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Curriculum Vitae
Virgil Mathes, PhD



Teaching Experience

Faculty Associate
           Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
           August 2014 – May 2015
                      Courses Taught:
                                                English 102
                                                English 108 

Adjunct Faculty
            Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
            August 2014 ­– Present
                        Courses Taught:
                                               English 101
                                                English 102
                                                Humanities 251 (Mythology)
                                                CRW 272 (Writing the Novel)                                             

OSO Faculty (one year contract)
            Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
            August 2013 – May 2014
                        Courses Taught:
                                                English 101
                                                English 102
                                                English 091
                                                Humanities 251 (Mythology)

Adjunct Faculty
            Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
            August 2012 – May 2013
                        Courses Taught:
                                                English 101
                                                English 102

Online Instructor
            Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
            August 2011 – December 2014
                        Courses Taught:
                                                English 643 - 20th Century American Literature

Assistant Professor
            San Juan College, Farmington, NM
            August 2008- July 2012
                        Courses Taught:
                                                Basic Writer’s Workshop, Developmental Composition
                                                Basic Composition
                                                Freshman Composition (Learning Communities, Hybrid)
                                                Technical Writing (100, 200 level, 100/200 stacked & embedded)
                                                Earlier American Literature (face to face & online)
                                                Later American Literature

Adjunct Faculty
            General Education Department, The Art Center Design College, Albuquerque, NM
            January 2007-August 2008
                        Courses Taught:
                                                Freshman Composition
                                                Speech
                                                Business Communication

Temporary Faculty
            English Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
            August 2006 – May 2008
                        Courses Taught:
                                                Technical Communication
                                                Composition (hybrid)

Teaching Assistant
            English Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
            August 2001 – May 2006
                        Courses Taught:
                                                Freshman Composition
                                                Advanced Composition
                                                Introduction to Literature for Non-Majors
                                                Introduction to Literature for Majors
                                                Traditional Grammar

Graduate Assistant
            English Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
            January 1999 – May 2001
                        Course Taught: 
                                                Freshman Composition

Education

PhD in English, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2006
Dissertation:       Pistols at High Noon: The Code Duello in Western Literature

M.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
            AZ, 2001
             Master’s Thesis: Burning San Carlos (novella)

B.A. in Humanities, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 1993

Service and Administration

Glendale Community College Student Mentor,  Fall 2014 – Spring 2015

San Juan College Learning Community Program Coordinator, October 2011 – May 2012

Northern Arizona University Online Course Development September 2011 – January 2012

            Developed Blackboard Learn shell for graduate level literature course online

San Juan College GLBTQ Ally    January 2011 - May 2012

San Juan College Learning Community Committee, April 2010 - 2012

San Juan College Adjunct Symposium

            Part of panel presentation on electronic media in classroom, Fall 2009

Assistant Director of Rhetoric and Writing/First-Year Composition Program 2003 - 2005

Duties include:

-       Chairing the Composition Committee, charged with textbook and handbook adoption as part of program development

-       Organizing departmental Book Fair 2004 & 2005

-       Miscellaneous duties associated with mentoring TAs, PTIs, and adjunct instructors; initial orientation and program management.

Graduate Assistant – Syllabus Development:

Developed sample syllabus for incoming graduate Teaching Assistants.  Project included model syllabus for students, plus eight sample teaching sequences with interpretive text to guide their teaching.  Summer, 2005

Current Work & Publications

Burning San Carlos. Under consideration by various publishers.

Ballad of the Laurie Swain. Amazon, 2011. Print.

“The Spoon.” Perspectives. Spring 2010. Print.

Pistols at High Noon: The Code Duello in the Western  VDM Verlag
          Publishers: Germany, 2008. Print.

“‘A Wonderful Field for the Novelist’: Hamlin Garland’s Forgotten Tour of Colorado in 1895.” Co-
          authored with Gary Scharnhorst. Colorado History Number 12, 2006. Print.

"Aging and Death." American History through Literature, 1870-1920. Eds. Tom Quirk
         and Gary Scharnhorst. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 27-31. Print.

"Weaponry." American History through Literature, 1870-1920, Eds. Tom Quirk and
         Gary Scharnhorst.  Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 1186-1189. Print.

Conference Attendance/Presentations

Attended AWP in Minneapolis, April 2015

Attended AWP in Seattle, February 2014

Attended “The Teaching Professor” conference in New Orleans June 2013

Attended AWP conference in Boston, March 2013

“Digg Me on Twitter: Academic Social Networking in the Creative Writing Classroom”
            presented as part of a panel presentation at AWP conference, Denver, CO April 2010

“On the Borderlands Between Binary States: Can Red and Blue Make Green?” presented
            at CCCC conference, Chicago, Ill March 2006

 “Rangers Lead the Way: Ecocriticism and the Ranger Mystique” presented at
            Western Literature Association, Big Sky, MT, September 2004

“Platonic Pugilism: Defense and Dialectic in Aikido” presented at the Rhetoric Society 
            of America Conference, Austin, TX, May 2004

 “The Recursive Empire: Jack Burns and Homeland Security” presented at the
           Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2003

“The Hermeneutics of the Duel: Understanding the Other through the Coda Duello”
          presented at the Western Literature Association Conference, Houston, TX, 
          October, 2003

“Hayduke at the O.K. Corral: Edward Abbey, Tourism, and the Gunfighter Mystique”
          presented at the Western Literature Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 2002

“At Least He’s Not a White Guy: Reconstructing Race and Gender in Jackie Chan’s
            Shanghai Noon” presented at Writing It Over Upside Down and Sideways
            Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, March 2002

“Cynomous” (short story) presented at Writing It Over Upside Down and Sideways
            Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, March 2002

“The Leatherstocking Tales of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’” presented at Redefining the
            American West conference, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas,
            NM, September 2001

Volunteer Work

Arizona Rangers, Phoenix Company
            Law Enforcement Auxilary and Community Service
            November ’12 – Present

Memberships

National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE)

Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

      



 

                                                       

 

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