CV | Talia M. Vestri, Ph.D.
Academic Appointments
Northeastern University
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Writing Program, 2020-21
Vassar College
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2019-20
Boston University
Lecturer of Rhetoric & Lecturer of Writing, Spring 2019
College of the Holy Cross
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2017-18
Education
Ph. D., English
Boston University, 2018
Graduate Certificate, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
M.A., English and American Literature
Boston University, 2010
A.B., English
Vassar College, 2005
Visiting Student Certificate, St. Peter's College, Oxford University
Research & Teaching Interests
British Romanticism
18th and 19th-century Literature & Culture
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Family & Kinship
Marriage Plot Novels
Poetry & Poetics
Teaching of Academic Writing
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
"Where's Queer?"
Keats-Shelley Journal, "200 Years: 50 Voices" Special Issue. Forthcoming.
"Wordsworth's Sibling Logic: 'We are Seven' and 'Tintern Abbey.'"
European Romantic Review 29.5 (2018): 619-637.
"Dear Friend, Dearest Sister."
The Keats Letters Project. Sept. 10, 2017.
"Pride and Prejudice and Politics."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Graduate Caucus Blog (NASSR-GSC). Dec. 18, 2016.
"How Far Feminism?"
NASSR-GSC. Dec. 1, 2015.
"Romanticism Today: Artistry of the Sublime."
NASSR-GSC. Nov. 11, 2015.
"Romanticism Today (A Pedagogical Experiment)."
NASSR-GSC. Sept. 20, 2015.
"Studies in Romanticism: An Assistant's Perspective."
NASSR-GSC. June 8, 2015.
"Will the Real Mr. Darcy Please Stand Up?"
NASSR-GSC. May 11, 2015.
"Proposing a Special Session for MLA."
NASSR-GSC. April 8, 2015.
"The Modernization of Elizabeth Bennet."
NASSR-GSC. March 5, 2015.
"The Year Without Summer; or, What Happened in 1816?"
NASSR-GSC. Feb. 2, 2015.
"More Frankenstein(s): Cumberbatch, Miller, and the National Theatre."
NASSR-GSC. Nov. 19, 2014.
"Where Art Thou, Queer Theory?"
NASSR-GSC. Oct. 23, 2014.
Review of Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature, eds. Duc Dau and Shale Preston.
Studies in the Novel 48.3 (2016): 388-89.
Review of Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture, Ann Wierda Rowland.
Studies in Romanticism 55.2 (2016): 298-302.
Conferences
"The Queer Materiality of Tea: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and the Genres of Empire."
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Columbus, OH, 2019.
"Mary Robinson’s Rewritings and the Elements of Gender."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Chicago, IL, 2019.
"Sympathetic Reciprocity and Sororal Care in Frankenstein."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Providence, RI, 2018.
"Sister Lives: Austen’s Sororal Bildungsromane and the Imagining of History."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2017.
"Queer(ing) Kinship: Fraternal Reproduction and Sororal Transmission in The Cenci."
British Women Writers Conference (BWWC). Chapel Hill, NC, 2017.
"Perverting Sex: Incestuous Inheritance and Fraternal Reproduction in Shelley’s Cenci."
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Colorado Springs, CO, 2016.
"Dear, Dear Sisters and Dear, Dear Friends: Rethinking the Relation of Romantic Siblings."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Berkeley, CA, 2016.
"Spots of Sibling Time: Relational Networks in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads."
Modern Language Association (MLA). Austin, TX, 2016.
"Romantic Antigone; or, The Political Rights of Kinship."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2015.
"Building the Bildung of Sisterhood in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice."
British Women Writers Conference (BWWC). New York, NY, 2015.
"Spots of Sibling Time: The Networked Logic of Kinship and Selfhood in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads."
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR). Minneapolis, MN, 2014.
"The Traffic in Tales: Narratives of Women, Women as Narratives in Keats and Chaucer."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Boston, MA, 2013.
