Charles D. Martin
Department of English and Philosophy Central Missouri State University Warrensburg, MO 64093 Tel. 660-543-8750 Email: cmartin @ucmo.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-Present, Associate Professor, University of Central Missouri 2004-2008, Assistant Professor, University of Central Missouri. 2003-2004, Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Missouri State University. 2000-2003, Visiting Instructor, Florida State University. 1992-1994, Adjunct, Shelton State Community College. 1992-1993, Adjunct, University of Alabama
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in English, Florida State University. M. F. A. in Creative Writing, University of Alabama. B. A. in English, California State University, Fullerton.
PUBLICATIONS
Books: The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration (Rutgers UP, 2002).
Articles: “Can the Mummy Speak?: Ventriloquism, Manifest Destiny, and the Exhibition of the Ancient Egyptian Body.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 31.1 (December 2009).
Encyclopedia Entries: “Sally Hemings.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, ed. David Macey and Hans Ostrom. Westport, Conn.: 2005. “William Dean Howells.” The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Cary Wintz and Paul Finkelman. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004. “Dark Laughter (Sherwood Anderson).” The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Cary Wintz and Paul Finkelman. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004. “Ghost Stories.” The Companion to Southern Literature, ed. Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2001.
Book Reviews: “From Freaks to Goddesses: A Review of Rosemarie Garland Thomson’s Extraordinary Bodies.” Postmodern Culture 8.1. Short Stories: “The Dead Girl,” Gulf Stream Magazine 10, Spring 1995: 61-78. “The Source of Dreams,” West Branch 30, Spring 1992: 87-104.
Book in Progress: American Mummy (book).
Article in Progress: “Tom Sawyer’s Lessons in Geography; or, the Holy Land as Flapdoodle in Tom Sawyer Abroad” in Mark Twain’s Geographies, ed. Joseph Alvarez (book article).
CONFERENCE PAPERS National “Brother Jonathan’s Secret Self: Leslie Fiedler and the Dysmorphic Democrat. Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30.
“American Mummy: Manifest Destiny, the Antiquities Act, and the Native American Dead.” American Studies Association, Albuquerque, October 16-19, 2008.
“‘Couldn’t Seem to Git at the Rights of It No Way’”: Mark Twain, Imperialism, and The Common Law.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee, April 3-5, 2008.
“Mark Twain’s Maps: Parodies of Cartography and the Boundaries of National Memory.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Kansas City, April 19-21, 2007.
“Barnum’s Leopard Child, Pinto Indians, and the Spectacle of Racial Purity in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Baton Rouge, April 21-23, 2005.
“‘He Stalks Two Worlds’: The Yom Kippur War and Blaxploitation in Marvel’s ‘The Living Mummy’ Series,” Popular Culture Association Meeting, San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004.
“Can the Mummy Speak?: Manifest Destiny, Agency, and the Exhibition of the Ancient Egyptian Body,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Iowa City, April 1-3, 2004.
“Egyptian Epiphanies: The Mummy as Contested Body in Nineteenth-Century U. S. Literature,” Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, January 30- February 1, 2003.
“Leopard Boys of Science: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More and the Fantasy of Racial Transformation,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 2000. “The ‘Circus Side’ of Twain’s ‘Object Lesson in Democracy’: A Connecticut Yankee and the Economy of Apocalyptic Spectacle,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 1999.
“‘A Piebald Parliament’: Herman Melville and the Exhibition of White Negroes,” Nineteenth- Century Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, March 17-19, 1999.
Organizer and Moderator. “The Body in the Museum,” Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.
“Scenes of Sorrow, Scenes of Exhibition: The Interrogation of Racial Science in Chesnutt, Cable, and Twain,” International Conference on Joy and Sorrow in Literature and the Visual Art, Atlanta, November 6-8, 1998.
Moderator. “Joy, Sorrow, and Minorities,” International Conference on Joy and Sorrow in Literature and the Visual Art, Atlanta, November 6-8, 1998.
