EDUCATION
Ph.D., English & American Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September 2004.
Dissertation: “Narrative Justice: The Gothic and the Law in Anglo-America, 1790 – 1860”
M.A., English & American Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fall 1999.
B.A., Double major in English Literature and Classical Civilization, Summa cum laude, Departmental Honors in English and Classics. Lehigh University, 1996.
Books
Marshall, Bridget M. Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation, and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature. Wales University Press, 2021.
Elbert, Monika, and Bridget M. Marshall. Co-Editors. Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ashgate. January 2013.
Marshall, Bridget M. The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 – 1860. Ashgate. January 2011.
Book Chapters
Marshall, Bridget M. “The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night.” Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night. Ed. Pamela F. Phillips. New York: Routledge, April 2023. 234-251.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood.” Suicide and the Gothic. Ed. William Hughes and Andrew Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, August 2019. 96 – 109.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic.” Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Ed. Agnieszka Lowcazanin and Katarzyna Malecka. New York: Routledge, 2018. 163 – 179.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Romanticism, Gothic, and the Law.” Law and Literature. Ed. Kieran Dolin. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 142 – 156.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Things as They’re Told: The Power of Narrative in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and ‘Race.’ Ed. Paivi Mehtonen and Matti Savolainen. Ashgate. 2013. 43 – 55.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Southern Gothic: Background and History.” Southern Gothic Literature. Ed. Jay Ellis. Salem Press. April 2013. 3 – 18.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Who Cares about Plagiarism? Cheating and Consequences in the Pop Culture Classroom.” Critical Conversations about Plagiarism. Eds. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, Tracy Ann Morse, Rebecca Ingalls, Michael Donnelly, and Joanna Castner. Parlor Press. November 2012. 137 – 150.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Comics as Primary Sources: The Case of Journey into Mohawk Country.” Comic Books and American Cultural History. Ed. Matthew J. Pustz. New York: Continuum, February 2012. 26 – 39.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Literature and Law Lite: Approaches in Surveys and General Education Courses.” Teaching Law and Literature (MLA Options for Teaching Series). Eds. Matthew Anderson and Catherine O. Frank. July 2011. 268 – 275.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Stoker’s Dracula and the Vampire’s Literary History.” Critical Insights: Dracula. Ed. Jack Lynch. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. September 2009. 23 – 37.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Canon of American Literature.” Critical Insights: Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Jack Lynch. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. September 2009. 21 – 32.
Marshall, Bridget M. and Brian Ogilvie. “‘There shall be a wonder in Hadley!’: Mary Webster’s ‘Hideous Witchcraft.’” Cultivating a Past: Essays in the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Ed. Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts Press. May 2009. 135 – 153.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Salem’s Ghosts and the Cultural Capital of Witches.” Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. The University of Wisconsin Press. June 2004. 244 – 263.
Marshall, Bridget M. Contributing Editor and Author of “Biographical Sketch,” “Story Behind the Story,” “List of Characters,” and “Summary & Analysis” for Bloom’s Guide to Pride and Prejudice. Chelsea House Publishers. Fall 2004. 10 – 58.
Marshall, Bridget M. “‘South Park’: For (Im)Mature Audiences Only.” Closely Watched Brains. Eds. John Sakeris and Murray Pomerance. Boston: Pearson Education, 2001. 121-134.Marshall, Bridget M. “The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night.” Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night. Ed. Pamela F. Phillips. New York: Routledge, April 2023. 234-251.
Journal Articles
Marshall, Bridget M. “‘There is a secret down here, in this nightmare fog’: Urban-Industrial Gothic in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals.” Women’s Studies. 46.8 (2017): 767-784. Available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/eUjtsrmkiJEnnpHk9HWQ/full
Marshall, Bridget M. “Making Stories Matter Inside and Outside the Classroom: Service Learning in a Disability in Literature Course.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Teaching Disability Issue. 25.2 Winter 2016. 65 – 77.
