Assistant University
Resume:
JEREMY M. DOWNES
Department of English *** Tacoma Drive
Auburn, AL 36830
Auburn University 334-***-****
Auburn, AL 36849
*******@******.***
Website: http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/
EDUCATION
Ph.D
. in English Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
Concentration: Poetry
Minor: Philosophy
Dissertation: Fierce Loves and Faithless Wars: Violen ce, Sex, and Recursive Desire in
Epic
Tradition, directed by Professor Cyrena N. Pondrom
Visiting Scholar,
University of Warwick, England, 1989-90
M.A
. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985
A.B
. in English, University of Chicago, 1983
Concentrations: Russian Language and Literature,
Creative Writing
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Professor of English,
Fall 2010
-, Auburn University
Associate Professor
of English, 1996 -2010, Auburn University
Assistant Professor
of English, 1991-1996, Auburn University
Instructor, 2002, Barnes & Noble University
(online courses)
Teaching Assistant, 1986-1991, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Editorial Assistant, 1984-1987, University of Wisconsin Press
Library Move Supervisor, 1983-1984, University of Chicago Libraries
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Epic poetry, poetics, creative writing, literary theory, medieval and modern literature,
comparative
literature.
PUBLICATIONS
Prize
Poem Anthology. Reprinted in The Moccasin, 2008: 10.
Writing the Carolina Wren, First Prize, Minute Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007
Prize Poem
Anthology. Reprinted in The Moccasin, 2008: 2.
The Woman Who Borrowed the Sun, Third Prize, Nebraska State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS
Contest
2007. Encore: 2007 Prize Poem Anthology. Reprinted in The Moccasin, 2008: 4.
Kia Writes the Microwaves, Third Prize, Arizona State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS
Contest 2006.
Encore: 2006 Prize Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 70, 2007. Republication
requested
for Christine Delea s forthcoming A Prompt a Day for Poets (as a model of anaphora).
The Muse at Tsavo, MObius, the Poetry Magazine, 2008: 26.
The gecko with her name across its tail, MObius, the Poetry Magazine, 2008: 25.
Sirens, Second Prize, New York Poetry Forum Award, NFSPS Contest 2006. Encore: 2006
Prize Poem
Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 70, 2007.
Museum, First Prize in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest. Penumbra 2004, contest
chapbook,
2004.
Careening, Anna Maria Island, Third Prize in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest.
Penumbra
2004, contest chapbook, 2004.
Raking Leaves with Franz Kafka, finalist in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest.
Penumbra 2004,
contest chapbook, 2004.
The Poets, Second Prize, New York Poetry Forum Award, NFSPS Contest, 2002. Encore: 2002
Prize
Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 66, 2003.
A Macintosh at the Castle, The Sampler 34, 2002.
Landscape with Absences, Grist, 2002, 32.
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Stopping by the Plaza on a Saturday Night, First Prize, Sestina Award, NFSPS Contest,
2001. Encore:
2001 Prize Poem Anthology.
Surfaces, Third Prize, Kentucky State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS Contest, 2001.
Encore: 2001 Prize
Poem Anthology.
Rabbit Watches, Third Prize, Morton D. Prouty, Jr., Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest,
1999. Encore:
1999 Prize Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 63, 2000.
A Macintosh on the Beach, CQ (California Quarterly), 2001.
Flight, First Prize, Donald D. Dungey Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest, 1998 . Encore:
1998 Prize
Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 62, 1999.
The Camouflaged Morel, Honorable Mention in The MacGuffin's National Poet Hunt, 1999,
judged by
Alice Fulton. The MacGuffin, Fall, 1999.
Lighters, Poetry Motel (1998).
Armor, First Prize, Alabama State Poetry Society Prize, NFSPS Contest, 1997. 1997 Prize
Poem
Anthology.
Sestina: Proverbs, The MacGuffin (Fall, 1996).
Study in Claret, The Abiko Literary Quarterly (1996). Study in Claret won the
Editor s Choice Award
for that issue.
Research: The Lost Entry, The Abiko Literary Quarterly (1996).
