CASEY CHARLES
320 South Second St. West Department of English Missoula, MT 59801 University of Montana (406) 728-4736 Missoula, MT 59812 [email protected] (406) 243-2762 [email protected]
EDUCATION
1986-1992 Ph.D. in English Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo Qualifying Exam passed with Distinction (1989) Minor Fields: Psychology and Spanish Dissertation: “Desire and Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature”
1975-1978 J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law
1974-1984 M.A. in English Literature and Certificate of Composition Instruction, San Francisco State University
1969-1973 B.A. in English Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz
EMPLOYMENT
2006-present Chair, Department of English, University of Montana
1994-present Professor (tenured), University of Montana Renaissance Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Law and Literature, Critical Theory
2001-2002 Profesor Visitante, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College
1993-1994 Adjunct Professor, Washington State University at Vancouver
1992-1993 Assistant Professor (Visiting), University of Oregon
1987-1991 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Buffalo
1982-1986 Lecturer, San Francisco State University
PUBLICATIONS--SCHOLARLY “A Jury of One’s Queers: Revisiting the Dan White Trial,” (forthcoming in an anthology on LGBTQI issues and the law).
“What We Learned from Patricia,” forthcoming in Neo.
“Panic in The Project: Critical Queer Studies and the Mathew Shepard Case” (Law and Literature, 2006).
“Queer Writes,” Women’s Studies in Communication 28 (Spring, 2005): 32-56.
The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (University Press of Kansas, 2003).
"Lessons in Errors: Shakespeare's Shortest Play Teaches Through Mistaken Identity," Missoulian, August 15, 2002: E13-14.
"Closet Apartheid," Editorial, Missoulian, February, 2002 (with David Wilson).
"Gabriel Mistral," Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed. Claude Summers, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2001) (with David Wilson).
"Notes on a Queer Manifesto: Address to Gay Pride, Montana--June, 2000," Outspoken August, 2000: 8.
"Same-Sex Benefits: Main Issue Is Morality," Editorial, Missoulian March 9, 2000.
"Barnfield's Lover's Discourse," in The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield: (Susquehanna University Press, 2001) 174-192.
"'Was Shakespeare Gay?' Sonnet 20 and the Politics of Pedagogy," College Literature 25 (1998): 35-51.
"Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night," Theatre Journal 49 (1997): 121-142.
"Making Justice: Same-Sex Partnership in the Kowalski Case," disclosure: A Journal of Social Policy 6 (1997): 9-34.
"Can We Have What We Want? A Lacanian Reading of Leone Ebreo's First Dialogue of Love," Bien Dire: A Journal of Lacanian Inquiry 3 (1998).
Book Review of Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts, ed. Peter C. Herman, Sidney Newsletter 13 (1994).
"Heroes as Lovers: Erotic Attraction between Men in Sidney's New Arcadia," Criticism 34 (1992): 467-496.
"A Horse is a Horse: Sex and Love in Plato's Phaedrus," Literature and Psychology 38 (1992): 47-70.
2 "Adversus Jerome: Liberation Theology in the Wife of Bath's Prologue," Assays: Critical Approaches to Renaissance and Medieval Literature 6 (1990): 55-71.
PUBLICATIONS—CREATIVE
“Patricia, La Poeta,” forthcoming in Neo, 2007.
“Pony, Montana,” forthcoming in Poets Across the Big Sky, an anthology.
Controlled Burn (Pudding House Press, 2007), chapbook (36 p.).
“The Wilderness Experience” Dalhousie Review (2006).
“December” from Hy, lodestarquarterly.com (Winter,2005).
“You Need Help,” Comstock Review 19 (Spring/Summer 2005) 60.
“Out in Idaho,” Hurricane Review (2005)
“Shower,” “David,” and ‘t” Gertrude: A Journal of Voice and Vision 2004 (three poems) 20-22.
"e soneto," Hojas de Cantera (Taller de Creación Literaria, Museo Casa Diego Rivera)--poem 2003.
"Himno a Michoacán," A Ras de Cielo: Colección Letras Versales/Once (Universidad de Guanajuato 2002).
“In Zicatela,” poetry motel (forthcoming)
UNDER CONSIDERATION
Hy (a poetic narrative)
Writing it Out (poetry collection)
Origami for a Rainy Day (translation of Manuel Ulacia’s Origami para un día de lluvia)
PAPERS DELIVERED AND SESSIONS CHAIRED
“Olivier’s Queer Orlando,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Diego, April, 2007.
