Neil EasterbrookTCU CV

¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯1. Name Neil Easterbrook

2. Place of birth and date Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, New York 22 February 1957 (8.18am)

3. Educational Background

1988 Ph.D. with distinction. American Literature and Literary Theory. State University of New York at Buffalo. Dissertation: “The Critical Poem: Philosophy and Modern American Poetry.” Minor Field: Creative Writing.

1987 Scholarship Student. The School of Criticism and Theory (Dartmouth College).1986 M.A. with distinction. SUNY at Buffalo.1981 M.A.T. English Literature. Colgate University. Thesis: “Critical Literacy: Critical

Thinking and the Instruction of English.”1979 B.A. Philosophy, magna cum laude. Ithaca College.

4. Formal Continuing Education: not applicable

5. Professional Certificate s : not applicable

6. Present Rank Professor

7. Year of Appointment to TCU 1990, Assistant Professor

8. Year of last promotion 2011

9. Previous teaching appointmentsFull Time:

1987-90 Visiting Instructor, University of Southern Mississippi.Fellow of the Honors College and Member of the Graduate Faculty.

1981-83 Teacher, Secondary English, Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603.

Part Time:1983-87 Graduate Teaching Fellow, SUNY at Buffalo.1985-87 Writing Evaluator, SUNY at Buffalo.

11. TCU Courses Taught

Statistical Summary

Total Number of Regular Semesters at TCU: 40Total Number of Sections at TCU: 194 (9.7 per year)Different Courses at TCU: 70 (including directed readings courses)Number of different regular semester courses at TCU: 25

Calendar Year — Number of Students Graded

201160123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —1520733 Science Fiction —3630103 Introduction to Literary Theory —20

201060123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —620733 Science Fiction (two sections) —6020643 Fable and Fantasy —36

200970713 Rhetoric and Literature —630103 Introduction to Literary Theory (two sections) —3310833 First Year Seminar: Frankenstein —2020733 Science Fiction —28

200820603 Fable and Fantasy —3340123 Modern Fiction —1320923 Literature and Civilization 2 (Honors) —1230103 Introduction to Literary Theory —2020733 Science Fiction —32

200720733 Science Fiction (two sections) —6040123 Literary Criticism —18

60123 Introduction Modern Critical Theory —520923 Literature and Civilization 2 (Honors) —930103 Introduction to Literary Theory —2030003 Junior Honors Thesis (Alicia Frinak)

200620923 Literature and Civilization 2 (two sections, Honors) —3040533 Toni Morrison —1630103 Introduction to Literary Theory —1830973 James Joyce —12

200540123 History of Theory and Criticism —1760123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —1030103 Introduction to Literary Theory —2120733 Science Fiction —2820643 Fable and Fantasy —3130513 American Poetry —1340003 Senior Honors Thesis (Jake Jewusiak) Spring70980 Thesis Guidance (Austin Lingerfelt) Spring70990 Thesis Guidance (Austin Lingerfelt) Fall

200430103 Introduction to Literary Theory —1820733 Science Fiction (two sections) —6030003 Junior Honors Thesis (Jake Jewusiak)

200330103 Introduction to Literary Theory —2020733 Science Fiction (two sections) —6120613 Western World Literature 2 —2640533 Toni Morrison —1750970 Directed Reading (Chris Manno)90990 Thesis Guidance (Brenda Tuberville)40003 Senior Honors Thesis (Matt Simpson)30003 Junior Honors Thesis (Jacob Jewsiak)

200250970 Rhetoric and Film —640633 Modern Fiction —1130513 American Poetry (two sections) —3020703 Science Fiction —2330103 Introduction to Literary Theory —1650970 Directed Reading (Lisa Baird)30003 Junior Honors Thesis (Matt Simpson)40003 Senior Honors Thesis (Matt Simpson)

90990 Thesis Guidance (Brenda Tuberville) 90990 Thesis Guidance (Brenda Tuberville)70990 Thesis Guidance (Susan H. Smith)

200140123 Literary Criticism and Theory —1760123 Modern Critical Theory (two sections)—830513 American Poetry —1620703 Science Fiction —2750970 Historicism and Feminism (Amy Dooley)

200060123 Modern Critical Theory —1120703 Science Fiction —2930103 Introduction Literary Theory —1660113 Profession of English —104003 Senior Honors Tutorial (Daniel Worden)

19998123 Poststructural Rhetoric —114533 Toni Morrison —203513 American Poetry (two sections) —362603 World Literature I —226113 Profession of English —125970 Directed Reading (Tom Reedy)4970 Directed Reading (William Burdette)5970 Directed Reading (Heidi Beierle)4003 Senior Honors Tutorial (Daniel Worden)

19984123 History of Criticism and Theory —134573 Williams and Stevens —112733 Science Fiction —322113 Introduction to Poetry —316113 Profession of English —99990 Thesis Guidance (Andrea Wright) Spring9990 Thesis Guidance (Andrea Wright) Fall7990 Thesis Guidance (Susan Smith) Spring7990 Thesis Guidance (Susan Smith) Fall5970 Directed Reading (Amy Rupiper)5970 Directed Reading (Elizabeth Walls)9990 Thesis Guidance (Keith Drake)

