VITA
August 27, 2009
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
1449 Flat Rock Road
Penn Valley, Pennsylvania 19072
610-667-2251
Email: ruth.anolik@villanova.edu
EDUCATION:
Bryn Mawr College, Department of English, PhD, 2003
Dissertation title: Possessions: Property and Propriety in the Gothic Mode
Bryn Mawr College, Department of English, MA, 1987
SUNY/Buffalo School of Library and Information Studies, MLS, 1976
Cornell University, BA, 1974
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Villanova University, Villanova Seminar Program (Core Humanities)
Instructor, Augustine and Culture Seminar (Core Humanities), 2000. 2004 –
Instructor, English Department 2005-
Bryn Mawr College, Department of English/College Seminar Program
Lecturer, 2003.
Instructor, Liberal Studies/Freshman English Seminar, 1992-1997
Teaching Apprentice, Freshman English Seminar, 1991-1992
Haverford College, Department of English/Writing Program
Assistant Professor, Freshman Writing 2003.
Instructor, Freshman English/Freshman Writing, 1999-2003
PUBLICATIONS:
“Haunted Voices, Haunted Text: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy. In 21st Century Gothic. Ed. Danel
Olson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press (under contract)
Contributor, Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Gothic, Ed. David Punter and William Hughes.
Entry: “Sex.” Blackwell, 2011 (to be published).
Editor Diagnosing Demons: lllness and Disability in the Gothic Text. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 2010 (under contract).
Editor, Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in the Gothic Imagination. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 2007.
“Sexual Horror: Fears of the Sexual Other.” Introduction. Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual
Difference in the Gothic Imagination. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
“‘There Was a Man’: Dangerous Husbands and Fathers in The Winter’s Tale, A Sicilian
Romance and Linden Hills.” Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in the Gothic
Imagination. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
“Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text” (Review). Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 6
(Winter 2007): <http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/Winter2007/Brown.htm>
“The Scandal of the Jew: Reflexive Transgressiveness in Du Maurier’s Trilby. Partial Answers 3.2 (June 2005): 99-127.
“Reviving the Golem, Revisiting Frankenstein: Cultural Negotiations in Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers and Piercy’s He, She and It.” Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women’s Writing. Ed. Lois E. Rubin. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
Editor, The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination.. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
“The Dark Unknown.” Introduction. The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
“The Infamous Svengali: George Du Maurier’s Satanic Jew.” The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
“The Missing Mother: The Meanings of Maternal Absence in the Gothic.” Modern Language Studies 33 (Spring/Fall 2003): 24-43.
“‘All Words, Words, about Words:’ Linguistic Journey and Transformation in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 21 (2002): 12-23.
“Appropriating the Golem, Possessing the Dybbuk: Female Retellings of Jewish Tales.” Modern Language Studies 31 (Fall 2001): 39-55.
“Appropriating the Golem, Possessing the Dybbuk: Female Revisions of Jewish Folktales.” He Said; She Says: An Rsvp to the Male Text. Ed. Mica Howe and Sarah Aguilar. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.
“Horrors of Possession: The Gothic Struggle with the Law.” Legal Studies Forum 24 (2000): 667-686.
“Reviving the Golem: Cultural Negotiations in Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers and Piercy’s He, She, and It.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 19 (2000): 37-48.
“Gothic Murder: Containment of Horror in Charlotte Yonge’s Chantry House.” Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship Website. <www.dur.ac.uk/c.e.schultze/works/chantry_house.html>
Editor, Monstrous Pathologies: Illness, Disability and Physical Difference in the Gothic
Imagination (Under contract).
Compiler, Careers in Fact and Fiction: A Selective, Annotated List of Books for Career Backgrounds. Chicago: American Library Association, 1985.
AWARDS and HONORS:
Speaker, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Remarks, Bryn Mawr College Commencement
Convocation, May 17 2003.
NEMLA Women’s Caucus. 2003 Best Essay in Women’s Language and Literature Award.
Essay: “The Missing Mother: Negotiations of Motherhood in the Gothic Mode.”
NEMLA Women’s Caucus. 1999 Best Essay in Women’s Language and Literature Award.
Essay: “Appropriating the Golem: Possessing the Dybbuk: Female Retellings of Jewish Tales.”
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Referee, Studies in the Novel, 2008 -
Speaker, Connelly Film Series, Villanova University 2008-
Women’s Caucus Representative to the NEMLA Executive Board, 2003-2006
Member, Board of Directors, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Greater Philadelphia, 2003-9
SELECTED CONFERENCES:
“A Contested Romance: The Haunting of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables,” MLA, December 27-30 2006.
“Comparing Loss: Ozick’s The Shawl and Morrison’s Beloved,” Society for the Study of
American Women Writers, November 8-11 2006.
“There Was a Man”: The Dangerous Husband in The Winter’s Tale, A Sicilian Romance and Linden Hills, ACLA, March 23-26, 2006.
Seminar Leader, The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others. Panels: The Racial/Cultural Other and Gothic Horror; The Sexual Other and Gothic Horror; The Ill or Disabled Other and Gothic Horror, ACLA, March 23-26, 2006.
Chair, Panel on Illness and Disability as Gothic Monstrosity: Anxious Representations of Physical Difference, NEMLA March 2-5 2006.
“‘The Great Confinement’: Social Containment in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance, NEMLA March 2-5 2006.
Chair, Panel on Sexual Horror in the Gothic, NEMLA March 31-April 2 2005.
“The Political Fantastic: Gothic Ideology in Narratives of Property,” NEMLA March 31-
April 2 2005.
“Svengali, the Jew: Gothicized Anti-Semitism in Du Maurier’s Trilby,” MLA, December 27-30
2004.
“‘So Glad to Possess You’: Loss of Identity in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White,” NEMLA
March 4-7 2004.
“The Missing Mother: Maternal Absence in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills,” Women’s Caucus Panel: Women and Gothic, NEMLA April 11-14 2002
“The Elusive Castle: Gothic Space and Women’s Dis/Possession” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, November 15-18 2001
"Gothic Murder: Containment of Horror in Charlotte Yonge's Chantry House" International
Gothic Association Conference: Gothic Cults and Gothic Cultures June 14-17 2001
“Gothic Revisions in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills.” Gloria Naylor’s Revisions Panel. MLA, December 1999
“Frankenstein’s Monster Meets the Golem: Cultural Negotiations in Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers and Piercy’s He, She, and It.” MidAtlantic PAC/ACA, November 5-7 1999
Chair, Panel on The Other: Race and Class in the Gothic, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 3-5 1999
“Appropriating the Golem, Possessing the Dybbuk: Folktales Twice Told.” Contemporary Jewish-American Novel Panel, NEMLA, April 16-17, 1999
“Possessions: Property and Propriety in the American Gothic.” American Gothic Panel, Special Session on the Gothic Novel, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 18-20, 1998