ABRIDGED C.V.
SHELTON WALDREP
Department of English
University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine 04104-9300
(Office: 1 Chamberlain Avenue)
shelton.waldrep@alumni.duke.edu
207/780-4086 (voicemail)
EDUCATION
1995, Ph.D., English, Duke University.
Dissertation: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Self-Invention. (Director: Clyde
de L. Ryals)
1991, MA, English, Duke University.
1987, MFA, Creative Writing, The
University of Alabama.
1982, BA, English and Art History with
a minor in Creative Writing, The University of Alabama.
POSITIONS
1999-present, Assistant Professor of
English, University of Southern Maine.
1998-1999, Visiting Assistant Professor
of English, University of Southern Maine.
1996-1999, Assistant Professor of
English, Georgia State University.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals:
The
Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture, editor. New York and London:
Routledge, 2000.
Inside
the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Co-written with Jane Kuenz and Susan Willis with
photographs by Karen Klugman. Duke University Press, 1995. (Part of the series
Post-Contemporary Interventions, edited by Stanley Fish and Fredric
Jameson.) British edition by Rivers
Oram Press, 1996.
The
Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming.
Inauthentic
Pleasures: Victorian Fakery and the Limitations of Form. Special Issue Editor of SLI (Studies
in the Literary Imagination), forthcoming.
Rhetorics
of Architecture. Special Issue Editor of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, forthcoming.
Articles:
"Postmodern Casinos" (invited
essay). Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. John Duvall,
editor. Afterword by Linda Hutcheon.
"The Uses and Misuses of Oscar
Wilde" (invited essay). Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture
Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.
John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, editors. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Afterword by
Nancy Armstrong.
“Introducing the Seventies.” The
Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture. Shelton Waldrep, editor.
New York and London: Routledge, 2000.
"David Bowie," "Truman
Capote," and "Lou Reed."
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian
History. Robert Aldrich,
editor. New York and London: Routledge,
2001.
"The Job Market and Undergraduate Queer Instruction." Profession 1996.
"The Aesthetic Realism of Dorian Gray." Studies in the Literary Imagination: Victorian Literary Realism: Theory
and Practice 29.2 (Fall 1996).
"Jeffrey Weeks." Gay and Lesbian Literature. Sharon Malinowski, editor. Detroit:
St. James, 1994.
"'Being Bridges':
Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and African-American Sexism and Sexuality." Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of
Color (Harrington Park Press, 1993) and in Journal of Homosexuality 26.2/3 (1993).
"The Contemporary Future of
Tomorrow." South Atlantic Quarterly:
The World According to Disney 92.1 (Winter 1993).
"Not Thinking Straight in Capitalism and Schizophrenia." PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
13.3-4 (Fall/Winter 1992).
"An Interview with Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick." Critical Texts:
A Review of Theory and Criticism 7.2 (1990).
Poems:
“The Highway Out of Town.” Words and Images (2002), forthcoming.
“Envoi.” Envoy 2 (Spring 2000).
“Cracked Actor.” The Jacaranda Review 4.1 (Spring/Summer 1989).
“Strange Light.” Grand Piano 11 (Spring 1987).
“Two Young Men Playing Singles.” Sextet: Short Poems. Tuscaloosa:
Parallel Editions, 1986.
Reviews:
“Politics of
Sound.” Rev. of Queer Noises: Male and
Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-
Century Music, LGSN:
Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 28.1 (2001).
“Imminent Victorians.” Rev. of Victorian Sexual Dissidence, LGSN: Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 27.3
(2000).
"Wilde Influence." Rev. of The Wilde Century: Oscar Wilde, Effeminacy,
and the Queer Moment, LGSN: Lesbian
and Gay Studies Newsletter 22.3 (1995).
Rev. of To See, poems by Michael McFee and photographs by Elizabeth
Matheson, Carolina Quarterly 45.2
(Winter 1993).
"The New (Age) South." Rev. of Growing
Up Gay in the South: Race, Gender,
and Journeys of the Spirit, LGSN:
Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 19.3 (1992).
Rev. of Willa Cather and Six Writers from the Great War, American Literature 64.2 (June 1992).
"The Relationship Between Fine
Press Printing and Literature: Four Reviews." The Devil's Artisan: A
Journal of the Printing Arts 24 (1989).
Other Publications:
“Response.” The Cultures of Globalization.
