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Curriculum Vitae: Joel Bishop Peckham, Jr.
199 Lakcrest Dr. / Milledgeville GA, 31061
(478) 445-7137 / [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ph.D., English Literature, 1999.
- Dissertation: Exploding the Bordered Text: Transgressive Narrative of the American South.
Dissertation Director: Stephen C. Behrendt,
Dissertation Committee: Stephen C. Behrendt; Thomas Caramango; Joy Ritchie.
Areas of Concentration: 20th Century American and Canadian Literature;
Contemporary American Poetry; Creative Writing (Poetry).
Baylor University, M.A. English Literature, 1994.
- Thesis: The Structure of Digression: Byron's Marino Faliero.
Thesis Director: Clement T. Goode.
Thesis Committee: Clement T. Goode; James E. Barcus; Elmer H. Duncan.
Middlebury College, B.A. cum laude, English Literature with a concentration in American History, 1992.
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Senior Thesis (Creative Writing, Poetry): Seeing Voices.
Senior Thesis Director: Robert Pack.
Senior Thesis Second Reader: Jay Parini.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002-present: Assistant Professor of English, Georgia Military College
2000-2001: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature, Western World Literature, and Expostiory Writing, Hope College
1999-2000: Lecturer of Expository Writing , Western World Literature, Hope College.
1999-2000: Lecturer of Composition, Grand Valley State University.
1995-1999: Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1994-1995: ESL Tutor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1994-1995: Writing Tutor, The Hewitt Athletic Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1993 and 1994: Social Staff, Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
1993-1994: Teaching Assistant, Baylor University.
1992-1993: Writing Consultant, Writing Center, Baylor University.
SERVICE
2000-2001: Faculty Advisor, OPUS: The Student Literary Journal of Hope College
COURSES TAUGHT
Georgia Military College:
Introduction to Literature--English 102
designed and taught a literature course, focusing on literary genres, reading strategies, and writing about literature with an emphasis on the analytical and research process.
Expository Writing--English 101
designed and taught a first-year writing workshop course aimed at helping students use
writing as a form of thinking, and at helping them develop critical self-awareness through
the reading and the writing of personal, analytical, and argumentative essays.
Expository Writing--English 101
designed and taught a course covering western world literature from Gilgamesh to Hamlet, emphasizing literature and its place in context of culture, history, philosophy and the arts.
Hope College:
Introduction to Literature--English 202
designed and taught a web-based literature course, focusing on literary genres, reading strategies, and writing about literature.
Twentieth Century Southern Literature--English 375
designed and taught a web-based, senior level literature course on Southern Literature and Culture in the 20th Century, focusing on the works of Jeanne Toomer, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, James Dickey, Alice Walker, and Minnie Bruce Pratt
http://www.crosswinds.net/~milkwood
Creative Writing, Poetry--English 255
designed and team-taught a web-based, sophomore and junior level poetry writing course, focusing on small group discussion, prosidy, revision, and aesthetic / rhetorical analysis.
http://www.geocities.com/perk_02067/
American Dreaming: English 113--Expository Writing (computerized classroom)
designed and taught a web-based, first-year writing workshop course aimed at exploring the origins and consequences of the "The American Dream" in American culture through the lens of literature,
argumentative essays, visual art, film, music, advertising, and news media.
http://www.geocities.com/joelpeckham/expository.html
Western World Literature II
designed and taught a web-based course aimed at exploring
The problem of identity and the possibility of human dignity in Western World
Literature within the context of World History, Philosophy, and various related media--such as film, visual art, and music.
http://www.geocities.com/joelpeckham/wwl2.html
Grand Valley State University:
American Dreaming: Composition 150 (computerized classroom)
designed and taught a web-based, first-year writing workshop course aimed at exploring the origins and consequences of the "The American Dream" in American culture through the lens of literature,
argumentative essays, visual art, film, music, advertising, and news media.
http://www.geocities.com:80/Soho/Bistro/2719/comp150.html
University of Nebraska, Lincoln:
English 303--Short Story
team-taught an an upper division literature course focusing on the short story and short story
sequences in American literature. Responsibilities included heading discussion groups,
grading student papers, and presenting lecture/discussions on individual writers.
English 254--Nonfiction Prose Writing
developed and taught an upper division writing workshop and discussion group designed to
aid students in becoming competent writers of literary nonfiction and to explore the history
of the form.
English 150--Composition I
designed and taught a first-year writing workshop course aimed at helping students use
writing as a form of thinking, and at helping them develop critical self-awareness through
the reading and the writing of personal, analytical, and argumentative essays.
