Michael Cody
Associate Professor
Department of English
East Tennessee State University
Director
University and Midway Honors Scholars Programs
Honors College
East Tennessee State University
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina (2000)
Major area: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Minor area: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Dissertation: "Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine"
M.A. in English, Western Carolina University (1995)
Dennis McKevlin Memorial Graduate Scholarship
B.A. in Literature / Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Asheville (1993)
Distinction in Literature
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Selections from The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume Three of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition, Co-Editor (with Robert M. Battistini of Franklin and Marshall College); project in progress.
"'Essay to Myself'" and "'Fishing in Paris'" (entries), A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia, ed. Brian Railsback and Michael J. Meyer, Greenwood Press, 2006.
"William Livingston," "Samuel Joseph Smith," "Christopher Pearse Cranch," "Charles Fenno Hoffman," "Sherman Alexie" (entries), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.
"Native Americans and Appalachian Literature" (entry), Encyclopedia of Appalachia, ed. Jean Haskell Speer and Rudy Abramson, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic, McFarland and Co., Publishers, 2004. (amazon.com)
"Sleepwalking into the Nineteenth Century: Charles Brockden Brown's 'Somnambulism'," Journal of the Short Story in English: Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 39 (2002): 41-55.
"Fitz-Greene Halleck" (commissioned entry), Antebellum Writers in New York: Second Series, ed. Kent Ljungquist, Dictionary of Literary Biography 250, Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 172-76.
"'The Whole of What I Want': Margaret Fuller on Milton and Marriage," English Language Notes 38.2 (2000): 48-59.
"Rushdie's The Satanic Verses," The Explicator 56.4 (1998): 218-20.
"'The Order and Sense of this Story': Thomas Welde's Preface to Winthrop's Official Record of the Antinomian Controversy," Postscript 15 (1998): 91-99.
"'Swimming Under Water': Fitzgerald and the Writing Trade," F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Exhibition, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996: 12-20.
"Fitzgerald and Inscriptions"; "Fitzgerald's First Appearance in Print"; "Fitzgerald and the Stage"; "Fitzgerald in Tryon, North Carolina"; "Hendersonville, North Carolina, and 'The Crack-Up'"; "Fitzgerald in Asheville, North Carolina"; Fitzgerald facts for the world wide web home page of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Celebration at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1996 (www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html).
"The Republic of Gilead: An Impossibility?" (on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale), UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research 6 (1993): 269-75.
"Senior Project in Creative Writing," Footnotes 13 (1993).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Gothic Anxiety and the Illuminati in Sally Wood's Julia and Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond," Sixth Biennial Meeting for the Society of Early Americanists, Hamilton, Bermuda, March 4-8, 2009.
"Hawthorne's 'The Story-Teller' and 'the Puritan Instinct That Was in Him'," Panel on "Hawthorne's Origins," Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, June 12-15, 2008.
"Blood, Knowledge and Identity in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer," Panel on "From Whiteness to Humanism," The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2008.
"The Literary Magazine, and American Register (1803-1807)," Panel on "The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition," Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, June 7-10, 2007.
"Marijohn Wilkin and Writing History Lessons in Song," Panel on "Country Music: Women Lyricists," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Charlotte, NC, November 10-12, 2006.
"Images of Islam in Brown's Literary Magazine," The Charles Brockden Brown Society's conference on "Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and Borderlands in the Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World," New Orleans, LA, November 2-4, 2006.
"'Brighten Up th' Atlantic Skies': Mathew Carey's The Beauties of Poetry, British and American," Fourth Biennial Meeting for the Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria, VA, March 31-April 2, 2005.
"'Too Late to Be Warriors in the Old Way,'" Panel on Native American Literature, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Roanoke, VA, November 12-14, 2004.
"Words and Music: Writing about Music and Song in the Composition Classroom," Virginia State University's Conference on Composition, Petersburg, VA, May 20-21, 2004.
"Fidelia's Tale and the (Un)Worthy Friend in William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy," Southeastern American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies 29th Annual Conference, Columbia, SC, February 27-March 1, 2003.
"Reintroducing Samuel Joseph Smith, a Forgotten Poet of the Early American Republic," Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, TN, February 20-22, 2003.
