20 December 2016
Coleman Hutchison
Department of English
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1164
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, 2002-2006, Ph.D., 2006, English.
Northwestern University, 2000-2002, M.A., 2002, English.
Vanderbilt University, 1995-1999, B.S., 1999, English and Educational Studies.
UT APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of English, 2012-present.
Faculty Affiliate, Department of American Studies, 2007-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2006-2012.
HONORS/AWARDS
National
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016: A History of American Civil War Literature.
William Gilmore Simms Visiting Professorship, South Caroliniana Library, University of South
Carolina, 2015.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 2010-2011.
Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2005-2006 [declined].
Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas,
Huntington Library, 2005-2006 [declined].
Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship, Boston Athenaeum, 2004-2005.
Reese Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America, 2004-2005.
University System
UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, 2009-2010.
University
Glenn Maloney 40 Acres Award, The Eyes of Texas, 2015-2016.
President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2014-2015.
Faculty Fellow, Humanities Institute, UT-Austin, 2009-2010.
Summer Research Fellowship, British Studies Program, UT-Austin, Summer 2009.
Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services Grant, “‘Song of Myself’ Audiotext” (with
Michael Winship), UT-Austin, 2008-2009.
Dean’s Fellowship, UT-Austin, Spring 2009.
Nominee, Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT-Austin, 2007-2008.
Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services Grant, “‘Song of Myself’ Audiotext” (with
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Michael Winship), UT-Austin, 2007-2008.
Summer Research Assignment, Faculty Development Program, UT-Austin, 2007.
Junior Fellow, British Studies, UT-Austin, 2006Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2005-2006.
Center for Legal Studies Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2004-2005.
Northwestern University Press Fellowship, 2003-2004.
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award,
Northwestern University, 2002-2003.
Fellow, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 2002-2003.
Departmental
James D. Garrison Prize for Service to the Department (Course Transformation Team), 20142015.
Virgil L. Heltzel Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University Department of
English, 2004-2005.
Karin Strand Graduate Essay Prize, Northwestern University Department of English,
2002-2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(with Karen Gocsik) Writing about American Literature: A Guide for Students. New York: Norton,
2014. 184 pp. Published.
Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America. The New Southern
Studies. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2012. 288 pp. Published.
Reviewed: Southern Spaces 17 July 2012; Southern Literary Review 21 May 2012; Choice September
2012; Civil War Book Review Fall 2012; Journal of Southern Religion 14 (2012); Journal of
American History 99.4 (2013): 1254-1255; Southern Historian 34 (2013): 84-86; H-Net
Reviews September 2013; Edgar Allan Poe Review 14.2 (Autumn 2013): 223-227; Poe Studies
46 (2013): 114-119; Slavery & Abolition 34:4 (Winter 2013): 689-690; Journal of Southern
History 89.4 (November 2013): 964-965; H-Net Reviews January 2014; Southern Literary
Journal 46.1 (Fall 2013): 136-139; Southern Studies 20.2 (Fall/Winter 2013): 117-120; South
Atlantic Review 79.3-4 (Summer 2014): 196-199.
Edited Collection(s)
Editor, A History of American Civil War Literature. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2015. 349 pp. Published. Award: Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016.
Reviewed: Choice June 2016; Review of English Studies 67 (September 2016): 281.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“In the Land Where We Were Dreaming.” south 48.1 (Spring 2016): 44-51. Published.
“Here, There, Everywhere: C.S. Giscombe and the Poetics of Locality.” Global
South 9.1 (Spring 2015): 107-123. Published.
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“The Brand New Southern Studies Waltz.” Journal of American Studies. 48.3 (August 2014): 694697. Published.
“On the Move Again: Tracking the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame
Loreta Janeta Velazquez.” Comparative American Studies 5.4 (Winter 2007): 423-440 (peerreviewed). Published.
“Whistling Dixie for the Union (Nation, Anthem, Revision).” American Literary History
19.3 (Fall 2007): 603-628 (peer-reviewed). Published.
“Breaking the Book Known as Q.” PMLA 121.1 (January 2006): 33-66 (peer-reviewed).
Published.
“‘Eastern Exiles’: Dickinson, Whiggery, and War.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 13.2 (Fall
2004): 1-26 (peer-reviewed). Published.
