KATE NESBIT
Department of English University of Iowa
308 English-Philosophy Building Iowa City, IA 52242
EDUCATION
Ph.D.University of Iowa, English, in progress (Expected) 2018
B.A.English, Women’s Studies, St. Olaf College 2012
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
AWARDS AND HONORS
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Nominee, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa, 2016
Service Impact Award Nominee, Corporation for National and Community Service,2013
Sole Recipient of Annual Spohn Award for Excellence in English, English Department, St. Olaf College, 2012
Departmental Distinction: English, St. Olaf College, 2012
Departmental Distinction: Women’s Studies, St. Olaf College, 2012
Viola Rossing Prize, Women’s Studies Department, St. Olaf College, 2012
St. Olaf College Honor’s Day Recognition, 2009-2012
Viola Rossing Prize, Women’s Studies Department, St. Olaf College, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
“Melodrama’s Wordless Elocution: The Vestigial Voice in the Orchestration and Pantomime of Thomas Holcroft’sA Tale of Mystery.” European Romantic Review. (Forthcoming)
“‘Taste in noises’: Registering, Evaluating, and Creating Sound and Story in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Studies in the Novel.December 2015.
Other Publications
Nesbit, K. (2013, April 9). Therapy is a Privilege…Not a Punishment [Letter to the Editor]. Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Nesbit, Kate (2013, September 1). "10 Reasons I Deserve to Go to College."
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
“Remembering the Body: Incorporating Kinesthetic Learning into Writing Center Peer Consulting.” Midwest Writing Centers Conference. Cedar Rapids, IA. March 2016.
“Graduate Killjoys: A Roundtable on Contestation, Containment, and Resistance amidst the Precarity of Graduate Life.” National Women’s Studies Association. Milwaukee, WI, November 2015.
Dramatic Reading of Michael Field’s Attila, My Attila! (Lead Role). Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Iowa City, IA, May 2015.
“Somatic Changes in Poetic Exchanges: Recitation, Memorization, and the Body in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2015.
“‘I cannot unself myself for ever and ever’: Poetic Attempts to Transcend the Self in Christina Rossetti’s A Pageant and Other Poems.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Houston, TX, March 2014.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Positions Held
Graduate instructor, RHET 1030: Rhetoric, University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, Fall 2014-Present.
Graduate writing fellow, Frank Business Communications Center, University of Iowa, Fall 2014-Present.
Co-leader, Professional Development Program, University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, Iowa City, IA. Fall 2015.
Partial instructor, “Introduction to the English Major,” University of Iowa English Department, 2013-2014
College coach and Kaplan ACT instructor, College Possible, 2012-2014
Writing tutor, St. Olaf College Writer’s Place, 2011-2012
Teaching assistant, “First-Year Writing,” St. Olaf College English Department, 2011
Workshops and Professional Development
CNW: 5375: Teaching in a Writing Center. Carol Severino. University of Iowa English Department. Fall 2015.
RHET: 5352: Teaching and Professional Development. Megan Knight. University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, Spring 2015.
TILE (Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage) Classroom Essentials Training: Technology and Collaborative Learning Strategies. Matt Gilchrist and Tom Keegan, University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, October 2014
RHET: 5350: Professional Development Program: Colloquium: Teaching Rhetoric. Naomi Greyser. University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, September-December 2014
Professional Development Program: Pre-Semester Workshop for New Rhetoric Teachers. Naomi Greyser. University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, August 2014
Kaplan ACT Instructor Training and Certification. College Possible, January 2013
Junior Coach Orientation and Training, College Possible, August 2012
Training: Tutoring English Language Learners. Su Smallen, St. Olaf College, August 2011
INVITED TALKS
“Digital Teaching Portfolios.” University of Iowa Rhetoric Department, December 2016.
“Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” Co-written and lectured with Faith Avery. Introduction to the English Major, University of Iowa English Department, November 2013.
SERVICE & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
University
Conference co-chair, Craft Critique Culture Conference, University of Iowa, April 2016
Volunteer tutor, “Midnight Madness,” University of Iowa Rhetoric Writing Center, November 2015
Co-chair, Paper Acceptance and Panel Compilation Committee, Craft Culture Critique Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2015
Member, Commencement Speaker Selection Committee, St. Olaf College, 2012
Chair, Tenure Promotion Student Committee, St. Olaf College, 2011
Departmental assistant, Office of Advancement, St. Olaf College, 2009-2011
Community
AmeriCorps member, College Possible, Minneapolis, MN, 2012-2013
Assistant development manager, AchieveMpls, Minneapolis, MN, 2012
Writer and digital media specialist, HOPE Center for Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse, Faribault, MN,2011
Member and participant, Blue Key Service and Leadership Honor Society, 2010-2012
LANGUAGE SKILLS
French: advanced reading and listening comprehension, intermediate written and conversational fluency
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Midwest Writing Centers Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (CPGS), UE Local 896, University of Iowa
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
International Virginia Woolf Society