CURRICULUM VITAE
Chris Cairney
Professor of English
Middle Georgia State University, Cochran Campus
1100 2nd St. SE
Cochran, GA 31014
Phone: (478) 934-3349
EDUCATION
2006 SINGLE-SUBJECT
CREDENTIAL, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO—CLAD AND
NCLB EMBEDDED. “HIGHLY QUALIFIED.”
1995 PhD IN ENGLISH
LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, USA
MAJOR FIELD: RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
MINOR FIELD: COLONIAL AMERICAN LITERATURE
OUTSIDE AREA: ANTHROPOLOGY
1989 MA IN ENGLISH,
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, USA
1986 MA IN IRISH AND
SCOTTISH STUDIES, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO, USA
1984 BA IN
LINGUISTICS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO, USA
POSITIONS/WORK EXPERIENCE
(2013–present) Professor
of English Literature, Middle Georgia State University.
Courses Taught:
ENGL1101, English Composition I; ENGL 1102, English
Composition II; English 2111, World Literature I; ENGL 2112, World Literature
II; ENGL 2121, British Literature I; ENGL 3010, Gateway to Literary Studies;
ENGL 3300, Literature of the English Renaissance; ENGL 3990, English On-Campus
Internship; English 3991, English Off-Campus Internship; ENGL 4400, 19th
Century British Poetry and Prose; ENGL 4470, Contemporary Literature; ENGL
4700, Topics in Literary Theory; ENGL 4900, Senior Capstone Seminar.
Administrative and Other Duties:
English Department:
Assistant Chair of English, 2013–present.
Editor-in-Chief, Culture in Focus, an International
e-Journal of Educational, Literary and Cultural Studies, a peer-reviewed
English Department Publication, 2017–present.
Writing Center coordinator on the Cochran Campus,
2013–present.
Took English Department students to present at the Undergraduate
Research Forum at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conferences in
2017, 2018 and 2019.
Spearheaded establishment of “Subject Guides” for Gothic
Literature and for Literary and Critical Theory at the MGA Library website.
Enlarged and updated the Critical Theory subject holdings in
Roberts Library to support new course offerings in anticipation of ENGL 3010,
Gateway to Literary Studies; ENGL 4700, Literary Theory, and the former ENGL
4900, Senior Capstone Seminar.
Helped develop a proposal for introducing a degree minor in
English.
Faculty advisor for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English Honor
Society, 2013–2017.
Faculty advisor for the Canterbury Club/Cochran ESO,
2013–present.
Advising for English Majors.
Helped guide students in their coursework towards fulfilling graduation
requirements and assisted with paperwork on an ongoing basis, 2013—present.
College of Arts and Letters:
Recruited prospective students at the Bleckley County High
School Career Day events, 2016–present.
Developed a study-abroad program for France and led students
on a trip to Paris, 2013.
Member, International Festival Committee, 2013–2015.
Faculty advisor for the Performing Arts Club, 2015–2018.
Coordinator for the Pop-Culture LLC.
Coordinated a joint research project with Dicle University
in Turkey on the subject of English Online Instruction which may pave the way
for globalization activities and ESL/EFL tracks.
Spoke at both the Cochran and Macon Writing Centers on job
opportunities (Teaching Abroad panel).
English Department Assessment Committee.
SOAL Recruitment Committee.
SOAL Strategic Planning Committee.
SOAL Excellence in Service Committee.
Chair of the PTPTR sub-committee for Charlie Agnew’s
application for full professor.
SOAL Online Academic Program Coordinator Committee (hiring
committee).
Visual Communication Art Search Committee (hiring
committee).
Coordinator for Student Leadership Programs Committee
(hiring committee).
University-Wide:
Served on the Academic Personnel Policies Taskforce for the
2013–2014 MGA Faculty Handbook to help ensure that BOR policies were in the
handbook and that MGA policies were in alignment with the requirements of the
BOR, 2013.
Participated in an on-site interview with the SACS team on
the Cochran campus, Fall 2015.
Member, Global Initiatives Committee, 2013–2014.
Member, Institutional Review Board, 2013–present. Secretary,
2019–present.
Spoke on ethics at the 2013 MGA Student Government
Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Warner Robins Campus and at the 2014 MGA
Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Cochran Campus.
Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2015 Orientation
Program.
Keynote Speaker for Duke University T.I.P. Recognition
Ceremony, Middle Georgia State University, Cochran, Georgia, May 7, 2016.
Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2017
Orientation Program (“On Writing for College Courses”).
Provost Fellow, exploring student retention and Learning
Communities in residential life, Fall 2018.
BOLD advisor, Cochran campus, 2019–present.
Mentor and course leader for the Knights Lead program,
2019–present.
Profession:
Member, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Executive Committee, 2016–18.
Served as co-chair of the Professional Development Workshop
“What Can’t You Do With an English Degree?” at SAMLA 88 in Jacksonville,
Florida 4 November 2016.
SAMLA Studies Book Award Committee, 2017–present.
Community:
Member of the Cochran-Bleckley Arts Alliance Board of
Directors, 2010–present (Chairman 2014–present).
Bleckley County Primary School, School Council member,
2011–2015.
Kindergarten and First Grade Reader, MGA School Reader’s
Program, 2013–2015.
Coach, Cochran-Bleckley Recreation Department Youth Soccer,
2013–2016.
Coach, Cochran-Bleckley Recreation Department Youth
Football, 2013–2016.
Cub Scout leader, Troop 53, Boy Scouts of America, Cochran,
Georgia, 2008–2016.
Invited Speaker for International Women’s Day at the March
8, 2016 meeting of the American Association of University Women, Houston-Peach
Branch, Trinity United Methodist Church, Warner Robins, Georgia ("Turkish
Women and Education Through the Eyes of an American Scholar").
Member, Clan na nGael Gaelic Sports Club, Atlanta,
2008–present.
(2008–2013) Assistant Professor of English Literature,
Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia.
Courses Taught:
Composition I, Composition II, British Literature I, World
Literature II (English Department).
RDED 3121, Teaching of Reading (Education Department).
Learning Support Reading II, Learning Support English II
(Learning Support) (Prep Academy).
Administrative and Other Duties:
Department:
Faculty advisor for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English Honor
Society, 2009—2012.
Promoted MGC English at Spring and Fall First Looks,
2008—2010.
Assisted in the survey of English holding at Roberts
Memorial Library, 2009.
Division:
Served on the Humanities Division’s Reading Series
Committee, 2009—2012.
Served on the Big Read Planning Committee, 2010—2012.
Contributed to SACS follow-up data by helping to create an
ENGL 1102 grading rubric, 2010.
Presented the lecture "Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll,
Mr. Kurtz: Nietzsche and the Wild Man in Conrad’s fiction" at the MGC
Humanities Lyceum, 2011.
University-Wide:
Served on the Quality Enhancement Program’s subcommittee for
reading, helped develop a module to test students reading skills and graded
sample student responses, 2009—2012.
Served on the Faculty Evaluation and Development Committee,
helped review and revise the content and wording of MGC tenure and promotion
policies and procedures and helped revise and in some cases simplify procedures
and forms associated with the annual Faculty Evaluation process, 2009—2012.
Served on the International Committee, 2009—2012, and
developed the Paris, France study-abroad opportunity for MGC students.
Served on the Global Initiative Committee, 2012.
Served on the Syllabus Evaluation Committee, 2009—2012.
Served on the Teacher Education Unit Council, including hiring
committees as needed, 2009—2012.
Served as advisor for Learning Support students with last
names starting with “T”. Successfully
guided students in coursework towards fulfilling graduation requirements and
assisted with paperwork on an ongoing basis, 2008—2012.
Provided samples of Korean cuisine at the International Food
Festival, 2009—2012.
Served as a mentor with the African-American Male Initiative
and the Multicultural Affairs Advising Program in Student Success Services at
MGC, 2011—2012.
Community:
Gave a talk to the Cochran Rotary Club about Irish and
Scottish history and culture and about my book, Clans and Families of Ireland
and Scotland, 2010.
Read to Kindergarten and First Grade students as part of the
MGC Reading Program with Bleckley Primary School, 2011—2012.
(2007-2008) English
Teacher, Fremont Unified High School District, Sunnyvale, California.
Tenth-grade World Literature.
Twelfth-grade English.