Almost Easter, selected by Marvin Bell for inclusion in The Peconic Gallery s Hope
exhibition for 1995
(February to April), Riverhead, NY. Printed in The Circle (1995). Reprinted in The Abiko
Literary Quarterly (1996).
Dinosaurs are us, Rollins Prize (3rd place), NFSPS Contest, 1994. 1994 NFSPS Prize Poem
Anthology.
Reprinted in The Moccasin 59 (1995). A slightly different version was published in the
Auburn
University literary magazine The Circle (1994).
Etiologies: Kenilworth Castle, rhino (1995).
Awaking to Read Vergil s Aeneid (Book 11), henge 2 (1995).
The Graduate, Riverrun (Fall/Winter, 1994-95).
Amabala, selected by Marvin Bell for inclusion in The Peconic Gallery s Hope exhibition
for 1995
(February to April), Riverhead, NY.
Independence Day, Manitowish Waters, American Writing: A Magazine, 8 (February 1994).
The thick leaves of our tulip tree, selected by Dana Gioia for inclusion in The Peconic
Gallery s Passion
exhibition for 1994 (February to April), Riverhead, NY, and at Rathbone Gallery, Albany,
May,
1994. Reviewed NY Times 3/20/94, Southhampton Press, 3/24/94.
Anniversaries, Riverrun, Fall, 1993.
Warwickshire, Halloween Day, the eleventh MUSE 11.2 (1993)
The Bicycle Accident, SPSM&H #20 (1992
).
Sonnet: Spin Cycle, SPSM&H #19 (1992).
Renovations, selected by Edward Butscher for The Peconic Gallery s Heroism exhibition
for 1992,
Riverhead, New York.
Speaking from the Heart, Pegasus 6.1 (1991).
Sonnet: Paradise Lost, Pegasus 5.4 (1990).
Tory, finalist in 1989 Ratner-Ferber Contest; Poet Lore 84.2 (1989).
Mostly Angus, The Amherst Review 17 (1989).
Invited Reviews
Wilkerson, Carey Scott. Threading Stone (New Plains Press, 2009), for First Draft, the
online journal of
the Alabama Writers Forum (http://www.writersforum.org/books/).
King, Pat. Reasons for Hope: Poems (2008). (Jacket copy).
http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/Williams-
Peru.html. 2010.
Yearsley, Ann. Brutus: A Fragment. 1796. http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/yearsley.html .
2010.
Wardlaw, Lady Elizabeth. Hardyknute. http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hardyknute.html .
2001.
Macpherson, James. Fragments of Ancient Verse. 1761. A lightly modernized version of the
Dublin
edition. http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/fragments.html . 2000.
Macpherson, James. Temora: An Epic Poem. 1764. Based on the Boston reprint of 1864.
http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/Temora/temora.html . 2001.
Other Electronic Publications
Data Mashup: Piping the Epic.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info_id=jPqf00Dm3BG29EA8nkartA . A Yahoo Pipes site
which collates and publishes reports about epic and epic poetry from many corners of the
Internet.
2008.
Resource pages: Hyperepos: Epic on the Internet .
http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html .
Jack Lynch of Rutgers describes it as A superb collection of Internet resources on the
epic,
ancient to modern. This web site is recommended by the New York Public Library and
numerous
university libraries, The Online Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford University Press (for
their Book
of Literary Terms), and other major resources in English and at least 12 other languages.
The site
receives about 400 hundred visitors each month. 1998-2010.
Numerous teaching resources, now offline or available only through Blackboard, including
Pretty Good
Books (a mixed collection of resources and links for teaching Great Books) several on-
line syllabi
(for American Epic, Understanding Poetry, etc.). 1999-2002.
Conference Presentations
Poetry Reading, Greencup Bookfair, Birmingham, November 2008, for release of Dark Village
Haiku
Poetry Reading, Sunbelt Reading Series (with Peter Huggins and Emma Bolden). Gnu s Room
Bookstore,
October 2007
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Invited Poetry Reading in celebration of National Poetry Month (with Peter Huggins, Chris
Forhan, Emma
Bolden, and others). Gnu s Room Bookstore, A pril 2007
Work in Progress
Books
Local Heroes: American Regional Epic. Currently in planning and initial r esearch
stages
Kudzu Harp. A 53 page manuscript of poems paying close attention to form
Happy Family, poetry collection, in progress
Electronic Publications
Updates to HyperEpos, especially the section on women s epic
Other on-line editions of epic, including a translation of the Canaanite or Ugaritic
Baal, Macpherson s
Fingal, and Alexander Beaufort Meek s Red Eagle; upcoming editions of several women s
epics
HONORS & AWARDS
The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women s Epic Poetry nominated for Pulitzer Prize in
Letters, 2010
University Honors College Teaching Enhancement Grant, Fall 2009
Auburn University
2009-2010 Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, Southeastern
Conference Academic Consortium
English Department Professional Improvement Leave,
Fall 2008
College of Liberal Arts Competitive Summer Grant, Summer 2008
University Honors College Teaching Enhancement Grant, Spring 2008
College of Liberal Arts Academy of Teaching and Outstanding Teachers, Spring 2006
College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, AU College of Liberal Arts,
2005
Advanced Summer Academy, AU Office of Information Technology, Summer 2005
Project Assistant (Xiangrong Liu, MTPC) for Female Homer Manuscript project, Spring 2004
Project Assistant (Jared Hromadka, MA) for Poetry Manuscripts project, Spring 2005
Departmental Research Leave, Fall 2004
Project Assistant (Kia Powell, MA) for Poetry Manuscripts project, Spring 2004
Departmental Research Leave, Spring 2003
College of Liberal Arts Summer Academy,
2000
Daniel F. Breeden Faculty Enhancement Grant, Auburn University, 2000
Nominee, MLA Delegate Assembly, 2000
Departmental Research Leave, 1999
Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition nominated for MLA s Scaglione Prize in
Comparativ e
Literary Studies
Auburn University Research Grant -in-Aid Award, 1996
Departmental Research Leave, 1994
Summer NEH Institute: Reading Virgil s Aeneid in the Humanities Curriculum. Emory
University, 1994
University of Warwick Scholarship, University of W arwick, Coventry, England, 1989-1990
Walter B. Rideout Prize (best scholarly essay by a Ph.D
. student), Department of English,
University of
Wisconsin
-Madison, 1989
Teaching Assistantship, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1986-1991University of Chicago Dean s List, 1980-83National Merit Finalist, 1979
Honors in Poetry
Collections
Dark Village Haiku. Winner, John & Miriam Morris Chapbook Competition, 2007 (Alabama
State Poetry Society). New Dawn Unlimited, 2008. (36 pp.)
The Lost Atlas of Desire, Mapping the Old World and the New, containing an historical
Gazeteer
and Pastiche, Eleven Illustrative Plates, and a Guide to Parts Unknown. BlazeVOX [books]:
Buffalo, NY, 2006. Selected for the Mobilis in Mobili series of BlazeVOX Books.
Poems Too Small to Read, Finalist, Stevens Manuscript Competition, 2008
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Earlier collections
o Semifinalist, New Issues Press Poetry Contest, 1997
o Semifinalist, Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series), 1996
o Finalist, Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, 1996.
Individual Works
Bottle the Sun, Third Prize, Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award 2010.
MObius, the
Poetry Magazine, forthcoming 2010.
The Book of Lot, Third Prize, Murphy Memorial Award, NF SPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007
Prize
Poem Anthology.
Vilas Zoo in Winter, Third Prize, Prouty Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore:
2007 Prize
Poem Anthology.
Writing the Carolina Wren, First Prize, Minute Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007
Prize Poem
Anthology.
The Woman Who Borrowed the Sun, Third Prize, Nebraska State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS
Contest
2007. Encore: 2007 Prize Poem Anthology.
Last Battles, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest 2007.
Letter West, Citation, NFSPS Contest 2007.
Sirens, Second Prize, New York Poetry Forum Award, NFSPS Contest 2006. Encore: 2006
Prize Poem
Anthology.
Kia Writes the Microwaves, Third Prize, Arizona State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS
Contest 2006.
Encore: 2006 Prize Poem Anthology.
Penelope, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest 2006.
Break, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest 2006.
