Bettina Tate Pedersen

Professor of Literature

Department of Literature, Journalism & Modern Languages
Point Loma Nazarene University
3900 Lomaland Drive San Diego, CA 92126
(619) 849-2260

Education

1997 Ph.D. in English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Field: British Victorian Literature, Nineteenth-century Canadian Women Writers

Passed Special Field (preliminary) exam with distinction, University of Illinois, 1993
1991 MA in English Temple University
Field: English Literature

1982 BA (summa cum laude) in English-Education Northwest Nazarene College
Fields: English and Education

Areas of Specialization

British Victorian & Romantic Literature 19C Canadian Women's Writing

Women's Studies & Feminist Theory English-Education

Publications

Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia. New York: Palgrave. June 2006. 
    (Paperback, March 2008) – co-edited with Allyson Jule.

“Suicidal Logic: Melancholy/Depression in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.” Victorian     
    Gothic. Eds. Karen Sayer and Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian     
    Studies, 2003. 110-23. Rpt. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Critisism of the     
    Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800     
    and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Eds. Jessica
    Bomarito and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 165. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. 150-57.

Rev. of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Eds. Angelique Richardson and Chris 
    Willis. Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2005)

“Suicidal Logic: Melancholy/Depression in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.” Victorian
     Gothic: Leeds Centre Working Papers in Victorian Studies. 6 (2003): 110-123.

“And That I Should Teach Tolerance.” Profession. New York: MLA, 2001. December 2001.

Rev. of Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America,     
    Eds. Joe Austin and Michael Nevin Willard. Ariel: A Review of International English 
    Literature. 32.4 (2001): 252-254.

“Annie Louisa Walker.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. William B. Thesing. Vol. 240.
    Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 299-307

“Complicating Gender: Contrastive Rhetoric and Reader Response in Teaching Victorian
    Prose Works.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 26.2 (Fall 1999): 24-36.

“Gendered and Regional Constructions of National Identity in the Post-Confederation Fiction 
    of Maritime Women Writers (1867-1900).” The Proceedings of the 6th International
    Literature of Region & Nation Conference. Ed. Winnifred M. Bogaards. 2 vols. St. John:
    University of New Brunswick, 1998. 129-42.

An English Sabbatical. Creative nonfiction, journal of daily life in England while on sabbatical
    for fall term 2007 including travel accounts of visiting literary sites in England and
    reflections on marriage, mothering, and cross cultural experiences. (Book length
    manuscript—200 plus pages)

Different Legs. Part-epistolary, creative nonfiction reflections about the year-long surgical
    procedure my oldest son underwent to lengthen his right leg by 77 mm. (3 ½ in.) (Book
    length 100 plus pages)

What Does a Woman Look Like? Essay submitted for publication in monograph with Point
    Loma Press

Why We Need the Terms “Feminism” and “Feminist” Essay written for conference
    presentation and for inclusion in Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia,
    Part 2

“Why We Need the Terms ‘Feminism’ and ‘Feminist’” Conversations Toward Wholeness.
    Point Loma Nazarene University. April 9-11, 2008.

“Christian Feminist or Feminist Christian? Can Feminism and Evangelical Christianity Go
    Together?” The Art of Gender in Everyday Life III Conference. Idaho State University,
    Pocatello, Idaho. March 30-31, 2006

“Christian Feminist or Feminist Christian?: Hospitable Conversations.” Western Regional
    Conference on Christianity and Literature. Point Loma Nazarene University. March 25-28,
    2004.

“Suicidal Logic: Melancholy/Depression in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.” Victorian Gothic: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies Bi/Annual Conference. March 15, 2003.

“Touching Erotic Desire: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ and the Challenge to Traditional
    Theology and Marriage.” VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the  
    Western United States) Conference. Boise State University. October 9-12, 2002.

“Contextualizing Spiritual Autobiography: Incarnation and Place in Kathleen Norris’s Dakota,
    A Spiritual Geography.” Creative Imagination: Embodying Time, Space and Form. Point
    Loma Nazarene University. February 6-9, 2002.

“Touching Erotic Desire: Appetite, Fear of Vulnerability, or Mutual Right Relations in
    Rossetti’s Goblin Market.” Joint CCL (Conference on Christianity and Literature) and
    Image—Habitations of the Word: Art and the Spiritual Ecology of Place—Conference.
    Seattle Pacific University. October 19-22, 2000.

“Watery and Dusty Crossings: The Power of the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Heroine.”
    Transatlanticisms: XIV Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference.
    The Ohio State University. April 9-10, 1999.

“Uniquely Canadian: Womanhood and Nationality in Victorian Maritime Woman's Fiction.” XII
    Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. May 1998

“Gendered and Regional Constructions of National Identity in the Post-Confederation Fiction of
    Maritime Women Writers (1867-1900).” Sixth International Literature of Region and Nation
    Conference. August 1996.

“Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's Erinna: Poetic Autobiography and the Cryptographic Record of
    the Emergence of the Female Writer.” Midwest Modern Language Association Thirty
    Seventh Annual Convention St. Louis, MO. November 1995.