Co-editors, Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press,
1998.
"Syllabus for 'Contemporary Gay
Fiction: An Introduction to Queer Cultural Production.'" LGSN: Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter
20.3 (November 1993).
PRESENTATIONS
Invited:
Plenary speaker: Twentieth-Seventh
Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Orlando, October 24-27, 2002
(scheduled).
Speaker, “Marxism, Cultural Studies,
and the Pedagogy of Desire.” The Third Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading
Group. University of Florida, March 30, 2001.
“Designing Lives: The Noël Coward Century.” Scholars on Stage, Portland Stage Co., October 3, 1999.
Speaker (with Jane Kuenz) for “USM
Profs in Print” sponsored by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. University of
Southern Maine, March 5, 1999.
Speaker, “Is Context Everything?: Are form and content dictated by culture?” [Paper entitled “The Postmodern Context and Its Consequences for Art”]. The Institute of Contemporary Arts at the Maine College of Art, March 1, 1999.
“Fashioning Wilde for the
‘Nineties.” Colby College, February 26,
1999.
Speaker, "Looking for Community
(in all the Wrong Places)" [Paper entitled “Virtual Communities”]. Media Fest: Celebrate Writing and the Arts,
April 21, 1998, University of Southern Maine.
"'American Environments': White
Noise and the Thematics of Space."
International Narrative Conference, April 4, 1997, University of
Florida.
"Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of
Self-Invention," Art and the Object of Desire: A Summer Salon Series, Dead
Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, June 27, 1996.
Speaker, "From Realism to Risk" [Paper on Barry Hannah]. Celebrate Writers, April 13, 1996, University of Southern Maine.
Contributed:
“The Green Reincarnation: Oscar Wilde,
David Bowie, and Velvet Goldmine.”
Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Orlando,
October 24-27, 2002 (scheduled).
Respondent.
"Stalking the Mouse: Doing Disney Studies." Modern Language
Association Annual Meeting, December 28, 2001, New Orleans.
“Economics and Performance: Wilde’s
Aesthetics of Self-Invention.” Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His
World, Hofstra University, April 27-29, 2000.
“Desiring Machines: Wilde’s Deluzian
Play.” International Narrative Conference, May 1, 1999, Dartmouth College.
"Reverse Empire: Casinos in Native
America." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 20,
1998, Seattle.
"Utopian Stakes: Gambling on the
Future." Northeast Popular Culture
Association Annual Meeting, October 31, 1997, Boston.
"Answered Prayers and Unfinished Projects: The Social Realist Novel
in America." Sixty-Sixth Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Convention, November 8, 1996, Savannah.
Speaker, "Gay and Lesbian
Issues in the Job Market: A Participatory Roundtable." Modern Language Association Annual Meeting,
December 29, 1995, Chicago.
"'Making fantastic arabesques':
The Problematical Realism of Dorian Gray."
Sixty-Fourth Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention,
November 13, 1994, Baltimore.
"The Clothes in David Bowie's
Closet: Theorizing the Seventies." Annual Meeting of the American Studies
Association, October 29, 1994, Nashville.
"Living with Disney." Modern
Language Association Annual Meeting, December 30, 1993, Toronto.
"The Architectonics of Postmodern
Space: Recent Building Design at Walt Disney World." Annual Meeting of the
American Studies Association, November 5, 1993, Boston.
"Queer Rhetoric." National
Women's Studies Association meeting, June 17, 1993, Washington, DC.
---. Conference on College Composition
and Communication Annual Convention, April 3, 1993, San Diego.
"Anxiety about the Present."
Southern American Studies Association Biennial Meeting, February 26, 1993, New
Orleans.
"From Modern to Postmodern:
Architecture, Construction, and Ethos in the Magic Kingdom." Sixty-Second
Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, November 12,
1992, Knoxville.
"Deleuzian Bodies: Not
Thinking Straight in Capitalism and
Schizophrenia." Annual Meeting of the International Association of
Philosophy and Literature, May 2, 1992, University of California, Berkeley.
---. Second Annual Graduate Student
Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, April 4, 1992, Urbana-Champaign.
Respondent. "Modernisms/Modernites." Linda Hutcheon, Chair.
Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, May 17, 1991, Montreal.
"'Being Bridges':
Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and the Paradigm of Black Sexism and Sexuality,"
Tenth Annual Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Conference, October 21, 1989,
Baltimore.
