DAVID HERMAN

herman[dot]145[at]osu[dot]edu
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/herman145/

Department of English                      
Ohio State University                       
164 West 17th Avenue                       
Columbus, OH 43210-1370
USA                           
614.292.6123 (office)
614.292.7816 (fax)

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

CURRENT TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

EDITORIAL OFFICES HELD

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Books published and forthcoming in the series:
(Several other proposals and book manuscripts are currently under review for the series or in progress for future consideration.)

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS   

GRANTS       

PUBLICATIONS

PRESENTATIONS   

OTHER TEACHING APPOINTMENTS   

COURSES TAUGHT; CLICK HERE FOR RECENT SYLLABI

Graduate Level:
Undergraduate Level:

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

(Chair of committees marked with an asterisk [*])

In progress:


• Adam Stier, *"Ties that Bind: Character Networks in the American Novel, 1886-1939"; Department of English, Ohio State University [awarded a Presidential Fellowship, OSU's most competitive and prestigious doctoral fellowship, conferred on only 30 graduate students university-wide each year]
• Christopher Gonzalez, "Hospitable Imaginations: Contemporary Latino Literature and the Creation of a Readership"; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Brian McAllister, “Imagined Space in Irish and Scottish National Culture, 1960-2000”; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Elizabeth Nixon, “Beyond Mimicry: Popular Postcolonial and Borderlands Humor”; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Hye Su Park, "Narrating Other Minds: Alterity and Empathy in post-1945 Asian-American Fiction": Department of English, Ohio State University


Completed:

2011

• Allison Fisher, *“Submerged Experimentation in Middlebrow Modernist Fiction”; Department of English, Ohio State University

• Nick Hetrick, "Making Bodies Matter: Disability Narrative after the ADA"; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Blake Howald, "The Transformation of Spatial Experience in Narrative Discourse"; Linguistics Program, Georgetown University

2009

Olga Medvedeva, "Voice, Temporality, and Narrative in the Thought of Jacques Derrida"; Department of English, Purdue University
Jeannine Carpenter, "Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South"; Linguistics Program, Duke University

2008

• Alison Gibbons, "Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics"; School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, England

2007


• Cat Gubernatis, “The Epistolary Tradition in Twentieth-Century Fiction”; Department of English, Ohio State University 


2003


• Lisette Schillig, “Solitude as Creative and Resistant Practice in the Work of H.D., May Sarton, Jean Rhys, and Lyn Hejinian”; Department of English, Purdue University


2002


• Jarmila Mildorf, Dissertation Committee, “General Practitioners’ Narrative Discourse on Domestic Violence: A Sociolinguistic Study”; Department of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen, Scotland


2001


• Andrew J. Kunka, “The Inward Scream: Shell-Shock Narratives in Twentieth-Century British Culture”; Department of English, Purdue University

PH.D EXAM COMMITTEES

(Chair of committees marked with an asterisk [*])

In progress

• Theresa Rojas, *Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Wanzheng Michelle Wang, *Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Kristen Johnson, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Wanlin Li, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Megan Hill, Ph.D Candidate, School of Communication, Ohio State University
• Hilary Brewster, Ph.D Candidate, School of Teaching and Learning, Ohio State University
• Jennifer Gregory, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Gabe Vincencio, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

2011

• Chris Gonzalez, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Rebecca Jacobson, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire (UK)/University of Central Florida joint Ph.D program

• Lindsay Martin, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Hye Su Park, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Jeff Tibbett, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

2010

• Adam Stier, *Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Brian McAllister,
Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

Elizabeth Nixon, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

2009

Patrick Carr, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
Nick Hetrick, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University


2007


• Elizabeth Marsch, *Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University


2006


• Jeaninne Carpenter, Ph.D Qualifying Examination, Program in English Linguistics, Duke University

• Allison Fisher, *Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University


2005


• Sean Burt, Ph.D Qualifying Examination, Department of Religion, Duke University

• Eddie Maloney, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Cat Gubernatis, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Virginia Sullivan, Ph.D Qualifying Examination, School of Design, North Carolina State University

M.A. EXAM COMMITTEES

(Chair of committees marked with an asterisk [*])

2011

• Rachel Aldous, M.A. Portfolio Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University


2010

• Shannon Bedingfield,
M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University


2008


• Geordie Hamilton, *M.A. Portfolio Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Adam Stier, *M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University   

• Dennis Wise, *M.A. "Hybrid" Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University