Elbert, Monika M, and Bridget M. Marshall. “Introduction: Haunted Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s Hauntings.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. 38.2 Fall 2012. ii – xiv.
Marshall, Bridget M. “An Evil Game: Gothic Villains and Gaming Addictions.” Gothic Studies. 11.2. Special Issue on Addiction. Ed. Carol Margaret Davison. November 2009. 9 – 18.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Reading New England Witchcraft Trials: The Case of Mary Parsons.” Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Newsletter Spring 2002: 13 – 16.
Marshall, Bridget M. “The Face of Evil: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and the Gothic Villain.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) 6.2 (Fall 2000): 161 – 172.
Articles in Scholarly Web-Based Publications
Marshall, Bridget M. “Teaching the Early American Literature Survey: Expanding the Canon Using Internet Resources.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Special Edition: Teaching Electronically. 2.4 Winter 2009. http://www.cpcc.edu/taltp/archives/winter-2009-2-4/marshall_winter_2009.pdf/view
Marshall, Bridget M. “Teaching Bierce’s ‘The Boarded Window’ for Practice in Close Reading.’” The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal. Fall 2008. Vol. 4, No. 1. Penn State Erie. http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal4marshall.html
Marshall, Bridget M. The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Case: A Journey into 17th-Century Northampton. Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator for entire web site at http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/parsons/
Marshall, Bridget M. “Witch Trials.” Source List. The Infography. http://www.infography.com/ November 2001.
Reference Articles/Encyclopedia Articles
Marshall, Bridget M. “Fun Home. A Family Tragicomedy.” Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019. Volume I, 254 – 257. This book earned a 2020 Honorable Mention for the Dartmouth Medal Award from the American Library Association.
Marshall, Bridget M. “One More Theory About Happiness.” Disability Experiences. Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019. Volume II, 583 – 586. This book earned a 2020 Honorable Mention for the Dartmouth Medal Award from the American Library Association.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Journey into Mohawk Country.” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents & Underground Classics. Ed. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner. Salem Press. May 2012. 424 – 428.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Vathek.’” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Facts on File. October 2010. 471 – 472.
Marshall, Bridget M. “The Jolly Corner,” The Critical Companion to Henry James. Eds. Kendall Johnson and Eric Haralson. Clearmark Books, Facts on File. August 2009. 255 – 260.
Marshall, Bridget M. “New York City,” The Critical Companion to Henry James. Eds. Kendall Johnson and Eric Haralson. Clearmark Books, Facts on File. August 2009. 420 – 422.
Reviews
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein by Eileen Hunt Botting. Journal of British Studies. 58.3 (Fall 2019). 641 – 642.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 by Siân Silyn Roberts. Modern Philology. 12.4 (May 2015). 330 – 332.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America by Elaine Forman Crane. Early American Literature. 48.1 (2013). 248 – 252.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches by Samuel Chase Coale. The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. 38.1 (Spring 2012). 94 – 98.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America by Christopher Lukasik. Studies in the Novel. 43.3 (Fall 2011). 376 – 378.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. The Review of English Studies. 62.256 (2011). 666 – 668.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of From Demons to Dracula The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford, Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film by Barry Curtis, and A Philosophy of Fear by Lars Svendsen. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 37 (2010). 104 – 112.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself. Modern Language Studies. 40.1 (2010). 92 – 94.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Contemporary Gothic. By Catherine Spooner. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 35 (2008). 84 – 88.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Captivating Subjects: Writing, Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright. Kritikon Litterarum: International Book Review for American, English, Romance, and Slavic Studies. 34 (2007). 84 – 87.
Marshall, Bridget M. Review of Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic. By Peter Kafer. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 103.4 (2006). 782 – 783.
GRANTS
External Grants: Participating Scholar
External Grants: Primary Scholar
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Curriculum Development Grant for The Goody Parsons Project, Historic Northampton. Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator. 2002. ($25,000)
Presented the material from the website to K-12 teachers. Worked with them to design age-appropriate curriculum activities using primary sources.
