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Professor of English, Director of |
Curriculum Vita
Robert M. Myers
Department of English
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Lock Haven, PA 17745
570-893-2236
rmyers3@lhup.edu
Education:
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University English, 1991
Dissertation: "Harold Frederic: Reluctant Expatriate."
Directors: James L. W. West III and Stanley Weintraub
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University English, 1986
B.A. The Pennsylvania State University English, 1983
Teaching Experience:
Professor Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 2007-Present
Associate Professor Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 2002-2007
Assistant Professor Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 1999-2002
Associate Professor The University of Texas at Tyler 1994-1999
Assistant Professor Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 1992-1994
Adjunct Instructor Juniata College, Juniata, Pennsylvania 1992
Grad Assistant/Lecturer The Pennsylvania State University 1984-1992
Teaching Awards:
LHUP Teaching and Learning Center Peer's Choice Award for Teaching Excellence (2004)
Alpha Chi Honor Society Outstanding Faculty Member, UT-Tyler (1996)
Teacher of the Year, Clearfield Campus, Lock Haven University (1993)
Scholarly Growth:
Books and Chapters in Books:
Reluctant Expatriate: The Life of Harold Frederic. Contributions to the Study of World Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1995. i-xix, 1-195.
"'It's What People Say We're Fighting For': Representing the Lost Cause in Cold Mountain. In Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Lexington: U Press of Kentucky, 2008. 121-33.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
"'Desirable Immigrants': The Assimilation of Transplanted Yankees in Page and Tourgée." South Central Review 21 (Summer 2004): 63-78.
"'The Subtle Battle Brotherhood': The Construction of Military Discipline in The Red Badge of Courage." War, Literature & the Arts (Special Edition: Stephen Crane in War and Peace, 1999): 128-40.
"Editing 'The Yellow Wall-paper." Review 21 (1999): 133-40.
"A Review of Popular Editions of The Red Badge of Courage." Stephen Crane Studies 6 (Spring 1997): 2-15.
"Antimodern Protest in The Damnation of Theron Ware." American Literary Realism 26 (Spring 1994): 52-64.
"Relocating Realism." Review 15 (1993): 161-68.
"Harold Frederic and the Writers of the Nineties." Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens 36 (October 1992): 121-30.
"Dreiser's Copy of McTeague." Papers in Language and Literature 27 (Special Dreiser Issue, Spring 1991): 259-66.
"'God Shall Be All in All': The Erasure of Hell in Paradise Lost." Seventeenth Century 5 (Spring 1990): 43-53.
Presentations:
"The Return of the Wasteland: The Environmental Effects of Hydro-Fracturing in Central Pennsylvania." Presentation at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioner's National Conference, Atlanta, GA (Nov. 2010); the Sustainable Energy Fund Green Bag Lunch Series, Allentown, PA (Dec. 2010); the Penn State Marcellus Shale Law Symposium, University Park, PA (Feb. 2011); the EPIC Frac Event, Ithaca, NY (June 2011); the Grey to Green Festival, Youngstown, OH (Sept. 2011), and the Citizens Marcellus Shale Commission, Williamsport, PA (Sept. 2011).
"Greening the Emerald City: The Representation of Nature in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Paper at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (April 2011).
"'A Purely Ideational Lake': The Representation of Wilderness in Dreiser's An American Tragedy." Paper at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference (October 2010).
"Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and the Contemporary Wilderness Debate." Paper at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (2009).
"Battlefield Rehabilitation or Imaginative Restoration: Ambrose Bierce's Ideologies of Nature and Civil War Battlefields." Paper presented at American Popular Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (2008), and at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, NY (2008).
"Doctorow's The March and 9-11 Ideology." Paper at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (2007).
"'It's What People Say We're Fighting For': Representing the Lost Cause in Cold Mountain. Paper at the Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association Meeting (2006).
"'A Singular Absence of Heroic Poses': Representing the Civil War in The Red Badge of Courage." Paper at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature (2004). Also presented at the Pennsylvania College English Association Conference (April 2005).
"Teaching Students to Use Sources for Research." Presentation for the Emanuel Teaching and Learning Center, Lock Haven University (2001).
"'Do I Really Have to Hit the Button?': Encouraging Student Participation in the Distance-Education Classroom." Paper at the Emerging Educational Technologies and Applications Conference (2000).
"'Desirable Immigrants': The Literary Assimilation of Transplanted Yankees." Paper at the South Central Modern Language Association Conference (1997). Awarded "New Historical Literary Studies Prize" ($250).
"'A Dream That Went by Contraries': Charles Chesnutt's Divided Audience." Paper at the Modern Language Association Conference (1996).
"'The Subtle Battle Brotherhood': The Construction of Military Discipline in The Red Badge of Courage." Paper at the Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1995).
"Available Texts of The Red Badge of Courage." Presentation for the Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1995).
"The Challenge of Literary Biography: Writing the Life of Harold Frederic." Presentation for the College of Liberal Arts, UT-Tyler (1995).
"Some Practical Approaches to Using Historical Research in the Literature Classroom." Paper at the 2nd Annual Conference on Instruction Across the Disciplines (1992).
"Harold Frederic and Ireland." Paper at the Atlantic Region Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies (1991).
Grants Awarded:
University of Texas at Tyler Faculty Research Award (1996): $3,030 for release time, travel expenses to UT-Austin library, and research assistance to work on Transplanted Yankee book.
University of Texas at Tyler Liberal Arts Release Time (1996): $2000 for release time to work on Transplanted Yankee book.
Lock Haven University Faculty Development Grant (1993): $250 for travel to Utica, New York to conduct research for Frederic biography.
Newberry Library Fellowship (1991): $200 for one-week at the library to conduct research for Frederic biography.
Pennsylvania State University Ben Euwema Awards (1988, 1989, 1990): $700 for travel to the Library of Congress, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the British Museum, and Columbia University to conduct research on Frederic.
University Service:
Lock Haven University
Art Department Interim Chair (2011)
English Department Chair (2003-11)
Director of Environmental Studies (2010-Present)
Arts & Sciences Council of Chairs, Chair (2008-11)
Environmental Focus Group, Chair (2008-Present)
APSCUF Legislative Assembly Delegate (2000-04)
University Distance-Education Committee, Chair (2001-02)
University of Texas at Tyler
Editor, Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Self-Study (1998-99)
Faculty Senator (Alternate 1995-96, Junior Senator 1996-97, Senator 1997-98)