Dr. Tonya Moutray
Assistant Professor of English
email: moutrt@sage.edu                                           
phone: 518-244-2406
Office: Carriage House #5

Degree Information:

• University of Connecticut, Ph.D.
• University of Nebraska, M.A.
• Loma Linda University, B.S.

Dissertation:

"A Devotion of Resistance: Revisiting Female Monasticism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature"

Courses Taught:

• ENG 101: Language and Community
• ENG 220: College Research and Writing
• ENG 202: British Literature, 1660-1830
• ENG 211: British Literature since 1850
• ENG 222: Children’s Literature
• ENG 304: Victorian Literature
• ENG 318: Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• ENG 303: Romantic Literature
• ENG 248: Post-Colonial Literature
• ENG 248: Honors Seminar: Proper Sarcasm: Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
• ENG 405: Senior Seminar

Research:

British literature 1660-1860, transnational exchanges, the French Revolution, studies in the novel, gender and empire, colonialism, women’s communities, children’s literature.

Accomplishments:

• “Remodeling Catholic Ruins in the Poetry of William Wordsworth.” Forthcoming in European Romantic Review (2011). Print.
• “Jane Barker and the Politics of Catholic Celibacy.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47.3 (Summer 2007): 595-618. Print.
• “The Cloistered Pen: Penetration and Conception in Eliza Keary’s ‘Christine and Mary: A Correspondence.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.1 (2003): 315-332. Print.
• “Unwed Orders: Religious Communities for Women in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell.” Gaskell Society Journal 17 (2003): 59-76. Print.
• “Through the Grate; Or, English Convents and the Transmission and Preservation of Female Catholic Recusant History.” The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers. Ed. Leigh Eicke, Jeana DelRosso and Ana Kothe. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 105-121. Print.
• “Peregrinations to the Convent: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Ann Radcliffe.” British-French Exchanges. Ed. Dorothy Medlin and Katherine Doig. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 116-30. Print.

Selected Conference Papers:

• "Violated Virgins and Spoiled Economies: Abbé Augustin Barruel and the September Massacres." Paper to be presented at the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver,  British Columbia, March 2011.
• “Finding Lost Boys: Peter Pan and Colonial Adventure Fiction.” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Montreal, Quebec. April 2010.
• “An Unquenched Curiosity: British Encounters with Female Monasticism.” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec. March 2006.
• “Peregrinations to Parisian Convents.” Roundtable Presentation. American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec. March 2006.

Lectures:

• “Peter Pan, Gender Roles, and Colonial Adventure Fiction.” Presentation for the Women’s Studies Occasional Forum at Russell Sage College, The Upton Center. March 31, 2010.
• “Henry James and Haunted Psychology.” Pre-Show Lecture presented at Russell Sage College, James L. Meader Little Theater and Sage College of Albany, Opalka Gallery. October 2007

Other:

• Interview with Professor David Baecker on Peter Pan: http://allthingssage.blogspot.com/2010/08/peter-pan-on-page-and-stage.html

Professional Memberships:

• Member, Modern Language Association
• Member, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Member, Northeastern Modern Language Society

Awards:

• Russell Sage College Honorary Athenian; Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service Awarded by the Russell Sage Athenian Honor Society, May 2010
• Academic Service-Learning Grant, Dec. 2009
• Organic Valley, CROPP Cooperative, LaForge, WI
• Global Wellness Food Grant, Nov. 2009

Service:

Committee Work

• Chair, RSC Curriculum Committee
• Member, First-Year Task Force
• Department Representative, Troy Council of Faculty (Fall 2007-Spring 2010)

Advisement of Student Honors Projects

• The Lost Boys of Sudan (ENG 400); Jessy Willette, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
• The Poetry of the World Wars (ENG 200); Stacy May Hollister, Spring 2008
• Austen and Johnson (ENG 410); Ariel Collins, Fall 2007-Spring 2008

Other

• Faculty Advisor, Medusa (2008-current)
• Faculty Supervisor, Sage and Habitat for Humanity, 2011

Personal:          

Gardening, piano, bird-watching, traveling