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VITA I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND A. Name Title Mark Bayless Busby, Professor of English B. Educational Background (Years, Degrees, Universities, Majors, Thesis/Dissertation) August 1977 Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder Dissertation: “The Merging Adam-Christ Figure in Contemporary American Fiction” Director: James K. Folsom January 1969 M.A. Texas A&M University-Commerce Thesis: “Recent Trends in Marxist Literary Theory” Director: Thomas A. Perry May 1967 B.A. Texas A&M University-Commerce Majors: English and Speech C. University Experience (Dates, Positions, Universities,) Sept. 1994-Present Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1991-Sept. 1994 Associate Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 2002-2012 Director, Southwest Regional Humanities Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1991-2012 Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1983-July 1991 Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 1977-Aug. 1983 Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 1972-May 1977 Instructor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO June-August 1974, 1975 Instructor of English, Black Education Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO September 1970-June 1972 Associate Faculty Instructor of English, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN D. Relevant Professional Experience (Dates, Position, Entity,) September 1970-Dec. 1971 Communicative Arts Instructor, U.S. Army Adjutant General School, Fort Harrison, IN September 1967-May 1969 Teaching Assistant in English, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX II. TEACHING A. Teaching Honors and Awards: 2012 Named Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University 2008- Named Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, Texas 2012 State University, San Marcos, TX 1988 Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ($2,000) Teacher/Scholar Award, Texas A&M Honors Program ($5,000) 1976 Recipient, George F. Reynolds Fellowship for Teaching, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1975 Instructor Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1971 Meritorious Instructor Award, U.S. Army Adjutant General School, Fort Harrison, IN 2 B. (1) Courses Taught at Texas State: English 5332 Studies in American Prose: Tim O’Brien English 5332 Studies in American Prose: Ernest Hemingway English 5321 Contemporary American Fiction: Larry McMurtry English 5321 Contemporary American Fiction: Cormac McCarthy English 2360 American Literature since 1965 English 3309 The Southwest in Film English 3321 The Short Story English 3335 American Literature 1865-1930 English 3336 American Literature 1930-Present English 3345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region English 3346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region English 5312 Editing the Professional Publication English 5345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region English 5346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region Honors 3321K The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Southwestern Views B. (2) Courses Taught at Texas A&M: English 351 Advanced Film: Film and Literature English 396H The Frontier Experience and the American Dream English 396H (Interdisciplinary with John Lenihan, History Dept.) American Culture Since 1945 English 481 Senior Seminar in Ernest Hemingway English 103 and 104 Composition and Rhetoric1 and 2 English 102 Introduction to Literature English 251 The Language of Film English 350 Twentieth Century American Novel English 336 Life and Literature of the Southwest Honors Special Topic: The Southwest English 403 Public Speaking English 615 The American Novel English 651 Southwestern Literature English 689 Film Narrative C. (1) Graduate Theses/Dissertations Thesis Committee Chair-Texas State Completed: Rebecca Bradshaw Christopher Buerger Jamie Campbell Stephen Davis Joan Heaberlin Susan Lucas Irene Miller Sandra Miller Shannon Mischler Christopher Muse Dayna Patterson Domino Perez Cassie Polasek Ryan Poremski Nancy Romig Krista Thompson Amanda Thompson 3 M.A. and M.F.A Committee Member at Texas State: Served as Member on over thirty Graduate Committees Most Recent Nereida Harris, Fall, 2015 Alex Cortez, nonthesis, Fall 2015 Dena Garcia, Spring, 2014 Danny Peters, Spring, 2014 Dan Szymczak, Spring, 2014 Ross Feeler, Spring, 2013 Amanda Mixon, Spring, 2013 Jana Fonario, Spring, 2013 Earnest Buck, nonthesis, Spring 2013 Rebecca Weigel, nonthesis, Spring 2013 Iza Martinez, Fall 2012 Jason Rocha, Spring 2012 Oliva Dowd, nonthesis, Spring 2012 Ph.D. Outside Committee Member Brandon Shuler, Texas