DAMIAN A. CARPENTER
East Tennessee State University
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. — English Literature, Texas A & M University (May 2014)
M.A. — English Literature, State University of New York, New Paltz (August 2005)
B.A. — Major: English Literature; Minor: Creative Writing, State University of New
York, New Paltz (May 2002)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
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Postdoctoral Fellow, East Tennessee State University, 2014 - Present
Adjunct Instructor, The College of William & Mary, 2012 - 2013
Teaching Assistant, Texas A & M University, 2009-2010
Acquisitions Intern, Texas A & M University Press, 2008-2009
Research Assistant, Texas A & M University, 2007-2008
Teaching Assistant, State University of New York, New Paltz, 2004-2005
SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Book
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Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and American Folk Outlaw Performance. Ashgate
Publishing (Forthcoming)
Articles
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“A Rhythm of Contrasts: The Tension between the Folkloric and Philosophic in
Robert Penn Warren’s Novels.” Tennessee Philological Bulletin (Forthcoming)
“The Windhover and Evening Hawk Shudder in Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins and
Robert Penn Warren.” rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies, Volume IX.
Bowling Green: Western Kentucky University, 2012: 83-109.
“Good Man, Honest Man: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the Role of the Folk
Outlaw.” The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal. Burlington:
Ashgate Publishing, 2011: 157-72.
“‘Tell of Song in the Meadow’: Roberts and Folk Song in Context.” The Elizabeth
Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 10 (March 2009): 3,10.
“Love, Death, and the Tolling: The Hemingway Influence in Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and
Theft.’” Isis 140 (Sept/Oct 2008): 26-29.
“The Rain Bat and the Black Sheep: Jingling in the Wind and Its Failed Artistic Vision.”
Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discovery and Recovery. New York: Quincy and Harrod
Press, 2008: 94-98.
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“From Chaos to Creation: Folksong and Knowledge as History in The Great
Meadow.” Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation. New York:
Wind Publications, 2008: 215-20.
“Numb Bitterness and Silent Beauty: The Crisis of Man in Aldington’s Collected
Poetry.” Locations and Dislocations: Proceedings of the Fourth International Richard Aldington
Conference. Les Saintes- Maries-de-la-Mer: Gregau Press, 2008: 55-61.
“Living in the Land of Nod: Dylan’s Vision of America.” Judas! 18 (July 2006): 3-35.
“Sweeter than Hope: A Dantean Journey to the Recognition of Complicity.”
Shawangunk Review XVII (Spring 2006): 56-61.
“Sense of Humanity: The Intertexuality of ‘Not Dark Yet.’” Judas! 7 (Oct 2003): 2435.
Poetry
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“Little Billie Goes West.” Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and Lyrical Landscape.
(Forthcoming)
“The Tentative Mr. Wolf Courts Ms. Red” and “Ain’t so Blue and Lonesome.”
Kentucky: Poets of Place. West Park: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2012: 67-70, 90.
“Porch-sittin’ in Terlingua with the Gravel Switch Blues (Again).” From Penn’s Store to
the World: An Anthology of Poems. West Park: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2011: 14-15.
“To Liz.” Illuminations & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky. West
Park: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2008: 15-16.
“Locker Room Springs, Milleniums, Homages, and Hymns: Stanley Keg 2007.”
Countries of the Heart: For Stoney and Sparrow. West Park: Mother-River-Flows-TwoWays Press, 2007: 11-13.
“A Hymn to Silence.” A Garland of Poems for Catherine Aldington. West Park: Des
Hymnagistes Press, 2006: 11-12.
“Hey Mr. Warren (Awake with a Branded Soul)” and “The Unfortunate Meeting of
Delta Blues and Jazz.” Shawangunk Review XVII (Spring 2006): 152-53, 177-78.
“Meatball Saturday” and “Rolling Thunder and Consonant Shift (In Four Parts).”
Shawangunk Review XVI (Spring 2005): 53-55.
From “Knowledge by Refenestration.” Shawangunk Review XV (Spring 2004): 99-101.
Fiction
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“Solitude and a Hotdog.” Shawangunk Review XV (Spring 2004): 129-35.
Conference Presentations
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“A Life to Make Sense: Selfhood and Folk Music in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Black
Is My Truelove’s Hair.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 2015.
“Red’s Old, Weird America: Robert Penn Warren and the American Folk Aesthetic.”
Robert Penn Warren Circle Conference. Clarksville, TN, April 2015.
