CHARLES SNODGRASS Curriculum vitæ. Grambling State University Monroe, LA

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1 CHARLES SNODGRASS Curriculum vitæ Department of English Home Address: Woodson Hall, 205D 1711 N. 4th Street Grambling State University Monroe, LA Grambling, LA (cell) ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Department of English, Grambling State University, 2008 present Lecturer, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 2007 Adjunct Professor of English, Colorado Technical University, January September 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Xavier University, Post-Doctoral Lecturer, Department of English, Texas A & M University, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Texas Pan American, EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Texas A & M University, May 1999 (Dissertation Advisor: Jeffrey Cox) M.A., English, University of Texas Pan American, May 1992 B.A., English, University of Texas Pan American, May 1990 PUBLICATIONS Book Co-Editor (with John Strachan, Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole), Selected Criticism: , Volume 6 of Blackwood s Magazine, : Selections from Maga s Infancy. 6 vols. General Editor: Nicholas Mason. London: Pickering & Chatto, Peer-Refereed Articles, Book Chapters & Reviews Blackwood s Subversive Scottishness. Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, Ed. David Finkelstein. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [Collection winner of the 2007 Colby Memorial Book Prize for advancing most significantly understanding of the nineteenth-century periodical press.] Staging Scottish National Identity: The Dramatization of Scotland in Scott s Rob Roy and the New Scottish Parliament. Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament. Ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006: Co-Editor and Introduction (with Ian Duncan and Ann Rowland) of Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Nationalism, Special issue of Studies in Romanticism 40.1 (2001) 152pp. Advancing a Jacobite Patina: Hogg s Relics in Blackwood s House. Studies in Hogg and His World 10 (Nov. 1999): Dismembering The Member: John Galt s Pawkie Political Persona, Scottish Literary Journal 24.1 (May 1997):

2 (with Jeffrey N. Cox) Interactive Review of Romanticism: The CD-ROM, edited by David Miall and Duncan Wu (London: Blackwell, 1997). Romantic Circles Reviews 1.3 (Spring 1998): 8pp. WORKS-IN-PROGRESS John Galt, The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols., edited by Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee Moore, and Diane Long Hoeveler. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming Galt, Canada and the Transatlantic Empire. The Romantic Transatlantic. Eds. Jeffrey Cass and Joshua Brewer. Ashgate Press (collection under negotiation). Masqueing Scottish National Identity in James Hogg s The Royal Jubilee. 24 ms. pp. The Scottish Romantic Novel in Blackwood s Circle (book manuscript, 317pp.) EDITORIAL & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Editorial Assistant, Norton Critical Edition of Keats s Poetry and Prose. Ed. Jeffrey N. Cox. New York: W. W. Norton, Co-Editor, Romantic Circles Reviews, September 1997 present Compiler, Selected Bibliography, in Fascism s Return: Scandal, Revision and Ideology since 1980, ed. Richard J. Golsan (University of Nebraska Press, 1998) Research Assistant, Clinton J. Machann, Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (London: Macmillan, 1998) Editorial Assistant, South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association (August 1995 December 1997) Research Assistant, Modern Drama by Women 1880s 1930s: An International Anthology, ed. Katherine E. Kelly (London: Routledge, 1996) Editorial Assistant, Texas College English 25 (1992) COURSES TAUGHT Grambling State University (January 2008 present) English 451: British Romantic Literature (1 section) English 408: Introduction to Literary Theory (1 section) English 403: Major Literary Figures (Topic: Existentialism in Literature; 1 section) English 213: Advanced Composition (2 sections) Humanities 201: Western Culture, Ancient Renaissance (1 section) English 200: World Literature: Beginnings to 1650 (2 sections) English 101: Freshman Composition I (3 sections) University of Colorado at Boulder, Lecturer (August December 2007) English 4010, Introduction to Literary Theory (1 section) Colorado Technical University, Adjunct Professor of English (January Sept. 2007) Certificate: Hybrid Instruction English 220, Values in World Literature (Hybrid Course; 1 section) English 210, Professional Speaking (2 sections) 2