Sessions Organized
"Queer Elements."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Chicago, IL, 2019.
"Is Kinship Always Already Queer?: Counter-Normative Communities in Nineteenth-Century Literature."
Modern Language Association (MLA). New York, NY, 2018.
"Romanticism and Gender: The Discontented Divide."
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Berkeley, CA, 2016.
"Romantic Genealogies of Kinship."
Modern Language Association (MLA). Austin, TX, 2016.
Co-Chair (2016-17). The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging Marginalization through Theory, Analysis & Praxis. March 31-April 1, 2017.
Consortium for Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Chair (2012-13). Clash Zones: Identities in (R)Evolution. April 5-6, 2013.
Consortium for Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Teaching Experience
Vassar College (2019-2020)
English and Women's Studies 383: Senior Seminar
English and Women's Studies 218: Literature, Gender & Sexuality
Love, Labor & Loss: Romance and Gender in Early British Literature
English 222: Early British Literature
English 170: Approaches to Literary Study
English 101: First-Year Writing Seminar
Boston University, College of General Studies (Spring 2019)
English Composition and Rhetoric, Rhetoric 102
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences (Spring 2019)
Family Ties: Sex, Marriage, and Kinship in the 21st Century
Writing 150: Writing, Research & Inquiry
College of the Holy Cross (2017-2018)
The Romantic Revolution
English 344
Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory
English 346
Touchstones 2B: British and Anglophone Literature
English 232
Identities in Time
English 124: Critical Reading and Writing: Multi-genre
Poetry and Poetics
English 130
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences (2011-2017)
Why Marry?: The History, Family, and Reality of Married Sexuality
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies 305: Topics in WGS
Reading Romanticism Today
English 120: Freshman Seminar
What Would Jane Do?: Austen and Her Audiences
English 120: Freshman Seminar
Women's Voices
English 141: Introduction to Fiction
Family Fictions
English 141: Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Poetry
English 142
Me, Myself & I: Poets on Selfhood
Writing 100: Writing Seminar, and Writing 150: Writing and Research Seminar
All in the Family: Stories of American Life
Writing 100: Writing Seminar, and Writing 150: Writing and Research Seminar
Shakespeare on Love, Hate & Everything
English 164: Reading Shakespeare 2
Literature and the Art of Film
English 175 (Teaching Assistant for Professor Lee Monk)
Related Experience
Writing Fellow Tutor
Educational Resource Center, Boston University (2012-15)
Instructor, Persuasive Writing
Summer Challenge Program for High School Students, Metropolitan College, Boston University (2017, 2018)
Classroom Instructor, SAT Prep
The Princeton Review (2007-09)
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Teaching Fellow in English
Boston University, 2017
Senior Teaching Fellow
Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Boston University, 2016
Graduate Student Travel Bursary
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 2016
Graduate Student Travel Award
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2016
Graduate Student Travel Bursary
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 2015
Travel Award
Graduate Student Organization, Boston University, 2015
Clarimond Mansfield Award
Center for the Humanities, Boston University, 2015
Alice Brennan Humanities Award
Center for the Humanities, Boston University, 2015
Summer Research Fellowship
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2014
David Bonnell Green Prize for best student essay in Romanticism
Boston University, 2010
Service
Founder, Intentional Pedagogies Faculty Conversation Group
Vassar College, 2019–20
Curriculum Committee
English Department, College of the Holy Cross, 2017–18
Graduate Assistant
Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium, 2015–17
Senior Editorial Assistant
Studies in Romanticism, 2014–17
Critical Pedagogies Discussion Group Member
Boston University, 2015–17
Research Assistant for Joseph Bizup
Writing Program, Boston University, 2015–16
Dissertation Seminar Participant
Center for the Humanities, Boston University, 2015–16
Board Member
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Graduate Student Caucus, 2014–16
Conference Assistant
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Boston University, 2013
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
Keats-Shelley Association of American (K-SAA)
Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium (BARC)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
