EDUCATION
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Ph.D (awarded December 2001)
Dissertation (defended July 2001):
Comparative examination of themes, language and forms in American and Russian
satirical fiction produced during the Cold War. Directed by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Committee members: Joe Flora, Madeline Levine, Christopher
Putney, Julius Rowan Raper
Written and Oral Examinations passed with distinction
in Fall 1999.
Major: Twentieth-Century American Literature. Minor:
Russian Literature and Language
Master of Arts in English (May 1997)
M.A. thesis: "It's
a Good Idea, But It Won't Work: Redefining of Proletarian Literature through
the Works of John Dos Passos, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and John Steinbeck."
University of Arkansas (August 1991-December
1993)
Bachelor of Arts in English and History, Magna
Cum Laude (Dec. 1993)
Senior honors thesis: "Laughing Through
Clenched Teeth: The Cold War Satire of Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,
Vladimir Voinovich and Aleksandr Zinoviev."
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Online teaching portfolio available at
http://www2.potsdam.edu/mausdc/class/.
Assistant Professor
State University of New York, College at Potsdam, Dept.
of English and Communication
LITR 201: Patterns of Literature (Fall 2005)
This is a new course as of the
Fall 2005 semester, serving as part of a new intermediate core of
"methods" courses designed to give literature students a stronger
grounding in a variety of methodologies related to the discipline. This
course gives experience in recognizing and responding critically to one
or more common narrative (or other structural) strategies, including
topics, plot structures, character types, and other recurrent patterns
used in literature across historical, linguistic, and geographic
boundaries.
LITR 482: World Literature: South Asian Fiction (Fall 2005)
This course looks at a sampling of
contemporary works of fiction by writers (Desai, Ghosh, Hamid, Lahiri,
Mehta, Rushdie, Selvadurai, Suri, Tharoor) associated with the cultures
of the South Asian subcontinent. A
substantial part of our focus in the course will be to examine both the
noteworthy similarities and the striking differences among them in
terms of themes, techniques, attitudes, and styles. The larger goal,
though, is to get a better sense of the complex interweavings of
language, religion, nationality, politics, and aesthetics that exist in
a part of the world about which most North Americans know very little,
despite its cultural traditions that date back thousands of years.
LITR 330: Topics in Film – Mythic Film
Trilogies (Spring 2005)
This course sets out with the assumption that film is one of the main
conduits through which mythic notions enter contemporary American culture, and examines
the ways in which three massively influential film trilogies – George Lucas’s
first three Star Wars movies, Peter
Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, and the
Wachowski brothers’ Matrix movies –
have conveyed various patterns, concepts and even belief systems associated
with mythology. This course was part of learning community with a history
course on hero figures in classical antiquity.
LITR 495: Contemporary African-American Fiction (Spring
2005)
This course attempts a
sampling of some of the variety of contemporary African-American fiction by
approaching it from several different perspectives, some thematic, some
demographic and some critical. It begins with three “literary” novels –
Morrison’s Beloved, Naylor’s Mama Day, and Whitehead’s John Henry Days – discussing them in
terms of how African-American writers have both embraced and expanded upon the
mainstream acceptance of Morrison (and others) within the larger literary
canon. Following this are three pairings of works by one writer each from an
older and a younger generation: James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room paired with E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible Life; Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed paired with Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber; finally, and Chester Himes’s A Rage in Harlem paired with Walter Mosley’s A Red Death.
LITR 481: Contemporary Fiction of the Middle East (Fall
2004)
This course examines a series of
fictional works from the Middle East, including writers from Egypt,
Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey. We
will intersperse our reading with selections from Bernard Lewis's
historical overview of the Middle East as well as other sources on
select topics (e.g., the Crusades, the Balfour Declaration, the
Iran-Iraq War) to get some broader perspective on the region's
long-term political and cultural situation.
LITR 395: Cold War Literature (Spring
2004)
This
course looks at a sampling of American fiction and drama that explicitly
comments on the culture of the Cold War period. Readings ranged from “genre fiction” works such as Pat
Frank’s Alas, Babylon and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz to “serious” works such as E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The course was
part of a learning community that included courses in the history and politics
departments. Cross-listed for credit in the college Honors Program.
