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Jason Arthur English Department Rockhurst University 1100 Rockhurst Road Kansas City, MO 64110
7225 Summit St. Kansas City, MO 64114 573.289.5922 cell jason.arthur@rockhurst.edu
Employment Associate Professor and Chair of English, Rockhurst University (2010-present) Assistant Professor of English, Central Methodist University (2007-2010) Education PhD in English, University of Missouri (2007) MA in English, Creighton University (2001) BA in English, Rockhurst University (1999) Publications (Books) Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction since the Great Depression (U of Iowa Press 2013) Publications (Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters) “William Gaddis and the U.S. Army.” Postmodern Culture (under review) “The Rise of the Elsewheres.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 48.1 (2015): 7-18. “The Chinatown and the City: Kingston, Kerouac, and the Bohemian Bay Area.” Modern Fiction Studies 58.2 (2012): 239-260. “‘Our Business is Going in the Hole’: Russell Banks and the Self-Destruction of New England Fiction.” College Literature 39.3 (2012): 106-128. “Allen Ginsberg’s Biographical Gestures.” Texas Studies in Literature & Language 52.2 (2010): 227-246. “Revising the Great Depression.” the minnesota review 71-72 (2009): 277-283. “‘Where is the dust’: James Agee’s Thumbs Down Review of John Ford’s Film Adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath.” The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration. Ed. Michael Meyer. New York: Rodopi P, 2009. 189-218.
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“The Wages of Liberalism: An Interview with Eric Lott.” the minnesota review 63-64 (2005): 179-194. Publications (Magazine Articles / Book Reviews) Rev. of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney. The Rumpus. Web. 2 Feb. 2017. “Sweet Bitterness: Why We Need More Novels About Work.” The Millions. Web. 14 July 2016. Rev. of Rich and Pretty, by Rumaan Alam. The Rumpus. Web. 30 June 2016. “The Human Deep Within the Machine.” The Millions. Web. 15 March 2016. “Craig Finn on His New 9/11-Themed Solo Album and Whether the Hold Steady Will Return.” Slate. Web. 9 July 2015. “Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay.” The Rumpus. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. “The ‘First-Generation’ Fallacy.” Class in the Academy. MLA Commons. Web. 10 June 2014. “The Worlding of American Literature.” Rev. of The Global Remapping of American Literature, by Paul Giles. Twentieth-Century Literature 57.1 (2011). 105-113. Rev. of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics, by Josephine Nock-Hee Park. The Beat Review 2.3 (August 2008). www3.wooster.edu/beatstudies/reviews/vol2_issue3.html Rev. of They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. co-written with Anne Case-Halferty. Composition Forum 18 Web. (Spring 2008). Rev. of Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy, by Christopher Gallagher. co-written with Shari Stenberg. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 23.3 (2003): 659-666. Publications (Encyclopedia Entries) “Regional Fiction.” Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading. Ed. Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2008. 767-782. “Vernacular and Dialect Writing.” Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1916-1895. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 60-61. “Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2005. 629-631.
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Invited Lectures “The ‘First-Generation’ Fallacy.” Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC. January 9, 2015. (Solicited by the organizers of the Class in the Academy roundtable) “Franzen Agonism,” Friday Colloquium Series, Department of English, MU, October 19, 2012 (honorarium included) “James Agee and the ‘Primal Cliché’ of Objectivity,” Professor Berkeley Hudson’s Graduate Seminar, Journalism 8028: The Literature of Journalism, MU, October 15, 2009 “Russell Banks and the Local Color of Violence in New England,” an invited panelist at the National College English Association, San Antonio, TX, April 8, 2006 “Noir Orleans,” Professor Patricia Okker’s English 2309: New Orleans in Literature and Film, MU, October 11-13, 2005 Teaching, Rockhurst University English 3855: American Literature and Film (Fall 2018) English 3850: Literature and Film (Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2016) English 3800: Introduction to Film (Spring 2016, Spring 2018) English 3620: American Literature Since 1945 (Spring 2013; Fall 2015) English 3670: Studies in the American Novel (Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2017) English 3610: American Literature, 1865-1945 (Fall 2010, Fall 2013) English 3600: Early American Literature (Fall 2011, Spring 2015) English 2960: Journeys, Voyages, Quests (Fall 2011-Fall 2016) English 2760: World Literature Since the Eighteenth Century (Spring 2011, Summer 2012) English 1140: English Composition (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2015) FY 1100:
First-Year Seminar (Fall 2012)
Teaching, Central Methodist University English 329:
Survey of Contemporary American Literature (Fall 2008; Spring 2010)
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English 324:
Survey of American Literature, 1865-1945 (Spring 2008; Fall 2009)
English 323:
Survey of American Literature, Beginnings-1865 (Fall 2007; Spring 2009)
English 305:
Expository Writing: “American Memory” (Fall 2007; Spring 2009; Fall 2009)
English 290:
Topics in Cinema: “Road Movies” (May 2009)
English 212:
Introduction to Cinema (Spring 2008, Spring 2009; Spring 2010)
