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BIOGRAPHY
Education
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Edward Augst
207 Lind Hall, 207 Church St.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: augst002@umn.edu
1996 Ph.D. Harvard University, History of American Civilization
Dissertation: "Making Society Out of Books: Character, Self-Fashioning, and
the Rhetoric of Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America."
1992 A.M. Harvard University, History
1987 B.A. Yale College, Double Major in Literature and History, summa cum laude
Teaching Appointments
2004- present Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota
1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota.
Associated Faculty, Department of American Studies
1996-1998 Lecturer, Department of English and American Literature, Harvard University
Lecturer, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University.
SELECTED AWARDS
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005.
Finalist, Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association, 2004.
Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teacher Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2004.
Outstanding Community Service Award (team award, with Patricia Crain and Eric Daigre),
for “The Literacy Lab,” University of Minnesota, 2003.
McKnight Landgrant Professor, 2000-2002.
"Honorable Mention," Ralph Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Association, 1997.
Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize, for best doctoral thesis in American Literature, Harvard
University, 1997.
Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995-96.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education, 1991-1996.
Stephen Botein Prize for Teaching, Program in History and Literature, Harvard 1997.
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, 1996 and 1997.
Helen Choate Bell Essay Prize, Harvard University, 1996.
William and Gertrude Arnold Prize, Harvard University, 1995
Annette Baxter Award, American Studies Association, 1994, 1995.
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale College, 1987.
Marshall-Allison Prize for promise in arts and letters, Yale College, 1986.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2003). 321 pages.
Edited Collections
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Thomas Augst and Ken Carpenter, editors, Institutions of Reading: the Social Life of Libraries in the
United States (advance contract, University of Massachusetts Press).
Thomas Augst and Wayne Wiegand, editors, Libraries as Agencies of Culture (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2002). 210 pages. (*A reprint of the special issue below, with revised title).
— “The Library as an Agency of Culture,” special issue of American Studies 42.3 (Fall, 2001). 210
pages.
Articles
"The Commerce of Thought: Professional Authority and Business Ethics in Nineteenth-Century
America," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 49-76.
“American Libraries and Agencies of Culture," introduction to “The Library as Agency of Culture,”
special issue of American Studies 42:3 (Fall, 2001): 5-22.
(* Reprinted in Libraries as Agencies of Culture (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002).
“The Costs of Character,” ISSUE 6 (Fall, 2001): 36-41.
"Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print." Chapter in Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from
the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick Antczak, Cinda Coggins, and Geoffrey
Klinger (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), 53-62.
"Composing the Moral Senses: Emerson and the Politics of Character in Nineteenth-Century America."
Political Theory 27.1 (February, 1999): 85-120.
"The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America: The New York Mercantile Library."
American Quarterly 50.2 (June, 1998): 267-305.
“The Arts and Literature,” Chapter One in American Eras. Volume 3: The Revolutionary Era (1754-
1783), ed. Robert Allison (New York: Gale Publishing, 1998), 13-44. (*This series of Volumes in
American Eras won awards for Outstanding Reference Source for 1998 from Reference USA and Best
Reference for 1997 from Reference Books Bulletin/Booklist Editors' Choice).
Reviews
“Antebellum Authorship and the Common Property of American Literature.” Review of American
Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, by Meredith McGill. Reviews in American History 32:3
(September, 2004) 358-364.
With Ken Carpenter, “A History of Libraries in the United States: A Conference Report,” Libraries &
Culture 38.1 (Winter, 2003): 61-66.
(Untitled) Review of Selling the True Time, by Ian Bartky. KronoScope 2.2 (2002): 249-251.
(Untitled) Review of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era, by Gregory Eiselein.
American Studies 43.1 (Spring, 2002): 184-186.
(Untitled) Review of American Libraries Before 1876, by Haynes McMullen. Papers of the
Bibliographic Society of America 96.1 (March 2002): 126-128.
(Untitled) Review of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America, by Sandra
Gustafson. William and Mary Quarterly 58.3 (July, 2001): 699-703.
(Untitled) Review of A History of the Book in America, by David Hall and Hugh Amory. SHARP
(Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) Newsletter (Fall, 2000): 12-13.