(2006–2007) English
Teacher, Pierce Joint Unified School District, Arbuckle, California.
Honors 11/12 English.
Eleventh-grade American Literature, ninth-grade English.
(2000–2005) Assistant
Professor of English Literature, Doğus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Courses Taught:
The English Novel I and II, English History II, British
Drama I and II, English Comedy (intermediate undergraduate).
British Fiction I and II, Fantasy Literature, Shakespeare,
Modern British Poetry (advanced undergraduate).
Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Critical Theory,
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare's
Contemporaries (graduate).
Administrative and Other Duties:
Faculty Academic Board.
Academic Advisor.
Senior Thesis Advisor.
Department Erasmus Coordinator.
Contributing Editor, Doğus University Journal.
(Summer 2000)
Visiting Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Courses Taught:
First Year Composition.
Introduction to Philosophy.
(1999–2000) Assistant
Professor of English Literature, University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon.
Courses Taught:
The Early English Novel, Modern British Fiction
(intermediate and advanced undergraduate).
First Year Composition.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Coordinator of English Composition.
Faculty Advisor to the English Club.
(1998–1999) English
Instructor, Foreign Language Education Center, Chonbuk National University,
South Korea.
Courses Taught:
Beginning, intermediate and advanced English classes.
English refresher courses for secondary teachers.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Contributing Editor, Chonbuk University Catalog.
(1995–1997) Director
of Learning Center, Athletic Department, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Recruitment and scheduling of tutors and workers.
Manage budget.
Plan and implement programs.
(1991–1995)
Coordinator, Computer Learning Laboratory, Department of Athletics,
University of Missouri.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Recruitment and scheduling of tutors and workers.
Manage budget.
Plan and implement programs.
(1990–1991) Adjunct
Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Catholic University, Quito,
Ecuador.
Courses Taught:
The Modern Novel.
Advanced and Intermediate English.
(1987–1995) English
Instructor, Department of English, University of Missouri.
Courses Taught:
Expository Writing I and II.
Expository Writing I and II for non-native speakers.
Business Writing.
(1986–1987) English
Instructor, Department of English, Butte Community College, Chico, California.
Courses Taught:
Expository Writing I and II.
Remedial Expository Writing.
Beginning English Grammar.
GRANTS/SUBSIDIES
2003–2004 Travel
bursary, Joseph Conrad Society of the UK.
2000–2001 Travel
bursary, Salzburg University.
1987–1995 Teaching
Fellowship, University of Missouri.
1985 University
Foundation Grant, California State University.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(1999) Clans and
Families of Ireland and Scotland, an Ethnography of the Gael, 550–1750.
Westminster MD: Willow Bend Books (Originally published by McFarland and Co.,
London). ***Google Scholar. Available online in English and Spanish at
www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/index.htm
Dissertation
(1995) “The Villain
Character in the Puritan World: An Ideological Study of Richardson, Radcliffe,
Byron, and Arnold," Dissertation Abstracts International 57:9 (1995):
3946A (University of Missouri). ***MLA International Bibliography and Google
Scholar. Available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Villain_Character_in_the_Puritan_Wor.html?id=A1XgtgAACAAJ
Journal Issues, as General Editor
Chapters in Books
(2018) “Other Dragons
or Dragon Others? A Cultural View of the
Loch Ness Monster.” Monsters of Film,
Fiction and Fable. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ***Google Scholar.
(2008) "Gaelic
Borderlines and Borderlands in the New Cultural Geography of Scotland.” In
Re-Visioning Scotland: New Readings from the Cultural Canon. Edited by Lyndsay Lunan, Kirsty Macdonald and
Carla Sassi (in the series: Anglo-Amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American studies—Rüdiger Ahrens and
Kevin Cope gen. eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ***MLA International
Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2008) “Joseph
Conrad, ‘The Secret Sharer’ and ‘An Outpost of Progress’.” In The Blackwell
Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ***MLA International Bibliography and Google
Scholar.
(2005) "Benedict
Kiely." In Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol 319: British and Irish
Short Fiction, 1945–Present. Columbia,
S. C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman. ***MLA International Bibliography and Google
Scholar.