Article(s) in Electronic Journals
“Notes on the Text: The Dixie Land Songster. Common-place 14.3 (April 2014). Published.
http://www.common-place.org/vol-14/no-03/notes/.
“Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism.” Southern Spaces 25 December 2012. Published.
http://southernspaces.org/2012/three-poems-and-critique-postracialism.
“The Blind Ruck of Event, 150 Years On.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Newsletter 45.2
(November 2011). Published.
http://southernlit.org/volume-45-issue-2-november-2011/.
Chapters in Books
“Truth and Consequences: Helping Students to Contextualize the Literary Aftermath of
the American Civil War.” Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War. Colleen Glenney
Boggs, ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2016. 43-52. Published.
“Surplus Patriotism: William Gilmore Simms’s War Poetry of the South and the Afterlife of
Confederate Literary Nationalism.” Literary Cultures of the Civil War. Timothy Sweet, ed.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 141-164. Published. [Expanded version of
introduction to William Gilmore Simms, War Poetry of the South (1866).]
“Book History.” Critical Terms for Southern Studies. Jennifer Rae Greeson and Scott Romine, eds.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 239-249. Published.
(with Elizabeth Bradford Frye) “What Remains Where: Civil War Poetry and Photography
across 150 Years.” Undead Souths: Beyond the Gothic. Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and
Daniel Cross Turner, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Published.
(with Elizabeth Renker) “Popular Poetry in Circulation.” U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920.
Christine Bold, ed. Part of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Gary Kelly, ed. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011. 395-413. Published.
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“Secret in Altered Lines: The Civil War Song in Manuscript, Print, and Performance
Publics.” In Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900.
Sandra Gustafson and Caroline Sloat, eds. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
2010. 255-275 (peer-reviewed). Published.
Special issue(s) of Refereed Journals
(Co-edited with Barbara Harlow, James Cox, Jeremy Dean, Molly Hardy, and Neville Hoad)
“After the Third World.” A special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review 10.1 (Spring 2010).
Published.
Introduction(s) to Books
William Gilmore Simms, War Poetry of the South (1866). Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 2015. Published. Reprinted in Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Published.
Information Technology
(with Phillip Barrish, Evan Carton, Frank Whigham, et al) “Close Reading Interpretive Tool.”
Published.
https://laits.utexas.edu/crit/
(with Olin Bjork, Michael Winship, and Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services) “‘Song
of Myself’ Audiotext.” Published.
http://laits.utexas.edu/leavesofgrass/.
Interview(s)
With Allen Mendenhall, Southern Literary Review 4 June 2012. Published.
Journalism
“Dixie: What’s in a Name?” Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6 June 2013: 18A. Published.
Other Media
“American Icons: ‘Dixie’.” Studio 360, Public Radio International/WNYC, 15 April 2011.
http://www.studio360.org/2011/apr/15/american-icons-dixie/. Published.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Confederate States" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. John Stone, et
al, eds. London: Blackwell, 2016. Published.
“George Henry Boker.” Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Jeffrey Gray, ed. Westport:
Greenwood, 2006. 166-167. Published.
“Liam Rector.” Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Jeffrey Gray, ed. Westport:
Greenwood, 2006. 1350-1351. Published.
Reviews
Brenda Ayres, The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1909. The Journal of
Southern History. 80.3 (August 2014): 714-715. Published.
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Jeremy Wells, Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in
American Literature, 1880-1936; Richard Gray, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of
Southern Literature; and Melanie Benson, Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of
Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002. American Literature 86.2 (Summer
2014): 414-416. Published.
Bill Hardwig, Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 18701900. Southern Spaces. Published.
http://southernspaces.org/2014/rereading-local-color-bill-hardwigs-upon-provincialism
Faith Barrett, To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War. The Emily
Dickinson Journal 22.2 (2013): 128-131. Published.
John Seery, ed., A Political Companion to Walt Whitman. Journal of American Studies 46.2 (2012):
E27. Published.
“Step Right Up, Come On In…” A review of Michael Bibler, Cotton's Queer Relations:
Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968. GLQ 16.3
(2010): 473-75. Published.
Mark Maslan, Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority. South Atlantic
Review 69.2 (Spring 2004): 134-139. Published.
WORK SUBMITTED
Review Essay(s)
“Civil War Today, Civil War Tomorrow, Civil War Forever.” American Literary History. In press.
Chapters in Books
“Apocalypse Then: Southern Speculative Fiction and Civil War, 1836-1860.” (5,000 words.)