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Mini-Grant for The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Trial Project, Historic Northampton. Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator. 2001. ($2,500)
Completed primary source research, collected and scanned appropriate archival documents, wrote all material appearing on the website, worked with web and technical specialists to create the website.
UMass-Lowell Internal Grants
2021-2022 Pedagogy (Hybrid Teaching) Mini-Grant to design and assess best practices for hybrid teaching models. ($1,000)
2012-2013 Service Learning Mini-Grant to implement a new Service Learning course for Fall 2013. Developed special section of Disability in Literature with a Service Learning Component involving the Lowell Association for the Blind. Spring 2013 – Fall 2013. ($2,000)
“Thoreau and Lucy Larcom.”
American Literature Association (ALA) Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 25-28 May 2023.
“Teaching the Gothic in a Gothic World.”
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) conference.
Virtual; hosted by Curtin University, Perth, Austraila. 24-25 January 2023.
“Nineteenth-Century Eco-Gothic and the Terrors of Industrialization.”
International Gothic Association (IGA) conference.
Dublin, Ireland. 26 – 29 July 2022.
“Becoming a ‘Blank’: Melville’s ‘Tartarus of Maids’ and the Diary of Paper Mill Worker Nancy Priest.”
American Literature Association (ALA) Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 7 – 11 July 2021.
“Teaching Levels of Interpretation with Witchcraft Trial Documents.”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 5 – 8 March 2020.
“Nineteenth-century American Industrial Landscape and the Picturesque.”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 5 – 8 March 2020.
“Cheap Gothic: Free, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Low-Cost Texts for the Gothic Classroom.”
International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference.
Chicago, Illinois. 30 July – 2 August 2019.
“Terror & Horror in Depictions of Death in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Broadside Poetry”
International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference.
Chicago, Illinois. 30 July – 2 August 2019.
“An in-class activity showcasing Emily Dickinson’s Gothic”
American Literature Association (ALA) Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 23 – 26 May 2019.
“The Gothic Landscape of Industrialization in 19th-century New England”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference.
Washington, DC. 21 – 24 March 2019.
“Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic.”
Gothic Hybridities: International Gothic Association Conference.
Manchester, England. 31 July – 3 August 2018.
“Just Down the Road from Thoreau: Lowell’s Mill Girls and Transcendental Industrialization.”
Pre-circulated Seminar Paper for Seminar “Beyond Thoreau: Re-Imagining Environmental Pedagogy.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Fourth Biennial Conference.
State College, Pennsylvania. 17 – 20 March 2016.
“‘White Slaves of the North’ Rhetoric and the Real Mill Girls of Lowell.”
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 10 – 12 March 2016.
“Migrating Mill Girls: The Circulation of the Gothic in the Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.”
International Gothic Association Conference.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 28 July – 1 August 2015.
“Pauline Hopkins and the Gothic Tradition: The Self-Destroying Gothic Villain.”
Panel of papers organized by the Pauline Hopkins Society on Of One Blood.
American Literature Association Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. 21 – 24 May 2015.
“Memorializing Lowell’s Mill Girls: Public Art and Public Arguments.”
Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium: Outside the Gallery: Public Sculpture in New England.
Deerfield, MA. 14 March 2015.
“Narrating Through and About the Disabled Body”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. April 2014.
“Literary Manufacturing: The Mill Workers (and Writers) of Lowell, Massachusetts.”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference.
Boston, MA. March 2013.
“‘There is a secret down here, in this nightmare fog:’ Urban-Industrial Gothic in Nineteenth Century American Literature.”
American Literature Association Symposium: “Fear and Form: Aspects of the Gothic in American Culture.”
Savannah, GA. February 2013.
“Journey into Mohawk Country as Primary Source and Comic Book.”
Society of Early Americanists Conference.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2011.