3 English 112, English Composition II (3 sections) English 111, English Composition I (3 sections) English 080, English Composition Preparation (2 sections) Xavier University, Assistant Professor (August 2000 December 2005) English 600, Graduate: Bibliography & Research Methods (2 sections) English 550, Graduate: British Romantic Literature (2 sections) English 512, Graduate: Literary Theory (1 section) English 499, Senior Seminar: Modern Celtic Fringe (1 section) English 450, British Romantic Literature (3 sections) English 425, Shakespeare (4 sections) English 412, Literary Theory (1 section) English 394, Honors Seminar: Complexity and the Origin of Order (1 section; team taught with Marco Fatuzzo [Theoretical Physics], Alan Baker [Philosophy of Science], and Bernd Rossa [Pure Mathematics]) English 205, Literature and the Moral Imagination (6 sections) English 115, Rhetoric Honors (10 sections) Texas A & M University, Post-Doctoral Lecturer (May 1999 May 2000) English 231, Survey of English Literature I (1 110-seat section, with T.A.) English 222, World Literature II, Enlightenment Present (1 120-seat section, with T.A.) English 212, Shakespeare (2 sections, 1 a 150-seat section, with T.A.) English 210, Scientific & Technical Writing (2 sections, both computer classrooms) English , Honors Composition & Rhetoric (1 section) Texas A & M University, Assistant Lecturer (August 1998 May 1999) English 232, Survey of English Literature II (1 100-seat section, with T.A.) English 222, World Literature II: Enlightenment Present (1 120-seat section, with T.A.) English 203, Introduction to Literature (5 sections; 1 computer classroom) Texas A & M University, Graduate Assistant Teacher (August 1993 May 1995; January 1998 May 1999) English 203, Introduction to Literature (4 sections) English 104, Composition & Rhetoric (6 sections) English 104I, Composition & Rhetoric for International Students (1 section) The University of Texas Pan American, Lecturer in English (Full-time) (August 1992 August 1993) English 2305, Survey of British Literature (2 sections) English 1302, Rhetoric (4 sections) English 1301, Composition (3 sections) The University of Texas Pan American, Graduate Assistant Teacher (August 1990 May 1992) English 1301, Composition (1 section) English 1320, Basic Writing (6 sections) English 1310, Reading-Vocabulary (3 sections) ACADEMIC ADVISING Faculty Advisor to English Undergraduate Majors (per year), Faculty Advisor: Sarah Wasserman, Daddy s Little Shrew: How The Taming of the Shrew s Baptista Tames His Daughter Kate, 19th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, April 21 23, 2005 Faculty Advisor: Anthony McCosham, A fellow o th strangest mind i th world : The 3

4 Masochistic Nature of Andrew Aguecheek, 18th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, April 14 17, 2004 Member, Philosophy Honors Thesis Committee: Robert Ellis, Nietzsche and Postmodern Parallels, Xavier University, May 2004 Member, Philosophy Honors Thesis Committee: James Murphy, Promethean Myth from Aeschylus to Mary Shelley, Xavier University, May 2003 PRESENTATIONS Worshipping Her Own Shadow: Edinburgh as the Modern Athens, Romanticism & Modernity : 17th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 21 14, 2009 Disseminating Dislocation in Hogg s Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Or, There Is No Place Like Home, Romantic Border Crossings : 11th Annual International Conference on Romanticism, Texas A & M International University, Laredo, TX, October 14 17, 2004 Geographical Ambiguity and National Anxiety in Scott s Redgauntlet, Romantic Cosmopolitanism : 12th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, September 9 12, 2004 Let Glasgow Flourish : John Galt s Colonizing Career, Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders, Forms : 11th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Fordham University, New York, August 1 5, 2003 Sublime Witches, Goddess, and Hags: Feminizing National Identity in The Wild Irish Girl and Rob Roy, Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic Conference, King s College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, July 5 7, 2002 An honest apparition : Masking Scottish National Identity in Hogg s The Royal Jubilee, 10th James Hogg Society Conference, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, July 1 3, 2002 Spirits of Scottish National Identity, Junior Faculty Research Forum, Xavier University, March 20, 2002 Inventing the Individual: Sympathy and Community in Blackwood s Circle, Inventing the Individual : 8th Annual American Conference on Romanticism, Miami University, Oxford, OH, November 8 11, 2001 Respondent, New Approaches to the British Novel, : A Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, October 5 6, 2001 Co-Presenter (with Alan Baker & Marco Fatuzzo), Engaging Our World of Complexity, Academic Inaugural Convocation, Xavier University, September 11, 2001 A Scot Abroad; or, Narrating National Identity in John Galt s Letters from the Levant, Romantic Subjects : 9th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, August 16 19, 2001 Narrating Postcolonial Subjectivity in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, 4

