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Matthew C. Nickel Mercy Hall 368 Misericordia University 301 Lake Street Dallas, PA 18612 [email protected]

Academic Credentials

Education PhD, English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 2011. Dissertation: Hemingway’s Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway Supervisors: Dr. Mary Ann Wilson, Dr. Marcia Gaudet, Dr. Joseph Andriano, Dr. H. R. Stoneback

MA, English, The State University of New York at New Paltz. 2007. Thesis: “He Felt Almost Holy About It”: Hemingway’s “Lifelong Subject” of “Saintliness”—or, Pilgrimages Through Sacred Landscapes Supervisor: Dr. H. R. Stoneback

BA, English, The State University of New York at New Paltz. 2002.

Teaching

Experience Assistant Professor of English, Misericordia University. Aug 2013-Present.

Instructor, Department of English, SUNY-New Paltz. Aug 2011-2013, 2007.

Instructor, Department of English, Marist College. Aug 2012-Dec 2012.

Instructor, Department of English, Mount Saint Mary College. Aug 2011-Dec 2011.

Instructor of Record, Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Aug 2007-May 2011.

Instructor of Record, SUNY-New Paltz. Aug 2003-Dec 2006.

Courses Taught At Misericordia University: ENG 151: University Writing Seminar (Fall 2013-Spring 2015) ENG 321: 20th Century American Literature (Spring 2015) 2

ENG 341: Imaginative Writing (Spring 2014) ENG 415: Christianity and Literature (Fall 2014)

At the State University of New York at New Paltz: ENG 160: Composition I (Fall 2003-Fall 2006) ENG 180: Composition II (Fall 2011-Spring 2013, Spring2007) ENG 200: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature (Spring 2012) ENG 331: American Literature I (Summer 2012, Spring 2013)

At Marist College: ENG 211: American Literature II (Fall 2012)

At Mount Saint Mary College: ENG 1010: Composition I (Fall 2011)

At the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ENG 101: Composition I (Fall 2007-Fall 2010) ENG 102: Composition II (Spring 2008-Spring 2011) ENG 206: American Literature II (Fall 2008, Spring 2011)

Scholarship

Publications Book of Poems The Leek Soup Songbook. West Park, NY: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2015. Garlic Odes & Leek Songs (Chansons d’ail & Poireau-Poèmes). Co-authored with H. R. Stoneback. NY: Anachthon Press, 2014.

Editor of Scholarly Book Affirming the Gold Thread: Aldington, Hemingway, Pound & Imagism in Torcello and Venice. Eds. Matthew Nickel and H. R. Stoneback. Bradenton, FL: Florida English, 2014. Ghosts in the Background Moving: Aldington and Imagism. Eds. Daniel Kempton, H. R. Stoneback, Matthew Nickel. Bradenton, FL: Florida English, 2013.

Book Chapter (Peer-Reviewed) “Across the Canal and into Kansas City: Hemingway’s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and into the Trees.” War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.

Book Chapter (Refereed by two or more editors) “‘Thy quiet house’: Images of Light and Veneration in Ezra Pound and Ernest 3

Hemingway.” Affirming the Gold Thread: Aldington, Hemingway, Pound & Imagism in Torcello and Venice. Eds. Matthew Nickel and H. R. Stoneback. Bradenton, FL: Florida English, 2014. 99-106. “‘They thought they were their own shadows’: Catherine Aldington—Daughter of Richard Aldington.” Ghosts in the Background Moving: Aldington and Imagism. Eds. Daniel Kempton, H. R. Stoneback, Matthew Nickel. Florida English, 2013.

Afterword “Afterword” for Coming Home: A Vision of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Gregg B. Neikirk. West Park, NY: The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2015.

Creative Work “Exile: False River” (poem), Instress, Misericordia University, 2015. “Defining Light” (poem), Shawangunk Review 26 (Spring 2015). 103-104. “Hunting the Ardennes with Colonel Cantwell” (poem), Shawangunk Review 26 (Spring 2015). 101-102. “Louisiana Purchase” (poem), Maple Leaf Rag V, New Orleans, LA: Portals Press, 2014. “The Way Words Move” (poem), The Wonder of Words, Eds. Auraleah Grega and Jacob Hebda, Alpha Sigma Epsilon Chapter Sigma Tau Delta, Misericordia University, 2014. “The First Thing I Learned to Grow was Garlic” (poem), Instress, Misericordia University, 2014.

