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DOUG DAVIS |
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Gordon
College |
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Division
of Humanities |
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419
College Drive |
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Barnesville,
GA 30204 |
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678.359.5817 / ddavis@gdn.edu |
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CURRENT
POSITION |
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Associate Professor of English, Division of
Humanities, Gordon College |
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EDUCATION |
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Ph.D. Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2003 |
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M.A. English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA,
January 1995 |
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B.A. English, Magna
cum Laude, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY, May 1990 |
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GRANTS,
HONORS AND AWARDS |
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National Endowment for the Humanities Grant,
“Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor” Summer Institute, 2007 |
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Faculty Development Grant, 2006, 2008 |
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Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellowship, 2001-2004 |
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Society for Social Studies of Science Nicholas
Mullins Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay, 2002 |
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Schaeffer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2000 |
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Society for Literature and Science Edward Bruns
Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay, 1999 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Adamson Awards for
Outstanding Academic Writing, 1996, 1997, 1998 |
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Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Undergraduate
Teaching, 1997, 1998, 1999 |
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Invited Participant, Mellon Foundation Summer
Seminar on Critical Theories of Objectivity, 1996 |
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Phi Beta Kappa, 1990 |
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DISSERTATION |
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Strategic Fictions: Crisis, Invention, and Discovery in the American
Narratives of Nuclear Defense |
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Director: David Shumway,
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Committee: Brian McHale, Ohio State University;
Kathleen Newman, Carnegie Mellon University |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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“Queer as AI: Alan Turing
and the Science Fiction of Machine Intelligence.” Co-written with Lisa
Yaszek. Forthcoming in Extrapolation. |
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“Teaching The
Nuclear Age in the Second Nuclear Age.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien. Ed. Alex Vernon. Modern Language Association Press,
Forthcoming 2009. |
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“Shiftlet’s Choice:
Flannery O’Connor’s Fordist Economy of Love.” Flannery O’Connor in Our Time. Eds. Avis Hewitt and Robert
Donahoo. University of Tennessee Press, Forthcoming 2009. |
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“Grace in the Machine:
Technology and Transfiguration in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction.” The Flannery O’Connor Review 7
(Forthcoming 2009). |
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“Reading Science Fiction’s Interdisciplinary Conversation with Science
and Technology Studies.” Co-authored with Lisa Yaszek. Reading Science Fiction. Ed. Marleen Barr. Palgrave
Press, Forthcoming 2008. |
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“Thomas D Clareson Awards
Presentation.” Co-written with Bruce Rockwood. SFRA Review. Forthcoming. |
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“Science
Fiction Narratives of Mass Destruction and the Politics of National Security.” New Boundaries in Political Science
Fiction. Eds. Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox. University of South
Carolina Press, 2008. 173-186. |
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“Anthology of O’Connor
Tribute Stories Planned.” Cheers! The
Flannery O’Connor Society Newsletter 15.1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 6. |
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“Everything that Concerns
O’Connor Must Converge—on Milledgeville.” Cheers!
The Flannery O’Connor Society Newsletter 14.3 (Fall 2007): 1, 4. |
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“Future-War Storytelling: American Policy and
Popular Film.” Rethinking Global
Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror. Eds. Patrice
Petro and Andrew Martin. Rutgers University Press, 2006. 13-44. |
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“‘One Hundred Million Hydrogen Bombs’: Total War in
the Fossil Record.” Configurations: A
Journal of Literature, Science and Technology 9.3 (Fall 2001): 461-508. |
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BOOK
REVIEWS |
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Review of Savage
Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture.
Patrick B. Sharp. SFRA Review.
Forthcoming. |
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Review of Rumors
of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda Setting in American and
British Speculative Fiction. Charles E. Gannon. Science Fiction Studies. Forthcoming. |
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Review of Rolling
Thunder. John Varley. SFRA Review
284 (Spring 2008): 16-17. |
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Review of
Socialism and Democracy, “Socialism and Social
Critique in Science Fiction” special issue. Victor Wallis and Alcena
Rogan, eds. New Political Science: A
Journal of Politics and Culture 30.1 (March 2008): 122-125. |
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Review of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream
Anthology. Eds.