19973513 American Poetry —222733 Science Fiction —18

3113 Introduction to Literary Theory —227543 American Poetry II —96113 Profession of English —89980 Thesis Guidance (Susan Ayres) 9970 Thesis Guidance (Andrea Wright) Spring9980 Thesis Guidance (Andrea Wright) Fall5970 Directed Readings (Susan Bonin Smith)9970 Thesis Guidance (Demetris Bogiatzis) Spring 9980 Thesis Guidance (Demetris Bogiatzis) Fall5970 Directed Readings (Deborah Galliher)

19962713 Introduction to Poetry —358123 Poststructural Rhetoric —103513 American Poetry —154533 Toni Morrison —196123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —176113 Profession of English —75970 Directed Readings (Andrea Wright)5970 Directed Readings (James Ervin)5970 Directed Readings (Janene Lewis) 5970 Directed Readings (Rebecca Sultana) 3113 Introduction to Theory (Mark Reeve) 3970 Directed Readings (Khanh Nyugen) 5970 Directed Readings (Mark James)5970 Directed Readings (Zoltán Simon) 7980 Thesis Guidance (Susan Ayres) Spring 9980 Thesis Guidance (Susan Ayres) Fall9980 Thesis Guidance (Demetris Bogiatzis) 9980 Thesis Guidance (Andrea Wright)

19954123 History of Lit Criticism —232733 Science Fiction —266123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —173513 American Poetry —212733 Science Fiction —223113 Introduction to Literary Theory —183753 Literature and Film —167980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Spring 7980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Fall 7980 Thesis Guidance (Susan Ayres) 3970 Directed Readings (Tom Lindberg) 3003 Junior Honors Seminar (Tom Lindberg) 5970 Directed Readings (Ryan Stark) 4003 Senior Honors Tutorial (Jennifer Tuttle)

5970 Directed Readings (Evelyn Wilson)

19942613 World Literature 2 —184743 The Long Novel (two sections) —384533 Toni Morrison —257980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Spring7980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Fall5970 Directed Readings (Wade Wilson) 5970 Directed Readings (Susan Ayres)

19932613 World Literature 2 —274123 History of Literary Criticism —236123 Introduction to Modern Critical Theory —113113 Introduction to Literary Theory —263733 Literature and Film —158123 Poststructural Rhetoric —167980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Spring7980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Fall5970 Directed Readings (Patricia Gillikin) 5970 Directed Readings (Bing Shao) 5970 Directed Readings (Diana Shaffer) 5970 Directed Readings (Stuart Minnis) 4970 Directed Readings (Cristy Grider) 5970 Directed Readings (Nancy Myers) 5970 Directed Readings (Rebekah Martin)

19922733 Science Fiction —353753 Literature and Film —158693 Seminar Literary Theory —103513 American Poetry —223113 Into Literary Theory —223970 The Long Novel —227980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Spring7980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Fall7980 Thesis Guidance (Diana Shaffer)5970 Directed Readings (Bill Bolin)

19911803 First Year Composition —244123 Literary Criticism —166123 Introduction Modern Critical Theory —162733 Science Fiction —232603 World Literature 1 —36

3963 Modern World Literature —307980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Spring7980 Thesis Guidance (Ariana Pettigrew) Fall7980 Thesis Guidance (Diana Shaffer) Fall 5970 Directed Readings (Diana Shaffer) Summer5970 Directed Readings (Bob Staples)

19901803 First Year Composition —253733 Literature and Film —302603 World Literature 1 —26

1988-90: University of Southern MississippiGraduate: History of Literary Criticism; Undergraduate: Literary Analysis, Contemporary Literature, Western World Literature I and II, Advanced Composition.

1983-87 SUNY-BuffaloIntroduction to Literature, Science Fiction, Composition I and II.

12. External Support Sought

Received:1989. Grant for symposium “Religion and Contemporary Interpretation,” University of Southern Mississippi, March 1989 (with Kenneth Watson and Ronald Burr). Amount: $12,500 (with $2,500 additional funds from the University). Agency: the National Endowment for the Humanities, funded through the Mississippi Council on the Humanities. My title: “Project Coordinator.”

Not Received: None.

Pending: None.

13. Internal Grants Sought

Received:2011 Sabbatical research leave, TCU (spring).2004 Sabbatical research leave, TCU (spring).1999 TCU Research and Creative Activities Fund, $1751.1997 Sabbatical research leave, TCU (spring).1995 TCU Research and Creative Activities Fund, $751.

Not received:

2104 TCU Research and Creative Activities Fund, $40001991 Grant from the Fund for Global Education. Amount: $3,000.

Symposium proposal title: “The Challenge of Multiculturalism.”

Pending: None.