2007


• Marcia Arnold, *M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Gaenor Burchette-Vass, M.A. Exam, University of Auckland, New Zealand (external examiner)


2006


• Nicholas Vanover, M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Miranda Miller, M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Sarah Osment, M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University


2005


• Adam Lorenzen, *M.A. Portfolio Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

• Jason Swantek, M.A. Reading List Exam, Department of English, Ohio State University

M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES       

(Chair of committees marked with an asterisk [*])

2005


• Jennifer Cover, *“Tabletop Role Playing Games: Perspectives from Narrative, Game, and Rhetorical Theory” [M.A., North Carolina State University; I co-directed this thesis]

• James M. Fitzpatrick, “What’s Beef? Discourse Practices of Battling in Hip Hop Language” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


2004


• Jeannine Carpenter, “African American Speech on Roanoke Island, North Carolina” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Dawn Shepherd, “Marketing Subjectivity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Construction of the Problematic Female Television Audience” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


2002


• Matthew W. Downs, *“Narrative, Intertextuality, and Parallel Processing” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Heidi Porter, *“Discourse Means of Jointly Produced Asymmetry in Doctor-Patient Conversations” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Maureen T. Matarese, “African American Vernacular English in Freshman Composition and the Social Construction of Teacher Response” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Ed Cottrill, “Depictions of the Eucharist in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Christine Mallinson, “The Regional Accommodation of African American English:

Evidence from a Bi-Ethnic Mountain Enclave Community” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


2001


• Caroline Fleming, *“Rape on Trial:  Discourse, Power, and Ideology in the Courtroom” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Jaclyn Lorraine Ocumpaugh, “The Variable Chapter in the Story of R:  An Acoustic Analysis of a Shift in Final and Pre-Consonantal Instances of American /r/ Production in Louisburg, North Carolina” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Jeffrey Reaser, “Copula Absence in Ethnically Contrastive Bahamian Communities” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Sarah T. Miller, *“Gender and Computer-Mediated Communication:  Why Women Need Their Space” [M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]

• Daniel Beckett, “Sociolinguistic Individuality in an Enclave Community” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


2000


• Prescott Sobol, "Problems of Cultural Authority in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street and White Noise" [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Kim Gee, “The Ergonomics of Hypertext Narrative:  Usability Testing as a Tool for Evaluation and Redesign” [M.S. in Technical Communication, North Carolina State University]

• W. Brett Wetzell, “Rhythm, Dialects, and the Southern Drawl” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Rebecca Childs, “A Hyde County Clusterfest:  The Role of Consonant Cluster Reduction in a Historically Isolated African-American Community” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Amy Gantt, “The Sociolinguistic Significance of Peripheral Communities:  The Case of Crusoe Island, North Carolina” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Micah Mattix, “Tones of Jacques Derrida:  From the Religious to a Radically Ethical Hypermodernity” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


1999


• John Metzger, “Beyond the Big House:  Plantation Social Structure and the ‘Bad Nigger’ in the Fiction of Ernest Gaines” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Jason Sellers, “A Sociolinguistic Profile of Cherokee Sound, Bahamas” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Corrie Lisk-Hurst, “John Glenn:   Return to Space:  Narrative Dimensions of ‘Real-Time’ Media Discourse” [M.S. in Technical Communication, North Carolina State University]

• Aaron McCullough, “Language beyond Lack:  Models of Desire in Poetry and Theory” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

           
1998

           
• Elaine Green, “Conflicting Paradigms for Past and Present Be in Coastal Carolina English” [M.A., North Carolina State University]                   

• Chris Barrett, “Hypertext, Possible Worlds, and Postmodern Narrative” [M.A., North Carolina State University]           

• Wade Newhouse, “‘Aghast and Uplifted’:  Faulkner’s Civil War and Postmodern Narrative” [M.A., North Carolina State University]       

• Bridget L. Anderson, “An Acoustic Study of Phonological Transfer and Vowel Accomodation among the Snowbird Cherokee” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


1997


• David Ikard, “Writing Resistance or Subjugating the Black Self:  An Analysis of Michelle Cliff’s Racial and Sexual Politics in Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven” [M.A., North Carolina State University]   

• Rob McCormick, “USENET Discourse:  Moving Beyond the Oral/Literate Distinction”

[M.S. in Technical Communication, North Carolina State University]

