ALEXANDER RUGGERI [email protected] ; [email protected]
EDUCATION
Tufts University. English Literature Ph.D. Candidate. Projected Defense Oct 2020. New York University. Master of Arts Degree in English Literature. 2011. Roger Williams University. B.A. in English Literature. Second Major in Creative Writing. Concentration in History. Summa cum laude; with honors. 2007.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modernism; Sound Studies; British and American Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Phenomenology; Aesthetics; Film Studies and Theory; Literary Theory; Intellectual History; Classics Dissertation Title: Listening to Form: Modernism and the Auditory Subject
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"'By ear, he sd.': Open Listening with Charles Olson and John Cage." Staying Open: Charles Olson's Sources and Influences. Ed. Joshua Hoeynck, Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Affiliated Faculty, Emerson College. Spring 2018-current. Graduate Instructor, Tufts University. 2014-2017. Adjunct Faculty, Bentley University. Fall 2018, Spring 2019. Adjunct Lecturer of English, Suffolk University. Fall 2015, Fall 2016. Adjunct Professor of English, Bunker Hill Community College. January 2013-May 2013. Adjunct Professor of English, Middlesex Community College. August 2012-May 2013. Tufts University International Student Programs, International Student Cultural Exchange. Summer 2018; 2019.
Classes Taught Emerson College: Modernism and Sound 300-level: Fall 2019 Boundaries of Fantasy Literature, Spring 2019 Literary Foundations, Spring 2019, 2020 Modernism and Sound 200-level: Spring, Fall 2018 Introduction to Literary Studies Tufts University: Sonic Dimensions: The Technology, Culture and Politics of Sound; Fall 2018 (co-taught) Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group: GIFT Fellow with Prof. John Lurz; Fall 2017 English I (Fall 2014, 2015, 2016) English II: Conformity and Rebellion (Spring 2015, 2016, 2017) Bentley University Expository Writing 101; Fall 2018; 2019 Expository Writing 201; Spring 2019, 2020 Suffolk University: WRI 102 (Fall 2015, Fall 2016) Middlesex and Bunker Hill Community Colleges: (Various Writing Courses) Fall 2012-Summer 2013
Grader Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group; John Lurz, Fall 2017 James Joyce’s Ulysses; John Lurz, Spring 2017 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology; Lee Edelman, Spring 2016
Conference Papers
• Oct 2020: T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meetin “Sounding the Avant Gard in Eliot and Olson” • May 2019: ALA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA “T.S. Eliot’s Poetics of Silence” “Against “greekism”: Charles Olson’s Hellenism and the Poetics of the Polis” • April 2018: NeMLA Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA “Cinematic Ideology: Audio-Visual Ruptures in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now” • May 2017: ALA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA “By ear he sd.”: Olson, Musicality, and the Auditory Dimensions of Form • May 2016: ALA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA Eliot’s Phlebotomies: A Circulatory Model of Commerce and Culture • Feb 2015: Boston College Graduate Conference Literary Exteriors Acoustic Undoing of Boundaries: Mrs. Moore and the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India • Sept 2014: T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO “Caught in the form of limitation”: Sound, Stillness, and Transcendence in “Burnt Norton” • April 2011: NeMLA Vitalism and Twentieth Century Literature Panel, New Brunswick, NJ Imaging Creative Evolution: Bergsonian Vitalism in Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel • April 2007: Sexy Shakespeare Conference, Nichols College Beyond the Bawdy: Mercutio and Male Friendship in Romeo and Juliet Accepted “Olson’s Sonic Dimensions: Listening as Projective Practice” “The Call” of Poetry: Heidegger’s Auditory Models of Personhood”: NeMLA 2018 –Heidegger, Literature, Criticism Panel The Godfather Influence and Origins… “The Godfather and the Iliad: A Genealogy of Violent Tradition”…The Godfather
Awards Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017 English Dissertation Continuation Fellowship 2017 GIFT Fellowship 2017 Tufts English Scholarship PhD 2013-2017 First Place Award at Sexy Shakespeare Conference 2007
Professional Development and Skills Tufts University Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT) Fellow. 2017. Notation of Development—Tufts University Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering NYU GSAS Teaching and Learning Certification 2011 Languages: Proficient Spanish, Russian, and Modern Greek; Basic Ancient Greek and Latin Online Teaching: Blackboard, Canvas, Pantopto Lectures, Zoom classrooms
Selected Institutional Service and Work Experience Honors Thesis Second Reader for Emerson WLP Graduating Student. Spring 2018. Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference Reworking Labor Co-Ordinator. 2017. Tufts Graduate Writing Consultant. September 2014-present. Tufts English Graduate Organization: First Year Writing Officer. Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference Radical Kinship Organizer. Fall 2014-2015 Contextualized Curriculum Assistant Developer for Massachusetts Community College and Workforce Development Transformation Agenda. Spring 2013. Fales Special Collections Librarian. Summer-Fall 2010. America Reads/America Counts Tutor. 2009-2011.
References Prof. John Lurz. Tufts University; [email protected] Prof. Gregory Farber. Bentley University; [email protected] Prof. Carol Wilkinson. Tufts University; [email protected] Prof. George Kalogeris. Suffolk University; [email protected]