Sara D. Nyffenegger, M.A.

Education

2008-present PhD candidate, British Literature, University of Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Angela Esterhammer Dissertation Project: Charlotte Bronte and the Negotiation of Gendered Capital

2005-2007 Master of Arts, British Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA Thesis: In Defense of Ugly Women – Marriageability and the Importance of Beauty in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

2002-2004 Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Humanities with an Emphasis in British Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

Conference Papers
"Negotiating Gendered Capital in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801) and Charlotte Bronte's Juvenilia." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, in Park City, USA; August 11-14, 2011.

“Female Appearance in Frances Burney’s Camilla (1798) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).” International Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere, UK; July 30 – August 9, 2008

“The Mirror, Friend or Foe? – Sara Coleridge and the Ill Effects of Society’s Judgment on Female Appearance.” Coleridge Summer Conference 2008, Cannington, Bridgwater, Somerset, UK; July 23 – July 30, 2008

“Jane Eyre, the “Second-Choice Girl”—Society’s Creation of a Woman’s Identity.” Graduate Student Symposium in English Studies, Brigham Young University, March 9, 2007

“Miss Broadhurst’s Impediment: Women and Beauty in Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee.” International Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, UK; July 29 – August 12, 2006

Articles and Contributions to Books

“The Mirror, Friend or Foe? – Sara Coleridge and the Ill Effects of Society’s Judgment on Female Appearance.” The Coleridge Bulletin (NS 33) Summer 2009. 89-95.

“The Little Disturbances of Man.” Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature – Vol. V, Jewish- American Literature. Ed. Cronin, Gloria L., Berger, Alan L. New York: Facts on File, 2009. 171-172.

Affiliations

BAVS - British Association for Victorian Studies

NAVSA - North American Victorian Studies Association

NASSR - North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Bronte Society

Academic Awards & Honors

2010/2011 Peer-Mentoring Project, “Genius for Hire,” University of Zurich

2009 Richard Wordsworth Memorial Postgraduate Bursary, The Wordsworth Conference Foundation

2006 Research Presentation Award, BYU

2006 Wordsworth Award, BYU

2003/2004 Brigham Young Scholarship

2003 Mae Covey Gardner Scholarship, BYU

Conference Organization & Service

Mar 2010-Dec 2011 Successful co-application (group leader) for a Peer-Mentoring Project, “Genius for Hire,” University of Zurich – organization of the Lecture Cycle “Genius for Hire”

March 9, 2007 Organization of the Graduate Student Symposium in English Studies, Brigham Young University

Sept 2006-Apr 2007 Member of the Graduate Student Association Presidency, English Department, Brigham Young University

Jan-Dec 2003 Facilitator for the Vienna Study Abroad Program, for Prof. Dr. Jon D. Green, Humanities Department, Brigham Young University

Teaching

Fall 2011 Textual Analysis, Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Spring 2011 Textual Analysis, Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Fall 2010 Textual Analysis, Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Spring 2010 The Brontë Family, Literature Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Fall 2009 The Woman Question, Literature Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Angela Esterhammer, English Department, University of Zurich (MA Seminar Jane Austen and the Romantics)

Winter 2009 Textual Analysis, Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Fall 2008 Victorian Women, Literature Seminar, English Department, University of Zurich

Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Angela Esterhammer, English Department, University of Zurich (Lecture Course Byron, Byronism, and the Byronic Hero: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know)

Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Leslee Thorne-Murphy, English 375 (Victorian Literature), Brigham Young University

Fall 2006 English 495 (Senior Seminar Victorian Women), Teaching Mentorship with Prof. Dr. Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Brigham Young University

Fall 2003 German 201 (2nd year German) in Vienna, Austria

Fall 2003 Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Jon D. Green, Humanities 202, Vienna, Austria

Winter 2003 Teaching Assistant for IAS 201R (International and Area Studies), Brigham Young University