Ian Green Assistant Professor of English Eastern Washington University [email protected]; [email protected]. 917.848.5362 ianfpgreen.com EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, American Literature May 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
Dissertation Title: “Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist.” Committee: Duncan Faherty (Chair), David S. Reynolds, Eric Lott
Master of Philosophy, American Literature May 2016 The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
Exam Fields: Black Atlantic; Uncanny Capital; Morality, Slavery, and Divinity, Revolution to Renaissance.
Master of Arts, English and American Literature May 2012 New York University, New York, NY
Thesis Title: Sacred Uncertainty: Herman Melville’s Philosophy of Pessimism. Advisor: Peter Nicholls
Bachelor of Arts, English and American Literature May 2008 New York University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish Language and Literature May 2008 New York University, New York, NY
TEACHING SPECIALIZATION
Composition, Writing, Introductory Literature, Early American Literature, Contemporary American Literature, World Literature, Digital Humanities
RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST
Horror Studies, Circum-Atlantic Studies, Diasporic studies, Revolutionary and post-revolutionary American Studies, Slave narratives, Capitalism, Religious writing, Folk narratives, Digital Humanities
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Assistant Professor of American Literature 2017-Present Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
ENGL 596: Master’s Seminar: Designing Digital Archives 2019
Co-taught with Professor of Technical Communication, this master’s-level course collects underrepresented archival material that has heretofore not been critically preserved or analyzed, including literature from the Spokane tribe of Eastern Washington. It also bridges the gap between composition studies in literature and technical writing programs. Students additionally research issues of access in the Washington State Public Education System and the Washington State Prison System. The class then creates an archive of written and non-written regional literatures. Finally, students use social media platforms in order to engage the public in archival curation and to collaborative publication.
ENGL 347: World Literature: Diaspora 2019
In this course, students study narratives, histories, drama, and non-fiction essays related to themes of
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diasporic movements and the syncretic cultures to arise from diaspora. In particular, readings focus on African and Atlantic diaspora, and Spanish-language literature from the Americas.
ENGL 344: Survey of American Literature 1865 to Present 2019
Survey of literature from the period spanning the American Civil War to the contemporary era. This course asserts a hemispheric interpretation of Americanist themes, emphasizing the porosity of borders, along with the extension of American cultural influence and hegemony. It incorporates Anglophonic, Spanish language, and Indigenous-American texts, as well as genre including horror and speculative fiction. Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, Derek Walcott, Octavia Butler, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Janet Campbell Hale, Roxanne Gay, and Jamaica Kincaid.
ENGL 343: American Literature Survey: Origins to 1865 2017-Present
Survey of topics and texts in American literature and literatures of the Americas, including First American literatures, Spanish-language poetry, colonial and postcolonial text, transnational political and creative writing, fiction and personal narratives from the Americas. Texts include Juana de Asbaje, Cabeza de Vaca, Venture Smith, Cotton Mather, Unca Eliza Whitfield, James Fennimore Cooper, Olaudah Equiano, Benjamin Franklin, David Walker, Edgar Allen Poe, andLouisa May Alcott.
ENGL 270: Introduction to Fiction 2017-Present
Introduction to theories and practices of fiction, literary analysis, and creative writing. Students in this course, including first-year writers, and advanced Running Start high school in college students, learn to draft and produce written analyses of works spanning a wide breadth of genre, origin, and theme, from sources including Spanish language and First American authors, short fiction, and graphic novels. Texts include Will Cather, Edith Wharton, William Earle, Alice Munro, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Frank Miller, Shirley Jackson, Jorge Luis Borges, and Louise Erdrich.
ENGL 439: Topics in American Literature: Moby-Dick 2018
Seminar analysis of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. Students discuss topics including scriptural typology, queer and homosocial subtext, democratic framing, structuralism, the development of the novel, national and Atlantic literature, and philosophy. The course concludes with a student-organized public symposium in which students present scholarly papers and creative works in a conference format.
ENGL 438: Topics in American Literature: Zombies, Cannibals, 2018 and Witches: Early American Horror Seminar
Seminar-based analysis of early American horror stories, novels, novellas, and music, from the colonial era through the early twentieth century. Texts include Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, Herman Melville, John Neal, Edith Wharton, and H.P Lovecraft
Adjunct Instructor of Literature 2013-2017 Baruch College, New York, NY
ENG 2100: Introduction to Literature and Composition Topic: 2015-2017 Cosmopolitanism Disputes
Introductory composition, grammar, analysis, and research. Readings include Herman Melville, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, Amiri Baraka, Marshall Berman, Joan Didion, Junot Diaz, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
ENG 2150: Intermediate Literature and Composition Topic: 2015-2017 History, Memory, and Haunting
Mastery of composition, grammar, literary analysis, and research. Introduction to critical theory, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Judith Butler, Ian Baucom. Readings include Richard Wright, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Wole Soyinka, William Earle. ENG 2150: Intermediate Literature and Composition 2013-2015
Composition, analysis, and research. Readings include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Julia Cooper, Edgar Ian Green
Allan Poe, Frederick Law Olmsted, Pierre Bourdieu, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Benedict Anderson.
