Dr. Shawn Thomson. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies

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1 Dr. Shawn Thomson The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies EDUCATION PhD, University of Kansas, 2006 Major: English Dissertation Title: The Fortress of American Solitude: Robinson Crusoe as a Topos of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature ( )" MA, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1992 Major: English BA, Oberlin College, 1989 Major: English EMPLOYMENT Academic - Post-Secondary Associate Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (September 2015) Assistant/Associate Professor of English, University of Texas-Pan American (August 1, August 31, 2015) Professional Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas (August 1, August 31, 2006) English Teacher, Lincoln University - Jefferson Ciy, Missouri (August May 2000) Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri (August July 1993) PUBLICATIONS Books Shawn Thomson. Division and Imagined Unity in the American Renaissance: The Seamless Whole. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Shawn Thomson. Fortress of American Solitude: Robinson Crusoe in Antebellum Culture. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Shawn Thomson. The Romantic Architecture of Herman Melville s Moby-Dick. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, Book Chapters Shawn Thomson. "British Romanticism." Herman Melville in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 1 of 6

2 University Press, 2017: Shawn Thomson. "Lady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton s The House of Mirth." Storms on Islands: Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts. Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer (Ed.) Rodopi, 2014: Shawn Thomson. "Robinson Crusoe and the Shaping of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America." Gender Transformations and the Expanding Vision of Nineteenth-Century American. Monika Elbert (Ed.) Routledge, 2008: Journal Articles Other Shawn Thomson. Making Happiness in West Egg and Simburbia: An Inquiry into Consumption in The Great Gatsby and The Sims. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. 5, no. Supplement (December 2005): NP. Shawn Thomson. Review of Defoe s America by Dennis Todd. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 25, no. 1 (June 2012): 3. Shawn Thomson. Seams and Seamlessness: Literary Nationalism in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Monika Elbert (Ed.) Leviathan. 14, no. 1 (March 2012): Shawn Thomson. Endnotes. Susan Harris (Ed.) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Penguin. (June 2005) AWARDS AND HONORS Research assistant to Hall Center Distinguished Professor Susan Harris. (2004) Recipient, William Albrecht Memorial Scholarship (2003) PRESENTATIONS Shawn Thomson. "Swiss Army Man as a Gaseous Recapitulation of the Crusoe Self-Made Man," Popular Culture Association American Culture Association, PCACA, San Diego. (April 14, 2017) Shawn Thomson. "Keeping It Real: The Keepsake in Emily Dickinson s I heard a Fly buzz when I died," South Central/Modern Languages Association Conference, SCMLA, Dallas. (October 2016) Shawn Thomson. "The Holy Tunic and Signs of the Pilgrimage to Treves in Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter," South Central/Modern Languages Association, SCMLA, Nashville, TN. (October 2015) Shawn Thomson. "The Team-Based Learning Approach to Anaya s Bless Me, Ultima." National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Houston, TX. (February 2015) Shawn Thomson. "Identifying the Author of the Anonymously Written The Spuytenduyel Chronicle (1856)." Presentation in Rob Johnson's ENGL 6300, UTRGV Edinburg Campus. (November 2014) Shawn Thomson. "Whitman atop the Latting Observatory," South Central/Modern Languages Association Conference, SCMLA, Austin, TX. (October 2014) Shawn Thomson. "Team-Based Learning in Sophomore Literature." English Department, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. (November 15, 2013) Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 2 of 6

