Marylu Hill

Teaching Professor at Villanova University

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  • Villanova University

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Biography

Villanova University

Education:

  • Ph.D. University of Delaware
  • M.A. New York University
  • B.A. Villanova University

Publications:

  • 'Oscar Wilde's New Republic: Platonic Questions in Dorian Gray.' Oscar Wilde and the Classics. Ed. Alistair Blanchard, Iarla Manny, and Kathleen Riley. Oxford University Press (2018).
  • "A Tale of a Table: Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and the Legacy of Thomas Carlyle." Carlyle Studies Annual. (January 2013).
  • "Of Bricklayers and Kings: Thomas Carlyle's Response To Burkean Conservatism in The French Revolution." Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising Carlyle for our Times (co-edited by Marylu Hill and Paul Kerry). Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, September 2010.
  • Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising Carlyle for Our Times. Co-edited with Paul Kerry. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (September 2010).
  • "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me': Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market." Victorian Poetry 43 (2005). 455-472.
  • "History Is a Real Prophetic Manuscript": Reason and Revelation in Thomas Carlyle's Historical Essays." Literature and Belief. 25:1 (2005). 1-16.
  • Peering Through the Magical Speculum' of the Past: Vision and Truth in Carlyle's Early Historical Writing." The Carlyles at Home and Abroad. Ed. David Sorensen. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2004.
  • "Shadowy Sense at War With Soul': Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Illustrations of Tennyson's Idylls of the King." Victorian Poetry. 40 (2002): 445-462.
  • Mothering Modernity: Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse. New York: Routledge, 1998 (Origins of Modernism series).

Grants:

  • Teagle Foundation "Education for American Civic Life" grant award entitled 'Civitas through Caritas: Cultivating Love, Cultivating Citizens.' This grant will fund a three-week residential summer program sponsored and staffed by the ACS Program (with follow-up monthly sessions throughout the year) that provides an opportunity for rising high school seniors from urban Philadelphia schools and local suburban schools to engage in civic conversation through a foundation in the liberal arts.
  • Co-writer (with Dr. Ian Clausen and Dr. Mel Webb), Lilly Fellows Small Grant Award for a proposal entitled 'Caritas toward Unitas: Teaching African American Literature in the Spirit of Augustine.' The project invited CLAS faculty to discuss two African-American authors (James Baldwin and Toni Morrison) with a view to how they intersect with the ACS Augustinian mission. Spring 2018-Spring 2019.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities: Title of Program: 'Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America.' An NEH Landmarks of American History Workshop for Primary and Secondary Schoolteachers, July 2008.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities: Title of Program: 'Socratic Questions.' Co-written with Dr. Peter Busch. Faculty Humanities Workshops Series, 2005-2006.

Honors and Awards:

  • Oxford Scholar in Residence, ACTC/OSAP. (March 6, 2014). Two months of sponsored research at Oxford University, including full access to the Bodleian and the university archives at Magdalen College and University College, Oxford.
  • Distinguished Service Award, Villanova University. (September 2007). Learning Communities Platform Team.
  • Distinguished Service Team Award, Villanova University. (September 7, 2000). Villanova Experience Team.

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