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Charles J. Maland Professor and Head, English Department
PERSONAL:
Birth Date: September 21, 1949
EDUCATION:
University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1975, Program in American Culture (film studies, American literature, American cultural and intellectual history) University of Michigan, M.A., 1972, Program in American Culture Augsburg College, B.A., 1971, summa cum laude, Political Science and English
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
University of Tennessee, Professor (Associate Professor, 1982-89; Assistant Professor, 1978-82) Humanities Professor, Stokely Institute of the Liberal Arts, Summer 1987 University of Bergen, Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Film and American Studies, 1981-82 Lake Forest College, Assistant Professor, 1976-8 Augsburg College, Instructor, 1975-76
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
Alexander Award, 2006 Citation for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, GSA, 2003 Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee, 2002, 2005 Lindsay Young Professor, 1994-2003 Arts and Sciences Advising Award, 2001 Alumni Association/ITC Mini-Grant, 2000 Faculty First Instructional Technology Grant, 2000 Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, 1994 L. R. Hesler Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, 1993 Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 1992 Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Activity, 1990 Finalist, Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 1990 For Chaplin and American Culture: Winner, Theatre Library Association Award for Writing in the Area of "Recorded Performance" (Film, Television, or Radio), 1990 Nominated by Princeton University Press for the Pulitzer Prize; Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (Phi Beta Kappa); Cinema Archives Award; John Hope Franklin Prize (American Studies Association) University Summer Research Grant, 1990 Elected Faculty Member to Delta Omicron Sigma, national honors and service society University Research Grant, 1983 Lilly Endowment Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Excellence in Teaching, 1981-1982 Hodges Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1980 Hodges Research Grant, 1979 Fellow, AFI/Rockefeller Foundation Summer Institute, "Film and the Humanities," Beverly Hills, July 1978
PUBLICATIONS: Books
City Lights. London: British Film Institute, Film Classics Series, 2007.
Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989 (paperback edition, 1991; reprinted, 1992). Theatre Library Association Award, 1990.
Frank Capra. Boston: Twayne, 1980 (revised and updated paperback edition, 1995).
American Visions: The Films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Welles, 1936-1941. New York: Arno, 1977. (A CD version of this book prepared by the Film and History Association first appeared in 2005.)
Chapters and Parts of Books
“1939: Movies and American Culture in the Annus Mirabilis.” The 1930s, ed. Ina Rae Hark: 228-249. Screen Decades Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007. “1978: Movies and Changing Times.” The 1970s, ed. Lester Friedman: 205-227. Screen Decades Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007. “Chaplin’s Modern Times.” Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, ed. R. L. Rutsky: 238-259. NY: W. W. Norton, 2005. “Chaplin, the Depression, and Modern Times: The Cultural Context.” Modern Times: Tempi Moderni, Documenti dall’Archivio Chaplin, ed. Christian Delage in collaboration with Cecilia Cenciarelli: 133-38. Genoa: Le Mani, 2004. “The American Adam,” The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past, ed. Peter C. Rollins: 561-566. NY: Columbia UP, 2004. "A Star is Born: Chaplin, American Culture, and the Dynamics of Charlie's Star Image, 1913-1916." The Silent Cinema Reader, ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer: 197-209. NY: Routledge, 2004. "Powered by a Ford? Dudley Nichols, Authorship, and Cultural Ethos in Stagecoach." Film Handbook to Stagecoach, ed. Barry K. Grant: 48-81. NY: Cambridge UP, 2003. "Charles Chaplin." Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul Boyer: 111. NY: Oxford, 2001. "From Aesthete to Pappy: The Evolution of John Ford's Public Reputation." John Ford Made Westerns: Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. "Charles Spencer Chaplin." American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, vol. 4: 697-700. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. "Capra and the Abyss: Self Interest Versus the Common Good in Depression America." Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, ed. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio: 95-129. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. "Charles Spencer Chaplin." Dictionary of American Biography (Supplement Ten), ed. Kenneth T. Jackson: 114-118. NY: Scribner's, 1995. "The Burdens of Being Funny: The Circus." The Silent Comedians, ed. Richard Dyer MacCann: 106-113. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow, 1993. "Politics and Auteurs: From Chaplin to Wajda." Movies and Politics: The Dynamic Relationship, ed. James Combs: 239-270. New York: Garland Press, 1993. "Frank Capra at Columbia: Necessity and Invention." Columbia Pictures: An Anthology, ed. Bernard Dick: 70-88. University of Kentucky Press, 1992. Four selections in Film History: Selected Course Outlines and Reading Lists, ed. Erik S. Lunde and Douglas Noverr: 35-39, 81-87, 125-128, 209-213. NY: Marcus Wiener, 1989. "Charles Brackett." Dictionary of American Biography (Supplement Eight), ed. John Garraty: 45-46. NY: Scribner's, 1989. "The Social Problem Film." American Film Genres, ed. Wes Gehring: 305-329. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. "Dr. Strangelove: Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus." American Experiences, Vol. II, ed. Randy Roberts and James S. Olson: 280-293. Glenview, IL: Scott-Foresman, 1986. "Michael Curtiz" and "Eric Johnston." Dictionary of American Biography (Supplement Seven), ed. John Garraty: 159-161 and 396-398. NY: Scribner's 1981. "Dr. Strangelove: Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus." Hollywood as Historian, ed. Peter Rollins: 190-210. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1983.
