Title: Graduate Student
Department: English
Office: Buttrick 3-33
Email: natalie.a.champ@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- M.A., Vanderbilt University 2005
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2002
Research Area
- Genetics and Literature
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Victorian Science
- The Novel
Current Research
- Late-Victorian nature/nurture debates, biological determinism and early twin studies
Current Courses
- Fall 2007: English 100.11 - THE SCIENCE OF IDENTITY: BIOLOGY, CULTURE AND IDENTITY FORMATION. Texts include Atwood's Oryx and Crake , episodes of The Simpsons and South Park, selections from Signs of Life in the U.S.A , and miscellaneous articles from the New York Times, Newsweek, etc. Because this is a writing course, we will also be reading selections from Trimble's Writing with Style and The College Writer's Reference.
Current Positions
- Research Assistant - Jay Clayton 2005 - present
Previous Positions
- Center For Teaching 2005 - 2006 Teaching Affiliate
- Co-Moderator, 19th Century Interdisciplinary Working Group 2005 - 2006
- Coordinator, Recruitment and Orientation 2005
- Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, Fall 2005
Professional Societies
Professional Honors
- 2007 College of Arts and Science Summer Research Grant
Publications
- Over the past two years, I have been working with Jay Clayton on the NIH-funded Literature and Genetics project. One of its products is the Literature, Film and Genetics website, to which I contributed over sixty reviews of literature and film that "that confront the social, ethical, and cultural implications of genetics." www.literatureandgenetics.org