"Salons and Coteries." Review of Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul
Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and their Circle, by David Leddick. Boston Book Review 7.4 (May 2000): 17.
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“Zippers Fell Away Like Rose-Petals.” Review of The Century of Sex: Playboy’s History of the Sexual
Revolution, by James R. Petersen. Boston Book Review 6.10 (December 1999): 20.
“Salvation Wonderland.” Review of Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army,
by Diane Winston. Boston Book Review 6.4 (May 1999): 14-15.
“Jeez, Has Everyone Gone Crazy?” Review of Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thompson,
and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism, by Steven Watson. Boston Book Review 6.2 (March
1999): 30-31.
“Drooled, Dribbled, Scrawled and Scooped.” Review of The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and
the Arts in Postwar America, by Daniel Belgrad. Boston Book Review 5.4 (May 1998): 34-35.
(Untitled) Review of The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Performance, by Wilson
Sommerville. The Journal of American History 84.2 (September, 1997): 630-631.
"The Family Bible, Deluxe Edition." Review of Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in
America, by Colleen McDannell. Boston Book Review 3.4 (May 1996): 24.
"The Philosopher in the Chrysler." Review of Trickster in the Land of Dreams, by Zeese Papanikolas.
Boston Book Review 2.10 (December 1995): 38.
"Mockery, Raillery, and Boisterous Hilarity." Review of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of
Performance, by Randall Knoper. Boston Book Review 2.6 (June/July 1995): 20.
Work in Progress
The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship
Life as an Object: Diaries and the Invention of Solitude
FELLOWSHIPS
National
Universtiy Teachers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005 ($40,000)
Mary C. Mooney Fellowship, The Boston Athenaeum, 2004. ($1500)
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2004. ($1500)
W.M. Keck Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library,
Pasadena, 2001. ($6200)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2001. ($1500)
Winterthur Fellowship, Winterthur Library and Museum, 1999. ($2000)
Reese Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1999. ($1500)
Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995-96. ($12,000)
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education, 1991-1995. ($10,000/yr)
University of Minnesota
National Fellowship Supplement, June – December, 2004.
Sabbatical Supplement, January – December, 2005.
Graduate Research Partnership Fellowship, with David Gray, for “Visual Education, Work, and
Civic Life.” ($5,200).
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2003. ($6,000)
McKnight Summer Fellowship, 2003. ($6,000)
Graduate Research Partnership, with Laura Davis, for “Literacy and Citizenship in the
Somali Community,” 2003. ($6,000)
Graduate Research Partnership Fellowship, with Eric Daigre, for "Civil Literacies: Service
Learning and Community Engagement in Literary Studies," 2001. ($6,000)
With Patricia Crain, Minnesota Campus Compact, for The Literacy Lab, 2002-2003. ($18,000)
Technology Enhanced Instructional Improvement Grant, Digital Media Center, for The
Literacy Lab, 2001-2002. ($2500)
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McKnight-Landgrant Professorship, 2000-2002. ($25,000 for two years)
With Patricia Crain, Bush Grant for Diversity in Teaching, The Literacy Lab, 2001-2002. ($3000)
Single Semester Leave, 2000-2001, declined.
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2000. ($5000)
McKnight Summer Fellow, 2000. ($5000)
Grant-in-Aid of Research, College of Liberal Arts, 1999-2000. ($18,000)
Course Development Grant, Center for Democracy & Citizenship, 1999. ($4000)
Harvard University
John Eliot Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-96. ($3000)
Mazur Fellowship in the Arts and Sciences, 1992. (Honorary)
Harvard Grant, 1990-1991. ($10,000)
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures
“Life as an Object: Diaries and the Moral Economy of Print Culture.” Graduate Colloquium,
Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, February 26, 2004.
“Patriotism and the Martial Ideal,” Interdisciplinary Symposium Society Studies District-Wide Staff
Development, Minneapolis Public Schools, March 6, 2003
“Libraries and American Culture.” Center for Print Culture & The School of Library and Information
Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 13, 2002.
“The Business of Living: Literary Practices and Moral Authority in Nineteenth-Century America.” Early
American Research Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 30, 2002.
