Terra Caputo

Title:  Assistant Professor of English
Title 2: Director of  Writing

Department: English
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Miami 2009

Contact Info

Email: terra.caputo@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4334

Office Info

Office Location: Oddfellows Room #230

Office Hours: Spring 2012 
M 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm
T 4:30 pm- 6:30 pm
W 10:00 am- 12:00 pm
and by appointment.

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 301*00: Novel Forms: Romance- Realism Download Syllabus
FS102*W2: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
FS 101*14: Academic Discourse I Download Syllabus
ENGL 591*01: Group Study Download Syllabus

Spring 2011
Engl 435*00: Restoration/ 18th Century Lit. Download Syllabus
FS 102*W5: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2010
FSENG 201*02: Women and Nationalism

Spring 2010
FS 102*00: Academic Discourses II
English 200*00: Reading Literature
English 211*00: Women & Literature
English 435*00: Topics in Restoration and 18th Century Literature

Spring 2009
English 208*00: Technical/Professional Writing
FS 102: Media, Popular Culture, and Consumerism: Constructing National Identity

Fall 2008
English 200*00: Reading Literature
English 208*00: Technical/Professional Writing

Publications and Work in Progress

Essays

  • “Creating Opportunities for Meaningful Discourse- the Role of the Research Paper Assignment in the First-Year Seminar” (submitted to Parlor)
  • “Filial Duty and the Regulation of the Passions in Early 18th- Century Popular Women’s Fiction” (for submission to Studies in the Novel)
  • An Unlikely Dialogue: What the Liberal Arts Can Learn From Professional Writing Discourse” (for submission to The Journal of Teaching Writing) 

Conference Presentations/Papers

  • “Narrative Performativity and the Making of Female Identity. EC-ASECS 2010: Pittsburgh, PA, November 4-6, 2010.
  • Epistolary (Inter)actions: The Sociable(?) Space of Letters” (Chair) SCSECS 2010: Salt Lake City, February 25-27, 2010.
  • “Languishing Bodies and Letters: Representations of Female Authenticity in Aphra Behn’s Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister” SEASECS 2009: Winthrop University, (March 5-7, 2009).
  • “Sordid Traditions: Gender Normativity in Scandalous Eighteenth-Century Narratives” Allegheny College Humanities Lecture Series: (November 10, 2008).
  • “Intertextual Bodies: Constructing Male Fantasy in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze and Venus in the Cloister” University of Miami English Graduate Symposium: (April 11, 2008).
  • “Women’s Scandalous Fiction, Pornography, and the Construction of the Ideal Woman” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2008: New Orleans, LA. (February 21-23, 2008).
  • “The Father Figure in Eliza Haywood’s The City Jilt and Penelope Aubin’s The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil” SEASECS 2008: Auburn University, (February 14-17, 2008).
  • “Accountability and Artifice in Fantomina, or,  Love in a Maze.” Stony Brook University Graduate Student Conference: (February 24-26, 2006).
  • “Dickens and Woman as Commodity in Bleak House. “Negotiating Differences in the 19th Century, Graduate Conference University of South Carolina: (March 11-12, 2005).

Awards

  • University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. (2008)
  • University of Miami Department of English Composition Fellowship. (2007-2008)
  • Provost’s Graduate Student travel award. (2006)
  • Peggy Kriloff travel award. (2005, 2006, 2008)
  • GAFAC travel award. (2008)