Respondent. “Some Modest Humor in an American Way,” Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 27-30, 1997.
“Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine as a Paradigm of Metis (Mixed Heritage) Literature.” Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, January 25-27.
Regional Organizer and Moderator. “Mark Twain, War, and Peace.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Atlanta, November , 2008.
“Looking for White Angels; Or, Mark Twain Colonizes Heaven.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Charlotte, November 10-12, 2006.
“Mark Twain, Hope, and Despair.” Secretary of Panel. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 10-12, 2006.
“Tom Sawyer’s Lessons in Geography; Or, the Holy Land as Flapdoodle in Tom Sawyer Abroad,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Atlanta, November 4-6, 2005.
“Anarcharsis Cloots, Racial Impersonation, and the Problem of the ‘Profest Democrat’ in Modern Chivalry,” Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting, St. Louis, November 4-7, 2004.
“Southern Mummies and Sick A-rabs: The Tradition of the Painted Freak Body from Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to Alice Walker’s Meridian,” Southern American Studies Association Conference, Tallahassee, February 8-10, 2003. “White Negro, White Whale: The Albino and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century White Manhood,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 5-7, 1999.
“Sut Lovingood Meets P. T. Barnum: The Threat of Exhibition in Nineteenth-Century American Humor,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Atlanta, November 13- 15, 1997.
“Disturbing the ‘World in Miniature’: Charles Willson Peale and the Display of James the White Negro,” South East American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Tallahasse, February 28-March 2, 1996.
“Cultural Performance and the Performance of Contract in ‘Benito Cereno,’” Lousiana State University Graduate Student Conference, Baton Rouge, February 15-17, 1996.
HONORS AND AWARDS
J. Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore, Florida State University, 2000-2001. University Dissertation Fellowship, Florida State Universtiy, 1999-2000. University Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, 1999. Nominee, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Florida State University, 1999. Second Place, Graduate Student Prize, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 1997. First Place, Graduate Student Prize, South East, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, 1996. Phi Kappa Phi, selected 1996. College Teaching Fellowship, Florida State University, 1994-1995. Buford T. Boone Fellowship, University of Alabama, 1987-1988,
STUDENTS SUPERVISED
Director of Committee: Victoria Chapman, “Mark Twain and the Bad Boy Genre,” Master’s Thesis, 2008.
Michael Kersulov, “The Uses of Autobiography in Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” Master’s Thesis, 2007.
Lorraine Burns, “Childhood Education in the Writings of Fanny Fern,” Master’s Thesis, 2006.
Rebecca Osborn, “Daisy Miller and Sister Carrie: Identifying the ‘New Woman’ in Nineteenth- Century American Literature.” Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project, 2006.
Patricia Ewing, “Moral Culpability in Daisy Miller and The House of Mirth.” Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project, 2005. Carrie Adler, “A Tool of One’s Own: María Cristina Mena and the Editors of The Century Magazine.” Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project, 2003.
Member of Committee: 2006, Amanda Niblock, “Save the Pearls and Cut Your Hair: A Study of Morals and Behavior in World War I Women’s Literature,” Master’s Thesis.
2006, Cassandra Shaffer, Master’s Thesis.
2005-2006, Melissa D. Arenson, “Man Versus God: Melville’s Religious Grievances,” Master’s Thesis.
Kimberly M. Smith, Undergraudate Honors Thesis Committee (FSU), 2002-2003.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
College of Arts and Sciences Awards Committee, 2005-2007. MA-English Committee, 2005-2007. English Education Committee, 2005-2007. Charno Awards Committee, 2004-2005. Undergraduate Committee, 2004-2005. Composition Committee, 2004-2005 Professional Activities Committee, 2003-2004.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
President, Mark Twain Circle Panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2006-2007. Secretary, Mark Twain Circle Panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2005-2006.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Italian (Reading knowledge) German (Reading knowledge)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Society Mark Twain Circle American Humor Society American Studies Association