updated M arch 2021 ERIC J. STERLING VITA Department of English and Philosophy, PO Box 244023 Auburn University at Montgomery Montgomery, Alabama 36124-4023 (334) 244-3760, esterl i [email protected] EDUCATION: Ph.D., Indiana University, minor in Theatre and Drama, 1992 M.A., Indiana University, 1987 West Virginia University, 1985-86 B.A., Queens College (CUNY), 1985 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: The Movement Towards Subversion: The English History Play from Skelton to Shakespeare Di rector: Charl es R. Forker PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Di rector, Master of Liberal Arts Program, 2009-present Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery, 2003-present English Department Student Advisor, 1994-present Director, Writing and Editing Internship Program, Auburn University at Montgomery, 2000-present Associate Director of Composition, Auburn University at Montgomery, 2006-07 Associate Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1998-2003 A ssi stant to the Dean of L i beral A rts, A uburn University at Montgomery, 1996-99 Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1994-98 Full-time Instructor of English, University of Central Arkansas, 1992-94 Part-time Instructor of English, Indiana University, 1987-92 Graduate Teaching Instructor of English, West Virginia University, 1985-86 Team teacher, ESL English Composition course, Queens College, Spring 1984 AWARDS: AUM AWARDS: AUM Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2018-2019. AUM Ida Belle Young Endowed Professor Award, 2015-2018. AUM Alumni Professor, 2013-2016. Award given to only one faculty member once every three years for excellence in scholarship and teaching. AUM Alumni Association Service Award, 2011. AUM Distinguished Teachi ng Prof essor A ward, 2005-2008. AUM Distinguished Research Professor A ward, 2001-2004. OTHER AUM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Faculty Recognition for contributing to the academic success of AUM Student-A thl etes A UM Men’ s Soccer, 2019 Faculty Recognition for contributing to the academic success of AUM Student-A thl etes A UM Women’ s Soccer, 2017 Faculty Recognition for contributing to the academic success of AUM Student-A thl etes, A UM Women’ s Basketball, Spring 2015 and Fall 2015. Faculty Recognition for contributing to the academic success of AUM Student-A thl etes A UM Men’ s Soccer, Spring 2015 and Fall 2015. Inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), Auburn University Montgomery, 2007. Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi honor society, Auburn University Montgomery, 2000. STATE-WIDE AWARDS: Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship, awarded annually by the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) to one English faculty member in Alabama for excellence in scholarship over a career, 2015-2016. William J. Calvert Award, an essay competition for best paper wri tten by an English faculty member i n A l abama, for “ The Importance of Memory: Jewish Mysticism and Preserving History in Elie Wiesel’s The Forgotten,” awarded by the A ssociation of Col l ege Engl i sh Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2019. James Woodal l A ward, an essay competition for best essay on pedagogy written by an English f acul ty member i n A l abama, f or “ Teachi ng Gender, Sexual i ty, and the West i n A meri can L i terature,” awarded by the Association of College English Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2019. James Woodal l A ward, an essay competition for best essay on pedagogy written by an English f acul ty member i n A l abama, f or “Teaching Chinua Achebe’s Novel Things Fall Apart in Survey of British Literature II,” awarded by the Association of College English Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2007. James Woodal l A ward, an essay competition for best essay on pedagogy written by an English f acul ty member i n A l abama, f or “L ove I s L i ke a Milky Way Bar: Teaching John Donne’s ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,’ ” awarded by the Association of College English Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2004. James Woodal l A ward an essay competition for best paper on pedagogy written by an English f facul ty member i n A l abama, f or “Teaching Holocaust Literature to College Students in A l abama,” awarded by the A ssociation of College Engl i sh Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2003. James Woodal l A ward, an essay competition for best paper on pedagogy written by an English f acul ty member i n A l abama, f or “Teachi ng Haml et to Students at a Commuter Campus,” awarded by the A ssociation of College Engl i sh Teachers of A l abama (A CETA ), 2001. William J. Calvert Award in 1997, an essay competition for best paper written by an English facul ty member i n A l abama, f or “Bent Straight: The Destruction of Self in Martin Sherman’s