Solicited for Neither the Time Nor the Place. Susan Gillman and Christopher Castiglia,
eds. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Under contract.
“The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism.” (5,000 words.) Solicited for Timelines of
American Literature. Christopher Hager and Cody Marrs, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018. Under contract.
WORK IN PREPARATION
Book Series
General Editor, “American Literature in Transition, 1770-1910.” (Four 150,000-word volumes.)
Under review at Cambridge University Press.
Book(s)
“The Norton Field Guide to Close Reading.” (50,000 words.) Proposal under review.
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“The Cambridge Introduction to American Civil War Literature.” (70,000 words.) Proposal
under review.
“Dixie Mythologies: A Cultural Biography of a Song, a Name, and a Place.” (110,000 words.) In
progress.
“The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry, 1863-2009.” (90,000 words.) In
progress.
Article(s)
“‘A Book Separate’: Cultural Memory in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps.”
(12,000 words.)
“‘[STATES!],’ States’ Rights, and the Confederate National Moment.” (6,000 words.)
“The Nineteenth-Century Songster and the Practice of Everyday Song.” (9,000 words.)
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures
“The Mooring of Starting Out.” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 8 March 2016.
“Is It True What They Say About ‘Dixie’?: Race, Memory, and a Song of the South.” West
Virginia University, Jackson Distinguished Lecture, Morgantown, West Virginia, 30
September 2015.
“Variations on the Word Dixie: Civil War Cultural Memory and a Song of the South.” University
of Kentucky, Bale Boone Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, 10 February 2015.
“William Gilmore Simms 2.0: Between Recovery and Remediation.” University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 25 September 2014.
“What’s English Good For? Absolutely Nothing. (Say It Again, Y’all).” University of Tulsa,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 28 March 2014.
“The Nineteenth-Century South in Three Poems.” The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
Arkansas, 30 September 2013.
“Dixie: What’s in a Name?” Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 11 April 2013.
“Apocalypse Then: Slavery, Civil War, and Southern Speculative Fiction, 1836-1860.” Mercer
University, Macon, Georgia, 2 November 2012.
“Placing Race in American Poetry.” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1 November 2012.
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“Confederate Great Expectations: Literature, Nationalism, and the Civil War South.” The
University of British Columbia, 10 January 2012.
“Print, Popular Poetry, and the Situation of Confederate Literature.” Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, British Columbia, 9 January 2012.
(with Matthew P. Brown, University of Iowa) “The History of the Book and the Idea of
Literature: A Conversation.” Early Modern Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois, 1 March 2006.
“Sublime Self-Abnegation; or, A Novel Theory of Revision.” University of Richmond,
Richmond, Virginia, 26 January 2006.
“The Civil War Song at the Kitchen Table (Publics, Performance, Print).” University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 17 January 2006.
Conference Presentations
“Civil War Today, Civil War Tomorrow, Civil War Forever.” Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 January 2017.
“Some Verses on the Burning of William Gilmore Simms’s House, February 1865.” Midwest
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, 12 November 2016.
“Here, There, Everywhere: C.S. Giscombe and the Poetics of Locality.” Modern Language
Association, Austin, Texas, 8 January 2016.
“Langston Hughes and the Weary Dixie Blues.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual
Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, 15 November 2014.
“Relocating the Charleston Poets.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 November 2013.
“Civil War Caucus Roundtable: New and Noteworthy—Cornering the Recollection.” Midwest
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 November 2013.
“‘[STATES!],’ States’ Rights, and the Confederate National Moment.” Whitman North and South:
Symposium for the Sixth Annual International Walt Whitman Week, Evanston, Illinois, 28 June
2013.
“Roundtable: New Approaches to Teaching the Literature Surveys.” Modern Language Association,
Boston, Massachusetts, 4 January 2013.
“Apocalypse Then: Southern Speculative Fiction and Civil War, 1836-1860.” Midwest
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 9 November 2012.
“Putting Poor Relations in Context: Confederate American Literary History, 1861-2011.”
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 31 March 2012.
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“‘An Omen of Better Days’: Poe, the Messenger, and Pre-Confederate Southern Literary
Nationalism.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington, 8 January 2012.
“All Ears: The Confederate States of America and the Courtly Muses of Europe.” Midwest
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 November 2011.
