Assistant Project
Resume:
SCOTT SELISKER
http://selisker.english.ucsb.edu
University of California, Santa Barbara
**** ***** ****, ********** ** English
********@*******.****.*** Santa Barbara, CA 93106 September 2011CURRICULUM VITAE
Employment:
2011present ACLS/Mellon New Faculty Fellow
University of California at Santa Barbara Department of English
2010 11Visiting Assistant Professor, American Literature after 1900
Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN) Department of English
Education:
2004 2010 Ph.D. University of Virginia, English Language and Literature
Dissertation: Encountering the Human Automaton: Ethics and Alterity in
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Committee: Jennifer Wicke (director), Eric Lott, David Golumbia
19992003 B.A. Duke University, summa cum laude, English (with highest distinction) and
Literature
Book Project:
Sciences of the Subhuman: The Human Automaton and America s Others since World War II
explores representations of figures such as communists or terrorists, as will-less,
automatic, and
therefore subhuman. The project pairs scientific and public-sphere discourses of
automatism such as
behaviorist psychology, the Cold War brainwashing scare, the Patty Hearst trial, and
media
coverage of terrorism with literary and cinematic uses of the human automaton in
explorations of
encounter, ethnics and difference, in work by Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, John
Frankenheimer, Philip K. Dick, Don DeLillo, and others.
Selected Honors and Fellowships:
American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship Awardee, 2011
University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year
Fellowship
(one of twenty), 2009 10
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia Department of
English, 2010
Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching Honoree (university-wide teaching
award, one of twelve), 2008
Race on the American Stage, advanced course in U.S. drama, spring 2012
Intro to U.S. Multicultural Literatures, introductory course, winter 2012
Literatures of Technology: I/Robot, advanced course in film and science fiction, fall
2011
Macalester College Department of English:
American Literature, 1945 present, spring 2011
American Voices, introduction to U.S. ethnic literatures, spring 2011
Global Fictions of World War II: Literature, Memory, History, seminar, fall 2010
The Novel: Fictions of Encounter, introduction to the English major, fall 2010
University of Virginia Department of English:
Black Writers in America, introduction to English major, fall 2008
Selisker 3
History of Literatures in English I, History of Literatures in English II, TA for
major
surveys of British and American literature, Beowulf to Dickinson, fall 2007, spring 2006
Madness in Literature, Philosophy, and Contemporary Culture, themed first-year
writing
seminar, fall 2006, spring 2007, spring 2008
Outreach and Other Teaching Experience:
Volunteer English Tutor, International Rescue Committee, Charlottesville, VA, 2009 10
Writing Instructor for Personal Statement Workshop, Virginia Summer Medical and Dental
Education Program, an initiative for diversity in medicine, summer 2007, 2008
Assistant Instructor, U.S. literature and English language, LycEe Paul Emile Victor,
Champagnole, Jura, France, through U.S. Fulbright Student Program, 2003 4
Digital Humanities Experience:
THATCamp CHNM participant, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, June 2011
Lead Drupal and JavaScript Developer for RedSchoolhouse.org (built site architecture
and
developed interactive pedagogy tools), University of Virginia Writing Program, 2009 10
Proficiencies in content platforms for research and pedagogy (Drupal, Omeka,
WordPress),
map, image, and video editing for classroom use, web design (HTML5, CSS3), web
programming (MySQL, PHP, JavaScript)
Professional Service:
Panel Chair and Respondent, Subcultural Crossings, American Studies Association,
October 2011
Student Member of Departmental Steering and Graduate Committees, University of Virginia
Department of English, 2006 7
President, Graduate English Students Association (GESA), 2006 7
Invited Panelist, graduate pedagogy course ( Teaching Literature, Syllabus Design ),
dissertation seminar panel ( Managing the Dissertation ), GESA First Year Series
( Professionalization ), 2006 9
Chair, GESA Conference Committee, theme Worlding the Text, keynote speakers Kwame
Anthony Appiah and Wai Chee Dimock, master class by Eric Lott, 2005 6
Professional Affiliations:
Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, American Comparative
Literature Association, Modernist Studies Association
Languages:
Fluency in French, intermediate reading proficiency in Spanish, German, ItalianReferences:
Available upon request
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