(2005) "Eilís Ní
Dhuibhne." In Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol 319: British and Irish
Short Fiction, 1945–Present. Columbia,
S. C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman. ***MLA International Bibliography.
(2005) "The Need
for Strangeness: Captivity Narratives and Issues of Race and Gender in Early
America" In Close Encounters of an Other Kind. Joensuu Finland: U of Joensuu P. ***MLA
International Bibliography.
(2005) "A Noble
Wanderer of Europe: Traces of the Byronic in Conrad's Marlovian
Texts." In Conrad’s Europe. Opole:
U of Opole P. ***Google Scholar and available at www.jstor.org
(2005) "Pushkin,
Mickiewicz, and ‘The Horse of Stone’ in Nostromo.” In Nostromo: Centennial
Essays. Edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ***MLA International
Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2004) "Gothic
Liminality." In Confluences. Vol. 24. Paris: University of Paris
X-Nanterre.
(2004) "The
Impossibility in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." In Studies in English
and Comparative Literature, Vol. 20. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
(2003) "Austrian
Images in the Works of James Joyce."
In Studies in English and Comparative Literature, Vol. 19. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
Journal Articles
(2019) “A Third Eye:
Reading Conrad in Light of/in Spite of Achebe.”
L'Epoque Conradienne. 42 (2019) 27–43.
(2018) “Intertextuality
and Intratextuality: Does Mary Shelley ‘Sit Heavily Behind’ Conrad’s Heart of Darkness?” Culture in Focus.
1.1 (2018), 89–125. ***Google Scholar.
(2006) “Race
Relations and Point of View in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Karain.’” British and American Studies. 12 (2006).
***Google Scholar.
(2004) "Pushkin,
Mickiewicz, and ‘The Horse of Stone’ in Nostromo." The Conradian. 29.2. ***Google Scholar.
(2001) “Antagonist
Characters in the Early Gothic Novel: A Matter of Political Anxiety?” Doğus
University Journal 3 (2001), 13–28. ***Google Scholar.
(1992) "'That
Evil Fiddle': Scotch-Irish Folk Religion and Ethnic Boundary Maintenance in
Southern Missouri." The Missouri Folklore Society Journal. 13–14
(1991–1992). ***MLA International Bibliography.
Reviews
(2017) Review of the
Academic Session The Idea and Its Aftermath: Charting Dystopias in Conrad’s
Fiction. 88th Conference of the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 42, No. 1, 2017.
(2017) Review of In
the Realms of Biography, Literature, Politics, and Reception, Polish and
East-Central European Joseph Conrad by
Wieslaw Krajka (ed.) Joseph Conrad
Today, vol. 42, No. 2, 2017.
Published Proceedings
(2004) "The Bird, the Snake, and the River:
Conrad's Complicated Look at Colonialism."
In Joseph Conrad and His Work: Proceedings of the Tenth METU British
Novelists Seminar. Ankara: British
Council, 2004.
(2003) "Two
Types of Evil, Two Types of Gothic: The Ideology of the Villain 'Montoni' in
Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho."
In Evil in English Literature: Proceedings of the 23rd All-Turkey
English Literature Conference. Ankara: British Council, 2003.
(2002) "The
Colonizers Colonized: Structural Implications of the Arrival of the 'Honourable
Lieutenant' in Orwell's Burmese Days." In George Orwell and His Work:
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual METU British Novelists Seminar. Ankara: British
Council, 2002.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(1999) "The
Villain Character in the Early English Novel, a Structuralist and
Post-Structuralist Approach" at the annual meeting of the Association of
English Language and Literature in Korea held at Chonbuk National University, 5
June, 1999.
(2000) "Austrian
Images in the Works of James Joyce." International Conference on Austria
in World Literature, University of Salzburg, Austria, October 22–25, 2000.
(2001) "The
Impossibility in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." International Conference
on Tale, Novella and Short Story, University of Salzburg, Austria, November
2–5, 2001.
(2001) "The
Colonizers Colonized: Structural Implications the Arrival of the 'Honourable
Lieutenant' in Orwell's Burmese Days." Ninth Annual METU British Novelists
Seminar, 13–14 December 2001.
(2002) "Two
Types of Evil, Two Types of Gothic: The Ideology of the Villain 'Montoni' in
Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho." 23rd Annual All-Turkey English
Literature Conference, April 24–26, 2002.
