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Kimberly Cox
Curriculum Vitae
English & Humanities • Old Admin. 208 • 1000 Main Street
Chadron State College • Chadron • NE • 69337
(631) 902-9966 • kcox@csc.edu • drkimberlycox.weebly.com

CURRENT POSITION
2015–Present Assistant Professor, English and Humanities, Chadron State College

EDUCATION
2014, Ph.D. English, Stony Brook University
Dissertation: “When Hands Touch: Manual Intercourse in Victorian Literature”
Director: Adrienne Munich (Chair)
2012 Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University
2007, B.A. English, with Honors, University of California at Riverside
2006, A.A. English, with High Distinction, Riverside City College

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Touch, Sexuality, and Skin in British Literature, 1740–1900 (book manuscript, under contract,
Routledge).
“The Vampire’s Touch in ‘Olalla’ and The Blood of the Vampire.” A Feast of Blood: The
Vampire in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Brooke Cameron (accepted, to be
submitted to Routledge Press).
“Virtual Attendance: The Benefits and Pitfalls” (IRB approved study 2017–19; draft article).

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2020 “The Moonstone in the Smoke: Absence, Erasure, and Neo-Victorian Feminism in Phillip
Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke.” Neo-Victorian Collins, special issue of the Wilkie
Collins Journal, edited by Claire O’Callaghan and Jessica Cox (forthcoming).
2020 “Reading Literary Rape: Hand-Grabbing, #MeToo, and Haptic Reciprocity in 18th- and
19th-Century Novels.” Victorians in the Era of #MeToo, special issue of Nineteenth-
Century Gender Studies, edited by Lana Dalley and Kellie Holzer (forthcoming).
2017 “A Touch of the Hand: Manual Intercourse in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 72, no. 2, 2017, pp. 161–191.
2016 “The Hand and the Mind, The Man and the Monster.” Victorian Brain, special issue of
Victorian Network, edited by Sally Shuttleworth, vol. 7, no. 1, 2016, pp. 107–136.
2016 “‘At least shake hands’: Tactile Relations in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.” Charlotte
Brontë Bicentenary Edition, special issue of Victorians: Journal of Culture and
Literature, edited by Deborah Denenholz Morse and Amber Pouliot, vol. 130, 2016, pp.
195–215.
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Invited Book and Article Reviews

2017 Review of Clare Stainthorp’s “Activity and Passivity: Class and Gender in the Case of
the Artificial Hand,” published in Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 45, no. 1, 2017,
pp, 1–16. Appeared in the Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 144–45.
2016 Review of Aviva Briefel’s The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge
UP, 2015). Appeared online in The British Society for Literature and Science.
2015 Review of Peter Capuano’s Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the
Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (U Michigan P, 2015). Appeared online in The
British Society for Literature and Science.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019 Nominated, Nebraska State College System 2020 Teaching Excellence Award
Chadron State College, student nominated
2019 Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award (Inaugural)
Chadron State College, Campus Activities Board, student nominated
2018 Faculty Development Award (5 from 2015–20)
Chadron State College, $450
2017 Dean’s Council Award (3 from 2017–19; $780, $4,000, and $5,915)
Chadron State College, $10,695 (Supported student travel to academic conferences.)
2016 Research Institute Grant
Chadron State College, $500 (Produced recording of a nineteenth-century ballad.)
2014 Vivien Hartog Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Stony Brook University, $3,000
2013 Distinguished Travel Award
Graduate Student Organization, Stony Brook University, $1,500
2012 Alan Babich Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Doctoral Student
English Department, Stony Brook University, $500

JOURNAL APPOINTMENTS
2016–2018 Co-Managing Editor, Victorian Literature and Culture, Cambridge UP
2018 Freelance Copyeditor, Cambridge UP
2014–2016 Assistant Editor, Victorian Literature and Culture
2012–2014 Editorial Assistant, Victorian Literature and Culture

PROFESSIONAL WRITING EXPERIENCE

2020 Manuscript Reviewer, Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
2018 Manuscript Reviewer, Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis
2014 Article Reviewer, Victorian Literature and Culture
2014 Conference Program Logo Designer, Science Fiction Research Association
2014 Program Designer and Assistant Organizer, Northeast Victorian Studies
Association Conference hosted at Stony Brook University
2013 Publication Panel Participant, Stony Brook University hosted by VLC
2012 Editor, Northeast Modern Language Association, annual conference program and
summer newsletter
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INVITED TALKS
2015 “Helen’s Touch: Manual Intercourse in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.” City
University of New York, Graduate Center. Victorian Seminar. April 1.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2018 “A Hand in It: Hand Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond.” Modern
Language Association. New York, New York, January 4–7. (Chaired)
2016 “Giving Hands: A Transatlantic Context.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association,
Lincoln, Nebraska, April 13–16. (Chaired)
2013 “Evidence of the Absent Hand.” North American Victorian Studies Association:
Evidence, Pasadena, California, October 23–27.
2013 “Under Her Skin: Victorian Literature, the Female Body, and Touch.” Northeast Modern
Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts, March 21–24. (Chaired)

Papers Presented
2019 “‘Grab ‘Em by the Pussy,’ Grab ‘Em by the Hand: Hand-Grabbing, #MeToo, and Female
Sexual Pleasure in Victorian Novels.” North American Victorian Studies Association,
“Sexual Violence and Rape” (sponsored by NAVSA Gender Studies Caucus), Media.
Genre. The Generic., Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17–19.
2018 “Hands, Hearts, and Haptics in Charles Jeffrys’s Ballad.” North American Victorian
Studies Association, “Haptic Encounters: Feeling Outward” (Roundtable), Looking
Outward, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 11–14.
2016 “Hands across the Atlantic: ‘Tis Hard to Read a Ballad.” Nineteenth-Century Studies
Association, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 13–16.
2015 “Tactile Relations: Handling Eroticism, Negotiating Desire.” British Women Writer’s
Conference, Relations, New York, June 25–27.
2015 “Uninvited Touch: Reading Sexual Violence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Literature.” Modern Language Association, “Literary Rape Culture” (Panel), Vancouver,
Canada, January 8–11.
2015 “Manual Intercourse: A Language of Hands and Their Tactile Gestures.” Modern
Language Association, “Gesture” (Panel), Vancouver, Canada, January 8–11.
2014 “Uninvited Touch: Reading Sexual Violence in Eighteenth-Century Literature.”
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Commemoration,
Memory, Posterity, Syracuse, New York, September 25–27.
2013 “Handling Desire.” North American Victorian Studies Association: Evidence, Pasadena,
California, October 23–27.
2013 “Manual Intercourse: The Dangerous Intimacy of Handshakes in Victorian Novels.”
Birkbeck, University of London, The Victorian Tactile Imagination, July 19–20.
2013 “Regulating the Hand: Manual Intercourse and Victorian Sexuality.” Northeast Modern
Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts. March 21–24.
2012 “Handling Bodies: Manual Conduct in the English Novel.” Northeast Modern Language
Association, Rochester, New York, March 15–18.
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2012 “Hands of Horror: Manual Deformity in the Non-Human.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on

British Studies, Abington, Pennsylvania, April 21–22.
2011 “Will You Be My Phallus?: Subverting Androgyny in Richard Marsh's The Beetle.” Mid-
Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Abington, Pennsylvania, March 26–27.
2011 “Golden Graves.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association: Money/Myths, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, March 2–5.
2009 “‘Causes and Effects’: Insatiable Hunger and the Feminization of War.” Canadian
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies: 1759: Making and Unmaking Empires, Ottawa,
Canada, November 5–7.

Panels Moderated
2015 “Significant Others: Writing Animal Relations.” British Women Writer’s Conference,
Relations, New York, June 25–27.
2013 “From the Gaze to the Finger: Sensation and Detection Fiction.” Birkbeck, University of
London: The Victorian Tactile Imagination, Birkbeck, London, July 19–20.

CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
2018 “Virtual Reality in the Literary Classroom.” Chadron State College. “VR—OMG!”
workshop for faculty. October 31.
2018 “Read for Social Change!” Chadron State College. Constitution Day: Protest and the
Constitution interdisciplinary panel. September 18.
2017 “What’s in a Hand?: Violence, Violation, and Desire in C18 and C19 British Literature.”
Chadron State College. Graves Lecture series. October 24.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Chadron State College, 2015–Present
Graduate Courses & Committees
Gender, Sexuality & Literature: Independent Study, Fall 2018
Tate Acton (Master of Arts in Education; current student)
Jason Frew (Master of Science in Organizational Management; current student)
Sydney Gwerder (Master of Arts in Education; current student)
Mallory Legget (Master of Arts in Education; current student)
Hartley Stewart (Master of Arts in Education; current student)
Marqui Keim (Master of Arts in Education; current student)

Upper-Division Undergraduate Courses

Copyediting, Fall 2017
Entering the Profession: Independent Study, Spring 2019 (1 credit hour)
Feminist Theory & Science Fiction: Independent Study, Spring 2018
Fictional Autobiography: Independent Study, Spring 2019
Gender, Sexuality & Literature, Fall 2018
Literacy in the Digital Age, Online, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Multi-Ethnic Literature, Spring 2017
Research, Race, Representation: Independent Study, Spring 2018
The Rise of the English Novel: Independent Study, Fall 2017 (3 students)
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Sapphism & Literature: Thesis & Capstone Project, Spring 2016

Shakespeare, Fall 2016, 2017, 2018
Study Abroad: Independent Study, Spring 2020
Theory & Practice of Literary Criticism, Fall 2019; Independent Study, Spring 2019
Victorian Detective Fiction: Independent Study, Spring 2019
Victorian Vampires & the Law: Independent Study, Spring 2020

Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses

Composition I / Rhetoric & Writing, F2F & Online, 7 sections, 2015–20
Elements of Literature, F2F & Online, 4 sections, 2015–18
History of British Literature to 1795, F2F & Hybrid, Fall 2015–17, 2019
History of British Literature since 1795, Spring 2015–20
Humanist Perspectives, Oct.–Dec. 2015 (took over mid-semester)
Technical Writing, Spring 2019, 2020 3 sections
Topics in Writing: Folk & Fairy Tales, Online, 3 sections, 2017–18
Wizards & Vampires: First Year Inquiry, Spring 2017, co-taught (26 students)
Monsters & Magic: First Year Inquiry, Spring 2018

Instructor of Record, Stony Brook University, 2009–2015

Upper-Division Undergraduate Course
Major Writers of the Victorian Period in England: Sensation Fiction, Spring 2013
Major Writers of the Victorian Period in England: Fantasy, Adventure, Detection,
Summer 2013
Topics in Sexuality: Sexual Skins, Fall 2013, Fall 2014

Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Fiction: Tracking the Vampire, Spring 2012
Introduction to Fiction: Victorian Ghost Stories, Summer & Winter 2012
Introduction to Film, Spring 2012
Introduction to Poetry: Victorian Poetry, Fall 2011
Intermediate Writing Workshop A, 4 sections, 2010–14
Introductory Writing Workshop, Fall 2009
Women, Culture, Difference, F2F, Fall 2011, Winter 2013
Women, Culture, Difference, Online, Summer 2013

Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, 2009–2015

Women, Work, and Dollars, Graduate, Online, Summer 2011 (15 students)
Shakespeare: The Major Works, Fall 2008 (100+ students lecture; 34 students, recitation)
Survey of British Literature II, Spring 2009 (90 students, grader and guest lecturer)

Adjunct Instructor, Huntington College of Health Sciences (Online Institution), 2009–2015

