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 Ian Green 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