Michael Rectenwald Clinical Professor Liberal Studies/Global Liberal Studies New York University 726 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 [email protected] http://www.michaelrectenwald.com EDUCATION Ph.D., Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. Dissertation: “The Publics of Science: Periodicals and the Making of British Science, 1820-1860.” Jon Klancher, Director. M.A., English Literature, Case Western Reserve University, 1997. B.A., English Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1983. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Clinical Professor, New York University (NYU), New York, NY. Liberal Studies/Global Liberal Studies (formerly Clinical Assistant Professor and Master Teacher), August 2008 – present. Chair, Science, Technology and Society (STS) Concentration, 2012 – 2014. Lecturer, NYU London, August 2010 – May 2011. Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, NC. English and Mass Communications; August 2006 – July 2008. Lecturer, Duke University (Duke), Durham, NC. University Writing Program; January 2007 – May 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA. English Department; September 2005 – August 2006. Writer/Editor III, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. The Intelligent Software Agents Lab, The Robotics Institute; January 2001 – August 2005. Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. English Department; 1997 – 2005. Michael Rectenwald, Curriculum Vitae 2 Instructor, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH. English Department; 1994 – 1997. Previous Career in Advertising and Broadcasting, 1983-1993. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Springtime for Snowflakes: ‘Social Justice’ and Its Postmodern Parentage. Nashville, TN; London, UK: New English Review Press (2018). https://amzn.to/2toA1YE Rectenwald, Michael and Lisa Carl. Academic Writing, Real World Topics. (Concise Edition). Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press (July 20, 2016). https://broadviewpress.com/product/academic-writing-real-world-topics-concise-edition/#tab- description Nineteenth-Century British Secularism: Science, Religion and Literature. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016). http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137463883 Rectenwald, Michael, Rochelle Almeida and George Levine, eds. Global Secularisms in a Post- Secular Age. Boston: De Gruyter (September 25, 2015). http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/428502 Rectenwald, Michael, and Lisa Carl. Academic Writing, Real World Topics. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press (May 28, 2015). https://broadviewpress.com/product/academic-writing-real- world-topics-concise-edition/#tab-description Breach: Collected Poems, Apogee Publishing (2013). https://www.amazon.com/Breach- Collected-Poems-Michael-Rectenwald/dp/1482504375 The Thief and Other Stories, Apogee Publishing (2013). https://www.amazon.com/Thief-other- Stories-Michael-Rectenwald/dp/1481181319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359215125&sr=8- 1&keywords=michael+rectenwald The Eros of the Baby Boom Eras. Bethesda, MD: Apogee Books (1991). https://www.amazon.com/eros-baby-boom-other- poems/dp/0962884200/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359216563&sr=1- 3&keywords=michael+rectenwald Academic Essays in Books and Periodicals “‘Social Justice’ and Its Postmodern Parentage.” Academic Questions. 31.2. (10 April 2018): 130-139. Print. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1On-aj4igtiX9cLXTaUidhfJV4lyGxHF6/view “Secularism as Modern Secularity.” In Ryan T. Cragun, Lori Fazzino, Christel Manning, eds. Michael Rectenwald, Curriculum Vitae 3 Organized Secularism in the United States. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter (November 2017): 31-56. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yNl6Ta5Jq73hl6Med2E_PJR_-fFJ9GLe/view “Introduction: Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age.” In Michael Rectenwald, Rochelle Almeida and George Levine, eds. Global Secularisms in a Post- Secular Age. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter (2015): 1-24. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74T2U4cUI5TGx1SkE/view “Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Secularism and its Contemporary Post-Secular Implications.” In Michael Rectenwald, Rochelle Almeida and George Levine, eds. Global Secularisms in a Post- Secular Age. Boston: De Gruyter (2015): 43-64. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74dTNnTV9qZWZOaVE/view “Secularism and the Cultures of Nineteenth-century Scientific Naturalism.” The British Journal for the History of Science. 46.2 (June 2013): 231-54. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74Q0swQWxEOHFFUkU/view?usp=sharing “Secularism.” In Margaret Harris, ed. George Eliot in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013): 271-78. