DAN GRAHAM Lecturer, Department of English Tufts University
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CV | 1 DAN GRAHAM Lecturer, Department of English Tufts University Department of English Tufts University Department of English 6 The Green Medford, MA 02155 Education Ph.D. 2018 University of Connecticut-Storrs. English. M.A. 2013 University of Connecticut-Storrs. English. B.A. 2010 SUNY Buffalo State College. English, History, summa cum laude. Professional History Lecturer, Tufts University, 2019-present Professional Writing Tutor, Endicott College, 2019-present Adjunct Professor of English, Emmanuel College, 2018-19 Adjunct Professor of English, MCPHS University, 2016-present Social Media Coordinator, English Department, University of Connecticut, 2016-17 Lead Organizer, Graduate Employee Union-United Auto Workers Local 6950, 2015-18 Project Assistant, Rebecca Harding Davis Digital Archive, 2014-15 Graduate Instructor of Record, University of Connecticut, 2011-18 Research and Teaching Interests American literature, American studies, cultural studies, immigrant literature, ethnic American literature, popular culture, working class literature, Spiritualism and spirituality, the American Civil War, literature and medicine Honors and Awards CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Humanities and Fine Arts, 2019 (nominated) Milton Stern Dissertation Award, University of Connecticut, 2018 Aetna Graduate Teaching Award in First-Year Writing, University of Connecticut, 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Grant, 2017 Business History Conference Meeting, 2017 Aetna Graduate Writing Prize, “More Wonderful Than ‘Table-Turning’ Ever Was: Spiritualism, Counterfeit, and the Commodity Fetish after the American Civil War,” University of Connecticut, Fall 2016 Mary Baker Eddy Library Fellowship, Boston, Summer 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut Graduate School, 2016 Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2015 Graduate Fellowship, University of Connecticut Graduate School, 2014 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Modern Language Association, 2014 Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Connecticut Department of English, 2013 Graduate Student Travel Award, Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, 2013 CV | 2 Publications “Will the Real Laureate of the Confederacy Please Stand Up?: Henry Timrod and the Counter Memory of the Lost Cause.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South vol. 26, no. 1 (forthcoming, 2019). “Keeping War at a Distance: Good Deaths, Postmortem Imagery, and Unresolved Grief in The Red Badge of Courage.” Stephen Crane Studies vol. 23, nos. 1 & 2, spring/fall 2018. Selected Conferences & Colloquia Presenter. “Are There Any Lost Worlds That Wish to Communicate? Imperialist Futures and the Right to Prophesy in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, the Hidden Self.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Cincinnati, OH. March 21-24, 2019. Chair. “Developing Mad Studies.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. March 21-24, 2019. Presenter. “When Progressive Movements Go Mad: Spiritualism and the Euthanization of the Spiritually Unfit.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. March 21-24, 2019. Moderator. “What’s Your Immigration Story? Do-It-Yourself Immigrant Literature.” Breaking Borders and Building Bridges. Colleges of the Fenway Conference. February 22, 2019. Presenter. “Metaphysical Healing: Spiritualism, Christian Science, and Eugenics in Post- Reconstruction U.S.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Pittsburgh, PA. April 12-15, 2018. Presenter. “From Business Mediums to Economic Forecasters: The Rise of Commercial and Market Astrology in the Fin-De-Siècle U.S.” The Business History Conference. Denver, CO. March 30-April 2, 2017. Presenter. “Ouija, the Talking Board… of Trade?: Spiritualism & Speculative Games of Chance in the Turn-of-the-Century U.S.” New England American Studies Association Conference. Boston, MA. March 10-11, 2017. Presenter. “‘We Have Paid Dearly For Its Originality’: Christian Science, Spiritualism, and the Discourse of Counterfeit.” Fellows’ Talk, Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston, MA. August 11, 2016. Presenter. “Reading (About) Death: The Impropriety of Mourning in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, CT. March 17-20, 2016. Presenter. “Home is Where the Harm is: Propagating, Purging, and Punishing Nostalgia in the Civil War and Postwar Era.” American Studies Association. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 8-11, 2015. Presenter. “‘Keeping War at a Distance’: Good Deaths, Postmortem Imagery, and Unresolved Grief in The Red Badge of Courage.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA. May 21-24, 2015. CV | 3 Presenter. “Policing Necrocurrencies: Spiritualists, Counterfeiters, and the Classing of Unproductive Exchange after the American Civil War.