"Libraries and the History of Reading." Spring Symposium, Minnesota Library Association, Open Book,
April 6, 2001.
"The Business of Living: Character, Masculinity, and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America."
Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, Houston, Feb 22, 2001.
Discussant, "National Libraries of the World: Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Future," Library of
Congress Bicentennial Symposium, Washington D.C., October 23-26, 2000.
“The Diaries of Young Men in Nineteenth-Century America.” Department of English, University of
Delaware, Newark, May 11, 2000.
“The Literary History of Antebellum New England.” University Vacations, Harvard University,
Cambridge, June 12-16, 1998.
Conferences Organized
Co-organizer, with Ken Carpenter, of "The History of Libraries in the United States," hosted by the
Library Company of Philadelphia, sponsored by the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the
Delmas Foundation. Philadelphia, April 11-13, 2002.
Conference Sessions Organized
“Print Culture and Cosmopolitanism: Material Histories of Modern Nationalism.” Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, 2004.
“Print Culture and Cosmopolitanism: Material Histories of Modern Nationalism.” Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Lyon, France. July 20-24, 2004.
With Rita Raley, "Cultures of Literacy." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December
2000.
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"The Politics of Voice: Elocution and Civic Space in Nineteenth-Century America." American Studies
Association, Detroit, October 2000.
"Conduct Becoming Citizens: The Political Life of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century America."
American Studies Association, Seattle, November 1998.
"Making Knowledge Public: The Arts and Sciences of Human Nature." American Studies Association,
Washington D.C., October 1997.
"Strategies of Democratic Citizenship in America." American Studies Association, Kansas City, October
1996.
"The Social Spaces of Reading." American Studies Association, Nashville, October 1994.
Conference Papers and Comments
“Scripting the Inner Voice: Diaries and the Performance of Individuality,” for special conference,
“Histories of Print, Manuscript and Performance in America,” American Antiquarian Society, June 10-
12, 2005.
“Aesthetic Taste and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America.” Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, 2004.
“Becoming the Drunk: Moral Discourse, Mass Culture, and the Reform of Character,” American Studies
Association, Atlanta, Nov. 11-14, 2004.
“Aesthetic Taste and the Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America.” Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Lyon, France. July 20-24, 2004.
“Stories of Citizens: Oral History and the Imagination of Public Life,” McKnight Summer Fellow
Presentations, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, February 12, 2003.
“Life as an Object: Diaries and the Moral Economy of Print Culture.” American Studies Association,
Hartford, October 2003.
Session Comment, “Ethics and the Mastery of Language,” by Geoffrey Harpham. “Criticism and Ethics
in American Studies and Literary Theory,” Faculty Workshop sponsored by Macalester College, St.
Paul, June 2003.
“The Design of Experience: Liberal Education for a Mass Society.” Conference on “Teaching and
Learning in a Research University,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2003.
“Staging Rationality: Temperance and the Urban Melodrama of Masculinity.” Organization of American
Historians, Memphis, April 2003.
Session Comment, “Reading in Colonial America.” Midwest Modern Language Association,
Minneapolis, November 2002.
“Staging Rationality: Temperance and the Urban Melodrama of Masculinity.” Society for the History of
Early American Republic (SHEAR), Berkeley, July 2002.
“Cultural Authority and Civil Religion.” Special International Conference, “The History of Libraries in
the United States.” Library Company of Philadelphia, April 2002.
Session Comment, "Passionate Readings: Romanticism and Antebellum American Readerships."
American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 2001.
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"The Civic Spaces of Reading: Mercantile Libraries in Nineteenth-Century America." Special
Conference, “Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library 1750-1850.” Sponsored by Groningen
and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, July 2001.
"Accounting for Experience: American Diaries and the Rituals of Literacy." Triennial Conference,
International Society for the Study of Time, Castello di Gargonza, Italy, July 2001.
Session Comment, "Different American Communities: Catholics and Schools, Disney, and the 1916 St.
Paul Winter Carnival." Mid-America American Studies Conference, Madison, April 2001.
"Habits and Values of Middle-Class Writing in Nineteenth-Century America." Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Denver, March 2001.
