IMAGE OF Diana Archibald

Diana C. Archibald, Ph.D.

Professor, Internship Coordinator

Pronouns
she/her
College
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
English
Phone
978-934-4199
Office
O'Leary Library - 477

Expertise

Charles Dickens, Victorian Fiction, British Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Digital Humanities, Service-Learning

Research Interests

British literature of the long 19th century, in general, and more specifically the following: Charles Dickens especially his relationship to America and non-British locales; intersections of gender and imperialism in Victorian prose; emigration studies and transatlanticism; corpus stylistics and digital humanities; creative non-fiction, especially travel writing; and the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially service-learning.

Education

  • Ph D: English, (1998), Washington State University - Pullman, WA
    Supporting Area: 19th & 20th Century & Medieval British Literature
    Dissertation/Thesis Title: Constructing Home Sweet Home: Domesticity and Emigration in the Victorian Novel
  • MA: English, (1992), California State University - Sacramento, CA
  • BA: Religion, (1986), Pacific Lutheran University - Parkland, WA
    Supporting Area: Concentration in Theology and Ethics, Minor in English

Biosketch

Diana Archibald specializes in the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, and Anglo-American transatlantic studies, particularly 19th-century immigration. Her latest (co-edited) book, Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits (UMass Press, May 2015), further develops material gathered for "Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation," the award-winning public humanities exhibition at the Lowell National Historical Park in celebration of Charles Dickens's bicentennial (March 30-October 20, 2012). Archibald was co-curator and lead scholar of the exhibition and the Director of a seven-month slate of public programming for the "Dickens in Lowell" event series, funded by the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation. The exhibition, along with other legacy projects, is available online.

Her most recent article, 鈥淟anguage in Place: A Computational Analysis of American Notes,鈥 in a Nineteenth-Century Prose special issue on Dickens and Non-Fiction was published in Spring 2019. She plans to continue employing corpus linguistics tools to investigate transatlantic topics, including an analysis of how, on a linguistic level, Dickens characterizes a perceived American propensity to gun violence, materialism, and jingoism. She has also begun working on an editing project in order to publish a 1939 European travel narrative written by a first-generation American who journeyed to the homeland of his immigrant parents on the eve of WWII.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • "Exceeding Excellence in Teaching" - 51视频 Student Government Association
  • Teaching Excellence Award - English Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • 51视频 Service-Learning Award (2013), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Honors Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2012), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Leadership in History Award of Merit (2012), Leadership - American Association for State and Local History
  • Administrative Fellow (2006) - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • University in the City Scholar Award (2003), Scholarship/Research - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Who's Who Among American Teachers (2001)
  • Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999) - Washington State University
  • Second Prize Humanities Division (1994) - Graduate and Professional Student Association Research Exposition, Washington State University
  • First Prize Humanities Division (1993) - Graduate and Professional Student Association Research Exposition, Washington State University
  • Inducted Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society (1990)

