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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Education

PhD, English, University of Iowa, United States
MA, English, University of Virginia, United States
Bachelor, English, Theater Arts, Music, Concordia College, United States

Professional experience

Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah(2018 - Present)
Presidential Graduate Research Fellow at University of Iowa(2013 - 2018)

Memberships

Modern Language Association - present
North American Victorian Studies Association - present

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2758

Dr. Marija Reiff

Assistant Professor
PhD in English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Marija Reiff's research and teaching specialties include Victorian literature, modern drama, 19th and 20th century Shakespearean adaptations, and religion and literature. She is a former Presidential Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Iowa, and she has won awards both for her teaching and scholarship. She is also a professional theatre practitioner, with professional acting, singing and directing credits. Sample publications include peer-reviewed articles published in Victorian Review, Women's Studies, Coleridge Bulletin, and the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. She is currently working on a book about popular theatre and religion during the late-Victorian period.

Publications

Marija Reiff, “Not-so-Muscular Christianity: The Effeminate Parsons of the fin de siècle Stage, In Preparation; Not Yet Submitted
Marija Reiff, “Fairies, Femininity, and Fame: Madame Vestris and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1840-1914.” , Published, Victorian Review Blog, 18 December 2019 , pp. N/A--Web Publication, 2019
Marija Reiff, "Censoring the Stage: How Henry Arthur Jones's Saints and Sinners (1884) Used Religious Discourses to Revolutionize the Stage", Submitted, 2019
Marija Reiff, “‘More graceful, more aerial, more perfect’: Madame Vestris’s Oberon, Victorian Culture, and the Feminized Fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” , Published, Victorian Review, 44, 2, pp. 251-268, 2019
Marija Reiff, “Condemned to Be Free’: Lucy Snowe and Existential Angst in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” , Published, Australasian Journal of Victorian STudies, 22, 1, pp. 36-51, 2018

Conference Presentations

Marija Reiff, “Saints, Sinners, and Censorship: Henry Arthur Jones and the Dawn of the New Drama.” , Faculty Lecture Series, , February, 2020
Marija Reiff, “The Examiner of Plays vs. The Evangelical Narrative in Henry Arthur Jones’s Saints and Sinners.” , North American Victorian Studies Association, Columbus, Ohio, United States, October, 2019
Daniel Keegan, The Top Ten Plays You Must Read Before You Die, Sharjah International Theatre Festival, February, 2019
Marija Reiff, “Frankenstein’s Musical Underworld: Exploring Monstrous Divinity in the National Theatre’s 2011 Production.” , Fates of Frankenstein Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, November, 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2021
Faculty Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2019
Faculty Development Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2018

Awards and Honors

Received, Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2019
Received, Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship (decline), Lilly Foundation, 2018
Received, Presidential Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2017
Received, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Iowa, 2016
, Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2013
Received, Balch Prize for Best MA Thesis, University of Virginia, 2013

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