14. Theses/Dissertations Directed

Completed: (18)Ph.D.: Andrea Wright (1998)Ph.D. Bob Staples (1998)Ph.D.: Susan Ayres (1997)Ph.D.: Demetris Bogiatzis (1997)Ph.D.: Nancy Myers (co-director) (1997)Ph.D.: Bill Bolin (co-director) (1993)M.A.: Preston Waltrip (2016)M.A.: Austin Lingerfelt (2005)M.A.: Susan Huntington Smith (2002)M.A.: Diana Shaffer (1992)Junior Honors Thesis: Thomas Lindberg (1995)Junior Honors Thesis: Mark Pettus (2000)Senior Honors Thesis: Jennifer Tuttle (1996)Senior Honors Thesis: Daniel Worden (2000)Junior Honors Thesis: Matt Simpson (2002)Senior Honors Thesis: Matt Simpson (2003)Junior Honors Thesis: Jake Jewusiak (2004)Senior Honors Thesis: Jake Jewusiak (2005)

In process: (1)Ph.D.: Kaleigh Wyrick

Performed Duties for Other Graduate Student Committees

—Membership on 39 additional MA and PhD committees for qualifying examinations and/or thesis and dissertation.

15. Presentations of Scholarship

Refereed Publications:

“Libertarianism and Anarchism.” The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Ed. Rob

Latham. New York: Oxford UP, 2014. 549-60.

“Not if, when: Ian McDonald’s African Unsafari.” Africa SF. Ed. Mark Bould.Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 25 (2013): 190-208.

“The Shamelessly Fictive: Mimesis and Metafantasy.” Festschrift for Donald E. Morse.Ed. Zoltán Abádi-Nagy. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 18.1-2 (Spring 2012): 191-212.

“We’ll all change together: Mathematics as Metaphor in Greg Egan’s Fiction.” Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media. Eds. Jessica Sklar and Elizabeth Sklar. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 265-73.

“Singularities.” Science Fiction Studies 39.1 (March 2012): 15-27.

“ Playing with a loop of string: Tropes, Folds, and Narrative Form in Kurt Vonnegut.” Festschrift for Zoltán Abádi-Nagy. Ed. Donald E. Morse. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 16.1-2 (Fall 2010): 73-85.

“Recognizing Patterns: William Gibson’s Hermeneutics from the Bridge Triptych to Pattern Recognition.” Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Eds. Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint. New York: Routledge, 2010. 46-64.

“William Gibson.” Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Eds. Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Mark Bould. New York: Routledge, 2009. 86-91.

“Robert A. Heinlein.” Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Eds. Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Mark Bould. New York: Routledge, 2009. 96-101.

“Neal Stephenson.” Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Eds. Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Mark Bould. New York: Routledge, 2009. 210-15.

“Ethics and Alterity.” The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Eds. Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Mark Bould, and Adam Roberts. New York: Routledge, 2009. 382-92.—Nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Non-Fiction Prize.

“Giving an Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, Air.” Extrapolation 49.2 (Summer 2008): 240-60. —Recipient of the 2009 Pioneer Award for Excellence in Scholarship

“Alternate Presents: The Ambivalent Historicism of Pattern Recognition.” Science Fiction Studies 33.3 (November 2006): 483-504.

“Bildungsroman,” “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” “Deus ex machina,”

“Estrangement,” “Ethics,” “Neuromancer,” “Hubris,” “Identity,” “Landscape,” “Magic Realism,” “Personification,” “Progress,” “Reading,” “Sublime,” and “Threshold.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes. 3 vols. Eds. Gary Westfahl, et al. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. [109 MS pages.]

“Words, Indeed.” Enculturation 1.2 (Spring 1998): <http://enculturation.gmu.edu/1_2/easterbrook.html>.

“Anarchy, State, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany.” Political Science Fiction. Eds. Clyde Wilcox and Donald Hassler. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1997. 43-75.

“'I know that it has to do with trash and shit, and that it is wrong in time': Narrative Reversal in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow.” CCTE Studies 60 (September 1995): 52-61.—Reprinted in The Fiction of Martin Amis. Ed. Nicolas Tredell. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. 134-41. (1840461357)

“The Sublime Simulacra: Repetition, Reversal, and Recovery in Lem's Solaris.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.3 (Spring 1995): 177-94.

“'By indirections find directions out': Kierkegaard's Socratic attractor.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 28.2 (1995): 89-104.

“Paranoia/Dianoia: Dick's Double 'Impostor'.” Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations. Ed. Samuel J. Umland. Westport: Greenwood P, 1995. 19-41.

“'Somehow disturbed at the core': Words and Things in William Carlos Williams.” South Central Review 11.3 (Fall 1994): 25-44.

“'The reasons why living was beautiful': Delirium, Loss, and Fantasy in Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and t zero.” CCTE Studies 58 (1993): 28-35.—Recipient of the 1993 Jack Meathenia Award for Outstanding Essay.—Reprinted in Calvino’s Cosmicomics. Ed. Dana Renga. Columbia:

Cengage/Gale, 2013.

