CURRICULUM VITAE 1 Philip Hanson, Ph.D. 1280 Brookview Circle Concord, California 94520 (415) 422-2126 hansonp@usfca.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 B.A., University of Minnesota, 1983 ACADEMIC HONORS This Side of Despair named one of Choice Magazine s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008 The Journal of Scholarly Publishing included This Side of Despair on its 2007-2008 Significant Books list Jesuit Grant 2005 Selmer Birkelo Graduate Fellowship Bachelor s degree, summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa, University of Minnesota Martin B. Ruud English Undergraduate Award, University of Minnesota TEACHING Assistant Professor, Director of the Writing Program University of San Francisco, College of Professional Studies, 2001-present. Co-Chair American Studies, 2005-2007. Co-Chair Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007-present. 1) Experience and Critical Writing (formerly Autobiographical Literature across Cultures) 2) Advanced Expository Writing 3) Critical Thinking Seminar (formerly Ignatian Humanities Seminar; and earlier, Adult Writing Workshop) 4) Advanced Expository Writing 5) Immigrant Voices, later known as The American Immigrants 6) America in the 1930s 7) America: 1900-1950 8) Composition and Research for Graduate Nurses Adjunct Instructor, USF, CPS, 1997-2001
1) Autobiographical Literature across Cultures 2) Advanced Expository Writing and Adult Learning 3) Adult Writing Workshop 2 Lecturer, Dominican University: 2001 and Summer Session 1) American Foundations 2) Freshman English 3) U.S. Literature, 1890 to the present (a graduate course for Masters Degree students) 4) Portfolio Writing Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio University-Lancaster: 1993-1996 1) Freshman Composition 2) Intermediate Composition 3) Advanced Composition 4) University Skills (this was a class for entering students with developmental needs; it focused on developing the skills needed to succeed in university work) 5) Critical Thinking 6) Colonial American Literature 7) Nineteenth-Century American Literature 8) Twentieth-Century American Literature 9) Contemporary Drama 10) Humanities (Great Books) 11) Major American Writers 12) Violence in American Film (I created this class) 13) The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (I created the class) Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate, The University of California at Berkeley: 1985-1993 (Teaching Associates taught the classes; Assistants worked under their direction. I taught 7 classes as an Associate at UCB; I worked 3 times as an Assistant) 1) Freshman Composition (Engl. 1A) 2) Introduction to Literature (Engl. 1B) REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BOOK: This Side of Despair. Madison, N,J,: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008. ARTICLES, PAPERS, AND SHORT FICTION:
Against Tribalism: The Perils of Ethnic Identity in Mamet s Homicide in Lawrence Baron, Editor, The Wandering View: Modern Jewish Experiences in World Cinema, Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press, forthcoming. 3 Post Chivalry, (short story) The Copperfield Review (November 15, 2008). The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929-1941, Journal of American Studies, No. 42 (Fall 2008). Censorship, Audience, and the Differing Politics of The Shanghai Gesture as Play and Film, paper delivered at the Florida State University conference, The Persistence of Form: Culture, History and the Aesthetic, January 29-February 1, 2004. Short Eyes: Ethnic Identity in the Total Institution, Gestos. No. 37 (April 2004). Stunt Reporting, Sob Sister Journalism, and Distrust of the Press in Films of the Great Depression, 49th Parallel No. 12 (Spring 2004). The Feminine Image in Films of the Great Depression, The Cambridge Quarterly Vol. XXXII, No. Two (2003). Imitation of Life: Corporate Order and Racial Identity in the Great Depression, Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism. Vol. 8, No. 1 (Autumn 2003).. The Politics of Inner City Identity in Do the Right Thing, South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association. Vol. 20, Nos. 2-4 (Summer-Winter 2003). Against Tribalism: The Perils of Ethnic Identity in Mamet s Homicide CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2002). Unforgiven: The Elusive Essence of Violence, Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies. Vol. 27 (2002). The Emperor Jones: Naturalist Tragedy in Hemispheric Perspective, New Readings in American Drama: Something s Happening Here. Norma Jenckes, Editor. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. This is a best-of anthology of essays from the past ten years of the journal, American Drama, where this essay was first published. They were selected by the journal s editors. Sissy finds Her Candy Missing, (children s poem) PKA s Advocate. Vol. 11, No. 6 (December 97/January 98). The Emperor Jones: Naturalist Tragedy in Hemispheric Perspective, American Drama Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 1997).
The Logic of Anti-Capitalism in The Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner Journal Vol. X, No. 1 (Fall 1994). 4 Rewriting Poor White Myth in As I Lay Dying, The Arkansas Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 4 (Autumn 1994). Horror and Ethnic Identity in Malamud s The Jewbird. Studies in Short Fiction Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring/Summer 1993). Ashes, (short story), Other Voices, Vol. 5, No. 17 (Fall 1992). Reconsidering Regionalism in Peter Taylor s Fiction, Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle (a.k.a. The Journal of the Short Story in English). (Autumn 1987). Brooksie, (short story), The Dan River Anthology, 1991. The Dieter, (short story) The Berkeley Fiction Review. No. 6 (1985-1986). Over the River, Through the Woods, (short story) Undercurrent. No. 3. (Spring 1983). "O Multitudinous Lonely! (short story) Undercurrent, No. 2. (Spring 1982). COMMITTEE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 1) Ulansky Award Committee, 2001-present (chair since 2003) 2) Core Curriculum Committee (university committee), 2001 3) Student Commencement Speaker Committee, 2001-2003 4) New Program Development Task Force (chair), 2001 5) Mission Task Force, 2001 6) Curriculum Committee, 2001-2003; as Academic Standards and Curriculum Committee, fall semester, 2007 7) Orientation Task Force, 2001 8) Committee on Committees, 2003 9) E Portfolio Task Force, 2004
10) Strategic Planning Committee, 2004-2006 11) Faculty Development Committee, 2004-2006 5 12) Program Directors Committee, 2006-present (chair 2006-2008) 13) Social Ethics Calendar Change Task Force, 2005 14) Associate Dean Search Committee, 2005 15) Honorary Degree Committee (university committee) spring 2006-present 16) Tenure Committee, 2007-2008 17) Strategic Enrollment Committee, spring 2008-present 18) Faculty Task Force on Faculty Governance, as of fall 2008 19) Tenure Committee 2008-09