Newsletter Article “Nothing Lost: Always Found: President’s Message,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 16 (March 2015): 1. “Landscape and Text-space: Scriven on EMR,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 16 (March 2015): 4. “Reception at Kentucky Lit,” co-authored with James Stamant, The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 16 (March 2015): 9 “Roberts Around the World: President’s Message,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 15 (March 2014): 1. “A Special Thanks to Chad Horn,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 15 (March 2014): 3. “Colonel, President, Honorary President: All the Way Up,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 15 (March 2014): 5-10. “Roberts Online,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 15 (March 2014): 13. “An ‘Act of Poety’: Cowley’s Calculus,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 15 (March 2014): 15.

Review Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War by Steven Florczyk (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014). Cercles 2015. Pip-pip to Hemingway in Something from Marge by Georgianna Main (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010). The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 161-64. 4

Scholarly Papers Conference Papers “Nick Adams, Jake Barnes, and Colonel Cantwell: Hemingway’s Sportsmen Sketches.” Paper read at the Sport Literature Conference in Johnson City, TN (June 24-27, 2015). “Peace In Our Time: The Wounds that Make us Think.” Paper read at the 26th Annual American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2015). “The Sacrifice of Ideas: Henry James & Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the 17th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference in Shaker Village and Springfield, KY (April 24-27, 2015). “‘Strong at the Broken Places’: Graham Greene and Ernest Hemingway.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, GA (November 7-9, 2014). “As long as hope shows something green”: Colonel Cantwell’s Canto.” Paper read at the 16th Ernest Hemingway Society Conference in Venice, Italy (June 22-27, 2014). “Thy quiet house”: Images of Light and Veneration in Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway.” Paper read at the VIII International Richard Aldington Society & IV International Imagism Conference, Venice/Torcello, Italy (June 19-21, 2014). “Reading Roberts: Not By Strange Gods.” Paper read at the College English Association Conference in Baltimore, MD (March 27-29, 2014). “Debts & Debtors: Hemingway’s Indebtedness.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, GA (November 8-10, 2013). “Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, GA (November 8-10, 2013).

Creative Performances Poetry Readings Featured Poet at the Sport Literature Association Convention, Johnson City, TN. June 25, 2015. Featured Poet at the Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia, PA. May 15, 2015. Featured Poet at Kentucky Writers Day, Penn’s Store, Gravel Switch, KY. April 26, 2015. Featured Poet at SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Mar. 4, 2015. World War I Centenary Poetry Reading, Misericordia University. Nov. 17, 2014. Poetry Reading for 90 Years of Mercy, Misericordia University. Nov. 12, 2014. Understanding Poetry, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Oct. 15, 2014. Poetry Reading for the 16th Ernest Hemingway Society Conference in Venice, Italy at the Locanda Cipriani on Torcello (June 22-27, 2014). Poetry Reading for the VIII International Richard Aldington Society & IV International Imagism Conference, Venice/Torcello, Italy (June 19-21, 2014). 5

“The Wonder of Words,” Poetry Benefit by Sigma Tau Delta, Misericordia University, April 9, 2014. Guest Poet at the Lloyd Historical Society, Highland, NY. April 7, 2014. “Perry, Stoney and Nickel” 3 Dynamic Voices at MRAC, Sunday, Mar. 23, 2014 Introduction of distinguished speaker, H. R. Stoneback at the Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 21, 2014. Featured Poet at SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Mar. 5, 2014. Understanding Poetry, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Oct. 8, 2013. Poetry Reading by the English Dept. Faculty in honor of President Thomas J. Botzman’s Inauguration, Misericordia University. Nov. 13, 2013.

Grants/Travel Awards Semi-Finalist for the Negative Capability Press Book Competition, 2015. Misericordia University Summer Research Grant, “The Gold Thread in the Patten: Ernest Hemingway & Ezra Pound in Venice,” Venice, Italy 2014.

Publications pre-Misericordia University Book (critical monograph) Hemingway’s Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway. Wickford, RI: New Street Communications, LLC, 2013.

