English Department Profiles, MTSU

Member, Graduate Faculty

B.A., 1972, Hendrix College; B.S.N., 1976, University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences; M.A., 1991, Middle Tennessee State University; Ph.D, 1997, University of Tennessee (1995)

Office: PH 368; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-5771

Dr. King teaches courses in 19th Century British literature, technical writing, and women's studies. She is also a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Council and the Graduate Faculty.

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Presentations

"Dicken's Counter-medievalism: Little Nell's Death and the Place of the Church." Victorians Institute, October, 2011.
What the Ruins Said: Responses by Charles Dickens and Edward Burne Jones." Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Topeka, KS, April 2011.
Fall 2007. Secrecy, Denial, and Autonomy in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Victorians Institute, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Fall 2007. "Implementing Faculty Learning Communities." MTSU, Learning, Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center.
July, 2004. "Godwin's Concepts of Privacy." William Godwin and His Circle, Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
Nov. 2001. “Representations of Rosamund de Clifford in Works by Burne-Jones, Swinburne, and Tennyson.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA
November, 2000. “The Androgynous Moral Self as the Foundation of a Just Social Order in Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, A Fiction.” 31^st Annual Midwest ASECS Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, University.
November, 2000. “Family Relationships in Plays by Beth Henley.” SAMLA, Birmingham, Alabama.
Summer, 2000. Grammar Workshop. WAVES, Franklin, TN.
March 2-4, 2000. “Truth-telling and Narrative Structure in Nancy Kinkaid’s Balls.” (Re)Presenting Woman—the 5^th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
Summer, 1999. Grammar workshop. Saturn Corporation, Spring Hill, TN.
March 3-5, 1998. “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Claims for Moral and Political Equality in Mary, a Fiction,” South Central Women’s Studies Association Conference, Houston, Texas.
November, 1998. Recorder/respondent for Panel: “The Challenges of Re-Inventing Writing Instruction: Portfolio Composition and Faculty Development at Middle Tennessee State University,” NCTE, Nashville, TN.
February 23-25, 1995. ‘We ought to be able to do without one another’: Autonomy and the Ethics of Care in William Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction.” 1995 Graduate Conference on Language & Literature, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
November 11, 1994. “Pudd’nhead Wilson: Mark Twain’s Aesthetic Leap into Postmodernity.” SAMLA, Baltimore, Maryland.
August 15-19, 1994. “Is Teaching Literature Necessary for Freshman Composition 102?”. Panel presentation. English Department Teaching Workshop.
May, 1994. Poetry reading. Gryphon’s, Knoxville, TN.
February, 1994. “Language, Belief and Moral Action in Mark Twain’s Fiction.” Tennessee Philological Association. Nashville, TN.
May, 1993. ”Subjectivity in Middle-class Victorian England: Maggie Tulliver’s Story.” 2nd Annual 18th-and 19th-century British Women Writers Conference. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Spring 1990. “‘Do You Speak Saturn?’: Acquiring, Reading and Writing Business Language.” Co-presenter. Stones River Conference for Language Studies. Murfreesboro, TN.
Spring 1990. “Isabel Archer: A Ghostly Quest.” Tennessee Philological Association. Jackson, TN.