Tech University, Spring, 2014 Cory Lock, University of Texas-Austin, Spring 2004. C. (2) Student Committees at Texas A&M 1977-1991 Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Chair: Roger Jones, Dissertation: "The Victorian Novel's Influence on Larry McMurtry's Fiction," December 1989 Leslie Kennedy, Dissertation: “Postmodernism in Vietnam Fiction,” May 1991 Dissertation Committee Member: Chris Ellery, Dissertation: "Sentimentality and the Grotesque in American Drama," August 1989 Rick Evans. Dissertation: "Toward an Understanding of Literacy as Communicative Competence: Patterns of Literate Language Learning and Use," December 1990 Joanna Barnett Gibson, Dissertation: "Thomas Hardy's Children," August 1989 Mary Ella Phelps, Dissertation: "Ezra Pound and Music: The Convergence of Music and Poetry in The Pisan Cantos," December 1989. Chris Vick, Dissertation: "Cinematic Aspects and Film Adaptations of Selected Works of Thomas Hardy," May 1990 Katherine Presley John Pritchard Patricia Repka Cynthia Schnebly Leslie Sogandares Jerri Sosville Tom Wilmeth Graduate Council Representative on seven Ph.D. committees M.A. Thesis Committee Chair: Troy Headrick, "Ritual Elements in John Irving," 1988 Tanya Long (Co-chair), "Carolyn Osborn's Fiction," 1988 M.A. Nonthesis Committee Chair Christine Bernsen, 1990 4 Joan Cain, 1986 Lea Anne Clarkson, 1990 Jennilyn Sprayberry Crenshaw, 1989 Alison Awbrey Wiggins, 1987 M.A. Thesis Committee Member: Cheryl Clements, “Memento and Other Stories,” 1989 Ava Greene Guy, “Social Sense as It Is Reflected in Selected Poems by Robert Herrick,” 1984 Burton Harbison, History, "French Medical History in the Crimean War,” 1987 Greg Moses, “Queen for an Ice Age: Katje Borgesius as the Form of Ideology in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," 1988 Mary Lou Taylor, “The Mathematics of Moby Dick,” 1983 M.A. Nonthesis Committee Member: Anita Green, 1983 Patricia Repka, 1984 Keith Waddle, 1986 University Undergraduate Honors Fellows at Texas A&M: Barbara A. Bell, "The Interrelationship of Literature and Film," 1988 Deborah Broussard, "William Styron's Treatment of Women," 1979 Nadine Miller, "Twentieth Century Transformations of Huckleberry Finn," 1987 Sherri Shroeder, "Dorothy Parker: Life, Humor, and Feminism," 1989 Kathy West, "Black Humor and Realism Reconciled," 1984 D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development at Texas State: Graduate Courses on Tim O’Brien, Larry McMurtry, Ernest Hemingway, and Cormac McCarthy Undergraduate minor in Southwestern Studies, including two required SW Studies courses, English 3345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region and English 3346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region English 3309 The Southwest in Film English 5312 Editing the Professional Publication Honors 3321K The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Southwestern Views Graduate cognate in Southwestern Studies (English 5345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region and English 5346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region) E. External Funded Teaching Grants and Contracts at Texas State: 2015-2006 L. D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Writers-in-Residence Endowment, Bequest of land and cash for writers’ program in Smithville, TX, $2.4 million estimated value 2006 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2005 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2005 Lowman-J. Frank Dobie Collection, Gift of literary materials to the Southwestern Writers Collection/Southwest Regional Humanities Center, appraised value: $45,000 material, $8,000 cash 2004 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2003 Southwest Regional Humanities Center Web support. Tocker Foundation, $25,000 2002 “Border Crossing: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College Teachers, June 3-28, 2000, $153,000. “Southwest Regional Humanities Center. ” NEH, $378,900 2000 “Centering the Southwest: A Regional Humanities Center. ” NEH, $50,000 5 2000 “Endowing the Center for the Study of the Southwest.” (With Mimi Tangum). NEH Challenge Grant, $450,000 2000 “Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Summer Institute.” NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, June 5-30, 2000, $156,000 1998 “Extending Regional Studies.” Fund for the Improvement of PostSecondary Education (FIPSE) Extending Proven Reforms, $160,000 1995 “Windows to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest.” NEH Planning Grant, $50,000 1994 "Regional Studies\National Exchange." FIPSE, $208,000 1993 "Abiding Earth/Restless Sky: The American Indian Southwest," NEH, $67,000 1992 "Crossing
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