“The Arc of Our Destruction: Reversal and Erasure in Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction Studies 19.3 (November 1992): 378-94.

Non-refereed Publications:

“Title TBA.” Review essay of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint), Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction (David Seed), Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (Sherryl Vint), and Science

Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader (ed. Sherryl Vint). SFRA Review (2017). In Process.

“Cognitive Estrangement is Us.” Review-essay of Cyberfictions: After the Future. (Paul Youngquist.) Science Fiction Studies 40.2 (July 2013): 364-67.

“A Milestone, a Tombstone.” Review of Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays (ed. William J. Burling) SFRA Review 297 (Fall 2011).

“Language and Monsters.” Review of Embassytown (China Miéville). Los Angeles Review of Books 26 August 2011. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/9409411613/language-and-monsters

“Data, not Theory.” Review of Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (Gary Westfahl). Science Fiction Studies 38.2 (July 2011): 359-63.

“I want a Slippery Slipstream.” Roundtable on Slipstream SF. Science Fiction Studies 38.1 (March 2011): 12-13.

“Ten* Slipstream Titles.” Science Fiction Studies 38.1 (March 2011): 211-12.

“SF Audio 101.” SFRA Review 293 (Summer 2010):14-20. Reprinted http://www.sfra.org/node/115.Revised and reprinted in SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying SF. Eds. Ritch Calvin, Doug Davis, Karen Hellekson, and Craig Jacobsen. Ebook, Amazon Digital Services 2014. 220-264.

“Print Philip K. Dick on Film in Print.” Omnibus review-essay of Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film (Brian J. Robb); Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies (Jason P. Vest); Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner rev. ed. (Paul M. Sammon). Science Fiction Film and Television 3.1 (Spring 2010): 107-20.

“Quote Unquote.” Review of Science Fiction Quotations (Ed. Gary Westfahl). Science Fiction Studies 36.3 (November 2009): 551-52.

“Everybody Loves Dick.” Review of Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (Lejla Kucukalic). SFRA Review 289 (Summer 2009): 22-23.

“Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech.” SFRA Review 289 (Summer 2009): 11-12.

“Fiftieth Anniversary Roundtable.” Extrapolation 50.1 (Spring 2009): 11-12.

“Feminisms.” Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. 2 vols. Ed. Robin Anne Reid. Westport: Greenwood, 2009. 2: 117-19. [10 MS pgs.]

“Robert A. Heinlein.” Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. 2 vols. Ed. Robin Anne Reid. Westport: Greenwood, 2009. 2: 157-59. [10 MS pgs.]

“Uncanny Action at a Distance.” Review of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Eds. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi). SFRA Review 287 (Winter 2009): 10-12.

“Popcorn Science.” Review of Hollywood Science (Sidney Perkowitz). SFRA Review 286 (Fall 2008): 10-12.

“Dick’s Head Still Missing.” Review of The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (Dir. Mark Steensland and Andy Massagli). Science Fiction Film and Television 1.2 (2008): 352-56.

“I Think, Therefore I Extrapolate.” Review of Philosophy and Science Fiction Film (Ed. Steven M. Sanders). Science Fiction Studies 35.3 (November 2008): 512-16.

“The Gibson Box.” Review of No Maps for these Territories (Dir. Mark Neale). Science Fiction Film and Television 1.1 (2008): 159-63.

“Brave New Words.” Review of Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (Ed. Jeff Prucher). SFRA Review (Fall 2007): 24-25.

“A Companion to Science Fiction.” Review of Blackwell’s A Companion to Science Fiction. (Ed. David Seed). SFRA Review 278 (Fall 2006): 8-10.

“Promoting SF, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Serving Student Needs.” SFRA Review 278 (Fall 2006): 3-6.

“In the last 33 years…” Roundtable on SF Criticism. Science Fiction Studies 33.3 (November 2006): 393-94.

“Glasshouse.” Review of Glasshouse (Charles Stross). SFRA Review 276 (April/May/June 2006): 21-23.

“Rattling the Bars.” Review-essay of Archaeologies of the Future: Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Fredric Jameson). Science Fiction Studies 34.1 (March 2007): 106-16.

“Mediating Intermediation.” Review-essay of My Mother Was a Computer (N. Katherine Hayles). Science Fiction Studies 33.3 (November 2006): 517-22.

“A Huge Ellipsis.” Review-essay of Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy. (Eds. George Slusser and Jean-Pierre Barricelli) and Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction (Eds. James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria). Science

Fiction Studies 33.1 (March 2006): 149-55.

“An Edition to the Critical Toolbox.” Review-essay of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Eds. Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn). Science Fiction Studies 31.3 (November 2004): 434-44.

“Hybrids Between Maligned and Mundane.” Review of The Span of Mainstream and Contemporary Fiction (Peter Brigg). Science Fiction Studies 30.3 (November 2003): 510-13.