Editor of Scholarly Book Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Prospect and Retrospect. Edited and introduced by H. R. Stoneback, William Boyle, and Matthew Nickel. The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012.

Editor of Anthology of Poetry Kentucky: Poets of Place. Edited and introduced by Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY: The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012. Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology. Eds. Matthew Nickel and H. R. Stoneback. West Park, NY and Breaux Bridge, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010. Knowledge Carried to the Heart: A Festschrift for H. R. Stoneback. Edited and introduced by Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY and Breaux Bridge, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010. Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky. Edited and introduced by Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY and Breaux Bridge, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2008. Countries of the Heart for Stoney & Sparrow. Edited and introduced by Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY: Mother-Flows-Two-Ways-Press, 2007.

Book Chapters (Refereed by two or more editors) “Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Terroir, Terror, Agrarian Mysticism.” Essays on Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Visions and Revisions. Eds. H. R. Stoneback, William Boyle, and Matthew Nickel. Reading Roberts Series, 2012. “Imagism & Hymnagism: Pound & Hemingway.” Aldington, Pound, and the Imagists at 6

Brunnenburg. Eds. Daniel Kempton and H. R. Stoneback. Les Saintes-Maries-de- la-Mer, France: Gregau Press, 2012. “‘An attention that is almost holy’: The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway.” Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Ed. by Donald P. Kaczvinsky. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield with Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011. “At a Paella Picnic Over a Glass of Wine: Aldington & Eliot, Poetry & Pedantry, Lightheartedness & Love,” Locations and Dislocations. Eds. H. R. Stoneback and Daniel Kempton. Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France: Gregau Press, 2008. 63- 68. “In Spite of their Simplicity”: The Tall Men in Roberts’ ‘Record at Oak Hill,” Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation. Eds. H. R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. 259-70. “Finitives Weaving the Weary Wilderness: To Make a Garden in The Great Meadow,” Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Discover and Recovery. Eds. H. R. Stoneback, Steven Florczyk, and Nicole Camastra. NY: Quincy & Harrod Press and The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2008. 139-44. “The Night Flies and I See Heaven’s White Light Rising: The Singer and The Pilgrim,” New Places: Proceedings of the Third International Richard Aldington Conference. Ed. H. R. Stoneback & Daniel Kempton. Gregau Press, les Saintes- Maries-de-la-Mer, France, 2005. 147-53.

Solicited chapter “Religion.” Ernest Hemingway in Context. Eds. Debra Moddlemog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Solicited Essay (Online Journal) “Young Hemingway’s Wound and Conversion.” Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience. Pilgrim Publishers Inc. March 2013. Web.

Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed) “Lighthearted Sinners and Pious Puritans, Followers, and Believers: Hemingway’s ‘Holy War Meat Eaters and Beer Drinkers Happy Hunting Ground and Mountain Religion’ in Under Kilimanjaro,” North Dakota Quarterly Special Edition: Hemingway in His and Our Time. 76.1-2 (Winter & Spring 2009): 106-120. “The Importance of Story, Fantasy, and Myth Retold in Lewis and Tolkien,” Shawangunk Review (Volume XVI, Spring 2005). 18-21.

Newsletter Article “A Letter from Chris Offut,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013). “God’s Great Flood: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & Robert Penn Warren,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013). “President’s Message,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013). “Wendell Berry & Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Common Ground,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 14 (March 2013). 7

“A Cigar and a Book: Kentucky Lit,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 13 (March 2012). “Rovit Reviews Critical Books in The Sewannee Review,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 12 (March 2010). “Roberts Featured in Stoneback Keynotes—SAMLA and Hawaii,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 11 (March 2009).

Reviews Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris by H. R. Stoneback (New Street Communication, LLC, 2010). “Paris: In Our Time,” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter 12 (March 2011). The Waters Under the Earth by Peter Siegal (Canon Press, 2005). North Dakota Quarterly, 74.2 (Spring 2007): 203-06.