The Museum, First Prize in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest. Penumbra 2004,
contest
chapbook, 2004.
Careening, Anna Maria Island, Third Prize in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest.
Penumbra
2004, contest chapbook, 2004.
Raking Leaves with Franz Kafka, finalist in Penumbra 2004 Poetry and Haiku Contest.
Penumbra 2004,
contest chapbook, 2004.
The Poets, Second Prize, New York Poetry Forum Award, NFSPS Contest, 2002. Encore: 2002
Prize
Poem Anthology.
Stopping by the Plaza on a Saturday Night, First Prize, Sestina Award, NFSPS Contest,
2001. Encore:
2001 Prize Poem Anthology.
Surfaces, Third Prize, Kentucky State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS Contest, 2001.
Encore: 2001 Prize
Poem Anthology.
"Rabbit Watches," Third Prize, Morton D. Prouty, Jr., Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest,
1999. Encore:
1999 Prize Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 63, 2000.
"Flight," First Prize, Donald D. Dungey Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest, 1998 . Encore:
1998 Prize
Poem Anthology. Reprinted, The Moccasin 62, 1999.
"The Camouflaged Morel," Honorable Mention in The MacGuffin's National Poet Hunt, 1999,
judged by
Alice Fulton. The MacGuffin, Fall, 1999.
"Even in rain," Honorable Mention, Minute Award, NFSPS Contest, 1998.
Armor, First Prize, Alabama State Poetry Society Prize, NFSPS Contest, 1997. 1997 Prize
Poem
Anthology.
Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest, 1997.
Trimester, Alabama State Poetry Society Prize, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest, 1996.
Tie-Snakes, American Indian Heritage Award, Honorable Mention, NFSPS Contest, 1996.
Dinosaurs are us, Rollins Prize (3rd place), NFSPS Contest, 1994. 1994 NFSPS Prize Poem
Anthology.
Reprinted in The Moccasin 59 (1995). A slightly different version was published in the
Auburn
University literary magazine The Circle (Fall 1994).
Sestina: Proverbs, Honorable Mention in NFSPS Contest, 1993.
Tory, finalist in 1989 Ratner-Ferber Contest; published Poet Lore 84.2 (centennial
volume, Summer,
1989).
The Bicycle Accident, Hill/Muller Prize, Madison, 1989.
Letters out of Cornwall, Hill/Muller Prize, Madison, 1985.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses
Literary Theory: Issues and Approaches (English 7790: 2010)
The Invisible Tradition: Women s Epic Poetry (En glish 7810, Studies in Comp Lit: 2009)
Poetry Writing (English 7140: 2002, 2007)
The Epic (Studies in Comp Lit: 2006)
Telling Tales: Narrative Contents and Dis contents (Studies in Fiction: 2006)
Re-Versing the Iliad (Studies in Comp Lit: 1997)
Theory and Pedagogy of Creative Writing (Directed Individual Study, Elaine Posanka, PhD:
1995)
Women and Epic (Studies in Comp Lit: 1995)
Theorizing Fragmented Poetry (Studies in Poetry: 1993)
Epic on the Margins (Studies in Poetry: 1992)
Undergraduate Courses
Poetry Writing
Poetry Writing II (1996, 1997, 2001)
Poetry Writing I (1994-1997, 2003-2005, 2007, 2011)
Literature and Theory
Mythology and Folklore (2011)
Studies in Poetry: Ecopoetics (2010)
Milton (2006, 1992)
Popular Genres: The Epic (2006)
Understanding Poetry (2000-2010)
The American Epic (Topics in Literature, 1998)
Oral Poetics and Textuality (Topics in Comp Lit, 1993)
Contemporary British Literature (1994)
Modern British Literature (1993)
Interpreting Texts (1997-2009).
Survey of British Literature I (1991, 1996)
Survey of British Literature II (1997)
Independent Reading Courses and Honors Theses
Advanced Poetry Writing/Chapbooks (Aaron Shepherd, BA, Mary Ade, BA, 2008)
Contemporary Poetry Writing and Publishing (Kia Powell, BA, 2003)
Faculty Mentor for Undergraduate Competitive Research Fellowship ( Jessica Hames, BA,
2001-2002).