“Literary Leisure: Institutions and Praxis." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December
2000.
"The Aesthetics of Quotation." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2000.
"Becoming Visible, Being Heard: Frederick Douglass and the Bonds of Eloquence." American Studies
Association, Detroit, October 2000.
“Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print.” Rhetoric Association of America, May 2000.
“The Fate of Eloquence.” Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Pennsylvania State State
University, University Park, July 1999.
“Young Men’s Diaries and Literary Practices of Character in Nineteenth-Century America.” Fellows
Colloquium, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, June 1999.
“Character is Color-Blind: Emerson and the Eloquence of Citizenship.” Modern Language Association,
San Francisco, December 1998.
"The Sobriety Test: Intoxication and the Poetics of Citizenship." American Studies Association, Seattle,
November 1998.
“The Body in Democratic Philosophy: The Erotics of Citizenship.” Special Conference, “Sex on the
Edge: A Multidisciplinary Conference.” Concordia University, Montreal, October 1998.
"The Modernist Test of Intelligence: Visual Abstraction and the New York School." Harvard Center for
Literary and Cultural Studies, Cambridge, February 1998.
"Popular Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America." American Association, Washington D.C., October
1997.
"The State of Our Attention: Emerson and the Politics of Character." American Political Science
Association, Washington D.C., August 1997.
"The Business of Libraries: Character and the Institutional Reader in Nineteenth-Century America."
American Historical Association, New York, January 1997.
"Composing the Senses: Emerson and the Civic Life of Enterprise." American Studies Association,
Kansas City, October 1996.
"The Eloquence of Print: Rhetoric and Literary Values in Nineteenth-Century America." Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Worcester, MA, July 1996.
"Reading for Conviction: The Rhetoric of Literary Practice in Nineteenth-Century America." Center for
Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 1995.
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"The Crisis of Luxury in Boston: Consumer Revolution and the Rhetorics of Virtue in the 1780s."
American Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 1995. Recipient of Annette Baxter Award.
"Making Society Out of Books: Mercantile Libraries and the Reading of Market Culture." American
Studies Association, Nashville, October 1994. Recipient of Annette Baxter Award.
"Knowledge, Profession, Community: Antebellum Mercantile Libraries and the Enterprise of Reading."
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Library of Congress,
Washington D.C., July 1994.
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TEACHING
Courses Taught, University of Minnesota
2003-2004
English 3005: Survey of American Literature and Culture, I (Fall)
English 8520: Seminar in Advanced Cultural Theory and Practice — “The Material Text:
Comparative Studies in Print Culture” (Fall)
English 8625: Dissertation Seminar (Spring)
2002-2003
English 3005: Survey of American Literature and Culture, Part I (Fall)
English 3960-3: Senior Seminar — “American Renaissance: Culture and Consciousness in the 19 th
Century” (Fall)
American Studies 8401: Practicum — “The Life of the Modern University: Institutions,
Values and Practices of Teaching” (Fall)
English 1501: Literature of Public Life (Spring)
English 8200: Seminar in American Literature — “ Liberal Virtues: Ethics, Aesthetics,
and the Democratic Subject” (Spring)
English 8625: Dissertation Seminar (Spring)
2000-2001
English 5120: Reading in American Literature — "Sentiment and Realism" (Fall)
American Studies 8801: Dissertation Seminar (Fall)
English 1501: Literature of Public Life (Fall)
English 3870: Figures in North American Literature — "American Renaissance" (Spring)
1999-2000
English 3005w: Survey of American Literature and Culture, I (Fall)
English 1202-2: Introduction to American Literature (Fall)
English 3221: American Novel to 1900 (Spring)
English 3070: Studies in Literary and Cultural Modes — “The Culture of Capitalism”
(Spring)
English 8290: Topics in American Literature — “Self-Help: History, Theory, and
Practice of the Democratic Subject” (Spring)