Selected Publications

  • Archibald, D.C. (2019). Article author: 鈥淟anguage in Place: A Computational Analysis of _American Notes_鈥 in Nineteenth-Century Prose, special issue on Dickens and Non-Fiction. Nineteenth-Century Prose.
  • Archibald, D.C. (). 鈥淢any Kinds of Prisons: Charles Dickens on American Incarceration and Slavery鈥 forthcoming fall 2019. Iperstoria.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2018). Chapter author: 鈥淚ntroduction鈥 in American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens. A new scholarly edition by Universitas Press . Universitas Press
  • Archibald, D.C. (2017). Chapter author: 鈥淒ickens and the Public Humanities: A Service-Learning Approach鈥 in Teaching Victorian Literature in the 21st Century: A Guide to Pedagogy, ed. Jen Cadwallader and Laurence W. Mazzeno. .
  • Archibald, D.C. (2016). Article author: 鈥淒ickensian Liminal Ports and Issues of Ambiguous or Hybrid National Identity: Boston and Boulogne鈥 in Repr茅sentations, a journal published by the University of Grenoble Stendhal.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2015). Chapter author: 鈥淒ickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation Exhibition Narrative with Illustrations鈥 .
  • Archibald, D.C. (2015). Chapter author: 鈥淒ickens鈥檚 Visit to the Perkins School and 鈥楧octor Marigold鈥欌.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2015). Chapter author: 鈥淚ntroduction: Dickens and Massachusetts, the Republic of His Imagination鈥 .
  • Archibald, D.C., Brattin, J.J. (2015). Book co-editor and main contributor: Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits (pp. 224). University of Massachusetts Press
  • Archibald, D.C. (2015). Chapter author: "Learning Across 'Different Zones': Bridging the Gap between 'Two Nations' through Community Engagement" in Service Learning and Literary Studies in English, Roberta Rosenberg and Laurie Grobman, eds. (pp. 12). Modern Language Association of America
  • Archibald, D.C. (2014). Chapter author: "Hasten to the Land of Promise: The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens鈥檚 Life and Literature" in Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand, Tamara Wagner, ed. (pp. 37-47). Pickering & Chatto
  • Archibald, D.C. (2013). Guest Co-Editor of Dickens Quarterly for Special Issue on Bicentenary (30:2).
  • Archibald, D.C. (2013). Lead scholar and writer, co-producer, and host for digital humanities project: Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2013). Lead scholar, contributing writer, and co-producer for digital humanities project: Charles Dickens in Lowell: A Virtual Walking Tour.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2013). Review essay author: Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens by John Gordon. Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
  • Archibald, D.C. (2011). Review essay author: The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens by Jon Mee. Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
  • Archibald, D.C. (2011). Review essay author: Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination by Janet C. Meyers. Journal of British Studies, 50(3) 770-771.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2011). Article author: Charles Dickens and Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel. The Victorian Web
  • Archibald, D.C. (2010). Introduction and Guest Editor for Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlanticism, Special Issue: Anti-Americanism in 19th Century British Literature. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, 14(2) 127-286.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2009). Chapter author: 鈥淏arriers and Solutions to Launching an Interdisciplinary Movement: The University of Massachusetts Lowell鈥 in The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Essays on Transformations in American Undergraduate Programs edited by Tanya Augsburg and Stuart Henry.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2007). Article author: 鈥淩ecent Dickens Studies: 2005鈥 in Dickens Studies Annual (extended survey essay discussing 115 essays and books). Dickens Studies Annual.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2006). Review essay author: Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction by Lisa Surridge. Dickens Quarterly, 23(4) 256-258.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2006). Chapter author: "'Of all the horrors鈥he foulest and most cruel': Sensation and Dickens's Oliver Twist" in Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, eds. Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. Ohio University Press
  • Archibald, D.C. (2005). Review essay author: Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction by Catherine J. Golden. Dickens Quarterly, 22(2) 119-121.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2005). Article author: "Uniting Against the Common Foe: Male Bonding and the Reassertion of Patriarchal Power in 'Ithaca'". In-between , 12(1).
  • Archibald, D.C. (2003). Article author: "Writing Lives, Writing Community". The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture , 4.
  • Archibald, D.C. (2003). Article author: "Environmentalism in the Creative Writing Classroom". Academic Exchange Quarterly , 7(4).
  • Archibald, D.C. (2002). Book author: Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel. The University of Missouri Press
  • Archibald, D.C. (2002). Guest Editor of Dickens Quarterly for Special Issue on Dickens and America (19:3 pp. 121-174). Dickens Quarterly
  • Archibald, D.C. (1998). Chapter author: "Angel in the Bush: Exporting Domesticity through Female Emigration" in Imperial Objects: Essays on Victorian Women鈥檚 Emigration and the Unauthorized Imperial Experience, ed. Rita S. Kranidis. . Twayne
  • Archibald, D.C. (1995). Article author: "Beauty, Unity, and the Ideal: Wholeness and Heterogeneity in the Kelmscott Chaucer" in Studies in Medievalism VII, Medievalism in England . Studies in Medievalism VII, Medievalism in England .