“Out of the Usual Scale.” Review of Berryman's Shakespeare (John Berryman) Texas Review 22.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001): 126-27.

“Theoretical Vagaries and Compelling Readings.” Review of Postmodern Cartographies (Brian Jarvis). Science Fiction Studies (November 2000): 517-20.

“College Courses in Science Fiction: Texas Christian University.” Science Fiction Studies 23.3 (November 1996): 514-15.

“The Textual Fallacy.” Review of Angels and Devils: Textual Criticism and Literary Theory. Composition Studies 20.2 (Fall 1992): 106-08.

“Vital Allegories.” Review-essay of Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life. Freshman English News 19.3 (Fall 1991): 47.

“America isn't a fondue: A defense of multiculturalism.” Dallas Morning News 9 June 1991: 9J.

Review of Alien to Femininity (Marleen S. Barr). The Journal of Modern Literature 15.2/3 (Fall 1987-Winter 1988): 240.

Review of Feminist Futures (Natalie Rosinski). The Journal of Modern Literature 14.2/3 (Fall 1987-Winter 1988): 264-65.

Review of Worlds Within Women (Thelma Shinn). The Journal of Modern Literature 14.2/3 (Fall 1987-Winter 1988): 266.

Review of The Politics of Fantasy (Leo Rossi). The Journal of Modern Literature 14.2/3 (Fall 1987-Winter 1988): 230.

17 poems have appeared in the following small journals: Rainy Day, White Pond Review, Tesseract, Stillwater, UpCountry, The Moral Kiosk, North, and Brim.

Materials Accepted but not yet Printed:

China Miéville. 75,000 word monograph in the series Masters of Modern Science Fiction by the

University of Illinois Press. Under contract. Projected for 2018 publication.

“The Movement: Cyberpunk in the 1980s.” The Cambridge History of Science Fiction.Eds. Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017.In process.

“Battlefield Earth.” When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations. Eds. Peter Wright and Sue Short. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011. Forthcoming.

“Contact.” When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction FilmAdaptations. Eds. Peter Wright and Sue Short. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011.Forthcoming.

“Sphere.” When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction FilmAdaptations. Eds. Peter Wright and Sue Short. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011.Forthcoming.

Papers presented:

2012 “Monsters inside

outside Miéville.” International Conference for the Fantastic in

the Arts, Orlando. March.

2011 “Contemporary Baroque: Miéville’s Syntax.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2011 “Singularities.” Science Fiction Studies Symposium. University of California—Riverside.

2011 “Kracking Miéville.” The Eaton Conference, University of California—Riverside.

2010 “SF Audio.” Science Fiction Research Association, Phoenix.2010 “ ‘We’ll all change together’: Metaphors of Self in Greg Egan.” Science Fiction

Research Association, Phoenix.2010 “ ‘Playing with a loop of String’: Tropes, Folds, and Narrative Form in Vonnegut’s

SF.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2009 “The SF Conceit: An Old Name for a New Way of Talking.” Academic Track: WorldCon, Montréal, Canada.

2009 “Square Oysters and Other Figures: On the Tropology of SF.” Science Fiction Research Association, Atlanta.

2009 “Greg Egan’s Extracorporeal Voyages.” The Eaton Conference, University of California—Riverside.

2009 “Time and Narrative Form.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2008 “On Ethics and Reading: The Case of Geoff Ryman’s Air.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2007 “Two or Three Things I Know about Ethics, with Special Attention to You Know Who.” Science Fiction Research Association, Kansas City.

2007 “Giving an Account of Oneself: Ethics and Alterity in Ryman’s Air.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

2006 “Fredric Jameson: The Scheming Valet of Speculative Archaeology.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

2005 “Alternate Presents: The Ambivalent Historicism of Pattern Recognition.” The Eaton Conference, Seattle.

2005 “Recognizing Patterns: William Gibson’s Hermeneutic Phobias.” Science Fiction Research Association, Las Vegas.

2004 “Strange Oscillations: On Russell Hoban’s Fremder.” Conference sponsored by the University of Liverpool (UK) and the Science Fiction Foundation (UK): “A Commonwealth of Science Fiction.”

2004 “The Ought in Thought: Ethics and SF.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

2003 “Gods from a Machine: Empathy, Gnosis, and Dissensus in Three Novels, Two Short Stories, One Journal Entry, and One Critical Comment by Philip K. Dick, with passing references and occasional asides to a variety of things you probably think off topic or could care less about, and ending with my reply to an entirely gratuitous ad hominem attack.” South Central Modern Language Association, Hot Springs Arkansas.

2003 “Narrative Unreliability, Time Travel, and Metaphors of the Book.” Science Fiction Research Association, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada.

2003 “‘that binary flicker’: Gibson’s Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

2003 “Theory@pedagogy.edu” Conference of College Teachers of English, San Antonio.

2002 “Slipstream(ing): The Hollow Man’s Readable Waves.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

1999 “Opening the Door to Chaos: The Traversal of Order in Beckett.” South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis.

