DAVID HERMAN
herman[dot]145[at]osu[dot]eduhttp://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
- Institute Affiliate, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics (attended classes in phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistic theory); Cornell University, 1997
- Ph.D. in English (also attended graduate-level courses in linguistics, philosophy, and comparative literature), University of Pennsylvania, 1988-1992
- M.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania, 1986-1988
- B.A. in philosophy and English, with a minor in ancient Greek, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1981-1985
EMPLOYMENT
- Professor, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2004-
- Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 2000-2004
- Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Duke University, 1999-2004
- Associate Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1996-2000
- Associate Professor, Department of English, Purdue University, 1995-1996
- Assistant Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1993-1995
- Lecturer, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-1993
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
- Director, Project Narrative (http://projectnarrative.osu.edu), Ohio State University, 2006-2008
CURRENT TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Interdisciplinary narrative theory; narrative and mind;
discourse analysis; 20th- and 21st-century
studies; critical theory; intersections among philosophy,
linguistics, and narrative fiction; storytelling across media
EDITORIAL OFFICES HELD
- Editor, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, published by The University of Nebraska Press, 2009-
Tables of Contents:
- Volume 1: http://storyworlds.osu.edu/storyworldsITOC.html
- Volume 2: http://storyworlds.osu.edu/storyworldsIITOC.html
- Editor, Frontiers of Narrative, a book series published by The University of Nebraska Press, 2001-
Books published and forthcoming in
the series:
- Inderjeet Mani, The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation (forthcoming in 2010)
- Michael Austin, Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature (forthcoming in 2010)
- Mike Cadden, ed., Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature (forthcoming in 2010)
- David Herman, ed., The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (forthcoming in 2011)
- Patrick Colm Hogan, Affective
Narratology:
The
Emotional
Structure of Stories (forthcoming in 2011)
- Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2009)
- Hilary Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (2008)
- Jarmila Mildorf, Storying Domestic Violence: Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners (2007)
- Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck, Handbook of Narrative Analysis; English translation of Vertelduivels: Handboek verhaalanalyse (2005)
- Marie-Laure Ryan, ed., Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (2004)
- Alan Palmer, Fictional Minds (2004)
- Elaine Jahner, Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West (2004)
- David Herman, Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (2002)
- Irene Kacandes, Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion (2001)
- Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas, eds., New Narratives: Theory and Practice (complete ms. under review)
- Bronwen Thomas, Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel (under contract)
- Anna Botta, Open Encyclopedias: Narrative Tactics and Postmodern Narrative (under contract)
- Rochelle Tobias, Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Literature in the Twentieth Century (under contract)
(Several
other
proposals and book
manuscripts are currently under review for the series or in progress
for future consideration.)
- Member of Editorial Board for Edice
Theoretica, a book series published by the Czech Academy of
Sciences, 2007-
- Member of Editorial Board for Studies
in Narrative, a book series
published by John Benjamins, 2001-
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Storytelling, Self, Society: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies,
2008-
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Lit (Literature Interpretation Theory), 2006-
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Text and Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Language, Discourse, and Communication Studies, 2006-
- Member of International Advisory Board for the Journal of Narrative Theory, 2006-
- Member of International Advisory Board for the Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology, published by the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Cultural Analysis (<http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/>), 2004-
- Member of International Advisory Board for Cognitive Philology (<http://padis2.uniroma1.it:81/ojs/index.php/cogphil/index>), 2003-
- Member of Editorial Board for Narrative, 1998-
- Member of Editorial Board for Modern Fiction Studies, 1998-
- Member of Editorial Board for Postmodern Culture, 1993-
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS
- Recipient of Research
Fellowship
from
the
American Council of
Learned Societies (ACLS) for January – December 2009; project on
"Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind"
- Awarded Research Fellowship from the American Philosophical
Society for January – December 2009 for a project on "Storytelling and
the Sciences of Mind"; declined in order to accept ACLS Fellowship for
the same
period
- Recipient of Graduate Professor of Year Award; Department of English, Ohio State University, 2006-2007
- Nominated for Undergraduate Professor of Year Award;
Department
of