English 151--Composition II
designed and taught a first-year writing workshop course aimed at improving student ability
to write about political and social issues largely through the reading and writing informative
and argumentative essays.
Baylor University
English 1401--Composition
instructed a first-year writing course aimed at improving student proficiency in writing
across the curriculum largely through the reading and writing of various essay forms,
including the personal essay, the informative essay, the analytical essay, and the
argumentative essay.
English 1402--Composition and Literature
instructed a first-year writing course designed to aid students in interpretive reading
andwriting, particularly in the presence of fiction and poetry.
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarship:
"Segregation / Integration: Narrative in the American South" The Southern Quarterly. Volume 40, #1 (Fall 2001). 28-38
"Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples: Abjection and the Maternal South," Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Volume 43, #2 (Summer 2001)194-217.
"Jean Toomer's Cane: Self as Montage and the Drive Toward Integration," American Literature. Volume 72, #2 (June 2000). 275-290.
"James Dickey and the Narrative Mode of Transmission: The Sheep Child's Other
Realm,"Mississsippi Quarterly. Volume LII, #2 (Spring, 1999). 239-258.
Encyclopedia Entry:
"The Educational System of Iran," World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide. Eds. Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson and Chris Lopez (Gale, 2001)
Non-Fiction Articles:
"An Academic Transient's Search for a Home," The Chronicle of Higher Education, On-line Edition, Wednesday, August 28, 2002.
"Get Out of My Way Little Man," The Chronicle of Higher Education, On-line Edition, Forthcoming.
Reviews:
Review of Vivan Shipley's When There is No Shore (Word Press, 2002). Arts & Letters. Forthcoming.
Review of Robert Pack's Rounding it Out (Chicago UP, 2001). The Southeast Review. Volume 22, #1 (Fall 2002) 98-100.
Review of Edward Byrne's East of Omaha (Pecan Grove, 2001). The Southeast Review. Volume 22, #1 (Fall 2002) 101-103.
Review of Robert Vivian's Cold Snap as Yearning (U Nebraska, 2001). The Southeast Review. Volume 21, #1 (Spring 2001) 117-119.
Review of Robert Kirschten's Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey (LSU, 1998) The Mississippi quarterly. Volume 52, #4 (1999)720-725.
Review of Robert Pack's Minding the Sun (Chicago UP, 1993). Prairie Schooner. Volume 73, #3 (Fall 1999) 151-154.
Review of Dave Smith's Fate's Kite: Poems 1991-1995 (LSU, 1996) Prairie Schooner. Forthcoming.
Review of Craig Challender's Familiar Things (Linwood, 1998) Prairie Schooner.
Volume 73, #2 (Summer, 1999) 208-210.
Experimental Fiction:
"Depth Charge: Believing in Ghosts." Quarter After Eight. Volume 7, (200) 286-288.
Poetry:
Book:
Nightwalking. Pecan Grove Press (Saint Mary's University--San Antonio, TX, 2001).
Journal and Anthology Publications:
Aethlon (three poems), The Anthology of New England Poetry (Anthology--University Press of New England)(three poems), Apostrophe, Ascent, The Baltimore Review, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, The Black Warrior Review, Blueline (two poems), The Connecticut Review, Confrontations, The Dalhousie Review, Elysian Fields Quarterly (two poems), Envoi (UK)(sequence), Full Circle (two poems), The Florida Review (two poems),The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hurakan (two poems), The Larcom Review, The Literary Review, The Louisville Review, The Malahat Review, Many Mountains Moving (four poems), The Midland Review, Nebraska Center for Writers Web-Site, The New Delta Review, Nimrod (three poems), Onthebus (two poems), Passages North, The Paterson Literary Review, Prairie Schooner (six poems), The Pikeville Literary Review, The Southern Review, The Southeast Literary Review (four poems), Southwestern American Literature, Rattapallax, Sport Literate, The Sycamore Review, The Texas Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Vermont Literary Review (two poems), Visions International, Yankee Magazine and Yefief (two poems) (complete bibliography available upon request).
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Manuscript (Scholarship)
"Self, Sex, and the South: Minnie Bruce Pratt's Walking Back up Depot Street" is under revision at request of the editor at South Atlantic Review
Manuscripts(Poetry):
Poems are in circulation at fifteen separate literary magazines. Fogwarning, a chapbook of expansive verse, is currently submitted to several presses and contests.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2002-present: Arts & Letters, Associate Editor.