LITR 317: The Contemporary
World of Fiction (Fall 2003)
This course takes a broad global view at contemporary fiction
written by authors from five different continents and numerous national and
ethnic groups within those continents. The reading includes an extensive,
challenging, and diverse selection of contemporary works, both selections
from an anthology of contemporary short fiction and novels by Rebecca Wells,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sherman Alexie, and Hanif Kureishi. The primary goal
of the course is to achieve a wider understanding and experience of the multiplicity
of viewpoints from which the world of today can be depicted in fiction.
Qualified for Cross-Cultural general education
credit. Cross-listed for credit in the college Honors Program.
LITR 520: Survey of Contemporary
Asian Fiction (Spring 2003)
This course looks at a sizable body of
contemporary fiction by writers who culturally, nationally, or racially self-identify
as Asian. This includes fiction by Asian émigrés to Europe
and North America (Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Ha Jin), and second-generation
émigrés born outside Asia (Gish Jen, Susan Choi), as well as
writers who have remained in their native countries for most or all of their
lives (Kenzaburo Oe, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Chingiz Aitmatov, Duong Thu Huong,
Banana Yoshimoto).
LITR 343: Introduction to Folklore and Mythology
This course consists of a two-part introduction
into both the forms and functions of folklore and mythology. The expository
and theoretical portion consists of readings from Campbell's The Hero with
a Thousand Faces.
The applied, analytical portion varies with different sections of the
course; one version traces the development of the Arthurian
legend in both literature (de Troyes, Malamud, Coover) and film (Star
Wars, Excalibur, The Mists of Avalon); another uses a series of novels -- e.g., Achebe's Arrow of God, Barth's Chimera, Hesse's Siddhartha, Martel's Life of Pi, Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume, Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories -- to examine the ways in which mythological themes have been reinterpreted for contemporary audiences.
LITR 520: Global
Science Fiction (Summer 2002)
A wide-ranging survey of international
science fiction, beginning with brief anthologized selections from the 16th-19th
century and moving forward through a broader sampling from the 20th century.
Includes anthologies of Japanese and African diasporic sci-fi, as well as
selections by Zamyatin, Capek, and Lem.
LITR 112: Modern Literature
Introduction for non-majors and lower-division
majors to modernist literature in Britain and the U.S. Readings included Joyce,
Hemingway, Twain, Gilman, Lawrence, Cather, Hemingway and a collection of
Harlem Renaissance writers.
LITR 495: What Difference
Does a Hyphen Make? --
Contemporary African and
African-American Fiction (Spring 2002)
Upper-division course comparing themes
in contemporary African and African-American novels. Included texts by Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker, Charles Johnson, Ralph Ellison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sembene
Ousmane, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. Qualified for
Cross-Cultural and Writing Intensive general education credit.
COMP 101: Writing and Critical Thinking
Introductory course required of all
students that gives practice and instruction in a variety of forms of academic
and non-academic writing.
LITR 113: Introduction to Literature
Using a selection of texts from a variety
of global literary traditions, this course gives students a wide-ranging introduction
to the forms and functions of literature throughout the past 4000-plus years.
LITR 317: Southern Literature
-- Then and Now (Fall 2001)
A course designed primarily for English
majors that treats several canonical 20th century authors of Southern literature
(Faulkner, Wright, Welty, O'Connor, McCullers) in comparison with several
recent authors (Brown, Gurganus, Wells, Naylor) to examine how certain themes
closely associated with Southern literature have developed and changed over
time.
GECD 601: Introduction to Research Methods
A core course for graduate students
in the M.A. in Discourse program, this course is a philosophical and technical
introduction into the intricacies, pitfalls, and pleasures of academic research
at the graduate level.
Teaching Fellow
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department
of English (August 1996-June 2001)
Advanced composition course tailored
to meet the needs of upper-division students who wish to concentrate their
writing experience to the discipline of international studies. Offered for
the first time this semester, the course focused on professional writing skills
in the various cognate disciplines that comprise international studies.
Introductory level literature course,
primarily for non-English majors. Included works by Italo Calvino, Bohumil
Hrabal, Alan Lightman, Terrence McNally, Cynthia Ozick, Yasmina Reza, Salman
Rushdie and Art Spiegelman, as well as a selection of contemporary poets.
