Miranda Hoegberg

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles (2018-2026)

M.A. in English, University of California, Los Angeles (2021)

National Diploma of Fine Arts, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Limoges (2017) With Special Mention for the Quality of the Works

B.A. in English and French, Indiana University, Bloomington (2014) With Highest Distinction

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow, Teaching Associate, Teaching Assistant, UCLA English Department (2019-2023)
Self-Designed Courses as Teaching Associate and Teaching Fellow
English 115C: The Banned Books List, upcoming summer 2026
English 115C: “‘OK, Boomer’: American Children’s Literature and American Childhood During the Baby Boom Era, summer 2023
English Composition 3: First Year Composition, “Points of View,” fall 2022
English 20W: Introduction to Creative Writing, “Why Do We Write?” spring 2021, summer 2022
English 4W: Critical Reading and Writing, “You Are What You Read” spring 2020, winter 2021

Courses Assisted as Teaching Assistant
English 169: London Summer Program, Prof. Saree Makdisi, summer 2023
English 90: Introduction to Shakespeare, Prof. Arthur Little, fall 2020
English 91C: Introduction to Fiction, Prof. Michael North, winter 2020
English 10B: English Literature 1700-1850, Prof. Saree Makdisi, fall 2019

Courses Graded as Graduate Reader
English 118C: Face Card: Beauty and Contemporary Media, Brenda Wang, summer 2025
English 132: Orientalism and Occidentalism, Prof. Saree Makdisi, winter 2021
English 90: Shakespeare, Prof. Arthur Little, spring 2019
Teaching Assistant, Teaching Assistant Program in France, Lycée Jean Cocteau and Lycée Professionnel Les Alpilles, (2014-15)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Sexual Harm and the Novel: Literary History in Sense and Sensibility,” forthcoming in English Literary History (Summer 2026).
“Fantomina is a Theory of Fiction,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 37, no. 1 (2025), 146-161.

Public-Facing Scholarship
“The Best Use of the Worst Story: Realism and Reality TV,” The Rambling, Issue 17 (2024).
“You Are What You Read: Creating Critical Intimacy in the Zoom Classroom,” podcast episode, The Digital Salon Podcast, Season 2 (2021).

Conference Presentations

Selected Conference Papers
“The Two-Body Problem: Resisting Character,” Forms of Resistance: Lessons from the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Panel, upcoming at Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 2027
“Learning to Point,” The Possibilities and Affordances of Literary Evidence Roundtable, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, 2026
“Single Men and the Contingencies of Character,” Masculinity, Sexuality, and Refinement Panel, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2026
“Free Indirect Reading, or Close Style,” Up Close and Literary Roundtable, LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English Forum, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 2026
“The Dilating Orifice and the British Novel,” Keynote, UCLA Spring Athenaeum, 2025
“Doing it ‘Backward,’” Sex: Where, When, How Panel, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2024
“Ecstasy and Exhaustion in La Graine et le Mulet,” Ecstasies of Youth in French and Francophone Media Panel, MLA Annual Convention, 2024
“The Harlot’s House: Using Architectural Practice to Reimagine Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” co-authored with Jan Groza, Graduate Student Panel, MLA Annual Convention, 2024
“Fantomina is a Theory of Fiction,” What is Eighteenth Century Fiction? Strategic Generalizations Panel, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2023
“Hogarth’s Open Doors and the Problem of Perspective in Novelistic Scene-Setting,” Novelistic Fictions Panel, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS) Annual Meeting, 2023
“From ‘unrighteous contract’ to ‘perfect unreserved agreement’: What Fanny Hill’s virgin fake-out can teach us about sex work and the Internet,” Unusual Contracts Panel, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2022
“‘And soft captivity involves the mind’: Coupling Poetry and Property in Phillis Wheatley's Neoclassical Poetics,” Confinement Panel, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2021
“Witches, Ways, and Weird Red Men: Reading Race in The Return of the Native Through Shakespeare,” Re-Ordering Shakespeare Panel, UCLA Southland Conference, 2019

Chaired Panels
Co-Chair with Brenda Wang, “Pointing at the Moon”: Returning to the Scene of Recognition in Sedgwick, upcoming at MLA Annual Convention, 2027
Co-chair with Dr. Lillian Lu, The Lowbrow Eighteenth Century Roundtable, ASECS Annual Meeting Virtual Conference, 2025
Co-chair with Dr. Lillian Lu, Race and On-Screen Imaginings of the Long Eighteenth Century Roundtable, ASECS Annual Meeting, 2022

PUBLISHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, UCLA (2019-present)
Managing Editor for Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2022-present
Research Assistant for Professor Sarah Kareem, 2023
Research Assistant, cityLAB, UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, summer 2021
Research Assistant for Professor Emerita Karen Rowe, 2019
Reading Room Assistant, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles (2019)
Production Assistant, Association Mes Mains en Or, Limoges (2017-2018)

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Peer Review of Article Submission, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2026
Co-Coordinator, UCLA Nineteenth-Century Working Group, 2022-2023
Co-Coordinator, UCLA Eighteenth-Century/Romantics Working Group, 2020-2022
Organizing Committee, Emergences: UCLA Southland Annual Conference, 2021
Organizing Committee, Insights/Oversights: UCLA Southland Annual Conference, 2020

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

William Andrews Clark Library Dissertation Fellowship, 2025-2026
Dissertation Year Award, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2024-2025
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Department of English, UCLA, 2023-2024
Helene W. Koon Memorial Award, Second Place, for “Hogarth’s Open Doors and the Problem of Perspective in Novelistic Scene-Setting,” WSECS, 2023
Graduate Research Mentorship with Prof. Saree Makdisi, UCLA, 2021-22
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship with Prof. Saree Makdisi, UCLA, 2021
Daiwa House Architectural Competition, Second Prize, for “Second Story Love,” co-created with Cullen Yoshihiko Fu and Jan Groza, 2019
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, 2014

LANGUAGES

English (native fluency), French (advanced proficiency)