Graduate Student Profile

Edward Kozaczka

Status: ABD

Contact Information

E-mail: kozaczka@usc.edu

LINKS

 Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Biographical Sketch


Ed Kozaczka is a Ph.D. candidate at USC, where he studies eighteenth-century British literature, gender studies, queer theory, and imperialism. He received a B.S.E. in English Education from Mansfield University in 2007 and an M.A. in English from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2009. His current project traces a queer feminist genealogy of the eighteenth-century British novel. He has published on Jane Austen, Penelope Aubin, and Edgar A. Poe, and he is currently working on a scholarly edition of Aubin's novel The Noble Slaves, which will be published next year by Anthem Press. Ed teaches first-year composition at USC, in both the general education program and the interdisciplinary Thematic Option Honors program. He also teaches eighteenth-century survey courses at Los Angeles City College.


Education

  • BSE English, Mansfield Univ, 2007
  • MA English, SUNY - Binghamton, 2009


Conference Presentations

  • Chair, "Queer Mediations," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland, OH, 3/2012
  • "Penelope Aubin's Tory Narratives of Empire," Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, 1/2012
  • Chair, "Penelope Aubin & Her Contemporaries," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 3/2011
  • "Reading/Reciting 18th-Century English Verse," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, 3/2011
  • "Jane Barker's 'Secret': Queer Utopia and Melancholy in Love Intrigues," British Women Writers Conference, Columbus, OH, 3/2011
  • "Counterintuitive Feminism and the Eighteenth-Century Novel," UCSB Early Modern Center Conference: The Future of Literary Studies 1500-1800, Santa Barbara, CA, 3/2011
  • "Cultivating Desire in Penelope Aubin's Lucinda," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM, 3/2010
  • "'She learned romance as she grew older--the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning': Queer Temporality, Spatiality, and Memory in Jane Austen's Persuasion." Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies [read in my absence], 11/2009
  • "Coetzee, Cixous, and Mr. and Mrs. Cruso: A Postmodern Revision of Robinson Crusoe." The Defoe Society (Second Biennial Meeting), 9/2009
  • "If You Try Sometimes You Just Might Find: Queer Rhetorics and the Common-Syllabus Course." SUNY Council on Writing , 4/2009
  • Chair, "“Queer Positionality and Knowledge.” Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: Graduate Conference on Nineteenth-Century Transatlanticism, Binghamton University, NY, 11/2008
  • "Lacan, Locus, and Liminality: Language as Space and Onomastic Resistance in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10/2008
  • "Homoerotic Hamartia: A Queer Analysis of Shakespeare's Coriolanus." Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies (Graduate Conference), 11/2007

Publications


  • Book
    Kozaczka, E. J. (Editor). Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves. New York: Anthem Press [under contract; expected 2013].
     
    Book Review
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2012). "Another Ride on Tristram's Hobby-Horse." Rev. of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Casebook by Thomas Keymer and Tristram Shandy, Gentleman edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Eighteenth-Century Studies. click here to read article
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2011). Rev. of The Man Himself--A Life of Jonathan Swift by John Martin. The Eighteenth-Century Novel.
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2011). Rev. of A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary Life by Justine Crump. The Eighteenth-Century Novel.
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2010). Rev. of Roxana by Daniel Defoe. Ed. Melissa Mowry. The Eighteenth-Century Novel.
     
    Journal Article
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2012). "Penelope Aubin and Narratives of Empire". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Vol. 25 (1) click here to read article
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2011). "Death as Truth in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The Edgar Allan Poe Review. Vol. 12 (1)
    Kozaczka, E. J. (2009). "Queer Temporality, Spatiality, and Memory in Jane Austen's Persuasion". Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line. Vol. 30 (1)
     

Honors and Awards

  • Chawton House Visiting Fellow, 2012-2013   
  • Aerol Arnold Scholarship for The Noble Slaves edition, USC, Fall 2011   
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies--Women's Caucus Catharine Macaulay Award, 2010-2011   
  • Honorable Mention, Ford Diversity Fellowship, 2010-2011   
  • University Fellowship, USC, 2009-2010   
  • MacKellar Research Award, USC, Spring 2010   

Service to the University


Committees


  • Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2012   

Service to the Profession


Professional Memberships


  • British Women Writers Association, 2011-  
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007-  
  • Modern Language Association, 2007-  

Reviewer for Publication


  • Journal of Popular Romance Studies, Referee, Fall 2010   

 

 

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