“What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Southern Exceptionalism.” American Studies
Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 18 November 2010.
“Anthologizing the Situation of Confederate Literature.” Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 6 November 2010.
“Imagining the History of the Future: Science Fiction, Slavery, and Confederacy in the U.S.
South, 1836-1856.” C19: Imagining: A New Century, State College, Pennsylvania, 22 May 2010.
“Writing about the Bad Guys.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, New Orleans,
Louisiana, 9 April 2010.
“Location, Location, Location: A Confederate Poetics of Place.” Southern Intellectual History Circle,
Columbia, South Carolina, 26 February 2010.
“Placing the Postracial.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29 December
2009.
“Dixie Unlimited: Confederate Literary Culture and the World.” Society for the Study of Southern
Literature Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, 17 April 2008.
“‘A Very Ordinary Culture’: The Nineteenth-Century Songster and the Practice of Everyday
Song.” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, New York, 16 March 2007.
“Publish and Flourish.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 December
2006.
“The Burden of Confederate Literary Nationalism.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 29 December 2006.
“PMLA, from Submission to Publication: A Roundtable with Authors and Editorial Board
and Advisory Committee Members.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
27 December 2006.
“Propaganda, the Confederate State, and its Literary Soldiers of Fortune.” Modern Language
Association, Nineteenth-Century American Literature Division, Washington, D.C., 28
December 2005.
“Metaphors Nations Live By.” Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: A Sesquicentennial Celebration,
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 23 June 2005.
“Secret in altered lines like memory’: The Civil War Song in Manuscript, Print, and Performance
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Publics.” The Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America, American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 12 June 2005.
“Region, Revision, and the Confederate Nationalist Novel.” Society for the Study of Southern
Literature Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27 March 2004.
“‘Eastern Exiles’: Dickinson, Whiggery, and War.” American Literature Association, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 25 May 2003.
“‘This Country’s Great Narrative’: Promises and Problems of Narrative in Ken Burns’ The Civil
War.” Narrative: An International Conference, Berkeley, California, 25 March 2003.
“Whistling Dixie Postnationally: Thinking and Feeling Beyond a ‘National’ Anthem.”
New Frontiers in Early American Literature, Charlottesville, Virginia, 9 August 2002.
Public Outreach
“Getting Students to Care and Think about Poetry.” Humanities Texas Teacher
Enrichment Workshop, Dallas, Texas, 7 December 2016.
“Getting Students to Care and Think about Poetry.” Humanities Texas Teacher
Enrichment Workshop, Houston, Texas, 6 December 2016.
“The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter: A Conversation with John Pipkin.” Harry Ransom Center,
Austin, Texas, 14 October 2016.
“Teaching Critical Reading.” Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An
Institute for Texas Teachers, Humanities Texas, El Paso, Texas, 14 June 2016.
“Writing the New Nation, North and South.” Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An
Institute for Texas Teachers, Humanities Texas, El Paso, Texas, 14 June 2016.
“Writing the South.” Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An Institute for Texas Teachers,
Humanities Texas, Austin, Texas, 7 June 2016.
“Writing the New Nation, North and South.” Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An
Institute for Texas Teachers, Humanities Texas, Austin, Texas, 11 June 2014.
“Walt Whitman’s Facebook and Emily Dickinson’s Tweets.” Humanities Texas Teacher
Enrichment Workshop, Austin, Texas, 6 October 2015.
“Letters from the World: Re-reading William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst.” Austin Shakespeare
Talk Back, Austin, Texas, 24 November 2013.
“Bringing the Ditch Nearer: Teaching the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature of the
American Civil War.” Humanities Texas Teacher Enrichment Workshop, San Antonio,
Texas, 25 October 2013.
“‘Three-Fifths Genius’: Poe’s Precarious Place in American Literary History.” North Central
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Texas College, Austin, Texas, 17 October 2013.
“Bringing the Ditch Nearer: Reading and Teaching the Twentieth-Century Literature of the
American Civil War.” Humanities Texas Teacher Enrichment Workshop, Austin, Texas,
1 February 2013.
“Bringing the Ditch Nearer: Reading and Teaching the Twentieth-Century Literature of the
American Civil War.” Humanities Texas Teacher Enrichment Workshop, Austin, Texas,
3 February 2012.
“A Kindred World of Unwritten Songs: The Civil War Song and Everyday Life.” Neill-Cochran
House Museum, Austin, Texas, 24 January 2008.