Essays “Kentucky, Kentucky Poets, & the Poetry of Kentucky,” Kentucky: Poets of Place. Ed. Matthew Nickel. The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012. “‘The Fire of the World’s Body’: A Brief Glimpse into the Hymnody of H. R. Stoneback.” Ibid. 48-51. “Robert Pinsky.” McGill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Salem Press, Inc., September 2006. “W. S. Merwin.” McGill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Salem Press, Inc., September 2006.

Creative Work “The Leek Soup Song” (poem), Shawangunk Review 24 (Spring 2013). 79. “The Gift” (poem), Ibid. 80-82. “A Name for Something that Was Gone” (poem), Kentucky: Poets of Place. Ed. Matthew Nickel. The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, 2012. 39-40. “Hierophany: A Translation” (poem), Ibid. 61-62. “Creek Poem” (poem), Ibid. 83-84. “Le Grand Cerf et l’Ombre” (poem) with commentary, Shawangunk Review 22 (Spring 2011). 101-02. “I Always Hear Rain” (poem), From Penn’s Store to the World: An Anthology of Poems. Eds. H. R. Stoneback, Amanda Boyle, and Brad McDuffie. NY: Des Hymnagistes Press 2011. 32-33. “The Schooling of Charlie T’s, Breaux Bridge, LA” (poem), Ibid. 42-43. “Ascension” (poem), Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology. Eds. Matthew Nickel and H. R. Stoneback. West Park, NY and Lafayette, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2010. 52. “Bank of Karma” (poem), Ibid. 51. “A Cantico del Sole” (poem), Ibid. 50. “Le Grand Cerf et l’Ombre” (poem), Ibid. 48. “An Original Sin Image” (poem), Ibid. 53-56. “Portraite d’une Sainte” (poem), Ibid. 49. “Les Huîtres des Les Moutiers-en-Retz” (poem), Maple Leaf Rag IV, New Orleans, LA: Portals Press, 2010. 136-37. 8

“St. Hubert’s Day—November 3, 2008” (poem), Southwest Review (Spring 2009): 28. “Flying Over Appalachian Contours” (poem), Southwest Review (Spring 2009): 29-30. “Trout Rising Into Sunlight” (poem), The Hudson River Valley Review 25.1 (Autumn 2008): 109-110. “La Méthode—After Mass” (poem), Florida English: Special Imagist Issue 6 (2008): 48. “Kentucky Wonders: For Elizabeth Madox Roberts,” Illumination & Praise: Poems for Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Kentucky. Ed. Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY & Breaux Bridge, LA: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2008. 9. “Variations: Elizabeth Madox Roberts” (poem), Ibid. 47-51. “Let us Hold These Hymns in Place” (poem), Countries of the Heart for Stoney & Sparrow. Ed. Matthew Nickel. West Park, NY: Mother-River-Flows-Two-Ways Press, 2007. 40-42. “The Poet Did Not Answer” (poem), What Thou Lovest Well Remains: Poems c/o Brunnenburg Castle, Ed. H. R. Stoneback, West Park, NY: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2007. 32-33. “Late in the Night in Spain Thinking of Hemingway” (poem), Shawangunk Review (Volume XVIII, Spring 2007). 90-91. “A Good Clean Village—War Monument Gorge du Tarn, France” (poem), Ibid. 94-95. “Spring Morning at Riverby” (poem), Ibid. 92-93. “A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Maple Leaf Rag III, Ed. John P. Travis, New Orleans, LA: Portals Press, 2006. 131-32. “Not Just La Patria—Homage of an Expatriate” (poem), Homage to RPW: An Anthology of Poem for Robert Penn Warren, Edited by H. R. Stoneback, West Park, NY: Des Hymnagistes Press, 2006. 37-38. “A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Hurricane Poems: An Anthology, Edited by H. R. Stoneback, New York and Gravel Switch, Kentucky: Roncevaux Press, 2006. 27- 30. “Letter Poem Prayer for Catha” (poem), A Garland of Poems for Catherine Aldington. Edited by H. R. Stoneback, Des Hymnagistes Press and The International Richard Aldington Society, 2006. 20-21. “For Stoneback Easter 2006 and After” (poem), Proceedings from The First International Breece DJ Pancake Conference, Ed. Matthew Nickel, West Park, NY: Mother- River-That-Flows-Two-Ways Press, 2006. “Not Just La Patria—Homage of an Expatriate” (poem), Shawangunk Review 17 (Spring 2006). 156-57. “A Salutation to Darkness” (poem), Ibid. 184-87. “Homage to the Un-Answering Dark” (poem), recorded on “Hurricane Hymn,” (recorded November 3, 2005 at Oasis Café, New Paltz, NY). “Driftwood,” (poem) Shawangunk Review 16 (Spring 2005). This poem was translated into French by Catherine Aldington, daughter of British Writer Richard Aldington, and was published in this same journal titled “Bois Roulés.” 62-65. “Wednesday Descends (Ash Wednesday 2005)” (poem), Ibid. 66. “Memory Lingers” (poem), Ibid. 67. “A Modern Song of Songs, Romance of Romances, Paraklausitheron (Ash Wednesday, 2004)” (poem), Shawangunk Review 15 (Spring 2004). 110-11. 9