TEACHING
1998-present, Assistant Professor,
Department of English, University of Southern Maine.
Courses:
Independent Study in
Interdisciplinary and Cultural
Studies: The Cultural Contexts of
Technology
Independent Study in
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Senior Seminar in Critical Theory:
Performance Theory
Senior Seminar in Nineteenth-Century
Studies: Oscar Wilde and the 1890s
Victorian Literature and
Culture
The Nineteenth-Century British
Novel
Contemporary Critical Theories
Poetry Workshop
Poetry Writing
Introduction to Cultural
Studies
Introduction to Literary
Studies
Fiction
as a Genre
Creative Writing
Topics in Literature: Gay Male Fiction
1996-1998, Assistant Professor,
Department of English, Georgia State University.
Graduate
courses:
Doctoral
Seminar: Theories of Performance
Literary Criticism
Directed Readings: Queer Studies:
Recent
Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Directed Study: Studies in the
Victorian
Novel
The
Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Undergraduate
courses:
English
Novel II [19 C.]
European
Literature I
Rock and Roll Cultures [Honors]
The Short Story
Studies in Contemporary Literature: Gay
Male
Fiction [Honors]
Creative
Writing: Poetry [Honors]
1996, Lecturer, Department of English,
University of Southern Maine.
Composition.
1994, Instructional Assistant for
Marianna Torgovnick, English 170, Contemporary Fiction, Duke University.
1990-1994, Instructor, University
Writing Program and Department of English, Duke University.
Literature
seminar:
Contemporary
Gay Fiction: An Introduction to
Queer Cultural Production
Contemporary
North American Poetry
Composition:
Contemporary
Arts in Society
Contemporary
Global Culture
The
State of the Academy: Debates on the
Canon and Multiculturalism
Reimagining
'America'
1987-1988, Lecturer, Department of
English, Howard University.
Advanced Composition: Writing from Poetry
Persuasive
Writing
Composition
1987, Lecturer, Department of English,
Marymount University, Arlington, VA.
Composition
1983-1987, Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Department of English, The University of Alabama.
Poetry Writing Workshop
American
Literature II (a survey of US literature
from
1865 to the present)
Introduction
to Literature
Composition
MA (Georgia State University):
Andrew Baumann (second reader;
successfully completed)
Parks Westbrook (director; successfully completed)
RELATED
ACTIVITIES
Interviews:
Interview for The Free Press (University of Southern Maine student newspaper), April
12, 2002, for an article on student writing that appeared on April 15, 2002.
Interview for The Free Press (University of Southern Maine student newspaper),
October 31, 2001, for an article on Disney college internships that appeared on
November 5, 2001.
Interview on Maine Things Considered (Maine Public Broadcasting NPR affiliate),
May 3, 2000, for a special feature on The
Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture.
Interview for the Maine Sunday Telegram, October 7, 1999, for an article on perfumes
marketed for male consumers that appeared on October 17, 1999.
Interview for Cox News Service, July
28, 1998, for an article on popular culture in the 1990s that appeared in the Dayton Daily News and the San Diego Union-Tribune, August 18,
1998.
Interview for Detour magazine, December 10, 1997, for an article on the Disney
Company that appeared April, 1998.
Interview on Radio Times, WHYY (Philadelphia NPR affiliate), July 18, 1995, for
a live show on Walt Disney World.
Guest Lectures:
1999, Guest Lecturer for Prof. Willard
Rusch, English 245, Introduction to Literary Studies, University of Southern
Maine.
1998, Guest Lecturer for Prof. Lucinda
Cole, English 263, Fiction: The Genre, University of Southern Maine.
1996, Guest Lecturer for Prof. Dianne
Sadoff, English 341, Contemporary Critical Theory, University of Southern
Maine.
1993, Guest Lecturer for Prof. Susan
Willis, Literature 190S, Senior Seminar, Duke University.
Referee:
2002, Referee of book manuscript for Ohio University Press.
2001, Referee of book manuscript for the State University of New York Press.
2000, Referee for Professorial and
Readership Committee (tenure-granting committee), University of Central
Lancashire, UK.
1998, Referee of book manuscripts for
The University of Minnesota Press and essays for the South Atlantic Review and Studies
in the Literary Imagination.
1997, Referee for Studies in the Novel for articles on Late-Nineteenth Century
British literature.