The Song Remains the Same: Sirens in the Odyssey, Updike s Fiction, and O, Brother,
Where
Art Thou
Contemporary Poetry and Myth (Katherine Perry, BA,1997)
Mixed Media Poetic Sequences (Carol Hartsell, BA, 1996)
Honors Thesis Committee (Allen Keller, Fiction, BA, 2004)
Honors Thesis Committee (Troy Woollen, Chaucer, BA, 2003)
Honors Thesis Committee (Randall Smith, Classical Rhetoric, BA, 1993)
Core Courses
English Composition 2 (2008)
World Literature I, Honors World Literature I (2005-2011)
Great Books I, Honors Great Books I (1992 -2003).
English Composition I
(1991, 1998-2000).
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Graduate Student Advising and Committees
As CGS (2001
-2004), service as Academic Advisor to all unassigned graduate students in
the department,
as major professor to all non-thesis MA students, and as advisor to all new MA, MTPC,
and PhD
students.
Continuing
Rabi a Hakima, PhD, 2009-. Major Professor.
Brian East, PhD, 2006-. Major Professor.
Tamela Uzzetta, MA, 2009-. Major Professor.
David Murdock, PhD, 2001-. Committee.
Completed
Christie-Anne Putnam, MA, 2009-2010. Major Professor. I am like a child who of diverse /
flowers
intends to form a beautiful garland : Moderata Fonte s Revisions of Gender in Floridoro.
Anna McLeane, M.Ed
., 2009-2010. English Advisor and Exam Coordinator
.
Robert Haberstroh, MA, 2009-2010. Major Professor. Graphic Shakespeare: Understanding the
Contact
Zone of Shakespeare Adaptations in Graphic Narrative.
Tawnysha Lynch
Greene, MA, 2008-2009. Committee. (Creative Thesis) Sunday.
Natalie Atkins Thiele, MA, 2007 -2008. Major Professor. (Creative Thesis) Hedge Days.
Nancy Blair, MA, 2007-2008. Committee. A Participant in the World : Identity, Change,
and the Closet
in Angels in America.
Stephen Halbert, MA, 2007-2008. Committee. And Yet God Has Not Said a Word : The
Dramatic
Monologue as Inverted and Secularized Prayer.
Nick Boone, PhD, 2006-2007. Major professor. Hargis Fellowship; Dissertation Fellowship.
Truth and Method on Black Mountain: The Hermeneutic Stances of Charles Olson, Robert
Creeley, and Robert Duncan.
Katherine Perry, PhD, 2001-2004, Major professor; 2004-2007, Committee.
Merriwether Fellowship; Dissertation Fellowship
Gender on Paper: Gender Performances in American Women s Poetry.
Kia Powell, MA, 2003-2005. Committee (Creative Thesis
)
Shake Down the Stars
Joseph Brown, MA, 2003-2004 Committee.
Margaret Wren Doggett, 2003. Committee (Creative Thesis) The American Wanderer: A
Collection of
Poems.
Annie West, 2002-2003. Committee. Dialogic Imagination and Discourse in Pat Barker s
Regeneration
Trilogy.
Jerry
Hinnen, MA, 2002-2003. Major Professor. (Creative Thesis) Every Item in this
Machine Can Be
Won.
Jennifer Breslin [Martin
], MA, 1992-93
. Major Professor. (Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh)
Laurel Cook, MA, 1992-1993
. Committee. (Dickens)
Clay Gilbert, MA, Spring, 1997-Fall, 1998. Committee. (Blake and H.D.)
John Grimmett, MA, 1992. Committee. (Gawain
)
Van Muse, MA, 1993-1994. Committee. (Creative Thesis)
Lisa J. Smith,
MA, 1995-1996. Committee. (Achebe and Wolf)
Inactive or Temporary
(X)
Jeffrey Clayton, PhD,
2004-2007X. Committee
.
Malissa
Dunn, MA, 2002-2006
. Major Professor. (Creative Thesis)
Angela Farmer, PhD, 2004-2004X Committee.
Kimberly Pruett, PhD, 1998-2003. Committee. Old Age in Medieval Literature.