“Fear and Loathing in Angels in America,” Faculty/Graduate Student Research Conference, April 9, 2006 (invited presentation).
3 “Writing and HIV,” Positive Arts Workshop (sponsored by Partnership Health Care, Missoula). April-May, 2006.
“A Jury of One’s Queers: Revisiting the Harvey Milk Case,” LARC, University of Montana November 18, 2005.
Poetry Reading, Second Wind Series (Spring, 2006).
“’What Drugs, What Charms, What Conjurations’: Abduction by Witchcraft in Othello and the Unforgivable Blackness,” Ohio Shakespeare Conference: Shakespeare and the Law, Toledo, November 11, 2005.
“‘Being with Each Other’: Making Contact/Making Justice,” Town Hall Meeting: Social Change Through Dialogue (A UC Multicultural Alliance and Diversity Council Presentation at the University of Montana), April 12, 2005.
“Resisting the Fundamentalist Jihad: Toward a Poetics of the Queer Oppressed,” CCCC, San Francisco, March, 2005.
“The Laramie Project: Aristotelian Tragedy or Transformative Theater?” In a panel chaired and organized entitled “Enforcing Sexuality: Documenting Hate Crime in the West,” American Studies Association, November 13, 2004.
Chair and Organizer, Queer West Panel, RMMLA, Boulder, CO, October 2004.
A Forum on Queer Rights in The Sharon Kowalski Case, University of Montana Law School, April, 2004 (invited presentation).
Guest Interview, The Michelangelo Signorile Show. Sirius Satellite Radio, July 24, 2003.
“Queer Writes in Montana,” Faculty/Graduate Student Research Conference, University of Montana, May 2, 2003.
“‘Produce My Very Character’: Performing Subjectivities in King Lear,” Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, April 11, 2003.
“‘Speak What We Feel’: Understanding Edgar in King Lear, 2003 Narrativity Conference, University of California, March 27, 2003.
“Can the Pervert be Diverse?” Keynote, Big Sky High School Diversity Week, February 24, 2003.
“Metonymies of Desire in Brinig’s This Man is My Brother,” Faculty/Graduate Student Research Conference, University of Montana, May, 2002.
"My Sweet Lord," International Shakespeare Association of America, Valencia, April 19, 2001.
4 "The Culture of AIDS," on Collegium Medicum, a KUFM series on medicine and the humanities produced by Herbert Swick, March 13, 2001 (guest).
"Knowing the Truth About Gender: The Teena Brandon Story," 21st Annual Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, March 19, 2001.
"Special Rights or Equal Rights?" A Public Radio Forum on KUFM, Missoula, Montana, February, 2001 (panelist).
"The Ideology of Sexual Freedom and the Resistance to Gay Politics: Studying Kureishi's My Beautiful Launderette," VII Seminario Cientifico sobre la Calidad de la Educacion: Intercambio Profesionales Cubanos y Norteamericanos, Havana and Santiago, Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2000.
"The Ethics of Same-Sex Partnership: The Sharon Kowalski Case," A Practical Ethics Seminar sponsored by the Practical Ethics Center, University of Montana, Missoula, May, 3, 1999.
"'Mock Me with a Husband:' The Gentle Way of Punishment in Measure for Measure," Shakespeare Association of America, April 1-4, 1999.
"Queer and Loathing in Montana," UCLA GLBT Conference, February 5-7, 1999.
"'The God of My Idolatry': The Appropriation of Christian Imagery in Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet," Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference: Word and Image, Western Washington University, April 23-25, 1998.
"Orientalism in Snow Falling on Cedars," The Institute for Medicine and the Humanities, St. Patrick's Hospital, Missoula, Montana, April, 1998 (presentation and discussion).
"Gender Trouble and its Vicissitudes in Winterson's Written on the Body," Eighteenth Annual Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium, March 11-13, 1998.
"Sexual Harassment and David Mamet's Oleanna," A Panel Discussion at the University of Montana, November, 1997 (panelist).
"Lost Paradise: Desire and the Disruption of the Ideology of Eden," John Milton Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, October 24-25, 1997.
Doctors, Lawyers, and Literature: Exploring Our Ethical Center through Fiction and Poetry, A Conference Sponsored by Continuing Education, University of Montana, KwaTaqNuk Resort, Flathead Lake, Sept. 26-28, 1997 (Program Leader of five workshops on literature and law).
"State Rape: Legal Injustice in The Old Arcadia," 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1997.
"'The Beast with Two Backs': Female Buggery and the Consequences of Clandestine Marriage," Shakespeare Association of America, March 27-29, 1997.