Selected Presentations

  • 鈥淚mprisonment in Dickens鈥檚 American Notes鈥 - 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 2019 - Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 鈥淎 Transformative Journey: Norwegian-American Identity and Nostalgia in a 1939 Travel Narrative鈥 - Nordic Association of English Studies conference, May 2019 - Aarhus, Denmark
  • 鈥淔rankenstein in America, 1818-2018" a Fulbright-Hays Sponsored Keynote - Frankenstein in the Wake of Creation Conference; Milan State University, October 2018 - Milan, Italy
  • 鈥淪ervice-Learning Metalanguage: A Model for Talking 51视频 Student Community Engagement鈥 - American Studies and Community Engagement Panel; New England American Studies Association Colloquium, September 2018 - Boston University
  • 鈥淒ickens and the Language of Place鈥 - 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium, August 2018 - T眉bingen, Germany
  • 鈥溾楽alt water in my blood鈥: An Immigrants鈥 Son Journeys to the Homeland鈥 - New England American Studies Association Conference, June 2018 - Lowell, MA
  • 鈥淒ickens and the Politics of American Exceptionalism: 175 Years After American Notes鈥 - 22nd Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 2017 - Boston, MA
  • 鈥淐harles Dickens and the Commonwealth鈥 - The Barbara Pierce Pearmain endowed lecture, September 2016 - Boston, MA
  • 鈥溾楢sking for More鈥: Nigerian Immigrants鈥 Adaptation of Dickens鈥 - 21st Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 2016 - Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 鈥淒igital Dickens: Virtual Travel and Tourism鈥 - 47th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention;, March 2016 - Hartford, CT
  • 鈥淟aura Bridgman and Sophie Marigold: The Literary Legacy to Dickens鈥檚 Visit to the Perkins School for the Blind鈥 - Salem Athenaeum, October 2015 - Salem, MA
  • 鈥淗alifax and Montreal: Canada鈥檚 Liminal Ports鈥 - 20th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 2015 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 鈥淒eafness in Charles Dickens鈥檚 鈥楧octor Marigold鈥欌 - 51视频 Disability Studies Conference 2014, November 2014 - Lowell, MA
  • 鈥淒ickens and Massachusetts: The Other America鈥 - 1st Bi-annual North American Dickens Conference, September 2014 - Salem, MA
  • 鈥淏oston and Boulogne: Dickensian Portscapes鈥 - 19th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 2014 - Bezi茅rs, France
  • "Laura Bridgman and Marigold's Sophie: The Influence of the Perkins Visit on Charles Dickens" - 18th Annual International Dickens Society Symposium, July 2013 - Toronto, Ontario
  • "The London Gentlemen's Club in Dickens" - Literary London Society Conference, July 2013 - London
  • "Dickens in Lowell: Lessons Learned from a Public Humanities Project" - Dickens at 201 panel at the Northeast Modern Language Society Convention, March 2013 - Boston, MA
  • "Literature, Service Learning, and the Engaged Humanities" - Service-Learning Session at the Northeast Modern Language Society Convention, March 2013 - Boston, MA
  • Keynote Address: 鈥淒ickens in Lowell鈥 - Learning in Retirement Association Convocation, September 2012 - Lowell, MA
  • Keynote Address: 鈥淭he Role of the Scholar in Public Humanities鈥 - 51视频 Honors Program Orientation, September 2012 - Lowell, MA
  • 鈥淲riting Lives, Writing Community鈥 - University of Massachusetts Lowell Council on Industrial Theory and Assessment and Council on Diversity 5th Annual Working Conference, November 2011 - Lowell, MA
  • "Dickens and the American Unitarians" - 16th Annual International Dickens Society Symposium, July 2011 - Manchester, NH
  • "Dickens and Massachusetts: Untold Stories" - Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, April 2011 - New Brunswick, NJ
  • "Ports Matter: Transatlantic Travel and Dickens's Perception of America" - 14th Annual International Dickens Society Symposium, August 2009 - Providence, Rhode Island
  • "Village Empowerment, Student Empowerment: A Service Learning Case Study" - Association for Integrative Studies Conference, October 2008 - Springfield, Illinois
  • 鈥淢y Peru: Reflections on Service-Learning鈥 - Saint Anselm College, March 2008 - Manchester, NH
  • "Faculty Development: Interdisciplinary Teaching Fellowship Program" - Association for Integrative Studies Conference, September 2007 - Tempe, Arizona
  • "Writing 51视频 People: Teaching Revision through Metaphor" - Teaching Creative Non-Fiction panel at Northeastern Modern Language Association 36th Annual Convention, March 2005 - Boston, Massachusetts
  • "Boys Will Be Boys or, Raising an American Son" for panel, "Imaginary Siblings and Murdered Caterpillars: Mothering, Gender, and Identity-Formation" - Mothering and Feminism, Association for Research on Mothering 8th Annual Conference, October 2004 - Toronto, Ontario
  • 鈥淓migration in Our Mutual Friend鈥 - 8th Annual International Dickens Society Symposium, October 2003 - Rochester, MI
  • 鈥淪ervice Learning: Citizenship Training鈥 - Democracy, Communication, and Literature, University of Massachusetts Conference, April 2003 - Lowell, MA
  • 鈥溾楬orrid 鈥 wretched, bad, bold鈥: Anthony Trollope and the American Woman鈥 - Victorian Centennial Conference: The Victorian World: Britain, the Empire, and the United States in the 19th Century; Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western US, October 2001 - Los Angeles, CA (delivered in absentia)
  • 鈥淎ngels Abroad: Locating the Victorian Home Outside the Imperial Center鈥 - Locating the Victorians Conference; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, July 2001 - London, UK
  • 鈥淚mporting an Angel from the Margins of Empire: Samuel Butler鈥檚 Ideal Woman in Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited鈥 - Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, April 2000 - Yale University; New Haven, CT
  • 鈥淢oo and Me: Self-Exploration/Self-Disclosure and Community Building on a Composition Listserv鈥 - The 26th Wyoming Conference on English: Remembered Lives , June 1999 - Laramie, WY
  • 鈥淎ssessing Critical Thinking & Student Growth鈥 - Washington State 10th Annual Higher Education Assessment Conference, May 1999 - Spokane, WA
  • 鈥溾楾he Mind Is Its Own Place鈥: Emigration to America in Thackeray鈥檚 Henry Esmond and The Virginians鈥 - Northwest Conference on British Studies, November 1996 - Portland, OR
  • 鈥淩ecovering Lost Voices: Elizabeth Sara Sheppard, a Nineteenth-Century Case Study鈥 - Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 1995 - Spokane, WA
  • 鈥淒iscussing Diversity in a Composition Classroom: Global Perspectives in Research Writing鈥 - Intersections on Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexual Orientation Conference, February 1995 - Pullman, WA
  • 鈥淓lisabeth Frink鈥檚 Chaucer Illustrations: The Ideal and the Earthy鈥; Opening Lecture for Curator鈥檚 Choice Exhibit at the Washington State University Museum of Art, December 1994 - Pullman, WA
  • 鈥淲holeness and Heterogeneity in the Kelmscott Chaucer鈥 - The 9th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, September 1994 - Bozeman, MT

