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Dr. Sean Heuston
Assistant Professor
Department of English
The Citadel
(843) 953-5143 or 953-5068
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Stanford University
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
· “Chopin's The Awakening.” The Explicator, Summer 2006.
· “Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Brother to Dragons and Warren’s Southern Ethnography.” Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 2005.
· “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us.” 2005 Film and History CD-ROM Annual (originally published in Studies in Popular Culture, Spring 2005).
· “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us.” Studies in Popular Culture, Spring 2005.
· “Robert Frost’s ‘West-Running Brook.’” The Explicator. Fall 2004.
Essays in Edited Collections
· “It Can Be Done: Getting a Tenure-Track Job as an ABD in the Humanities.” In Job Search in Academe: The Insightful Guide for Faculty Job Candidates (Stylus Press, Forthcoming Spring 2007)
Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews
Review of Andrew Myers' Black, White & Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement. Forthcoming in Studies in American Culture. Fall 2007.
Essay on the Agrarians. Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2005).
Essays on Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Robert Frost, and Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” A Companion to Twentieth- Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005).
Essays on the social construction of the male body and on sports in American culture. American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia (Sage Publications, 2004).
Review of Tom French’s Touching the Bones. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. Fall 2003.
Review of Lance Pettit’s Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. Spring 2002.
“The Wake of the Visible World: Ralph Black’s Turning Over the Earth.” (Review) Solo. Fall 2001.
Book manuscript: The Dialect of the Tribe: Modern Poetry and Ethnography (manuscript completed and under university press review; currently awaiting reader reports).
Book project: The South on Film (working title; manuscript in progress).
"Texas, Florida, and the New New South: John Sayles' Lone Star and Sunshine State." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Boston. April 4-7, 2007.
"Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the New New South: John Sayles' Lone Star and Sunshine State." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Charlotte. November 10-12, 2006.
"Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Warren’s Southern Ethnography.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Charlotte. November 10-12, 2006.
"Monster and the Aileen Documentaries: Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Justice on Film." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Savannah. October 5-7, 2006.
"Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us." University Film and Video Association Conference. Chicago. August 2-6, 2005.
"I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer’: Robert Frost and Literary Ethnography.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston. May 26-28, 2005.
“Open Texts and the World Beyond the Big Screen: Propaganda Film in the Twenty-First Century.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Dallas. November 11-14, 2004.
“Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us: New Media, New Meanings.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans. September 23-25, 2004.
“What We Teach About When We Teach ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.’” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco. May 27-30, 2004.
“‘Where’re you from?’: Place, Race, and Southern Literary Ethnography.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Biannual Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 26-28, 2004.
“As We Know: Robert Frost, Proto-Postmodernist.” Dartmouth College Robert Frost Conference. Hanover, New Hampshire. July 11, 2003.
“Telling About the South: The Fiction of Ernest Gaines.” American Culture Association Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 2-5, 2002.
“Yeats, Lady Gregory, Irish Folklore, and Modernism.” British Poetry Section. International Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. February 21-23, 2002.
“Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: Seamus Heaney and Postcolonial Ethnography.” Postcolonial Literature Section. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 9-11, 2001.
“The Politics of Indeterminacy: Transatlantic Abolitionism and Racial Hybridity in Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.” Multi-Ethnic Drama Section. MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Knoxville. March 1-4, 2001.
"'Name children some names and see what you do': Indeterminacy and Destiny in Robert Frost's Poetry." Modern Language Association Conference. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2000.
“The Predicament of Literary Ethnography: Narrative Instability and Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons.” Ethnographic Poetics Section. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2000.
"Poetical Football: John Ashbery, Romantic Poetry, and the Shape of the Canon." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. American Literature Section. Birmingham. November 9-11, 2000.
"Who Speaks for the South?: Robert Penn Warren's Southern Ethnography." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. San Antonio. November 9-11, 2000.
“Mastering Discourse: Literary Ethnography and Narrative Instability.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 4-6, 1999.