Password required for viewing (supplied
by me on request). Introductory level literature course intended for continuing
education students, telecommuters and other non-traditional students. Also
open to UNC undergraduates. Included works by Katherine Dunn, Michael Ondaatje,
Yasmina Reza, Salman Rushdie, Robert Stone, August Wilson and a broad selection
international short fiction and contemporary poetry.
Freshman- and sophomore-level introductory
literature course, primarily for non-English majors. Included works by Margaret
Atwood, Italo Calvino, Robertson Davies, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann,
Carson McCullers, Amos Tutuola and a broad selection of contemporary international
short fiction.
Specially-designed "link" program course
tailored to meet the needs of students who wish to concentrate their writing
experience to the discipline of chemistry. Included special examination of
the standard rhetorical strategies of the hard sciences (lab reports, experiment
procedures, etc.), as well as ways in which to improve theoretical or speculative
scientific writing.
Designed primarily for underclassmen
and non-majors, this course provided a basic vocabulary and filmography to
students for understanding and discussing film in an intellectual manner.
Students watched films collectively in a 150-student class, but were evaluated
on their work in the smaller (roughly 25 students) discussion sections.
ENGL 12: Writing Across the Curriculum
Second semester of the university's
required freshman composition cycle. The course, which can be designed with
or without a unifying theme, introduces students to forms and strategies
for academic writing in the humanities, the social sciences and the hard
sciences.
ENGL 11: Composition and Rhetoric
First semester of the university's required freshman
composition cycle. Students evaluate and produce writing in a number of different
styles, including that of public media, speeches and professional discourse.
Instructor
Duke University, Durham, NC
STHV 113: Seminar in Science, Technology
and Human Values (Spring 2001)
Four week modular course for undergraduates
seeking certification in the interdisciplinary Science, Technology and Human
Values program at Duke. This particular module examines some of the ways
in which science and scientists have been depicted in works of literature
and film since 1945. Readings include Italo Calvino, Alan Lightman, Michael
Frayn and a selection of clips from films ranging from The Day the Earth
Stood Still through Contact.
Instructor
Johns
Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Program, Moravian College, Bethlehem,
PA
Whodunit?: Mystery and Suspense in Literature
and Film (Summer 1999)
Intensive three-week residential program
in which academically gifted thirteen to fifteen year-old students take one
course for seven hours a day. Readings included Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler,
Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and selections from
an anthology of parodic mysteries. Films included The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,
Nosferatu, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep,
The Third Man, Rashomon, Rear Window, Sunset
Boulevard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Manhattan Murder Mystery
and The Spanish Prisoner.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW
Unvarnishing
Reality:
Subversive American and Russian Satire
during the Cold
War
The central thesis of the project is
that Cold War culture and politics—especially after the Cuban Missile
Crisis—provided ample raw material for dissident satirists in both the United
States and the Soviet
Union. Though their visions for the future did not
necessarily correspond with each other, these subversive satirists all worked
to invalidate the dominant ideological “scripts” (literal and figurative) that
the ruling elites of both the United States and the Soviet Union used to
construct, conduct, and perpetuate the Cold War. They exposed what they saw as
the fabrications, distortions, and absurdities on which this ideological
conflict was predicated and, in doing so, revealed the ways in which the
continuation of the Cold War was in the best interest of the ruling classes of both sides. These subversive satirists
generally did not limit themselves to criticizing their own countries’
participation in the Cold War, though; rather, they assailed the clay feet upon
which the Cold War’s rhetorical edifice—in which each side could justify
threatening a catastrophic nuclear war in defense of their ideology—was
constructed.
Finding
a Way Home: Critical Essays on Walter Mosley (co-edited with Owen Brady of Clarkson University)
Our volume on Mosley includes twelve to fourteen original essays
presenting a variety of critical perspectives on his corpus as well as a
personal interview in which Mosley responds to some of these interpretations. We
have co-authored an introductory chapter that provides an overview of Mosley’s
literary production and establishes a critical framework for the volume as a
whole and includes a brief survey of the extant criticism of Mosley’s work, an
annotated bibliography of which will appear in an appendix at the rear of the
volume. The volume has the overarching goal of revealing Mosley’s efforts to
depict and comment upon the shifting place of African Americans within the twin
contexts of American culture and a broader Western social/philosophical heritage.