ENG 2100: Introduction to Literature and Composition 2012-2013
Introductory composition, grammar, analysis, and research. Texts include Frederick Douglass, Catharine Sedgwick, Henry David Thoreau, and Ernest Hemingway.
Graduate Teaching Fellow 2012-2013 Baruch College, New York, NY
ENG 2150: Intermediate Literature and Composition Topic: Capitalism 2013
Composition and analytical research mastery. Texts include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ida B. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo.
ENG 2100: Introduction to Literature and Composition 2012
Introductory composition, grammar, analysis, and research. Writing intensive.
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
Eastern Washington University
Co-Chair Committee for Curriculum Redesign and Reorganization 2019
Chair Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship Committee 2017-Present:
Committee Member 2017-Present Committee for the Development of Undergraduate Writing Standards and Curricula
2018-Present Faculty Mentor Eastern Washington University in the High School
Faculty Advisor Graduate English Program Thesis Projects 2018-Present
Faculty Advisor 2018-Present Undergraduate Independent Study
Baruch College
Departmental Writing Mentor and Tutor 2015-2017
RELEVANT MAJOR PROJECTS
Eastern Washington University English Department Curriculum Redesign 2019 This project essentially rewrote outcomes and assessment strategies for all coursework in all majors within the English Department. Redesigned curriculum for all Literature, Technical Communication, Journalism, Creative Writing, and English Education, in the English Department. I led and organized this effort in conjunction with other colleagues to incorporate digital humanities, archival research, interdisciplinarity, and world literature and to revise classroom objectives and assessment.
Eastern Washington Prairie Restoration Project 2019 Ian Green
In collaboration with local historians, writers, tribal councils, and environmental advocates, I collect and develop histories, creative works, and oral literary responses to this archival and conservation project. My work not only collects archival and current literatures about the area, its history, and its conservation initiatives, but also presents these narratives in multimodal fashion, including web databases, and interactive digital archives integrated into the space itself. The project’s primary aims are to create and maintain an environmental preserve with importance both to local communities, including underrepresented tribal communities, and to ecological conservation initiatives.
EWU Graduate and Undergraduate Symposium: 2018 Herman Melville and American Literature
I developed, and students organized and presented this public symposium of academic and creative works, related to American Literature, with particular emphasis on the works of Herman Melville, and the broader Atlantic world. Students wrote, edited, and presented scholarly papers, ran roundtables, and performed creative pieces for the public, in coordination with the Spokane Public Library system.
New York University Law School Library Rare Books Reorganization and Digitization 2017 I spearheaded, organized, and executed this largescale consolidation of NYU Law Library’s archival and rare books repository. This involved working with vendors and publishers to digitize library holdings, making curatorial decisions, and restructuring physical space to accommodate and properly preserve archival materials.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
Green, Ian. Combustible Man: 2020 Consumption, Cannibalism, and Commodity Horror in Redburn, Rocky Mountain Review
Green, Ian. “Daemons in the Pocket: Contract, Commodities, and Witchcraft 2019 in Massachusetts Bay,” Horror Studies, 11.1 (Spring 2020)
Green, Ian. “The Universal Church of Melville’s Redburn,” 2019 ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, (Spring 2019)
Television Reviews:
Green, Ian. Muscles and Spells: Violent Transcendence in AMC’s 2018 “The Terror,” Gothic Nature Journal, 1 (1).
Book Reviews:
Green, Ian. Book Review of “Anthem: Social Movements 2015 and the Sound of Solidarityin the African Diaspora,” Redmond, Shana L., MELUS: Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States, 40 (1): 212-214
Funded Publication Grant:
Green, Ian. (In Development with Funding) The Haunted Plantation: 2018-2019 Zombies, Ghosts, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman.
Non-Academic Publishing:
Green, Ian. Under the Lake. 2 Bridges Review, 5. 2017 Ian Green
Green, Ian. The Prophet. Poydras Review, February 8. 2016
Green, Ian. Merry Christmas. Poydras Review, December 7 2015
Green, Ian. Palimpsest. F(r)iction Online, Tethered by Letters, April 14. 2015
Green, Ian. Miss Rona and Mrs. Winter. Anamesa Journal, 13 (1). 2015
Green, Ian. The Prophet. Anamesa Journal, 13 (1). 2015
Green, Ian & Wingo, Wesley Scrimshaw. CreateSpace Publication. Spring 2018
Green, Ian & Wingo, Wesley Scrimshaw. CreateSpace Publication. 1, Fall 2015
Reporting:
Green, Ian. Environment is the Leading Player in Base Development. 2007 San Juan Star, June 29: Business, B-1
Green, Ian. CUD Blasts Wal-Mart’s Entrance into Financial Arena. 2007 San Juan Star, June 22: Business, B-17.
