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Mark Wegley Day Phone: (870)
460-1079
Email: wegley@uamont.edu
Education
May
2000
Boise State University, Boise, ID
M.A. in English
Master’s Thesis: "Fearing the Unknowable: A Theoretical Approach to
Reevaluating Le Fanu’s Short Fiction of the Fantastic"
June
1998
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
B.A. in English
Senior Seminar Thesis: "Sir Gawain's Paradox: Women, Symbolism, and
Arthurian Ideology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Major Field: British and American Literature
Minor Field: Philosophy
June 1996
Green River
Community College, Auburn, WA
A.A. in Arts and Sciences
Teaching
Experience
Aug 2000 to Instructor of English,
Present
University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR
The University of
Arkansas-Monticello is one of four major campuses in the University of Arkansas
System. It is a nationally accredited, open enrollment institution averaging
over 2,500 full-time students per year. The University offers Bachelor’s
degrees in over twenty majors, as well as four Master’s programs.
Job
Duties
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Teaching five courses per semester in developmental writing, freshman
composition, literature, and philosophy (see below for specific course titles)
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Serving as an advisor to English and Gen. Ed. majors
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Registering students for classes
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Serving on departmental and university committees (see below)
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Creating of course syllabi, including textbook selections and grading
criteria
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Attending all departmental and university faculty assembly meetings
Courses Taught
(See
UAM Catalogue
pp.178-180, 201-202 for descriptions)
ENGL 0133 – Fundamentals of English (developmental writing)
ENGL 0133 – Fundamentals of English (CIV)
ENGL 1013 – Composition I (Gen. Ed. requirement, 1 of 2)
ENGL 1023 – Composition II (Gen Ed. requirement, 2 of 2)
ENGL 1023 – Composition II (CIV)
ENGL 2293 – World Literature II (survey course,
renaissance to modern)
ENGL 3573 – Literature for Adolescents (seminar for
Secondary Education majors)
PHIL 2223 – Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 3523 – Logic
PHIL 3623 – Ethics
Teaching
Technology Experience
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I have two years experience teaching writing courses via
Compressed
Interactive Video (CIV), a cable broadcasting technology that allows real-time
interaction between my location and students at multiple CIV equipped remote
locations.
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I am computer and web literate and have experience developing web course
content using WebCT and Microsoft Frontpage.
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I am experienced with integrating teaching technologies such as
PowerPoint
presentations, digital video, and internet in a "smart" classroom setting.
Committee Record
2001 – Present Secretary, Freshman Writing
Assessment Committee
2002 – Present Member, English Scholarship
Committee
2003 Member, Plagiarism Policy
Departmental Committee
2003 Member, Faculty Search
Committee
2004
Member, English Program Review Committee
2004
Chair, 2005 APA Conference Hosting Committee
2004
Member, UAM Documentary Film Festival Committee
2005
Chair, 2005 APA Conference Hosting Committee
2005 – 2006
Vice Chair, UAM Faculty Assembly
2005 – 2006 Member, UAM
Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC)
2005 – 2006 Member, UAM
SPSC, Sub-Committee
2006
Member, Faculty Search Committee (French Instructor)
2006
Member, Developmental Writing Assessment Committee
Presentations
“J-Feminism? Japanese Gender-Revisionist Horror and the
American Response” presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture/American Culture Associations, Albuquerque, NM, February 10th,
2006.
“Textuality as Horror in Mark Danielewski’s House of
Leaves” presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Arkansas
Philological Association, Capital Hotel, Downtown Little Rock, AR, October 20-22nd,
2005.
"Unreliable Reliability: Narration, Representation, and
Truth in James' The Aspern Papers" presented at the State
University of West Georgia's
19th Annual International Conference on Literature, Visual Arts and/or Cinema
in Atlanta Georgia, October 21-24, 2004.
“The
Aspern Caper” presented at the annual conference of the Arkansas
Philological Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 8th, 2004.
“[Terror]tories of Textuality (or, PsychoTextual Horror):
The Conflation of Physical Space and Cognitive Excess in Postmodern Horror
Texts” presented at the national conference of the
Popular Culture/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX,
April 7-10, 2004.
Stripping “The Yellow Wallpaper”: A Critical Remodeling of
Gilman’s Supernatural Subtext” presented at the annual conference of the
Arkansas Philological Association, Tunica, MS, Oct 17th, 2003.
“The Spectral Monkey: Perception and Différance
in Le Fanu’s Short Fiction of the Supernatural” presented at the annual
conference of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations (PCA/ACA), Albuquerque, NM, Feb 14th, 2002.
“'I am Jack’s Complete Loss of Identity': Existential
Alienation in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club” presented at the annual
conference of the Arkansas Philological Association, Hot Springs, AR, Oct 17th,
2001.
“Unknown Fear: Jospeh Sheridan Le Fanu and the Literary Fantastic” presented at
the annual conference of the Arkansas Philological Association, Memphis, TN, Oct
18th, 2000.
Publications (MLA Indexed)
“Unknown
Fear: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Literary Fantastic” republished in
Thompson/Gale’s Short Story Criticism Vol. 84 (SSC84), 2005.
"Stripping 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Critical Remodeling of
Gilman's Supernatural Subtext" published in The Philological Review, Vol.
30:1 (Spring) 2004. 15-24.
“Fear Unknowable: Le Fanu and the Literary Fantastic”
published in Paradoxa No. 17, 2002. 32-51.
“Unknown Fear: Jospeh Sheridan Le Fanu and the Literary Fantastic” published in
The Philological Review, Vol. 27:2 (Fall) 2001. 59-77.
Professional
Memberships
Arkansas Philological Association
American Culture Association
Popular Culture Association
Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts
Modern Languages Association
Extracurricular
Activities
In 2004-2005 I served as Program Chair for the Arkansas
Philological Association (APA), the largest organization of English and
Humanities scholars and creative writers in the state. I planned, organized,
and hosted the annual conference. I also secured $2500.00 from my institution
to invite best-selling author Matthew Pearl to be the keynote speaker. I am
currently the Vice President of the association.
In 2004-2005 I served as a peer-reviewer for The
Philological Review, an MLA indexed scholarly journal, which is associated
with the APA.
In 2005, I have been a reviewer (requested and compensated)
for a forthcoming composition textbook titled “Transcending Self” which will be
published by McGraw-Hill.
In 2004-2005, I organized and hosted the School of Arts
and Humanities Film Series, screening five influential films for the student
body throughout the school year in a three hundred-seat auditorium.
Current, Ongoing
Research Interests
Literature of the Fantastic
Research
Writing and Composition Pedagogy
Critical
Thinking/Reading Pedagogy
Philosophy
in Literature
Film as
Literature
Culture/Media Studies
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