English, Ohio State University, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007,
2007-2008
- Certificate for excellence in undergraduate teaching, awarded by the Ohio State University chapter of the Mortar Board Society and the OSU Sphinx Society; March 2005
- Co-winner of the Perkins Prize (“most significant contribution to narrative studies”) for Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. Awarded by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature in April 2004 (for books published in 2002)
- Selected by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences as the CHASS Nominee for the North Carolina State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award for 2001-2002, May 2003
- Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-2003; project title: “Narrative as Cognitive Artifact”
- Longman Prize for best essay (“Towards a Pragmatics of Represented Discourse”) published in the field of poetics and linguistics in 1993; international contest sponsored by the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), April 1994
- Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Society for the Humanities at Columbia University, 1993-1995
- Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, 1993-1994
- Scholarship to the School of Criticism and Theory (participated in Richard Rorty's seminar on “Pragmatism, Deconstruction, and Feminism”); Dartmouth College, June-July 1992
- Ezra Pound Award for Literary Translation; U. of Pennsylvania, April 1992
- Mellon Dissertation Fellow; U. of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992
- PARSS (Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences) Summer Research Fellow; U. of Pennsylvania, 1989 and 1990
- Distinction, Ph.D. field examinations; U. of Pennsylvania, 1989
- Pepper Fellowship; U. of Pennsylvania, 1989-1990
- Distinction, comprehensive oral examination; U. of Pennsylvania, 1988
- B.A. summa cum laude, with honors in English (thesis on Faulkner); UNC-Greensboro,1985
- Phi Beta Kappa; UNC-Greensboro, 1985
- Special certificate for academic excellence; UNC-Greensboro, 1985
- Arnett Scholarship for work in English; UNC-Greensboro, 1983
GRANTS
- Co-Principal Investigator, "Analyzing and Visualizing Large Narrative Corpora." Grant proposal submitted in response to the "Digging into Data Challenge" co-sponsored by NEH, NSF, SSHRC, and JISC (http://www.diggingintodata.org); proposal pending
- College of the Humanities Publication Subvention, for
production
costs associated with Basic Elements
of Narrative, Ohio State University; July 2008
- Arts and Humanities Seed Grant for “Re-imagining Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Stories and Storytelling.” Ohio State University, May 2007
- Co-Principal Investigator, “Modeling Narrative Competence,”
Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation Grant for Transatlantic Cooperative Research,
submitted in collaboration with members of Ohio State University’s
Project Narrative and the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology at
the University of Hamburg, Germany (application not funded)
- Grant from Ohio State University’s Investing in Excellence program for Project Narrative, a 5-year initiative designed to promote interdisciplinary research on narrative, enhance opportunities for undergraduate and graduate education, and support two multi-institutional consortium arrangements with colleagues in North America as well as Europe (I co-authored this successful $500,000 grant proposal); Ohio State University, 2006-2011
- Grant from the Dactyl Foundation (http://www.dactyl.org/) to support a research presentation at the STAR Conference [Science, Theater, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative] co-sponsored by the UC-Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Santa Barbara, CA, March 2005
- Grant-in-Aid for international travel, awarded by Ohio State University’s College of the Humanities for travel to deliver a keynote address at the 2005 meeting of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association/Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, sponsored by the University of Pretoria; February 2005
- CHASS (College of the Humanities and Social Sciences) Publication Subvention, for production costs associated with Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative, North Carolina State University; March, 2000
- “Combining Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory: Action Representations for Interactive Learning Environments.” R. Michael Young and David Herman, Co-Principal Investigators. Faculty Research and Professional Development Grant, North Carolina State University; January, 2000
- “GRENDEL: Generating Reader Engagement through Narratively Designed Environments for Learning.” David Herman and Michael Young, Co-Principal Investigators. Office of Extension and Outreach, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NC State University; August, 1999 - August, 2000
- Grant from the Research Fund of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, to attend courses at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics; Cornell University; July 1997
- CHASS Summer Research Stipend, for a project on the linguistic analysis of conversational storytelling; North Carolina State University; December 1996
- IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) Travel Grant, awarded for travel to the Czech Republic to present a scholarly paper on the Prague School; April 1995
- Faculty Research Grant, awarded for a project on "Narratology after Structuralism"; Provost’s Office, North Carolina State University; December 1994
- CHASS Summer Research Stipend, for “Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Metafiction”; North Carolina State University, May-August 1994.