(2002) "Celtic Affinities:
Irish and Scottish Clan Societies in the age of Globalization and the
Internet." At the conference: Celtic Popular Culture, Held at the Center
for Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 12, 2002.
(2002) "The
Theme of 'Von Browne' in the Works of Joyce." At the Central New York
Conference on Language and Literature, State University of NY-Cortland, October
27–29, 2002.
(2002) "The
Bird, the Snake and the River: Conrad's Complicated Look at
Colonialism." Tenth Annual METU
British Novelists Seminar, 13–14 December 2002.
(2003) "Stereotypes
of Race and Gender in Captivity Narratives in Colonial America." Bogazici University American Studies
Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,
March 6–7, 2003.
(2003) "Fashionable
Masculinity: The Construction of English Victorian 'Highlanders.'" Annual Worcester Conference in Victorian
Literature and Culture, University College Worcester, 26 April 2003.
(2003) "The Need
for Strangeness, Captivity Narratives and Issues of Race and Gender in Early
America." At the international conference: Close Encounters of an Other
Kind, New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and American Studies, University of
Joensuu, Finland, 6–8 June, 2003.
(2003) "Liminality
and Alienation in the Construction of Irish Literature." International
Conference, Poetics and Linguistics Association: Challenging the Boundaries,
Bogazici University, June 23–26, 2003.
(2003) "Gothic
Liminality." International Conference: Border Lines and border Lands,
Centre de Recherches Espaces/Écritures: Bibliothèque Durrell, Paris, France,
June 26–27, 2003.
(2003) "Conrad
and Colonialism." 29th Annual International Conference of the Joseph
Conrad Society, London, 3–5 July, 2003.
(2003) "Ideological
Transmission and Transformation in Radcliffe's Gothic tales." At the
conference: Gothic Ex/Changes: Sixth biennial conference of the International
Gothic Association, Liverpool Hope University College, 17–20 July, 2003.
(2003) "Positive
Reconciliation in James Joyce's Ulysses. 24th Annual All-Turkey English
Literature Conference, British Council and Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, October
15–17, 2003.
(2003) "The
Function of Alienation in the Fiction of Benedict Kiely and Eilís Ní
Dhuibhne." Spaces, Gaps Borders: the Eighth Conference of the Bulgarian
Society for British Studies, 24–26 October, Sophia, Bulgaria.
(2004) "The
Faustian and the Byronic in Conrad's Fiction." 14th Conference on British
and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania.
(2004) "Pushkin's
'Bronze Horseman' and the Statue of Charles IV in Nostromo." 30th Annual
International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 1–3 July, London,
England.
(2004) "Gothic
Voyages: From the Scottish Gothic to the Irish Un-Dead?" At the
conference: Gothic Voyages, Mona Bismarck Foundation, 6–8 July, Paris, France.
(2004) "Gaelic
Borderlines and Borderlands in the New Cultural Geography of Scotland."
Seventh Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, 8–12
September, Zaragoza, Spain.
(2004) "A Noble
Wanderer of Europe: Traces of the Byronic in Conrad's Marlovian Texts." At
the conference: Conrad and Europe, 22–26 September, Opole/Krakow, Poland.
(2004) "Conrad
on America, Conrad in America." At the conference: Transatlantic Relations
in a Changing Cultural Context, Ninth Conference of the Bulgarian Society for
British Studies, 22–24 October, Varna/Shumen, Bulgaria.
(2005) "Race and
Point of View in Conrad's 'Karain'". 15th Conference on British and
American Studies, 18–21 May, Timisoara, Romania.
(2005) "Politics
and/in the Aesthetics of Macpherson, Scott and Byron." Politics [and/in]
Aesthetics: Joint International Conference of Aristotle University, Greece and
the University of Veliko Tarnova, Bulgaria, June 9-12.
(2005) "'Those
Dutchmen are all alike': Race relations and biopsychology in Conrad's
'Karain'". 31st Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad
Society (UK), 7–9 July, Amsterdam.
(2007) “Swimming for
Stars: Intertextuality and Allusion in “The Secret Sharer’.” 33rd Annual International
Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 5–7 July, London, England.