Survey of English Literature (Rolling Enrollment, Lower-Level: 2009–15)
English: Composition (Rolling Enrollment, Lower-Level: 2009–14)
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INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Committee Work, Chadron State College
2020 Student Recognition Committee, Member, Human Resources Committee
Acknowledge student employees for hard work with the Eagle Excellence Award.
2018–2019 Common Reader/Intellectual Experience, Member, Adhoc Committee
Determine common reader for incoming freshmen and organize co-curricular
activities related to the topic that encourage interdisciplinary engagement.
2018–2019 Graduate Program Committee, Chair, Department Committee
Assess viability of Master’s Program in Literature and Creative Writing.
2018–2019 Research Institute Grant Committee, Member, Senate Committee
Review grant proposals and dole out research funds; review research findings.
2017–2018 Comprehensive Major Redesign Task Team, Member, Department Committee
Designed a comprehensive subject major with tracks in Diversity & Social
Justice, Literature, and Creative Writing. Proposed to aid with recruitment and
with interdisciplinary engagement.
2015–2017 Writing Committee, Member, Department Committee
Reconceptualized our Transitional Studies composition courses, creating a pilot
program to determine whether traditional courses, the stretch, or the one-plus
model would work best for our students; implemented a placement essay and
assessment; and reconfigured basic writing courses.
2016–2018 Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Member, Adhoc Committee
Facilitated composition pedagogy conversation, resulting in Writing Workshop.
2017–2018 Education Technology Committee, Member, Senate Committee
Facilitated communication between faculty and Teaching and Learning Center.
2017–2018 Recruitment Task Team, Member, Department Committee
Recruited students to the English and English Education majors by rebranding the
department and redesigning the department’s advertising materials.
2016–2017 Professional Online Standards Task Team, Member, Presidential Committee
Developed method for online course assessment to ensure all online courses meet
SARA standards and provide the same rigor as F2F classes.

Student Advising, English & Humanities, Chadron State College

2019 North American Victorian Studies Association Undergraduate Student
Nomination; nominated undergraduate student for the NAVSA Undergraduate
Poster based on work completed in an independent study. She was accepted.
2016–Present Academic Advisor; Advised Literature and English Education Majors.
2016–Present Student Recruiting; Met with prospective students and their families and Served
on our department’s Student Recruitment Committee.
2016–Present Graduate School Advising; Led three students seeking graduate degrees through
the school selection and application process (all have been accepted into MA or
MFA programs of their choosing).
2015–2019 Sigma Tau Delta Faculty Advisor; Oversaw club meetings, budget proposals,
events, fundraisers, and charity work; took students to the Regional and
International Conventions and aided in scholarship applications.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016–2018 Student Proposal Grader, Sigma Tau Delta International Convention
2017 Application Grader, Sigma Tau Delta Junior Scholarships, William C.
Distinguished Scholarship, and Penguin Random House Internship
2016–2019 Judge for Nebraska Western District History Day, served three years,
websites, dramatic performances, and papers

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020 Design to Limit Extraneous Cognitive Load, Chadron State College, Teaching &
Learning Center; Trained in online course design to support cognitive engagement.
2018 Certification, Chadron State College, Quality Matters; Completed course workshop
Application of QM Rubric, Nov. 9.
2017 Certificate of Completion, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural
Research; Web-based training, “Protecting Human Research Participants,” May 30.
2017 March for Best Practices, Chadron State College; Recorded video tutorials for best
practices in online education to share with colleagues.
2016 Object-Based Learning; Or, Can We Really Touch That?, Chadron State College;
Trained in using museum artifacts to supplement course material and to support student-
centered learning and high impact practices.
2016 Tuning-Up Your Online Course, Summer Institute, Chadron State College; Revised
online courses to meet Quality Matters standards in delivery and accessibility.
2016 Service Learning Workshop, Summer Institute, Chadron State College; Trained in
service learning techniques for first-year inquiry courses.
2015 Sakai’s Lesson Builder Tool: A One-Stop-Shop Learning Experience for Students,
Chadron State College; Trained in use of Lessons in Sakai and accessibility practices.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
French, beginner speaking, writing, and reading.
Latin, beginner (with dictionary) speaking, writing, and reading.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, until 2015.
The Victorian Seminar, monthly at the Graduate Center, CUNY Victorian Institute, until 2015.
Phi Beta Kappa (undergraduate, University of California at Riverside)

REFERENCES
Available on request.