SCOTT SELISKER

http://selisker.english.ucsb.edu

University of California, Santa Barbara

**** ***** ****, ********** ** English

aboulu@r.postjobfree.com 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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