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BARRY V. QUALLS

Vice President for Undergraduate Education (732) 932-4001

qualls@oldqueens.rutgers.edu

Professor of English Department of English

Old Queens 302 - 83 Somerset Street

Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1281

EDUCATION Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973 M.A., Northwestern University, 1968 B.A., Florida State University, 1967 HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 “Grads Made Good” Award for Distinguished Alumni, Florida State University 2006 New Jersey Professor of the Year – named by the Carnegie Foundation

for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

Rutgers University - Department of Women and Gender Studies Recognition for Dedication to the Advancement of Women and Feminism, 2005 FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1997 Douglass Medal for service to Douglass College/Rutgers, 1996 Warren Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching at Rutgers University, 1985 Phi Beta Kappa (1966) PUBLICATIONS Book The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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Reprints from Secular Pilgrims: "Speaking through Parable: George Eliot's Search for a Narrative Medium," in Harold Bloom, ed., Victorian Fiction, The Critical Cosmos Series (New York: Chelsea House, 1989); and in Bloom, ed., Modern Critical Views: GEORGE ELIOT (New York: Chelsea House, 1986). Articles “Victorian Border Crossings: Thinking about Gender in Wuthering Heights,” in Approaches to Teaching Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights,” ed. Sue

Lonoff and Terri A. Hasseler (Modern Language Association, 2006), 51-59.

"George Eliot and Religion," Cambridge Companion to George Eliot.

Ed. George Levine (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 119-37. "Listening to Words: David, St. Mark, Emily Bronte, and the Exorbitancies in Narrative," in Reading in an Age of Theory, ed. Bridget Gellert Lyons (Rutgers University Press, 1997), 73-92. "Recent Dickens Criticism: 1993," Dickens Studies Annual, 24:1996, 275-291. "Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," with Susan Wolfson; introduction to Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, New York: Washington Square, 1995. "‘Speak What We Think’: The Brontes and Women Writers," in The Columbia History of the Novel, ed. John Richetti (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 352-380. "Abishag's King," Raritan, 11 (Winter 1992), 105-116. (Review essay) "Saint Mark says they mustn't," Raritan, 8 (Spring 1989), 134-51. (Review essay) "Savages in a ‘Bran-New’ World: Carlyle and Our Mutual Friend," Studies in the Novel, 10 (Summer 1978), 199-217. "Idolatry for the English: Carlyle's Lecture on Paganism," in Interspace and the Inward Sphere: Essays on the Romantic and the Victorian Self. Ed. Norman Anderson and Margene Weiss. Macomb, Illinois: Essays in Literature Book, 1978, 75-86. "W. H. Mallock's Every Man His Own Poet," Victorian Poetry, 16 (Spring/Summer 1978), 176-87.

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"Physician in the Counting House: The Religious Motif in Tender is the Night," Essays in Literature, 2 (Fall 1975), 192-208. Reviews

Review Forum: The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, ed. Deirdre David.Australasian Victorian Studies Journal Volume 7 (2001), 151-161 (Qualls section, 155-58); with Rosemarie Bodenheimer and Elaine Freedgood.

Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence by Valerie L. Gager, Dickens Quarterly, 16 (September 1999), 199-203.

Carlyle and the Economics of Terror: A Study of Revisionary Gothicism in The French Revolution by Mary Desaulniers, Victorian Studies, 40 (Winter 1997), 312-14.

En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera, ed. Corrine Blackmer and Patricia Smith, Performing Arts Journal, 53: May 1996, 127-29.

The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative by Heather Henderson, Victorian Studies, 35 (Autumn 1991), 108-109. Aspects of the Emblem by Karl J. Holtgen, Victorian Studies, 31 (Summer 1988), 614-616. The Providential Aesthetic in Victorian Fiction, by Thomas Vargish, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 42 (March 1987). English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1830-1890, by Michael Wheeler; Nineteenth-Century English Literature, by Margaret Stonyk; A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, by Julia Prewitt Brown; The Test of Character From the Victorian Novel to the Modern, by Baruch Hochman, Victorian Studies, 29 (Spring 1986), 498-500.