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. Science
Fiction Studies 34 (2007): 346-349. |
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Review of Red
Lightning. John Varley. SFRA Review 276 (April/May/June 2006): 29-30. |
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Review of A
User’s Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews. J.G. Ballard. SFRA Review 223 (May/June 1996):
27-28. |
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Review of Functions
of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. Joe Sanders. SFRA Review 222 (March/April 1996):
23-27. |
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Review of Full
of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. Ed. David Lavery. SFRA Review 218 (July/August 1995):
11-12. |
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INTERVIEWS
AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS |
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Interview about the Science Fiction Research
Association, The Sci-Fi Lab podcast, WREK radio, August 2008 |
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Invited Lecturer, Literature and Democracy Summer
Seminar, “Writers on Writing” Module, New Jersey Council of the Humanities,
July 2008 |
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Presenter, Thomas D. Clareson Award Speech, Science
Fiction Research Association International Conference/Campbell Awards
Banquet, July 2008. |
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Invited Panelist, New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction Roundtable, Science
Fiction Research Association International Conference, July 2008. |
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Invited Panelist, Reading Science Fiction Roundtable, Science Fiction Research
Association International Conference, July 2008. |
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Invited Panelist, Technoculture and Science Fiction Roundtable, International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2008. |
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Invited Panelist, Teaching Science Fiction Roundtable International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2008. |
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Interview
about Researching Flannery O’Connor, Macon
Telegraph, July 2007. |
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Invited
speaker, director’s commentary for Cartoon Network program, Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVD Volume 4,
October 2005. |
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Invited speaker, “The Machine and the Grotesque in
the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor.” Monstrous Bodies in Science,
Fiction, and Culture Symposium. Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2005. |
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Invited Panelist, Running Tutorials Roundtable. Mid-Atlantic Council of Tutorial
Coordinators, March 1999. |
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CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS |
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“Material
Culture, Revelatory Imagery, and the Politics of Containment in Flannery
O’Connor’s Short Fiction.” American Literature Association American
Fiction Symposium, October 2008. |
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“Christian Fabulation for American Technoculture:
The Sacred and the Profane in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Ted
Chiang.” Science Fiction Research Association International Conference, July
2008. |
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“Flannery, Faulkner and Ford (Cars): Human and
Posthuman Conditions in the Southern Renaissance and Beyond.” The Stories of
Flannery and Faulkner, March 2008. |
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“Science Fiction Narratives of Mass Destruction and the Politics of
National Security.” Society for Literature, Science, and the
Arts International Conference, November 2007. |
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“Flannery O’Connor’s Homecoming and the
Literature of Historical Change.” Southern Women Writers
Conference, September 2007. |
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“Devolution and Animality in Jack London’s Dog
Stories.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts International
Conference, November 2006. (Also served as panel chair.) |
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“On
the Origins and Uses of Slipstream Fiction.” Science Fiction Research
Association International Conference, June 2006. |
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“Remembering
Violence Properly: Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and the
Geopolitics of Memory.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the
Arts, April 2006. |
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“Atomic
Minimalism: John Adams, Classical Music, and the Popular Memory of
Apocalypse.” International Joint Conference of the Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association, March 2006. |
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“‘At the Perilous Crossroads of Radicalism and
Technology’: The New Art of 9/11.” Society for Literature, Science, and the
Arts International Conference, October 2006. (Also served as panel chair.) |
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“The Intersection of Race, Grace, and Technology in
Flannery O’Connor’s New World.” Southern Women Writers Conference, September
2005. |
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“George W. Bush, SF Grand Master? Science Fiction
and the Poetics of National (In)security.” Science Fiction Research
Association International Conference, June 2005. |
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“Tales of Mass Destruction in American National
Policy.” Gordon College Studies in the Humanities Academic Group, March 2005. |
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“Race, Grace, and Technology: Reading Flannery
O’Connor in the New South.” Gordon College Studies in the Humanities Academic
Group, February 2005. |
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“Look Back in Wonder: Postmodernist Fabulation vs.