Selected Articles and Review Essays
“Film Gris: Crime, Critique, and Cold War Culture in 1951.” Film Criticism 23 (Spring 2002): 1-26. "A Response to American Hollow." Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001/Winter 2002): 217-219. "How Much Chaplin is in Chaplin? A Look at Attenborough's Screen Biography." Literature/Film Quarterly 25:1 (1997): 49-54. "Memories and Things Past: Cinema, History, and Two Biographical Flashback Films." East-West Film Journal 6 (Jan. 1992): 66-93. "Synthetic Criticism and American Movies." American Quarterly, 41 (March, 1989): 204-209. "Comedy, Ideology, and Reception: The Strange Case of Monsieur Verdoux." Film Criticism 13 (Fall 1988): 45-62. "Are You Now or Have you Ever Been?" Cineaste 14:4 (1986): 10-15. "A Documentary Note on Charlie Chaplin's Politics." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 5:2 (1985): 199-208. "The Millionaire Tramp." Post Script 3 (Spring/Summer 1984): 55-62. "Social Scientists and American Culture." Journal of American Culture 5 (Winter 1982): 108-110. "On the Waterfront: Film and The Dilemmas of American Liberalism in the McCarthy Era." Scandinavian Journal of American Studies 14 (1982): 107-127. "Agee: A Film." The South and Film. Ed. Warren French. Jackson: U of Mississippi Pr, 1981: 225-228. (Originally appeared in Southern Quarterly.)W "Telling Stories." Literature/Film Quarterly 7:1 (1979): 77-79. "Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus." American Quarterly 31 (Winter 1979): 197-216. "What Was Cinema?" Literature/Film Quarterly 7:1 (1979): 77-79. "Mr. Deeds and American Consensus." Film and History 8 (February 1978): 9-15.
Numerous book reviews in such journals as American Quarterly, American Studies, Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, Appalachian Journal and Post-Script.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
I am currently working on three projects. The first is a book on the production history of Chaplin’s City Lights, which will include reproductions of studio production records and stills, under contract with the Chaplin Archives at the Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna, Italy. After completing that second project, I will turn greater attention to editing the volume on James Agee’s film criticism for the University of Tennessee edition of the complete writings of James Agee. The longest-term project is a broad analysis of ideology and cultural myth in popular American films, focusing particularly on the tensions between individualism and community, private interest and the public good, in certain key films throughout American film history. The working title is American Dreams, American Nightmares
PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND INVITED LECTURES:
“Chaplinitis, Vulgarity, and Refining the Tramp: Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay,” Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna Italy, July 2007 “’Did Not Shoot. Mr. Chaplin Resting at Home Following Illness’: The Making of CITY LIGHTS,” SCMS Conference, Chicago, March 2007 “Estrovian Musings: Chaplin’s Cold War Satire and the American Response to A King In New York, Dossier Session on Chaplin, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, July 2006 “1939: American Movies’ Greatest Year?” American Film in the 1930s Panel, SCMS Conference, Vancouver, March 2006 “Movies, Director/Performers, and Cultural History: Conceptualizing Chaplin and American Culture,” Charles Chaplin Conference, London, July 2005 Panelist, “Chaplin and Sentiment” Panel, Charles Chaplin Conference, London, July 2005 “Film Gris Goes to London: Edward Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), Proletarian Fiction, and the Blacklist,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, April 2005 “Reconstructing American Movies in 1978,” American Film in the 1970s Panel, SCMS Conference, London, April 2005 Panelist, “Editor’s Panel,” Film and History Association Conference on War in Film, Television, and History, Dallas, November 2004 Commentator, “Capra Films on War,” Film and History Association Conference on War in Film, Television, and History, Dallas, November 2004 “The Evolution of the Political Drama in Depression America: Gabriel Over the White House (1933), The President Vanishes (1934), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 2004 “Chaplin, Boris Shumiatsky, and Modern Times (1936): Dilemmas of the Hollywood Left during the Great Depression,” and Panel Chair, “Historicity, Ideology, Ethnicity: Cultural Studies of American Film in the 1930s and 1940s.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Minneapolis, March 2003 "Hell’s Hinges: Early Feature Westerns and American Cultural Conflicts in the Progressive Era." and Panel Chair, “The Silent Western,” Film and the West Conference, Kansas City, November 2002 “’Torture! Torture! Torture!: Take Cover Everyone,’ or, ‘Kiss a Lot, Bang a Bit More Cinema’: Newspaper Reviews of Pearl Harbor in the U.S. and the U.K.