Carlyle and Dickens by Micharl Goldberg and Dickens and Carlyle by William Oddie, in Studies in Scottish Literature, 12 (October 1974), 146-153. Editions Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformaton: Three Tales of Doubles, ed., Susan J. Wolfson and Barry V. Qualls. New York: Longman, 2008.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, ed. Susan Wolfson and Barry Qualls. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing, 2000. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, ed. Barry Qualls and Susan Woldson. New York: Washington Square Press, 1995. PAPERS/Conference Participation

Moderator, "The Performance of Victorian Culture II: Genres of Victorian Performance," MLA Program offered by Victorian Studies Division,

December 1997.

Moderator, "Revisionary Decadence," MLA Program offered by Victorian Studies

Division, December 1996. Organizer and Moderator, "Victorian Sensations," three special MLA Sessions offered by the Victorian Studies Division of the MLA, December 1994. Co-Chair and Presenter, ADE Panel for New Chairs on Chairing an English Department, ADE Eastern Summer Seminar, Hobart and Smith College, Geneva, NY, June 1994. "Harassment in Utopia--or: The Personal is Never Professional," ADE Panel on Sexual Harassment in the University, ADE Eastern Summer Seminar, Middlebury College, June 1993. Chair and Commentator, ADE Panel on the Curriculum, ADE Eastern Summer Seminar, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, July 1992. Moderator, "Glass Consciousness," panel at 18th Annual Meeting of Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Rutgers, April 1992. "Victorian Women, Women Writers, and Sensation Fiction," University of Connecticut, 1 April 1992. "Dysfunctional Departments: How they Get That Way and What to Do," Council of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, San Diego, November 1991. "Victorian Constructions of Culture," Session chair, Central New York MLA, SUNY/Cortland, October 1991. "Charles Dickens and the Everyday," MLA Dickens Society

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Session: Moderator, December 1990. Chair, ADE Panel: Responses to the CCCC Statement of Principles and Standards for Postsecondary Teaching of Writing, ADE Eastern Summer Seminar, Philadelphia, June 1990. "George Eliot and the Feminine Soul: Rescripturing the Word in 19th-Century England," Princeton Seminary, 27 March 1989. "Emblem, Iconography, and Renaissance Historicism," MLA Special Session: Leader, December 1988. "Charles Dickens: Old and New Historicism," MLA Dickens Society Session: Moderator, December 1988. "Bearing God's Word: George Eliot's Straussian Scriptures," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1987. Organizer/Moderator, "Issues of Authority in Victorian Prose Texts," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 1987. "Victorian Novelists as Latter-Day Emblematists," International Conference on the European Emblem, Glasgow, Scotland, August 1987. "Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry," MLA Special Session: Convener, December 1982. "Seeing Through a Text: Words and an Image, " MLA Division on Non-Fiction Prose: Panel Chair, December 1982. "The Victorian Imagination/The Tennysonian Imagination," MLA Special Session on Victorian Poetry, December 1979. "Carlyle's Lecture on the Norse Gods," Northeast MLA Non-Fiction Prose Section, 1977. "Scott Fitzgerald's American 'Vanity Fair,'" Rutgers Graduate English Colloquium, 1975. PUBLIC LECTURES

“Oliver Twist and Oliver: Making Dickens Available for 20th-Century Popular Culture,” Highland Park Education Foundation, 7 March 2003.

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“Writing the Lives of Jesus: The Difficulties of Reading the Gospel Accounts,”

Bridgewater Old and Wiser Group, Bridgewater Public Library, October 2002. “Biblical Heroes: King David,” Bridgewater Old and Wiser Group, Bridgewater Public Library, May 2002.

“Victorian Paintings: Victoria and her Subjects,” Bridgewater Old and Wiser Group, Bridgewater Public Library, November 2001.