“Death Can Make All Places Strange, Even Places Where You Dream” (poem), Ibid. 91- 92. “Planting Garlic With Santiago” (short story), Ibid. 108-09. “Dried Sap and the Ugly Root” (poem), Shawangunk Review 14 (Spring 2003). 78. “This Wednesday’s Rain” (poem), Ibid. 79. “While the Light Fails on a Summer’s Evening in a Secluded Fog, History is Now and Stresa (or This Western Wind)” (poem), Ibid. 80-81.

Scholarly Papers pre-Misericordia University Conference Papers “Tracking, Hunting, and Religion: Ernest Hemingway & Under Kilimanjaro.” Paper read at the Sport Literature Association Conference in Monmouth, NJ (June 26-29, 2013). “Strange Gods: Elizabeth Madox Roberts & T. S. Eliot.” Paper read at the 15th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 20-22, 2013). “Elizabeth Madox Roberts and the Vision of Poetry.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Durham, NC (November 9-11, 2012). “‘Al som de l’escalina’: T. S. Eliot & Ernest Hemingway.” Paper read at the American Literature Association Symposium in New Orleans, LA (October 5-7, 2012). “‘We’d take him fishing to the ’Voix tomorrow’: Hemingway, Chesterton, and Catholicism.” Paper read at the 15th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Petoskey, Michigan (June 17-22, 2012). “‘They thought they were their own shadows’: Catherine Aldington—Daughter of Richard Aldington.” Paper read at the III International Imagism Conference & VII International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les-Saintes-Maries- de-la-Mer, France (June 1-3, 2012). “‘Time flowed tightly . . . Outside, singing’: Yearning Toward Vision in the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren.” Paper read at the Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 21-23, 2012). “‘Loving the life he spills’: Blood at the Crossroads in Faulkner and Hemingway.” Paper read at the Faulkner & West Point at 50 Conference, West Point, NY (April 19-21, 2012). “The ‘Act of Perception’ and ‘Creation of Form’ in Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia (November 4-6, 2011). “‘Then I began to love him more than anything on earth’: Hemingway’s Fishing and Hunting Meditations.” Paper read at the 28th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association in Orono, ME, (June 22-25, 2011). “‘Can a song of a rose answer me?’: Wastelands, Mystic Agrarianism, and Prophecy in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ ‘The Prophet.’” Paper read at the Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 16-18, 2011). 10