Individual essays isolate and discuss Mosley’s main themes, analyze his
stylistic experiments, clarify the role of the literary artist in developing
social consciousness, and situate Mosley within a number of literary-historical
traditions, both in terms of particular writers (e.g., the influence of Chester
Himes or Ralph Ellison on Mosley and Mosley’s influence on Colson Whitehead)
and in terms of literary forms (e.g., the slave narrative, dystopian
“cyberpunk”, the “hard-boiled” detective novel).
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Teaching The Things They Carried and Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Tim O’Brien (ed. Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway) from the Modern Language Association in 2006.
"Series and Systems: Russian and American Dystopian Satires of the Cold War," Critical Survey, 17.1 (Spring 2005), 72-94.
"Another Roadside Epiphany: Flannery O'Connor's
Wise Blood and Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls as Religious Satires,"
Southern Quarterly, 40.4 (Summer 2002). Portions reprinted in Bloom's Major Short Story Writers: Nikolai Gogol (ed. Harold Bloom). Langhorne, PA: Chelsea House, 2004.
"The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in
the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol' And Nathaniel Hawthorne,"
in Papers on Language and Literature, 38.1 (Spring 2002).
"Space, Time and Things Made 'Strange': Andrei Belyi,
Pavel Filonov, and Theory of Forms" in Studies in Slavic Culture (Spring
2000). pp. 75-103.
"Kneeling before the Fathers' Wand: Violence and
Paternalism in Thomas Pynchon's V. and J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands"
in Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (June 1999). pp.
195-217.
BOOKS EDITED
Volume editor for Living Through The Red Scare. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2005. Part of the "Living Through the Cold War" series.
Volume editor for Living with the Nuclear Threat. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2005. Part of the "Living Through the Cold War" series.
Volume editor for Russia. San Diego, CA:
Greenhaven Press, 2003. Part of the "History of Nations" series.
Volume editor for The Cold War. San Diego,
CA: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Part of the "Turning Points" series.
Volume editor for Readings on Postmodernism.
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2001. Part of the "Literary Movements
and Genres" series.
Volume editor for Readings on The Stranger. San
Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2001. Part of the "Literary Companion" series.
Volume editor for Readings on Crime and Punishment.
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1999. Part of the "Literary Companion" series.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Review of David Seed (ed.), A Companion to Science Fiction, forthcoming in Choice.
Review of Eric S. Rabkin, Mars: A Tour of the Human Imagination, forthcoming in Choice.
Review of Darren Harris-Fain, Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Age of Maturity, 1970-2000, forthcoming in Choice.
Entry on Tortured Skins by Maurice Kenny, for The Encyclopedia of Native American Literature (ed. Alan Velie and Jennifer McClinton-Temple), forthcoming in 2005.
Entries
on “Alain Locke” (3,000 words) and “Joel Spingarn” (1,000 words) in The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
(ed. Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkleman). New
York: Routledge, 2005.
Entries on "East and Central European
Literature" (2000 words), "American Literature after 1900" (1000
words), "The Russian Revolution" (1000 words), "Ernest Hemingway" (500
words), "Vladimir Mayakovsky" (500 words), "John Reed Clubs" (500
words), "John Reed" (500 words) and "Leo Tolstoy" (500 words) in the Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics (ed. Keith Booker), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
"Giving Something Back: An Interview with Maurice Kenny" in Voices of America: Interviews with American Writers (ed. Laura Alonso Gallo). Cadiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004.
Entries on "Alain Locke" (15,000 words) and "Joel
Spingarn" (3,000 words) in Advocates and Activists Between the Wars (ed.
David G. Izzo). West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2003.
"Satirical Subtlety in Lev Tolstoy's Sebastopol
Sketches, War and Peace and Hadji Murad'" in Against
the Grain: Parody and Satire in Russian Literature (ed. by Janet Tucker).
Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 2003.
Review of Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel:
History as Ritual (3rd. ed.), in The Silver Age: Russian Literature and Culture, 1881-1921, vol. 5 (2002), 62-64.
