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Mrs. Gillian Huang-Tiller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English



Office Location:		Zehmer 128

Office Phone:		(276) 376-4552

Office Fax:		(276) 328-0173

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Email:		gch7u@uvawise.edu


Education:		Ph.D., English 2000 University of Notre Dame

Courses Taught:		English 404 Modern and Contemporary Novel English 403 Modern and Contemporary Poetry English 393 Appalachian Poetry and Prose English 382 American Poetry and Prose II English 306 Western Literary Traditions II English 309 Asian American Literature English 313 TAL Women and War English 313 TAL Women in Literature (Now ENGL 311) English 300 How to Read Literature English 372 Nineteenth-Century British Literature English 103 Honors Composition English 102 English Composition English 101 English Composition

Professional Activities:		Dr. Huang-Tiller has received a UVA summer grant for 2006 for research on "E. E. Cummings' Iconic Meta-Sonnet and the Visual Form." She received a similar grant in 2004 to pursue research into the relationship between Bertolt Brecht's alienation effect, Chinese theater, and Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, _Tripmaster Monkey_. She organizes conference sessions, such as "E.E. Cummings and Other Modernists," for the E.E. Cummings Society at the Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference at the University of Louisville. She was nominated in 2004 for the SCHEV Rising Star Outstanding Faculty Award.

Research Interests:		Dr. Huang-Tiller has published articles on the poetry of E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Bishop, and on the fiction of Maxine Hong Kingston. She is currently working on a manuscript on E.E. Cummings and the modernist sonnet.

Recent Publications:		“Verfremdungseffekte: Bertolt Brecht, Chinese Theater, and the Performing of Asian American Diaspora,” under revision for MELUS. “The Modernist Sonnet and the Pre-Postmodern Consciousness: The Question of Meta-Genre in E. E. Cummings’ W[Viva] (1931)," under consideration, Spring: E.E. Cumings Society Journal. “Modernism, E. E. Cummings’ Meta-Sonnet, and Chimneys,” Spring: E. E. Cummings Society Journal 10 (Fall 2001): 155-72. “‘Our Vulgar Poesie’: George Puttenham’s Defense of the Earliest English Sonnet," electronic Proceedings of the XIth Medieval-Renaissance Conference at Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, September 18-20, 1997. “Elizabeth Bishop’s Feminist Poetic Travel from ‘Sonnet’ (1928) to ‘Sonnet’ (1979)," electronic Proceedings of Elizabeth Bishop Symposium: New Readings, Vassar College, September 22-25, 1994.

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