University Assistant

Curriculum Vitæ

Louis H. Palmer, III

Department of English

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Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1033

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EDUCATION

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Ph.D. in English, August 1998.

Dissertation: "Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash and the Discourse of 'Race' in the 1930 s." This study traces the emergence of Southern Gothic writing in the 1930 s as the result of literary modernism s conflicts over regional identity and literary form, popular understandings of "race" influenced by eugenics, and political agendas of reform including Marxism, Southern Agrarianism, and New Deal policies and programs. Looks at early Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell, along with other writers. Director: Harvey Teres.

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. M.A. in English, August 1991.

M.A. Thesis: "The Uses of the Double or Doppleganger in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy." Director: Edwin T. Arnold.

Converse College, Spartanburg, SC. M.Ed. in secondary English, August 1978.

Williams College, Williamstown, MA. B.A. cum laude in English, June 1976.

PUBLICATIONS

"Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash and the Discourse of 'Race' in the 1930 s." Book manuscript under consideration at University of Georgia Press.

Editing a collection of critical essays on the cultural and social aspects of the Appalachian Trail and the "thru-hiking" phenomenon. Deadline February 2000.

"An Appalachian Western: H.E. Danford's The West Virginian." Journal of Appalachian Studies, Spring 1999.

"Chris Offutt Comes Home." Interview with Chris Offutt. Appalachian Journal. 26 (1), Fall 1998.

Interview with Fred Chappell Appalachian Journal 19 (4), Summer 1992; reprinted in Interviewing Appalachia. Eds. Edwin T. Arnold and J.W. Williamson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

"Theorist Biographies and Study Questions: Frederic Jameson and Walter Benjamin" in Patricia A. Moody, ed., Readings in Textual Studies. Acton, Massachusetts: Copley 1995.

"Out Of Work," (a six-week curriculum unit) and "Annotated Bibliography," Jim Wayne Miller, The Examined Life: Family, Community, and Work in American Literature. Appalachian Consortium Press, Boone, N.C. October, 1989.

"Southern Gothic and Appalachian Gothic: A Comparative Look at Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy." Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association (3): East Tennessee State University, 1991.

TEACHING

Teaching interests: American literature, Southern and regional culture and literatures, Secondary English Methods, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Middle English language and literature, Surveys, Genre courses, Composition and Rhetoric, Writing in the Disciplines, Introductory Film, First-year Seminars.

1998-2000: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English. Taught advanced courses in Contemporary Poetry, American Literature Since 1950, 20th Century African American Literature, Major Authors: Morrison and Faulkner, Professional Writing, Writing for Pre-Law, and introductory courses in Film and Literary Studies.

1999-2000: In school supervision of four teacher-trainees for the Teacher Education program at Michigan State University.

1998: Certificate in University Teaching earned concurrent with doctoral degree, through participation in the Future Professoriate Program, Graduate School, Syracuse University.

1997: Michigan State University. Taught introductory composition in SUPER program, a Summer "bridge" program for athletes and minority students.

1996-97: Michigan State University. Lecturer, Department of American Thought and Language. Full time 12-credit load. First-year writing courses based on American Studies paradigm using literary and historical texts.

1994-95: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Instructor, English and Textual Studies 141, From Language to Discourse, the gateway course for the English major. Introduction to interpretive practices through critical theory.

1994-96: Syracuse University. Summer Institute writing instructor. Introduction to University composition practices in a highly-structured "bridge" program for incoming first year students.

1994-95: Syracuse University. Graduate School Teaching Fellow. Selected as an orientation leader in nationally-recognized training program for new Teaching Assistants.

1993: Syracuse University. Writing Program Summer Team. Organized Fall Conference and orientation for new instructors.

1992-96: Syracuse University. Writing Program Instructor and Writing Consultant; designed and taught a variety of courses in first year and sophomore composition and rhetoric; worked in writing lab and as tutor; assisted with other teacher s classes, including technological support. Theoretically-based Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program.

1993: Research Assistant to Duane Roen, Director of the Writing Program. Research for professional development programs and towards development of Ph.D. Program in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric.

1993: Evening supervisor for writers in a computer lab for Syracuse Instructional Assistance Program.

1990-91: Appalachian State University, Boone, NC: First year English, composition and literature. Writing center tutor.

1988: NEH Summer Institute for Teachers: "Appalachia: Myth and Reality." Dr. Carl Ross. Appalachian State University. Participants nationally selected.

1986-88: NEH award, grant-funded program for teachers: Southern Highlands Institute for Educators. Dr. Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Courses in American culture and literature. Participants regionally selected.

1979-90: Spartanburg County School District Seven, Spartanburg, SC: Instructor, English, grades seven through twelve.

1978-90: Isothermal Community College, Spindale, NC; Limestone College, Gaffney, SC; Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC: Instructor in composition, technical writing, business writing, English and American literature surveys and public speaking.

1978-79: Spartanburg Day School, Spartanburg, SC: Instructor, English literature 10 and 12, AP English 12.

1976-77: Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, NY. Drama instructor, directed and designed outdoors program, apprentice English teacher.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Southern White Trash and the Working Class." Working Class Studies: Class, Identity and Nation Conference, Youngstown, OH, June 1999.

"Cyborgs and Rhizomes: Impure Models for Environmental Revolution." Association for Literature and the Environment Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, June 1999.

"Carson McCullers and Southern Gothic: Anomaly or Force to be Reckoned With?" Carson McCullers Society at American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD, May 1999.

Gothic Area Chair, Popular Culture Association Conference. Organized four panels for the 1999 Popular Culture Assocaition conference in San Diego, CA, March 1999.