1999 “Cyberpunk Recidivist.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

1998 “9anxieties@sfcrit.edu” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

1998 “No Ontology: Not Now, Not Ever” {on aesthetic ontology and film}. South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa.

1997 “Radical Reversal: Transposition and Transgression Between 1984 and Brazil.” South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas.

1997 “Riddley Walker and Gnostic Hermeneutics.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

1996 “Ecopoesis, or the Flower of Rhetoric.” South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio.

1996 “Wittgenstein, Waldrop, and Other Family Resemblances.” American Comparative Literature Association, Notre Dame.

1996 “An Economy of Adaptation.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Montréal,Canada.

1996 “Toni Morrison's Unreliable, Undeniable Jazz.” Conference of College Teachers of English, Beaumont.

1995 “Looking Through(out) the Postmodern: Derrida and Lyotard on Painting.” South Central Modern Language Association, Houston.

1995 “PoMo Heterotopia: This anarqusita wet dream bullshit.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Philadelphia.

1995 “Toni Morrison's Dialogic Imagination.” John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. Symposium on “Fiction at the Turn of the Century.”

1995 “Allusion, Resonance, Intertext: Michael Palmer's Echoes.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston.

1995 “This strange topography of edges: Derrida, Death, and García Márquez.” South Central Organization of Latin American Studies, Fort Worth.

1995 “I know that it has to do with trash and shit, and that it is wrong in time: Narrative Reversal in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow.” Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco.

1994 “Prof(fering) the Authoritarian: Heinlein's 'Anarchism'.” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans.

1994 “Appropriations of Mimesis: Mimetologism in Sidney.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton.

1994 “The Shades of Chaos: Learing at Shakespeare's Ran.” Rhetoric Society of America, Norfolk.

1994 “Heterotopia: Gender Resignifications in Samuel Delany and Judith Butler.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh.

1993 “Poststructural Pragmatism: Rorty and Lyotard.” South Central Modern Language Association, Austin.

1993 “Pressed to the Ground: Witnessing (to) Difference in the Contemporary Prose

Poem.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Pittsburgh.1993 “1-900-LIT-CRIT: Theory Within Site of a Classroom.” Northeast Modern

Language Association, Philadelphia.1993 “The reasons why living was beautiful: Delirium, Loss, and Fantasy in Italo

Calvino's Cosmicomics and t zero.” Conference of College Teachers of English, San Angelo.

1992 “Signs in The Times in the Time of Signs.” South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis.

1992 “Watt's Parergon.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo.1992 “Conceit in Sidney (and Derrida).” Conference of College Teachers of English,

Amarillo.

1991 “Gothic Inconsequence: the Semiosis of Cyberpunk.” South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth.

1991 “Dr. Williams' Exploding Colon: Paterson and Postmodern Closure.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford.

1990 “Poststructural Text(book)s?” South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio.

1990 “The Transcendental Trapdoor: order, chaos, and traversal in Beckett.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada.

1989 “The Resistance to Practice.” Modern Language Association, Washington D.C.1989 “Waldrop Profiles Wittgenstein.” Northeast Modern Language Association,

Wilmington, Delaware.

1987 “Double blipful: Riddley Walker and the Hermeneutic of Apocalypse.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco.

1987 “Margin of the Margin: Theory as Theme in the Experimental Text.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston.

1984 Four poems. State University of New York Writer's Conference, Albany.

Conference Offices and Scholarly Participation

2011 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Chair, session on “Biotechnologies and Biochauvinisms.”

2010 Science Fiction Research Association. Chair, session on “The New Wave.”

2009 Science Fiction Research Association. Chair, session on “Narrative, Ritual, and Carnival.”

2007 South Central Modern Language Association (registration desk), Dallas.

2006 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Chair, session on Graphic Novels and Heroism.

2004 A Commonwealth of Science Fiction, Liverpool UK. Chair, session on Greg Egan.

2002 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Chair, session on Theory and SF.

1999 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Chair, session on Utopia and Contemporary Discourse.

1995 South Central Modern Language Association. Chair, Society for Critical Exchange.1995 Northeast Modern Language Association. Chair, “Strategies of Anti-Narrative.”

1994 South Central Modern Language Association. Chair, “Literary Criticism and Theory” section.

1994 South Central Modern Language Association. Secretary, Society for Critical Exchange.

1994 Northeast Modern Language Association. Chair, “Samuel Beckett” section.

1993 Northeast Modern Language Association. Chair, “Literature and Philosophy” section.

1993 Northeast Modern Language Association. Secretary, “Samuel Beckett” section.

1992 Northeast Modern Language Association. Organizer and chair of panel on “The Resistance to Theory.”

1992 Northeast Modern Language Association. Secretary, “Literature and Philosophy” section.

1992 South Central Modern Language Association. Secretary, “Literary Criticism and Theory” section.

1989 Northeast Modern Language Association. Secretary, “Critical Theory and Detective Fiction” section.

16. Professional Engagements and Activities

2011 Manuscript referee for Configurations. 2011 Book manuscript consultant for TCU Press.

2010— Editorial Advisory Board Science Fiction Film and Television.2010 Book manuscript consultant for The University of Illinois Press.