“Life Near the Mills: Teaching Rebecca Harding Davis with Online Resources.”
American Literature Association Conference.
San Francisco, California. May 2010.
“Expanding Nineteenth Century Literature with Web Resources.”
American Literature Association Conference.
Boston, Massachusetts. May 2009.
“Approaches and Responses to Teaching Comics in Literature Courses: Two Case Studies.”
Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2009.
“Questioning and Expanding the Canon with Internet Resources.”
North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference.
Buffalo, New York. April 2008.
“Gothic Revival, Kid Style: Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events.”
Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations.
Atlanta, Georgia. April 2006.
“Defying American Slavery: The Bondwoman’s Narrative as American Gothic.”
Deviance and Defiance: Conference of the International Gothic Association.
Montreal, Canada. August 2005.
“Mary (Reeve) Webster, the ‘Witch’ of Hadley.”
Hadley in the Renaissance at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies.
Amherst, Massachusetts. May 2003.
“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Law and the Gothic.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Conference.
Scottsdale, Arizona. October 2002.
“Interpreting New England Witchcraft Trials: The Case of Mary Parsons of Northampton.”
New Frontiers in Early American Literature at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville, Virginia. August 2002.
“Salem’s Ghosts and the Cultural Capital of Witches.”
North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Conference.
Hartford, Connecticut. March 2001.
“South Park: For (Im)Mature Audiences Only.”
Brainwatching: Intellect and Ideology in Media Culture.
Toronto, Canada. May 2000.
“The Face of Evil: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and the Gothic Villain.”
Gothic Spirits/Gothic Flesh, Conference of the International Gothic Association.
Halifax, Canada. August 1999.
Undergraduate TEACHING at University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Undergraduate Courses Taught at UML
Literature of the New England Witchcraft Trials: Advanced seminar for undergraduate students focused on representations of witch trials in New England. Originally offered as a “Special Topics” course; proposed and approved as its own course. Fall 2022.
Special Topics in Honors: Factory Gothic – Horror & Industrialization: Honors Seminar focused on poems, stories, novels and other forms of popular culture by and about industrial workers, focused especially on nineteenth-century Lowell, but also considering the global impacts of the Industrial Revolution. Spring 2021, Fall 2022.
Disability in Literature Fully Online (for GPS): Redesigned my original course to offer through GPS for their fully online, asynchronous offerings. Spring 2022.
American Literary Traditions: Undergraduate survey course for English majors covering literature from the beginnings of America through 2000. Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2016, Spring 2022.
The Gothic Tradition in Literature: Upper-level course tracing the development of the Gothic genre in British and American literature. Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021.
Disability in Literature with Service Learning Module: Developed a new Service Learning Module to integrate into the already-existing course. In addition to the regular reading and writing work, students work with the Lowell Association for the Blind to learn about and contribute to local services for the vision-impaired population. Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2019.
Special Topics: Literature of the New England Witchcraft Trials: Advanced seminar for undergraduate students focused on representations of witch trials in New England, including cases in Hadley, Massachusetts; Northampton, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; and Salem, Massachusetts. Fall 2019.
Special Topics: Trans-Atlantic Novel: Advanced seminar for undergraduate English majors focused on novels from England and the U.S., using a transatlantic lens. Fall 2015.
Critical Methods: Undergraduate course for English majors introducing students to various critical approaches and developing close reading skills. Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2021.
The Horror Story: General Education course tracing the development of the horror story from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations in the United States, including the popular genre of the horror movie. Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (2 sections), Spring 2013.
Disability in Literature: Required course for the Disability Studies minor that focuses on portrayals of disability in film, drama, prose, and poetry. Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2020, Fall 2021.
First Year Seminar: One-credit First Year Seminar for English majors. Fall 2011.
Lowell as Text: Freshman seminar pilot program focusing on the city of Lowell as a primary text for exploration. Fall 2010.
Honors Seminar: Disability in Literature: An honors section of the Disability in Literature course focused on enrichment and student-directed exploration of topics related to disability. Spring 2012.