Patsy Fowler, PhD, Spring, 1998-1999X. Committee. (Feminisms)
Jennifer Kroll, PhD, 1994-1997X. Committee. (Critical Theory)
Scott Pleasant, PhD, Fall, 1994-1999X. Major professor. (Appalachian Poetry)
Kip Soteres, PhD, Fall, 1992-1999X. Committee. (The Long Poem)
Josef Vice, PhD 1998-1999X. Committee. (W.H. Auden, Queer Theory)
Marguerite Majilton
Rhodes, MA, 1994 -1997X. Major Professor. (Creative Thesis)
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MA Comprehensive Exams
Examiner for Anna McLeane (06CSE), Spring 2010
Literary Theory & Gay & Lesbian Theory: Fall 2006
English Literature to 1500
: Winter 1994, Summer 1995, Spring 1997, Winter 1998, Summer
2005, Summer
2006
World Literature
in English 1945 -Present: Fall 2003, Summer 2004
Literary Theory & Post
-Colonialism: Spring 2002
Literary Theory & Cultural Studies:
Summer 1996
Literary Criticism:
Summer 1995
th
20 Century British & American Literature: Summer, 1995
English Literature to 1500
:
Winter 1994, Summer 1995, Spring 1997, Winter 1998, Summer
2005, Summer
2006
Examiner for Russ Connell (06CSE), Spring 1996
Examiner for Susie Jensen (06CSE), Summer 1995
Other Contributions to Teaching
iTeach 2, March, 2010. Conference participant.
CLA Summer Academy on Distance Education, June 2009. Participant.
Sustainability Curriculum Workshop, May 2009. Participant.
iTeach: Outside the Classroom, March 13, 2009. Conference participant.
Supporting faculty, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program
Supporting faculty, Women s Studies Program
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Auburn University Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, Southeastern
Conference
Academic Consortium,
2009
-2010
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
in English, 2001 -2004
o Responsible for recruitment, admissions, administrative advising, and all general
administration of all English graduate students and programs (80 -90 students in three
degree programs). Oversight and development of curriculum, exams, staffing, web sites,
etc.
25 years of administrative experience as teacher of record,
1985
-2010
Library Move Supervisor, 1983-1984, University of Chicago Libraries
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Offices
Auburn University
Poetry Prize Coordinator, Academy of American Poets College and U niversity PoetryPrize 2000
-
2010
o Coordination of AU s Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Award publicity, collection of
manuscripts, judging, and notification.
Coordinator of Graduate Studies, 2001 -2004
Co-Chair, Committee for the SACS-Compliant Program for First-Year GTAs, 2001
o Planning, development, and implementation of the English Department s new English
Graduate Practicum and Co-Teaching Program
Advisor, English department undergraduates, 1997-2009
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society), 1996 -97
National Federation of State Poetry Societi es (NFSPS)
Vice President, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2010 -2012.
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o Since 2004, I have held positions of increasing administrative responsibility for
NFSPS,
the oldest national poetry organization in the U.S.
Chair, NFSPS Stevens Manuscript Competition, 2010 -2012.
o Coordination of a major national book manuscript contest, including publicity,
collection
and screening of manuscripts, judge selection, publication, and more publicity.
Selector of Judges, National Federation of State Po etry Societies, 2007-2010.
o Developing, maintaining contact with, and selecting qualified judges for the 50 poetry
contests held by the NFSPS each year.
Historian, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2000 -2008.
o Maintaining and developing the collection of histories of the 38 member societies.
rd
3 Vice President, National Federation of S tate Poetry Societies, 2007-2010
th
4 Vice President, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2006 -2007
Chancellor, National Federation of State Poetry So cieties, 2004-2007.