2000-present: Milkwood Review, Co-Founding Editor, Layout Editor.
1995-1999: Prairie Schooner,
Editorial Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Scholarly / Pedagogical:
"Now and Then: Preservation and Transformation � Authors Examine The Relationship Between Words, Place, Memory, and Time." Paper, Panel and Reading Organizer, Southern Humanities Council Conference, Athens Georgia, February, 2003.
"Narrative and Culture--Border Crossings in Narrative Poetry." Paper and Panel Organizer, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Palm Springs, April, 2001.
"Toys in Classroom." Panel Discussion, FTLC Winter Workshop, Grand Valley State University. January, 2000
"Intersections: The Composition Classroom as a Meeting Ground for Scholarship
and Creative Writing." Paper and Panel, Creighton Conference for Language and Literature,
Omaha, NE, March 12-13, 1998.
"Orpheus and Orphism in Pope's The Dunciad," Conference on Literature and Spirituality,
28-29 October 1995.
"Text and Context: Byron's "A Spirit Passed Before Me," South Central Conference on
Christianity and Literature, 3-5 February 1994.
Creative (Poetry Readings):
The Longwood College Author's Series (Longwood College, VA, 2002)
St. Mary's College Author's Series (St. Mary's College, IN, 2002)
Hope College Visiting Writer's Series (Hope College, MI, 2001)
St. Lawrence College Author's Series (St. Lawrence College, NY 2001)
University of South Carolina Beaufort Reading Series ( Beaufort, SC, 2000)
The No-Name Readers Series (Lincoln, NE, 1998), Shelterbelt Poetry Series(Omaha, NE, 1998)
Chaparral Poetry Series (Lincoln, NE, 1998)
The No-Name Readers Series( Lincoln, NE, 1996)
Share Our Strength's 1996 Writer's Harvest Reading,(Lincoln, NE, 1996)
The No-Name Readers Series( Lincoln, NE, 1996)
1994 Annual Literary and Academic Conference(Baylor U., Waco, TX, 1994)
Breadloaf Writer's Conference Staff Reading (Middlebury, VT, 1993)
Breadloaf Writer's Conference Staff Reading (1992).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association.
Associated Writing Programs.
American Literature Association.
American Studies Association.
Creighton Language and Literature Society.
Southern Humanities Council.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Wilson Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998.
Mabel J. Reichenbach Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1997.
Walter McDonald Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1997.
Nominee, John W. Robinson Award for best graduate scholarly paper, "Narrative
and the Avant-Garde: Jean Toomer's Cane," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1997.
Vreeland Award for best graduate creative manuscript, "Birds of Garbage" (Poetry),
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995.
Nominee, John W. Robinson Award for best graduate scholarly paper, "Shelley's 'Julian
and Maddalo'," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995.
Breadloaf Writer's Conference Work-Study Scholarship , 1994.
Academy of American Poets Award, "Painting the Garden," (George Garrett, Judge),
Baylor University, 1994.
Breadloaf Writer's Conference Work-Study Scholarship , 1993.
Hudson Long Award in Poetry, "Through Herod's Eyes"
(Robert Pack, Judge), Baylor University, 1993.
Breadloaf Writer's Conference Work-Study Middlebury Student Scholarship, 1992.
SERVICE
Faculty Adviser, Reflections , the student literary magazine of Georgia Military College.
Co-Faculty Adviser, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Georgia Military College.
Faculty Adviser, Opus, the student literary magazine of Hope College.
WEB-SITES DESIGNED
Joel Peckham's Personal Page:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Bistro/2719/index.html
with links to pages
on poetry, syllabi, reviews, and vita.
Southern Literature Syllabus:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~milkwood
The Milkwood Review, an on-line journal of literature and the other arts:
http://www.geocities.com/milkwoodreview
Western World Literature On-Line Syllabus:
http://www.geocities.com/joelpeckham/wwl2.html
Expository Writing On-Line Syllabus:
http://www.geocities.com/joelpeckham/expository.html
LANGUAGE AND COLLATERAL FIELDS
English
French (reading knowledge)
Html
Multimedia Technology
REFERENCES
Professor Robert Pack
384 Llama Lane
Condon, MT 59826
(406) 754-3198
Professor Stephen C. Behrendt
Department of English
337B Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402) 472-1806
Professor Linda Pratt
Department of English
202 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402) 472-1861
Professor Clement T. Goode
2720 Braemar
Waco, TX 76710
(817) 772-2238
Professor Thomas Caramagno
Department of English
202 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402) 472-8287
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