Helen Oesterheld, Ph.D

Title: Associate Professor of English

Department: English

Office: LCH B-335
Phone Extension: x3944
Email Username: hoesterheld

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Show All Publications Selected Presentations (Literary Studies) Selected Presentations (Pedagogy and Scholarship of Teaching) Conference Panels & Workshops Fellowships, Awards & Honors

Publications

“Mary Astell and the Afterlife of All-Female Communities (1694-1785).” (under consideration)
“’[G]one in she is!’: Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall and the Problem of All-Female Communities.” (revised and re-submitted to Eighteenth-Century Fiction)
Book Review: “Patricia Mayer Spacks. Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 20.4, (Summer 2008): 571-573
Book Review: “Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper 1644-1720." Eighteenth-Century Women 4 (2006): 383-86.
Book Review: “John Thelwall’s Polyvocal Politics.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36.1 (Fall 2002): 122-25.
“Application or Reading One Text ‘Through’ Another.” Laws and Orders: Humanities and the Regulation of Society. Eds. Gail Hart and Elizabeth Losh. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002.
“Seeing, Feeling, and Reading Like the Father: Sensibility as Patriarchal Control in The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Les Mystères De Mrs. Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Revisited. Ed. Max Duperray. Provence: University of Provence Press, 1999.

Selected Presentations (Literary Studies)

“The Afterlife of Mary Astell: Resisting the All-Female Community 1709-1785.” CSUF Scholarship on Gender Conference, Fullerton, California, March 2008.
“Protestant Nuns, Magdalens, and Princesses: Imagining All-Female Communities in Britain 1700-1860.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Riverside, California, November 2006.
“Contest, Conquest, and the All-Female Retreat, 1750-1770.” A Life of Letters in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Symposium in Honor of Robert Folkenflik, UC Irvine, June 2006
“Imagining and Resisting the All-Female Retreat in England, 1660-1860.” Pacific Southwest Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Occidental College, April 2006
“Representations of the All-Female Retreat: Sarah Scott vs. Charles Caraccioli.” Western Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, California State University Long Beach, February 2005
“Re-Membering Monarchy in Dryden’s All for Love.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Newport Beach, California, October 2003
“Mary Wollstonecraft’s Seductive Heroine: Maria as Gothic Revision.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, New York, December 2002
“The Tatler’s Satiric Correction and Sarah Scott’s Correction of Satire.” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Orange, California, February 2002
“A Hostile Makeover: Pretty Woman and the Politics of Transformation.” Eleventh Annual Pacific Southwest Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Diego, California, April 2001
“Did She or Didn’t She?: Disjunctions of Pleasure and Gender in Aphra Behn’s ‘The Disappointment’.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2000
“Feminotopic Re-vision; Or, How Women Teach Men to See in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall.” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2000
“Radcliffe’s Gothic Gaze.” Fourth Bi-Annual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 1999
“Sentimental Indulgence as Patriarchal Control in The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Northeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1996

Selected Presentations (Pedagogy and Scholarship of Teaching)

Co-presenter, “Setting up a Writing Intensive Course with Linked Assignments.” Enhancing Critical Literacy Project Mini-Conference (“Writing to Learn/ Learning to Write”). California State University, Dominguez Hills, September 2007.
“Francisco Jimenez’s The Circuit and the Myth of the Frontier.” Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, California, October 2005
“Letting the Teacher Back In: Re-theorizing Instructional Authority through Peer Conferencing.” Annual Conference on College Communication and Composition, Chicago, Illinois, March 2002
“Composing Pedagogical Philosophy: Reflections on and Inventions of Practice.” Annual Conference on College Communication and Composition, Denver, Colorado, March 2001

Conference Panels & Workshops

Chair, “Unsex’d Females, Feminized Men, Harlots, and Heroes: Constructions of Gender in British Literature, 1700-1800” CSU Fullerton Scholarship on Gender Conference 2008, March 2008.
Chair, “British Literature Post 1700 II: The Textual Expression of Female Agency.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Bellingham, WA, November 2007.
Co-Facilitator, Arts and Humanities Session, Enhancing Critical Literacy Project Mini-Conference (“Writing to Learn/ Learning to Write”). California State University, Dominguez Hills, September 2007.
Moderator, Spanish Postfeminism? Conference, California State University, Dominguez Hills, April 2007
Co-Chair, “The Iconography of the Breast.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2002
Co-Chair, “The Unsex’d Men of the Eighteenth-Century.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2002
Chair, Reading Male Sexuality in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Orange, California, February 2002

Fellowships, Awards & Honors

Center for Teaching and Learning Travel Grant, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Fall 2007
Sally Casanova Memorial Award (Research Scholarship and Creative Activities Program), California State University, Dominguez Hills, Spring 2006
Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, California State University Dominguez Hills, Summer 2004
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Research Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2002 (national award)
Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2001-2002 (UC-wide award)
Humanities Center Research Grant, University of California, Irvine, Summer 2001, Summer 1999
School of Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Irvine, 2000-2001
Research and Travel Award, University of California, Irvine, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1996
Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Winter 2000
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Irvine, 1999
Summer Dissertation Fellowship in Humanities, University of California, Irvine, 1998
Regents’ Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 1995-1996
Graduate Assistantship, American University, 1994-1995

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