PUBLICATIONS
- Click here for a complete list of publications.
PRESENTATIONS
- "Scenes of Talk in Graphic Adaptations." Session on "Dialogue and Genre" sponsored by the Division on Linguistic Approaches to Literature. Modern Language Association; Philadelphia, PA, December 2009
- "Exploring the Nexus of Narrative and Mind." Panel discussion on "Four Approaches to Narrative" sponsored by the Project Narrative initiative at Ohio State University (http://projectnarrative.osu.edu); Columbus, OH, November 2009
- "Beyond the Two Cultures: Persons, Minds, and Stories." Symposium on Narrative, Science, and Performance sponsored by the Project Narrative Initiative at Ohio State University; Columbus, OH, October 2009
- "Directions in Cognitive Narratology: Triangulating Stories, Media, and the Mind." Invited presentation for Workshop on Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach, sponsored by the University of Toronto (http://www.semioticon.com/virtuals/poetics/index.html); Toronto, Canada, June 2009
- "Beyond Theories of Mind: Narrative Modeling of Action Sequences." Keynote address for the International Conference on Minds and Narrative, sponsored by the University of Leuven (http://www.narratology.ugent.be/minds.html); Leuven, Belgium, June 2009
- "Storied Minds: Narrative Scaffolding for Folk Psychology."
Invited seminar presentation sponsored by the Centre de recherches sur
les arts et le langage (CRAL) (http://cral.ehess.fr/),
based
at
EHESS
=
L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales; Paris,
France, February
2009.
- "Developments in Cognitive Narratology." Invited public presentation sponsored by the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL) (http://cral.ehess.fr/), based at EHESS = L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales; Paris, France, February 2009.
- "New Developments in the Study of Narrative." Keynote
address for
the University of Hertfordshire's Fall 2008 SSAHRI (Social Science,
Arts, and Humanities Research Institute) Symposium: "Perspectives on
Narrative in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences"; Hertfordshire,
England, November 2008.
- Herman, David, and Andrew Salway. "Corpus Narratology:
Foundations
for a New Inter-discipline." Fall 2009 Symposium sponsored by the Buckeye Language Network;
Ohio
State
University,
October 2008.
- "The Nexus of Narrative and Mind: Perspectives from
Cognitive
Narratology." Collegium on
Social Cognition and Social Narrative, sponsored by a European
Science Foundation initiative on Consciousness
in
a
Natural
and Cultural Context; Republic of San Marino, July 2008
- "Narrative and Intentionality." Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Austin, TX, May 2008.
- Herman, David, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. "Overview of
the
forthcoming volume on Options for
Teaching Narrative Theory." Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature; Austin, TX, May 2008.
