Curriculum vitæ
Philip Joseph
				  
Education		
	
Institution			Date		Degree				Major	

Amherst College		1989		B.A., magna cum laude		English
State University 		2000		Ph.D.				English
	of New York at Buffalo

Professional Experience

2008-present	Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver	
2002-2008	Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver	
2000-2002	Lecturer, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
1998-1999	Graduate Assistantship, Speech Writer in the Office of the University President, SUNY at Buffalo 
1993-1997	Graduate Instructor, Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo

Administrative Experience

2019-2022	Chair, English Department
2007-2014	Director, Colorado Center for Public Humanities at CU Denver 
	
Books Published

2007	American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age (LSU Press, 2007).  232 pages.  

Book Manuscript in Progress

	Rogues in Combat: Picaresque Adventure and the Writing of War, 1668-Present. 

Refereed Journal Articles

2019	Joseph, Philip. “The Intelligence of the Female Adventurer: Homeland as a Secret History of 			War.” Genre 52.1 (April 2019): 25-50.

2016	Joseph, Philip. "The Pícaro at War: Vernacular Language and Violent Conflict in Grimmelshausen 		and Saro-Wiwa," PMLA  131.5 (October 2016), special issue on World Literature: 1284-1298. 

2013	Joseph, Philip. "Soldiers in Baltimore: The Wire and the New Global Wars." CR: The New Centennial 	Review 13.1 (spring), special issue on "Peace and War": 209-240.

2011	Joseph, Philip. "Literary Lawlessness: Sozaboy and the Case of the Child Soldier in Fiction."  English Language Notes 49.2 (Fall/Winter), special issue on "The Shape of the I": 89-100.

2007	Joseph, Philip. “Dead Letters and Circulating Texts: On the Limits of Literary Archiving.” Lead article in English Language Notes 45.1 (Spring/Summer): 5-20. 

2002	Joseph, Philip.  “The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston and Reparative Justice.”  Lead article in American Literature 74.3: 455-83.

2002	Joseph, Philip.  “Unsettling the Exodus: Abraham Cahan’s Deliberation in American Fiction.”  Lead article in MELUS 27.4: 3-32.

1998	Joseph, Philip.  “Landed and Literary: Hamlin Garland, Sarah Orne Jewett and the Production of Regional Literatures.” Studies in American Fiction 26.2: 147-70.

Book Chapters

2019	"Regional Literary Expressions.”  Blackwell Companion to American Literature. Vol. 3: 1914-
	Present.  Ed. Susan Belasco, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto, and Theresa Strouth Gaul (Sussex, 		UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing), 18-32.

2019	“Regionalism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, Ed. Paul Lauter (New York: Oxford 		University Press). Externally reviewed. Accessible at OxfordBibliographies.com.

2018	"Regionalism in Our Time: Teaching Garland, Hurston, and Company in the Age of Occupy 		Wall Street and Global English." Place Matters (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 		2018), 220-224

Reprinted Articles

2009	Joseph, Philip. "Landed and Literary: Hamlin, Garland, Sarah Orne Jewett and the Production of Regional Literatures." Cengage Learning in Short Story Criticism, vol. 117.  121-32.

Book Reviews

2014	Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900, by Bill Hardwig, University of Virginia Press. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112.4: 692-694.

2010	The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing, by Jean C. Griffith, University of Alabama Press. Legacy 27.2: 294-296.

2010	Hamlin Garland: A Life by Keith Newlin, University of Nebraska Press. Western American Literature 45.1: 93-94.

2007	The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland by William Barillas, Ohio University Press. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007): 857-859.

2007	Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing by Mary Weaks-Baxter, Louisiana State University Press. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007): 857-859.

2007	How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia by Katherine Vande Brake, Mercer University Press. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007): 857-859.

2005	Fugitive Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession by Stephen M. Best, University of Chicago Press. American Literature 77.3 (September 2005): 639-41.

2005	Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War by Shirley Samuels, Oxford University Press.  American Literature 77.3 (September 2005): 639-41.

2005	Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind by Linda Bolton, Louisiana State University Press. American Literature 77.3 (September 2005): 639-41.

2005	Emerson by Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Press. American Studies 46.1 (Spring 2005): 158-59. 

2001	Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany by Walter Laqueur, University Press of New England. The Forward, 22 June 2001: 11.

1998	Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 by Nancy Glazener, Duke University Press. American Literature 70.3: 681-82.