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 112th Annual Conference. Riverside, CA. October 30-November 1, 2014. Presenter. “A Hazard of New Entitlements: The Politics of Pensions in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes.” American Literature Association. Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014. Presenter. “‘Leave Them Wanting More’: Staging Vagrancy Behind the Curtain of Affluence in Sister Carrie.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. January 9-12, 2014. Presenter. “Henry Timrod or: Ousting the Confederacy From the Poet Laureate.” Tenth Biennial Conference of the Constance Fenimore Wilson Society Meeting Jointly with the Rebecca Harding Davis Society, Columbus, GA. February 2013. Teaching Experience Tufts University 2019-present English 1: Expository Writing English 1 explores the principles of effective written communication and provides intensive practice in writing various types of expository prose, especially analysis and persuasion. Essays by contemporary and earlier authors are examined as instances of the range and versatility of standard written English. Emmanuel College 2018-19 Introduction to Literary Methods This course undertook a semester-long study of The Exorcist (both the 1971 novel and 1973 film), introducing students to different modes of criticism used to analyze literary texts. Students read literary works through a variety of critical lenses, including Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Cultural Studies, and Feminism. Learning how to read and interpret the complex interactions between literary and critical texts, students had the opportunity to interrogate the foundational assumptions of different cultural paradigms and to understand what each analytical approach values in and finds problematic about literary texts. American Voices I: U.S. Literature to 1865 This course examined the development of American literature from Columbus to Whitman. Students considered the aesthetic characteristics of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, as they engaged with religious and political movements like Puritanism and slavery, interrogated themes like self-reliance and individualism, and discussed sociocultural issues such as class dynamics, the treatment of indigenous peoples by European settlers, and gender relations. Students considered each text within its historical context in order to understand how it simultaneously responds and contributes to the conditions that have given rise to it. Short Fiction This course introduced students to the intensive study of short fiction. Students read a wide array of short stories and analyzed them in relation to aesthetic and cultural issues, including race, class, gender, and sexuality. Writers included Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Frank Norris, Sui Sin Far, Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Bulosan, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. CV | 4 MCPHS University 2016-present Immigrant Literature Through the study of immigrant narratives and immigration history, students investigate factors prompting emigration to America from second-wave immigration movements through the present. Students assess modes of coercive and consensual cultural assimilation, evaluate common themes and historical impacts of a range of nativist movements and anti- immigrant rhetoric, and consider immigrant narratives as repositories of language, culture, and religion. Major authors include Jacob Riis, Sui Sin Far, Abraham Cahan, Mike Gold, Carlos Bulosan, Sandra Cisneros, T.C. Boyle, Dave Eggers, Mohja Kahf, Bapsi Sidhwa, Gene Luen Yang, Mohsin Hamid, and others. Expository Writing I This introductory composition course focused on writing clear and coherent summaries, reports, and essays, with a special focus on understanding, using, and documenting college- level nonfiction texts as evidence for effectively formulating and accurately supporting a thesis. Specific course topics have emphasized aspects of medical history, literature, and culture in the nineteenth-century U.S.; as well as literature and topics in U.S. immigration of the past and present. Expository Writing II This course applies expository writing skills to writing research papers and performing basic literary analysis. Students write coherent, well-documented papers, requiring library research and the synthesis of professional and popular sources. Multiple literary analyses are assigned to demonstrate knowledge of literary concepts, devices, and techniques. Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing This course introduced students to college-level reading and writing. It covered rhetorical analysis; summary, synthesis, and paragraphing skills; and the development of composition skills, grammar,