Bent,” awarded by the A ssoci ati on of Col l ege Engl i sh Teachers of A l abama (A CETA )1997. NATIONAL AWARDS University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences’ Amy and Eric Burger Competition for Essays on the Theatre, an annual essay competition for the best essay written on any aspect of drama or theatre in 1998. M y submi ssi on was “Bent Strai ght: The Destruction of Sel f i n M arti n Sherman’s Bent.” The university recei ves entri es f rom al l over the United States and abroad. College English Association’s Robert E. Hacke Schol ar-Teacher A ward, a nati onal award f or excellence in teaching and scholarship, 1996. The College English A ssoci ati on sel ects only one English f acul ty member i n the Uni ted States as the wi nner each year. UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS Winner, Queens College Alumni Association Award for best pl ay, 1984-1985. Graduation from Queens College with Honors in English and cum laude, 1985. Sterling 4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIV 1000, University Success (8 secti ons) UNIV 1004, University Success, Bridge secti on Devel opmental English Composition (6 sections, including 2 ESL classes) English Composition I (30 sections, including 2 ESL and 2 honors classes) English Composition II (18 secti ons) English Composition II: The Holocaust English Composition II: Coen Brothers Films (2 sections) Competency in Writing for Nursing Majors (23 sections) Competency in Writing for Education Majors Professional Writing for Nursing (2 sections) Advanced Expository Writing (2 sections) Business and Professional Writing, including Honors and ESL (45 secti ons) Business and Professional Writing (online class) (6 sections) Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature II: Tragedy, Horror, and Melodrama (2 sections) Survey of English Literature I (36 secti ons) Survey of Engl i sh L i terature I I (22 secti ons) Survey of Western L i terature I (8 secti ons) Survey of Western L i terature I I (7 sections) Survey of A meri can L i terature I (17 secti ons) Survey of A meri can L i terature I I (16 secti ons) The Short Story Playwriting (3 secti ons) Crime in the Coen Brothers Movies Shakespeare (undergraduate / graduate—8 sections) El i zabethan and Jacobean Drama (undergraduate / graduate—2 sections) Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (undergraduate / graduate—2 sections) Ni neteenth-Century European Drama Jewi sh L i terature of the Holocaust (undergraduate / graduate—6 secti ons) The A meri can Dream i n Drama and Film (undergraduate / graduate) Modern Drama (undergraduate / graduate—2 sections) Visions of America in Modern Literature and Film (undergraduate / graduate) American Gothic Literature August Wilson—3 sections Gay and L esbi an L i terature (undergraduate / graduate)—2 sections L i terature of the Ol d Testament (undergraduate / graduate)—2 sections Themes in Culture and Society II: Tragedy, Horror, and Genocide (graduate only—online class) (11 Sections) TEACHING INTERESTS: Sterling 5 English Composition (including ESL) Jewish and Holocaust Literature Modern Drama African-A meri can Drama Shakespeare and Renai ssance Drama Gay and L esbi an L i terature Playwriting The Ol d Testament Film Studies Renai ssance L i terature and Cul ture PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS (4): Altr ui sm, Empathy, and Survival in Holocaust Drama. In progress. Race and Economics in the Drama of August Wilson. In progress. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook. Robert C. Evans and Eri c J. Sterl i ng, ed. London: Continuum, 2010. 268 pages. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Sal esman: Dialogue. Eric J. Sterling, ed. New York: Rodopi Press, 2008. 185 pages. Life in the Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust. Eri c J. Sterl i ng, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 356 pages. The Movement Towards Subversion: The English History Play from Skelton to Shakespeare. L anham, M D: Uni versi ty Press of A meri ca, 1996. 229 pages. REFEREED ARTICLES (86): “Teaching Western Literature Little Jo Monaghan and ‘Brokeback Mountain,’” (Teaching American Literature). Accepted for publication by Teaching American Literature. TALP Forthcoming in Winter 2021. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” In MLA Approaches to Teaching Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, MLA. Ed. Lynn Domina. “Enduring Value: The Case for Beat Not the Poor Desk.” MLA. In Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Deborah Holdstein. (accepted for publication by the editor but not under contract, not yet accepted by MLA). Sterling 6 “Blindness as Metaphor in Elie Wiesel’s Beggar in Jerusalem, Elie Wiesel’s The Forgotten, and Josef Mengele’s Medical Experiments.” Seeing Blindness from Many Lenses: Insights from Myth, Media, Music & Medicine. Sharon Packer, ed. Jef f erson Ci ty, NC: M cFarland Press.