- "Multimodal Storytelling and Identity Construction in
Graphic
Narratives." GURT 2008 [Georgetown University Roundtable on
Linguistics]: "Telling Stories: Building Bridges among Language,
Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society, and Culture." Georgetown,
D.C., March 2008
- “Triangulating Literary Criticism: Language, Literature, and Mind.” Session sponsored by the Division on Literary Criticism. Modern Language Association; Chicago, IL, December 2007
- “Graphic Storytelling and Narrative Theory.” Session sponsored by the Division on Prose Fiction. Modern Language Association; Chicago, IL, December 2007
- Herman, David, and Joshua Steskal, “Emotion Discourse as Design Heuristic: Creating Emotional Intelligence for Virtual Narrative Agents.” (Paper delivered by J. Steskal.) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Fall Symposium on “Intelligent Narrative Technologies.” Arlington, VA, November 2007
- “Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance.” Special session on Narrative Theory Today: Prospects and Problems (also session organizer and chair). Midwestern Modern Language Association; Cleveland, OH, November 2007
- “Multimodal Storytelling and Identity Construction in Graphic Narratives.” 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art (academic preconference), sponsored by the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library; Columbus, OH, October 2007
- “Developments in Narrative Analysis; or, Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind.” Presentation to Ohio State University’s Department of Linguistics; Columbus, OH, September 2007
- “Formal Models in Narrative Analysis.” Workshop on Mathematics and Narrative organized by Thales and Friends (http://www.thalesandfriends.org/); Delphi, Greece, July 2007
- “Directions in Interdisciplinary Narrative Theory.” Keynote Lecture. Third Tampere Conference on Narrative: Knowing, Living, Telling (http://www.uta.fi/conference/3narrative/). University of Tampere; Tampere, Finland, June 2007
- “Foundations for Interdisciplinary Narrative Research.” Keynote Lecture. Inaugural Symposium of the University of Wuppertal’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratological Research; Wuppertal, Germany, June 2007
- “Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance.” Invited Lecture. Center for Narratological Studies, University of Southern Denmark; Odense, Denmark, June 2007.
- “Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling.” Keynote Address. Poetics and Linguistics Association’s Symposium on Narrative and Multimodality: Language, Theory, Contexts (http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=narrative-and-multimodality). University of Central England, Birmingham, England, April 2007
- "New Foundations for Narrative Theory: A Corpus-based Approach.” With Andrew Salway. Session on “Linguistic Approaches to Narrative” [also session organizer and chair]. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Washington, D.C., March 2007
- “Introductory Remarks” (and Chair), Session on “Project Narrative: Work in Progress at Ohio State University.” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Washington, D.C., March 2007
- “Nonfactivity, Tellability, and Narrativity.” Workshop on “Events, Eventfulness, and Tellability” (http://www.narratology.ugent.be/programme.html) sponsored by the University of Hamburg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology and the University of Ghent; Ghent, Belgium, February 2007
- Chair, Session on “Cognitive Approaches to Literary Character” sponsored by the MLA’s Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to Literature [I organized this session]. Modern Language Association; Philadelphia, PA, December 2006
- Chair, Session on Discourse Analysis. NWAV 35 [New Ways of Analyzing Variation] Conference; Columbus, OH, November 2006
- “Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Concepts of
Focalization.” Symposium on Narrative Perspective; University of
Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany, October 2006
- “Consciousness Representation in Narrative: Postclassical Approaches.” Panel on “Narratology: The State of the Art.” European Society for the Study of English; London, England, August 2006
- “Developments in Narrative Analysis.” Invited presentation for Guest Speaker Series, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University; Washington, D.C., April 2006
- “Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory.” Panel on “Cognitive Dimensions of Narrative Fiction” [I organized and chaired this session]. UConn Conference on Literature and the Cognitive Sciences; Storrs, CT, April 2006
- “Trends in Cognitive Narrative Analysis.” Invited public presentation for the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, University of Helsinki; Helsinki, Finland, March 2006