• Brian Thomas, “Contesting the Culture Industry:  Domination and Resistance in DeLillo’s Mao II and the Art of Jenny Holzer” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Edward Hoffman, *“Making Sense of the Fall:  The Dramatic and Narrative Functions of the Angel Raphael in Milton’s Paradise Lost” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Eva Chazo, “Reflected Images:  An Analysis of William Carlos Williams’ Pictures from Brueghel” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Paul Madachy, “‘Ain’t Nuthin’ but a She-Thing’:  Emerging Gender Images in Popular Music” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Tena Helton, “Constructing a Feminist Text:  Narrative Experimentation in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s A Tale of Love” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Michael Philp, *“Building the Ideologue:  New Perspectives on Focalization in Film and Print Narratives” [M.A., North Carolina State University]


1995


• Liza Ann Acosta, “Carnival Outside, Carnival Inside:  A Translation and Introduction”

[M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Adrianne Davina Cheek, “Harkers Island /> / and the Southern Norm:  A Microcosm of

Languages in Contact” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• James Peterson, “Style Variation in the Sociolinguistic Interview:  An Empirical Study of Interviewer Adaptation” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

           
1994

       
• Kathryn Locey, “Revisions” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

• Andrew Mullen Sidle, “Sartrean Existentialism and Richard Wright’s Cross Damon” [M.A., North Carolina State University]

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS AND HONORS THESES (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)

(I was the main advisor for the projects marked with an asterisk [*])

2011

• Alison Sagara, *"Graphic Narrative Theory: Comics Storytelling in Watchmen"
• Scott Dieter, *"Narrative Theory in Light of Contemporary Narrative Practice"

2008

•  Josh Steskal, *"A Questionable Travelogue: Troubling the Intersection of Narrative Theory and Creative Writing"; project for the Denman Forum for Undergraduate Research [faculty mentor for this project]
• Andrea Latessa, "Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency in Ohio: 1875-1925" [member of senior honors thesis committee]            


2007


• Josh Steskal, “Blurring the Line Between Imagined and Real With Narrative: An Imaginary Travelogue,” awarded Ohio State University’s Fenner Undergraduate Research Award [faculty mentor for this project]

• Tim Johnson, “Narrative Progression through the Act of Telling in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [member of senior thesis committee]


2006


• Mykola Bilokonsky, “Inaccessible Worlds: A Possible Worlds Narrative Analysis of Select Modernist Texts,” Ohio State University [member of honors thesis committee]


2005


• Ben Nanamaker, *“Emergent Gameplay: The Limits of Ludology and Narratology in Analyzing Video Game Narratives,” Ohio State University [co-advisor for honors thesis project]

GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDIES (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)

2011

• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative and Mind, with Megan Hill
• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative Theory and Science Fiction, with Leslie Chambers

2010

• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative Theory and Disability Narratives, with Rachel Aldous
• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative Theory and Visual Narratives, with Theresa Rojas
• Graduate Directed Study on Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory, with Evan Thomas

2008

• Graduate Directed Study on Cognitive Approaches to Culture, Literature, and Narrative, with Elizabeth Nixon
• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative Theory, with Adam Stier

2007

• Graduate Directed Study on Narrative Theory, with Geordie Hamilton

• Graduate Directed Study on Cognitive Narratology, with Elizabeth Nixon

• Graduate Directed Study on Aesthetic Theory, with Nicholas Hetrick

• Graduate Directed Study on Theories of Consciousness, with Calvin Johns


2005


• Graduate Directed Study on Consciousness Representation in Narrative, with Elizabeth Marsch

• Graduate Directed Study on Narratology (special focus on Feminist Narratology), with Allison Fisher

• Graduate Directed Study on Modernist Fiction, with Nicholas Vanover

• Undergraduate Directed Study on Concepts of the Hero, with Steven Ovadia

EXTERNAL TENURE AND PROMOTION CASES

Washington and Jefferson College (2011)
UC-Santa Barbara (2010)
• Dartmouth College (2007)
• Georgetown University (2007)
• Tel Aviv University (2006)

• Smith College (2006)

• University of Antwerp, Belgium (2005)

• Carnegie Mellon University (2005; 2007)

• Open University, Israel (2005)

• Florida Atlantic University (2004)

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2003)

• University of Hawai’i (2001)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK   

• External reviewer, Katholieke University Belgium, Senior Research Professor compeition (BOFZAP), 2011
• External reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship Competition, 2010
• External review for National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010
• Member, Executive Committee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2010-2011
• Domain Agent (=Liaison) for Cognitive Narratology for the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, 2009-
• Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2010