Op-Eds and Non-Refereed Publications

2025	Joseph, Philip. “My Grandmother Fled Hitler in 1938. She’d Be Skeptical of Panic Over Antisemitism 	Today.” The Forward. 4 January 2025.

2009	Joseph, Philip and Janet Lopez. "What Students Face at the 'Race' Finish Line." Colorado Higher Ed 		News. 13 October 2009. 

2009	Joseph, Philip and Janet Lopez. "Preventing Failure in Higher Education." Education News Colorado. 	21 October 2009.

2009	Joseph, Philip and Janet Lopez. "The Crisis of Inclusion in Higher Education: A White Paper." 36 pp. 	http://clas.cudenver.edu/publichumanities/documents/WhitePaper-CrisisOfInclusion-			Oct2009.pdf

1998	“The Life of Lazar Weiner.”  The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.  Vol. 1.  New York: Simon 	and Schuster.  856-58.  

Courses Taught

At the University of Colorado Denver

Theory of Genre: Adventure Narrative
Jazz in American Literature and Culture
Willa Cather and American Modernism
Literature of the American City
Critical Writing
Senior Seminar on Travel Writing and American Literature
The Harlem Renaissance
Race and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century American Literature (graduate seminar)
American Literature from the Civil War (graduate and undergraduate versions)
African American Literature
Race and Ethnicity in American Literature
The American Short Story
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Literature and Film
Telling Tales
Independent Studies and Thesis Supervision: Literary Cubism and Faulkner, Breaking Bad, Post-Civil 	War American Literature,  American Novel, Modernism and African American Literature, Natural 		Disaster and African American Culture, Oral Tales of the Ute Indians, Male Identity in Okada's No-No 	Boy and Ellison's Invisible Man, Literary Value and Detective Fiction, Consumerism and Intimacy in 		Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Fight Club.

At Harvard University, Duke University, and SUNY at Buffalo

Literature and the Origins of American Mass Society, 1865-1900
Introduction to American Studies: Colonial Period to the Present
Junior Tutorials on: Literature and the American City, Reconstruction and the Progressive Period, Protest Politics and Fiction, and War in the American Literary Imagination
Senior Theses: Director of 3 projects
Narratives of the Civil War
Literature of the Holocaust
Romancing History: A Survey of the Novel
Basic and Advanced Composition

Presentations at Meetings and Colloquia

2024	“Gifts of Perception: The Cross-Dressed Soldier as Eighteenth-Century Intelligence Expert”—Walter 	Scott Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

2023 	“The Underworld Archives of Adventure: Valeria Luiselli and the Journey of Descent”—Society for 		Novel Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 

2022	“Intelligibility and Linguistic Encounter in the Teaching of World War I Fiction”—Modernist 		Studies Association Digital Conference, panel on Innovative Approaches to Teaching World War I.

2021 	“Podcasting in the Humanities Curriculum”—Humanities Podcasting Symposium, presentation as 		part of “Theorizing the Medium” roundtable discussion

2020	“‘Roving Navajos’: The Unsettled Nomad in Cather’s Southwest Novels”—Brandeis Novel Symposium 	2020: Willa Cather, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity, invited lecture at a virtual symposium organized 	by the Brandeis University English Department.

2020	“Preparing English Majors for the Workplace,” a roundtable planned for the Rocky Mountain 		Modern Language Association conference and held virtually in October 2020. Participants included 		Rachel Arteaga (U of Washington), Naomi Wood (Kansas State U), Jackie Jenkins (U of Calgary), 		Gordon Tapper (Laguardia Community College), Karin Westman (Kansas State U), Janelle Dunnington 	(U of Colorado Denver), and Doug Steward (Modern Language Association)

2020	“War and the Novel,” a Keyword Presentation accepted and prepared for Society for Novel Studies 		Conference—Edinburgh, Scotland. Conference cancelled due to COVID pandemic.