5 Memorial Student Center Film Society, Texas A & M University, November 22, 1999 Pleasures of Scottish Marriages, Problems of English Unions, 6th Annual American Conference on Romanticism, Bloomington, IN, November 11 14, 1999 Fractal Borders of Scotland within Britain; or, How Long Is the Coastline of Romanticism?, 7th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 12 15, 1999 Spirits of Scottish National Identity: George IV, Glenlivet, and Glengarry, 6th Quadrennial International Sir Walter Scott Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, July 21 25, 1999 Should auld acquaintance be forgot : Burns, Scott, and Cultural Memory, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 27 30, 1998 The Plaided Picturesque: Romanticizing Scott s Landscape, North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, October 16 18, 1998 Drawing the Tartan Curtain: The Invention of Scottish Romanticism, 5th North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, October 23 26, 1997 Advancing a Jacobite Patina: Hogg s Jacobite Relics in the House of Blackwood, 8th James Hogg Society Conference, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, June 27 29, 1997 Narrating Nations, Negotiating Borders: The Union of England & Scotland in Susan Ferrier s Marriage, 23rd Annual Western Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, October 18 19, 1996 A geometry of his own : Chaos/Complexity Theory in The Turn of the Screw, Conference on Language and Literature, Chaos, Death, and Madness, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 12 13, 1996 Dismembering The Member: John Galt s Pawkie Political Persona, MLA Convention, Chicago, December 27 30, 1995 Canadian Legacy: Reconsidering John Galt, 22nd Annual Popular Culture Association Conference, Louisville, KY, March 18 21, 1992 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer, PMLA Manuscript Reviewer, Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal Listserv Owner/Manager, SCOTT-L <SCOTT-L@listserv.tamu.edu>, Academic discussion devoted to Scott, Scotland, and Romanticism, 1999 present Chair/Organizer, Scotland s Lands of Contest, Special Session, British Association for Romantic Studies Biennial Conference, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 28 31, 2005 Chair/Organizer, Scottish and Irish Romantic Cosmopolitanism, Special Session, 12th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, September 9 12, 2004 Website Developer, 7th Quadrennial International Sir Walter Scott Conference, 5

6 September 2002 present Member, 7th Quadrennial International Sir Walter Scott Conference Steering Committee (University of Konstanz, Germany, July 22 26, 2003), Moderator/Owner, 7th Quadrennial International Sir Walter Scott Conference Steering Committee Discussion, Member, Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group on Scottish Literature, Chair, Currents of Scottish Literature: Old Paradigms, New Horizons, Discussion Group on Scottish Literature Annual Meeting, MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 2000 Chair, Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group on Scottish Literature, Co-Founder/-Organizer (with Cairns Craig & Ian Duncan), MLA Discussion Group on Scottish Literature, approved March 1999; inaugural meeting in Chicago, December 1999 Website Design/Maintenance, 6th Quadrennial International Sir Walter Scott Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July, 1999 Chair/Organizer, Narrating Scottish National Identity, Special Session, SCMLA Convention, Dallas, October 30 November 1, 1997 Chair, The Brontës and Auto/Biographical Personæ Panel, The Brontës Webs of Consciousness: An International Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, November 3 5, 1994 Chair, The Rossettis: Fragments and Revisions Panel, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Circle: An International Conference, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, April 21 23, 1994 Chair, Canadian Literature and Culture Panel, Popular Culture Association, March 18 21, 1992 UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Chair, Rising-Junior Exam Committee, Department of English, Grambling State University, September 2008 present Member, Composition and Literature Committee, Department of English, Grambling State University, September 2008 present Member, Revision of Mission Statement Committee, Department of English, Grambling State University, September 2008 present Xavier University Department of English Website Designer/Manager, January Member, Faculty Development Committee: Appointed, September 2001 January 2002; Elected, September [university-wide sabbaticals, grants and stipends] Member, Shakespeare Job Search Interview Committee, Department of English, Xavier University; MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003 Member, Rhetoric/Composition Job Search Screening Committee, Department of 6

7 English, Xavier University, October 2002 January 2003 Department of English Representative, X-Experience Day, Xavier University, October 11, 2002 Member, Blackboard 5.0 Training Pilot Group, Fall Semester 2001 Guest Lecturer, Applying to Graduate Studies in English, The English Club, Xavier University, October 12, 2000 Member, Rhetoric Committee, Department of English, University of Texas Pan American, HONORS & AWARDS NEH Summer Stipend Junior Faculty Nominee, Xavier University, 2003 Summer Fellowship, Xavier University, June July 2002 ($4,000) Principal Faculty, Engaging Our World of Complexity, Academic Inaugural Initiative Grant, Xavier University, ($84,000; 1 of 4 team-teaching faculty) Graduate Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies, 1998 ($1,500) Fellowship, Jordan Institute for International Awareness, Texas A & M University, ($1,000) The Annual Dissertation Award, Department of English, Texas A & M University, 1997 ($500; single annual award) South Central Modern Language Association Dissertation Grant, 1997 ($500; single annual award) Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1992 present PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Association of University Professors Association for Scottish Literary Studies James Hogg Society Modern Language Association North American Society for the Studies of Romanticism REFERENCES Professor Jeffrey N. Cox Professor Ian Duncan Associate Vice Chancellor, Faculty Affairs Department of English University of Colorado at Boulder University of California at Berkeley Boulder, CO Berkeley, CA jeffrey.cox@colorado.edu iduncan@berkeley.edu Professor Margaret J. M. Ezell Professor Michael Gamer John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Director Department of English Department of English Texas A & M University University of Pennsylvania College Station, TX Philadelphia, PA mezell@tamu.edu mgamer@english.upenn.edu Professor Murray G. H. Pittock 7 Professor Tyrone Williams

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