“Education and Educations: The Rutgers Undergraduate Curriculum and the

Matter of Teaching," Faculty Council Conference on Undergraduate Education, 13 October 2000. "Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle's Tom's Cabin, and Popular Writing in 19th -Century England and America," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wise Group, October 1998.

"Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and the Problems of Women Writing in Victoria's England," Papermill Playhouse, March 1997.

"Victorian Women Writers," Bound Brook Women Writers' Group, October 1996.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe and Popular Writing in America," RU/ALL program, May 1996. "Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, May 1996. "Charles Dickens and the Popularity of Old Curiosity Shop," RU/ALL Program, March, 1966. "The Brownings: Poets and Myth-Making in Victorian England," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, November 1995. "Charles Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, October 1995. "Victorian Women Writers: The Questions of Gender," RU/ALL Program, May 1995. "Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: Women and Revolution," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, April 1995.

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"George Eliot's Middlemarch," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, October 1994. "Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: Women and 19th-Century Readers," Panel at Papermill Playhouse, 22 March 1994. "PreRaphaelites in the Temples of Victorian Cultures," Lecture for Rutgers Graduate Victorian Studies Group, October 1993. "Reading 19th-Century Women Writers," lecture series organized for Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, Fall 1993: on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, October 1993; on George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, November 1993. "Literacies and Education in Middlesex," Rutgers SCILS Symposium: Literacy in the Information Age, February 1993. "Victorian Fiction: Its Origins and Contexts," Princeton Adult School, Fall 1993. "The Brontes: Victorian Women Writers," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, November 1992. "Rutgers Dialogues: Evaluating and Changing the Curriculum," Rutgers AAUP Panel on Curriculum Reform, October 1992. "Victorian Women Writers and their Readers," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, May 1992. "Mutliculturalism and Curriculum Reform in the 1990s," commentator on Professor Arcadio Diaz Quinones' "Colonial Encounters in the University," Rutgers, 2 April 1992. "Curriculum Change at Rutgers," Rutgers AAUP Panel Discussion, March 1992. "Dickens Representing Women," Panel at Papermill Playhouse, 10 March 1992. "Centering the University," Rutgers AAUP Panel Discussion," "Program on Undergraduate Education," 21 November 1991. "Charles Dickens and The Victorian Novel," Bridgewater Public Library Older and Wiser group, October 1991. "Creative Undergraduate Teaching," Symposium in Rutgers Distinguished Lecturers Series," 19 February 1990.

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"Restructuring the Curriculum at Rutgers," CCACC panel on Curriculum Reform, with Gerald Graff; Rutgers University, 23 February 1989.

"Victorian Women Writers: Realities/Fictions," at Ocean County College, Toms River, N.J., 21 February 1983. "On D.G. Rossetti's Poetry and Art," joint lecture with Barbara Goff, Rutgers Art Association, 1979. [many talks for Chairs’ Leadership orientations, Provost's Chairs' Retreats and for

Provost's Orientation sessions for new faculty; for Rutgers College Freshman Humanities Program, for Douglass College, Rutgers College, for Treasurer’s Luncheons, Retired Faculty luncheons, and University recruitment and reunion days]

DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY SERVICE Department Chair, 1989-97 English Executive Committee, 1981-89 English Personnel Committee, 1979-89 English Honors Program Committee, 1984-89 English Senior Search Committee, 1987-88 English Junior Search Committee, 1987-89 English Salary Adjustment Committee, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1988-89 English 219-220 Committee, 1985, 1987, 1989 English Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1983 Coordinator: Institutes for Public School Teachers; seminars for teachers August 1997 - Institute for Advanced Placement Teachers - four English faculty members offered courses in content and pedagogy Qualls Course: Teaching the Novel in its Social and Political Contexts August 1996 - Institute on Multicultural Classrooms, sponsored by Rutgers and the University of Maryland's Center Alliance for Secondary School Teachers, with support from the Dodge Foundation. Eighteen high school teachers from New Jersey and eighteen from Maryland attended the two-week institute, working with ten faculty from both universities on new readings, and new approaches to familiar texts for the multicultural classroom. August 1995 and on-going: half-day seminars for advanced placement teachers, focusing on various fields within the Department: writing, Shakespeare,