1998-1999
English 8530: Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature — “Cultural History of
Reading in America” (Fall Quarter, 1998)
English 3008: Techniques of Literary Study (Fall Quarter, 1998)
English 1016: Introduction to American Literature — “American Individualism” (Winter
Quarter, 1999)
English 5471: American Drama — “Melodrama in America” (Winter Quarter, 1999)
Courses Taught, Harvard University
History and Literature 97: Sophomore Seminar required of majors (1994-1998)
English 97. Sophomore Seminar required of majors (1996-1998)
Freshman Seminar 04: “Reading in America” (Fall Semester, 1997)
History and Literature 91: Seminar — “The Culture of Reading in America” (Spring Semester, 1996)
Graduate Advising
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, English Department
Joan Menefee, “Decoding Distraction: Attention in American Culture, 1871-1916.” (Dec 2004). Advisor
Julia Bleakney, “Revisiting Vietnam: Memorials, Museums, Memoirs.” (May 2004). Reader
Marcela Kostihova, “Shakespeare, Ltd.: Political Bardolatry in the Post-Socialist Czech
Republic,” October 2003. Reader
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey, “Native American Auto-Ethnography, Sovereignty, and Self:
Tribal Knowledges in New Genres.” Final oral examination, June 2002. Reader
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Eric Daigre, “Teaching Revolutions: Literature, Literacy, and Education in the English
Civil War Period, 1640-1660." Final oral examination, September 2001. Reader
Melissa Blum, "Sanctioning Education: Writing the Lives of Student Parents after Welfare
Reform." Final oral examination, September 2001. Reader
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Other Departments
Felicity Schaeffer (American Studies). “Cyber-Brides between the United States and Mexico.” January
2004. Reader
Andrrew Knighton (Cultural Studies), “Idle Threats: The Limits of Productivity in 19 th Century
America.” (May 2004). Reader
Karla Erickson (American Studies), “Paid to Care: Selling Service Smiles and Community in Amerian
Restaurants.” (May 2004). Reader
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees (Dissertations in Progress), English
Joan Menefee. Reader/ Co-advisor with John Mowitt
David Wehner Reader/Co-advisor with Josephine Lee
Christina Schmid. Reader
David Slater. Reader
Curtis Leitz. Reader
Dorthe Troeften. Reader
Melanie Brown. Reader
Julia Bleakney. Member
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Other Departments
Laura Davis (Anthropology). Reader
Karla Erickson (American Studies). Reader
David Gray (American Studies). Reader
Mary Rizzo (American Studies). Reader
Karen Connolly Lane (American Studies). Reader
Jacqueline Spicer (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society). Reader
Andrew Knighton (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society). Reader
Completed Preliminary Examinations
Robert Bolin, Melanie Brown, Devin Corbin, Jennifer Kelsey, Marcela Kostihova, David
Slater, Dorthe Troeften, Allison Wee, David Wehner (Department of English).
Committee Member
David Gray, Karla Erickson, Mary Rizzo, Felicity Schaeffer, Amy Tyson (American
Studies). Committee Member
Laura Davis (Anthropology). Committee Member
Daniel Carden (Political Science). Committee Member
Master’s Thesis Committee, Anthropology
Laura Davis. "The Road to Reform: Community Code Enforcement and the
Genealogy of Domestic Sanitation" Completed September 2001. Committee Member
MFA Committees, English Department
Tom Haley, "Colorado, of Which I Know Nothing." Completed May 2001. Co-Advisor
with Patricia Hampl
Undergraduate Advising
Summa and Senior Honors Essays
Kristin Gregory, “An American Dream Torn Apart: Success Seekers in the Short Fiction of John
Cheever.” May 2004. Summa Honors Thesis Advisor
Erin Severson, “Education as a Two-Way Street: Influences of Jane Addams and Twenty
Years at Hull House on the Jane Addams School for Democracy.” May 2003. Summa
Honors Thesis Advisor
Sonja Thomas, “Gender, Race, and Literary Practices: The Diary of Charlotte Forten.”
May 2001. Magna cum laud honor. Senior Essay Advisor
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SERVICE
Kelly Hulander, “Reading and Meeting Between Centuries: Women’s Study Clubs in
Minnesota, 1869-1942 and Minnesota Women’s Book Clubs.” December 2000.