- “Narrative Theory: Prospects and Problems.” Seminar sponsored by the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, University of Helsinki; Helsinki, Finland, March 2006
- “Aspects of Consciousness Representation in Narrative.” Roundtable Discussion sponsored by the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, University of Helsinki; Helsinki, Finland, March 2006
- Co-convenor, Session on “Narrative and Argument” at 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; Columbus, OH, February 2006
- “Basic Elements of Narrative: Foundations for Interdisciplinary Research on Stories.” Special session on “Narrative: Convergent Perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Other Fields” (http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/herman145/MLA2005.html) [I proposed this special session]. Modern Language Association; Washington, D.C., December 2005
- Chair, session on “Language Theory and the Cognitive Sciences” sponsored by the Division on Language Theory [I organized this session]. Modern Language Association; Washington, D.C., December 2005
- “At the Interface of Story, Sentence, and Speech Act: Role-Theoretic Frameworks for Narrative Analysis.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO); Lubbock, TX, October 2005
- “Gesture, Narrative, and the Construction of Place.” Keynote address at the annual meeting of the South African Applied Linguistics Association; Pretoria, South Africa, July 2005
- “Minds, Stories, and Their Interfaces: Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution.” Invited public presentation, University of Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany, July 2005
- “Description, Narrative, and Explanation: Cognitive Foundations of Discourse Genres.” Invited presentation for a Workshop on “The Cognitive Modelling of Narrative Competence,” University of Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany, June 2005
- “Cognitive Approaches to Stories and Storytelling.” Media in Transition 4 Conference (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/); Cambridge, MA, May 2005
- “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution.” Seminar on Contemporary Narratology at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Louisville, KY, April 2005
- “Description, Narrative, and Explanation: The Role of Stories in the Work of Science.” STAR Conference [Science, Theater, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative] co-sponsored by the UC-Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Santa Barbara, CA, March 2005
- Co-organizer and Moderator of a Panel on “Cognitive Space and Time: Temporality and Dimension in Writing and Reading.” STAR Conference [Science, Theater, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative] co-sponsored by the UC-Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Santa Barbara, CA, March 2005
- “Discourse-Analytic Approaches to Fictional Dialogue.” Panel on Literary Linguistics: Theory and Application. Session Sponsored by the Linguistic Approaches to Literature Division, MLA Convention; Philadelphia, PA, December 2004
- “Points, Spaces, and Places: Functions of Gesture in Everyday Storytelling.” Panel on Approaches to Everyday Storytelling [I organized and chaired this panel]. International Narrative Conference; Burlington, VT, April 2004
- “Points, Spaces, and Places: Functions of Gesture in North Carolina Storytelling.” LAVIS III (Language Variation in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives); Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2004
- “Dialogue in a Discourse Context: Scenes of Talk in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Presentation given to the English Department at West Virginia University; Morgantown, WV, February 2004
- “Dialogue in a Discourse Context: Scenes of Talk in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Presentation given to the English Department at Ohio State University; Columbus, OH, February 2004
- “Multimodal Textuality: Narrative, Gesture, and Deictic Blending.” Panel on “Topics in Language Theory” sponsored by the Language Theory Division, MLA Convention; San Diego, CA, December 2003
- Respondent, Special Session on “Reciprocity in the Relationship Between Cognitive Science and Literary Studies: What Can We Offer to Them and Why Should They Care?”, MLA Convention; San Diego, CA, December 2003
- “Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments in the Field.” Conference on “Contemporary Narrative Theory: The State of the Art”; Columbus, OH, October 2003
- “Plant Names and Folk Taxonomies: Ethnobiological Contexts for Lexicography.” With Susan Moss. Dictionary Society of North America; Durham, NC, May 2003
- “Narration and Knowledge in Edith Wharton’s ‘Roman Fever’”; invited presentation for the University of Virginia’s Department of English; Charlottesville, VA, April 2003