Entries on "Ibuse Masuji" and "Peter Hoeg"
in The Reference Guide to World Literature (3rd ed.). Detroit, St. James Press, 2002.
Entry on "Cynthia Ozick" in The Good Fiction
Guide (ed. by Jane Rogers). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Review of Viktor Pelevin, The Blue Lantern and
Other Stories in The Carolina Quarterly (Spring 2001), vol. 53,
no. 2.
Headnote
and instructional materials for entry on "Thomas Pynchon" in The Heath
Anthology of American Literature, 4th ed. (gen. ed., Paul Lauter). Appears
both in print and online versions.
Entry on "Fyodor Dostoevsky" for the "Major Authors"
section of the College Board Online Learning Collaborative project.
"Walking the Line: Rectifying Institutional Goals
with Student Realities." The Technology Source, February 1998. Available:
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=485.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"The Metamythic Narrative of Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days" at the 2006 International Conference on Narrative in Ottawa, April 6-9, 2006.
"Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days as Historiographic Metafiction" at the 2006 NEMLA conference in Philadelphia, March 2-6, 2006.
"Dead
Souls on the Water: Gogolian Satire in Herman Melville's The Confidence
Man" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
meeting in Boston, MA, December 2004
"Fictional Histories and Historical Fictions:
Fabricated Realities in Yuz Aleshkovsky's The Hand and Viktor Pelevin's
Homo Zapiens" at the 2003 SCMLA conference in Hot Springs, AR, October
30-November 1, 2003.
"Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley Takes Black to the Future,"
at the 2003 NEMLA conference in Boston, March 7-9, 2003.
"The Cold War, Before and After: Changing Perspectives
in Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld" at the M/MLA conference,
Kansas City, MO, November 2-4, 2000.
"Describing the Indescribable: A Comparison of Narrative
Technique in Short Stories about Atrocity" at the M/MLA conference, Minneapolis,
MN, November 3-5, 1999.
"Satirical Subtlety in Lev Tolstoy's Sebastopol
Sketches, War and Peace and Hadji Murad," at the SCMLA conference,
Memphis, TN, October 28-30, 1999.
"Nobody with a Good Brichka Needs to Be Justified:
Flannery O' Connor's Wise Blood and Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls,"
at the American Literature Association annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, May
27-30, 1999.
"The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in
the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol' And Nathaniel Hawthorne,"
at the University of Chicago Slavic Forum, Chicago, IL, April 22-23, 1999.
"'It's a good idea, but it won't work': Redefining
Proletarian Literature through the Works of John Dos Passos, Richard Wright,
Ralph Ellison and John Steinbeck" accepted for presentation at NEMLA conference,
Pittsburgh, PA. April 1999 (panel cancelled).
"Babel, Shalamov and Borowski: Comparative Atrocity
and Short-Story Narrative Structure. " Paper presented at Middle Tennessee
State University Holocaust Studies Conference, Murfreesboro, TN. April 4,
1998.
SERVICE
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, Americanist position search committee, 2005.
SUNY Potsdam, School of Arts and Sciences, ad hoc budget committee, 2005-present.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, Romantic/Victorian literature position search committee, 2004-2005.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, literature program coordinator, 2004-present.
SUNY Potsdam, School of Arts and Sciences, Associate Dean search committee, spring 2004.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, ad hoc literature curriculum revision committee, 2003-present
SUNY Potsdam, School of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Sciences Council member, 2003-present
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, ad hoc website committee, 2003-present.
PACES (Potsdam
Auxiliary & College Educational Services) Board, 2003-2007; nominating
comm., 2003-2005; student award comm., 2003-2005).
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication, Graduate Committee, 2003-present; chair 2003-present.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication,
Faculty Senate delegate, 2002-present.
Faculty advisor for WAIH, SUNY Potsdam campus radio
station, 2002-present
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication,
literature position search committee, 2001-2002, 2004-2005.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication,
Student Affairs Committee, 2001-2003; chair 2002-2003.
SUNY Potsdam, Dept. of English and Communication,
Faculty Senate alternate, Spring 2002.
UNC-CH Composition Program Peer Review Committee,
2000-2001.
Carolina Computing
Initiative Wireless Internet Pilot Program, Spring 2000.
