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Ruch 2Editorial ExperienceIssue Editor (with Heidi Scott Giusto), Deliberations: A Journal of First-Year Writing at Duke (2011)Issue Editor (with Rodger Frey), Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative Temporality (2006)Editorial Collective Member, Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, DukeUniversity, 2001-2009 (2001-2003, Publicity Director; 2003-2005, Subscriptions Manager;2005-2006, Issue Editor; 2006-2009, Layout Director)Presentations“Toward a Deleuzo-Guattarian Theory of SF,” ACLA 2013: Global Positioning Systems, Toronto,April 2013“Flann O’Brien and the Late-Modernist Fantastic,” ACLA 2012: Collapse/Catastrophe/Change,Providence, March-April 2012“Late Modernism and the Serialization of Time,” MSA XIII, Buffalo, October 2011“Late Modernism and the Fragmentation of Belief,” Young Scholars Workshop, Duke’s Center forPhilosophy, Art, and Literature, February 2010“Subgenre as Middlebrow Mediator,” MSA XI, Montreal, November 2009“Modernism and the Fantastic” (Seminar Leader), MSA X, Nashville, November 2008“‘The Best in the Worst of All Possible Worlds’: Corporate Patronage in Wyndham Lewis’s LateWork,” Wyndham Lewis: Modernity and Critique, Birmingham & Midland Institute, January 2008“Opening Remarks: Reception and Disciplinarity,” Rethinking Reception, Duke University, April2005“Thoughts on the Limits of Violence,” After September 11: Towards an Intervention, DukeUniversity, February 2002Teaching ExperienceCourses Taught“Writing (Telling Stories),” English 1010, Tulane University, Fall 2012-Spring 2013“Argument-Based Research,” English 112, Durham Technical Community College, Fall 2011-Spring 2012“Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing,” Writing 10, co-taught with Adjunct InstructorKimberly Wine, Duke University, Summer 2010; co-taught with Professor Denise Comer,Duke University, Summer 2011“Dystopias in Fiction and Film,” Lit 151, Duke University, Summer 2008“Comics & American Culture,” Lit 131, Duke University, Summer 2005“Late Modernism and the Novel,” Lit 20, Duke University, Fall 2004“The Interpretation of Dreams,” Lit 20, Duke University, Fall 2003Teaching Assistant“Fairy Tales: From Grimms to Disney,” English 146/German 173, taught by Visiting AssistantProfessor Derrick Miller, Duke University, Fall 2007“Introduction to Film,” Lit 110, taught by Visiting Instructor Michael Cohen, Duke University,Summer Session II, 2003“World Cinema,” Lit 113, taught by Visiting Instructor Michael Cohen, Duke University,Summer Session II, 2003“Faulkner,” Lit 154, taught by Visiting Professor Hortense Spillers, Duke University, Spring2003

Ruch 3“True Stories,” Lit 120B, taught by Professor Jane Gaines, Duke University, Fall 2002Writing Center ExperienceWriting Tutor, Duke University Writing Studio, Fall 2007-Spring 2012ServiceAcademicSeminar Organizer, Summer Study, Duke University, 2008-2011Conference Organizer, Rethinking Reception, Duke University, April 1-2, 2005Representative, Graduate Student Committee, Program in Literature, Duke University, 2004-2009Seminar Organizer, Pedagogy Workshop Series, English and Literature, Duke University, 2003-2004CommunityCoach, Write On! Community Writing Center, Durham County Library, 2009-2012Writing Tutor, “Academic Literacy” Course, Durham School of the Arts, Fall 2007AffiliationsModern Language Association (MLA)Modernist Studies Association (MSA)American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)LanguagesSpanish and FrenchReferencesFredric Jameson, William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, DukeUniversity; (919) 684-4155; jameson@duke.eduMichael Valdez Moses, Associate Professor of English, Duke University; (919) 684-8880;mmoses@duke.eduToril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of Englishand Theater Studies, Duke University; (919) 681-4971; toril@duke.eduT. R. Johnson, Associate Professor of English, Tulane University; (504) 862-8163;trj@tulane.eduVicki Russell, Director, Writing Studio, Duke University; (919) 668-0901; vgr@duke.edu