Amanda Springs

Dr. Springs is an Assistant Professor of English in the Humanities Department. Her areas of interest include: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Satire and Comedy, Enlightenment Philosophy, Logic, Composition and Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, The Domestic Novel, The Courtship Novel, Early American literature, Contemporary Women’s literature, Native American literature, Multicultural literature, Postcolonial literature.

Things she appreciates: logical reasoning, lyrical writing, and clever wordplay.

Education
  • PhD, English Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • MA. Philosophy, Stony Brook University, State University of New York

  • MPhil, English Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • MA, English Literature/Licenciatura de Cultura y Literatura Anglo-Norteamericana, Saint Louis University and the Universidad de Autónoma, Madrid

  • BA, English Literature/Minor in Gender Studies, University of San Diego

Research
  • “It’s a Private Joke: Comedy as Community and Identity” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2018

  • “Sisters in the City: Sisterhood, Courtship, and Urban Mobility in The Rover and The Feign’d Curtizens” Aphra Behn Society/Burney Society Conference 2017

  • “‘Laughing with a Few Friends in a Corner’: Satire as Community” Swift at 350 Conference 2017

  • Digital Humanities and Identity Roundtable American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2017

  • “Elizabeth Bennet Walks: Pedestrianism, Peripatetics, Privacy, and Plot” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2016

  • “Riding Habits and Writing Habits: Eighteenth-Century Controversy around "Women’s Travel Attire” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2015

  • “On the Road(s): Plotting the British Road Networks in Defoe, Fielding, and Burney” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2014

  • “Fire with Fire: The Responses of Sarah Fyge Egerton and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Robert Gould’s and Alexander Pope’s Attacks on Women” Chawton House Conference 2013

  • “Coaches, Carriages, Characters: Effects of the Eighteenth-Century Transportation Revolution on Women’s Novels” British Women Writers Conference 2012

  • “‘Though sisters’: Sisterhood in the Novels of Jane Austen” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2012

  • “Sister Plots: Representations of Sisterhood in the Narratives of Aphra Behn and Jane Austen” Cambridge Women Writers Conference 2010

  • “Un/Sympathetic Sisters: Enlightenment Philosophy and Representations of Sisterhood in The Delicate Distress and Sophia” British Women Writers Conference 2010

  • “‘This Little Brat of My Brain’: The Life Writings of Delarivier Manley and Charlotte Charke” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2009

  • “Satirical Body, Bawdy Satire: Aphra Behn, the Earl of Rochester, and the (Im)Potence of Satire” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 2009

 

Experience
  • Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Adjunct Professor, First Year Literature and Language, 2008–2015.

  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Adjunct Professor, English; Graduate Teaching Fellow; Writing Fellow, 2004–2015.

  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

  • British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

  • International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

  • British Women Writers Association

  • Aphra Behn Society

  • Heterodox Academy

  • NYC Digital Humanities

  • American Association of University Women

 

Honors & Awards
  • Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2014

  • Writing Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2009–2011

  • Chawton House Library, Visiting Fellowship 2009

  • Teaching Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2007–2008

  • Women’s Studies Scholar, Brooklyn College 2006–2007

Courses
  • English 101: Focus on writing
  • English 102: Introduction to literature
  • English 103: Writing for engineers
  • Humanities 201: Western and world civilization from antiquity to the early modern period
  • Humanities 202: Western and world civilization from the early modern period
  • Humanities 610: Introduction to Philosophy