- “Models for Narrative Analysis and Some Initiatives in Humanities Computing at UVA”; invited consultation/presentation for faculty and students associated with SpecLab and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, two computing research units based at the University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA, April 2003
- “Narrative, Gesture, and Deictic Blending.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics; Georgetown, D.C., April 2003
- “Genette Meets Vygotsky: Narrative and Distributed Cognition.” Seminar on Contemporary Narratology at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Berkeley, CA, March 2003
- “May the Circle Be Unbroken: Language Prejudice as Hermeneutic Pathology.” Contextualizing Ethnicity: Conversations across Disciplines. Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by NC State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for International Ethnicity Studies; Raleigh, NC, February 2003
- “Framed Narratives and Social Cognition.” Panel on “Literary Form” sponsored by the Cognitive Approaches to Literature Discussion Group, MLA Convention; New York, December 2002
- “Narrative and Cognition in Beowulf.” With Rebecca Childs. Panel on Beowulf sponsored by the Division on Old English Language and Literature, MLA Convention; New York, December 2002
- Participant in Faculty Workshop on “Life without the English 111-112 Prerequisite: Incorporating More Writing and Research Instruction into 200 Level Courses”; North Carolina State University, August 2002
- “Narrative, Typification, and Social Cognition.” Key Symposium on “Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology.” Southern Anthropological Society; Asheville, North Carolina, April 2002
- “Narrative and Its Media: Story Logic in Spoken and Written Discourse.” Invited presentation for the UNC-Greensboro Ashby Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence & the Narrative Arts; Greensboro, NC, February 2002
- Chair, Panel on “Language Ideology.” NWAV 30 [New Ways of Analyzing Variation]; Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2001
- “Beowulf in the Context of Anglo-Saxon Culture.” Humanities Extension Lecture; Raleigh, NC, September 2001
- “Narrative as Cognitive Artifact.” Southern Comparative Literature Association; Chapel Hill, NC, September 2001
- “Spatialization in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.” American Comparative Literature Association; Boulder, CO, April 2001
- “Intertextuality.” Invited presentation for senior seminar in Multidiscplinary Studies; North Carolina State University, April 2001
- “Narrative Analysis: Integrating Linguistic and Literary-Theoretical Approaches.” Special Session on “Linguistics, Narrative, and Literary Theory,” MLA Convention; Washington, D.C., December 2000
- “Corpus Linguistics and Narrative Analysis.” Language and Society Division, MLA Convention; Washington, D.C., December 2000
- “Narrative Analysis and Linguistic Science.” NWAV 29 [New Ways of Analyzing Variation]; East Lansing, Michigan, October 2000
- Moderator, Editors’ Roundtable Discussion: Journal Publication. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Atlanta, GA, April 2000
- “Narrative Structure in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.” With R. Michael Young. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Atlanta, GA, April 2000
- “Linguistic Models in Narrative Theory.” Linguistic Approaches to Literature Division, MLA Convention; Chicago, IL, December 1999
- “Linguistics and Literary Study: The Case for Convergence.” With Walt Wolfram. Presentation to the Department of English at Duke University. Durham, NC, November 1999
- “Spatial Cognition in Natural-language Narratives.” Symposium on “Narrative Intelligence” sponsored by the American Association of Artificial Intelligence; Cape Cod, MA, November 1999
- “Some DOs and DON’Ts of Graduate Research.” Invited presentation for a graduate seminar on Bibliography and Methods of Study. North Carolina State University, October 1999
- “Spatial Reference in Narrative Domains.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics; Norfolk, VA, April 1999
- “Storied Spaces.” Special Session on “Narratology after Structuralism” [I proposed and organized this session], MLA Convention; San Francisco, CA, December 1998
- “Outline of a Sociological Stylistics.” Session on “Representing Social Dialects,” Language and Society Division, MLA Convention; San Francisco, CA, December 1998
- “Pragmatic Constraints on Narrative Processing: Actants and Anaphora Resolution.” International Pragmatics Research Association; Reims, France, July 1998
- “Sciences of the Text.” Colloquium for Critical and Cultural Theory at East Carolina University; Greenville, NC, April 1998