Panel Organization
“Writing the 'Blind Ruck of Event': Civil War Literary Historiography at 150.” Modern Language
Association, Austin, Texas. January 2016.
“‘After the Eruption’: Melville and the Cultural Memory of the American Civil War.” Modern
Language Association, Vancouver, British Columbia. January 2015.
“Texts Divided: Textual Scholarship and the American Civil War.” Modern Language Association,
Chicago, Illinois. 11 January 2014.
“Southern Childhoods.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois. 10 January 2014.
“Reimagining Southern Confederacy”; “Reimagining Southern Ethnicities and Genders.”
C19: Imagining: A New Century, State College, Pennsylvania, 21, 24 May 2010.
“How Can We Renew Studies of the Nineteenth-Century South?” Society for the Study of Southern
Literature Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 April 2010.
“Writing Across the Borders: Literature, Internationalism, and the American Civil War.” Modern
Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29 December 2006.
“Look Awry!: The Post-Confederate South and Civil War Cultural Memory.” Modern Language
Association, Chicago, Illinois. 29 December 2007.
TEACHING
Undergraduate
English 316K: Masterworks of American Literature, Summer 2012; Spring 2014; Summer 2014.
English 316M: American Literature, Spring 2015; Spring 2016; Spring 2017.
English 321: Shakespeare, Summer 2013; Summer 2016.
English 338: American Literature from 1865 to the Present, Fall 2006; Spring 2007.
English 340: The American Novel to 1920, Fall 2006; Spring 2010.
English 349S: Edgar Allan Poe, Spring 2013; Fall 2016.
English 349S: William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, Spring 2015.
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English 350R: Literature, Cultural Memory, and the American Civil War (English Honors), Fall
2011; Fall 2014.
English 368: Honors Tutorial (English Honors), Fall 2016.
English 372L: The American Renaissance, Spring 2007; Spring 2012.
English 376L: Literature, Cultural Memory, and the American Civil War (English Honors), Fall
2007.
English 379S: Literature, Cultural Memory, and the American Civil War (Senior Seminar), Fall
2007.
English 603A: Composition and Reading in World Literature (Plan II Honors), Fall 2012.
English 603B: Composition and Reading in World Literature (Plan II Honors), Spring 2008;
Spring 2013.
English 679HA: Honors Tutorial (English Honors), Fall 2008; Fall 2009; Fall 2011.
Humanities 379: William Faulkner, Then & Now (Liberal Arts Honors), Fall 2009.
Undergraduate Studies 303: The Literature of Sport (Signature Course), Fall 2013.
Graduate
English 384K: Approaches to Disciplinary Inquiries, Fall 2011; Fall 2012; Fall 2015.
English 384K: Scholarly Publication, Summer 2013; Summer 2014; Summer 2015.
English 395M: Re-reading the American South in Literature and Film, Spring 2014.
English 395M: U.S. Regional Literatures: Problems and Prospects, Spring 2010.
English 395M: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and the Poetics of the Page, Spring 2008.
STUDENT ADVISING
Ph.D. (degree granted)
Director, Rachel A. Wise, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012-2014.
(Winner: Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Academy of Arts &
Sciences)
Co-Director (with Tatiana Kuzmic), Julianna Leachman, Ph.D. Dissertation, Comparative
Literature, 2012-2016.
Co-Director (with Carol MacKay), Jacob Ptacek, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2013-2015.
Co-Director (with Michael Winship), Anna Stewart, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010-2012.
(Winner: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship; Winner: Lilly Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Valparaiso University)
Co-Director (with José E. Limón), Noah Mass, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007-2011.
(Winner: Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Tech University)
Reader, Robin Riehl, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2014-2015.
Reader, Ashley E. Palmer, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2013-2015.
Reader, Jessica Goudeau, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010-2014.
Reader, Sydney Bufkin, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012-2013.
Reader, Noel Radley, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012-2013.
Reader, Frederick Coye Heard, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011-2013.
Reader, Jeremy Dean, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2008-2012.
Reader, Emily Bloom, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009-2012.
Reader, Tyler Mabry, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007-2011.
Reader, Laura Ashley Squires, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009-2011.
Reader, Justin Tremel, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007-2011.
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Reader, Philip Leigh, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009-2011.