"Charles Brockden Brown and the Pioneering of Literary Journalism in America," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, November 15-17, 2002.
"Controlling the Echoes of Empire in Charles Brockden Brown's Review Article 'An Account of Parkinson's Tour in America,'" New Frontiers in Early American Literature, Charlottesville VA, August 8-10, 2002.
"Transcendental New England and the Practical South: A Comparative Glimpse at The Dial and The Southern Literary Messenger in 1844," Tennessee Philological Association, Murfreesboro, TN, February 21-23, 2002.
"Sylph the Sylph: Hawthorne's 'Sylph Etherege' and the Coquettish Imagination," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 9-11, 2001.
"A Vindication of the Minister-Translators of the Bay Psalm Book," Second Biennial Society of Early Americanists Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 8-10, 2001.
"Sleepwalking into the Nineteenth Century: Charles Brockden Brown's 'Somnambulism,'" The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown," Las Vegas, NV, October 27-29, 2000.
"Hawthorne's 'The Gray Champion' and the (Re)Emergence of the American Spirit," Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English, New Orleans, LA, June 26-30, 1998.
"Charles Brockden Brown and the Americanization of Reading," The Philological Association of the Carolinas Twenty-second Conference, Spartanburg, SC, March 19-21, 1998.
"Female Strength, Domestic Felicity, and the Imperial Impulse in Felicia Hemans's 'Edith, A Tale of the Woods,'" The International Conference on Borders and Foundations in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, Atlanta, GA, October 23-25, 1997.
"'The Whole of What I Want': Margaret Fuller on Milton and Marriage," Intersections in English Studies Conference, Kent, OH, April 4-5, 1997.
"'The Order and Sense of this Story': Thomas Welde's Preface to Winthrop's Official Record of the Antinomian Controversy in Puritan Massachusetts," The Philological Association of the Carolinas Twenty-first Conference, Greenville, NC, March 6-8, 1997.
"Ethan Brand's Despair," The International Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, Atlanta, GA, October 31-November 2, 1996.
"Images of the Immigrant in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses," Conference on Cultural Cartographies, Raleigh, NC, March 1995.
"Images of the Immigrant: Metamorphoses in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses," Annual Conference of the Southern Humanities Council, Jackson, MS, January 1995.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED
Panel on Native American Literature, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Charlotte, NC, November 10-12, 2006.
"Brown's Other Careers: 19th-Century Novels, Magazines, and Knowledges," The Charles Brockden Brown Society's conference on "Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and Borderlands in the Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World," New Orleans, LA, November 2-4, 2006.
"Undergraduates Explore American Gothic," Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) 2006 National Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 12-15, 2006.
"Circuits of Violence, Law and Judgment in Wieland and 'Thessalonica,'" The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Circles and Circulation in the Revolutionary Atlantic World of Charles Brockden Brown," New York University, New York, NY, October 21-23, 2004.
"Feelings, Circles, Alchemy: Brown’s Transatlantic Gothic," The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Circles and Circulation in the Revolutionary Atlantic World of Charles Brockden Brown," New York University, New York, NY, October 21-23, 2004.
"She Bangs, She Grooves, and She Writes: Using Music and Art to Teach Writing," Virginia State University Conference on Composition, Petersburg, VA, May 20-21, 2004.
"Slave Trade & Religious Ideology," Southeastern American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies 29th Annual Conference, Columbia, SC, February 27-March 1, 2003.
"From Boundaries to Frontiers: Order, Reason, Language," The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown, Las Vegas, NV, October 27-29, 2000.