"'Magic, anonymous and malignant': Reading The Crying of Lot 49 as a Gothic Novel." 1999 Popular Culture Assocaition conference in San Diego, CA, March 1999.

"'A real shitstorm up there at El Dorado': Pinckney Benedict's Apocalypse." Appalachian Studies Conference XXII, Abingdon, VA, March 1999.

"'Mighty White of You': Southern Gothic, Race, and White Trash in Gone With the Wind."Modern Gothic Panel. Popular Culture Association Conference, Orlando, FL. April 1998.

"'Encampment of the Damned': Community, Class and the Individual in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree." Appalachian Studies Association Conference XXI, Boone, NC. March 1998.

"Faulkner, Gothic, Southern Gothic: A Parting of the Ways." Modern Gothic Panel. Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX. April 1997.

"An Appalachian Western: H.E. Danford's The West Virginian." Appalachian Studies Association Conference XX, Fort Mitchell, KY. March 1997.

"The Labor of Autobiography: Gary Snyder s Political Turn." National Poetry Foundation Conference on American Poetry in the 1950 s. University of Maine at Orono. June 1996.

"All Dressed Up: Teaching Clothes as Texts." Panel presentation at Spring Conference, Syracuse University Writing Program. April 1994.

"Getting Down To It: James Still, Harriette Arnow and the Bases of Southern Gothic Fiction in the 1930s." Appalachian Studies Association Conference IXX. Unicoi State Park, Georgia. March 1996.

"Disillusionment, Politics and the Fragment." In panel presentation On Politics, Pedagogy and Evaluation. Fall Conference, Syracuse University Writing Program. August 1995.

"After The War is Over," at AfterWords conference, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York. September 1994.

"Southern Gothic 101: Whose Class is This, Anyway?" at Global (Inter)Sections conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 1994.

"Notes on Sut Lovingood: The Outlaw as Colonial Subject." Justice and the Text conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. April 1994.

"Using Student Texts." Panel presentation at Spring Conference, Syracuse University Writing Program. March 1994.

"Collaborative Teaching." Collaborative presentation with Katherine Romack at Fall Conference, Syracuse University Writing Program. September 1993.

"Subversion, Resistance and the Carnivalesque in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God." Cormac McCarthy conference, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky. October 1993.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Selected to serve as Gothic Area Chair for the Popular Culture Association. 1998.

Participant in several Lily Teaching Seminars at Michigan State University. 1996-99.

English Department Teaching Associate: Earned Syracuse University Graduate School Certificate in University Teaching. 1995.

Mediated panel, "Windows on the Profession," on the first year of teaching after graduate school. 1995.

Syracuse University English Graduate Organization Steering Committee. Elected by peers.

Syracuse University English Department. Curriculum Committee. Worked on revisions to undergraduate and graduate courses. Revised graduate curriculum. 1994-95.

Treasurer, Region 15, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Syracuse New York. 1995-96

Syracuse University English Department. Ad-hoc Chair Selection Committee (twice). 1994-95.

Syracuse University Graduate School Teaching Assistant Program panel presentation: "What Your English Teacher Never Taught You" on slang for international Teaching Assistants, 1994 and 1995.

Syracuse University Graduate School Teaching Assistant Program: Organized and chaired panel, " I Don't Give Tests and I Hate To Grade," on Testing and Grading. 1995.

Organized "Teacher Assessment: How Do I Look?" panel in the Syracuse University Teaching Assistant Program's Fall Professional Development Seminar, 23 September 1994.

With George Rhinehart, organized Syracuse University Writing Program Fall Conference and orientation for new instructors. August 1993.

Steering committee for "Restoring Biodiversity in the Southern Appalachians" conference at University of North Carolina at Asheville. May 1989.

Board member at large, Appalachian Consortium, Boone, North Carolina. A regionally-based association that includes colleges and universities as well as historical, conservation and cultural organizations. 1988-90.

National Education Association and South Carolina Education Association School Representative. 1980-90.

Publications committee reader, Appalachian Consortium Press, Boone, North Carolina. 1987-90.

School district-sponsored courses in BASIC programming. 1983-88.

University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, SC. School curriculum development courses. Designed an award-winning curriculum for grades 7-12. 1982.

VIDEOS

Sound technician on "Voices From the Garden," a video by Kevin Balling about the James Bay hydroelectric project in northern Quebec and its effect on native Cree and Inuit populations. 1990.

Featured in "Hiking the Appalachian Trail," a video by Ray Salo/Salo Productions about the Sierra Club Centennial Expedition on the Appalachian Trail. 1992.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Honors: Awarded a Syracuse University Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award. 1996.

Grants: Awarded a Syracuse University English Department grant for dissertation research in June 1996.

Awarded a South Carolina Education Association mini-grant for course development to implement "Out of Work" curriculum unit (see above), February 1990.

Service Activity: Walked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, March to September 1992, as on-trail coordinator for the Sierra Club Centennial Expedition. Selected from national membership. We conducted public and media events to draw attention to environmental issues along the trail as we hiked 2140 miles. 1992.

Languages: Reading knowledge, French and German. Wide variety of computer and electronic presentation and communication skills, including web design and HTML.

Affiliations: Appalachian Studies Association, Modern Language Association, Popular Culture Association, American Studies Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Northeast Modern Language Association, Popular Culture Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Environmental: Appalachian Trail Conference, James Bay Task Force, Sierra Club.

REFERENCES

Dossier available on request from: Syracuse University Center for Career Services

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