(2009) “A
Structuralist Perspective on ‘Mania and Modernity.’” Special Session: Leaps of Faith: Mania Meets
Modernity. 81st Conference of the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, 6–8 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2010) “The Watcher
Watching: Fear and Loathing in Under Western Eyes.” 36th Annual International Conference of the
Joseph Conrad Society (UK), held in conjunction with the Société Conradienne
Française, 14–17 September, Paris, France.
(2010) “Gawain’s
Green Gallery: Anti-social Reminders of the Centrality of Nature in European
Oral tradition.” Southeastern Medieval
Association Session: The Interplay of Text and Image in Medieval
Literature. 82nd Conference of the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, 5–7 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2011) “Folkloric
Resonance: The Leshy or Green Man in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes.” Southeastern Medieval Association Session:
The Power of Medieval Poetry in the Modern World. 83rd Conference of the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association, 4–6 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2012) “Turgenev's
superior Homo Duplex: ‘Into’ ‘The Secret
Sharer’ and ‘A Smile of Fortune’ and ‘out of’ ‘A Personal Record.’” Affiliated Session: “Conrad’s A Personal
Record and Twix Land and Sea at 100.”
127th Conference of the Modern Language Association, 5–8 January,
Seattle, Washington, USA.
(2013) “The Other,
Othering: A Phenomenology of the Wild Man in Joseph Conrad's Under Western
Eyes.” Special Session: Monsters and the Monstrous in Literature. 85th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2014) “The Raw and
the Cooked: Shades of Frankenstein and Wild Men and ‘Eating Dog’ in Conrad’s
Fiction.” 40th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society
(UK), 2–6 July, Canterbury, England.
(2014) “Banishing
Dragons: St. Patrick and the Oilliphéist as a type of St. Columba and the Loch
Ness Monster in Celtic Christian Hagiography.”
Special Session: Literary Monsters.
86th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 7–9
November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2014) “Under the
Influence: Introducing Polish, Russian or French Contexts to Joseph Conrad’s
Fiction to Undergraduates: An Example Lesson.
Affiliated Session: Sustainable Conrad: Teaching Heart of Darkness and
Other Texts by Joseph Conrad to Undergraduates. 86th Conference of the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2015) “In other
words/without words: Gain and Loss in Graphic Novel Versions of Joseph Conrad’s
The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness.”
Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: To Make
You Hear, To Make You Feel…To Make You See.
87th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 13–15
November, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
(2016) “The Idea and
Its Aftermath”: Charting Dystopias in Conrad’s Fiction. Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad
Society of America: Whose Paradise Is it? Bearing the ‘Spark’ of
Dystopia/Utopia in Conrad. 88th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November,
Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
(2017) “The Idea(l)
and Its Aftermath: Reading Conrad in Light of/in Spite of Achebe.” At the conference: Transnational Conrad,
Between Texts and Theory. University of
Limoges held in conjunction with the Société Conradienne Française, 21–22
September 2017, Limoges, France.
(2017) “Marlow
Watching: High Art, Low Art and Socio-Political Inversions in Heart of
Darkness.” Regular, affiliated session,
Joseph Conrad Society of America: High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in
Conrad’s Fiction. 89th Conference of the
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA.
(2018) “Intertextuality
and Intratextuality as Aids in Decoding Meaning in a Work of Literature.”
Special session: Into the Ludic. 90th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association, 2–4 November, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
(2019) “Power,
Relationships and 'Promethean Language' in Conrad and Shelley.” Regular,
affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: Conrad and Power. 91st
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
SESSION CHAIR
(2003) D.H. Lawrence
and his Work: The 11th METU British Novelists Seminar, Ankara, Turkey, 18–19
December, 2003. Chair, session seven,
Lacan and Lawrence.
(2004) 14th
Conference on British and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania.
Chair, session one, British Literature.
(2004) Transatlantic
Relations in a Changing Cultural Context: 9th Conference of the Bulgarian
Society for British Studies, 22–24 October, Varna/Shumen, Bulgaria. Chair,
session four, British Literature.
(2005) 15th
Conference on British and American Studies, 18–21 May, Timisoara, Romania. Chair, session one, British Literature.