Hawthorne Panel, Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English, New Orleans, LA, June 26-30, 1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
East Tennessee State University (Associate Professor, 2005- )
English 1018: Honors Composition I ("Your Worst Nightmares")—Fall 2008
English/Philosophy 1218: Honors Quest for Meaning and Values I—Fall 2005 and 2006
English/Philosophy 1228: Honors Quest for Meaning and Values II—Spring 2006 and 2007
English 2110: American Literature I—Summer 2005 (online course), Spring 2006, Summer 2006 and 2007 (online course)
English 3070: Native American Literature—Fall 2007
English 3118: Honors Literature Focus ("American Gothic")—Fall 2005
English/Criminal Justice 3956: Criminal Minds in Literature and Film—Summer 2007
English 4207/5207: Literature of the South—Fall 2006
English 5450: Colonial and Federal American Literature—Spring 2007
English 5750: Seminar in American Literature / Hawthorne—Spring 2008
East Tennessee State University (Assistant Professor, 2001-2005)
English 1010: Critical Reading and Expository Writing; Fall 2001
English 1018: Honors Composition I ("Words & Music"); Fall 2003
English 1020: Critical Reading and Expository Writing; Spring 2002 and 2003
English 1028: Honors Composition II ("Native American Literature and Culture"); Spring 2004
English/Philosophy 1218: Honors Quest for Meaning and Values I; Fall 2004
English/Philosophy 1228: Honors Quest for Meaning and Values II; Spring 2005
English 2110: American Literature I; Fall 2004 (online course), Spring 2005, Summer 2005 (online course)
English 2130: American Literature; Fall 2001 through Spring 2003, Spring 2004 (online course) and Summer 2004
English 3956: Words & Music; Summer 2005
English 4022: American Poetry; Fall 2002 and 2003
English 4956: Native American Literature; Summer 2003
English 4207/5207: Literature of the South; Fall 2002 and 2004
English 4340: Topics in Film / Native Americans and Film; Spring 2005
English 4917/5917: Creative Writing II / Poetry; Fall 2003
English 5450: Colonial and Federal American Literature; Spring 2002 and 2004
Murray State University (Assistant Professor, 2000-2001)
English 101: Composition; Fall 2000
English 301: American Literature to 1890; Fall 2000 and Summer 2001
English 340: Introduction to Creative Writing; Spring 2001
English 541: American Literature 1607-1820; Spring 2001
Humanities 211: The Western Humanities Tradition: Continuity; Fall 2000 through Summer 2001
Western Carolina University (Visiting Instructor, 1999-2000; Visiting Lecturer, 1998-1999)
English 101 & 102: Composition I & II; Fall 1998 through Spring 2000
English 203: Major American Writers; Fall 1998, 1999, and Spring 2000
English 262: American Literature II; Summer 2000
University of South Carolina (Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1995-1998)
English 101: Composition; Fall 1995, 1996, and 1997
English 102: Composition and Literature; Spring 1996 and 1997
English 285: Themes in American Literature (discussion leader); Fall 1997 and Spring 1998
Mars Hill College (Adjunct, 1996-1998)
English 111: Expository Essay; Fall 1996
English 112: Documented Essay; Summer 1997 (Continuing Education Program)
English 205: American Literature; Fall 1998 (Continuing Education Program)
Western Carolina University (Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1993-1995)
English 101: Composition I; Fall 1994
English 102: Composition II; Spring 1995
Computer Lab Assistant, English/Journalism Computer Lab; Fall 1993.
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Participant, Diversity Infusion Conference on Curriculum, East Tennessee State University, 25-25 January 2008.
Director, University Honors and Midway Scholars Programs, Honors College, East Tennessee State University, 2007-.
Panel Participant, "'With a Little Help From My Friends': Songwriters in the Writing Center," Southeast Writing Centers Association Conference, Nashville, TN, February 9-10, 2007.
Panel Participant, "CBB Scholarly Edition Roundtable," The Charles Brockden Brown Society's conference on "Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and Borderlands in the Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World," New Orleans, LA, November 2-4, 2006.
Chair, Native American Literature Session within SAMLA, 2005-2006.
Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2005-2007.
Secretary, Native American Literature Session within SAMLA, 2004-2005.
Member, Search Committee, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2004-2005.
Panel Participant, "Conference Wrap-Up: Brown Now and Then . . . 2006," The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Circles and Circulation in the Revolutionary Atlantic World of Charles Brockden Brown," New York University, New York, NY, October 21-23, 2004.
Member, Program Committee, The Charles Brockden Brown Society conference on "Circles and Circulation in the Revolutionary Atlantic World of Charles Brockden Brown," New York University, New York, NY, October 21-23, 2004.
Speaker, "Charles Brockden Brown and Reading in Early America," Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 24 March 2004.
Member, Honors Council, East Tennessee State University, 2003-2004.
Director, English Honors-in-Discipline Program, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2003-2007.
Chair, Search Committee, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2003-2004.