Studio for Instructional
Technology and English Studies (SITES) lab intern, 1999-2000.
UNC Department of English Coordinating Group leader,
1999-2000.
Association of Graduate English Students (AGES)
executive board member, 1996-2000.
AGES webmaster, 1997-2000.
Participated in English Department instructional
technology pilot program, 1997-1998.
Active Voice (AGES publication) editor, 1997-present.
Designed, created and maintained AGES website, 1997.
DISSERTATIONS/THESES/INDEPENDENT STUDIES DIRECTED OR READ
Karen Gibson, M.A. thesis on narrative strategies in John Dos Passos (reader, in progress)
Michelle Savage, M.A. thesis on Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground (reader, defended Fall 2005)
Mary Pennock, M.A. thesis on semiotics of West African drum languages (reader, defended Spring 2005)
Sarah Cook, M.A. thesis on images of female athletes in contemporary American culture (director, defended Spring 2005)
Aimchoo
Prapaipan, Ph.D dissertation at National University of Singapore on
American and Thai proletarian fiction (external examiner, Fall 2004)
Jennifer Blevins, M.A. thesis on Arthurian literatre (reader, in progress)
Terry Tiernan, graduate-level independent study on film pedagogy at the high-school level (Spring/Fall 2004)
Edward Betz, Christina Bottego, and Genevieve Salerno, independent study on nineteenth-century Russian literature (Spring 2004)
Amanda Von Hoffmann, M.A. thesis on Margaret Atwood (reader, defended Spring 2004)
Aimi Gundersen, M.A. thesis on Willa Cather (reader, defended Fall 2003)
Deirdre Zirn, independent study on the workplace/classroom connections (Summer 2003)
Renee Barrigar, independent study on Machiavelli's influence on Tolkien (Spring 2003)
Moon-Seok Kang, M.A. thesis on Peter Shaffer (reader, defended Summer 2002)
HONORS
SUNY Potsdam Provost's discretionary fund merit award, 2002, 2003, 2005
Selected to participate in NEH Summer Seminar on "Political Islam" during Summer 2003
Lawrence Avery Award for Excellence in Teaching
Literature, UNC-CH Department of English, 2001
Senior Teaching Fellowship, UNC-CH Department of
English, 2001-02 (declined)
Rosyter Society Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-02
(declined)
UNC/IBM General College Curriculum Technology Enhancement
Peer Consultant Grant, 2000-01
Nominated for Tanner Award (university-wide UNC
undergraduate teaching award), 2000
Aleine McLeod McLaurin Travel Fellowship, UNC-CH
Department of English, Fall 1999
Earl Hartsell Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition,
UNC-CH Department of English, 1998-9.
UNC Chancellor's Technology Grant, Spring 1998 (for
English 12, Section 23).
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Arkansas (1993)
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Native speaker of German and English
Reading skill and moderate conversational ability
in French and Russian
Reading skill in Old English
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (2000-present)
Midwestern Modern Language Association (1999-2001)
Northeast Modern Language Association (1999-present)
South Central Modern Language Association (1999-2001,
2003-2004)
REFERENCES
Dr. M. Keith Booker
Professor of English
University of Arkansas, 333 Kimpel Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 575-4301
kbooker@uark.edu
Dr.
Robert Doggett
Assistant
Professor of English
SUNY
College
at Geneseo
Welles
217b
(585) 245-5221
doggett@geneseo.edu
Dr.
Christopher Ivic, Chair and Associate Professor of English and Communication
SUNY
College
at Potsdam
44
Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam,
NY 13676
(315)
267-2010
iviccs@potsdam.edu
Dr. Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic
Literatures
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3125
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
(919) 962-7553
mglevine@email.unc.edu
Dr. Christopher Putney, Assistant Professor of Slavic
Languages
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3125
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
(919) 962-7548
crputney@email.unc.edu
Dr. Janet Tucker, Associate Professor of Foreign
Languages
University of Arkansas
425 Kimpel Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(501) 575-6061
jtucker@comp.uark.edu
Dr. Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor of English
and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
(919) 962-8765
wagnerl@prodigy.net
DOSSIER
Confidential written references available
upon request. Contact me at the address/number/e-mail above.