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teaching poetry; women's literature Organizer, Spring 1996: RU/ALL Program "Writing and Literary Celebrity" (a program for retired adults focusing on celebrated authors and best-selling books) Graduate School Graduate English Director, 1987-89 Graduate English Associate Director, 1976-1987 Graduate School Executive Council, 1988-89, 1990-1991 Graduate School Ad-Hoc Committee on TA Allocation, 1990 Graduate School Dean's Task Force on Foreign Languages and Literatures: Graduate Program, 1988-89 Graduate School Bevier Fellowship Review Committee, 1977-90 Graduate English Student Review Committee Graduate English Program Committee (continuing) Graduate English Curriculum Committee Graduate School Humanities Area Committee, 1984-1985 Graduate School Committee on Graduate Student Life, 1985 Graduate School Judicial Council, 1979-1980 College Douglass College Committee on Financial Strategies, 1997-98 Douglass College Task Force on Excellence, chair, 1997-98 Rutgers College Fellows Executive Committee, 1983-92, 1994-97 Rutgers College Admissions Committee, 1987-90, 1994-; Chair, 1987-88 Rutgers College Fellow, 1982-present Rutgers College Phi Beta Kappa Secretary, 1983-present Residence Halls Design Committee, 1987-88 Rutgers College Scholastic Standing Committee, 1978-86 Cultural Affairs and Programs Committee, 1973-76, 1978-82; ex officio, 1982-86 Participant, Rutgers College Scholars Days, 1982-86, 1990 Rutgers College Judicial Council, 1978-86 Rutgers Tavern Association Board, 1976-78 Nominations, 1976-77 Student Services, 1972-74 Student Center Governing Board 1976-79, 1983-86 Douglass College Fellow, 1988-present University

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Vice President for Undergraduate Education, 2006- Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1997-2006 Chair, University Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 2004-06 University Committee on Commencement, 2004 Chair, Rutgers University MidStates Accrediation Committee - five year Midstream Review, 2002-2003

Rutgers University Parking Committee, 2000- Chair, Rutgers University MidStates Accreditation Review Committee, 1996-98 Member, Committee for the Future, 1997-2001 Interviewer, Rutgers Television "By the Book" (on-going) Member, Kellogg Committee on Leadership, Brent Rubin, chair Chair, Strategic Planning Implementation Committee: Liberal Arts and Sciences. 1995-96 Member, Provost's Committee on the Delivery of Undergraduate Education, 1994-96 Rutgers College Dean Search Committee, 1995 Member, University Faculty Workload Committee, 1993-94 Member, New Brunswick Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 1992-94 Member, Programmatic Excellence Committee, Office of Vice President for Undergraduate Education Chair, University Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum: Rutgers Dialogues, 1991-92 Chair, Provost's Committee on Undergraduate Education in the Context of a Research University, 1989-90 Member, New Brunswick Provost Search Committee, Spring 1993 Acting Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Fall 1991 Chair, Budget and Planning Committee, New Brunswick Faculty Council, 1993-94 Member, New Brunswick Faculty Council Computer Committee, 1993-94 Chair, New Brunswick Faculty Council, 1992-93 Member, New Brunswick Faculty Council (representing Rutgers College), 1989-1992, Spring 1995, 1995-; Executive Committee, 1990-94; Budget and Planning Committee, 1993-95; Chair, Admissions and Retention Committee, 1990-91 Member, University Senate, 1992-95; member, University Senate Educational Policy and Planning Committee, 1992-95; member, University Senate Executive Committee, 1992-93 Member, AAUP Executive Council, 1993-95 Member, FAS Ad-hoc Committee on Foreign Languages, 1991 Provost's Committee on College Avenue Planning, 1989 Member, Rutgers Committee on our Common Purposes, 1989-90 New Brunswick Committee on Faculty Governance, 1988 Faculty Advisory Committee to Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs: Susman Teaching Awards, 1988; chair, 1989 Provost's Committee on Fellowships, Campus Mellon Fellowship Representative, 1985-present