Reader, Ingrid Devilliers, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007-2010.
Reader, Laura T. Smith, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009-2010.
Reader, Liz Jones-Dilworth, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007-2010.
Reader, Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2008-2009.
Ph.D. (ongoing)
Director, Sara Pevehouse O’Neill, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016Co-Director, Laura Beerits, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2015Reader, Valerie Sirenko, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016Reader, Jennifer Leigh Sapio, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016Reader, Jacqueline Pinkowitz, Ph.D. Dissertation, Radio/Television/Film, 2016Reader, Axel Bohmann, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016Reader, Ryan Sharp, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016Reader, Casey Sloan, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2015Reader, Sequoia Maner, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2015M.A./M.F.A.
Director, Lydia Neuman, M.S. Thesis, 2015-2016. (Textiles)
Director, Delia Byrnes, M.A. Thesis, 2014-2015.
Director, Sara Jane O’Neill, M.A. Thesis, 2012-2013.
Director, James Eric Hazell, M.A. Thesis, 2010-2011.
Reader, Sean Malin, M.A. Thesis, 2014-2015. (Radio-Television-Film)
Reader, Ashlyn Davis, M.A. Thesis, 2014-2015. (American Studies)
Reader, Perrin Jordan, M.A. Thesis, 2013-2014.
Reader, Rebecca Anne Macmillian, M.A. Thesis, 2012-2013.
Reader, Joanna Thaler, M.A. Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Lauren Grewe, M.A. Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Rachel Wise, M.A. Thesis, 2009-2010.
Reader, Nicole Gray, M.A. Thesis, 2008-2009.
Reader, Rebecca Jean Wadlinger, M.F.A. Thesis, 2008-2009.
Reader, Stephanie Odom-Robertson, M.A. Thesis, 2006-2007.
B.A. Honors
Director, Kate Coleman, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016-2017.
Director, Denise Weisz, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016-2017.
Director, Jennifer Murphy, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016-2017.
Director, Xavier Rotnofsky, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016.
Director,Hyun Jung, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016.
Director, Ashley Godevais, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
Director, Matthew Green, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
Director, Kaitlyn Ray, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
(Winner: Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship; Burleson Outstanding Thesis Prize)
Director, Jane Robbins Mize, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2014-2015.
(Winner: Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship; Dean’s Distinguished Graduate; Burleson
Outstanding Thesis Prize)
Director, Nic Siebert, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2014-2015.
Director, Emily Mathis, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2013-2014.
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Director, Clara Fraden, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2012-2013.
Director, Katherine Noble, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2012-2013.
(Winner: Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship)
Director, Nola Parker, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2012-2013.
Director, Christopher McMichael, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Director, Elizabeth Mashburn, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Director, Sydney VanBerg, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2010-2011.
Director, Matthew Morton, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2009-2010.
Reader, Jordan Smith, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2016-2017.
Reader, Suzanna Ewert, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
Reader, Josiah Mercer, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
Reader, Conner Patrick, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2015-2016.
Reader, Erik McKenny, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2013-2014.
Reader, Meredith LaValley, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2013-2014.
Reader, Mary Frances Carter, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Zachary Garber, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Courtney Hatchett, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Jenny Zhang, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2011-2012.
Reader, Matthew Ingebretson, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2009-2010.
Reader, Henry Hlavinka, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2009-2010.
Reader, Ari Schulman, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2008-2009.
(Winner: George Mitchell Co-Op Prize; Dean’s Distinguished Graduate)
Reader, Trevor Boehm, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2007-2008.
Reader, Philip Johnson, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2007-2008.
SERVICE
Public and National
President, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2016-2018.
Editorial Board, south: a scholarly journal (formerly Southern Literary Journal), 2015-2017.
Faculty Director, Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An Institute for Texas Teachers.
Humanities Texas, Austin, Texas, 6-9 June 2016.
Promotion Referee: Georgetown University, 2016; Boston University, 2016; Louisiana State
University, 2015; Arizona State University, 2013.
Manuscript and Media Reviewer, American Literary History, American Quarterly, ESQ, J19, Journal of
American Studies, south; Brill, Cambridge University Press, Louisiana State University Press,
Norton, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Thomson/Wadsworth, University of Georgia
Press, Viking Press, 2007-present.
