I began my collegiate career in beautiful Flagstaff, Arizona, and ended it - or should I say, completed my doctoral work in the wonderful city of Albuquerque, NM.  Below is a link to my Curriculum Vitae, which is how we fancy academic types say "resume":

http://http:www.virgilmathes.com/curriculum-vitae



I had a wonderful graduate school experience, really, culminating in a fantastic dissertation committee who guided me through a project I'd had planned for years.  For my dissertation, I chose to examine how the traditional Code Duello, the code of the duel, informed the genre western.  This simple idea took me in many directions, and ultimately I couldn't follow all the trails that led away from it.  The following is a trail of rhetoric which became the third chapter of my dissertation; in it I consider how language acts governed the code of the duel and controlled how conflicts were mediated and whether or not violence was justified:

http://www.virgilmathes.com/rhetoric-and-the-duel