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FAS Nomination Committee, 1987-89 Editorial Board Member, Rutgers Library Journal, 1986-present Rutgers College Dean Search Committee, 1985 Rutgers College Dean of Students Search Committee, 1983 Provost's Committee on Academic Integrity, 1983 State New Jersey Council on the Humanities (Governor appointee), 1994-2009 Chair, 1997-March 2001 Vice Chair, 1996-97 Member of Council Executive Board, 1995-2001 Faculty Development Advisory Committee, New Jersey Department of Higher Education, 1989-1990 COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate 19th-Century British Fiction Novels of the 1840s Industrialism and the 19th-Century British Novel Writing Women in(to) History and Literature in Victoria's England Victorian Poetry and Non-Fiction Prose Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot Dickens Women and Performance/Women and Representation in Victoria’s England English Literature and the Bible The Bible as Literature 18th-Century British Fiction Literary Relations: The Country and the City Senior Honors Seminars Junior Honors Seminar Principles of Literary Studies (219-220) Poems, Plays, and Fiction Composition Byrne First-year seminar: “Walking the Streets in Victoria’s London” Graduate Politics and the Representation of Women Victorian Fiction

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Victorian Prose Introduction to Victorian Studies F. Scott Fitzgerald The Brontes Introduction to Literary Study of the Bible Seminar: Charles Dickens and George Eliot Special Courses Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Seminars for Public School Teachers: "Reading 19th-Century American and English Poetry," Spring 2000 - with Virginia Jackson, Meredith McGill, Jonah Siegel "The Victorian Family in History and Fiction," Fall 1997, Spring 2000, with John Gillis and Carolyn Williams "Writing Women in Victoria's England," Spring 1997 "Reading the Bible as Literature," Spring 1996 "Representing Community: Speaking for the Oppressed in 19th-Century Fiction," Spring 1995 "Writing Women In(to) History and Literature," Spring 1994 Reading Poetry: Rutgers University/New Brunswick Transition Program, 1990-1998, Fall 2000 (three lectures each term) Women and Writing in the 19th-Century England (at Drew University as Visiting Professor in the Graduate School, Spring 1981) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITY Modern Language Association Executive Committee, MLA Association of Departments of English, 1996-98 Executive Committee, Victorian Division, 1992-1997 Chair, Victorian Division Sessions at MLA, 1994; Organizer, Victorian Luncheon, MLA, December 1993 Executive Committee, MLA Non-Fiction Prose Division, 1979-83; Secretary, 1981; Chair, 1982 Association of Departments of English (ADE), Executive Council - 1996-99 Dickens Society, Secretary/Treasurer, 1988-1991; organizer of annual Society dinner, MLA Convention, 1988-95 Northeast Victorian Studies Association Phi Beta Kappa - Secretary, Rutgers University New Brunswick chapter Referee: Dickens Studies Annual

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Cambridge University Press Rutgers University Press Cornell University Press Princeton University Press University of Missouri Press University of Georgia Press University of Chicago Press Palgrave/Macmillan

Tenure/promotion evaluations: College of William and Mary University of Massachusetts/Boston Tufts University Swarthmore Yale University Princeton University University of Colorado Syracuse University Fordham University New York University University of Nevada/Reno CUNY/Queens College, Graduate Center University of Mississippi Northern Arizona University University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill University of Texas at Arlington External Reviews: Temple University 2001

Queens College/CUNY 1995 SUNY/Farmingdale 1994 Drew University 1993

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