PATRICK B. SHARP Curriculum Vitae (As of February 2013)
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PATRICK B. SHARP Curriculum Vitae (as of February 2013) Chair, Department of Liberal Studies California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032 Office: (323) 343-4100 http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/psharp [email protected] EDUCATION Degrees Ph. D. in English University of California, Santa Barbara 1999 The White Man's Bomb: Race and Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative in American Culture. M.A. in English University of California, Santa Barbara 1994 B.A. in English (High Honors) University of California, Santa Barbara 1989 Completed the Education Abroad Program at the University of Oslo, Norway during the summer of 1987 and at the University of Bergen, Norway during the 1987-88 academic year Non-Degree American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, University of Vermont 2011 American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute on Making General Education Relevant, San Francisco 2011 California State University Workshop on ePortfolios, San Jose 2009 American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute on General Education, University of Minnesota 2009 CURRENT POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES California State University, Los Angeles Chair, Department of Liberal Studies September 2010-Present Cal State L. A. is an urban comprehensive university and one of twenty-three campuses in the CSU system. The Department of Liberal Studies has over 400 undergraduate majors pursuing options in Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Society and Elementary Teacher Preparation. Liberal Studies also has a popular minor in Women's and Gender Studies and several popular general education courses. The chair manages the budget and allocates all departmental resources. In consultation with faculty, the chair develops all schedules, strategic plans, and recruitment initiatives for the department. The chair hires all part-time employees, supervises all staff members, and oversees the research, tenure, and promotion process for all tenure-stream faculty members. The chair organizes and oversees the advisement plan for the department and serves as the central resource for all advisement and graduation issues. The chair works Dr. Patrick B. Sharp Curriculum Vitae Page 2 with the Dean and other department chairs in the College of Arts and Letters in developing strategic initiatives and managing the operations of the college. Highlights: • Initiated major revisions of the recruitment and advising plans for the department that stabilized the number of Liberal Studies majors after years of decreasing enrollment. • Created new scheduling practices that steadily increased the number of Full Time Equivalent Students taught by the department. • Led two major revisions of the curriculum that improved student retention and time to graduation while strengthening the core of the major. • Improved department assessment procedures through establishing an efficient portfolio system and clear learning outcomes. • Developed a strategic planning spreadsheet in consultation with the financial services officer that is now used as the model for all departments in the College of Arts and Letters. • Participated in two funded campus initiatives to improve collaboration between the humanities and STEM fields. PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS California State University, Los Angeles Department of Liberal Studies Acting Chair June 2010 – August 2010 January 2010 – March 2010 Associate Chair September 2004 – August 2009 Undergraduate Advisor September 2009 – December 2009 September 2004 – December 2007 Office of Undergraduate Studies Director, Writing Proficiency Examination January 2008 – March 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Coordinator, Program in Science, Technology, and Culture September 2000 – August 2001 ACADEMIC POSITIONS California State University, Los Angeles Department of Liberal Studies Professor September 2010 – Present Associate Professor September 2006 – August 2010 Assistant Professor September 2002 – August 2006 Lecturer September 2001 – August 2002 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Lecturer August 2000 – August 2001 Marion L. Brittain Fellow August 1998 – July 2000 Dr. Patrick B. Sharp Curriculum Vitae Page 3 FUNDED GRANTS California State University, Los Angeles "Engaged Environmental General Education for Accelerated Student Success." Pilot Project for the California State University Compass Project, Phase II. Proposal Co-Author and Co-Principal Investigator, July 2011 – July 2012. Funding amount: $82,000. "Integration and Assessment of Information Competence for Liberal Studies." Project for the California State University Information Literacy Initiative. Proposal Co-Author and Project Co-Director, September 2006 – August 2008. Funding amount: $8,624. AWARDS California State University, Los Angeles American Communities Program Fellowship, Winter 2010 Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology Marion L. Brittain Fellowship, August 1998 – July 2000 University of California, Santa Barbara Distinguished Teaching Award, UCSB Residence Hall Association, 1997 Graduate Student Fee Fellowship, UCSB Graduate Division, September 1993 – June 1996 Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, September 1989 – June 1990 Regents Scholarship, September 1985 – June 1989 BOOKS Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Co-edited with Karen Hellekson, Craig Jacobsen, and Lisa Yaszek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. A Brief and Practical Guide for Writing Critical Analysis Papers in Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts. Charlotte, NC: Kona. 2010. Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Co- edited with Jeannette Eileen Jones. New York and London: Routledge, 2010. Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES "Starbuck as 'American Amazon': Captivity Narrative and the Colonial Imagination in Battlestar Galactica." Science Fiction Film and Television 3.1 (2010): 57-78. "Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Evolution, and Warfare in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Film and Television 1:2 (2008): 237-250. "From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey's Hiroshima." Twentieth Century Literature 46:4 (2000): 434-452. "Home on the Nuclear Range: Fear and the Frontier in Civil Defense Literature of the 1950s." Thresholds: Viewing Culture 11 (1998): 89-100. "Co-opting Cultured Cheese: Humor and Critique in Mystery Science Theater 3000." Thresholds: Viewing Culture 10 (1996): 117-19. Dr. Patrick B. Sharp Curriculum Vitae Page 4 REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS "Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as Indigenous SF." Black and Brown Planets. Ed. Isiah Lavender III. Under Review. "Darwinism: Colonialism, Gender, and the Evolution of Science Fiction." The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Ed. Rob Latham. New York: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2014. "The Hunger Games: Darwinism and Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative in the Post-9/11 World." The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World. Ed. Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, and Jack Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Scholars, forthcoming 2013. "Introduction: Reading and Writing SF." Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Ed. Karen Hellekson, Craig Jacobsen, Patrick Sharp, and Lisa Yaszek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. 53-57. "Introduction: The Descent of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures." Co-authored with Jeannette Eileen Jones. Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Ed. Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp. New York and London: Routledge, 2009. 1-7. "The Evolution of the West: Darwinist Visions of Race and Progress in Roosevelt and Turner." Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Ed. Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp. New York and London: Routledge, 2009. 225-236. "The Great White 'Race Adventure': Jack London and the Yellow Peril." Crossing Oceans: Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim. Ed. Noelle Brada-Williams and Karen Chow. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. 89-97. "Space, Future War, and the Frontier in American Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative." Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 151-56. REVIEWS Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. M. Keith Booker. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2010. Science Fiction Studies 39.1 (2012): 123-125. The Alchemists of Kush. Minister Faust. Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette, 2011. SFRA Review 298 (2011): 16-18. The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction. Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint. New York: Routledge, 2011. SFRA Review 298 (2011): 31-33. The Bionic Woman: Seasons 1 and 2. 1975-1977. Perf. Lindsay Wagner, Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks. Universal: 2010, 2011. SFRA Review 297 (2011): 60-62. The Man in the Moone. Francis Godwin. 1638. Ed. William Poole. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2009. Science Fiction Studies 38.2 (2011): 351-352. Donnie Darko. Geoff King. London: Wallflower, 2007. Science Fiction Film and Television 3.2 (2010): 313-316. Dr. Patrick B. Sharp Curriculum Vitae Page 5 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction. William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: