Timothy James Sutton
Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator, MA in English
Florida Gulf Coast University
Department of Language and Literature
229 Reed Hall / 10501 FGCU Blvd. S.
Fort Myers, FL 33965
[email protected]
239-590-1464
Program Leader: MA in English, responsible for program coordination (scheduling, advising,
internship program), curriculum development, and curriculum review (including program
assessment).
Education
University of Miami PhD (2007) With distinction
University of Miami MA (2003)
DePauw University BA (2001) Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude
English / Secondary Education
Books
Catholic Modernists, English Nationalists (University of Delaware Press, 2010)
This manuscript, based on my dissertation, discusses the influence of Catholic thought on
English modernism and examines the work of Catholic converts who shaped the aesthetics and
politics of the modernist period. Chapters focus on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ford Madox Ford, T.
S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene.
Chapters
Forthcoming, “Tory-Papism and Ford’s The Good Soldier,” Terzieva-Artemis, Rossita ed., Ford
Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014).
Forthcoming, “England’s ‘Race Suicide’ and the Eugenic Apocalypse of Teilhard de Chardin,”
Hernandez, Allannah ed., Apocalypse: Imagining the End (Oxford University E-Book).
In Submission, “Genetic Personhood and Misdirected Hope in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go”
Captivity, Writing, and Unbound. Eds. Patrick Cesarini and Becky McLaughlin. University of
South Alabama
Articles & Essays
“Eugenics: the Teilhardan Approach,” Bionoosfera (ed., Fabio Montovani, President of the
European Teilhard Center), 2011.
http://www.biosferanoosfera.it/uploads/files/50c766e1cfcfee5ee11db926388918acabd64ae4.pdf
“Tenth Time’s the Charm” The Chronicle of Higher Education 2 May 2010 Print.
*Published under the pseudonym “Thomas Cranly”
Reviews
Review of Modernism and Colonialism: British Irish Literature, 1899-1939, Begamm, Richard,
and Michael Valdez Moses, eds. (English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, UNCGreensboro, Vol. 52.1, 2009, 108-111)
Review of Theodore Ziolkowski, Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief
(James Joyce Literary Supplement, University of Miami, Vol. 21.2, Fall 2008, 20-31)
Review of Daniel M. Shea, James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism (JJLS, Vol. 21.1, Fall
2007, 2)
“Seven More from the National Library” (JJLS, Vol. 20.1, Spring 2006, 8-9)
Scholarly Leadership: National
Organizer, 2013 University of Miami James Joyce Birthday Conference: “Joyce and England”
Midwest MLA Permanent Session Chair: “English Literature II: After 1900” (2012-2013)
Midwest MLA Special Section Chair & Organizer, “The Posthuman” (2011)
Co-Organizer 2006, University of Miami James Joyce Birthday Conference
Assistant Professor; Florida Gulf Coast University
ENG 3270 British Literature and Culture [ENL 3270]
ENG 6058 Literature Language and Society [ENG 6058/M.A. Program]
Spring 2013—Catholic Modernism [ENL 6930/M. A. Program]
Spring 2013—Literary Theory [LIT 4213]
Fall 2012—Intro.to Literature and Cultural Studies [ENG 3014/2 sections]
Summer 2012—Irish Literature [ENL 6930/M. A. Program]
Spring 2012— Irish Literature [ENL 4930]
Intro.to Literature and Cultural Studies [ENG 3014/2 sections]
Fall 2011—Transnational Modernism [LIT 6930/M. A. Program]
Fall 2011—Literature and Religion [LIT3411]
Summer 2011—Intro.to Literature and Cultural Studies [ENG 3014]
Spring 2011—Twentieth-Century British Novel [ENL 4231]
Spring 2011—Twentieth-Century British Literature and Culture [ENL 3270]
Fall 2010—Foundations of English Modernism [ENL 4303]
Fall 2010 & 2011—British Literature II [ENL 2022]
Fall 2010-Spring 2011—Composition I
Lecturer; University of Miami
Summer 2010—American Literature II
Fall 2009-present—British Literature II
Fall 2009-present—World Literature II
Fall 2009—Dawn After Empire (2oth/21st Century Anglo-Brit. Lit.)
