Curriculum Vitae
Abridged
FYI, I don’t update this very often
Education
2007 Ph.D., Literature, University of California at San Diego
Dissertation: Representations of Race and Romance in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
2005 M.A., Literatures in English, University of California at San Diego
Qualifying Exams:
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Rise of the Novel
Nineteenth-Century British Literature the City: Class, Gender and Subjectivity (Poetry and Non-Fiction Prose)
Qualifying Paper: “Kings, Slaves and the Female Pen: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and its Stage Adaptations”
2002 B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, English with Honors and Asian American Studies Minor, Scripps Women’s College at The Claremont Colleges
Thesis: “Negotiating Nationalism in Norma Field’s From My Grandmother’s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo”
Bibliographic and Additional Training
Rare Book School (University of Virginia)
2014 Analytical Bibliography
2013 Teaching the History of the Book
XML in Action: Creating Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI) Text
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
2013 Social Network Analysis: An
Introduction
Huntington Library (San Marino, California)
2007 Paleography Seminar
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor
2015-Present Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Scholar
2014-2015 Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Assistant Professor
2010-2014 Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Lecturer
2009-2010 Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
2007-2009 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Fall 2008 University of San Diego, San Diego, California
2007-2009 San Diego State University, San Diego, California
2007-2008 Palomar College, San Marcos, California
Teaching at Howard University
Graduate
Critical Methods
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (intro to era within a changing theoretical framework, e.g., Digital Humanities, Indigenous Studies)
Undergraduate
Introduction to Black LGBTQ+ Studies (Cross-Listed with Interdisciplinary Studies)
Sophomore Seminar II: Theories of Interpretation (Introduction to Literary Theory)
British Foundations (Survey of British Literature, Medieval to Present Day)
Jane Austen: Love, Money, Fame (Major Author Course)
Texts, Technologies and Telling Tales (Digital Humanities and Narratology)
British Romantic Sensibilities (Culture and Politics in the Anglophone Atlantic 1770-1830)
Selected Awards and Grants
2020-2021, 2018-2019 UC-HBCU Initiative, partnered with Dr. Rachael King (U.C. Santa Barbara)
2020 Funding for "Empathy, Storytelling, and Film in Engineering”: Collaboration with Virginia Tech University’s Bright C.S. (co-taught STEAM program for BIPOC middle school girls) and Arlington Public School District
2015-2019 Reginald Lewis Endowment Travel Fund, Howard University
2016-2017 Faculty Summer Stipend, Howard University
2016-2017 Junior Faculty Writing and Creative Works Summer Academy. Howard University
2016-2017 Junior Faculty Research Fund, English Department, Howard University
2016 DGSI: Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative, Howard University
2014-2015 Scholar Travel Grant, Modern Language Association
Selected Publications
Single-Author Book
Kugler, Emily MN. The Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century (Publisher book page; ebook available through an institutional subscription). Studies in Intellectual History. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Review. Smith, K. (2013). Journal of Religion in Europe, 6(3), 388-389.
Review. Murray, P. J. (2014). Journal of Early Modern History, 18(3), 302-304.
Editing
Klein, Ula Lukszo and Emily MN Kugler, co-editors. “Special Issue: Eighteenth-Century Camp” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 9.1 (2019)
This is based on a panel/workshop we organized at a past meeting of ASECS.
Hüttler, Michael, Emily MN Kugler, and H. E. Weidinger, Co-Editors. Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III – Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre. A Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Lord Byron's Sojourn in the Ottoman Capital (1810). Don Juan Archiv. Ottomania 5. Vienna: Hollitzer, 2015. (Publisher book and series pages)
Single-Author Book Chapters and Articles
Kugler, Emily MN. “Fantasies of Emancipation: Collaborations and Contestations in The History of Mary Prince.” The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond frethinRecovery (publisher book page). Ed. Robin Runia (Xavier University). Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Routledge 2018.
Review. Culley, Amy. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 32.4 (2020): 641–643
Kugler, Emily MN. “Playing the Sultana: Erotic Capital and Commerce in Defoe’s Roxana.” In Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III – Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre. A Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Lord Byron's Sojourn in the Ottoman Capital (1810). Don Juan Archiv. Ottomania 5. Vienna: Hollitzer, 2015. (Publisher book and series pages)
Kugler, Emily MN (Invited). “Loving the Unstable Text and Times of Equiano’s Narrative: Using Carretta’s Biography in the Classroom. (Project Muse, paywall)” In Teaching Olaudah Equiano's Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives. Edited by Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012: 119-136.