Member (elected), Advisory Board, Charles Brockden Brown Society, 2002-2004.
Chair, Search Committee, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2002-2003.
Member, committee on Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2002-2004.
Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2001-2002.
Member, committee on Oral Communication Intensive courses, East Tennessee State University, 2001-2005.
Member, committee on Awards, College of Arts and Sciences, East Tennessee State University, 2001-2003.
Member, committee on Graduate Studies, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2001-2004.
Member, committee on Humanities 211, Murray State University, Spring and Summer 2001
Participant, Teaching Online Using the E-Study Tools Workshop, Murray State University, Murray, KY, January 8-12, 2001.
Participant, Proposal Development Institute, Murray State University, Murray, KY, January 9-10, 2001.
Member, committee on Graduate Studies, Murray State University, 2000-2001.
Member, committee on Freshman Composition, Murray State University, 2000-2001.
Member, committee on Freshman Composition, Western Carolina University, 1999-2000.
Member, committee on Nomad: A Journal of Art and Literature, Western Carolina University, 1999-2000.
Guest Speaker, meeting of Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA), MEISA Speaker Series, 7 September 1999, Western Carolina University.
Guest Lecturer, "Revising Charles Brockden Brown," English 670: Early American Literature, Western Carolina University, 4 May 1999.
Guest Lecturer, "American Transcendentalism," English 696: Major 19th-Century American Poets: Whitman and Dickinson, Western Carolina University, 28 May 1997.
Participant, F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibition of The Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of Fitzgerald materials at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 1995-96; selection and research of materials for showcase displays focusing on Fitzgerald's writing habits.
Assistant Bibliographer, for CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994).
Tutor, University Writing Center at Western Carolina University, Spring 1994.
Seminar Participant, "Getting Published," June 26, 1993 (a full-day workshop on the publishing process as it relates to the writer, led by Lisa Poteet, Assistant Editor at Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill).
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"A Poster of Marilyn Monroe" (short story), Pisgah Review 1.1 (Spring 2005): 70-90.
"The Wine of Astonishment," Short Story NS 8.1 (Spring 2000): 3-20.
"To the Moon, Alice," Potpourri, Tenth Anniversary Issue 11.1 (1999): 12-18.
"Overwinter," Yemassee (Summer/Fall 1997): 23-31.
"Freedom, Love and Forgiveness," perf. Thom Shumate, Promise of Love, Questar/Mission, 1996.
"None But the Lonely Heart," perf. Michael Cody, Rockin' the River: Southern Musicians for Clean Water, Whitewater Recording/WZLS-FM, 1995.
"To the Moon, Alice," Potpourri (February and March 1993).
"Walnut, North Carolina," Fury (Spring 1993).
"She's a Wild One," perf. Michael Cody Band, River Rock II: Southern Musicians for Clean Water, KISS-FM/Whitewater Recording, 1992.
"Underground," Twopenny Porringer (1992).
"Jamboree" (short story), Fury (Fall 1992).
"Thunder and Lightning," perf. Michael Cody Band, River Rock: Southern Musicians for Clean Water, KISS-FM/Whitewater Recording, 1991.
"Christmas Time," perf. Gary Morris, Every Christmas, MCA, 1989.
"The Jaws of Modern Romance," perf. Gary Morris, Stones, MCA, 1989.
"In My Life" (Mark Chesshir, collaborator), perf. Glen Campbell, Still Within the Sound of My Voice, MCA, 1987.
HONORS & AWARDS
Tenure, Department of English, East Tennessee State University, 2005.
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of South Carolina, 1999.
Pushcart Prize nomination for "Overwinter," short story published in Yemassee (Summer/Fall 1997).
Semi-finalist, "The Wine of Astonishment," short story entered in competition for American Fiction, 1996.
Co-recipient, Dennis McKevlin Memorial Graduate Scholarship for overall excellence in graduate study, 1995.
Semi-finalist, The Ballad of Gabriel Hickok, novel entered in competition for the Heekin Group Foundation's James Fellowship for the Novel In Progress, 1994.
Nancy Pickard Fiction Award for "To the Moon, Alice," 1994.
Undergraduate Research Award for The Ballad of Gabriel Hickok (senior project in creative writing), Office of Undergraduate Research, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1992-93.