5 "Education and Gender," UCLA/USC Seventh Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, UCLA, March 7, 1997 (moderator).
"Using the Marital Privilege to Discriminate Against Lesbians and Gay Men: DOMA and its Consequences," Center for Feminist Research Lecture Series at the University of Southern California, October 28, 1996.
"Homophobia in the Henriad," The Group for Early Modern Studies Conference, September 26-29, 1996.
"Nothing in Common: Women's Studies and Queer Studies--Convergences and Divergences" University of Montana Women's Brown Bag Lecture Series, April, 1996.
"What is Lesbian and Gay Literature?" A PRIDE Week Panel Discussion, University of Montana, April, 1996 (organizer and moderator).
"Montana's Deviate Sexual Conduct Law and the Legislature: A Case of Political Deviance?" A University of Montana Forum, May 3, 1995 (organizer and moderator).
"Coveting Fetters and Excusing Sins: Masochism in Spenser's 37th and Shakespeare's 35th Sonnet," Shakespeare Association of America, March 23-25, 1995.
"Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night," Thirteenth Annual Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium, April 17-20, 1994.
Chair, Sidney Session, 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May, 1994.
"Holding Nature up to the Mirror: Audience as Fiction in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair," NEMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association) Convention, April 3-5, 1992.
"'A Vehement and Unkind Love': Erotic Attraction in Sidney's New Arcadia," 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1992.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Renaissance English Literature, Milton, Shakespeare, Critical Theory, Lesbian and Gay Literature, Literature and Law, Literature of Love, Chaucer
AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS
Project QueerLit Semi-finalist (2006) for Hy
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (May-June, 2006)
National Writers Union Prize—Poetry, 2005, for “Roadkill, Wyoming” (third place). Judge: Adrienne Rich 6 Finalist, Joy Harjo Cutthroat Poetry Competition (2005) for “The Rope: December 1, 2004”
Writing it Out (finalist in 2005 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Poetry Competition; semifinalist Blue Lynx Prize (2005), Comstock Review Contest (2005)
Squaw Valley Writers’ Workshop 2004
San Miguel Poetry Week 2004, 2005, 2006
Diversity Award, University of Montana, 2003
International Faculty Exchange, University of Guanajuato, Mexico (2001-2002))
Visiting Scholar, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, 1996-7
University of Montana Faculty Development Grant, June-August, 1997
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND STUDY
Spanish (fluent) Latin (reading proficiency) Portuguese (reading and speaking proficiency)
1989 (summer) City University of New York Latin Institute, cum laude 1987 (summer) University of Salamanca Language Institute, Salamanca, Spain
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS
2006-present Chair, Department of English 2006-present Vice-President, University Faculty Association 2005-present Steering Committee, Women’s Studies 2004-present Reader, Haworth Press 2004-present Reader, Essays in Arts and Sciences 2004-present Board, PRIDE (statewide LGBTI organization) 2003-2004 University Commons Advisory Board 1998-present Board, University Faculty Association 2001-present Reader, College Literature 2001-present Reader, Rocky Mountain MLA Journal 1999-2001 Board, Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center 1999-2000 Board, Outspoken 1999-present Film Committee 1999-present Ethics Committee 1999 National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI)--Training 1999-2001 Grievance Officer, University Faculty Association 1999-2000 University Academic Court 1998-1999 Student Conduct Code Judiciary, Faculty Member 1998-present Advisory Board, Institute of Medicine and the Humanities 7 1998-present Reader, SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 1997-present Founder, Outfield Alliance (a coalition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender faculty, staff, graduate students, and their supporters) 1997-1999 Lesbian and Gay Community Center Task Force 1997-1999 Membership Chair, Executive Board, University Faculty Association 1997-2000 Chair, MA in Literature, Department of English, Univ. of Montana 1997 (summer) Acting Chair, Department of English, Univ. of Montana 1996-2000 Lambda Alliance, Univ. of Montana, Faculty Advisor 1996-1998 Faculty Appeals Committee, Univ. of Montana 1995-1997 Member, Montana Gay Men's Task Force on HIV Prevention (GMTF) 1995-present Member, Missoula AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP) 1995-1996 Undergraduate Advisor, English Department, Univ. of Montana 1993-present Shakespeare Association 1989-1991 Graduate Review Committee, Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo 1989-1990 Executive Committee, Department of English, SUNYAB 1989-1990 Chief Justice, Student Wide Judiciary, SUNYAB 1980-1984 Performance Exam Consultant, California State Bar Association 1978-present Member, California State Bar Association
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