Curriculum Vitae

	“Covering Authenticity: A Few Words on Pop Music and Morality, in Three Movements and a False Start.” Monmouth College. October, 2008.
	Writer-in-Residence, Young Authors Program. Public School District 238. Monmouth, IL. 2006-07.
	ACM Engagement Project: Sophomore Roundtable. Monmouth College October, 2006. Convener and speaker.
	“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.
	Training the Trainers. Associated Colleges of the Midwest Summer Conference. St. Paul, MN. June, 2005. Participant.
	“I Commend You!” Keynote Address for The West-Central District of the Illinois Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. March, 2005.
	"The Knox-Monmouth Sophomore Year Experience." Midwestern Regional College Board Conference. Chicago. February, 2005.
	“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.
	Information Literacy in Departmental Majors, an ACM-funded interdisciplinary conference. May, 2004. Convener and speaker.
	“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.
	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.
	Monmouth College Merit Day. January, 2004. Keynote speaker.
	Engaging Today’s Students in the Liberal Arts. An ACM/Mellon Collaboration. Beloit College. Spring, 2003. Participant.
	Midwest Faculty Seminar: Modernism & the Cultures of Modernity. The University of Chicago. March, 2003. Participant.
	“Selling a Canon: A Contrapuntal Presentation.” Monmouth College. November, 2002.
	Engaging Today’s Students in the Liberal Arts. An ACM/Mellon Collaboration. Beloit College. Spring, 2003. Participant.
	Learning Communities: Promising Practices for Deepening Learning and Community Engagement. An AAU& P Conference. Atlanta. April, 2002.
	“Oh…So What Do You Do?: Scots, Cross-Dressers and Funkateers.” Monmouth College. November, 2001.
	“I Drink Good Scotch.” Mortar Board Last Lecture Series. Monmouth College. November, 2001.
	Re-Defining the Eighteenth Century. Associated College of the Midwest Spring Conference. Bjorkenlunden, WI. March, 2001. Participant.
	“Finding the Surprise: A Life in Academia.” English Department Faculty Colloquium. Ohio Northern University. March, 1998.
	“Roots, Rock, Reggae: The Poetics of Rap.” Invited Scholar. Penn State, Erie – The Behrend College, HRPC Forum, September, 1997.
	"Rereading the Contemporary Scottish National Narrative." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1996. Chair and Respondent.
	"Loy and Barnes: Modernism's Shifting Perimeters." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1996. Respondent.
	"A Cross-Gendered Poetry Reading." Modern Language Association, 1995. Convener and Moderator.
	"National Borders in Nineteenth Century Scottish Literature" Midwest Modern Language Association, 1995. Respondent.
	"Gender and the Dramatic Monologue." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1995. Chair.
	"Postmodern Poetry, Body Inscription and Machine Performance." The UST Critical Theory Symposium on Belief, Community and the Postmodern, 1994. Moderator.
	"Scottish Literature: What's It Mean to Be A Scot?" Midwest Modern Language Association, 1994. Chair.
	"Pinning Down New Metaphors: Hugh MacDiarmid Wrestles with Hegemony." Midwest Modern Language Association, 1993.
	"Collaborative Teaching as a Model for Student Writing." The Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1992.
	"The Influence of Red Clydeside: Historic and Fantastic Dystopias in Alasdair Gray's Lanark." Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992.
	"Effective Alienation: Collaborative Teaching and Defamiliarization." The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1992.
	"Samuel Beckett and the Post-Modern Body." Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992. Chair.
	"Utopian Criticism, Utopian Society: A Look at Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious." New Jersey College English Association, 1991.
	"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

MARK WILLHARDT