“‘In a world without supernatural sanctions’: Robert Penn Warren & Ernest Hemingway.” Paper read at the Robert Penn Warren Circle 2011 conference in Bowling Green, Kentucky (April 14-16, 2011). “‘Get God into it’: Roberts and Mysticism.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia (November 7-9, 2010). “Hymnagism and the Poetry of H. R. Stoneback.” Paper read at the Southern Writing/Southern Writers Conference at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (July 15-17, 2010). “E. M. Roberts, Dark Nights, and Mysticism.” Paper read at the Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 24-26, 2010). “The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway.” Paper read at the On Miracle Ground XVI Lawrence Durrell Conference in New Orleans, LA (July 7-10, 2010). “Stronger at the Alpine Places: ‘Grüss Gott’ Across Hemingway’s Mountain Fault Lines.” Paper read at the 14th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland (June 25-July 3, 2010). “Imagism & Hymnagism: Pound & Hemingway.” Paper read at the II International Imagism Conference & VI International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Brunnenburg Castle, Dorf Tirol, Italy (June 20-22, 2010). “Teaching Regional Fiction in Other Regions: How Cajuns Respond to Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA (November 6-8, 2009). “‘The most natural growth, indigenous to the soil’: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Folklore.” Paper read at the Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 18-20, 2009). “‘Local knowledge informs love’: John Burroughs, Groundhogs, Japanese Knotweed, and Conservation.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Louisville, KY (November 7-9, 2008 ). “‘The Fire of the World’s Body’ or ‘I Saw the Light’: A Brief Glimpse into the Hymnody of H. R. Stoneback.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Louisville, KY (November 7-9, 2008 ). “‘Holy Rollers,’ ‘Change-of-Lifers,’ and The Virgin: Original Sin, Piety, and the ‘Pilgrimage-Under-Duress’ in Hemingway’s ‘The Last Good Country.’” Paper read at the Nick Adams Society XVI Hemingway Conference “Hemingway in the North Country,” Lake Placid & SUNY-Plattsburg, NY (October 8-11, 2008). “Mistral’s Vast Ghost: Aldington’s Personal Landscape and Spirit of Provence.” Paper read at the V International Richard Aldington Society Conference, les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France (July 8-10, 2008). “At the Crossroads of Mysticism with Durrell and Stoneback: Questing After the Deus Loci into the Twenty-first Century.” Paper read at the On Miracle Ground XV “Lawrence Durrell at the Crossroads of Arts and Science” Conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society at Universite Paris X, Paris, France (July 1-4, 2008). 11

“‘The Lovely Old Bird Man’: Burroughs, Nature Writing, and Modernism.” Paper read at Sharp Eyes V Conference, John Burroughs: Nature Writing and Nineteenth Century Science at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (June 15-19, 2008). “Across the Canal and into Kansas City: Hemingway’s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and into the Trees.” Paper read at the 13th International Hemingway Society Conference in Kansas City, MO (June 9-15, 2008). “Irregular sketchy outlines, like those of the landscape”: Birds and Poets, Bovine Madness, John Burroughs, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” Paper read at the 10th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg and Springfield, Kentucky (April 19-21, 2008). “On Birds and Poets, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and John Burroughs.” Paper read at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta, Georgia (November 9-11, 2007). “Pound for Pound’s Sake: The Literary Relationship of Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound.” Paper read at the 22nd Ezra Pound International Conference in Venice, Italy (June 26-29, 2007). “‘Nothing is Lost’: The Recognition of Complicity and Communion in Deadwood.” Paper read at the 18th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA) in Boston, Massachusetts on the Robert Penn Warren panel (May 24-27, 2007). “‘In Spite of Their Simplicity’: The Tall Men in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s ‘Record at Oak Hill.’” Paper read at the 9th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 21-23, 2007). “How to Climb up the ‘Steps of Time’ into the ‘Fire of the World’s Body’; Or An Analysis of Robert Penn Warren’s Influence through Loyalty & Love, Joy & Language, Complicity & Communion in the Writing of H. R. Stoneback.” Paper read at the Robert Penn Warren Circle Annual Meeting in Bowling Green and Guthrie, Kentucky (April 19-20, 2007). “Mantegna’s Bitter ‘Nail Holes’ and that Revolutionary Dyspeptic ‘Old mount-to-the- head’: Hemingway’s Prescription as Revelational Force in ‘The Revolutionist’ and ‘The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio.’” Paper read at the New York College English Association Conference, SUNY-New Paltz, New York (April 13- 14, 2007 ). “At a Paella Picnic Over a Glass of Wine: Aldington & Eliot, Poetry & Pedantry, Lightheartedness & Love.” Paper read at The 4th International Richard Aldington Society Conference in les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France (July 6-8, 2006 ). “Doing ‘Lighthearted’ Everything a Man Could Do: Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer.” Paper read at “Hemingway in Andalusia,” 12th International Hemingway Conference in Malaga and Ronda, Spain (June 25-30, 2006). “‘Henceforth your name will be’ Felix Culpa: The Recognition of the Flesh, The Acceptance of Sacrifice, and the Mystery of Magdalenian Salvation in ‘The Sacrifice of the Maidens.’” Paper read at 8th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 22-24, 2006 ). 12

