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Brandeis University
MS 023
Waltham MA 02454
Home: 1 Dwight St.
Watertown, MA 02472
carlosm@brandeis.edu
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DISSERTATION
Title: Beyond Postmodern Acquiescence: Cormac McCarthy and the American Absurd
The dissertation canvases modernist and postmodernist American Literature and treats various themes
associated with Southern and Western American Literature and the US Mexico border over the last two centuries:
Agrarian legacy, Southern canon, frontier myths, representing the American West and South, literary masculinity,
historiographic fiction, and
literary and cultural directions beyond postmodernity.
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Academic Activities
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TUTORING/TEACHING
Framingham State College
Visiting Fellow Fall 2005-Fall 2007
Teach two sections of Expository Writing; create courses focused on argument
This
Syllabus
focuses on coping with transition
Supplemented materials online (Blackboard)
Wheelock College
Adjunt Faculty Fall/Spring 2005-06
Led two sections of the Professional Reading and Writing Seminar
Implemented personal online
syllabus (all online syllabi are under reconstruction)
for grammatical instruction
Met with numerous tutees to prepare them for the WLCE
Boston University
Upward Bound Summer 2005
Designed personal interactive online
syllabus
to enliven grammatical instruction
Will conduct one intermediate level and three beginning level writing courses
Brandeis University
University Writing Seminar Instructor Fall/Spring 2002-05; Spring 2007
Lead forums that exercise students' oral communication
Design classes aimed at developing students' critical thinking and oral and written communication skills
Host online site for secondary materials
Teaching Assistant Fall/Spring 2002-03
Assisted professors with grading in four different courses
Researched course material and personally led several discussion sections on American, British, and Asian-American Literature
Conducted individual 30-minute conferences with students regarding their papers several times throughout the courses' duration
Writing Center Tutor Fall/Spring 2002-05
Individually administered 45 minute, one-on-one paper-writing tutorials for undergraduate and graduate students
Co-organized writing center tutorials for tutors with WC Director
ClubZ
Educational Tutor Fall/Spring 2002-2005
Developed Middle and High School students' verbal and written communicative ability
Specifically tutored English, History, Science, Math, Spanish, PSAT, and SAT
Purdue University
Writing Instructor Fall/Spring 1999-2000
Autonomously organized, instructed, and graded two introductory composition courses
Participated in weekly pedagogical meetings with mentors and colleagues
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Professional Development
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Fairbanks Community Center Summer 2005
Designed a summer school college preparatory program intended to prepare students for the college application process
Classes simulate the college classroom for high school students interested in developing the skills
necessary to produce strong college entry essays
TRANSLATION
McLean Hospital Spring 2005
Translated 250+ slides of an fMRI study from English to Spanish
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Conference Presentations
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Cormac McCarthy
Presenting 'Death Hilarious': Americanizing the Absurd at the 16th Annual American Literature Association conference in May 2005
Presented Where is Your Country? Historical Loss in Blood Meridian at the 12th Annual (dis)junctions: theory reloaded graduate student conference in April 2005
Representations of Violence
Presented Wyndham Lewis: The Most Modern Modernist at Unruly Women Symposium at Purdue University in the fall of 1999
Presented The Deconstruction of The Destruction of La Numancia at the Negotiating Space: Crossing Borders Conference at Purdue University in the fall of 1998.
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