The Bush Doctrine.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
International Conference, October 2004. (Also served as panel chair.) |
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“The Artifactual World of Flannery O’Connor.”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts International Conference,
October 2004. (Also served as panel chair.) |
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“Containing California in Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Or, How I Learned to Stop
Complaining and Love the Cold War.” Science Fiction Research Association
International Conference, June 2003. |
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“Queer as AI: Alan Turing, the Enablements of Queer
Subjectivity, and the Creation of a New Science.” Co-presented with Lisa
Yaszek. Society for Social Studies of Science International Conference,
November 2002. (Also presented at the Society for Literature, Science, and
the Arts International Conference, November 2002.) |
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“Hollywood Doomsday Machines: Visual Narrative and
the Political Culture of the Cold War.” Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, December 2001. |
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“Make Love,
Not War: Winning Consent for Nuclear Policy in Hollywood Film.” Society for
Literature, Science, and the Arts International Conference, October 2001. |
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“Wandering Targets on the Homefront: Reading Thomas
Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut in the Cold War.” Society for Literature, Science,
and the Arts International Conference, October 2001. (Also served as panel
chair.) |
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“Paleontology and Superpower Politics.” Conference
on Cold War Science, Technology and Medicine: Global Perspectives, November
2000. |
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“Placing Nuclear War Literature in Cold-War
Actor Networks.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December
1999. |
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“Strategic Fictions: The Meaning of Military
Technology in Popular Literature and Film.” Society for Literature, Science,
and the Arts International Conference, October 1999. |
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“Narratives of Total War in the Fossil Record.”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts International Conference,
October 1999. |
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“One Hundred Million Hydrogen Bombs: Metaphor and
the Invention of a New Theory of Mass Extinction.” Carnegie Mellon Cold War
Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, April 1999. |
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“The Strange Attraction of Chaos Theory in
the Humanities.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December
1997. (Also presented at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
International Conference, November 1997.) |
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“Cultural Studies of Science: Working Against
the Disciplines.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts International
Conference, October 1996. |
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“Colonists
of the Internet: Network Academic Journals and the Control of Electronic
Discourse.” The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, July 1994. |
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“The
Strange Attraction of Tom Stoppard.” Northeast Modern Language Association
Annual Convention, April 1994. |
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“Violence and Agency in the Rhetoric of Geological
Catastrophism.” The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July
1993. |
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COURSES
DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT |
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Division of Humanities, Gordon College, 2004-present |
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Creative Writing |
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Literatures of the 21st Century |
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American Literature I, 1492-1865 |
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American Literature II, 1865-Present |
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Introduction to the Humanities |
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Composition 2: Literature and Research |
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Composition 1: Argument and Interpretation |
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Department of Literature, Communication, and
Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001-2004 |
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Composition 2: Literature and Research |
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Composition 1: Argument and Interpretation |
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Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995-2001 |
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Literary Modernism
and Postmodernism |
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Cold War Literature |
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Science Fiction in
Culture |
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Composition |
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Department of English, Temple University, 1993-1995 |
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Introduction to College Writing |
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OTHER
TEACHING SERVICE |
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Associate Director and Webmaster, Gordon College
Writing Center, 2005-2008 |
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Head
Writing Advisor for the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate
Minority Action Project, 1998-2001 |
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ESL Writing Center Advisor, Temple University,
1993-1995 |
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PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE |
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Professional Contributions |
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Organizer
and Site Host, Science Fiction Research Association International Conference,
forthcoming 2009 |
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Committee
Member, Thomas D. Clareson Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service to the