(2010) 82nd
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 5–7 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Secretary and
acting Chair of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) session: The
Interrelation of Text and Image in Medieval Literature.
(2011) 83rd
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the
Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) session: The Power of Medieval Poetry
in the Modern World.
(2012) 84th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 9–11 November,
Durham, N.C., USA. Chair of the special
session: Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other Texts by Joseph Conrad:
Strategies, Epiphanies, and Possibilities.
(2013) 85th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Secretary of the
affiliated session: Conrad and Technology.
(2014) 86th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 7–9 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the
affiliated session: Sustainable Conrad: Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other
Texts by Joseph Conrad to Undergraduates.
(2016) 88th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November,
Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Co-chair of
the regular, affiliated session: Whose Paradise Is It?: Bearing the “Spark” of
Dystopia/Utopia in Conrad.
(2017) 15th Annual
Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 21 October, Middle Georgia
State University, Macon, Georgia, USA.
Moderator of the session: Why College Students Cannot Write and How Can
Tutoring Benefit.
(2017) 89th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad
Society of America: High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Conrad’s
Fiction.
(2017) 89th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the session: The Zombie Swarm, Low Art as
Hyperobject.
(2017) 89th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the Undergraduate Research Forum: Shades of the
Übermensch, From Gothic Romanticism to Nietzsche and Conrad.
http://bleckleyprogress.com/artman/publish/article_10392.shtml
(2018) 90th
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2–4 November,
Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Chair of the Undergraduate Research Forum: Literature
and Performances: Self and Culture, Self in Culture, Self or Culture.
(2019) 91st
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the
special session: Visual and Textual Art: Negotiations of Power, Identity, and
Relationships.
(2019) 91st Conference
of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA. Chair of the Undergraduate
Research Forum: Promethean and Faustian Intimations and Augmentations in
English Literature.
INVITED TALKS/KEYNOTES/PRESENTER
(2019) Keynote
speaker at the 11th World Conference on Educational Sciences held in Milan and
Venice, Italy, February 7–10 2019 (“A Phenomenology of Reception for Student
Engagement: Intertextuality and Intratextuality as Hermeneutic Tools in
Literary Analysis”).
(2017) Cochran Rotary
Club meeting, 7 December, 2017, Cochran, Georgia. Spoke on the Cochran-Bleckley Arts Alliance
and creative community partnerships.
(2017) Presented the
SAMLA Studies Awards for “Best Monograph” and “Best Edited Volume” at the 89th Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
(2017) Invited
speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2017 Orientation.
(2016) Keynote
speaker for the 2016 Duke University TIP recognition ceremonies held on
Saturday, May 7th at the MGA Cochran campus.
(2016) Invited
Speaker for International Women’s Day at the March 8, 2016 meeting of the
American Association of University Women, Houston-Peach Branch, Trinity United Methodist
Church, Warner Robins, Georgia ("Turkish Women and Education Through the Eyes of an American
Scholar").
(2015) Invited
speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2015 Orientation.
(2014) Spoke at the
2014 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Cochran
Campus.
(2013) Spoke on ethics
at the 2013 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Warner Robins Campus.
(2011) MGC Humanities
Lyceum, 20 April, Cochran, Georgia.
Presented the lecture "Herr Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Kurtz:
Nietzsche and the Wild Man in Conrad’s fiction."
(2010) Cochran Rotary Club meeting, 20 July, Cochran,
Georgia. Spoke on my book, Clans and
Families of Ireland and Scotland.
(2004) 14th
Conference on British and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania. Plenary Speaker.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
(2009) Attended the
conference “Frontiers and Fringes, The Ulster Scots Experience in America,”
hosted by the Center for Irish Research and Teaching, Georgia Southern
University, 11–12 September, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
(2011) Attended the
USG Board of Regents conference “Innovative Teaching Strategies for Learning
Support,” 8–10 April, Athens, Georgia, USA.
(2016) Attended the
14th Annual Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 22 October, Middle
Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia, USA.
(2017) Attended the
“Train-the-Trainer” Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 24
February, Georgia State University Newton Campus, Covington, Georgia, USA.
MEMBERSHIPS
The Joseph Conrad Society of America (life member).
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA).
The Georgia Tutoring Association.
