Dr. Rebecca M. Mills

Employment

Associate Professor of English	Hillsborough Community College	Tampa, FL	2007…
Assistant Professor of English	Hillsborough Community College	Tampa, FL	2003–07
Adjunct English Instructor	Hillsborough Community College	Tampa, FL	2002–03
English Teacher	Durant Senior High School	Plant City, FL	2001–03
Research Associate	Oxford University Press	Oxford, UK	1997–01
English Tutor	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK	1997–00
Teaching Assistant	University of Western Ontario	London, ON	1993–94

Education

University of Oxford, England

Doctor of Philosophy	English Language and Literature	1997–02
	Dissertation: “‘Thanks for that Elegant Defense’ Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century”
Master of Studies	Research Methods in English	1996–97

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Master of Arts	English Language and Literature	1993–94
Honors Bachelor of Arts	English Literature and Classical Studies	1989–93

academic awards

University of Oxford, England

Doctoral Fellowship	Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada	1998–00
Commonwealth Scholarship	Association of Commonwealth Universities	1996–99

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Special University Scholarship	1993–94
Admissions Scholarship	1993
Faculty of English Award	1992
Ashbaugh Presidential Scholarship	1989–90

St Andrew's University, Scotland

Junior Year Abroad Exchange Studentship

1991–92

PUBLICATIONS

Under Review

“‘She is a decent woman and in misfortunes’ How a literary transaction ruined the reputation of Elizabeth Thomas”

Articles

“‘To be both Patroness and Friend’: Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 38, 2009.

“Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710): Poet, Protofeminist and Patron.” in Women and Poetry 1660-1750, ed. By Sarah Prescott and David E. Shuttleton, London: Palgrave, 2003.

“‘That Tyrant Custom.’ The Politics of Custom in Poetry and Prose by Augustan Women Writers, 1673-1722.” Women's Writing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2000, 391-409.

Biographical Entries - New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press)

Agnes Bulmer and Elizabeth Thomas as author; 92 additional entries as coauthor

Book Reviews

Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (2008) by Shannon

Miller. Web. For H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. February, 2009 2009

Masters of British Literature (2007) Eds. D. Damrosch, K. Dettmar. Pearson/Longman 2006

The Writer’s World (2006) by L. Gaetz, S. Phadke. Pearson/Prentice Hall 2005

The St. Martin’s Handbook, 5th ed. (2003) by A. Lunsford. Bedford/St. Martin’s 2005

MyCompLab 2.0 (2005) Longman Publishers 2005

Practice and Assess (2005) Longman Publishers 2005

Patterns for College Writing, 9th ed. (2004) by L. Kirszner, S. Mandell. Bedford/St. Martin’s 2004

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker (1997) Ed. C. Wilson.

In The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 197 (1999), 103. 1999

Papers & presentations

Hillsborough Community College (HCC), Florida

“‘Love without Hope is like Breath without Air’ Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry at a Two-Year College”	ASECS	Richmond, VA	3/26/09
“‘She is a decent woman and in misfortunes’ How a literary transaction ruined the reputation of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)”	SEASECS	Charlotte, NC	3/5/09
“‘To be both Patroness and Friend.’ Platonnes, Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism at the turn of the eighteenth century”	ASECS	Atlanta, GA	3/22/07
“SLA Teaching Strategies for Developmental Writing”	COBEC (Consortium for Belize Educational Cooperation)	Ybor City, FL	7/27/06
“Remedial/Developmental English Teaching Strategies”	Belize Annual Café Workshops, Corozal Junior College	Corozal, Belize	6/3/05
“‘Belize it!’ The Belize Summer Institute”	CCID (Community Colleges for International Development)	San Diego, CA	2/21/05
“‘Belize it!’ The Belize Summer Institute”	Faculty in-service, HCC	Tampa, FL	8/23/04
“The Rational of Cooperative Learning: Theory and Practice”	The Journal Club, HCC	Tampa, FL	3/26/04

University of Oxford, England

“‘That Tyrant Custom’: The Politics of Custom in Poetry and Prose by Augustan Women Writers, 1673-1722”	Graduate Seminar Day	Faculty of English, Oxford	10/24/98
“‘With Malice still opprest.’ The Polemical Poetry of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)”	Women, Texts, History 1500-1700 Seminar	Mansfield College, Oxford	1/28/98
“Picking up the Petals: The Anthologization of Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710)”	Sociology of Texts Seminar: Pre-1830	Faculty of English, Oxford	2/17/97
“‘Like a lush Rossetti portrait’—Pre-Raphaelite Images of Femininity in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle”	English Department Conference	Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Wales	3/25/96

Academic Service

Hillsborough Community College, Florida

Chair, Search Committee for English/Communications Department	2010
Member, Faculty Instructional Technology Committee	2006…
Member, Distance Learning Sub-Committee	2006…
Chair, Cluster 1 (Communications Department)	2004–07
Member, Search Committee for English/Communications Department (Multiple Times)	2004–08
Faculty Advisor, The Hawkeye	2005–06
Chair, Professional Development Committee	2005–06
Visiting Professor, Belize Summer Institute (Corozal Junior College)	2005
Visiting Professor, Belize Summer Institute (Muffles Junior College)	2004
Conference Facilitator, CCID (Community Colleges for International Development)	2003–05
Chair, English Department Textbook Committee	2003–05

University of Oxford, England

English Graduate Mentor	1997–99
President, Oxford University Canadian Society	1997–98
Secretary, Oxford University Canadian Society	1996–97

Professional Development

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

EDH 6061	Community College in Higher Education	2005
EDH 6938	Seminar in College Teaching	2004

Detailed summary of courses taught regularly

Hillsborough Community College, Florida

ENL 2012*	3 credits	British Literature: The Anglo-Saxon period to Pre-Romanticism
ENL 2022	3 credits	British Literature: Writers from the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
ENC 1101*	3 credits	Composition 1: Critical writing, grammar, mechanics, & usage
ENC 1102*	3 credits	Composition 2: Research writing in response to literature, argumentation & logic
ENC 0020	4 credits	College Preparatory Writing: Grammar, mechanics, paragraph, & essay writing
IDS 2110*	1 credit	Interdisciplinary Studies: Contextualizing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

*Courses I teach as hybrid and/or as distance learning courses in addition to the regular classroom delivery method