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)