“Surviving or Thriving?: Women’s Studies and Gender Programs in Christian Higher
    Education.” Southern Discomforts: NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association
    Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. June 19-22, 2003.

“My Journey with Feminism and Faith.” Friendship Café: La Jolla Presbyterian Church Choir
    Women’s Breakfast. June 28, 2003.

“Christian Feminism/t or Feminist Christian/ity: A Dialogue between Feminism and Faith.”
    Margaret Stevenson Women’s Studies Center Lecture Series. Point Loma Nazarene
    University. Colt Hall. April 14, 2003.

“Touching Erotic Desire: Appetite, Fear of Vulnerability, or Mutual Right Relations in
    Rossetti’s Goblin Market.” Literature, Journalism, and Modern Languages Department
    Literary Tea. Colt Hall. November 9, 2000.

“Did Canada Have Its Own 'Damned Mob of Scribbling Women'?” Brown Bag Series. CSUN.
    November 4, 1998.

“The Cult of True Womanhood.” Guest Lecture. Northwest Nazarene College. November 1997.

“Maritime Canadian Nationalities and Their Female Selves.” 1997 Spring Semester Feminist
    Scholarship Series. Women's Studies House, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
    February 1997.

“Gendered and Regional Nationalities in the Fiction of Post-Confederation Canadian Women
    Writers, 1867-1900.” 1997.

PLNU Teaching Experience

2005- Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University

• LIT 203 World Masterpieces of Literature III (GE)
• LIT 205 Masterpieces in a Literary Genre: Novel (GE)
• LIT 255 British Writers II (GE)
• LIT 300/LIT 250 Introduction to Literary Criticism
• LIT 434 Readings: Contemporary Literature in English
• LIT 437 Women Writers
• LIT 446 Romantic Literature
• LIT 447 Victorian Literature
• LIT 448 Postcolonial Literature
• LIT 449 The English Novel
• WRI 110 College Composition

2002-05 Associate Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University

2000-02 Assistant Professor, Point Loma Nazarene University
 

PLNU Student Projects

2005-06 Kirsti Peters. “Lift Every Voice: Giving a Voice to Black Women from the 60s and 70s through the Spoken Word.” Honors Project Committee Member

2005-06 Jesse Ataide. “The Artist Entrapped: An Analysis of the Female Artist in To the Lighthouse and The Hours.” Honors Project Committee Member

2005-06 Elizabeth Borman. “’She's getten the gift of the gab:’ A Study of Dialect in Gaskell's Mary Barton.” Honors Project Committee Member

2004-05 Katie Manning. “She Speaks: Voices of Women in a Variety of Poetic Forms.” Honors Project Committee Member

2002-03 Morgan Cooper. “Responses to the Victorian Crisis of Faith in Victorian Literature: A Study of Frances Power Cobbe’s The Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Robert Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos” and Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam.” Honors Project Chair

Kelli McCoy. “Democracy in Defense of Anarchy: Jane Addams and the Chicago Anarchists, 1901-1908.” Honors Project Committee Member.

2000-01 Angie McHodgkins. “From Catherine Morland to Anne Elliot: The Progression of the Heroine in Jane Austen’s Novels.” Honors Project Chair.

David Powell. “Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky.” Honors Project Committee Member.

Outside Student Projects—Master’s Thesis

2003-04 Carolyn Jensen. “The Spiritual and Feminist Rhetoric of Hester Ann Rogers, An Early Methodist.” San Diego State University, Master’s Thesis Committee Member

Previous Teaching Experience & Student Projects

1997-2000 Assistant Professor, California State University Northridge

• ENGL 364 The Short Story
• ENGL 429 Literature for Adolescents
• ENGL 431 Images of Women in Literature
• ENGL 433 Women Writers from the Earliest Times to the Present
• ENGL 434 Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists
• ENGL 460 The Victorian Age
• ENGL 467 Major British Novelists 1815-1900
• ENGL 495GE Senior Seminar: George Eliot
• ENGL 620BS Graduate Seminar: Bronte Sisters

1999-2000 Janet Isagulian. “Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Honors Thesis. Chair.

1991-96 Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• ENGL 101 Introduction to Poetry
• ENGL 103 Introduction to Fiction
• ENGL 115 Masterpieces of British Literature
• ENGL 210 British Literature Survey: 1798-1900 (Discussion Sections)
• ENGL 250 Business and Technical Writing
• ENGL 385 Literature for the High School

1989-91 Teaching Assistant, Temple University

• ENGL XO84 Introduction to Literature (“X” core, writing-intensive)
• ENGL 104 Business Writing
  

1984-89 Jr. High School Teacher, Red Deer Public School District, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Grades 7-9: English, Speech Communication, Sex Education


1982-84 High School Teacher, Homedale Public School District, Homedale, Idaho. Grades 9-12: English, Remedial English, Speech Communication, Journalism

Research

Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego

• Sabbatical, Fall Term 2007
• RASP Grant, 2004
• Wesleyan Center Summer Scholar Grant, Summer 2004
• Wesleyan Center Summer Scholar Grant, Summer 2003
• Wesleyan Center Summer Scholar Grant, Summer 2002