Instructor; Auburn University
Fall 2007-Spring 2009—World Literature I & II
Fall 2007-Spring 2009—“Reproductive Ethics” (Composition I & II)
Teaching Assistant; University of Miami
Spring 2007— Literary Theory (TA in Graduate Seminar led by Dr. Palmeri)
Spring 2007—American Literature II (1865-present)
Fall 2006—“Chicago: Corruption, Myth, Sprawl” (Composition II)
Spring 2006—British Literature II (1798-present)
Summer 2004; 2005—“Politics & the Olympic Games” (Composition II)
Spring 2002; Fall 2003—“19th-Century American Literature” (Composition II)
Fall 2002—“Political Conflict and the New Media” (Composition I)
Adjunct Instructor
Summer; Fall 2006—World Literature II (Nova Southeastern University)
Summer 2006— English Composition I (Miami-Dade College)
University Service: FGCU
Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2012)
Member of Graduate Faculty Affairs Committee (2011-present)
English Department Service: FGCU
Member of Search Committee for 18th Century British Literature (Spring 2012)
Chair of Mission Statement Team (2011-2012)
Member of Search Committee for German Language and Literature (Spring 2011)
Member of Teaching Cell on Large Enrollment Survey Courses at FGCU (2010-2011)
Faculty Adviser: FGCU
Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society (Fall 2011-present)
FOCUS Mission Group (Fall 2011-present)
Eagles For Life (Fall 2010-present)
Conference Papers
Summer 2013, “’Could His Mind Then Not Trust Itself?’: Ignatian
Discernment Processes and Portrait” James Joyce American Conference
(Charleston, SC)
Spring 2013, “’Westward Leading, Still Proceeding”: Contexts of the Epiphany in “The
Dead”” James Joyce Birthday Conference (Coral Gables, FL)
Fall 2012, “‘No One to Blame’: E. M. Forster's Howards End and Imperial Memory”
MMLA (Cincinnati, OH)
Summer 2012 “Eugenics, Catholics, and the Humanist Apocalypse of Teilhard de Chardin”
Inter-Disciplinary Oxford (Oxford, UK)
Fall 2011 “English History and Disneyland: Barnes’ England, England” MMLA (St. Louis, MO)
Fall 2010 “’The Poor Creatures’: Anonymity and Power in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go”
RMMLA (Albuquerque, NM)
Summer 2009 “Refining Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Post-Apocalyptic Genre”
Age of Global Risk Conference (Cardiff University, UK)
Conference Papers, cont.
Spring 2008
“Graham Greene: A Postmodern Catholic Affair”
Christianity and Literature Conference (Charlotte, NC)
Fall 2006
“T. S. Eliot: A Provincial Catholicism”
T. S. Eliot Society Conference (St. Louis, MO)
Spring 2006
“‘None So Clear’: Watt’s Heterotopia”
International Samuel Beckett Conference (Florida State University)
Summer 2005 “The Impossible Return: Stephen’s Re-Search for the “Ideal-I”
International James Joyce Conference (Cornell University)
Spring 2004 “Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Royal Catholicism”
College English Association (Indianapolis, IN)
Related Work Experience
Spring-Fall 2005 Managing Editor, James Joyce Literary Supplement
Fall 2004-2007 Head English Tutor: University of Miami Student-Athletes
Honors and Awards
2013 Nominated, Teacher of the Year, FGCU
2011
Leadership Enrichment Seminar Scholarship
2009 Auburn Teaching Award
2004 Kirloff Travel Grant (University of Miami)
2003 University of Miami Excellence in Graduate School Recognition
2000 Powell Writer’s Prize (DePauw University)
Community Service
Novel Night: Fort Myers Barnes & Noble Bookstore (2011-present)
Young Adult Naples/Ft. Myers Theology Group, Founder and Leader (2010-present)
Youth Group Assistant: St. John the Evangelist, Naples, FL (2010-present)
Guest Speaker: Columbus High School, Miami, FL (2004-2008)
Languages
Spanish (Intermediary Speaking/Reading Proficiency)
Latin (Basic Reading Proficiency)
French (Basic Reading Proficiency)
References
Dr. Patrick McCarthy, Professor, Department of English, University of Miami
321 Ashe Administration Building / 1252 Memorial Drive / Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-3818
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Frank Palmeri, Professor, Department of English, University of Miami
304 Ashe Administration Building / 1252 Memorial Drive / Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-5169
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Brad Busbee, Chair, Professor of English, Samford University
English Department, DIV N328 / Birmingham, AL 35229-2260
Phone: (205) 726-2458
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Michael Gillespie, Professor of English, Florida International University
DM-453, 1120 SW 8th Street / Miami, FL 33199
Phone (305)248-2874
Email: [email protected]
Dr. James Ryan, Professor of English, Auburn University
9030 Haley Center / Auburn, AL 36849
Phone (334)844-9031
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Jon Bolton, Professor of English, Auburn University
8058 Haley Center / Auburn, AL 36849
Phone (334)844-9015
Email: [email protected]