History of American Literature I (Beginnings to 1850): General Education course and a required course for English majors that explores texts from the beginnings of American literary history to the Civil War. Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011.
College Writing I: Class Matters: first-year writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, Class Matters. Fall 2009.
College Writing I: Writing into the World: first-year writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Fall 2008.
College Writing I: Writing and Finding A Sense of Place: first-year writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, Bones of the Earth. Fall 2007.
College Writing I: Making Money, Spending Money: first-year writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, Nickel and Dimed. Fall 2005 (2 sections).
College Writing II: Writing Lies: Second-semester writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, Tranced. Spring 2008.
College Writing II: Literature, Performance, and Writing: Second-semester writing course focused on the semester’s Common Text, Intimate Apparel. Spring 2006 (2 sections).
New Courses Designed, Developed, & Approved at UML
ENGL 3125 Literature of New England Witchcraft Trials, approved Spring 2021.
ENGL 2580 (42.258) Disability in Literature, approved Fall 2007.
ENGL 3370 (42.337) The Gothic Tradition in Literature, approved Fall 2006.
ENGL 2860 (42.286) Comics in Context: The Graphic Narrative (co-developed with Dr. Susan Kirtley), approved Fall 2006.
TEACHING at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Love, Betrayal, and Obsession: Narratives of Relationships Gone Wrong: Introductory literature course exploring novels, stories, and poems that detail the trials of relationships. Students do a variety of reading and writing, and prepare presentations on authors and stories. Some of the texts include poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, and short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, William Faulkner, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Fall 2004.
Seminar in Literary Studies: Gateway seminar for English majors, focusing on preparation for advanced work in literary studies. Close reading of Frankenstein, Maus, Curse of the Starving Class, and The Spoon River Anthology provide a variety of genres to consider how literary works employ language to represent the world. An assortment of short critical pieces relating to these texts and ongoing student-led presentations of literary theories and terms introduce the class to what it means to be an English major. Fall 2004.
American Popular Culture: Culture, Sub-Cultures, and Resistance: Interdisciplinary seminar for new students in the Commonwealth (Honors) College. Students study a variety of media – film, music, magazines, and television – and explore what they reflect about our culture, as well as how they continue to propagate themselves. Beyond merely studying popular culture and our relationship with it, readings and discussions consider the possibility of resistance and dissent, as exemplified in sub-cultures and counter-cultures, both historically and today. Our driving question is what is popular culture doing to us, what are we doing to it, and how (or why) might we change this relationship? Fall 2001 through Spring 2004.
Roll over Beethoven: The History of Rock and Roll: (Teaching Assistant, Smith College) Critical overview of the history of rock’n’roll from the 1950s to the present. Topics include the political use of music, the role of race in the creation of rock’n’roll, and the importance of gender and sexuality in rock performance. This American Studies course explores the changing sounds and styles of five decades of rock music, as well as the social and cultural effects of the music. Lectures by Dr. Steve Waksman. Spring 2003.
American Gothic: History and Horror: An introductory-level American Studies course focused on the genre of the gothic, as manifested in American literature and history. Course units focus on colonial witchcraft trials, Indian massacres, and slavery, with primary source readings, as well as historical and literary interpretations from different periods. Students are asked to look critically at the various narratives and the cultural forces that created them, investigating how we frame stories about our own haunted history. Fall 2001. Spring 2002.
As the Century Turns: American Literature 1880 – 1910 and 1980 – present: Introductory level English course considers American literature marking the turn of two centuriesÑthe nineteenth and the twentiethÑparticularly focusing on issues of gender in a changing American society. Focus on using literature as a way to access and understand the ideology and culture of each period, and in considering connections between these turns. Works include Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987 – but written about the previous turn of the century), and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), as well as a wide variety of short stories. Spring 2001.