“‘A Normal, Human, Christian Impulse’: The Weight of Sin and Fear of Being Buried Alive in Warren’s The Cave.” Paper read at Robert Penn Warren Circle Annual Meeting in Bowling Green and Guthrie, Kentucky (April 21-23, 2006). “Finitives Weaving the Weary Wilderness: To Make a Garden in The Great Meadow.” Paper read at 7th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 23-25, 2005). “The Night Flies and I See Heaven’s White Light Rising.” Paper read at The 3rd International Richard Aldington Society Conference in les Saintes-Maries-de-la- Mer, France (July 6-8, 2004). “‘On Writing,’ Holiness and Saintliness; What was Hemingway Doing?” Paper read at 11th International Hemingway Society Conference in Key West, Florida (June 7-12, 2004). “The Importance of Story, Fantasy, and Myth Retold.” Paper read at the SUNY New Paltz Graduate Symposium on Alien Genres, New Paltz, NY (April 2004). “In the Garden of Kentucky, By the Rivers of the Hudson, We As ‘Children of the Earth’ Remember Eden.” Paper read at the 6th annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 2004). “Place and Women in Tolkien and Lewis.” Paper read at Mythcon 34 in Nashville, Tennessee (July 25-28, 2003). “Place, Memory, and Hunger: Patterns in Roberts and Hemingway.” Paper read at the 5th annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (April 2003). “Rasselas and the Necessary Journey or Down From the Porch and Out Into the World.” Paper read at the 26th annual conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in Manhattan, NY (October 2002).

Creative Performances pre-Misericordia University Poetry Readings Featured poet at the Sport Literature Association Conference in Monmouth, NJ, June 26- 29, 2013. Featured opening reader at the Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, October 7, 2012. Kentucky Writers Day April 2012 at Penn’s Store, the world premiere of Kentucky: Poets of Place. Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival in New Paltz, October 2011. SUNY-New Paltz Alumni Poetry Reading, September 2011. Poetry readings premiering Des Hymnagistes: An Anthology in 2010: at Kentucky Writers Day in Gravel Switch, KY and Brunnenburg Castle, Dorf Tirol, Italy. Des Hymnagistes featured poetry panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, 2010. Featured reader at Off Square Books, Oxford, MS for the Southern Writing/Southern Writers Conference at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (2010). International Hemingway Conference poetry readings from 2004-2012. Participated in Three Kentucky Poets (In Exile) Poetry Reading at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 7, 2009. Opening reader at Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, LA for featured poet H. R. Stoneback, 2009. 13

Poetry Reading at the Imagism Conference at Brunnenburg Castle in Dorf Tirol, Italy, 2007. Read poems and organized reading “Hymns and Poems,” SUNY-New Paltz, 2007. Participated in Robert Penn Warren Centennial, SUNY-New Paltz, 2005.

Honors pre-Misericordia University Butterbean Award for Scholarship on the Poetry of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society. 2012. Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette National Panhellenic Council for outstanding contributions to academic achievement and personal growth of students. 2011. International Lawrence Durrell Society Prize for New Scholarship at the Durrell and the City: Reconstructing the Urban Landscape Conference in New Orleans, LA. 2010. Outstanding Volume of Poetry, II International Imagism Conference, Dorf Tirol, Italy. 2010. Kentucky Writers Day: Contributions to poetry and Kentucky Literature. 2010. Honors and Outstanding Graduate, SUNY-New Paltz. May 2007. Outstanding Younger Hemingway Scholar, The Nick Adams Society, American Literature Association Conference at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA. 2007. The Russell S. Cleverley Memorial Fellowship for the support of an English M.A. candidate writing a Thesis in English 2006. Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY-New Paltz. 2006.

Grants/Travel Awards pre-Misericordia University John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Grant for Hemingway Research, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA. 2011. Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowship established by the Ernest Hemingway Society. 2010. James Hinkle Travel Grant for 14th International Hemingway Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. 2010. James Hinkle Travel Grant for 13th International Hemingway Conference in Kansas City. 2008.