Selected Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

  • Public humanities exhibit lead scholar and co-curator: "Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation" Academic - International, Other (Lowell National Historical Park) - Lowell, MA
    Co-curated a Charles Dickens bicentenary exhibition with objects from international lending institutions. Exhibit based on scholarly case claiming importance of Massachusetts to Dickens's life and works.
  • Art exhibit curator: "Curator鈥檚 Choice: Elisabeth Frink鈥檚 Chaucer Illustrations" Other - Washington State University Museum of Art - Pullman, WA
    Invited to curate this exhibition of 20th c. British illustrations of Chaucer鈥檚 Canterbury Tales.

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

  • Lowell's Past, Preset, and Future: Dickens and Steampunk Service-Learning Projects (2015), Grant - Chancellor鈥檚 2020 Challenge Grant
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Service-Learning Assessment Award (2013), Grant -
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Public Programming for Dickens and Massachusetts Exhibit (2011), Grant - 51视频
    Archibald, D.C. (Principal)
  • Programming grant for Dickens in Lowell (2011), Grant - Theodore Edson Parker Foundation
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Theatre KAPOW presents Dickens's Is She His Wife? (2012), Grant - National Endowment for the Arts NEA
    Archibald, D.C. (Principal)
  • Dickens and Massachusetts Exhibit Creative Economy Grant (2011), Grant - University of Massachusetts President's Office
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Faculty/Student Collaborative Seed Grant (2010), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell Council on Teaching and Learning
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Learn and Serve America (2010), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Family, Work and Community
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Public Service Grant Award (2009), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Archibald, D.C., Duffy, J.
  • Gender Studies Teaching Fellowship Program (2005), - Interdisciplinary Initiatives
    Archibald, D.
  • UMLtimate Studio (2005), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Archibald, D.C., Roehr, K.E.
  • City Lives: Immigrants to Lowell (2003), Grant - Lowell National Historical Park
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Web-Enabled Explication of Poetry (2003), Grant - UMass President鈥檚 Office 2003 Professional Development Grant Program
    Heines, J.M. (Principal), Archibald, D.C. (Co-Principal)
  • Illustrating Dickens (2002), Grant - Lowell Cultural Council
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Dickens and America: Lowell Public Performances (2001), Grant - The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
    Archibald, D.C.
  • City Lives: Senior Citizens of Lowell (2001), Grant - The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
    Archibald, D.C.
  • Writing Lives, Writing Community (2001), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell Council on Industrial Theory and Assessment
    Archibald, D.C.
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell and LHS Teacher Exchange Program (2000), Grant - The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust
    Archibald, D.C.
  • The Universe of Lowell: Lives in the City (2000), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell Council on Diversity and Pluralism
    Archibald, D.C.
  • The Universe of Lowell: Lives in the City (2000), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell Council on Teaching, Learning, and Research
    Archibald, D.C.