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74bmJZZFI0UkZOT2M/view?usp=sharing Smythe, Thomas W. and Michael Rectenwald. “Craig on God and Morality.” International Philosophical Quarterly. 51.3. 203 (September 2011): 331-38. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74QllYOU1BU2ZoeTQ/view “Reading Around the Kids.” In Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George, eds. The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve. University of Illinois Press, (1998): 107-13. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74Y1BKcnpvdHBBaDA/view?usp=sharing Rectenwald, Michael, and John Kuijper. “New Economic Criticism: A Review of the Conference.” News and Notices for The Sociey of Critical Exchange. 9 Winter/Spring (1995): 11-12. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74YTRjUjJsNEh2UnM/edit Book Reviews “A Category in Contention.” Review of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity, G. Dawson, B. Lightman, eds. University of Chicago, 2014. Endeavor. 39.1. 3 March 2015: 3. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74bUFlMnZ4Tm91NDQ/view?usp=sharing “Naturally Scientific.” Review of The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries, Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy, eds. Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Endeavour 38.3-4 (September-December 2014): 151-52. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74LWVpSzYwMzNKREE/view “Local Histories, Broader Implications.” Review of Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Michael Rectenwald, Curriculum Vitae 4 Composition, Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, eds. College Composition and Communication. 60.2 (December 2008): W53-57. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74V0V5OXhUb1hZR00/view?usp=sharing “The Beat Generation Meets The E-Generation.” Review of Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sunday, 11 February 2001. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74UG1meGhsSUdyZjQ/view?usp=sharing “Who's afraid of a Woolf Biography? Scholarly, Feminist Examination of Writer's Life Discards Romantic Bravado.” Review of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sunday, 24 August 1997. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74ejhFNnI1MGRDX28/view?usp=sharing “Milton Finds and Loses Paradise in the New World.” Review of Milton In America by Peter Ackroyd, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sunday, 13 July 1997. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74aURRQjd2OTlTRUk/view?usp=sharing “The Landscape of Yeats’ Life Emerges From A Personal Perspective.” Review of W.B. Yeats: The Man And The Milieu by Keith Alldritt. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sunday, June 8, 1997. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgNV1aQVE74ZDl0X0NIbXRCTW8/view?usp=sharing Popular and Creative: Essays and Presentations “On the Origins and Character of ‘Social Justice.’” New English Review. August 2018. https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=189367&sec_id=189367 “Introduction to ‘Social Justice.’” New York Metropolitan Club. 03 May 2018. https://vimeo.com/267935639 “Why Political Correctness Is Incorrect.” International Business Times. 25 January 2018. http://www.ibtimes.com/why-political-correctness-incorrect-2645346 “Shaming & Shunning, Part II: ‘You Must Be a Rightwing Nut-job.’” CLG News. 30 August. 2017. http://www.legitgov.org/Shaming-Shunning-Part-II-You-Must-Be-Rightwing-Nut-job “Shaming & Shunning: The People Who Do It, & Its Likely Effects (Part I).” CLG News. 16 August. 2017. http://www.legitgov.org/Shaming-Shunning-People-Who-Do-It-Its-Likely- Effects-Part-I “A Critique of ‘Social Justice’ Ideology: Thinking through Marx and Nietzsche.” CLG News. 20 July 2017. http://www.legitgov.org/Critique-Social-Justice-Ideology-Thinking-through-Marx- and-Nietzsche “A Sketch Toward a Genealogy of ‘Social Justice’ Morals” (Part of The New Thought Police - Social Justice Warriors). Left Forum. YouTube. 3 June 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvLzHfINqeo Michael Rectenwald, Curriculum Vitae 5 “Have You Found That Place That Makes You Want to Swallow Its Rhetoric Whole?” Quillette. 6 May 2017. http://quillette.com/2017/05/06/found-place-makes-want-swallow-rhetoric-whole/ “(Re)Secularizing the University.” American Conservative. 14 March 2017. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/resecularizing-the-university/ “Reply to LS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group.” Washington Square News. 6 February 2017. https://www.nyunews.com/2017/02/06/reply-to-ls-diversity-equity-and- inclusion-working-group/ “Here’s what happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU.” Washington Post. 3 November 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc- culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c4004fd1eec6 “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Bias Reporting: The New Micro-techniques of Surveillance and Control.” CLG News. 12 September 2016. http://www.legitgov.org/Trigger-Warnings-Safe-