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“A Rhythm of Contrasts: The Tension between the Folkloric and Philosophic in
Robert Penn Warren’s Novels.” 110th Tennessee Philological Association
Conference. Henderson, TN, February 2015.
“Regional Nationalism: Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Folk
Balladry.” 81st Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.
Atlanta, GA, November 2009.
Panel Chair. “Session 3: What Lies Beneath: The Folkloric, the Vernacular, and the
Land in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ Works.” XI Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Conference. Springfield, KY, April 2009.
“My Old Kentucky Inscape: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Elizabeth Madox
Roberts.” XI Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference. Springfield, KY, April
2009.
“Defining the Sweat and Blood Aesthetic: Breece D’J Pancake and the Old, Weird
America.” American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction.
Savannah, GA, October 2008.
“What’s Left to Right About?: A Consideration of Hemingway’s Use of Dante in
Across the River and into the Trees.” 13th Biennial International Hemingway Conference.
Kansas City, MO, June 2008.
“Theology, Philosophy, and Horse Sense: The Interplay of Modernity, Chaos, and
Knowledge in He Sent Forth a Raven.” X Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Conference. Springfield, KY, April 2008.
“There Is No Eye: The Benefits of Not Being There or Lessons Learned from Bob
Dylan, the Individualist Outlaw.” EGSA Colloquium: Self and Other. College
Station. TX, February 2008.
“Slap Shots and Miracles: Hockey’s Quintessential Portrayals and Representation in
Film.” 24th Annual Sports Literature Association Conference. Saratoga, NY, June
2007.
“The Rain Bat and Black Sheep: Jingling in the Wind and Its Failed Artistic Vision.” IX
Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference. Springfield, KY, April 2007.
“The Well Wrought Self and Strumming of the Urn: The Man below Shades of
Truth in Warren’s The Cave.” Robert Penn Warren Circle Conference. Bowling
Green, KY, April 2007.
“Love, Death, and the Tolling: The Hemingway Influence in Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and
Theft’.” 12th Biennial International Hemingway Conference. Ronda, Spain, June 2006.
“Numb Bitterness and Silent Beauty: The Crisis of Man in Aldington’s Collected
Poetry.” IV Biennial International Richard Aldington Conference. Les Saintes-Mariesde-la-Mer, France, July 2006.
“At Home in the World: Folk Song and Knowledge as History in The Great Meadow.”
VIII Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference. Springfield, KY, April 2006.
“Living in the Land of Nod: Dylan’s Vision of America.” SUNY New Paltz Research
Symposium. New Paltz, NY, April 2005.
“Warren and Roberts: The Discovery of Self in the Natural World.” VII Annual
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference. Springfield, KY, April 2005.
“Sweeter than Hope: A Dantean Journey to the Recognition of Complicity.” Robert
Penn Warren Circle Conference. Bowling Green, KY, April 2005.
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TEACHING
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American Poetry
o East Tennessee State University, Fall 2015
American Literature II
o East Tennessee State University, Fall 2015
Honors Composition II—“The Outlaw and American Culture”
o East Tennessee State University, Spring 2015
Critical Thinking and Argument
o East Tennessee State University, Spring 2015
Critical Reading an Expository Writing
o East Tennessee State University, Fall 2014
Literary Heritage (Traditional and Online)
o East Tennessee State University, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015
Introduction to Creative Writing
o The College of William & Mary, Spring 2012, Fall 2013
Introduction to Literature
o Texas A & M University, Fall 2010
Elements of Creative Writing
o Texas A & M University, Summer 2010
Rhetoric and Composition
o Texas A & M University, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Freshman Composition II—“Bob Dylan & American Lyricists”
o State University of New York, New Paltz, Spring 2005
Beat Literature (Guest Lecturer)
o State University of New York, New Paltz, Spring 2005
Freshman Composition I—“Life Writing”
o State University of New York, New Paltz, Fall 2004
AWARDS AND HONORS
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Charles Gordone Graduate Poetry Award, 2010
Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence Finalist, 2010
Charles Gordone Graduate Poetry Award Runner-up, 2009
Charles Gordone Graduate Fiction Award, 2008
BMI-Woody Guthrie Archive Research Fellowship, 2008
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Graduate Student
Stipendiary Fellowship, 2008
SERVICE
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Co-founder and co-curator, Literature and Language Research Symposium, East
Tennessee State University, 2014-Present
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in English Search Committee, East Tennessee State
University, 2015
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Member of the William Vasse Poetry Board, State University of New York New
Paltz, 2004-05
Co-Editor of poetry magazine Synapse Fire, 2001-02