1994, Referee of book manuscript for
Westview Press.
Administrative and Editorial:
1995-present, Associate Contributing
Editor, Lesbian and Gay Studies
Newsletter, MLA.
1995-1997, Assistant Editor for The Cultures of Globalization. Co-editors, Fredric Jameson and Masao
Miyoshi. Duke University Press, 1998.
1994, Coordinator for 'Globalization
and Culture,' an interdisciplinary conference, November 9-12, Duke University.
1993-1994, Coordinator, University
Writing Program, Duke University.
1991-1993, Veteran Assistant,
University Writing Program, Duke University.
1983-1985, Research Assistant for
Elizabeth A. Meese for Crossing the
Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism (North Carolina) and for
Hank Lazer for What is a Poet?
(Alabama).
LANGUAGES: Reading knowledge of French, German,
and Spanish.
HONORS
AND AWARDS
Professional:
2001, Faculty
Award for Excellence in Scholarship, University of Southern Maine.
1998, Distinguished Honors Professor
Nominee, Georgia State University.
1997-1998, Start-Up Grant,
Research Office, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University; Summer
Research Grant (1997, 1998), Department of English, Georgia State University.
1996, Summer Research Grant, Department
of English, Georgia State University.
Graduate:
1994, NEH Fellowship and Named
Instructor Fellowship Nominee, Duke University.
1991-1994, Internship (Managing
Editor), LGSN: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Newsletter published by the Modern Language Association, Duke University.
1989-1990, Graduate School Fellowship,
Duke University.
1987, The Teaching-Writing Fellowship
in Poetry, The University of Alabama.
1987, Honorable Mention, The Academy of
American Poets.
Undergraduate:
1981-1982, The Lee David Black and
Florence Weinberg Black Scholarship (for the outstanding paper in English), The
University of Alabama.
1981, Sesquicentennial Alumni Scholar
Nominee, The University of Alabama.
1980-1984, The Mallet Assembly Men’s
Honors Program
SERVICE
2002-2003, Chair,
Faculty Senate Awards Committee in the Humanities.
2002, College of Arts
and Sciences Graduate Studies Policies and Procedures Committee.
2001-, Director, Graduate Certificate
in Theory, Literature, and Culture, University of Southern Maine.
2001-2002, Faculty Senate Awards
Committee.
2001-present, Creative Writing Minor Committee,
University of Southern Maine.
2001-2002, Curriculum Committee,
University of Southern Maine.
2000-2001, Chair, Journalism Search
Committee, Department of English and Program in Media Studies, University of
Southern Maine.
2000-2002, Media Studies Representative
for the Department of English, University of Southern Maine.
2000-2002, Faculty Senate, University
of Southern Maine.
2000, Chair for the panel “Mapping
Adventure: The Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives and
Twentieth-Century Extreme Adventure Texts,” Annual Conference of the Northeast
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 26, 2000, Portland.
1999-2000, O’Brien Bequest Committee
and Film Committee, University of Southern Maine.
1999, Chair for the panel “Frontiers
and Media,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 28,
1999, Montreal.
1998-2000, Student Affairs committee,
University of Southern Maine
1997-1998, Sophomore and Lecture Series
committees, Georgia State University
1996-1997, Curriculum Revision and
Lecture Series committees, Georgia State University.
1994, Chair for the panel
"Theories and Practices in the Teaching of Argumentation" and
Associate Chair for "Situating Responsibility
as a Keyword for the Profession," Conference on College Composition and
Communication Annual Convention, March 17 and 19, 1994, Nashville.
1993, Chair for the panel
"Continental Romanticism," "Re-Reading Romanticism"
conference, November 13, 1993, Duke University.
1993-1994, Coordinating Committee for
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies, appointed by Dean of Trinity College, Duke
University.
1993, Organized and conducted three
working lunches on graduate and professional student issues attended by the
deans and student leaders, appointed by Vice President for Student Affairs,
Duke University.
1992-1993, President's Advisory
Committee on Resources, Duke University.
1992, Committee for the conference
"Sexual Harassment and Academic Culture," Dean Leigh DeNeef, Chair,
Duke University.
1987, The Creative Writing Program and
the Reading Series Committees, The University of Alabama.
1984-1985, Reader, The University of
Alabama Press Poetry Series.
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP
The American Studies
Association
The Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature
The Modern Language Association of
America
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