EDUCATION
Oct., 1993
Ph.D. English Literature, Rutgers University.
Dissertation: Hugh MacDiarmid and Nation: Poetry as
Politics
Director: George Kearns
May, 1989
M.A. English Literature, Rutgers University.
May, 1987
B.A., magna cum laude, English Literature, Macalester College.
1985-86
Non-Degree. University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
PUBLICATIONS
“Available
Rebels and Folk Authenticities: Michelle Shocked and Billy Bragg.” The
Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest. Ed. Ian
Peddie. Padstow,
Cornwall: Ashgate, 2006.
The Routledge Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World
Poetry.
Editor. London: Routledge, 2000; 2002.
"Dr. Funkenstein's
Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication: George Clinton Signifies."
Co-author Joel Stein. Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation,
Aesthetics. Eds. Kevin Dettmar and Bill
Richey. New York: Columbia UP, 1999.
"'Blizzard into Text': Contemporary Cross-Gendered Verse." Co-author
Alan Michael Parker. TriQuarterly
Magazine Winter 1995/96. 125-188.
The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse.
Eds. Mark Willhardt and Alan Michael Parker. London: Routledge, 1996.
"Effective Alienation: Collaborative Teaching and
Defamiliarization." Co-author Peter J. Caccavari. Nebraska
English Journal Fall, 1993. 38-51.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
Associate Professor, 2003-Present
Assistant Professor, 2000-2003
English 110: Composition and Literature
English 180:
Introduction to Literature: Detective Fiction
Introduction to Literature: Cover Versions
English 200:
Introduction to English Studies
English 220:
British Survey I
English 299:
Writing Fellows (co-taught)
English 301:
Advanced Composition: Literary Nonfiction
English 314:
History of the English Language
English 343:
Twentieth-Century British Literature
English 350:
Modern Poetry
Modernist Poetry
Literary Theory
Hardy, Jennings, Larkin, Heaney
Angry Young Men
Chaucer
English 400:
Senior Seminar: Modernism
Senior Seminar: The Responsible Artist
Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH
Assistant Professor, 1998-2000
English 110: Writing One
English 111: Writing Two
English 204: Great Works
English 243: Magazine Writing
English 343: Persuasive Writing
English 346: Pre-Law Writing
English 351: The English Language
English 410: Chaucer
English 433: Nonfiction Prose
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Assistant Professor (Limited Term), 1997-98
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1995-97
Adjunct Lecturer, 1991-1995
Undergraduate Courses
English 102: Critical Reading and Writing: Drama
English 110:
Intensive Writing (Basic Composition)
English 111: Fiction, Non-Fiction &
Composition
English 112: Drama, Poetry, & Composition
English 190: Critical Reading and Writing: Major Genres
English 270: Modernism
English 252:
Writing Non-Fiction Prose
English 300: Advanced Writing: Theory and Practice
Graduate Courses
English 572: Technologies of Representation: The
Politics of Film
English 672: Gender in Contemporary American Culture: Drama,
Film, Poetry
English 698: Independent Study in Queer Theory
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ:
Teaching Assistant, 1987-1991
Major British Writers: Blake to Present, Spring 1991.
Basic Composition 100, Fall 1990 (two sections).
Expository Writing 101, 1987-1990 (three sections per year).
GRANTS AND RELATED
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Knox-Monmouth Sophomore Year Experience Project (supported by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation through a grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest),
2003-2006.
A quantitative and
qualitative study of sophomores’ perceptions of their academic, social, and work
lives during their second-year in college. By participating in both an
online survey and focus groups, sophomores were asked to reflect upon their
coursework, relationship with staff, peers, professors, and advisors, as well as
detail their curricular and co-curricular lives.
Reader, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2002- .
Specialist peer reviewed manuscripts under consideration at
Routledge/Taylor & Francis, including Jago
Morrison’s Contemporary Fiction, Terry Gifford’s Ted Hughes (Routledge
Guides to Literature), and Brian Finney’s Internationalizing the Narration of
a Nation: Recent and Contemporary British Fiction.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE
POSITIONS
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“Covering Authenticity:
A Few Words on Pop Music and Morality, in Three Movements
and a False Start.” Monmouth College. October, 2008. |
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Writer-in-Residence, Young Authors Program. Public School
District 238. Monmouth, IL. 2006-07. |
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ACM Engagement Project:
Sophomore Roundtable. Monmouth College October,
2006. Convener and speaker.
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“The Knox-Monmouth Sophomore Year Project: Some Preliminary
Conclusions.” Engaging Today’s Students in the Liberal Arts:
The Future of Liberal Arts Education. An ACM/Mellon
Collaboration. Coe College. Fall, 2005. |
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Training the Trainers. Associated
Colleges of the Midwest Summer Conference. St. Paul, MN.
June, 2005. Participant. |
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“I Commend You!” Keynote Address for The West-Central District of
the Illinois Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions
Officers. March, 2005. |
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"The Knox-Monmouth Sophomore Year Experience." Midwestern Regional
College Board Conference. Chicago. February, 2005.
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“Leading by the Seat of Your Pants, or, How All the Things I Don’t Know
Won’t Necessarily Hurt Me.” Graduation speech for the
West Central (IL) Leadership Organization. May, 2004.
