The following research assistantships are available to current English Graduate Students for Winter 2009 and Spring/Summer 2009. If you would like to apply, please pick up an application in 4166 JFSB. You should also attach a letter of application to the professor and include a résumé if you desire. Deliver applications and letter to Lou Ann Crisler by 12 NOON, Friday, November 14, 2008
Professor : Jacqueline Thursby
Project: Folklore and the Shaping of Literature
I am working on a book for the USU P. Over the next several semesters I will be researching and writing the text, and a graduate student interested in folklore and literature is needed to assist. The student will conduct library research, mark findings, discuss and perhaps edit. The student will gain insight in methodologies of folklore at work in prose, drama and poetry. The book includes literary criticism from a variety of sources over time and place whish would give the students the benefit of varied perspectives in the discipline.
10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000.
Professors: Nicholas Mason/Frank Christianson
Course: Transatlantic Literary History (English 292 & 293)
While working closely with two professors and participating in ongoing pedagogical discussions the student's responsibilities will include: 1) helping with text selection and course design, 2) attending weekly coordinating/evaluation meetings, 3) leading breakout groups every other week, 4) teaching the large group 3-5 times, 5) grading one set of exams and one set of papers, and 6) working with students during office hours.
15 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $4500
Professor: Trent Hickman
Course: English 358R - U S Latino/a Literary History
Though not as important in my mind as a basic preparation in US Latino/a literature, I will give preference to students who can demonstrate a breadth of teaching experience and the personality and affability to meet/conference with undergraduates and mentor them--someone who can be both friendly as well as professional. Finally, students who have shown that they are dependable, reliable, and thoughtful will get special consideration.
10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000
Professor: Dennis Perry
Course: English 361 - English Literature to 1865
This mentorship in English 361 will focus on the literary history of Concord, Mass. Between 1835 and 1854 during the ascendance of the transcendentalists, early feminists, and romantic-gothic fiction writers who put America on the literary map. The student will work closely with the instructor on all aspects of the course including planning assignments and exams, conferencing with students, grading papers, and teaching.
10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000
Professor: Bret McInelly
Project: Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Serving as assistant editor, the student will experience the publication process including selection, arrangement and edition of a professional journal. The student will refine editing skills and become acquainted with current eighteenth-century religious studies. The student's name will appear as assistant editor.
10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000
Professor Brian Roberts
Project: James Weldon Johnson and Walter Hines Page - comparative essay
The student will perform the research necessary to write an article-length essay on two anonymously published, racially-themed pseudo-autobiographical novels from the early 20th-Century: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) and Walter Hines Page's The Southerner...Being the Autobiography of Nicholas Worth (1906). Research will involve surveying the original reception and current critical discussions surrounding both novels. The project will require extensive reading in--and the creation of an annotated bibliography of--recent critical/theoretical work in the New Southern Studies and American Studies.
Winter - 2009: 10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000
Spring/Summer 2009: 10 hours per week for 16 weeks. Salary $3000
Professor Jill Terry Rudy
Course: English 391 -- Introduction to Folklore
Requires having taken a folklore course. The student will be expected to complete all the readings, lead some class discussions, provide some instruction on documenting folklore, lecture on a self-selected aspect of folklore scholarship, and participate in evaluating student work. I will work closely with the student to plan, execute, evaluate, improve, and enjoy her or his performance with these teaching tasks.
20 hours per week for 8 weeks. Salary $3000
Professor Lance Larsen
Opportunity London Theatre Study Abroad - English 382 - Spring program 2009
As a graduate mentor, you will assist in the nuts and bolts of English 382, and in the process help Shakespeare come alive for 35-40 students--English and Theatre majors and G.E. students. You will wear a variety of hats: grader and grade keeper, writing coach, assistant tour guide, small group discussion leader, liaison, itinerant researcher, occational lecturer--in other words, factotum of the Bard. Applicants should be outgoing, enthusiastic, reliable, punctilious. Preference given to applicants with strong background in British literature with a research interest, but open to all.
Hours as needed - Salary $3000
Professor David Paxman
Opportunity London Study Abroad - Summer program 2009
Preference for a student with British interests. Position will perform course planning and implementation duties, as well as serve as assistant for cultural experience.
Hours as needed - Salary $3000