2018. 	“The Intelligence of the Female Adventurer: Homeland as a Secret History of War”—Society for 		Novel Studies Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2016	"Re-centering Genre: The Life and Death of the Picaresque War Novel"--Society for Novel Studies 		Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

2014	"The Child Soldier Novel and the Building of Vernacular Languages"--Society for Novel 			Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT

2014	"The Global Literary History of the Child Soldier Narrative"--American Comparative Literature 		Association Conference, New York, NY

2012	“Regionalism’s Models of Civic Community and Dissent for a Virtual World”-- South Atlantic Modern 		Language Association Conference, Durham, NC

2012	"A Flash of Arrested Motion: Early Cinema and Imagist Poetry in Willa Cather's Fiction"--Willa 		Cather Conference, Red Cloud, NE

2012	"Literary Lawlessness: Sozaboy and the Case of the Child Soldier in Fiction"--The Shape of the I 		Conference, Boulder, CO

2011	"Merging the Humanities and High School Outreach: A Case Study in Partnerships with a Failing High 	School"--National Outreach Scholarship Conference, Lansing, MI

2011	"Humanities Programming at an Urban University"--University of Colorado Diversity Summit 		2011

2010	"The Wire and the 'New Wars': the American City as Global War Zone"--International Flow 	Conference 	(Television and Media Studies), Austin, TX

2009	"Making Committee Work Count"--Building Inclusiveness at CU: Research and Best Practices in Teaching and Community Engagement, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

2008	“Growing the Cultures of the Humanities”—Annual Meeting, American Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2007	“Going Public in the Humanities: Civic Engagement and Local Scholarly Practice”—International Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York

2005	“In ‘the belly of the frantic whale’: Racial Uncertainty in the Modernist City”— Annual 			Meeting, Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.

2005	“Talking Across Time: Literature and the Value of Duration”—Invited presentation, Evidence and Its Ghosts: A Colloquium Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder.

2003	“Literary Lynchings and the Ethics of Representing Violence”—Annual Meeting, American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut.

2003	“Thinking, Making, Belonging: Willa Cather’s French Cathedral and the Question of Culture”—Invited presentation, Monuments, Memory, Modernism: Annual Front Range Symposium in Art History, Boulder, Colorado.

2002 	“Imagining Duration: Hannah Arendt and Cultural Criticism”—Annual Meeting, Narrative: An International Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

2001	“The Trouble with Beauty: Hamlin Garland and the Losing Battle of Regional Art,”—Invited 		presentation, Annual Meeting, Midwestern Modern Language Association, Cleveland.
	
2000	“Regrounding Literature and Local Community”— The Arts and Regional Identity Conference, University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France.

1999	“Rethinking the ‘Fall’ of Abraham Cahan: Local Color and the Jewish Question”—Annual Meeting, MELUS Conference, Nashville.

1998	“Landed and Literary: Hamlin Garland, Sarah Orne Jewett and the Production of Regional Literatures,” Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association, San Francisco.

1998	“Archives of the Inner World: Art, Activism, and the Ends of Southwestern Regionalism in Willa Cather and Mary Austin”—Corridors and Open Spaces: Place, Time and Texts, a joint conference of the California American Studies Association and the Rocky Mountain American Studies Association, Albuquerque. 

1995	“Therapeutic Space: World War I and the New Regionalism”—Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1995.

1995	“Loaded Terrains: Journeys Into and Out of the New York Slums at the Turn-of-the-Century”—Annual Meeting, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Santa Cruz, California.  Published in proceedings volume.

1995	“Rural Cemeteries and New Heavens: Bodily Escapes in the Nineteenth Century”—Cultural Studies in Canada Conference, Toronto.

Recognitions, Honors, etc.

2023	U of Colorado Denver Office of Research Services, $9000 for research activities related to book 
	manuscript

2020	Colorado Humanities and National Endowment of the Humanities, CARES Humanities grant, 
	Principal Investigator on grant to fund CultureKlatsch podcast, a co-production of CU Denver 
	English and  Philosophy, $4,666 awarded.

2013	University of Colorado Rosa Parks Diversity Award

2012	Nominated by University of Colorado Denver for NEH Summer Stipend

2005	Excellence in Research Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

2005	Nominated for the University of Colorado Thomas Jefferson Award

2002	Alternate, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University 
	of Pennsylvania.

1993-1996 Presidential Fellowship, supplemental funding for graduate study, SUNY at Buffalo.

Professional Organizations

	Society for Novel Studies
	Modern Language Association
	American Studies Association
	Modernist Studies Association

Other Indicators of Scholarship

	Research Support
		
	2023	U of Colorado Denver Office of Research Services, $9000 for research activities related to book manuscript, Rogues in Combat: Picaresque Adventure and the Writing of War, 1668-2020

	2020	Colorado Humanities and National Endowment of the Humanities, CARES Humanities grant, Principal Investigator on grant to fund CultureKlatsch podcast, a co-production of CU Denver English and Philosophy, $4,666 awarded.
	
