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Steve Marsden 209 LAN, Department of English, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 75962 936-468-6609 ◆ [email protected] Education Ph. D., English Literature, 2004 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas MA, English Literature, 1997 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois BA, English Literature, History Minor, 1995 Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois Summa cum Laude, Honors Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Departmental Scholar Dissertation “‘Hot Little Prophets’: Reading, Mysticism, and Walt Whitman’s Disciples” Dissertation Advisor: M. Jimmie Killingsworth Studies and analyzes the responses of three of Walt Whitman’s disciples, Anne Gilchrist, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Edward Carpenter, using their intense intellectual, physical, and religious responses to Whitman’s poetry to demonstrate how Whitman manipulated the act of reading to engage his audience and created roles for his readers to fill. Through biography and in-depth study of reading methods, my dissertation shows how these readers’ religious attitudes, reading habits, desires, and sense of identity shaped and were shaped by their interaction with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Publications “The Hunters and the Haunted: The Changing Role of Supernatural Investigation in Versions of The Haunting of Hill House.” Essays on the Haunting of Hill House. Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Mcfarland, 2020. “Unmasking the Lynching Subject: Gothic Fictional Structures and Reconstructing Racialism between Page and Dunbar.” Haunting Realities: The Naturalistic Gothic, Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden. The U of Alabama P, 2017. 103-115. Peer reviewed edited collection. “Using Evernote to Encourage and Monitor Student Research.” PraxisWiki. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Posted, 2016. Peer reviewed national online multimedia journal. “John Burroughs, Ways of Nature.” The Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature. Encyclopedia article. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2013. “'The Suitable Surroundings' and the Broken Window: Bierce, Framing Experience, and Reading Ghost Stories” accepted by The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal, Accepted Nov. 2013, pending journal resumption.(Journal defunct?) Peer reviewed national online journal. “'The Bastard Off-spring of a New-born Wit': Alsop’s 'The Author to His Book'” The Explicator 69.3 (2011): 121-124. Peer reviewed national journal. “Texts and Transformission: Teaching American Literature with Juxta.” Teaching American Literature 4.2 (Winter 2011): 38-52. Peer reviewed national online journal. “Two Sources for Pauline Hopkins’ ‘Talma Gordon.’” ANQ 23.1 (2010): 46-51. Peer reviewed national journal. “Introduction and Context.” Solicited introductory article accepted for planned edition of Karle Wilson Baker's The Garden of the Plynck by SFA Press. (tabled) A Solicited Review of Gary Schmidgall’s Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 24.2-3 (2006-2007): 157-159. “’A Woman Waits for Me’: Anne Gilchrist Reading Whitman,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 23.3-4 (2005-2006): 95-125. Peer reviewed national journal. “Faint Angel Voices I Didn’t Always Savvy: T. S. Eliot and the Mystical Subtext of All the King’s Men.” RPW: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies 1.1 (2000): 65-88. Peer reviewed national journal. Other Publications and Instructional Materials Co-Authored and Edited with Trey Gordon (graduate student). The Visible Book: An Exemplar for the Study of Descriptive Bibliography. Printed at La Nana Creek Press, 2009. (hand-printed and traditionally-bound self-explanatory example book to teach descriptive bibliography) Presentations “Narratology and Framing Devices in Recent Found Footage Audio Podcasts.” Fear 2000 Conference, Sheffield, England forthcoming September 2021. International online conference. “Ghost Seeing, Thought Transfer, and Psychical Romance in the works of Miss X: Ada Goodrich Freer.” British Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, TX March 2020. International conference. “’What you’re fixin’ to see is a true story’ Teaching Place, Genre, and Audience with Bernie.” East Texas Literature and Language Conference. Lufkin, TX November 2018. “Using Evernote to Encourage and Track Student Research.” Bright Ideas Conference. Poster presentation. Nacogdoches, TX May 2016. “Clip, Tag, Share: Student Research with Evernote.” Texas Distance Learning Association, San Antonio, TX March 2016. “Screencasting Student Feedback in Literary Analysis Papers.” South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX October 2014. “Unmasking the Lynching Subject: Paul Laurence Dunbar Rewrites Thomas Nelson Page.” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA October 2013. “Bierce’s 'Beyond the Wall,' against 'The Yellow Wall-Paper': Crossing Borders and Gendered Spaces in American Domestic Ghost Stories.” College English Association, Richmond, VA March 2012. “The Promises and Perils of Example Documents in Technical Writing.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Baton Rouge, LA October 2009. “’I Pass So Poorly with Paper and Types’: Visions of Passage in the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter.” College English Association, St. Louis, MO May 2008. “Reading the Divine Body through Whitman.” (solicited address) Writers in Performance: Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration, Conroe, TX May 2007. Delivered paper on a panel with three internationally prominent Whitman scholars. “Reading Whitman and Place.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Houston, TX October 2005. “’The Riddle and the Untying of the Riddle’: Mysticism, Reading, and Song of Myself. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA, May 2001. “’Faint Angel Voices I Didn’t Always Savvy’: T. S. Eliot and the Mystical Subtext of All the King’s Men.” Tenth Annual Meeting, Robert Penn Warren Circle. Bowling Green, KY, April 2000. “The Film / Literature Relationship: Problems and Concerns,” Graduate Conference on Language and Literature. DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University, February 1997. Teaching Experience Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas – Professor, 2018- Associate Professor, 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, 2006-2012 Certified Online Instructor, Summer 2011 Bibliography and Research Methods (graduate course): 7 sections Teach close reading, research, archival work, textual criticism, bibliography compilation, literary theory and criticism. Application texts have included Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, “The Yellow Wall-paper,” and The Great Gatsby Literature and Film Adaptation (graduate course): 1 section Advanced adaptation theory American Nature and Literature (graduate course): Introduction to eco-criticism, survey of American nature essays, as well as poems, short stories, and novels. Students proposed and edited online nature poetry anthology American Dark Romantics (graduate course): Short fiction of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter American Transcendentalism (graduate course): Major and minor figures, including Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Alcott Whitman / Dickinson (graduate seminar): 2 sections (Fall 2021) Particular focus on close reading, bibliography, authors’ editing process, and biography. Students do complete research on a single poem. Graduate Independent Study: Technical Writing Pedagogy Graduate Independent Study: Horror Film and Transmedia Study of horror film and transmedia adaptions. Theory of horror cinema. Narratology and ludology. Senior Seminar: American Civil War in Literature (capstone course): Focus on textual criticism, use of electronic texts, and criticism. Focus on contemporary poetry, Whitman's Drum-Taps and Specimen Days, Melville's Battle-Pieces, Louisa May Alcott's hospital narratives, DeForest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. Independent Study: Advanced Editing (upper division): 1 section Independent Study: Technical Editing (upper division): 5 sections Students learn professional editing techniques, including multiple pass editing, editing for style and reading level, editing charts and illustrations, working with clients, editing in teams. Tech. Writing Internship or Ind. Study: Tech Writing Internship (upper division): 7 sections Students work with corporate, government, or educational units, create real-world product and learn to apply skills they need for their future careers. International Gothic and Supernatural Cinema (upper division): 1 section Study of German, Soviet, Japanese, and German gothic and supernatural depictions over time Poe and Other American Horrors (upper division): 1 section Study of American horror short story from Washington Irving to present. Focus on cultural and sociological trends, complete survey of the genre. Slavery and American Literature (upper division): 1 section Study of the history of slavery in the United States, and study of fiction that engaged, defined, defended, and worked to abolish it, along with some modern novels to teach how America has dealt with the legacy of slavery since. Poe and the American Weird (upper division): 1 section Study of American horror and fantastic literature from Poe to the pulp authors, also focusing on feminist domestic ghost fiction. Focus on emerging print culture and magazine markets. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Poetry (upper division): Intensive survey of major and minor 19th and 20th Century American poets. American Poetry Survey (upper division): 1 section Survey of major American poets, Colonial to Contemporary Emerson / Thoreau (upper division, summer):