Tedra Osell, BA (Washington U in St. Louis), MA (U of Nebraska), PhD (U of Washington).
Associate Professor (2003).
E-mail: tosell@uoguelph.ca
Research Interests
British literature, 1660-1832; historical criticism, including new historicism; the public sphere; journalism and non-narrative prose; novels and narrative theory; cultural studies.
Selected publications
- "Tatling Women in the Public Sphere: Rhetorical Femininity and the English Essay Periodical." Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.2 (Winter 2005): 283-300.
Conference presentations
- "The Fiction of the Public Sphere." International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, 2003.
- "Owning One's Words: The Essay Periodical Eidolon and the Value of a Public Character." International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, 2003.
- "Rhetorical Femininity: Women Eidolons and the Beginnings of Essay Periodicals." Early Modern Research Group. University of Washington, 2002.
- "Workshop for Student Parents." First Annual Hipmama Gathering. Portland State University, 2001.
- "The Eidolon, the Anonymous Author, and the Essay Periodical." Fourteenth Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of South Florida, 2000.
- Panel chair, Early Modern Authorship. Global Baroque: Meeting of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Oregon, 1997.
- "The Purpose of Not Being Understood as the Author in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals." Global Baroque: Meeting of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Oregon, 1997.
- "Evelina's Embarrassed Circumstances: or, The Legislation of Ladylike Decorum." Third Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Dallas, 1995.
- "'A Mild Reproof': Anna Barbauld's Womanly Critique of Romantic Dualism." British Women Writers Conference. Michigan State University, 1994.
Professional activities
1999-2001: Assistant Book Review Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies.
1998-2000: Chair and Co-Founder, UW English Department Doctoral Candidate's Group.
1998-2000: Graduate Representative, UW Minority Affairs Policy Board.
1998-2000: List Owner / Moderator, English Graduate Student Organization e-mail list.
1998: Indexer, Eighteenth-Century Literary History: An MLQ Reader.
1997: Graduate Representative, UW Special Committee on Minority Faculty Affairs.
1997: Member, UW On-Site Child Care Development Committee.
1990-1991: Tutor, Adult Literacy Program, Omaha, NE.
Awards
Early Modern Research Group Essay Prize, 2002.
Joan Webber Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999.
Robert and Mary Waltz Graduate Fellowship, 1997.
John Robinson Prize, Best Graduate Student Essay: "Woman Scholar, Christian Stoic: Elizabeth Carter's Challenge to Dualistic Thought." 1994.
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