2009— Editorial Board JFA (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts).2009 Book manuscript consultant for Wesleyan University Press, McFarland/SFRA,

and essay referee for Callaloo.

2008— Editorial Advisory Board Extrapolation. 2008 Manuscript referee for Science Fiction Film and Television, Callaloo, and JFA;

book manuscript consultant for Wesleyan University Press.

2007 Manuscript referee for Para*doxa.

2006-8 Manuscript referee for JFA. 2006 Book manuscript consultant for Routledge.

2005 Manuscript referee for Foundation, JFA, and Renaissance / Reformation; book manuscript consultant for St. Martin’s Press.

2002— Editorial Consultant Science Fiction Studies.

1998 Manuscript referee for Studies in the Novel.

1995 Book manuscript consultant for TCU Press.

1994-99 Editor Descant (Assistant Editor, 1990-93).

1987-89 Assistant Editor Mississippi Review.

17. Academic Advising

Since fall 2002, have been advising 8-10 undergraduate majors.

Between 1998-2002, I was the advisor for all of the department’s M.A. and Ph.D. students. I usually advised the 33 active students more than twice a year, although I frequently also had conversations (in person, or by phone/email) with most of the department’s 53 continuing students.

From 1993-98, advised 7-18 undergraduates per semester.

Each year since 1990, helped prepare graduate students for the job market.From 1990 to approximately 2002, 4-7 per year; since 2002, 1-3 per year.

18. Departmental Service2011 Advisory Committee (chair); Library liaison; Instructor search committee (chair).

2010-11 Advisory Committee; Library liaison; panel for graduate students on qualifying Exams; organized “Publish and Flourish!”—a panel for graduate students on

professional writing. (On leave spring 2011.)

2009-10 Advisory Committee; Library liaison; Principal writer of department’s Professional Pathways for Instructors document.

2008-09 Ad-Hoc Tenure and Promotion Document Committee; Instructor Search Committee (fall, search cancelled); Grad student mock-interview team; organized “Publish and Flourish!”—a panel for graduate students on professional writing.

2007-08 By-Laws committee; Latino/a Search Committee; Grad student mock-interview team

2006-07 Advisory Committee (spring); By-Laws committee; Grad student mock-interview team.

2005-06 Advisory Committee (spring); Renaissance Literature Search Committee (spring); By-Laws committee.

2004-05 Advisory Committee; Renaissance Literature Search Committee; MLA interviewing team; By-Laws Committee.

2003-04 Advisory Committee; Undergraduate Committee. (On leave spring 2004.)

1998-2002 Department’s Director of Graduate Studies

2002 Director of Graduate Studies (spring-summer); Graduate Committee (chair, spring-summer); Graduate Admissions committee (chair, spring-summer); Directors’ Cabinet (spring); Search Committee for position in Post-1945 literature (fall).

2001 Graduate Committee (chair); Graduate Admissions committee (chair); Directors’ Cabinet (spring); Search Committee for two assistant professors (Rhetoric, Composition) (spring). Rhetoric Cadre.

2000 Graduate Committee (chair); Graduate Admissions committee (chair)Directors’ Cabinet; Search Committee for two assistant professors (Rhetoric, Composition); Sherley Chair Search Committee (spring).

1999 Department Advisor for undergrads applying to grad school (spring);Creative Writing Awards Judging Committee (Spring); Graduate CommitteeRhetoric Cadre; Post-1945 American Lit Instructor Search Committee (Chair)Sherley Chair Search Committee; MLA Interview Committee.

1998 Department Advisor for undergrads applying to grad school; Creative Writing Awards Judging Committee (Spring); Graduate Committee, Rhetoric Cadre; Ad-Hoc Committee on Teaching Loads; Post-1945 American Literature Instructor

Search Committee (Chair); MLA Interviewing team.

1996-98 Graduate Committee, Creative Writing Awards Committee. (On leave spring 1997.)

1995-96 American Literature Search Committee; Graduate Admissions Committee; Library and Instructional Technology Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

1994-95 Radford Chair Search Committee; Renaissance Search Committee; Minority Literatures Search Committee; Advisory Committee (Fall); Sigma Tau Delta and Undergraduate Program Committee; Library and Instructional Technology Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

1993-94 Advisory Committee (Spring); Sigma Tau Delta and Undergraduate Program Committee; Library and Instructional Technology Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Chair, Spring).

1992-93 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Chair); Undergraduate Program Committee and Sigma Tau Delta (Chair, Spring); Green Chair Nominating Committee (Chair); Radford Chair Search Committee; Library and Instructional Technology Committee; Committee for Graduate Student Travel funds.

1991-92 Graduate Committee, Instructional Media (Chair), Sigma Tau Delta Advisor.