California State University, Northridge

• Research Grant (Reassigned Time), Spring 1999
• Research Grant (Reassigned Time), Spring 1998

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

• Graduate Release Time Award, Spring 1997, Fall 1996, Spring 1995 (awarded an exceptional third time in recognition of my teaching ENGL 385: Literature for the High School)
• Pauline Gragg Fellowship for Graduate Study, Fall 1995, Fall 1994

 

California State University, Northridge

1999-2000 Nominated for CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award

1998-99 Nominated for CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award

1997-98 Nominated for CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award

1999-2000 4.57/5.00 Overall Average on CSUN Teaching Evaluations

1998-99 4.68/5.00 Overall Average on CSUN Teaching Evaluations

1997-98 4.62/5.00 Overall Average on CSUN Teaching Evaluations

1997-98 Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Peer Coaching

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

1996-97 Leo B. Kneer Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of English

1996-97 Nominated for Liberal Arts and Science Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants

1992, 1996 Incomplete List of Instructors Rated Excellent (based on student evaluations of my teaching)

1994 “Getting an Interview” assignment and metadiscourse published in 1993-94 Programs in Professional Writing Good Stuff collection (one of ten winning assignments selected in the Business and Technical Writing annual competition, Programs in Professional Writing, Department of English)

California State University, Northridge

1997-98 Awarded Beck Grant for Teaching Project: “Credential Interview Preparation
Seminar”

1997-98 Awarded a Faculty Merit Increase

Current Membership

MLA (Modern Language Association)

BS (Bronte Society)

VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association Western United States)

NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association)

CCL (Conference on Christianity and Literature)

EEWC (Evangelical Ecumenical Women’s Caucus)

NWHM (National Women’s History Museum)

Previous Membership

INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies)

M/MLA (Midwest Modern Language Association)

NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English)

Professional Conference Attendance*

April 2008 Conversations toward Wholeness, San Diego, CA

March 2006 Gender in Everyday Life III, Pocatello, ID

March 2004 CCL (Conference on Christianity & Literature) Western Regional Conference, Conference Organizer & Presenter, San Diego, CA

June 2003 NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association) Conference, New Orleans, LA

March 2003 Victorian Gothic Conference, Leeds, England

October 2002 VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States) Conference, Boise, ID

October 2000 CCL (Conference on Christianity & Literature) Image Joint Conference, Seattle, WA

April 1999 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference, Columbus, OH

May 1998 XII Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

December 1996 MLA (Modern Language Association), Washington DC

August 1996 6th International Conference on Region and Nation, St. John, NB, Canada

November 1995 M/MLA (Midwest Modern Language Association), St. Louis, MO

*Only conference attended at which I did not present a paper was MLA December 1996

Margaret Stevens Women’s Studies Center

Jan-June 2007 Acting Co-Director with Linda Beail

Professional Conferences Organized

Member of Steering Committee. “Conversations toward Wholeness.” CCCU—Point Loma Nazarene University—Messiah College—Abilene Christian University. April 9-11, 2008.

Chair of Steering Committee. “Faith in Conversation with Theory in Conversation with Faith.” Western Regional Annual Conference of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association. March 25-28, 2004.

LJML Department: Committees & Service

2002-  Books and Media Acquisitions
2000-  Literature Committee
          Composition Committee
2000-02 Distinction Project Committee, Chair Fall 2001-2002

PLNU: Committees & Other

2006-07  Strategic Planning Committee

2005-06  WASC Committee

2004-    Co-organizer and Presenter, Women’s Forum

2004-    Task Force & Standing Committee, General Education

2002-07  PSYCH 101: Gender Convocation (twice a year)

Spring 2002  Lilly Grant Committees: Women’s Studies, Center Teaching & Learning

Spring 2001  CTL Faculty for Teaching Moral Development Project

November 2000  Speaker for LJML Literary Tea

2000-    Contributor to Student Literary Magazine Driftwood

October 2000  Contributor to Online Journal Susanna

October 2000  Participant and Minor Organizer for Wesleyan Center Conference:
                      “Work Done, Work Begun”

September 2000  Soloist on Victor Labenske’s Faculty Recital

September 2000  Soloist for New Faculty Chapel

2000-    Participant in Social Issues Discussion Group 

 

California State University Northridge Committee Work

1999-2000    MA Exam Committee, English Department

1998-2000    Credential Committee, Chair, English Department

1998-2000    Chair's Advisory Committee, English Department

California State University Northridge Administrative Activities & Other

1998-2000    Cedential Advisor, English Department, CSUN

Spring 2000  Pre-Intern Certificate Program, Ventura County Superintendent of Schools
                    Office (University English Professor Member of the Design Team)

1998-2000    Center for Ethics and Values

April 1998    Liberal Studies Conference: Humanities Team

1997-99        Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Committee

1997-98        Advancement of Teaching Effectiveness Committee
 

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Administrative Activities

1994-95        Assistant Director, Programs in Professional Writing (PPW)

1992-94        Program Coordinator, Programs in Professional Writing (PPW)

Contributions to Community at Large