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Sweet Briar College
English Department
Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595
alilly @ sbc.edu
Assistant Professor of English
Tufts University, Ph.D., English, February, 2008
Dissertation title: “The Queen of Proofs: Subjectivity, Gender, and Confession in Early Modern England”
Tufts University, M.A., English, May 1998
Simon’s Rock College, B.A. summa cum laude, Literary Studies, May 1997
Simon’s Rock College, A.A. with distinction, May 1995
Additional coursework at
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
English Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London
Sweet Briar College, Assistant Professor of English, 2008 - present
Bentley College, Lecturer, 2005 - present
Bentley College, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2002 - Spring 2005
Wheaton College, Visiting Instructor, Fall 2003
New England Conservatory, Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2002 - Fall 2004
Tufts University, Graduate Lecturer, Fall 1998 - Spring 2002
Tufts University, Writing Fellow, Fall 2000
Tufts University, Teaching Assistant, Spring 1998 - Spring 2002
Shakespeare
Renaissance Literature
Elizabethan Drama
Jacobean Drama
Wives, Widows, Witches, and Wenches: Women in the Renaissance
The Sacred and the Profane: Love and Sexuality in the Renaissance
Composition
Rhetoric and Research
Introduction to Poetry
Banned Books
Psychoanalysis and Literature: Is a Cigar Just a Cigar?
Insight and Insanity in American Literature
The Novels and Short Stories of William Faulkner
Renaissance Literature and Culture
Early Modern Drama
Renaissance Prose and Fiction
Gender and Sexuality
Literature and Law
Religious and Devotional Literature
Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
Rhetorical Theory; Poetry
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Composition and Rhetoric
“Practicing What We Preach: Returning to Basic Principles in the Theory Classroom.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2007.
“‘A New Song in a Strange Land’: Rhetoric and Subjectivity in the Confessions of Anne Askew.” Northeast Conference on British Studies. Amherst, Massachusetts. October 2005.
“Corpse and Corpus: Materiality and Meaning in The Spanish Tragedy.” Shakespeare Association of America. Victoria, British Columbia. April 2003.
“‘Two’ True a Woman: Confessions of Desire in The White Devil.” Renaissance Society of America. Toronto, Ontario. March 2003.
“‘O’erflowing the Measure’: Bodily Border Crossings in Antony and Cleopatra.” McGill University Graduate Symposium on Language and Literature, “Representing the Border.” Montreal, Québec. March 2002.
“Looking for America” conference panel moderator. Tufts University Annual Graduate Student Conference “Homing Desires.” Medford, Massachusetts. October 2001.
Bentley College Faculty Development Grant for developing new pedagogical methods to teach literary theory, February 2007
Commendation from members of the Tufts University Class of 2004 for having “contributed significantly to [their] intellectual and personal development”
Tufts University Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2001; Teaching Assistantship, 1998-1999 and 2001-2002; and Writing Fellowship, 2000
Division of Languages and Literature Prize from Simon’s Rock College, 1995 and 1997
Livingston Hall Honor Scholarship from Simon’s Rock College’s Acceleration to Excellence Program, 1993
Co-Coordinator for LGBTQ Affairs, Bentley College. January 2008 - May 2008.
Secretary, LGBTQ Steering Committee, Bentley College. April 2006 - January 2008.
Member, Plagiarism Task Force, Bentley College. Fall 2006.
Convener, Tufts University English Department Medieval-Early Modern Study Group. September 2000 - May 2002.
Co-Chair, Conference Steering Committee. Tufts University Annual Graduate Student Conference “‘The Problem of the Color Line’: A Re-Examination of Race at the Close of the Twentieth Century.” October 1999.
Co-President, Tufts English Graduate Organization. September 1998 - September 1999.
Representative to the Tufts University Graduate Student Council. September 1998 -September 1999.
Conference Steering Committee. Tufts University Annual Graduate Student Conference “Territorial Inscriptions: Mapping, Space, and Language.” October 1998.
Modern Language Association of America
Northeast Modern Language Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Renaissance Society of America