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Wallis Remsen Sanborn, III 2104 Carlton Way, San Angelo, TX 76901 Phone: 325-277-5702 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in English, Texas Tech University, May 2003 Master of Arts in English, Texas Tech University, May 1999 Bachelor of Arts in English, Texas Tech University, December 1994 PUBLICATIONS Books The American Novel of War: A Critical Analysis and Classification System. McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. Ms. 450+ pp. To be published 2012. Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy. McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. Ms. 250+ pp. Published 2006. Short Work “Wolves as Metaphor in The Crossing.” Gale Group’s Contemporary Literary Criticism 295 (Oct. 2010): 250-59. Rev. of Timothy Parrish, From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction. The Cormac McCarthy Journal 7.1 (2009): 36-39. “Animals and Death in The Gardener’s Son, The Stonemason, ‘Bounty,’ and ‘The Dark Waters.” Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Cormac McCarthy, New Edition. Ed. and Intro. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism/Infobase, 2009. 171-82. Rev. of Conrado Espinoza, Under the Texas Sun. Texas Books in Review 27.4 (Winter 2007- 08): 9+. Rev. of Harold Burton Meyers, The Death at Awahi. Southwestern American Literature 33.1 (2007): 99-101. “’I Aint Heard One in Years’: Wolves as Metaphor in The Crossing.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 3.1 (2003): 25-37. Sanborn Rev. of Lee Martin, Quakertown. Iron Horse Literary Review 3.2 (2002): 129-31. CONFERENCES “The Terrain and Weather as Enemy in Blood Meridian and Ceremony.” Western Crossroads: The Annual Western Literature Association Conference, to be held in Lubbock, Texas, 7-10 November, 2012. “‘War is your trade. Is it not?’: Blood Meridian as American Novel of War.” The Cormac McCarthy Society 2010 Annual Conference, San Marcos, TX, Meeting, 2010. “Analyzing the Sample Documents in Technical Writing Textbooks: Some of These Things are Not Like the Others.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2009. “Online Discussion as the Pedagogical Locus of the Online Classroom.” The Oregon State University Faculty Forum, Corvallis, OR, Meeting, 2008. “’the country [and Text] into which animals had vanished’: How Cormac McCarthy Follows Precedent in No Country for Old Men, sans Animal Omnipresence.” The Cormac McCarthy Society 2005 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, Meeting, 2005. “Modes of Martial Discourse (Part Two): The Martial Arts in West Texas.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2005. “Modes of Martial Discourse: The Combat Arts in West Texas.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, Meeting, 2004. “Feline Hierarchy in The Orchard Keeper.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2003. “Canine Hierarchy in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels of the Border Southwest.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2002. “Anglo-American Folklore in Denise Chavez’s ‘The Last of the Menu Girls.’” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2001. “Blood, Sweat, and Spit: An Analysis of the Opening Scene of Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Meeting, 2000. “Domestic Interior: Poems of a Broken Marriage.” Graduate English Society. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Meeting, 1999. Sanborn TEACHING Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Angelo State University, 2008-2011, 2012-2013. Part-time Lecturer, Angelo State University, 2012. Online English Faculty, University of Maryland University College, 2007-2008. Online English Faculty, Oregon State University, 2006-2008. Online English Continuing Faculty, DeVry University Online, 2006-2008, 2011-2012. Part-time Instructor, Texas Tech University Outreach Extended Studies, Fall 2004. Visiting Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, 2003-2004. Part-time Instructor, Texas Tech University Outreach Extended Studies, Summer 2003. Graduate Instructor, Texas Tech University, 1996-2003. COURSES TAUGHT Readings in American Literature, Summer 2012 (1 online section, enrollment 35). This multi- genre, reading intensive, sophomore level course emphasizes the greatness and scope of Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern American literature and focuses on the work of sundry Romanticists, Juan Felipe Herrera, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Cormac McCarthy. Writing Across the Curriculum, 2008-2012 (enrollment 25). This freshman level writing and documentation course emphasizes academic writing in the Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, with the Research Essay as the central component of the course and a major structural element constructed around the use of informal logical fallacies in formal rhetoric and mass media. Business Communications, 2008-2012 (enrollment 25). This junior level course, required for all Angelo State Business majors, instructs the student in the skills necessary to communicate effectively in the 21st century business-writing environment. Document design and creation includes, but is not limited to, pre-employment documents, business letters, emails and memoranda, business reports, and field-specific proposals. Heavy emphasis is placed on systematic post-drafting proofreading, revising, and editing. Readings in World Literature: Texts of the Holocaust and Writing Across the Curriculum Spring 2011 (enrollment 35 and 25). These multi-genre, reading intensive, sophomore and freshman level courses emphasize the texts born of the Holocaust and include the work of Pastor Niemöller, Don Pagis, Art Spiegelman, D.M. Thomas, Elie Wiesel, the music of Erwin Schulhoff, the films of Leni Riefenstahl and Alain Resnais, and the art of Samuel Bak. Sanborn Technical Writing, 2008-2011 (enrollment 25). This junior level course for the non-Business major in the technical fields—agriculture, engineering, mathematics, nursing, science, et cetera—instructs the student in professional document creation, word processing application(s), graphics use, and rudimentary web page design. Attention is also given to the creation and revision of post-baccalaureate job application materials, the Cover Letter, Résumé, and Thank You Letter, and graduate school application documents, the Curriculum Vitae, Purpose Letter, and Graduate School Application. English Composition, 2008-2011 (enrollment 25). This freshman level writing course emphasizes writing the short academic essay by process within a number of different rhetorical purposes and situations while it utilizes advertising in print and video media to highlight successful rhetoric both logically sound and logically flawed. Readings in American Literature, Spring 2009 (1 section, enrollment 35). This multi-genre, reading intensive, sophomore level course emphasizes the greatness and scope of Modern and Postmodern African American literature and focuses on the work of Terrance Hayes, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, and Richard Wright. Technical Writing, 2006-2008 (1 online section per term, 4 terms per year, enrollment 25). This third year reading and writing intensive course addresses pre-employment document design, business letter, memo, and email formality and document design, proposal design, web page design and the post-graduation job search. The course also focuses on the creation and revision of field-specific formal business documents. Understanding Grammar, 2006-2008 (1 online section per term, 4 terms per year, enrollment 25). This third year reading and writing intensive course addresses sentence structure, language and thought vocabulary, language and writing skills, and mechanics and usage, at an advanced undergraduate level. The American Novel: Post World War II, Winter 2007-2008 (1 online section per academic year, enrollment 20-25). This junior level reading, writing, and discussion intensive course opens with Norman Mailer and John Barth and also covers Kesey, Doctorow, Silko, O’Brien, Cisneros, and Kennedy. The American Novel: Beginnings to Chopin, Spring 2007-2008 (1 online section per academic year, enrollment 20-25). This junior level reading, writing, and discussion intensive course opens with William Hill Brown and runs through Cooper, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Crane, and Chopin. The American Novel: the Modernist Period, Spring 2007-2008 (1 online section per academic year, enrollment 20-25). This junior level reading, writing, and discussion intensive course opens with Hawthorne and Crane, then segues into Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck, and closes with Américo Paredes and Richard Wright. Sanborn The Modern Short Story, 2006-2008 (1 to 2 online sections each year, enrollment 25). This junior level course surveys the American short story via stories from Kate Chopin and Stephen Crane to Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner through T.C. Boyle, Alice Walker, and E.L. Doctorow. Advanced Composition, 2006-2008, 2011-2012 (1 online section per term, enrollment 25). This required four credit hour reading, writing, research-intensive course is for first year students. Introduction to Creative Writing, Fall 2007 (1 section per term, enrollment 15-20). This sophomore level creative writing course focuses