	2014	University of Colorado, CLAS Dissemination Grant, $1000 for “Translation of German Passages in Simplicissimus, a 17th-century German novel.”

	2013	University of Colorado, Diversity and Excellence Award, $3,000 for documentary film on linguistic diversity in American Colleges ("The Ivory Tower of Babel")	

	2011	Colorado Humanities, $600 for Global Cities Speaker Series

	2010	University of Colorado President’s Fund for the Humanities grant. $3,000 for "Global Cities," a speaker series held in Spring 2011

	2010	Rose Community Foundation, $1,000 for Global Cities Speaker Series

	2010	Semester release from teaching, for book project on "Conflict Resolution and African American American Literature."

	2006	University of Colorado President’s Fund for the Humanities grant. $3,500 for “Visions of the American Scholar,” a speaker series held in Fall 2007.

	2006	University of Colorado YUMPS grant. $400 for expenses related to book publication.

	2005	University of Colorado YUMPS grant.  $600 for travel to the annual Modernist Studies Association conference.

	2004	 University of Colorado President’s Fund for the Humanities grant.  $2,500 for
Culture_Commerce_Community conference, held in May 2005.

	2003	University of Colorado YUMPS grant.  $400 for travel to the annual American Studies Association conference.
		
	1997	Mark Diamond grant.  $1,050 for travel to the New York Public Library and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California for research on the dissertation.
	
	Conference Leadership and Public Programming

	2020	 “The State of Our Democracy—Making Sense of the 2020 Election,” Co-facilitator of a CLAS 		Open Forum on democracy in the lead-up to the 2020 Election. Author of CLAS Statement on the 		November 3rd Election.  
	 
	2012    "Multilingualism and the Contemporary University," a lecture by Prof. Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt 		Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard Univ., April 16	

	2011    Co-Organizer (w/ Janet Lopez, P-20 Education Initiatives), "Global Cities" Forum: a speaker 			series, bringing high school students to a college campus. Screening and Discussion of Favela 			Rising (Feb. 10; Jeff Zimbalist), Lecture/Discussion on NGOs in Africa (March 10; Shane 			Gilbert), Lecture/Discussion on Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans (April 21; Daniella 			Cook).
	
	2009 	Principal Organizer--"Islam in American Culture: A Performance and Speaker Series." Lecture/
		Discussion on the Islamic Origins of the American Blues (Sept. 10; Dr. Sylviane Diouf),
 		Lecture/ Discussion on Frank Lloyd Wright in Baghad (Sept. 28; Dr. Mina Marefat), Film
 		Screening of Journey Into America (Oct. 15; Ibn Khaldun Research Fellows from American
 		University), Reading and discussion of The  Age of Orphan  (Nov. 3; Laleh Khadivi).
 		Covered by Westword Magazine. 

	2009	Co-organizer, Events to Commemorate the 6th Anniversary of the Iraq War. Eyes Wide
 		Open Exhibit and Moderated Debate on the "War on Terror." Covered by Channel news.

	2009	Principal Organizer--"The Crisis of Inclusion in Higher Education Symposium."
		Included representatives from more than 40 community and governmental
 		organizations. 150 attendees.

	2008	Principal Organizer and Moderator--"Bad Religion: A Performance and Speaker Series."
 		Performance by the Transcendence Gospel Choir (Oct. 23), Lecture/Discussion on
		Native American Sacred Space and the National Parks (Oct. 30), Lecture/Discussion of
 		Jewish Identity and American Popular Culture (Nov. 6). Over 100 attendees at each
 		event. Covered by the Denver Post. 

	2008	Principal Organizer and Moderator--"Forum on Amendment 46: Anti-Affirmative
 		Action or Civil Rights Initiative." 60 attendees. Covered by Channel 2 news, and KCEC
 		101.

	2008	Principal Organizer--"From Lincoln-Douglass to Obama-McCain: 150 Years of
 		American Political Rhetoric." Reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglass debates, scholarly
 		presentation on Lincoln-Douglass in American culture, and highlights from  Obama-
		McCain debate, with discussion afterward. Covered by the International Herald Tribune
 		and Channel 9 news (NBC). 

	2007	Principal Organizer—“New Visions of the American Scholar: A Speaker Series.”
 		Conceived the series as the launch program of the Colorado Center for Public
 		Humanities. Speakers included Michael Berube, Stephen Prothero, and Patricia
		Limerick.

2007	Planning Committee—Joint Conference of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and
 	the Center for Public Humanities at the University of Colorado-Denver and Health
 	Sciences Center

2005	Executive Committee—Culture_Commerce_Community conference, Denver. 
	Conceived the conference and helped to plan it.

2005 	Moderator, “The Arts and Engaged Citizenship”—Culture_ Commerce_ Community
 	conference, Denver.

2005	Panel Organizer, “Democratizing the Arts,” “The Campus as Creative Community,” and
 	“The Arts and Engaged Citizenship.”  All three panels Culture_Commerce_Community
 	conference, Denver.

	2002	Panel Organizer, “Hannah Arendt and Narrative”—Annual Meeting of Narrative: An 			International Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

	1998	Special Session Organizer, “Cultural Conflict and U.S. Literary Realism: Charting the 			Dissonances in Genre”—Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San 			Francisco.

	Scholarship Reviewed by Others

	2009	Edward Watts, "Re-Centering the Centering." Review essay on American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph, The Midwestern Pastoral, by William Barillas, and Chicago Dreaming, by Timothy B. Spears. Review published in American Literary History 21.4 (Winter): 859-868.

	2009	Marjorie Pryse, "Afterword: Regional Modernism and Transnational Regionalism." Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies 55.1 (Spring 2009) on Regional Modernism: 189-192.

	2009	James M. Decker, "Fiction 1900-1945." Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review published in The Year's Work in English Studies 88.1, American Literature: The Twentieth Century: 1021-22.

	2009	Singley, Carol J. and Ann Moseley, "Wharton and Cather." Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review published in American Literary Scholarship 2007 (Duke University Press): 165.

	2009	Nicholas S. Witschi, "Late-19th-Century Literature." Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review published in American Literary Scholarship 2007 (Duke University Press): 290.

	2009	Donna Campbell, "Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s." Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review published in American Literary Scholarship 2007 (Duke University Press): 327.

	2009	Catherine Calloway, Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review published in American Literary Scholarship 2007 (Duke University Press): 346.

	2008	Tom Lutz, Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. 
		Review published in American Literature 80.1 (March 2008): 180-182.

	2008	William Morgan, Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip 			Joseph. Review published in American Literary Realism 41.2: 184-186.

	2008	Charles L. Crow, Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip
		Joseph. Review published in Studies in Ameican Fiction 36.1: 123-124.

	2007	Whitney Hallberg, Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip 		Joseph. Review published in Foreward Magazine. 

	2007 	Review of American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, by Philip Joseph. Review 			published in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE) 14.2:
 		296.

	Journal and Book Reviewing
	
	2024		University of Virginia Press
	2023-2025	Humanities
	2003-2013, 2024	MELUS, Referee of Scholarly Manuscripts
	2008		PMLA, Referee of Scholarly Manuscripts.

Lectures
	
	2022 “‘Homeland as a Secret History’” and the Wider Scales of Literary Criticism,” guest lecture in ENGL 5100: Introduction to Literary Studies.

	2019  “Invisible Man and the Picaresque,” Regis University

	2013 “The Harlem Renaissance,” CU System Staff Council Lecture Series, presentation at 1800 Grant St., Dec. 10, 2013

2012 “Presentism and Deep Time: Lecture on James Dawes and Wai Chee Dimock,” for 		ENGL 5100: Graduate Methods Class, Prof. Gillian Silverman, November 2012

	2011 “Mark Twain: Dean of the Planet’s Journalism,” Lecture on Twain’s History and Early Years for Panel Celebrating the Release of Twain’s Autobiography, Denver Press Club

2011 “The Public Humanities in Theory and Practice,” Lecture, MA in Humanities/			Social Sciences Spring Symposium: Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies and 			Community Engagement, April 9, 2011

2011 “Voices of the New Wars: Child Narrators in Contemporary Global Conflict,” 			Seminar-style presentation to the UC Denver English Department faculty on  
	current research, October 21, 2011.

2009 	"Iranian Upheaval:Bringing Down the Walls Between Civilizations, 
                Undergraduate Honors and Leadership Program Lecture.             
	 
	2009  "Blues and Jazz in African American Literature." College of Arts and Media Music  	Concert Series, Faculty Jazz Night.

	2008	"Jack London and American Naturalism," Aurora Big Read Program, Aurora Public Library, Aurora, CO.	

	2007	"Ward Churchill, Duke Lacrosse, and the New American Scholar," New Visions of the American Scholar Series. The Laboratory of Art and Ideas, Lakewood, Colorado.

	2007 	“Zora Neale Hurston.” Mixed Taste Series. The Laboratory of Art and Ideas, Lakewood, Colorado

	2007	“American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age,” Book signing and lecture, Cultural Legacy Bookstore, Denver, Colorado
	
	2006	“Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism.” University of Colorado-Boulder graduate seminar on American Studies (Prof. John-Michael Rivera) 	

	2004	“The Harlem Renaissance.” Mixed Taste Series.  The Laboratory of Art and Ideas, 				Lakewood, Colorado.
	
	2004	“On Local Grounds: American Regionalism in a Global Age.”  Department of
 English Colloquium, University of Colorado Denver.
		
	Interviews 
	
	2008	Qtd. in "Past Holds Lessons for Future of Presidential Debates." 8 October 2008. 				International Herald Tribute. Interviewed by Richard Bernstein.

	2004	Qtd. in “How to Predict the Next Great Novel,” 26 April 2004.   Interviewed by Denver
	Post Books Editor Tom Walker. 

Service

	Department of English
2019-2022			Chair, English Department
2018, 19			Associate Chair, English Department
2007-09, 2015-19		Graduate Program Director
2015				Chair, Pre-Tenure Review of James Fiumara
2013				Chair, Tenure Review of Brian Barker
2012-13				Committee on Revision of the MA Program
2012-13				Teaching Committee
2011-12				Executive Committee
2010				Chair, Pre-tenure Review of Teague Bohlen
2012-13				Graduate Advisor for Literature
2003-04, 06-07, 09, 12-14	M.A. Exam Committee
2012-13				Chair, M.A. Exam Committee
2007-08				5-Year Strategic Planning Committee
2007-08				Mentor for New Teachers
2003-04				Chair, M.A. Exam Committee
2006-2012			Salary Increment Committee/Research 
2005				Search Committee, Instructorship in Composition
2003-04, 05-06, 10-11		Undergraduate Student Advisor
	2002-2004			Teaching Committee
2002-present 			Ad Hoc Committee on American Literature Curriculum
2005				Ad Hoc Committee on Ethnic and World Literature
2004, 2006			M.A. Essay Prize Committee

CLAS
	2014			CLAS Dissemination Grants Committee
	2012			Hiring Committee, Dept. of Communication
	2011-12			Research Advisory Committee
	2012, 2007		CLAS Research and Creative Activities Award Committee
	2010-11			Scholar Resource, "Civil Rights During the Past 50 Years"
	2007-13			Director, Colorado Center for Public Humanities
	2008-11			Proposal Team, Center for Democracy and Community Engagement
	2009			Dissemination Grants Advisory Board
	2008			Hiring Committee, CLAS Grants Coordinator
	2006-07			Author, Center for Public Humanities. Conceived and co-wrote signature 					area proposal for CLAS Center, promoting scholarship of engagement in 					the humanities. 
	2007-13			Master of Humanities/Social Sciences Advisory Board
	
	University
	2013			Graduate School Humanities Committee
	2011			Faculty Mentoring Program
	2010-15			Program Associate, Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program		
	2009-15, 2020-22  	President's Fund for the Humanities Advisory Board
	2013-15			President's Fund for Diversity & Excellence Advisory Board
	2011			Member, Accreditation Component Group 4A
	2008-11			Chair, Faculty Assembly Minority Affairs Committee
	2005-2013		Faculty Assembly Minority Affairs Committee member
	2008-10			Associate Vice Chancellor's Diversity Committee
	2010-11			Faculty Council
	2010-11,13		Chair, System-Wide EMAC Committee
	2008-13			System-Wide EMAC (Ethnic Minority Affairs) Committee member
	2010--11		Steering Committee, Diversity Summit at UC-Colorado Springs
	2008			Focus Group for Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion
	2007-08			Campus-wide Research and Creative Activities Award Committee
	2005-2008		Faculty Assembly Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Committee	

City of Denver/Region of Colorado
2011			Denver Scholarship Foundation Steering Committee Panel, Colorado 				Springs, CO
2011			Martin Luther King High School, Panel on College Transitioning
2010-12			Montbello High School Urban Education Course, College Visit 					Organizer
2007-2009		Affiliate Curator, Laboratory of Art and Ideas, Lakewood, CO
2008			Standley Lake High School Panel Discussion
2007			Selection Committee, One Book-One Denver Reading Program