Science Fiction Research Community, 2007-2010 |
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Essay
Reviewer, Social Studies of Science and Studies in Popular Culture |
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Panel
Organizer and Chair, Society for
Literature, Science, and the Arts International Conference, 2007, 2005, 2004,
and 2001 |
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Associate
Site Organizer and Session Chair for Monstrous
Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture, a symposium
sponsored by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2005. Available at
<http://monstrousbodies.lcc.gatech.edu> |
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Postdoctoral
Representative and Undergraduate Advisor for the Frankenstein Project, co-sponsored by the Georgia Tech Library
and the American Medical Association, 2004. Available at
<http://frankenstein.lcc.gatech.edu/> |
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Literature,
Film and Culture Editor, Carnegie Mellon University History Department “Cold
War Connection” web site, 1996-1998. Available at
<http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/> |
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Literature
and Science Editor, English Server, 1996-1998. Available at
<http://www.eserver.org> |
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Campus Contributions |
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Honors
Program Advisory Council, 2008-present |
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Faculty
Welfare Committee, 2007-present |
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Honor’s
Program Task Force, 2007-2008 |
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Faculty advisor, Gordon
College Literary Club and Driftwood
Magazine, 2007-2008 |
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Assessment
Committee, 2004-2007 (Served as Chair 2005-2006 and Recorder 2004-2005) |
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Philosophy
Search Committee, 2006 |
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Textbook
Committee, 2006-present |
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Instructional
Technology Assessment Coordinator, 2005-present |
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Division
Representative, <EMMA> Electronic Mark-up Application Composition
Workshop, University of Georgia, 2006 |
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Division
Representative, Larry H. Kelley Educational Services Workshop on Embedding
Assessment Learning Outcomes in Regularly Scheduled Assignments, Brenau
University, 2005 |
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Regents
Test Task Force, 2005 |
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Regents
Test Faculty Supervisor, 2004-present |
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Science
Olympiad, 2004-present |
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Academic
Contest Test Writer, 2004-present |
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Logo
and Mascot Committee, 2004 |
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Turnitin.com
Instruction Guide Author for the Gordon College Website, 2004. Available at
<http://www.gdn.edu/departments/computerservices/turnitin.asp> |
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Brittain
Fellow Committee, 2004 |
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LCC
Departmental Program Presenter, Student Honors Luncheon, 2004 |
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Georgia
State Regents Exam Faculty Grader, 2001-present |
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Chair,
English Department Colloquium, 1999-2000 |
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Summer
Teaching Steering Committee, 1997-2000 |
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Head
Instructor, English 101 Teacher Training Seminar, 1999 |
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Author,
English 101 Assignment and Teaching Manual, 1999 |
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Graduate
Committee, 1997-1998 |
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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Partner
in DY Consulting, small grant writing company that has secured over $750,000
in grants from NASA, the Department of Energy and other national institutions
for independent technology firms, 2002-present |
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Arts
Reviewer for Dialogue, midwest arts
monthly, 1999-2000 |
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Head
Writer for Terminal Time, an
interactive, artificial intelligence history engine developed at the Center
for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. Available at
<http:www.terminaltime.com> |
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Cultural
Studies Consultant and Writer for They
Came from Planet Axon: The Brain Movie, a National Science Foundation
multimedia installation at the Carnegie Museum of Science, Pittsburgh, 1998 |
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Production Assistant, Temple University Press,
1993-1995 |
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Product Manager, Springer-Verlag Scientific
Publishers, 1990-1993 |
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Editor-in-Chief, The
Mage, 1988-1990 |
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Editorial Assistant, Ecco Press/Anteas magazine, 1989 |
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PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS |
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American Association of University Professors |
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American Culture Association |
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Carnegie Mellon Cold War Science and Technology
Studies Group |
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Georgia Tutoring Association |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the
Arts |
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Modern Language Association |
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Science Fiction Research Association |
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Society for Literature, Science and the Arts |
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Society for Social Studies of Science |
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LANGUAGES |
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Read Latin, French, Spanish |