New Women, New Men: American Literature at the Turn of the Century: Introductory level course focused on American literature from 1880 to 1910, particularly concerned with gender issues in this period of social and cultural change. Readings by authors such as Charles Chesnutt, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Wilkins-Freeman, William Dean Howells, Hamlin Garland, and Charlotte Perkins-Gilman. Students explore how looking back to the previous turn of the century will help us in considering the turn to the 21st century. Fall 2000.
The Gothic Mode: Novels, Short Stories, and Films: Literature course for advanced undergraduates explores the tropes and structures of the Gothic as manifested in traditional and non-traditional texts, including novels, stories, and horror films. Students consider how to define the Gothic, the kind of cultural work performed by the Gothic, and the development and emergence of the gothic form from its beginnings in England to its contemporary manifestations in the United States. Summer 2000.
Critiquing Culture and Media: Personal and Academic Essays: Course for first year students fulfilling the College Writing Requirement. Assignments include studying popular culture objects and textsÑtoys, advertisements, magazines, news coverageÑas objects of critical academic study and close reading. Class activities focus on writing, revising, editing, reviewing, and publishing student essays, including narratives, arguments, and research papers. Class format of both workshops and conferences. Fall 1997 through Spring 2000.
Magazine Writing and Analysis: Special section of College Writing Requirement for Commonwealth College students focused on developing essays for a magazine audience. In addition to writing, revising, and reviewing essays in a variety of forms, students edit class magazines and collectively publish their essays along with letters, art work, advertisements, and associated shorter writing assignments. Spring 1999.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Recipient of a 2022 OER Champion Award. Chosen by students of the UML Open Textbook Working Group recognizing use of OER (Open Educational Resource) materials. March 2022.
English Department Teaching Excellence Award (UML) 2010-2011.
Nominated for Student Government Association Exceeding Excellence in Teaching Award (UML), Spring 2010.
Nominated for Student Government Association Exceeding Excellence in Teaching Award (UML), Spring 2009.
Recipient of the English Department Award for Teaching Excellence (UML), 2006 – 2007.
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2004 – 2005.
LeeAnne Smith White Prize for the Best Essay in American Studies, 2003.
Nomination for Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fall 2002.
Certificate for Demonstrating Excellence in Teaching, Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts, based on student evaluations, Fall 1999 and Summer 2000.
Phi Beta Kappa, National Liberal Arts Honor Society.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Marshall, Bridget M. “The Only Thing a Woman Can Drive is a Broom.” Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism from Signs. 23 May 2022. http://signsjournal.org/chollet/
Marshall, Bridget M. “Witch hunts were all about persecuting powerless women,” Actively Learn. 12 October 2021. https://reader.activelylearn.com/authoring/preview/3943191/notes. This is an adaptation of my piece for the Conversation (2019) with annotations for middle and high school students.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Remembering the Unnamed Women of History as a WikiScholar.” Invited Reflection Essay. WikiScholars Program Blog. 28 January 2020. https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/01/28/remembering-the-unnamed-women-of-history-as-a-wiki-scholar/
Marshall, Bridget M. “Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless,” The Conversation. 28 October 2019. https://theconversation.com/most-witches-are-women-because-witch-hunts-were-all-about-persecuting-the-powerless-125427. As of 15 June 2021, the article has had 185,063 readers, and was picked up by Public Radio International, Salon, and many other outlets around the world.
Marshall, Bridget M. Reprint of “A Tale of Two Graves: Barilla Adeline Taylor and Louisa Maria Wells, Mill Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Nineteenth Century: The Magazine of the Victorian Society of America 38.2 Fall 2018, 30 – 33.
Marshall, Bridget M. “A Tale of Two Graves: Barilla Adeline Taylor and Louisa Maria Wells, Mill Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts.” Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) Quarterly 40.1 Spring 2016, 3-7.
Marshall, Bridget M. “Margaret Foley Sculptor, Mill Girl, Inspired Others to Make Their Way as Artists.” The Lowell Sun. 30 June 2015.