Organizer (with Danielle Brune Sigler), 2014 Flair Symposium: Cultural Life During War Time, 18611865. Harry Ransom Center. Austin, Texas, 18-20 September 2014.
Exhibition Consultant, The Making of Gone With the Wind. Harry Ransom Center. Austin,
Texas, 9 September 2014 - 4 January 2015.
(Media appearances: cnn.com, Longhorn Network)
Faculty Director, Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An Institute for Texas Teachers.
Humanities Texas, Austin, Texas, 10-13 June 2014.
Louis D. Rubin Prize Committee, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2013; 2014;
2015 (Chair); 2016 (Chair).
Fredson Bowers Prize Committee, Society for Textual Scholarship, 2014-2015.
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Executive Council, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2012-2014.
Executive Committee, Discussion Group on Southern Literature, Modern Language
Association, 2010-2015.
Executive Board, The Society for Textual Scholarship, 2011-2013.
Co-coordinator, The 2012 Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, Austin, Texas, 31 May - 2 June
2012.
Exhibition Consultant, From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe. Harry
Ransom Center. Austin, Texas, 8 September 2009 - 3 January 2010.
Co-coordinator, Narrative: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Austin, Texas, 1-4 May 2008.
Judge, Austin Chronicle Short Fiction Prize, 2007.
Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 2005-2007.
Conference Organizer, Globalization is/in America, Evanston, Illinois, 29 April 2004.
Co-Founder & Co-Organizer, American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern, 2001-2005.
University
Plan II Advisory Committee, 2016-17.
Faculty Council, 2011-2013; 2014-2016; 2016-2018.
Technology-Enhanced Education Oversight Committee, 2016-2018.
Faculty Council Executive Committee, 2015-2016.
Campus Carry Implementation Task Force, 2016-.
Campus Carry Policy Working Group, 2015-2016.
Educational Policy Committee, 2014-2016.
Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee, 2013-2016.
Provostial Interview Committee, 2015.
Presidential Interview Committee, 2015.
Cultural Diversity in the U.S. and Global Cultures Flag Committee, 2014-2016.
Cale McDowell Award for Innovation Selection Committee, 2014, 2015.
Research Fellowship Committee, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2008-2015.
Graduate Assembly, 2009-2010.
Presenter, “Using Technology to Merge Teaching with Research,” Faculty Instructional
Technology Workshop, Summer 2010.
Faculty Advisor, Plan II Honors Program, 2009, 2010, 2014.
Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Consultant, Northwestern University, 20022006.
Departmental
Graduate Advisor, 2015-2016; 2016-2017.
Associate Chair, 2014-2015; 2015-2016; 2016-2017.
Chair, Graduate Program Internal Review Committee, 2015-2016.
Director, Oxford Summer Program, 2016.
Promotions Overseer, 2014-2015.
Chair, Texas Studies in Language and Literature Review, 2014-2015.
E316K Course Transformation Grant Team, 2012-2014.
Executive Committee, 2007-2008; 2012-2013; 2013-2014; 2014-2015; 2015-2016; 2016-2017.
Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Americas Project, 2014-.
E314 Sophomore Literature Mentor, 2013-2014: Jenny Howell; Jay Voss.
Co-organizer, Graduate Student Summer Article Workshop, 2013, 2014.
Graduate Program Committee, 2009-2010; 2011-2012; 2012-2013; 2013-2014.
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Honors Program Committee, 2006E314 Sophomore Literature Mentor, 2012-2013: Laine Perez.
Teaching and Service Excellence Committee, 2011-2012; 2012-2013; 2013-2014; 2015-2016.
Organizing Committee, Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies: Digital Humanities
Institute, 2010-2011.
Harry Ransom Center Liaison Committee, 2009-2010.
Chair, Bibliography and Textual Studies Interest Group, 2007-2008, 2009-2010.
E314 Sophomore Literature Mentor, 2009-2010: Julia Delacroix, Stephanie Odom, Frederick
Heard.
E314 Sophomore Literature Mentor, 2008-2009: Philip Leigh, Jeremy Dean.
E314 Sophomore Literature Mentor, 2007-2008: Laura T. Smith, Caroline Wigginton.
Reviewer, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 2006-present.
Graduate Placement Committee, 2006-2007.
Teaching Assistant Mentor, Northwestern University Department of English, 2004-2005.
Co-Chair, English Graduate Student Organization, Northwestern University, 2000-2003.