Professional Development

Professional Affiliations American Literature Association Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia, PA Sigma Tau Delta College English Association Ernest Hemingway Society Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Sport Literature Association 14

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Richard Aldington Society / International Imagism Society

Continuing Education Master Class, Vivian Shipley. Misericordia University. Mar. 16, 2015. Master Class, Andrew Mangham. Misericordia University. Oct. 24, 2014 Master Class, Clint Smith. Misericordia University. Oct. 17, 2014 Honors Exploration, Jonathan Robinson. Misericordia University. Oct. 3, 2014 Faculty Mentoring Workshop #1. Mercy Hall 342, Misericordia University. Sept. 4, 2013 Faculty Mentoring Workshop #2. Mercy Hall 342, Misericordia University. Oct. 2, 2013 Faculty Mentoring Workshop #3. Mercy Hall 342, Misericordia University. Oct. 30, 2013 Faculty Mentoring Workshop #4. Mercy Hall 342, Misericordia University. Nov. 20, 2013

Service

Service to the University Writing Task Force. Spring 2014. English Department Writing Assessment. Fall 2013 – present. Faculty Advisor to Instress literary magazine. Spring 2014 – present.

Service to the Students Organizer of and speaker at Instress publication release party. April 17, 2014. Invited and Organized Visiting Poet and Scholar Vivian Shipley to come to Misericordia for a Master Class and Poetry Reading, March 16, 2015. Co-organizer of and speaker at World War I Centenary Poetry Reading, Misericordia University. Nov. 17, 2014. Organizer of and speaker at Poetry Reading for 90 Years of Mercy, Misericordia University. Nov. 12, 2014. Organizer of and speaker at Instress publication release party. May 1, 2014. Invited and Organized Visiting Poet and Scholar H. R. Stoneback to come to Misericordia for a Master Class, Lecture, and Poetry Reading, April 14, 2014. Assisted in organizing “The Wonder of Words” Poetry Benefit by Sigma Tau Delta, Misericordia University, April 9, 2014. Organizer of and speaker at Poetry Reading in Honor of President Thomas J. Botzman Inauguration. Nov 13, 2013. Participant in Ultimate Chef Competition with President Botzman. Misericordia University. Nov 12, 2013. Read from the work of James Church, Mary Kintz Bevevino Library. Misericordia University. Oct. 23, 2013.

Service to the Profession Serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Hemingway Review, 2015 – present. Panel Organizer and Moderator for the Ernest Hemingway Affiliated Session at the South 15

Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Durham, NC, Nov. 13-15, 2015. MLA/ALA/SAMLA Conference Panel Coordinator for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. Serve as journal referee, reviewing manuscripts for The Hemingway Review and filing Reader Reports 2014 – present Serve as referee for editorial board, reviewing manuscript for Reading Roberts Series Panel Secretary for the Ernest Hemingway Affiliated Session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, Nov 7-9, 2014. A member of the Advisory Council of Younger Scholars for the International Hemingway Society and the Hemingway Foundation Panel Moderator at the VIII International Richard Aldington Society & IV International Imagism Conference, Venice/Torcello, Italy (June 19-21, 2014). Design and printing of the program for the VIII International Richard Aldington Society & IV International Imagism Conference, Venice/Torcello, Italy (June 19-21, 2014). Chair of Am Lit 20 8: 20th Century Drama and Prose at the College English Association Conference in Baltimore, MD (March 27-29, 2014). Co-Conference Director of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Annual Conference Chair and organizer of Elizabeth Madox Roberts Affiliated Group sessions at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA. Nov 8-10, 2013. President of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Reading Roberts Series, a project committed to publishing a wide range of scholarly and literary volumes devoted to the work of Elizabeth Madox Roberts Co-editor of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter

Service to the Community Interviews (about my Scholarship) “‘Stoney’ Stoneback and Matthew Nickel share poems and songs about the Hudson Valley.” Southern Ulster Times. April 16, 2014. “Hemingway Lives on in Venice.” Times Leader. Oct. 20, 2014. “Faculty Honored for Work In and Out of Class.” Citizens Voice. Dec. 8, 2013. “Professor Nickel’s Notions of Papa.” The Highlander. Sept. 24, 2013. “Matthew Nickel.” The Fine Delight. Aug. 4, 2013.