• Member, Program Review Oversight Committee (and co-author of 35,000-word self-study document), Department of English, Ohio State University, 2008
Member, Organizing Committee, 2009 Spring Symposium on “Intelligent Narrative Technologies II” sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• Member, Executive Committee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2007-2008
• Chair, Search Committee for Senior Position in Narrative Studies/Narrative Theory (sponsored by Project Narrative), Department of English, Ohio State University, 2007-2008
• Member Faculty Steering Committee, Denham Undergraduate Research Forum, Ohio State University, 2007-2008

• Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Cartoon Research Library, Ohio State University, 2007-
• Invited Panel Organizer and Abstract Reviewer, 2008 Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics (GURT): “Telling Stories: Building Bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society, and Culture” (2007-2008)
• Project Consultant, Application for Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant (UK) for a multiyear project on "Narrative Practice and Folk Psychology" (2007) (application not funded)
• Member, Program Committee, 2007 Fall Symposium on “Intelligent Narrative Technologies” sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• Member, International Board of Research Consultants, “Trail of the Mummy: Connecting Girls to Science”; application for National Science Foundation Informal Science Education grant submitted by COSI (Center for Science and Industry); Columbus, OH, 2006-2007 (application not funded)

• Member, Advisory Board, Project on “Interactive Narrative Environments: Integrating Computational and Cognitive Models” submitted to the National Science Foundation’s Intelligent Information Systems Program (2006) (application not funded)

• Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Ohio State University Press, 2006-2009

• Member, Panel of Reviewers for Projects in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation, 2006-2007

• Member, Review Committee, Applications for Faculty International Travel Grants sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, Ohio State University, 2006

• Member, Planning Committee for the Conference on “Disability, Narrative, and the Law” sponsored by Ohio State University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, Department of English, and Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 2004-2006

• Member (Chair in 2008), Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Division on Language Theory, 2005-2009

• Graduate School Representative, Doctoral Candidacy Examination in the School of Electrical Engineering (Department of Computer Science), Ohio State University, September 2006

• Member, Nominations Committee, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 2005-2006

• Placement Officer, Graduate Program, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2005-2006

• Procedures Oversight Designee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2006-2008

• Member of Graduate Studies Policy and Program Committee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2005-2006

• Member, Planning Committee for a multi-institutional Consortium Program in Science, Narrative, and Performance, 2005-2008

• Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2004-2008

• Member, Review Committee for Applications for Presidential Dissertation Fellowships (University-wide competition), Ohio State University, 2004-2005

• Member (Chair in 2006), Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to Literature, 2003-2007

• Member, Cognitive Science Advisory Panel, North Carolina State University, 2002-2004

• Presenter of Colleague’s Case for Promotion to Full Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 2003-2004

• Member, Inquiry Panel (and subsequent Investigative Committee) charged with examining allegations of research misconduct, North Carolina State University, 2003

• Member, Dean’s Task Force on Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, 2003.  Chair, subcommittee on Conceptual and Pragmatic Foundations of Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Teaching; member, subcommittee on External Models for Interdisciplinary Study.  Co-author of 150-page Final Report with Recommendations. 

• Chair, Ad Hoc Search Committee for a Senior Hire in the English Department (via Spousal Accommodation), North Carolina State University, 2003

• Member, Council for Graduate Education, North Carolina State University, 2002-2003

• Representative for Modern and Postmodern Literature, Linguistics, and Critical Theory on the Committee for the LAN Option within the English Major at North Carolina State University, 2002-2003

• Chair, Critical Theory Disciplinary Group, North Carolina State University, 2001-2004

• Member, English Department Research and Professional Development Committee, North Carolina State University, 1999-2002; Chair, 2001-2002

• Co-Chair, Linguistics Search Committee, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 2001-2002

• Participant, Pilot Program for Undergraduate Advising, North Carolina State University, 2000-2002

• Member, English Department Advisory Committee, North Carolina State University, 2000-2002

• Member and pro tempore Chair, Search Committee for Head of the English Department, North Carolina State University, 2000-2001

• Member, Organizing Committee for NWAV 30 (= New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Linguistics Conference hosted in October, 2001, by the Linguistics Program at North Carolina State University, 2000-2001

• English Department Representative, Research Committee for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, 1998-2000

• Member, Coordinating Committee for Tenure and Promotion Cases, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1998-2000