Co-Authored Book Chapters and Articles
Klein, Ula Lukszo and Emily MN Kugler, Co-Authors. “Eighteenth-Century Camp Introduction.” “Special Issue: Eighteenth-Century Camp” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 9.1 (2019)
Hüttler, Michael, Emily MN Kugler, and H. E. Weidinger, Co-Authors. “Editorial/Introduction.” In Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III – Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre. A Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Lord Byron's Sojourn in the Ottoman Capital (1810). Don Juan Archiv. Ottomania 5. Vienna: Hollitzer, 2015. (Publisher book and series pages)
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications
Kugler, Emily MN. “(Book Review) Imagining Insular Empire in Samuel Baker's Written on the Water” (open access) for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54 (2013): Supplement.
Kugler, Emily MN. "Madame de La Fayette." The Literary Encyclopedia. (Paywall) First published 07 April 2012.
Additional Scholarly Contributions
Encyclopedia entry on The Kinsman of Mahomet; or, Memoirs of a French Slave During his Eight Years Captivity in Constantinople (1774) for Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Edited by April London. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (In Press, 2020)
Selected Service to Liberal Arts and Humanities
Academic Conferences
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
2018-present ·Co-Consulting Chair (Elected Position, First along with Dr. Kirsten Saxton [Mills College]to hold this position), Women’s Caucus
2017-2018 ·Co-Chair (Elected Position), Women’s Caucus
2014-2017 ·Secretary (Elected Position, First to Hold this Position), Women’s Caucus
2013-2014 ·Committee Chair, Catharine Macaulay Prize for Graduate Student Essays, Women’s Caucus
2014, 2018 ·Women’s Caucus Fundraiser: Masquerade, successfully funded graduate, NTT prizes
2013 ·Mentor, Women’s Caucus Mentorship Program
2011-2012 ·Committee Member, Catharine Macaulay Prize, Women’s Caucus
Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma Chapter of the District of Columbia (Howard University)
Only four HBCU’s have chapters in Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest honors society in the United States. Our chapter works to not only diversify the national organization, connection Howard students to an established professional network but also to host events drawing attention to issues of race and gender in the liberal arts
Selected Events Organized for Gamma Chapter
2019-2020
Snowden Lecture, with a Symposium on Incarceration in the United States
This annual lecture honors the late Frank M Snowden, former Howard professor and one of the first African American scholars of the Classical Mediterranean World. His work focused on free black people within the Roman Empire. This year’s Snowden Lecturer Dr. Marcus Folch (Columbia University) works on ancient and modern prisons. The lecture became part of a three-day symposium focusing on current issues related to U.S. Incarceration, including educational programs based in the humanities. This event is co-organized by Howard University’s Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Classics Department, and Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (based in D.C.). This event included the chapter’s spring induction of junior and senior students.
Mentorship Workshop: Graduate Degrees in the Liberal Arts
PBK Visiting Scholar/Chapter Induction with Keynote by Dr. Z.S. Strother (Columbia University): “African Emotions/African Masks.” This visit also included multiple meetings with students, including a classroom lecture in the Art department.
2018-2019
Snowden Lecture/Locke Scholar Award Ceremony. Keynote by Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta: “The Etruscan Negro: Coins, Histories, Racial Meanings”
·PBK Visiting Scholar/Chapter Induction with Keynote by Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University, former U.S. Poet Laureate): “You are Not Safe in History”: On Abiding Metaphors and Finding a Calling.” This visit also included multiple meetings with students, including a classroom lecture in the English Department.
Conference Organization
2017-2018 · Conference Organizer, East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Washington, DC
Selected Presentations
2020-2021
· “Mary, Margaret, and Janet: Blank Spaces in the Transatlantic Archives of Britain, the Caribbean and South Africa” (rolled over from 2020 conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting. Virtual
· “Before Bridgerton: Austen-Inspired Games and the Challenges of Representation.” Co-Presented with Emily C. Friedman (Auburn University). Jane Austen Days in Philadelphia. Eastern Pennsylvania Regional Jane Austen Society of North America (Eastern PA JASNA). Invited. Virtual.