Reader, Summa Honors Thesis
Chad Greene, “Guttenberg’s Press: An Original Screenplay.” April 2000. Summa
Honors Thesis Advisor
James Gray, “Queer Bachelors in Melville’s Moby Dick.” May 2001. Senior
Essay Advisor
Kyle Feldman, “The Feminization of Democratic Discourse: Whitman, Empathy, and the
Sentimental Male.” May 2001. Senior Essay Advisor
Lori Johnson, “The Brilliant Awakening.” May 2001. Senior Advisor
Marion Blomgren, Claiming Middle Ground: Convention and Reform in Ruth Hall.”
December 2000. Senior Essay Advisor
Brian Katz, “Jew.” December 2000. Senior Essay Advisor
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program [UROP]
Sonja Thomas, “Nineteenth-Century Women’s Diaries.” Spring 2000.
Gene Totten, ”Native American Literacy.” Fall Semester 1999.
David Manning, “Nineteenth-Century Temperance Melodrama.” Winter Quarter 1999.
Kelly Hulander, “The Literature of Social Science: Temperance Reform in Minnesota
1880-1920.” Winter Quarter 1999.
National
Editorial Board and Referee, American Studies, 2001–present.
Manuscript Referee for Business History Review, 2004.
Manuscript Referee for Cultural Critique, 2004, 2000.
Fellowship Review Panel, American Literature, National Endowment for the Humanities,
July 2002.
Co-organized with Ken Carpenter, Special International Conference, “The History of
Libraries in the United States,” sponsored by Princeton University, the Library of
Congress Center for the Book, and the Delmas Foundation, and hosted by the Library Company
of Philadelphia, April 2002.
Manuscript Referee for Larry Haeg, “The Man in the Deck Chair: The Private Journey of
Charles Macomb Flandrau, America’s Forgotten Man of Letters. “ Indiana University
Press, 2002.
Manuscript Referee for Ronald and Mary Zboray, “Literary Dollars and Social Sense:
Ordinary American Encounter the Antebellum Marketplace of Print.” Ashgate
Publishing, 2002.
Manuscript Referee for College English, 2000.
Contributor/Staff Writer, Boston Book Review, 1995–2000.
University of Minnesota
Elected Faculty Representative, University Senate, 2002-present.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Endowed Graduate Fellowships Committee, 2002-2003.
College of Liberal Arts
Keynote Speaker, CLA Alumni Mentor Program Kickoff Dinner, Oct 21, 2003
Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, 2003-present.
Elected Faculty Representative, CLA Assembly, 2002-present.
Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, 2000-2001.
Elected Faculty Representative, CLA Assembly, 2000-2002.
Department of English
Director of Composition, 2003–2004.
Executive Committee, 2003–present.
Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1998 – 2001, 2003-2006.
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Guest presentation on Lecturing, Teaching Practicum for Composition and Literature Teaching
Assistants, November 11, 2003
Esther Freier Endowed Lecture Committee, 2002-present; delivered introduction to Michael
Chabon’s Freier Lecture, February 2003.
Co-chair, Job Placement Committee, 2002-present.
With Patricia Crain and Eric Daigre, created The Literacy Lab, 2001 to present.
Faculty Affairs Committee, 2001 – 2003.
Elections Committee, Spring 2000.
Participant, Engaged Department Institute on Service Learning and Civic Engagement,
Campus Compact, Minneapolis, June 2002.
Graduate Exam Implementation Committee, 2000-2001.
Chair, Subcommittee on Curriculum, 2001.
Faculty Search Committee, 1999 – 2000.
Department Representative, Technology Enhanced Learning Workshop, 1999-2000.
Department of American Studies
Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 2002-2003.
Graduate Affairs Committee, 2000-2001.
Department of French and Italian
Faculty Search Committee, 2001-2002.
Other
“Patriotism and the Martial Ideal,” Interdisciplinary Symposium Society Studies District-Wide Staff
Development, Minneapolis Public Schools, March 6, 2003
Faculty, Graduate Minor in Composition, Literacy, and Rhetorical Studies, 1999–present.
Co-organizer, “Cultures of Literacy,” Focused Research Seminar, Humanities Center,
1999-present.
Member, Advisory Board, Schocket Center for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies,
2000-2003.
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing, 1999-2003.
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