- “From Levels to Versions: Taking the Meta- out of Metafiction.” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Evanston, Illinois, April 1998
- “Sciences of the Text.” International conference on The Histories of Theory, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Criticism and Theory at the University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, April 1998
- “A Brief History of the Concept of ‘Grammar.’” Invited presentation given in a Graduate Seminar in Linguistics at North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC, December 1997
- “Toward a Socionarratology: New Ways of Analyzing Natural-language Narratives.” NWAV 26 [New Ways of Analyzing Variation]; Québec City, Quebec, October 1997
- “Models for Narrative Analysis.” Triangle Linguistics Club; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October 1997
- “Elements of a Conversational Narratology.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics; Charlotte, NC, April 1997
- “Discourse Anaphora in Narrative Contexts.” Session on “Discourse Analysis and Literature: Convergences,” Linguistic Approaches to Literature Division, MLA Convention; Washington, D. C., December 1996
- “Ambiguous Antecedents: Tracking the Referent in Narrative Discourse.” The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Columbus, Ohio, April 1996
- “The Importance of Roman Ingarden’s Das literarische Kunstwerk for Literary Bohemistics.” International Conference on Literary Bohemistics; Prague, The Czech Republic, June 1995
- “Plots, Scripts, and Schemata.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics; Athens, Georgia, April 1995
- “Metaleptic Modes in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Park City, Utah, April 1995
- “Narrative Sequences.” Special session on “Rethinking Narrative Poetics” [I organized and chaired this session], MLA Convention; San Diego, California, December 1994
- “Metafiction as Metaphysics in Bachmann’s Malina.” Southern Comparative Literature Association; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, September 1994
- “Hypothetical Focalization.” Special Session on “Possible-Worlds Semantics and Literature: New Developments and Applications,” MLA Convention; Toronto, Canada, December 1993
- “Textual You as Double Deixis in A Pagan Place.” Session on "The Second-Person Addressee in Literary Discourse,” Linguistic Approaches to Literature Division, MLA Convention; Toronto, Canada, December 1993
- “Rethinking the Ricorso: Reflexivity and Recursion in Finnegans Wake.” Panel on “Reading Communities: A Culture Gathered to Wake” at the California Joyce 1993 Conference; UC-Irvine, June 1993
- “Gricean Perspectives on Mutt and Jute.” Paper session at the California Joyce 1993 Conference; UC-Irvine, June 1993
- “Metafiction and Representation in Modiano’s La Place de l'étoile.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1993
- “Narrative Frames in At Swim-Two-Birds.” American Conference for Irish Studies; Villanova University, Villanova, PA, April 1993
- “Allegorized Identities and Mythic Topicalities in Yeats and Gonne.” Panel on Irish Autobiography, Northeast Modern Language Association; Bryn Mawr, PA, March 1993
- “The Repudiation of the Known': Dehabitualization in Beckett's Murphy.” Presentation at Middlebury College; Middlebury, VT, January 1993
- “Zionism as Utopian Discourse.” Society for Utopian Studies; Baltimore, November 1992
- “Postmodernism as Secondary Grammar.” Presentation given for the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University; Princeton, NJ, January 1992
- “Technologies of Analysis in Postmodern Theory: Citational Systems and the Production of Truth.” Society for Literature and Science; Montréal, Canada, October 1991
- “Possible Worlds in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: Greenaway, Lacan and the Semantics of Desire.” Salisbury Conference on Literature, Film and the Humanities; Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD, June 1991
- “Seghers’ ‘Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen’: Aestheticizing History, Historicizing Aesthetics.” Panel on Holocaust Literature, Northeast Modern Language Association; Hartford, CT, April 1991
- "Finding out about Gender in Hammett's Detective Fiction: Generic Constraints or Transcendental Norms?” International Erasmus Conference on “Canonization and Society” at Katholieke Universiteit; Leuven, Belgium, March 1991
- “Modernism versus Postmodernism: Toward an Analytic Distinction.” International Erasmus Conference on “Canonization and Society” at Katholieke Universiteit; Leuven, Belgium, March 1991
- “Literary Texts as Ideal Objects: Ulysses and the Problem of Vacuous Pluralism.” Twelfth International James Joyce Symposium; Monaco, June 1990
OTHER TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
- Teaching Fellow in English; University of Pennsylvania, 1986-1989; 1990-1991