Green, Ian. House Industry Push Agricultural Biotech Projects. 2007 San Juan Star, June 13: Business, B-3
Green, Ian. Naturally Theatrical: Ian Green on 2005: Anna Van Matre’s Elemental Dramas. New York Arts,10 (7/8): 64.
Green, Ian & Westcott James. (Clocks, Chocolate, Basel. 2005 Art Fairs International, 10, (7/8): 30.
Green, Ian. Frieze: Your Friends Are So Arty! 2005 Art Fairs International, 10 (9/10): 22
Green, Ian. LOOP: Videophilia. Art Fairs International, 10 (9/10): 33 2005
Green, Ian. Free Association? New York Arts Magazine, 10, (9/10): 38. 2005
Green, Ian. The Empty Underbelly. New York Arts Magazine, 10 (9/10): 31 2005
DISSERTATION
Title:
“Providential Capitalism: Heavenly Intervention and the Atlantic’s Divine Economist.”
Abstract:
A comprehensive analysis of the interrelation of capitalist ideology and providential theology in post-revolutionary trans-Atlantic literature. Interrogates diasporic African texts by Olaudah Equiano, Venture Smith et. al., white maritime narratives by Royall Tyler and Richard Henry Dana, American Renaissance work by Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe, and urban gothic texts by Charles Brockden Brown and George Lippard.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
British Association of American Studies 2019 Ian Green
University of Sussex, Sussex, England, UK
“The Haunted Plantation: Zombiesm Ghosts, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman.” Race, Resistance, and the Nation in Postbellum American Literature.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2018 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
“American Monstrosity: Globalism and Race Panic in The Dunwich Horror.” Extraordinary Space: Locating States of Exception in the Fantastic, Panel.
British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists 2018 Kings College, University College, London, England, UK
“Return of the Combustible Man: Blood-Sacrifice and Commodity (Mis)Identification in Melville’s Redburn.” Interactions with the Nonhuman World in Nineteenth Century America
The Eleventh International Melville Society Conference: Melville’s Crossings 2017 King’s College, London, England, UK.
“Combustible Man: Commodity Identification in Herman Melville’s Redburn.”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2017 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
“Cannibalism, Color, and Commodification in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.”
Institute for research on the African Diaspora 2017 in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, (CUNY) New York, NY
“Uncommon Suffering and Divine Deliverance: Atlantic Labor, Captivity, and Community.”
Student Symposium of Popular Culture and Philosophy 2016 State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.
“Capital’s Haunted Houses: Chesnutt, Hurston, and the Uncanny in the Atlantic.”
American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Writer 2015 University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
“The Contract: Providential Capitalism and the Mayflower Compact.” American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Writer,
CUNY GC Conference on Currents of the Black Atlantic 2014 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, (CUNY) New York, NY
“The Invisible Hand: Olaudah Equiano and the Economics of Fate and Transformation.”
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
New York University Law School Library 2008-2017 New York, NY
Full-time Library Assistant, Department of Collection Services
New York University Law School Library 2005-2008 New York, NY Ian Green
Part-time Library Assistant
Major Research Project: State Statutes of Virginia archival research for Ron Brown, Bill Nelson
San Juan Star, Daily Newspaper 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Reporter, Staff Writer, Editorial Assistant
New York Arts Magazine 2005 New York, NY
Part-time Writer, Editorial Intern
Art Fairs International, Magazine 2005 New York, NY
Part-time Writer, Editorial Intern
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Faculty Grant for Research and Creative Works Award 2018 Eastern Washington University
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean 2016-2017 (IRADAC) Fellow CUNY Graduate Center
Oral Exam with Distinction 2015 CUNY Graduate Center
Graduate Teaching Fellow 2012-2014 CUNY Graduate Center
NYU Founder’s Day Award for Academic Achievement 2008 New York University
Julius Silver Scholarship 2004-2008 New York University
NYU Dean’s List 2004-2008 New York University
NYU Alumni Club of Southwest Florida Scholarship 2004-2008 New York University
Bennett Award for Poetry 2004 Philadelphia, PA
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
CUNY Academic Commons: Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative
CUNY Academic Commons: Committee on Globalization and Social Change
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University of Pennsylvania Press Journals J19
American Library Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish (Fluent written translation, highly proficient spoken).
French (Basic written translation).
REFERENCES
Justin Young [email protected]
Associate Professor of English, Director of English Composition Program & Writers’ Center Eastern Washington University
Lisa Blankenship [email protected]
Assistant Professor; Writing Program Director Baruch College
Duncan Faherty [email protected]
Associate Professor of English CUNY Graduate Center; Queens College
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
Eric Lott [email protected]
Professor CUNY Graduate Center
David S. Reynolds [email protected]
Distinguished Professor CUNY Graduate Center