1990-91 Graduate Committee, Instructional Media (Chair).

1989 “Project Coordinator.” NEH Symposium “Religion and Contemporary Interpretation.” University of Southern Mississippi, March 1989.

1986-87 SUNY-Buffalo McNulty Chair Search Committee.1985-87 SUNY-Buffalo Department of English Composition Committee (chair).

19. College Servicecommittees

2016 AddRan Curriculum Committee (fall)

2011-12 Ad-Hoc appointment to the Advisory Committee of the Department of Philosophy, TCU

2009 Ad-Hoc Committee on Career Paths for Instructors2005-06 Program Review Committee for Department of Philosophy

(principal writer)1995-98 AddRan Advisory Committee (Chair 1997-98)

other 2000 AddRan selection committee for Chancellor’s Prize in

Distinguished Teaching (chair)

20. University Servicecommittees

2010-13 Graduate Council2005-08 Graduate Council2002-04 University Court2000-03 University Council1992-98 University Court1992-93 Program Review Committee on School of Education

(secretary, principal writer).

Other:2006-08 First Year Common Reading discussion group leader

21. Community activities Judge for creative writing contests at The Cistercian School

(several years since 1995).

22. Professional Organizations and Offices Held (since 1990)South Central Modern Language AssociationNortheast Modern Language AssociationSociety for Critical ExchangeInternational Association for Philosophy and LiteratureConference of College Teachers of EnglishModern Language AssociationTeachers for a Democratic CultureRhetoric Society of AmericaScience Fiction Research AssociationAmerican Comparative Literature SocietyInternational Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

23. Honors and Awards

2011-13 Jury member for the Pioneer Award, Science Fiction Research Association (Chair 2012-13)

2011 Jury member for Best Graduate Student Writing Prize, ICFA-32.

2009 Pioneer Award for Excellence in Scholarly Criticism, The Science

Fiction Research Association.

2008— Jury Member for R.D. Mullen Research Fellowship (for the Eaton Collection at the University of California—Riverside).

2006 Jury member for Best Graduate Student Writing Prize, ICFA-27.

2003-06 Jury member of the Thomas C. Clareson Award.

1999 Nominated for the Wassenich Mentoring Award, TCU.

1998 Humanities Finalist for Deans’ Teaching Award, TCU.1998 English Department nominee for Deans’ Teaching Award, TCU.

1997 English Department nominee for Deans’ Teaching Award, TCU.

1995 English Department nominee for Deans’ Teaching Award, TCU.1995 Mortar Board Preferred Professor, TCU.

1994 English Department nominee for Deans’ Teaching Award, TCU.

1993 Jack Meathenia Award for Outstanding Essay, College Conference of Teachers of English.

1988 Distinction, Ph.D. Dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo.

1987 Full scholarship to The School of Criticism and Theory.

1986 Distinction, Comprehensive Examination, SUNY at Buffalo.(Areas: Twentieth Century American Literature, Samuel Beckett, Philosophy and Literature.)

1983-87 Fellowship, SUNY at Buffalo.

1979 Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, National Interdisciplinary Honor Society.

1977-79 Fellowship Fredrick L. Emerson Foundation.

24. Other Professional Activities

Invited Lectures

2011 “Singularities.” The 2011 Science Fiction Studies Symposium, University of California—Riverside.

2010 “The Profession of SF Scholarship.” Invited panelist at SFRA, Phoenix.2010 “The Perfect Conference Paper (Let me know if you find it).” Invited by the

Graduate Student Caucus. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2009 “Science Fiction, Time-Space Compression, and Postmodernity” (Invited panelist). International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2008 “The Practice of Literary Theory.” Guest appearance in graduate seminar in Modern Critical Theory, Professor Mona Narain, TCU, 10 September.

2008 “Teaching SF” (invited panelist). International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando.

2007 “Mundane SF” (invited panelist). International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

2005 “What is Postmodernism? (Yet again, o dear.).” Public lecture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 11 September.

2005 “13 Ways of Looking at Poetry and Philosophy.” Public lecture, sponsored by the TCU Philosophy Club, April.

2004 Respondent to public lecture by David Bedford on the Latin American fantastic. TCU, 12 April.

2003 “The Death of the Humanities: or, Why the Owl of Minerva Slept while Rome Burned.” Public lecture, sponsored by the TCU Philosophy Club, 13 November.

1999 “Cyberculture” (invited panelist). International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale.

1994 “What is Deconstruction Anyway?” Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 4 October.

1994 Advanced Placement Summer Institute, TCU, 11-12-13 July. Three lectures on literary theory, American poetry, and Toni Morrison.

1993 “Emerging Diverging Paradigms.” Lorraine Sherley Symposium on“Professing Literature,” TCU, 2 October.

1993 “What is Postmodernism?” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 30 March.

1989 “By indirections find directions out: Kierkegaard's image of irony.” National Endowment for the Humanities Symposium: “Religion and Contemporary Interpretation,” University of Southern Mississippi, 29 March.