Careers in Academia Informational Panel

Have you ever wondered what you professor’s career is really like? Or what the difference is between a Professor, a Lecturer, an and Academic Professional at UGA? If so, attend the Careers in Academia Informational Panel on Thursday, March 13^th at 3 p.m. in Park Hall 265.  Four highly-accomplished English Department faculty will give you an insider’s look at their professional lives. You are encouraged to bring questions!

The panelists include:

Dr. Rebecca Hallman Martini
Associate Professor
Writing Center Director
Rebecca Hallman Martini specializes in writing center studies, writing across the disciplines, ethnographic research methods, and composition pedagogy. Her book, Disrupting the Center: A Partnership-Based Approach to Writing in the University (Utah State University Press, 2022), establishes an administrative, strategic partnership model for writing center and writing across the curriculum collaborations. Her work has been published in WPA, Across the Disciplines, Praxis, Computers and Composition, and Research in Online Literacy Education. She is also the founding editor of the International Writing Center Association's newest journal, The Peer Review: A Journal for Writing Center Practitioners.

Dr. Lindsey Harding
Senior Academic Professional
Director of the Writing Intensive Program
Lindsey Harding is the Director of the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. She serves as the faculty advisor and editor for The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program's journal of undergraduate writing and research. For the Office of Faculty Affairs, she co-leads the Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice Program. Since 2016, Lindsey has also co-led Write@UGA, a spotlight on writing across campus held annually in February, featuring a guest speaker series, pedagogy workshops, and panel discussions. In the English Department, she teaches writing courses in face-to-face and online environments, including Advanced Composition, Writing for the Web, and Honors Introduction to Creative Writing. In 2019, Lindsey was appointed Associate Publisher for Resources for the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. Her first book, a speculative fiction novel that follows four passengers on a luxury plastic surgery cruise with an AI at its helm, was published by Acre Books in November 2023.

Dr. Cody Marrs
Professor
Cody Marrs is a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and the author of multiple award-winning books and numerous essays, articles, and chapters. He is one of the co-editors of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and the lead editor for Volume B (1820-1865). His research focuses on the narrative aspects of literary history, examining how stories are constructed about the writers, periods, and genres that define American literature. His most recent book is Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things (Oxford University Press, 2023). It reconsiders the writings of Herman Melville as meditations on the nature and effects of aesthetic experience, and provides new ways of thinking about American literary history. Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies was positively reviewed in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany, and Japan. Reviews can be found here, here, and here. He is also the author of two highly regarded books about the Civil War: Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), which won the Montaigne Medal for the "most thought-provoking book," and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2015), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. 

Dr. Nancee Reeves
Senior Lecturer
Nancee Reeves (PhD, Purdue University) specializes in Victorian, fantastic, and speculative fiction. Her research interests include euthanasia, dystopian literature, and empathy. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Documentary Editing, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, and Victorian Literature and Culture. Along with Dr. Nicole Lobdell, Dr. Reeves edited an edition of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man for Broadview Press. She was awarded the Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2020-2021), the UGA Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022-2023) and was inducted into the University of Georgia Teaching Academy in 2023.