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Sean Heuston
Assistant Professor
Department of English
The Citadel
171 Moultrie Street
Charleston, SC 29409
sean.heuston@citadel.edu
(843) 953-5143 or (843) 953-5068
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Stanford University
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
· “Chopin’s The Awakening.” Forthcoming in The Explicator, Fall 2006.
· “Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Brother to Dragons and Warren’s
Southern Ethnography.” Forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 2006.
· “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.”
(Stylus Press, Forthcoming Spring 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).
“Tom French’s Touching the Bones.” (Review) Nua: Studies in Contemporary
Irish Writing. Fall 2003.
“Lance Pettit’s Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation.” (Review)
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.
Works in Progress
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).
Essay: “Off With the Fairies: W.B. Yeats and Irish Folk Belief” (revised and
resubmitted to Éire-Ireland at editor’s request).
Essay: “Race and the Participant-Observer Perspective in the Work of Ernest
Gaines.”
“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. 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. Southern Literature Section. San Antonio. November 9-11, 2000.
“Mastering Discourse: Literary Ethnography and Narrative Instability.” South
Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 4-6, 1999.
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 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
· Mellon Summer Graduate Fellowship: Interdisciplinary Summer Program in Social
and Political Thought, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2001.
· Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Vanderbilt University Graduate School, Summer
2001. (Used for travel to and research at Oxford University, National Library of Ireland, and Bellaghy Bawn, Northern Ireland.)
· National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, Faculty Development
Program: “The New Media Classroom.” Vanderbilt University, Summer 2000.
· English Department Graduate Research Grant, Fall, 1999. (Used for travel to and
research at Robert Frost International Conference, Middlebury College and
Middlebury College Library, October 1999.)
· Rheney Summer Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, Summer 1999. (Used for travel
to and participation in W.B. Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland.)
· University Teaching Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1998-2002.
The Citadel:
· Academic Advisor to Bravo Company, 2002-present.
· Honors Committee, 2003-present.
· Human Affairs Subcommittee on Cadet, Faculty, and Staff Relations, 2004-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.
· Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, 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 (3/7/06), Charlie cadet (3/7/06), Bravo cadet
(3/9/06); Bravo cadet (2/28/05) Bravo Cadet (4/10/06), Oscar Cadet (4/10/06)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association:
Executive Committee, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2004-present.
Chair, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2003.
Secretary, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2002.
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 ("Our Heroes, Our Parents").
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 on David
Ogilvy’s Confessions of an Advertising Man (November 10, 2003).
Lecture on Robert Frost at the Shepherd’s Center, Charleston (October 9, 2003).