SEAN KECK
Department of English, Brown University
Box 1852, 70 Brown St.
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
phone: (617) 304-2767 ! email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Brown University, Department of English, expected May 2015
M.A. Boston College, English, 2009
B.A. Boston College, English, summa cum laude, 2007
DISSERTATION
Reverb: American Literature & Sonic Media, 1876-1952
Director: Stuart Burrows, Associate Professor of English, Brown University
Reader: Tamar Katz, Associate Professor of English & Urban Studies, Brown University
Reader: Daniel Kim, Associate Professor of English, Brown University
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Media Studies; Sound Studies; Modernism;
Ecocriticism; Academic Writing
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2014-15)
Cogut Center for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship (2013-14)
Continuing Education Curricular Development Grant (2013)
Manning Graduate Fellowship III (2012-13)
Dean’s Graduate Fellowship (2009-10)
BOSTON COLLEGE
Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing (2008)
Mary A. & Katherine G. Finneran Commencement Award (2007)
J. Robert Barth, S.J. Arts Excellence Award (2007)
PUBLICATIONS
“Dark Muse: Paramour and Encounter in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.” The Wallace Stevens
Journal 33.2 (Fall 2009): 177-90.
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“Literary Regionalism & Mark Twain’s Telephone.” (under revision for resubmission to J19:
The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Panel Organizer and Participant. “Twentieth-Century American Literature and Sound
Recording.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, January 2015.
“Captive Sounds: Early Phonography, Sonic Possessions, and Race.” American Comparative
Literature Association. New York, March 2014.
“‘To be merely within hearing’: Stephen Crane’s Civil War Acoustics.” Northeast Modern
Language Association. Boston, March 2013.
“‘Warnings and simple noise’: The Monster’s Blackface Democracy.” American Comparative
Literature Association. Providence, March/April 2012.
“‘I’ll go through the printingworks’: The (Re)imagined Community of Ulysses.” Northeastern
University English Graduate Student Association. Boston, March 2011.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
BROWN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay (Fall 2014, Fall 2011)
Birds, Beasts, and Bots: American Literature Between the Wild and the Wired (Spring 2012)
Seminar examining the conceptual evolution of “nature” and “technology” in American
literature from the 1830s through the 1970s.
Teaching Assistant, The Simple Art of Murder, Prof. Deak Nabers (Spring 2011)
Teaching Assistant, Faulkner, Prof. Arnold Weinstein (Fall 2010)
BROWN UNIVERSITY, CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
Writing the Analytic Essay (Summer 2013)
Putting Ideas into Words—Academic Writing & Social Media (Summer 2012)
BOSTON COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
First-Year Writing Seminar (Spring 2009, Fall 2008)
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PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
Professional Development Certificate, The Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning (2014)
Reflective Teaching Certificate, The Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning (2011)
Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory, Brown University Department of English (2010)
ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY SERVICE
GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE, Brown University Department of English Graduate Committee
(2012-Present)
CURRICULUM DESIGNER, Brown University Continuing Education summer-session academic
writing classes (2012-13)
COMMITTEE MEMBER, Brown University Department of English Graduate Student Lecture
(2011-12)
GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE, Brown University Department of English Faculty Search
Committee (2011)
WORKSHOP LEADER, Brown University Writers’ Group. Led writing workshops for adult special
needs groups in Rhode Island. (2009-Present)
WRITING FELLOW, Options Through Education Program. Mentored incoming Boston College
freshmen from underrepresented demographics. (Summer 2008)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
FACT-CHECKER, Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2013)
PROOFREADER/INDEXER, Nâzim Hikmet, a scholarly biography by Mutlu Blasing (Summer 2012)
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, Post Road (2008-09)
LANGUAGES
Spanish—reading proficiency
French—reading proficiency
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REFERENCES
Stuart Burrows, Associate Professor of English, Brown University
Box 1852, 70 Brown St., Providence RI 02912
[email protected]
(401) 863-3621
Tamar Katz, Associate Professor of English and Urban Studies, Brown University
Box 1852, 70 Brown St., Providence RI 02912
[email protected]
(401) 863-1959
Daniel Kim, Associate Professor of English, Brown University
Box 1852, 70 Brown St., Providence RI 02912
[email protected]
(401) 863-3748