Curriculum Vitae
Mia L. McIver
Department of English
435 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
mmciver@uci.edu
Education
Present Ph.D. Candidate, English Literature, University of California, Irvine
- Dissertation: “Sovereignty and World-Making: States of Exception in Modernist Literature 1915-1941”
- Committee: Margot Norris (Chair), Steven Mailloux, Laura O’Connor, Rei Terada.
- Ph.D. expected June 2009.
1999 M.A., English Literature, Boston University
1997 A.B. cum laude, English Literature, Duke University
- 1995-1996: Duke in France. Coursework in political science and art history.
- 1995: Duke in London. Coursework in dramaturgy and theatrical production.
Publications
“Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf, by Ariela Freedman and Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction, by Thomas Cousineau.” (Review essay.) Woolf Studies Annual 12 (2006): 258-64.
Fellowships and Grants
Murray Krieger Fellow in Literary Theory, 2003-present.
UC Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship. 2007-2008.
Michael and Stacey Koehn Endowed Graduate Research Assistantship in Critical Theory. January-June 2008.
Summer Language Grant (Russian), International Center for Writing and Translation. Summer 2008.
International James Joyce Foundation Scholarship, June 2008.
La Verne Noyes Fellowship. 2007-2008.
Graduate Laptop Award, UCI School of Humanities, 2007-2008
Summer Dissertation Fellowship. UCI School of Humanities, Summer 2007.
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Research Grant. Summer 2007.
UCI School of Humanities Research Grant. Summer 2007.
Fellow, Dickens Universe. Dickens Project, UC Santa Cruz, August 2006.
Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory. Cornell University, Summer 2006.
UCI Humanities Center Research Grant. March 2006.
Summer International Travel Grant, International Center for Writing and Translation. September 2005.
Graduate Student Travel Grant. 15th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2005.
Conference Travel Grants. UCI School of the Humanities, June 2005 and June 2004.
Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory. August 2004.
Presidential University Graduate Fellowship. Boston University, 1997-1999.
Undergraduate Essay Award. Duke University Department of English, May 1997.
Conference Participation
Presenter: “Joyce with Spinoza: Legal Fiction and Double Truth.”
XXIst International James Joyce Symposium. Tours, France, June 2008.
Presenter: “Epic Ethics in Modernity.” Panel Chair: “Ethics and/of Formalism in the Twentieth Century.” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Austin, TX, May 2008.
Presenter and Seminar Organizer: “Middle Passages: The Poetics and Ethics of Suspension.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference: Arrivals and Departures. Long Beach, CA, April 2008.
Presenter: “Sovereign Making in David Jones’ In Parenthesis.” Panel Chair: “Properties of Utopia: Joyce and Benjamin.” Modernist Studies Association 9th Annual Conference: Geographies of Visual and Literary Culture. Long Beach, CA, November 2007.
“Shakespeare Meets Christ in New Bloomusalem: Ulysses’ Political Theology.” North American James Joyce Conference. University of Texas, Austin, June 2007.
“Talk about the Weather: Storms and Security in To the Lighthouse.” 17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism. Miami University of Ohio, June 2007.
“’Necessity Knows No Law’: Atrocity, Political Theology, and Biopolitics in Mother Courage and Her Children.” Cultures of Violence: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference. University of California, Irvine, April 2007.
“The Aesthetics of Subjection.” Decadence: Excess, Erosion, and Transgression: Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of California, Irvine, March 2007.
“Pygmalion Swoons: The Aesthetics of Subjection in Pater, Morris, and Wilde.” Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.
“Bound by the Pearls of History: The Aesthetic Subject of The Tragic Muse.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. University of California, Riverside, October 2006.
Panel Chair and Respondent, Critical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference. University of California, Irvine, April 2006.
Presenter: “The Political Work of Art: Thomas Mann with Freud and Hegel.” Panel Chair: “War Literature.” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference. University of Louisville, February 2006.
“Theaters of Consciousness: Reality and Representation in Between the Acts.” 15th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: The Art of Exploration. Lewis and Clark College, June 2005.
Presenter: “The Order of Catechism: Narrative Rhythm and Spatial Form in ‘Ithaca.’” Panel Chair: “Ulysses in Space-Time: Rhythm, Gaps, and History.” Bloomsday100 Symposium. Dublin, Ireland, June 2004.
Invited Talks
“Heart of Darkness and the Modernist Project.” Pomona College, December 2008.
“Eros between Poetry and Criticism: ‘Dover Beach’ and ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.’’” University of Illinois, Chicago, November 2008.
“‘She was careful for the discipline of the wars: The Romance of Political Theology in David Jones’ In Parenthesis.” UCI Modernist Reading Group Works-in-Progress Series, May 2007.
Teaching
University of California, Irvine
- English 28B: Comic and Tragic Vision: Fidelity in Drama. Spring 2006.
- English 28C: Realism and Romance: The Novel and War. Spring 2005.
- Writing 37: Intensive Writing. Fall 2004, Fall 2006.
- Writing 39A Plus: Fundamentals of Composition. Winter 2005.
- English 102D: Anglo-American Modernism. (TA for Margot Norris.) Winter 2007.
- Criticism 100A:Introduction to Criticism and Theory. (TA for Steven Mailloux.) Winter 2006.
- English 106: American Documentary. (TA for Mark Goble.) Fall 2005.
Boston University
- Introduction to Fiction. (TA for Emily Dalgarno.) Spring 1999.
- Introduction to Fiction. (TA for Julia Brown.) Fall 1998.
Service
Organizer, Critical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference. Spring 2008.
Member, Critical Theory Core Committee, 2007-2008.
Search Committee Member, Senior Position in Literary Theory. 2007-2008.
Undergraduate Mentor, Critical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference. April 2006.
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of English. 2004-2007.
Member, Modernist Reading Group. 2005-present.
Member, Victorian Studies Group. 2004-present.
Graduate Student Representative to the English Department Faculty. 2005-2006.
Graduate Student Representative to School of Humanities Dean’s Advisory Council. 2005.
Member, English Department Graduate Student Colloquium Committee. 2003-2005 (Chair 2004-2005).
Relevant Work Experience
2007-present SAT Essay Reader, The College Board. New York, NY.
2005-present Reader, Analytical Writing Placement Examination. Berkeley, CA
2004-2006 Research Assistant, Rei Terada
Projects: Goethe’s Farbenlehre; micro-agency in psychoanalysis and existential psychotherapy
1999-2001 Associate Editor, Economics, Oxford University Press. New York, NY
Acquired, reviewed, and edited economics manuscripts for publication; negotiated publication contracts; coordinated marketing and publicity campaigns for economics list.
Languages
French: Proficient reading, writing, and speaking skills.
German: Moderate reading skills; elementary writing and speaking skills.
Russian: Elementary reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Spanish: Elementary reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
International James Joyce Foundation
Southern California Irish Studies Colloquium
Critical Theory Emphasis, UCI
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UCI
Center for Law, Culture, and Society, UCI
Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, UCI