· “Wish You Were Here: Claiming Connection Within and Around The History of Mary Prince.” Panel: “Subjects of Empire: Social Distancing and Women of Color in the Colonial Context.” Co-Organized with Panel/C18 Writing Group. Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS). Annual Meeting. Virtual.
2019-2020
· “Mary, Margaret, and Janet: Blank Spaces in the Transatlantic Archives of Britain,the Caribbean and South Africa”
o Black Atlantics Panel. British Women Writers Conference Biennial Meeting Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
o COAS Junior Faculty Workshop (February 2020)
·.“Marking Whiteness and Illuminating Public Intellectualism at an HBCU.” Roundtable: Teaching Medieval Courses at Historically Black Universities.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.
·.“Roundtable Discussion: Intersecting Race and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Classroom.” Public Goods: Biennial Joint Meeting of the Aphra Behn and Frances Burney Societies. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
2018-2019
· “Inconvenient Archives: Erasures and False Doubles in Pamphlets Debating the Transatlantic Human Trade.” Panel: Contact Zones and the Violence of the Archive. ASECS Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
· “Imagining Ottomans in Defoe’s New World.” Africa, India, and Empire. Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society: “Tolerance and Intolerance in the Age of Defoe,” New Haven, CT.
2017-2018
· “Strange Histories and Present Blank Spots: Why We Need to Better Imagine the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic in Our Classrooms and Communities.” Roundtable: Mind “Yore” Business? Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Problem of Presentism. ASECS, Orlando, Florida.
2016-2017
· “Troubling the Black Atlantic: Competing Geographic Claims for the Legacy of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo” ASECS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
· Seminar Participant (Invited). “Shakespeare in Black America,” Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Atlanta, GA
· “Case Studies in Public History Panel” Slavery and Global Public History: New Challenges, Co-Organized by Brown University, Yale University, and the Smithsonian. Providence, Rhode Island
· “International Coalition to Commemorate the African Ancestors of the Middle Passage (ICCAMP), Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP), Remembering Ancestors” [Replacement on the program for MPCPMP Executive Director, Ann Chinn]. African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA), Washington DC
2015-2016
· “Creating Resources and Scholarly Community: Examples from FemTechNet’s DOCC Summer Workshops and #DisruptingDH” Rethinking the Academic Conference (Women’s Caucus, Roundtable) ASECS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Selected Organized of Conference Panels focusing
2020-2021
· “Subjects of Empire: Social Distancing and Women of Color in the Colonial Context.” Co-Organized with Panel/C18 Writing Group: Nicole Garret (Aldephi University, Chair), Amanda L. Johnson (Rice University), Ula Lukszo Klein (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh). Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS). Annual Meeting. Virtual.
2016-2017
· “Addressing Structural Racism in Eighteenth-Century Studies” (Women’s Caucus, Roundtable), Co-Organizer with Regulus Allen (Cal Poly, Los Angeles). ASECS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis Minnesota
· “Journeys to the West: Silk Roads and Settlers in the Eighteenth Century” Panel Respondent and Co-Organizer with Samara Cahill (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ASECS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis Minnesota
2015-2016
· “18th-Century Camp: A Workshop/Roundtable” Co-Organizer with Ula Klein (Texas A&M International). ASECS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
· “Re-Imagining Enlightenment: Islamic Cosmopolitanism in the Pan-Oceanic World” Co-Organizer with Samara Cahill (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Chair, Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) ASECS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2014-2015 ·
“Women on the Wrong Side of History?” Co-Organizer with Nicole Wright (University of Colorado at Boulder).
o ASECS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
o Special Session for Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC Canada.
· Chair and Organizer, “Queering Richardson’s Novels and Their Readers,” Richardson Society’s Panel for ASECS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
·Beyond Orientalism: Consumer Agency and Producer Adaptation in Asian Exchanges with Europe and the Americas.” Co-Organizer with Samara Cahill (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ASECS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
2013-2014
· “Enlightenment Occlusions: Hidden Hybridity in European Literature and Culture” Co-Organizer with Samara Cahill (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ASECS Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia.
2008-2009
· Chair and Organizer, "The Rights of Women and Orientalism." ASECS Annual Meeting, Richmond, Virginia.
2007-2008
· Chair and Organizer, “Women and Nature: Labs, Land Reform and Labor.” ASECS Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.