CV | 18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture

Education:

Ph.D. English Literature, Wayne State University, 2009- 2013 (expected)

Dissertation: “Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, the Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women’s Writing in Eighteenth Century England”

Committee: Michael Scrivener (director), Lisa Maruca, Simone Chess, Colin Jager (Rutgers University)

“Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, the Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women’s Writing in Eighteenth Century England” explores the writing of eighteenth century evangelical lay women in print, poetry, and educational material. Through careful attention to both the content and materiality of their texts I reveal how the women of the evangelical revival used subjective spiritual experience as an impetus for entry into the public discourses of print, and in turn, how their religious narratives were shaped by these discourses. My chapters on women’s conversion narratives, moral literature for children, and religious poetry demonstrate the ways that personal spiritual experience prompted engagement with an evangelical public sphere shaped around the confluence of oral, manuscript, and print culture. Ultimately, through its investigation of under-researched yet influential women writers my dissertation contends that the discursive construction of enthusiasm and Enlightenment during the eighteenth century worked symbiotically to create the discourse conditions necessary for secularization, Romanticism, and modernity itself.

MA, English Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2007-2009

BA, English Literature, Political Science, summa cum laude, Spring Arbor University, 2003-2007

Employment:

Adjunct Professor of English, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI – 2013-Present.

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

NEH Summer Scholar at the NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on Reassessing British Romanticism, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013.
Thomas C. Rumble Dissertation Fellowship, Wayne State University, 2012 – 2013
Terrance King Memorial Fellowship in English, Wayne State University, 2012-2013
Outstanding Graduate Student in Literature, Eastern Michigan University – 2008-2009

Publications:

Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

Winckles, Andrew. “’Excuse what difficiencies you will find’: Methodist Women and Public Space in John Wesley’s Arminian Magazine.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 46.3 (2013): 415-429.

Discourse Analysis

Barton, Ellen & Winckles, Andrew. “Analyzing Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Decision-Making.” In Routledge Handbook of Health Communication. Ed. Heidi E. Hamilton and Sylvia Chou. New York: Routledge, Forthcoming.

Conference Presentations:

Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

“The Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer and the Poetics of Prophecy,” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, OH, April 6, 2013.
“Outside In: Fashion, Body, and the Evangelical Subject in Eighteenth Century Britain,” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Cincinnati, OH, November 10, 2012.
“Methodism and the Redefinition of Religious Intolerance in England, 1688-1791,” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 24, 2012.
“Playing with the Boundaries of the Religious Public Sphere in Methodist Women’s Conversion Narratives,” Paper presented at the Special Session on “Serious Religion at Play in the Long Eighteenth Century,” at the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, November 5, 2011.
“The Medium is the Message: Sunday School Literature in England, 1780-1800,” Paper presented at the Midwest Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Terre Haute, IN, November 4, 2011.
“Materiality, Immateriality, and the Mediation of Millennium,” Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, October 28, 2011.
“Kingdom of God – Kingdom of Man: Freedom, Identity, and Justice in Charles Wesley and William Blake,” Paper presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Park City, UT, August 13, 2011.
“Accounting for Spiritual Curiosity: The Construction of Public and Private Spaces in the Religious Experience Accounts of Early Methodist Women,” Paper presented at the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, Columbus, OH, April 1, 2011.
“’You Must be Born Again’: Pioneering Regeneration and Community in the Personal Narratives of Early Methodist Women,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Romanticism, Lubbock, TX, November 11, 2010.
“William Blake and the Urban Landscape of Apocalypse,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Romanticism, New York, NY, November 6, 2009.
“The Prophetic Imagination of P.B. Shelley,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Romanticism, Rochester, MI, October 17, 2008.

Discourse Analysis

With Ellen Barton: “Analyzing Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Encounters.” Paper presented at the Wayne State University Humanities Center, Detroit, MI, September 13, 2011.

Teaching Experience:

1.ENG 212: Historical Humanities Research in the Digital Age, Siena Heights University, Fall 2013

Designed research course for humanities majors focused on conducting and presenting historical research
Worked with the class to preserve a rare copy of Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts using the Omeka digital archiving software
Created a website: thecheaprepository.omeka.net to forward work on More and her contemporaries in the digital humanities.

2.ENG 101: Reading and Writing 1, Siena Heights University, Fall 2013

Taught two sections of freshman composition
Focused on developing student’s skills of analysis and argument through media critique

3. ENG 3120: English Literature after 1700, Wayne State University, Winter and Summer 2013

Designed and taught survey course in British literature
Integrated digital humanities into the curriculum (see this example of a student project)

4. Composition Instructor, Wayne State University, 2009-2011

Taught English 1020 – Introduction to College Composition
Utilized instructional technology to enhance teaching and learning
Integrated writing across the curriculum approach to college composition

5. Federal TRIO Program English Instructor, Wayne State University, Summer 2010

Taught English 1020 to underrepresented students in Federal TRIO grant program
Coordinated with TRIO support staff to provide intensive learning environment for students

6. University Writing Center Consultant, Eastern Michigan University, 2008-2009 and Wayne State University, 2009-2010.

Conducted one on one writing consultation sessions with undergraduate and graduate students from every department of the University.

7. Composition Instructor, Eastern Michigan University, 2008-2009

Taught English 121 – Introduction to Research and Writing
Taught writing workshops at University Writing Center

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant to Ellen Barton, Professor and Chair, English Department, Wayne State University. Provided research assistance for discourse analysis projects on medical communication and ethics.

Service:

2010 Wayne State University English Department Composition Program Orientation

Participated in panel discussion on “How to Teach ENG 1020 Successfully”

“Substance and Style: Workshop on Generating Class Discussion and Teaching at the Sentence Level” for Wayne State University English Dept. Feb. 22, 2011.