MARK WILLHARDT

801 East First Avenue
Monmouth, IL  61462
Phone: 309-734-3779
E-mail: mwill@monm.edu
Web Site:  http://department.monm.edu/english/mew/home.htm

EDUCATION

Oct., 1993                   Ph.D. English Literature, Rutgers University                                     
                                            Dissertation: Hugh MacDiarmid and Nation: Poetry as Politics
                                                Director:  Professor 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.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

            ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 2003-Present

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 2000-2003
             Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL

                        English 110:    Composition and Literature
                        English 200:    Introduction to English Studies                                  
                        English 220:    British Survey I
                        English 233:    Research Methods
                        English 299:    Writing Fellows (co-taught with Brigit Sparling)
                        English 301:    Advanced Composition
                        English 314:    History of the English Language
                        English 343:    Twentieth-Century British Literature
                        English 350:    Modern Poetry
                        English 350:    Modernist Poetry
                        English 350:    Literary Theory
                        English 350:    Chaucer
                        English 400:    Senior Seminar in Modernism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 1998-2000
            Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

                        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

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Limited Term), 1997-98

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 1995-97
                University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 

                        Undergraduate Courses
                        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 200:    Written English
                        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

 ADJUNCT LECTURER, 1991-1995
                University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

                                    English 102:    Critical Reading and Writing:  Drama
                                    English 111:    Fiction, Non-Fiction & Composition
                                    English 270:    Modernism                             

            TEACHING ASSISTANT, 1987-1991
                            Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: 

                                    Major British Writers:  Blake to Present, Spring 1991.
                                    Basic Composition 100, Fall 1990 (two sections).
                                    Expository Writing 101, 1987-1990 (three sections per year).           

PUBLICATIONS

"Available Rebels and Folk Authenticities:  Billy Bragg and Michelle Shocked." The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest.  Ed. Ian Peddie.  London: Ashgate, 2005.

The Routledge Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry.  Editor.  London: Routledge, 2000.

           
"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.

 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE POSITIONS

"The Knox-Monmouth Sophomore Year Experience." Midwestern Regional College Board Conference.  Chicago, 2005.

                "Coming to College." Monmouth College. January, 2004; January, 2005.

                    “Selling a Canon:  A Contrapuntal Presentation.”  Monmouth College. November, 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.

"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.

 

SERVICE

 

2001-02           Co-chair, Mentoring Week

                        ACM Newberry Library Campus Representative

                        Public Affairs Committee

                        Convocation Committee

                        Information Literacy Committee

Web Coordinator Advisory Committee

            SOAR

Departmental Search Committee

Departmental Curriculum Committee

2000-01                      Co-chair, Advising Week

Co-chair, Monmouth College and ACM Web Site Evaluation Task Force

ACM Newberry Library Campus Representative

Web Master Hiring Committee

Departmental Representative Admission Open House

Merit Scholarship Day

1999-2000              Presidential Scholars Weekend

A & S Study Abroad Committee

World Student Organization Advisor

Pre-Law Advising Committee

1998-99           Fall Open House Recruitment

Presidential Scholars Weekend

A & S  Study Abroad Committee

International Affairs Committee


Pre-Law Advising Committee

1997-98           First-year Orientation Facilitator

Faculty Advisor The Literary Club/Sigma Tau Delta

First-year Student Advisor

1996-97           First-year Student Advisor

Director, M.A. theses

Reader, M.A. theses

1995-96           Delta Epsilon Sigma Honors Society Initiation Speaker

 

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

 

1989                Distinction in English, M.A., Rutgers University.

1987                Harry Scherman Award for Literary Criticism, Macalester College.

F. Earl Ward Endowed Prize in English, Macalester College.

Highest Honors, Honors Program, Macalester College.

 

1986                Bennet Cerf Endowed Prize in English, Macalester College.

J.S. Black Prize in Scottish History, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

1985                Carol A. Wurtzebach Endowed Prize in Oral Interpretation, Macalester College.

 

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS

 

Modern Language Association

Phi Beta Kappa

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Available upon request.