Marshall, Bridget M. The Goody Parsons Witchcraft Case: A Journey into 17th-Century Northampton. Principal Researcher, Writer, and Curator for permanent physical exhibit in the Parsons House, Historic Northampton. Northampton, Massachusetts. Installed October 2002.
Marshall, Bridget M. Animal Crackers: A Tender Story about Death and Funerals and Love. Omaha: Centering Corporation, 1998. Children’s Book. Selected as a Parent Council Award Winner as “an outstanding children’s book” in 1998.
Selected DEPARTMENT SERVICE and EXPERIENCE
Faculty Fellow for Launch@UML. Co-leader with Dr. Sarah Rozelle for program serving all new UML faculty in their first year. 1 June 2021 – 31 May 2022.
Faculty Liaison for Commonwealth Honors Program. Spring 2012.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. January 2017 – August 2018.
Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. September 2016 – December 2016.
Faculty Research Series (Salon) Organizer. Fall 2006 – Spring 2012.
Associate Chair, English Department. September 2022 – present.
Faculty Co-Advisor (w/ Dr. Matt Hurwitz) to Sigma Tau Delta, English Major Honor Society. Fall 2019 – present.
Advising Coordinator, English Department. July 2015 – August 2016.
Associate Chair, English Department. June 2014 – May 2015.
Interim Chair, English Department. January 2014 – May 2014.
Associate Chair, English Department. July 2012 – December 2013.
First Year Advisor for All English Majors. Spring 2012.
Co-First Year Advisor (with Dr. Jonathan Silverman) for English Majors. Fall 2011.
Current Committee Service
Scheduling Committee. Member. September 2021 – present.
Literature Committee. Member. September 2021 – present.
English Department Personnel Committee. Member. Fall 2019 – present.
English Department Curriculum Committee. Member. Spring 2020 – present.
Disability Studies Program Development Committee. Member. Fall 2006 – present.
Tsongas Industrial History Center Faculty Advisory Board. Fall 2010 – present.
American Studies Committee. Member. Fall 2006 – present.
Past Committee Service
Search Committee for Music Department Chair Search. Member. Spring 2021 (previous search interrupted by Covid).
Chair’s Advisory Committee. Fall 2020 – Spring 2022.
Co-Chair, Literature Concentration Task Force. Fall 2019 – Spring 2021.
Search Committee for Music Department Chair Search. Member. Spring 2020 (search interrupted by Covid).
University-wide Advising Committee. (A Sub-Committee of the Committee on Transformational Education). Member. Fall 2012 – Spring 2018.
University Centers and Institutes Review Committee. Member. Summer 2015.
Chancellor’s 20/20 Challenge Grant Committee. Member. Fall 2015. Fall 2016.
Chair, English Department Personnel Committee. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
Chair, English Department Advising Committee. Fall 2012 – Spring 2016.
Evaluation Committee for Open Source Materials Mini Grant. Member. Evaluated proposals for faculty mini-grant applications to incorporate open-source material. December 2015.
English Department Personnel Committee. Member. Fall 2012 – Spring 2015.
English Department Curriculum Committee. Member. Fall 2012 – Spring 2015.
Chair, Search Committee. FYWP Coordinator Position. Feb. – June 2014.
Chair, College-Wide Course Evaluation Design Committee. Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
University-wide Committee on Revising General Education, convened by Charlotte Mandell. May 2012 – October 2012.
English Department Curriculum and Advising Committee. Spring 2011 – Spring 2012.
English Department Literature Concentration Steering Committee. Spring 2011 – Spring 2012.
Events, Calendar, and Website Committee. Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
Common Text Committee. Fall 2005 – Spring 2011.
Transfer Advising Committee Co-Chair. Fall 2010.
English Department Curriculum Committee. Fall 2010.
Search Committee for School of Education Lecturer Position Search. Member. Spring 2012.