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Information Literacy in Departmental
Majors,
an ACM-funded interdisciplinary conference. May, 2004.
Convener and speaker. |
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“What the Surgeon Saw, What the Poet Said.” Vital Lines, Vital
Lines Conference. Duke University. April,
2004. Presented with Dr. Karen Brasel, Professor of Trauma
Surgery, The Medical College of Wisconsin. |
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Teaching and Learning
Across the Liberal Arts.
Part Two of Engaging Today’s Students in the Liberal Arts.
An ACM/Mellon Collaboration. Lake Forest College. March,
2004. Conference Organizer and Breakout Session Leader. |
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Monmouth College Merit Day.
January, 2004. Keynote speaker. |
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Engaging Today’s
Students in the Liberal Arts.
An ACM/Mellon Collaboration. Beloit College. Spring, 2003.
Participant. |
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Midwest Faculty Seminar: Modernism & the Cultures of Modernity.
The University of Chicago. March, 2003. Participant. |
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“Selling a Canon: A Contrapuntal Presentation.” Monmouth
College. November, 2002. |
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Engaging Today’s
Students in the Liberal Arts.
An ACM/Mellon Collaboration. Beloit College. Spring, 2003.
Participant. |
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Learning Communities: Promising
Practices for Deepening Learning and Community Engagement. An AAU& P Conference. Atlanta. April, 2002. |
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“Oh…So What Do You Do?: Scots, Cross-Dressers and
Funkateers.” Monmouth College. November, 2001. |
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“I Drink Good Scotch.” Mortar Board Last Lecture Series.
Monmouth College. November, 2001. |
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Re-Defining the Eighteenth Century. Associated College of the
Midwest Spring Conference.
Bjorkenlunden, WI. March, 2001. Participant. |
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“Finding the Surprise: A Life in Academia.” English Department Faculty
Colloquium. Ohio
Northern University. March, 1998.
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“Roots, Rock, Reggae: The Poetics of Rap.” Invited Scholar. Penn
State, Erie – The Behrend College, HRPC
Forum, September, 1997. |
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"Rereading the Contemporary Scottish National Narrative." Midwest
Modern Language Association, 1996. Chair and Respondent. |
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"Loy and Barnes: Modernism's Shifting Perimeters." Midwest
Modern Language Association, 1996. Respondent. |
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"A Cross-Gendered Poetry Reading." Modern Language Association,
1995. Convener and Moderator. |
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"National Borders in Nineteenth Century Scottish Literature"
Midwest Modern Language Association, 1995. Respondent. |
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"Gender and the Dramatic Monologue." Midwest Modern Language
Association, 1995. Chair. |
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"Postmodern Poetry, Body Inscription and Machine Performance." The
UST Critical Theory Symposium on Belief, Community and the Postmodern,
1994. Moderator. |
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"Scottish Literature: What's It Mean to Be A Scot?" Midwest
Modern Language Association, 1994. Chair. |
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"Pinning Down New Metaphors: Hugh MacDiarmid Wrestles with
Hegemony." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1993.
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"Collaborative Teaching as a Model for Student Writing." The
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1992. |
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"The Influence of Red Clydeside:
Historic and Fantastic Dystopias in Alasdair Gray's Lanark."
Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992. |
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"Effective Alienation: Collaborative Teaching and
Defamiliarization." The Penn State
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1992.
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"Samuel Beckett and the Post-Modern Body." Northeast Modern
Language Association, 1992. Chair. |
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"Utopian Criticism, Utopian Society: A Look at Fredric Jameson's
The Political Unconscious." New Jersey College English
Association, 1991. |
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"The Language Poets as Marxists." Rewriting the (Post)Modern: (Post)Colonialism,
Feminism, Late Capitalism. University of Utah, 1990. |
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Distinction in
English, M.A., Rutgers University.
Harry Scherman Award for Literary Criticism,
Macalester College.
F. Earl Ward Endowed Prize in English, Macalester College.
Highest Honors, Honors Program, Macalester College.
Bennet
Cerf Endowed Prize in English, Macalester College.
J.S. Black Prize in Scottish History, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Carol A. Wurtzebach Endowed Prize in Oral
Interpretation, Macalester College.
Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College
MONMOUTH COLLEGE ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
Math Hiring Committee Spring 2008
Introduction to the Liberal Arts Course Coordinator, 2007-
FIDC Chair, 2005- Fall, 2006
Advising Website Design and Implementation, Spring 2006
Departmental Co-Chair, 2004-05
Chicago Humanities Festival Fellow (Hosting MC CHF Fellows annually) 2004-
Faculty and Institutional Development Committee Member 2003-
CATA Hiring Committee Spring 2003
PAC Chair, 2002-2004
Information Systems Taskforce 2002-2003
Public Affairs Committee Member, 2001-04
Web Coordinator Hiring and Oversight Committee, 2001-02
Information Literacy Taskforce, 2001-04
ACM Newberry Library Seminar Campus Adviser, 2001-
Convocation Committee 2001-02
English Department Search (Early Modern Period), Fall 2001
Mentoring Week Committee (Co-Chair), 2000-03
MC and ACM Web Site Evaluation Task Force (Co-chair) 2000-03
Departmental Webmaster, 2000-05
Inkwell
(Departmental Broadside),
2000-02