Teaching, University of Missouri (self-designed) English 3310: Place and Modernity in American Literature Since the Civil War (Winter 2005) English 2309: Nice Moves: Race and Relocation in Twentieth-Century American Novels (Fall 2006) English 1300: Readings in American Literature: “Midwest Fiction (1914-present)” (Fall 2005) English 1300: Readings in American Literature: “New Orleans Literature (1865-present)” (Fall 2002) Service to the Profession Co-Editor, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2016-2019) Guest Editor, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 48.1 (Spring 2015) Affiliate, Post45 Collective (nominated to serve 2014) Executive Committee Member, The Midwest Modern Language Association (2013-2017) Judge, Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Scholarship Committee (2012) Submission Reviewer, Twentieth-Century Literature (nominated to serve 2008-) Referee Staff, College Literature (selected by editor, 2008-) Regional Delegate, Modern Language Association (elected by MLA members, 2008-2010) Column Editor, NPR’s Next Generation Radio (selected by editor, 2004-2006) Institutional Service Chair, Department of English (Rockhurst University, elected 2017)
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Chair, Humanities Division of Academic Departments (RU elected 2015) Chair, Film Studies Advisory Boars (RU 2015-present) Faculty Senator (RU, elected 2014-2016) Faculty Advisor, English Club (RU 2014-present) Board Member, Prelaw Advisory Board (RU 2013-present) Faculty Advisor to Infectus, the student literature and arts journal (RU 2013-2014) Chapter Coordinator, Alpha Sigma Nu (RU 2013-present) Advisory Board Member, Advanced College Credit Program (RU 2012-2013) Member, Information Technology Committee (RU 2011-present) Recorder, Faculty Senate (RU 2010-2011) Director, Geist Literary Reading Series (Central Methodist University 2009-2010) Faculty Representative, Omicron Delta Kappa, elected by student members of ODK (CMU 2009) Organizer of Black History Month Film Festival (CMU 2009) Chair, Marketing Subcommittee, Planning Team for University’s 5-Year Strategic Plan (CMU 2008) Cultural Affairs Committee (CMU 2008-2010) New Faculty Search Committee member (CMU 2008-2009), Philosophy and Religious Studies New Faculty Search Committee (University of Missouri 2003-04), the voting graduate student of a hiring committee for a tenure-track position in Twentieth-Century American Literature Coordinator, 12th-Annual English Graduate Student Association Conference: “Inaugural Moments: The Canonization of Events” (MU February 21-22, 2002) Awards, Fellowships, Grants NEH Summer Seminar “Gender, the State, and the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference,” University of Houston (June 12-18, 2017, funded) Rigby-Knickerbocher Grant, RU (2017, 2015, 2012, stipend) Elaine Bourke Lally Grant, RU (2017, 2014, stipend) Presidential Fellowship, RU (2015, 2012, stipend)
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Daniel Brenner Scholarly Achievement Award, RU (2014, honorarium) One-Year Fellowship, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College (declined) (2010) Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Research Center, U of Texas at Austin (2004-2005) Dissertation Fellowship, MU English Department (2005-2006) Dartmouth College Futures of American Studies Institute, Funded Participant (2004) Department Fellow, MU, one of four awarded to incoming PhD students in English (2001-2004) George Blocker Pace Award, the MU English Department graduate academic writing award (2002) Conference Participation Presenter: “The Feminist Press and Progressive Nostalgia” (invited to panel). Modern Language Association, New York, NY, January 4-7, 2018. Organizer/Chair: “Public Writing: A Professionalization Workshop.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 11-13, 2017. Presenter: “Carver Country as Toxic Post-Metropolis.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Oakland, CA, October 26-29, 2017. Organizer/Presenter: “‘Monuments and Anti-Monuments to the 1970s.” Paper Title: “‘You know there aren’t any mountains in Manhattan’: Anti-Monuments in Seventies-Set Fiction.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Greenville, SC, September 24, 2015. Presenter: “Pictorial Center Dissenters: William Gaddis, John Huston, and the Fake Battle Film.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 9, 2013 Chair: “Getting it Published: Figuring Out How and Where to Place Scholarly Work.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 10, 2012 Presenter: “Private Gaddis: Long-Distance Documentary and the Coming of Anti-War Literary History.” Chosen by the Executive Division on Prose Fiction for inclusion on panel on “War Stories.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2009 Presenter: “The Chinatown and the City: Kingston, Kerouac, and Bay Area Provincialism.” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2008 Organizer/Presenter/Chair: “‘In the Canon for all the Wrong Reasons’: Revising Narrative Conventions from within the Multicultural Category.” Paper Title: “Beating the Hyphen.” The International Conference on Narrative, Washington, DC, March 18, 2007
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Presenter: “Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, and the Moving Pictures of America.” Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, Lowell, MA, October 7, 2005 Organizer/Chair: “Post-World War II Regionalism.” MMLA, St. Louis, MO, November 4, 2004 Presenter: “Writing Speculation and Indicting Spectatorship: Leisure Class Readers in the Antebellum Midwest.” South Central Modern Language Association, Hot Springs, AR, October 30, 2003 Presenter: “George W. Cable and the Bras Coupe.” American Folklore Society, Rochester, NY, October 18, 2002 Organizer/Presenter: “Critical Colleagueship: A Workshop.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, March 21, 2002 References Jeffrey J. Williams, Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies Carnegie Mellon University 412.268.1977 jwill@andrew.cmu.edu Eric Lott, Professor of American Studies Graduate Center of the City University of New York 212.871.7000 elott@gc.cuny.edu Andrew Hoberek, Associate Professor of English University of Missouri 573.882.1801 hobereka@missouri.edu Dan Martin, Associate Professor of the English Department Rockhurst University 816.501.4120 dan.martin@rockhurst.edu Erika Behrisch Elce Associate Dean of Arts Royal Military College of Canada 613.541.600 X6070 erika.behrisch.elce@rmc.ca Annette Van, Associate Professor and Chair of English Central Methodist University 573.445.3666
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avan@centralmethodist.edu