- WATU (Writing Across the University) Writing Consultant; U. of Pennsylvania, 1990
- Instructor, Pre-Freshman Program; U. of Pennsylvania, 1990
- Instructor, special course in English composition for foreign students; U. of Pennsylvania, 1989
COURSES TAUGHT; CLICK HERE FOR RECENT SYLLABI
- Discourse Analysis (graduate level)
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Narrative Analysis (graduate level)
- Introduction to Graduate Study in English
- Foundations of Contemporary Critical Theory (graduate level: Consciousness and Its Representation)
- Consciousness, Intelligent Activity, Interiority and Emotion in 20th-century British Fiction (graduate level)
- Narrative Theory and Narrative Fiction (graduate level)
- Introduction to Critical Theory (graduate and undergraduate levels)
- History of the Continental Novel (graduate level)
- Modern British Fiction (graduate level)
- Honors: The Modern Period (The Modernist Bildungsroman)
- Major Author of the Twentieth Century: James Joyce
- Special Topics in Fiction: Framed Narratives
- Literature in English after 1945: Narrating Identities
- Twentieth-century British Fiction
- Studies in Fiction
- Introduction to English Studies
- Critical Writing
- The Modern Novel (British, American, and Continental)
- Postwar British Fiction
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Fiction
- Modern Irish Literature
- Modernism
- Survey of British Literature, Beowulf to Milton
- Survey of British Literature, Chaucer to Present
- Great Narrative Works
- Great Works of Western Literature
- Literature, Technology, and Culture
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
(Chair of committees marked with an asterisk [*])In progress
• Allison Fisher, *“The Poetics and Politics of Modernist Narrative: Submerged Experimentation across the Middlebrow/Highbrow Divide”; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Julie O’Leary Green, “Understanding Place as Character: Toward a Theory of Narrative Setting”; Department of English, Ohio State University
• Blake Howald, 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
• Patrick Carr, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Nick Hetrick, Ph.D Candidacy Examination, Department of English, Ohio State University
• Elizabeth Nixon, 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 [*])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 [*])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]
INDEPENDENT STUDIES (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)
2008• Graduate Directed Study on Cognitive Approaches to Culture, Literature, and Narrative, with Elizabeth Nixon
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
• Review of case for promotion to Professor, Dartmouth College (2007)• Review of case for promotion to Associate Professor, Georgetown University (2007)
• Review of case for promotion to Professor, Tel Aviv University (2006)
• Review of case for promotion to Professor, Smith College (2006)
• Review of case for promotion to Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium (2005)
• Review of case for promotion to Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (2005; 2007)
• Review of case for promotion to Associate Professor, Open University, Israel (2005)
• Review of case for promotion to Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University (2004)
• Review of case for promotion to Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2003)
• Review of case for promotion to Professor, University of Hawai’i (2001)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK
• Domain Agent (=Liaison) for Cognitive Narratology for the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, 2009-• 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-
• Graduate School Representative, Doctoral Candidacy Examination in the School of Music, Ohio State University, March 2005
• Graduate School Representative, Doctoral Candidacy Examination in the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Organismal Biology; Ohio State University, January 2005
• 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 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 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 Wiley-Blackwell (literary theory), 2008
• External reviewer for Yale University Press (literary theory/cognitive science), 2008
• External review for Routledge (linguistics), 2007, 2008
• Exernal review for Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (philosophy),
• External reviewer for Cambridge University Press, 2007
• External reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (narrative theory/stylistics)
• External reviewer for Humanities Books, 2004
• External reviewer for Blackwell Publishers (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)
• 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