“For in our own increasingly digitized environment of textual production, in which writing technologies, the materiality of language, and the commerce in words are undergoing radical change, we may be well served in returning our attention to past struggles and to the other ways of understanding originality, textual circulation, and intellectual work.” Lisa Maruca, The Work of Print: Authorship and the English Text Trades, 1660-1760
Research
I am a graduate student in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin where I study eighteenth-century English and Irish literature, book history, and imperialism. Currently, I am an assistant director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab. I have also worked as a graduate research assistant at the Harry Ransom Center, where I helped to curate two exhibitions -- "Norman Mailer Takes on America" and a special exhibition to highlight the Ransom Center's James Joyce Collection for the 2007 James Joyce International Conference, Joyce at Texas.
Teaching
I teach for the Department of Rhetoric and Writing where I am currently an assistant director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab. Click here to view my teaching web pages. I have also been an instructor for SPURS, a joint venture between UT’s Department of Rhetoric and Writing and Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. The program pairs lower-division writing classes at UT with 11th grade AP English Language and Composition classes in Texas high schools. Before entering graduate school, I was a teaching fellow in English at Phillips Andover and an English teacher at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Fransisco.
Contact Information
Assistant Director, Computer Writing and Research Lab
The University of Texas at Austin
Division of Rhetoric and Writing
1 University Station B5500
Austin TX 78712
mollyohardy at-sign mail period utexas period edu
512-471-9293
2008 Summer office locations and hours:
FAC 14 T-Th 11–4, F 11–2