Committees
University Committees
Interdisciplinary Studies Major, Faculty Oversight Committee, 2009-
Graduate Council, 2004-2007
o Subcommittee on Curriculum 2004-2007
o Ad Hoc Committee on Conflict of Interest Spring -Summer 2005
Academic Honesty Committee, 2000-2003
Faculty Dismissal Committee, 2000-2003
College of Liberal Arts Committees
College Curriculum Committee, 2005 -
Selection Committee, CLA Summer Salary Awards, 2006, 2007
Departmental Committees
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Revis ion Committee, Fall 2009
Assessment Committee, 2009-
Research Culture Committee, 2009-
Self-Study Steering Committee, 2007-2009
o Chair: Mission, Governance, and Quality Working Group, 2007 -2009
Poetry Writing Search Committees, 2007-2008 (chair), 2001-2002, 1996-97
Early Modern English Literature Search Committee, 2006 -2007
GTA Teaching Awards Committee, 2002
MA Exam Committees, 2001: English Lit to 1500; 20th-C English and American Lit;
Literary
Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Gay and Lesbian Theor y; Myth and Religion;
Narrative
Theory; New Criticism and Humanism; New Historicism; New Marxist Theory; Orality and
Literacy; Post-Colonialism and Ethnographies; Post -Modernism; Psychoanalysis; Reader -
Response Criticism; Structuralism and Semiotics
Ad Hoc Summer Graduate Studies Committee, 1999, 1992
Composition Committee, 1996-1999
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1995 -1997
Undergraduate Awards Committee, 1996, 1997
English Dept. Ad Hoc Committee to Study Graduate Examinations, 1995 -1996
English Department Ad Hoc Committee on Equipment and Facilities, Auburn University,
1992-
1993
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Other Contributions
Reading, Editorial
Series Reader (poetry scholarship)/ComitE de Lecture. Profils Americains. Journal for
Centre d Etudes et
de recherches sur la civilisation et la littErature amEricaines. UniversitE Paul ValEry,
Montpellier, France. Invited scholar in poetry, 2010.
External Reviewer, Broadview Press, Andrew Dix s 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, 2002
External Reviewer, Houghton-Mifflin Press, for Visual Culture, a composition/cultural
studies textbook,
2002
External Reviewer, Edwin Mellen Press, for Pat rick D. Morrow s Academic Memoirs, 2001-
2002
Category Editor, Epic and Narrative Poetry, Open Directory Project (an international
search engine at
http://dmoz.org/), 1999-2001
External Reviewer, Edwin Mellen Press, for Patrick D. Morrow s Post-Colonial Essays on
South Pacific
Literature (1998), 1997
Editorial Advisor, Collegiate Press edition of Alberta Turner s To Make a Poem, a
creative writing
textbook,1997-1999
Judging
Major or National Awards (2007-2010)
Invited Judge, NFSPS University Level Poetry Competition, 2010. Chapbook Competition.
Invited Judge, League of Minnesota Poets Grand Prize, 2008
Invited Judge, Pennsylvania Poetry Society Grand Prize, 2008
Invited Judge, Poetry Society of Texas Book Manuscript Competition, 2006
Invited Judge, Penumbra 2007 Poetry Contest
Invited Judge, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2010
Invited Judge, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2009
Invited Judge, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2008
Invited Judge, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2007
Minor or Regional Awards (2007-2010)
Invited Judge, Poetry Society of Tennessee Contest, 2010
Invited Judge, League of Minnesota Poets Contest, 2010
Invited Judge, Utah State Poetry Contest, 2010
Invited Judge, Pennsylvania Poetry Society Contest, 2010
Invited Judge, Utah State Poetry Contest, 2009
Invited Judge, Poets Roundtable of Arkansas, 2008
Judge, Best Graduate Student Paper Award (Master s level), 2008
Invited Judge, Utah State Poetry Contest, 2008
Invited Judge, Florida State Poetry Association Contest, 2007
Invited Judge, Utah State Poetry Contest, 2007
Conferences
Session Chair/ Moderateur, L EpopEe auhourd hui: entre expansion et extinction, son
extension.
UniversitE Paul ValEry, Montpelli er, France, October 21-23, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Auburn University affiliations: Office of Sustainability, Women s Studies, Medieval and
Renaissance
Studies, Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity,
MLA, AWP, NCTE, NFSPS, Alabama Writers Forum, Academy of American Poets, Alabama State
Poetry Society, League of Minnesota Poets
LANGUAGES
Russian, French, German. Reading knowledge of Anglo -Saxon, Latin.
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