3 Shawn Thomson. "Hawthorne s Sights from a Steeple as a Blueprint for Howells s A Hazard of New Fortunes," South Central/Modern Languages Association Conference, SCMLA, New Orleans, LA. (October 2013) Shawn Thomson. "Herman Melville s Bartleby, the Scrivener and the Fugitive Road Trip from Wall Street to Manhatta," American Society of Literature and the Environment, ASLE, Lawrence, KS. (August 2013) Shawn Thomson. "Plutarch s Sonnets on the Sidewalk of New York: Literary Nationalism and the Poetry of George Washington Peck, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitma," Melville Society International Conference, Melville Society, Washington D.C.. (August 2013) Shawn Thomson. "the City and City Life in 19th Century American Literature," FESTIBA, UTRGV, ARHU. (March 2013) Shawn Thomson. " Startling Experiments in Electricity, Electro-Magnetism and Galvanism : Herman Melville s Moby-Dick and the Religious Spectacle," South Central/Modern Languages Association, SCMLA, San Antonio, TX. (October 2012) Shawn Thomson. "Fictional Fictions of Antebellum New York: Recovering John S. Sauzade s The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle (1856)," Society for Textual Scholarship, STS, Austin, TX. (June 2012) Shawn Thomson. "Seams and Seamlessness: Literary Nationalism in Herman Melville s Moby-Dick," American Literature Association Conference, ALA, Boston, MA. (May 2011) Shawn Thomson. "The Fearful Castaway in Edith Wharton s The House of Mirth." Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI), Colorado Springs, CO. (March 2010) Shawn Thomson. "Shipwreck and Male Sympathy in Life in the Iron Mills." M/MLA Conference, Cleveland, OH. (November 2007) Shawn Thomson. "An American Woman Castaway in Buffalo Dress, Shoes, Gloves, and Hat," 16th Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. (March 2007) Shawn Thomson. "Playing Crusoe on Jackson Island: A Return to the Trope of the Crusoe-Friday Friendship in the Face of the Failed Reconstruction in Mark Twain s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." M/MLA Conference, Chicago, IL. (November 2006) Shawn Thomson. "The Illustrated Robinson Crusoe and Its Meaning to the Maturation of Boys in Nineteenth-Century America." M/MLA Conference, Chicago, IL. (November 2006) Shawn Thomson. "Herman Melville s Pierre and the Trope of the Moral and Social Castaway in Nineteenth-Century America." Kansas State University Cultural Studies Conference, Manhattan, KS. (March 2006) Shawn Thomson. "Crusoe Comforts: Exploring the Intertexuality of Robinson Crusoe in Elizabeth Stoddard s Two Men." M/MLA Conference, Milwaukee, WI. (November 2005) Shawn Thomson. "Reconfiguring the Crusoe Story: Castaways as Figures of Masculinity in Douglass's Narrative and Melville's Typee," The Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville Conference, Melville Society, New Bedford, MA. (June 2005) Shawn Thomson. "Kent Haruf s Plainsong," University of Kansas, (October 2004) Shawn Thomson. "Seams and Seamlessness: American Indian Imaginings of a World of Science and Belief," Creating Communities: American Studies, Indigenous Nations Studies, and First Nations Peoples, Mid-America American Studies Association, Lawrence, KS. (April 2004) Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 3 of 6

4 Shawn Thomson. "Caught Between High Plains Drifter and High School History Teacher: Contested Identities in Kent Haruf s Plainsong." New Literacies Conference, Lawrence, KS. (March 2004) Shawn Thomson. "New Identities of the West Panel Organizer." New Literacies Conference, Lawrence, KS. (March 2004) Shawn Thomson. "The Happiness Game in West Egg and Simburbia: An Inquiry into the Fitness Landscapes of The Great Gatsby and The Sims." The Society for Literature and Science, Austin, TX. (October 2003) Shawn Thomson. "Walking in the Maze: An Investigation of the Relational Consciousness in W.G. Sebald s The Rings of Saturn," 12th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. (March 2003) Shawn Thomson. "through bogs and briers': Walks of Resistance in Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA. (May 2001) Shawn Thomson. "The Marble Steeple: The Word-Image and Ahab s Passionate Idealism in Moby-Dick." English Graduate Student Association Conference, Columbia, MO. (October 1998) TEACHING Courses Taught 19C American Literature 19th Cent Am Lit Adv Topics Lit & Cultural Stud Am. Renaissance&Mythic Origins Composition Film Theory Humanities-Honors Intro Literary Studies Intro to Am Lit Intro to American Lit Intro to Literature Rhetoric & Composition II Rhetoric & Composition I Studies in Amer Lit Studies in American Lit Studies in Ethnic Lit Studies in Single Author Survey of Am Lit Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 4 of 6