Teaching
The Citadel:
ENGL 700—The Irish Question: Empire and After
ENGL 560—Film Studies
ENGL 401—Anglo-Irish Literature
ENGL 401—Westerns and Western Literature
ENGL 401—Beat Generation Literature
ENGL 348—Twentieth Century Southern Literature
ENGL 215—Masterpieces of American Literature
ENGL 209—Introduction to Film
ENGL 208—Detective Fiction
ENGL 204—Survey of British Literature II
ENGL 203—Survey of British Literature I
ENGL 202—Major British Writers II
ENGL 102—Composition and Literature II (Southern Literature)
ENGL 101—Composition and Literature I
HONR 201—Plural Souths: Tradition and Multiculturalism
The Citadel:
· Academic Advisor to Bravo Company, 2002-present.
· Honors Committee, 2003-present.
· Human Affairs Subcommittee on Cadet, Faculty, and Staff Relations, 2004-present.
· Citadel NCAA Compliance Self-Study Committee, 2007-present.
· Chair, Athletic Advisory Committee, 2007-present.
· Athletic Advisory Committee, 2005-present.
· Summer Scholarship Committee, 2005-present.
· Citadel Scholars Admissions Committee, 2005-present.
· Cadet Driving Safety Committee, 2005-present.
· DUI/Drowsy Driving Cadet Video Project Coordinator, 2005-present.
· Citadel London Summer Program Co-Coordinator, 2005-present.
· Assistant Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, 2006-present.
· Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Council, 2006-present.
· English Department American Studies Minor Subcommittee, 2006-present.
· English Department Job Candidate Interview Committee, 2005-6.
· Citadel Cadet Talent Show Judge, 2006.
· Awards Committee, 2003-2006.
· Citadel Honor Code Program Mentor, 2005-6.
· English Department Faculty Mentor (for Barton Swaim), 2005-6.
· English Department Faculty Mentor (for Harry Keuper), 2004-5..
· English Department Core Courses Committee, 2004-5.
· Library Committee, 2003-4.
· Faculty Advisor to The Shako (Citadel student literary magazine), 2002-2004.
· Suitability Board Member: Bravo cadet (4/10/06), Oscar cadet (4/10/06), Bravo cadet (3/9/06), Charlie cadet (3/7/06), Bravo cadet (3/7/06), Bravo cadet (2/28/05)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association:
Chair, Robert Penn Warren Circle panel, 2007
Executive Committee, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2004-present.
Chair, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2003.
Secretary, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2002.
Other Professional Activities and Service:
Judge, Post and Courier Prize, Pegasus Prize, and Footlight Players Prize, Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2008.
Judge, Lyric Poem Prize and Post and Courier Prize, Poetry Society of South Carolina, 2007.
Charleston Public Library “Let’s Talk About It” series discussion: film history, technology, and recent changes in the American film industry (October 9. 2006).
Chair, Film Panel, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Savannah. October 5-7, 2006.
Judge, 2005 and 2006 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Beatrice Ravenel Prize, Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize, Ellen Douglas Everett Carruthers Memorial Prize, Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize.
Judge, 2005 Citadel cadet literary competition.
Lecture and discussion (“Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us: New Media, New Meanings”) with The Citadel’s Senior Scholars Program. January 26, 2005.
Chair, Panel on Film and Politics, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans. September 23-25, 2004.
Chair, Panel on Frost Influence/Frost Influential, Dartmouth College Robert Frost Conference, July 10, 2003.
Judge, 2003 and 2004 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Lyric Poem Prize; John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize.
Lecture (“How to Succeed in College While Bracing”) as part of The Citadel’s College Success Institute (June 20, 2003).
Charleston Public Library “Let’s Talk About It” series discussion: David Ogilvy’s Confessions of an Advertising Man (November 10, 2003).
Lecture on Robert Frost at the Shepherd’s Center, Charleston (October 9, 2003).