• Chair, Subcommittee for the evaluation of non-tenure-track faculty, North Carolina State University, 1998, 2002

• Member, Curriculum Committee, North Carolina State University, 1997-1999

• Member, Disciplinary Groups in Modern and Postmodern Literature, Critical Theory, and Linguistics North Carolina State University, 1996-2004

• Member, William C. Friday Linguistics Lab Committee, North Carolina State University, 1996-2004

• Member, Professional Writing Search Committee, North Carolina State University, 1996-1997

• Member, Disciplinary Group in World Literature, 1996-1998

• Member, Council for Graduate Education in English, North Carolina State University, 1996-1998

• Member, Literary Awards Committee, Purdue University, 1995-1996

• Member, English Linguistics Committee, Purdue University, 1995-1996

• Member, Linguistics Search Committee, North Carolina State University, 1994-1995

• Faculty co-sponsor for the undergraduate English Club, North Carolina State University, 1994-1995

• Member, Twentieth-Century, World Literature and General Curriculum Committees, North Carolina State University, 1993-1995
• External reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011
• External reviewer for The British Academy, Competition for Mid-career Research Development Awards, 2009
• External reviewer for The Council of the Humanities, Netherlands Organization for Scientific     Research, 2009
• External reviewer for The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2008
• External reviewer for European Research Council, June – December, 2008
• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the Irish Research Council for Humanties and Social Sciences, 2008
• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the Israel Science Foundation (project on interdisciplinary narrative theory), 2006

• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the European Science Foundation (project on cognitive narratology), 2005

• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation (sociolinguistic research project), 2004

• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the Schroedinger Foundation (Austria) (cognitive-linguistic research project), 2004

• External reviewer for proposal submitted to the Arts and Humanities Research Board (U.K.) (research project combining psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, and narrative theory), 2004

• External review for Language in Society, 2008
• External reviewer for
Journal of Narrative Theory, 2006-
• External reviewer for
Twentieth-Century Studies, 2005
• External reviewer for
Inquiry, 2004
• External reviewer for
PMLA, 2004, 2006, 2008
• External reviewer for
Crossings: eJournal of Art and Technology, 2004
• External reviewer for
American Literature, 2003
• External reviewer for
LIT, 2002-
• External reviewer for
Text and Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 2002-
• External reviewer for
Narrative Inquiry, 1997-
• External reviewer for
Style, 1994-
• External reviewer for Edinburgh University Press (literature/stylistics), 2011
• External reviewer for Cambridge University Press (linguistics), 2011
• External reviewer for Cambridge University Press (narrative theory), 2007, 2011
• External reviewer for Georgetown University Press (linguistics), 2008

• External reviewer for Yale University Press (literary theory/cognitive science), 2008
• External reviewer for Wiley-Blackwell (literary theory), 2008
• External reviewer for Routledge (linguistics), 2007, 2008
• External reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan (narrative theory/stylistics), 2006, 2007

• External reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan (philosophy), 2007
• External reviewer for Humanities Books (literary theory), 2004
• External reviewer for Blackwell (linguistics), 1999
• External reviewer for Blackwell (narrative theory), 2003
• External reviewer for Cornell University Press, 2001

• External reviewer for the University of Massachussetts Press, 2001

• External reviewer for Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

• External reviewer for Blackwell Publishers (linguistics), 1999

• External reviewer for Perseus Books, 1999

• External reviewer for Ohio State University Press, 1999, 2004

• External reviewer for the University of Nebraska Press, 1997-

• External reviewer for Longman Publishers, 1995, 2006

• External reviewer for SUNY Press, 1993

• Faculty research assistant, U. of Pennsylvania, 1990

• Participant in Cultural Studies faculty seminar, Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences, U. of Pennsylvania, 1989-1992

LANGUAGES

• German (good reading knowledge)
• French (reading knowledge)

• Ancient Greek (working knowledge)


MEMBERSHIPS (CURRENT & PAST)   


• Council of Editors of Learned Journals (for Storyworlds)
• European Society for the Study of English

• International Association of Literary Semantics

• Linguistic Society of America

• Linguistic Association of the Southwest

• Poetics and Linguistics Association

• American Comparative Literature Association

• International Association of Philosophy and Literature

• Southeastern Conference on Linguistics

• International James Joyce Foundation

• Modern Language Association

• Northeast Modern Language Association

• Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

• Society for Literature and Science

• Dictionary Society of North America

REFERENCES

Available on request

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