Search Committee for Americanist position. Member. Fall 2010 – Spring 2011. 331 Applicants. 2 Hires.
Search Committee for Poetry Position. Member. Fall 2009. 170 Applicants. 2 Hires.
American Literature Committee. Fall 2009 – Fall 2010.
Creator and Presenter for FAHSS Admissions event for high school students: “13 Ways to Kill a Vampire: Or, How the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences Can Help You Save the World.” 18 October 2022.
Invited Guest for Disability Dish: The UML Perspective (Episode 5), a Podcast produced by UML’s Disability Services Office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u36cFWHABg June 2022.
Facilitator for CELT Hybrid Reflection and Policy Discussion for UML Faculty in the 2021-2022 Hybrid Teaching Pilot. 23 May 2022.
Mentor for new first-generation undergraduate student under the Faculty/Staff River Hawk Scholars Academy (RHSA) Mentoring Program. Fall 2021-Spring 2022.
“Using Principles of Universal Design for Student Success.” PELT Workshop co-presenter with Dr. Brent Shell. 10 August 2021.
“Quick Intervention: Mid-Semester Course Evaluations with Keep / Start / Stop.” Presentation on Pedagogy Panel & Discussion. UMass Lowell Annual Faculty Symposium. 7 November 2019.
Board of Higher Education Performance Incentive Fund (PIF) Project. UML – MCC Collaborative project focused on ELO of Critical Thinking. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
“Guiding Students Along the Degree Pathway.” Panelist for presentation for Advising Week Preparation Sessions for Academic Advisors. 2 April 2015.
“Connect Training 4-hour Training session.” Co-presenter for training session for 8 faculty and staff members on suicide prevention. 26 February 2015.
“Using Primary Sources in Your Teaching.” Presentation (w/ co-presenter Martha Mayo) for faculty in the series Transformational Tuesdays. 18 November 2014.
“Service Learning Options in Disability in Literature.” Poster. UMass Lowell Disability Studies Conference. 12 November 2014.
“A Writer’s Reference: Custom Handbook for UMass Lowell.” Poster. UMass Lowell Faculty Teaching and Learning Symposium. 6 November 2014.
“Advising Practices in the English Department.” Poster. UMass Lowell Faculty Teaching and Learning Symposium. 6 November 2014.
Faculty Presenter (one of four) for New Faculty Welcome Event. 15 October 2014.
E-Portfolios Assessment Group. Reviewed student portfolios collected in Digication platform and participated in assessment meetings. Fall 2014.
First Year and Transfer Student Advising at Summer Orientation. June 2014.
Board of Higher Education Performance Incentive Fund (PIF) Project. UML – MCC Collaborative project focused on ELO of Social Responsibility. Fall 2013.
Faculty Presenter (one of four) for New Faculty Welcome Event. 17 October 2012.
Designed and initiated the “Outstanding Writing Award in the Field of Disability” for undergraduate students; served on committee to evaluate submissions for the award. Spring 2011.
Panel Presenter for “Teaching First-Year Students: Lessons Learned & New Directions,” Conversation Dinner. 17 November 2010.
Student Literary Society Co-Advisor. Fall 2006 – Spring 2012.
Disability IDEA Group Member. Fall 2009 – Summer 2012.
American Studies IDEA Group Member. Fall 2010 – Spring 2012.
Center for Women and Work Craft Fair Participant-Exhibitor. Fall 2009, Fall 2010.
First Year Student Summer Advising. July 2008, June 2010, June and August 2014.
Talk About Teaching Writing Presenter. October 2007.
Placement Test Reader. Summer 2006, Summer 2007.
Student Research Symposium Scheduling Organizer. Spring 2006.
Common Text Essay Award Reader. Fall 2005, Spring 2006.
Common Text Film Host. Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008.
Applying to Graduate School: Presentation to Undergraduates in English. November 2005.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
International Gothic Association
Society of Early Americanists
American Studies Association
American Association of University Professors