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Anne Cavender
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Anne Cavender

Anne Cavender Ph.D.

Associate Provost for Faculty & Academic Innovation, Senior International Officer
English

Education

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Washington
  • B.A., East Asian Studies, Middlebury College

Professional Background

Administrative Experience

  • University of Redlands, Provost's Office, Associate Provost for Faculty & Academic Innovation, October 2022 – present. 
  • University of Redlands, College of Arts & Sciences, Associate Dean of Academic Programs & Curriculum, 2018-2020

Faculty Appointments

  • University of Redlands, Assistant, Associate (tenured), and Professor of English, 2002-present 
  • Affiliate Faculty: Asian Studies Program
  • Woodrow Wilson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2000-2002

Affiliations

  • American Conference of Academic Deans

  • American Comparative Literature Association

  • Association for Asian Studies

  • Association of American University Professors

  • Modernist Studies Association

  • NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Publications

Selected Academic Conference Papers

  • “Without Invention Nothing is Well-Spaced: A Spatial Approach to William Carlos Williams.”  University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C. 2019.
  • “Gender & Pedagogy in H.D.’s HERmione.”  Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Annual Meeting; Columbus 2018.
  • “ ‘Words from a Child’s Primer’:  H.D. and Progressive Education.”  Accepted for H.D. International Society Panel: H.D.’s Modernist Revolutions, MSA 2015.
  • “The Entomological Sublime in H.D. and William Carlos Williams.”  MSA 2007.
  • “Erotic Hermeneutics in Williams and Joyce.”  Co-organizer of panel and presenter.  MSA 2005.
  • “The Poetic Foundation of Civil Institutions in Giambattista Vico and Classical Chinese Poetics.”  American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Penn State, 2005.
  • “’Everything We Know is a Local Virtue’:  William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and the Act of Reading America.”  American Literature Association Annual Meeting; Boston, 2005.

 

Publications

  • Literary Modernism and Progressive Education.  Book manuscript in progress.
  • Cavender, Anne L.  “‘Words from a Child’s Primer’:  H.D. and Progressive Education.”  Manuscript in progress for submission to Feminist Modernist Studies.
  • Cavender, Anne L. “The Aberrant is the Classic’:  William Carlos Williams’s Philosophy of Education.”  Journal of Aesthetic Education (Forthcoming, Spring 2024).
  • Book Review:  "Joyce on the Threshold," Anne Fogarty and Timothy Martin, eds. (UP Florida 2005).  James Joyce Quarterly 44.3 (Spring 2007): 595-598.
  • “The Ass & the Four:  Oppositional Figures for the Reader in Finnegans Wake.” James Joyce Quarterly 41.4 (Summer 2004): 665-687.
  • Book Review:  "Knowledge of Things Human and Divine:  Vico’s New Science and Finnegans Wake,” by Donald Philip Verene. (Yale UP 2003). James Joyce Quarterly 41.3 (Spring 2004): 554-557.

 

Awards and service

  • HERS Institute, Bryn Mawr College, 2019.  Higher education leadership development program for women.

  • Provost’s Grant Proposal Writing Fellowship, University of Redlands, 2018. 

  • Faculty Review Committee Research Grant, University of Redlands, 2017

  • American Conference of Academic Deans Workshop, “Learning to Thrive ‘In-Between’: Succeeding as an Assistant/Associate Dean,” AAC&U Annual Meeting, 2018.

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Redlands Faculty Review Committee, 2014.

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, University of Redlands, 2011.

  • Faculty Review Committee Research Grant, University of Redlands, 2007.

  • Freeman Foundation Grant, ASIANetwork “College-in-Asia” Summer Institute, 2004.

  • National Endowment for the Humanities and Asian Studies Development Program Grant, 2001.

  • Blakemore Foundation Grant.  National Taiwan University, 1999-2000. 

Invited Talks

  • “The Terracotta Warriors:  History and Culture of Pre-Han China.”  University of Redlands Alumni Association; Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, 2008.

  • “James & Nora Joyce.”  UoR Alumni Association; Old Globe Theater, San Diego, 2005.

  • “Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research at an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Institution.” The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Board of Trustees Meeting; Los Angeles, 2002.

  • “Ancient Chinese Cosmology.”  UoR Alumni Association; Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts; Santa Ana, 2002.

  • “David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song.”  UoR Alumni Association; Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2001.

  • “The Body of Bourne:  Randolph Bourne and American Modernism.” UoR Alumni Association; Mark Taper Forum, 2001.

  • “The Poetic Foundation of Civil Institutions in Confucius and Vico.”  Asian Studies Faculty-Student Research Colloquium, UoR, 2001.