Wietske Smeele, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Weinheim, Bw, De

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Managing the schedules and academic progress of over 300 undergraduate advisees. Working in a team of advisers and collaborating with university officials, departments, and student resources.-Ensuring that all advisees follow university procedures. -One-on-one meetings focused on individual problem-solving, academic advice, and future planning.-Working with FERPA regulations

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Teaching first year writing seminar. Focus is on standards of academic writing, academic deportment, and university expectations and policy in general. Topic of class is "The Literature of Medicine:" analyzing the intersection of literature with contemporary scientific and medical developments. Of particular interest are topics such as power, race, bioethics, narrative medicine and narrative humility.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Nashville, Tn

My dissertation, entitled "The Victorian Posthuman: Monstrous Bodies in Science and Literature, 1816-2016," argues that the development of the natural sciences in Victorian England lead to a redefinition of the human. Nineteenth-century literature, in its representation of humans as animalized, humanized, and even mechanical, redefines the human as a multi-species entity--what I call the Victorian posthuman.My primary scholarly specialty is the natural sciences in Victorian literature, and the way in which nineteenth-century fiction offers varied and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the developing sciences. My secondary specialty is the history of science fiction, especially SF that investigates mechanical and genetically modified humanoids.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Design and run introduction to writing, literature and genre courses.Past courses include: -A basic composition course in which I taught the fundamentals of college writing to primarily freshman non-English majors. While the primary focus of this course was on writing at the college level, we also discussed the different argumentation techniques used in immigration rhetoric, from newspapers, to memoirs, to the blogosphere, and beyond. -A course examining different representations of apocalypse in literature, and reading theories of the posthuman, technological singularity, and the Anthropocene as lenses through which to read this literature.-A course investigating adventure prose fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Reading both traditional and obscure narratives of adventure, we explored the breadth and limitations of this genre, and how the genre engages with issues such as gender, race, violence, psychological development, Bildungsroman, etc. -Investigating experimental science and medicine in literature from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Working as a Graduate Fellow and a writing consultant at a college writing studio that offers one-on-one assistance with any aspect of college writing. My duties include:-One-on-one writing consultations with undergraduate and graduate writers, helping with all aspects of writing including brainstorming, revisions, copy-editing.-Facilitating classroom workshops on writing-Helping to facilitate writing-focused events

London, England, United Kingdom

Copy-editing all forms of writing including academic writing, articles for submission, applications.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), English Literature (Victorian Literature)

Master'S Degree, English Literature

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Literature, Summa Cum Laude

Major: English Minor: Creative Writing Minor: German Language

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