Joshua R.

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EDUCATION

2019 PhD, English; Purdue University.

Dissertation: “Engaging the Unknowable: Modernism, Science, and Print”

Committee: Arkady Plotnitsky (Director), Maren Linett, John Duvall, Geraldine
Friedman

2014 MA, English; University of Central Florida.

2012 MAT, English Language Arts Education (Grades 6-12) with ESOL Endorsement;
University of Central Florida.

2010 BA (summa cum laude), English and Classical Studies; University of Florida.

EMPLOYMENT

2018-19 Purdue Research Foundation Fellow, Purdue University.

2014-18 Graduate Teaching Instructor, Purdue University.

2012-14 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.” Journal of Modern
Literature. (Forthcoming Winter 2019)

“Resisting Science: The Criminality of Physiognomy and Gesture in Kafka’s The Trial.” Journal
of the Kafka Society of America, vol. 41, no. 1-2, 2017-18, pp. 3-18.

“‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the Autobiography of Mark
Twain.” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 33-67.

Manuscripts in Submission

“Joseph Conrad and Scientific Naturalism: Printing Epistemology in The Secret Agent.” Under
review at ELH.

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Virginia Woolf and a Climate of Uncertainty.” For submission to Configurations: A Journal of

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Literature, Science, and Technology.

SELECT RESEARCH AWARDS

2018-19 Purdue Research Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

2018 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University.

2018 Disability Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards,
“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.”

2017 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University.

2017 Robert Liddell Lowe Scholarship (for outstanding research on nineteenth- or

twentieth-century British literature), Purdue University.

2017 Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies (First Place), Purdue University
Literary Awards, “The Anamorphosis of the Real.”

2017 LGBTQ Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards, “‘All of
us shall dance in the snow’: Emily Holmes Coleman and a Post-Material
Aesthetics of Existence.”

2016 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University.

2015 Partner University Fund Fellowship, Purdue University and Université Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

National Conferences

2019 “Defining Science, Inciting Modernism: The Victorian Periodical Editor.”

Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL, January 3-6.

2018 “Joyce’s Hauntology of Desire.” Modernist Studies Association. Columbus, OH,

November 8-11.

2018 “British Modernism and the Popularization of Science.” Louisville Conference on

Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 22-24.

2017 “Scientific Epistemology and (Un)Predictable Temporalities in Joseph Conrad’s

The Secret Agent.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tempe, AZ,
November 9-12.
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2017 “The Epistemological Place of Disability in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent

Bear It Away.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 25-28.

2017 “Beauty in the Breakdown: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Aesthetics of
Queer Disruption.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900.
Louisville, KY, February 23-25.

2015 “The Hospitality of the Law and The Trial for the De-Facement of the Other.”
North American Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.

2015 “Pedagogy Session: Midrashic Reading and Levinas’s ‘Judaism and Revolution.’”
North American Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.

2015 “Lacan and Mathematics.” French and Analytic Approaches to Science in the 20th
Century and Today. Nancy, France, June 15-19.

Select Regional and Graduate Conferences

2017 “Postpartum Depression and Class-Inflected Disability in Emily Holmes

Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow.” Northeast Modern Language Association.
Baltimore, MD, March 23-26.

2014 “Becoming American: John Davis’s Unruly Pocahontas and the Formation of a
Transnational American Literature.” Economies Graduate Student Conference.
Columbia, SC, April 4-5.

2014 “‘Thou parcel of myself’: Narcissism, Aggression, and Homosocial Desire in

Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen.” Third Annual University of Central
Florida English Symposium. Orlando, FL, February 21.

2014 “This Dead Man Tells Lots of Tales: The Authorial Revenant and Mark Twain’s
Autobiography.” AUMLAC Southern Studies Conference. Montgomery, AL,
February 7-8.

2014 “Was Billy Budd Castrated?” Southern Humanities Council. Richmond, VA.
January 30-February 2.

2013 “‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the
Autobiography of Mark Twain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Atlanta, GA, November 8-10.

2013 “The Politics of Diaspora: Position, Identity, and Representation in the Global
Hierarchy.” Wish You Were Here EGO Conference. Gainesville, FL, October 24-
26.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Purdue University

Introduction to Fiction – ENGL 238 (Instructor of Record): Summer 2018

-An online, introductory survey of eighteenth-century to contemporary prose that explores fiction
as both a genre and cultural concept

Accelerated Composition Through Service Learning – ENGL 108-S (Instructor of Record): Fall
2017
-An advanced first-year composition course emphasizing service learning, research, and
community involvement

Introduction to Composition: Documenting Realities – ENGL 106 (Instructor of Record): Fall

2016; Spring 2017; Summer 2017; Fall 2017; Spring 2018
-A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course emphasizing identity and cultural
reflection

Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics – ENGL 106 (Instructor of Record): Fall 2014;
Spring 2015; Fall 2015; Spring 2016
-A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course emphasizing writing and technology

Athletic Department Football Team Mentor: Fall 2016; Spring 2017

-A position that involves tutoring and mentoring new and at-risk student-athletes on the football
team

University of Central Florida

World Literature – LIT 2110 (Graduate Teaching Assistant): Spring 2013; Fall 2013; Spring
2014
-An online, introductory survey course of world literature that explores a variety of genres and
cultural contexts

Orange County (FL) Public Schools

English I and English I Honors. East River High School: 2011-12.

English II, English III Honors, and English IV. Edgewater High School: 2010-11.

TEACHING AWARDS

2017-18 Honorable Mention for Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award,

Purdue University.

2018 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Spring).
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2018 Most Innovative Syllabus Approach Application, Purdue Writing Showcase,

“ENGL 108-S: Engaging the Community: Composing Through Service
Learning,” Purdue University.

2017 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Fall).

2016-17 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.

2017 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Spring).

2016 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Fall).

2016 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award, Purdue University.

2015-16 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.

2016 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Spring).

2015 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Fall).

2014-15 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.

2015 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Spring).

2014 Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Introduction to Composition,

Purdue University (Fall).

SELECT DEPARTMENT SERVICE

2018 Showcase Presentation for ENGL 108-S: Accelerated Composition Through

Service Learning, Introductory Composition at Purdue.

2016-17 Theory and Cultural Studies Graduate Student English Association

Representative, Purdue University.

2016-17 “Documenting Realities” Syllabus Approach Leader, Purdue University.

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2015 Conference Co-Organizer and Co-Host. North American Levinas Society.

Emmanuel Levinas Across the Generations and Continents, West Lafayette, IN,
July 27-30.

2014 Conference Co-Organizer. Third Annual English Symposium. The Other That Is
(Not) Me, University of Central Florida, February 2014.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

REFERENCES

Arkady Plotnitsky, Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3740
plotnits@purdue.edu

Maren Linett, Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3780
mlinett@purdue.edu

John Duvall, Margaret Church Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3760
jduvall@purdue.edu

Bradley Dilger, Associate Professor (Teaching Reference)

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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(309) 259-0328
dilger@purdue.edu