning Enrichment Center. Graduate Assistant & Supplemental Instruction Tutor. University of Montevallo. 2013.
Harbert Writing Center. Writing Consultant. University of Montevallo. 2013.
LANGUAGES
Spanish (reading)
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Association
College Board
Educational Testing Service
International Conference on Romanticism
Modern Language Association of America
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society
Southeastern Writing Center Association
University of Alabama at Birmingham Composition Program
University of Alabama English Honors Program
University of Alabama First-Year Writing Program
University of Montevallo
Wordsworth Summer Conference