5 Survey of Am Lit I Thesis Directed Student Learning Master's Thesis Committee Member. Teresa Hernandez, "Reclaiming the Dark: Defining Darkness as Feminist Agency within the Garden of Eden, "Never Marry a Mexican," and Selected Social Media Platforms", Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies. (September 1, May 1, 2017) FESTIBA Presentation The Radical American Renaissance (February 27, 2017) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Daniel Mendoza, "A New American Fiction: Personal Essays, Observances, and Interviews", Creative Writing Program. (August 1, May 1, 2015) FESTIBA Presentation African American Slave Narratives and the Subject-Object Relationship (January March 2015) Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Samantha Amberson, "Mirrors of mechanized man: Capitialism and intertextuality as represented in the works of Herman Melville, Franz Kafka and Don Delillo", English (UTPA). (January 1, August 1, 2014) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Marina Malli, " But, Whatever the Reason, His Heart or His Shoes, He Stood There on Christmas Eve, Hating the Whos : Dr. Seuss s the Grinch as the Racialized Other in American Culture ", Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies. (August 1, August 1, 2014) Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Liinda Braune, ""Herman Melville and Richard Wright: Camaraderie and Revolt"", Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies. (September 1, May 1, 2014) FESTIBA student presentation City and City Life in 19th Century American Literature (March March 2013) SERVICE Department Service Committee Chair, Tenure and Promotion and Annual Review. (September 1, August 31, 2017) Committee Member, Cultural Studies. (September 1, August 30, 2017) Committee Member, Cultural Studies. (September 1, August 31, 2016) Committee Member, Graduate Exam Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2016) Other (September 1, August 31, 2016) Committee Member, LCS Core Assessment Committee. (March May 2016) Committee Chair, Annual Review Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2015) Committee Member, Search Committee Victorianist Position. (September 1, August 31, 2015) Committee Member, Assessment Committee. (September 1, August 30, 2015) Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 5 of 6

6 Other, Literature Coordinator. (September 1, August 30, 2015) Committee Member, BA English Degree Undergraduate and MA Graduate Degree Revision UTPA-UTB Literature Representative. (March 1, December 31, 2014) Committee Member, Assessment Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2014) Committee Chair, Literature Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2014) Other, Literature Coordinator. (September 1, August 31, 2014) Other, Sophomore Literature Assessment Coordinator. (September 1, August 31, 2014) Other, Literature Coordinator. (September 1, August 30, 2014) Committee Chair, Assessment Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2013) Committee Chair, Literature Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2013) Other, Sophomore Literature Assessment Coordinator. (September 1, August 31, 2013) Other, Literature Coordinator. (September 1, August 30, 2013) College Service Committee Member, College Liberal Arts Assessment. (May 10, September 15, 2017) Other, Department of History Search for BorderStudies position. (February 2, April 2, 2016) University Service Committee Member, University Awards Committee. (September 1, August 31, 2015) Committee Member, Liberal Arts & Humanities Working Group. (September 1, August 31, 2014) Development Activities Attended Workshop, "COLT Quality Matters Online Training," COLT. (August 17, 2016) Seminar, "Blackboard Outcomes Consultant Workshop," UTRGV Assessment Office. (March March 2016) Conference Attendance, "COLT Excellence in Online Learning," COLT. (March 1, March 31, 2013) Workshop, "Fink Worshop "Designing you Courses"," (September 1, August 31, 2013) Professional Memberships South Central Modern Languages Association (SCMLA) Generated on Mar 10, 2018 Page 6 of 6