Bisla, Sundeep
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Degree Institution Field Dates PhD University of Sydney English 2000 MA Yale University English 1994 BA Harvard University English 1991 Full-Time Academic Experience
Part-Time Academic Experience
Non Academic Experience
Employment Record At This Institution
Rank Dates Assistant Professor (untenured) Fall 2004-Spring 2010 Assistant Professor (tenured) Fall 2010-2015 Associate Professor Fall 2015-Present Publications In Field Of Expertise
- Books:
Bisla, Sundeep. Wilkie Collins and Copyright: Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2013; paperback 2017. .
- Papers in Professional Journals:
- Articles:
Bisla, Sundeep. "Over-Doing Things with Words in 1862: Pretense and Plain Truth in Wilkie Collins's 'No Name'." Victorian Literature and Culture. 38.1 2010: 1-19.
Bisla, Sundeep. "The Return of the Author: Privacy, Publication, the Mystery Novel, and 'The Moonstone'." Boundary 2. 29.1 2002: 177-222.
Bisla, Sundeep. "Copy-Book Morals: 'The Woman in White' and Publishing History." Dickens Studies Annual. 28 1999: 103-49.
Bisla, Sundeep. "Reading the Native Informant Reading: The Art of Passing on Empathy in 'Beloved'." Cultural Critique. 42 1999: 104-36.
Bisla, Sundeep. "The Manuscript as Writer's Estate: Sensation Fiction, Wilkie Collins's 'Basil,' and the Early-Victorian Copyright Act." Genre. 31.3-4 1998: 269-304.
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- Chapters in Books:
Bisla, Sundeep. "The Ghost in the Machinal: De-/Re-contextualizing 'Daniel Deronda'." Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller. 2019: 254-83.
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- Book Reviews:
"Review of Clare Pettitt, 'Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel'" Studies in the Novel 39.1 2007: 130-32.
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Presented Papers, Lectures, And Exhibitions And Performances
"Unproductive Reproduction in the New Historicism's 'Daniel Deronda'" November 9, 2016: CUNY Victorian Research Seminar, Graduate Center.
"A New Model for Textual Repetition: Moving Beyond the Original vs. Copy Paradigm" November 14, 2011: Works in Progress Series, English Department, York College.
"From Room to Moor, Flinging It out of Doors: Wuthering Heights and the Education of the Good Global Citizen" November 13, 2010: North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference.
"The Vampirism of the Sign: Textual Repetition in 'Dracula'" October 6, 2009: CUNY Victorian Research Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center.
"Don’t Wait for the Writing Center: Strategies for doing sentence-level work in the classroom (co-presented with Heather Robinson)" March 5, 2009: York College Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
"Imitation and Genre Insubordination in Wilkie Collins’s No Name" February 2, 2005: CUNY Victorian Research Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center.
"Becoming a Monetary Identity: The Legal Understanding of Authorship" April 24, 2003: Presented in “The Boundaries of Writing and Philosophy” Lecture Series, Creative Writing Program, Columbia University.
Patents
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Work In Progress
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Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships
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Institutional Service
- Service to the Department
Eng. Dept. Mission and Vision Revision Committee: Spring 2014.
Eng. Dept. 125 Final Examination Committee: Fall 2012, 2005-2006.
Eng. Dept. Curriculum Concept Committee: 2010-2013.
Eng. Dept. Curriculum Committee (Chair): 2007-2012.
Eng. Dept. Special Topics Evaluator: 2008-2010.
Eng. Dept. Sharing Teaching Strategies Workshop: 2008.
Journalism Position Search Committee: 2010-2011.
Composition Position Search Committee: 2007-2008.
Post-Colonial Position Search Committee: 2005-2006.
- Service to the School
- Service to the College
York College Faculty Diversity Committee: 2013-Present.
Participant, York College CETL Pilot of Active Learning Curriculum: 2017.
Editor-in-Chief, York Decennial Self-Study for Middle States Commission on Higher Education: 2017-2018.
York College Academic Integrity Committee: 2016-2018.
Re-Reading Across the Curriculum Committee: 2014.
York College Quantitative Reasoning Committee: 2012-2014.
Reading Across the Curriculum Committee: 2011.
York College Curriculum Committee: 2007-2012.
York College Honors Committee: 2006-2010.
Senator, York College Faculty Senate: 2005, 2008-2011.
- Service to the Graduate Center
- Service to the University
- Service to the Department
Offices Held In Professional Societies
Other Professional Activities And Public Service
Teaching Activities At This Institution
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