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, June 2002 Keynote Address, Smoky Mountain Writing Conference, July 2001 "CourseInfo and Pedagogy in the Humanities," Intellectual and Cultural Expression Seminar, Knoxville, May 2001 "Film Gris: Crime, Critique, and Cold War Culture," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2001 Panel Chair, "Film, Television, and the Cold War," American Studies Association Conference, Detroit, October 2000 "Using Technology to Teach Film Style," Technology Showcase 2000, Knoxville, September 2000 “The Left and the Age of Anxiety: Committed Filmmakers in Hostile Times, 1949-1951,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2000 “High, Medium or Low Tech? Pedagogy in a Film/American Culture Course,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, West Palm Beach, April 1999 Panel Organizer and Chair, "American Film in the Early 1930s," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, April 1998 "The Men in Fallen Women Films," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, April 1998 Panel Organizer and Chair, "Capra at the Centenary: Ideology, Form, Reception, Industry," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 1997 "Capra and the Abyss: Cinematic Representations of Despair in Later Columbia Films," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 1997 "Small Towns, American Movies, and Frank Capra." Invited Lecture. Humanities Program on the Small Town in American Movies, North Dakota State Historical Museum, Bismark, April 1997 "Monsieur Verdoux: Cultural Context for a Hostile Reception." Invited Lecture. Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of Monsieur Verdoux, Los Angeles, April 1997 "Cinematic Representations of Race in Early 1960s Canonized Films: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Cool World, and Nothing But a Man," American Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, November 1996 "James Allen's Bridges and Chains: I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Text-Based Cultural Criticism," American Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, November 1995 "Dreams and Nightmares: American Movies, (Con)textual Tensions, and 20th-Century American Cultural History," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New York, March 1995 "Poverty in Contemporary America: Ross Spears' To Render a Life," American Studies Association Conference, Nashville, November 1994 Panel Chair, "Cultural Studies and 1950s Films," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Syracuse, March 1994. "Organization Men and Gray Flannel Suits: Corporate Melodramas and American Culture in the 1950s," Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Syracuse, March 1994. Panel Chair, "The British Film Institute and Media Education." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, February 1993. "Film Noir, Melodrama, and Mildred Pierce." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, February 1993. Panel Chair, "Multiculturalism and Film History." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, April-May 1992. "Lighting the Bonfire: The Film Adaptation of Wolfe's Novel." South Atlantic MLA Conference, Atlanta, November 1991. "Chaplin and the Great Depression." Invited Lecture. LaSalle University, Philadelphia, October 1991. Panel Chair, "Approaches to American Film History." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Los Angeles, May 1991. "Charlie Chaplin in America: Travails of a Movie 'Genius.'" Invited Lecture. Smith College, Northampton, MA, April 1991. "Cinema and History: The Biographical Flashback Film." Invited Lecture. Symposium on Cinema and History: East and West. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1990. Panel Chair, "Issues in American Film History." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May 1990. "Comedy, Politics, and Reception: Chaplin's 'Comedy of Murders.'" Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, April 1989. "The Civil War and its Legacy: Ross Spears' Long Shadows." Session Chair. American Studies Association Conference, Miami, October 1988. "Cinematic Representations in Recent American Film." Also Panel Chair. ACAS Annual Conference, Knoxville, TN October 1988. "The Rise and Fall of Chaplin in America." Centripetals Faculty Lecture Series. University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, October 1988. "The Social Problem Film, Narrative, and Hegemony." American Studies Association Conference, New York, November 1987). (Organized Panel: "Genre, Ideology, and Cultural Myth in American Narrative Film." "History, Aesthetics, and the Introductory Film Course." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, April 1986. "TVA on Film: The Electric Valley." ASA Conference, San Diego, November 1985. "Hasse och Tage: Film Satire in the Swedish Social Democracy." SCS Conference, New York, June 1985. "The Cultural Analysis of Film: Or, What Can Casablanca Tell Us About American Society?" Invited Lecture, Sociology Colloquium Lecture Series, University of Tennessee, February 1985. "Meet John Doe and American Mythology." Southeast PCA Conference, Knoxville, October 1984. "Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, and the Fate of Popular Front Liberalism in the Post-War Era." ASA Conference, Philadelphia, November 1983. (Organized Panel: "Film and American Culture in the 1940s.") "Chaplin and the Feds." ACA Conference, Wichita, KS, April 1983. "Film and Cultural Analysis." Visiting Lecture at Samfunnsvitenskapelig Institutt, University of Bergen, Norway, May 1982. "Film and Recent American Culture: Or, What Can The Godfather and Arthur Tell Us About America?" Visiting Lecture at the Universities of Trondheim and Oslo, Norway, April 1982. "Film Style, Cultural Values, and the Power of It's a Wonderful Life." Indiana-Ohio ASA Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 1981. "Kubrick and the Politics of the Cold War." OSU Film Conference. Stillwater, OK, February 1980. "Popular Front Idealism and Post-War Realpolitik: Capra's Political Films and the Evolution of American Ideology." Athens International Film Conference, Athens, OH, March 1979. Panel Leader and Discussant (with Alvah Bessie), "Radicalism, Documentary Film, and American Culture, 1930-1950." OSU Film Conference, Stillwater, February 1979. "Dr. Strangelove: Technology and Apocalypse." Humanities and Technology Conference, Atlanta, October 1978. "Auteur Theory, Genre Theory, and Film Studies." Midwest Film Conference, Chicago, February 1978.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Editorial Boards, Cinema Journal, 1992-97; Film Criticism, 1997- ; Film and History, 1998- Member, Nominating Committee, SCMS, 2005 Scholarly Commentator for “Smile: The Genius of Charlie Chaplin,” a Radio Documentary Produced by BBC2, November 2005 Scholarly Commentator for “Movies in Time,” the History Channel (discussed The Searchers and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?), 1999 Member, Board of Experts, “Griffith In Context: A Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation” (NEH Funded Project Based at George Tech), 1998-2001 Treasurer and Member of the Executive Council, Society for Cinema Studies, 1994-1996; Chair, Publications Committee, Society for Cinema Studies, 1992-95 Consulting Scholar, "Talking Pictures: 50 Years of American Cinema," Center for Visual History, New York, 1987-93 (the series, American Cinema, premiered January 1995) Evaluator, Killam Research Fellowships, Canada Council, 1992 Evaluator, Media Projects in the Humanities, NEH, 1992 Participant, Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant, January-March 1991 Nominating Committee, Society for Cinema Studies, 1990-91 Honorary Lifetime Member Award, University of Tennessee Friends of the Library, 1990 Participating Humanist, Asian-Pacific Film Festival, Sponsored in part by Tennessee State Humanities Council, 1990 Fellowship Evaluator in American Studies, American Literature, and Cinema Studies, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1989 Participating Scholar, NEH Library Program on "What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction," November 1986 Outside Tenure & Promotion Reviewer for Such Institutions as the University of Michigan, Emory University, the University of Illinois, Brandeis University, and the University of Texas Consultant, Oxford University Press (for Film History and Criticism); McGraw-Hill (for Film Art) Editorial Reader: Cinema Journal, American Quarterly, Soundings, Post Script, and others Manuscript and Proposal Reader: Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press; University of Chicago Press, NYU Press, McGraw-Hill, Norton, Oxford University Press; Blackwell; Smithsonian Institute Press, UMI Press, British Film Institute, University of Tennessee Press, University of Kentucky Press; Memphis State University Press, Universitetsforlaget (Norwegian Research Council) Selection Jurist, Midwest Film Conference, 1980-81 Selection Jurist, American Film Festival, February 1979 Participant, ASA Seminar, "Film and American Culture," Stillwater, OK, February 1978 Participating Humanist, NEH Project on the Middle Years, Lake Forest College, Fall 1977
TEACHING: Courses Taught
Seminar: American Social Fiction and Film in the Long 1960s (Graduate) Seminar: American Social Fiction and Film in the 1930s (Graduate) Readings in Film Studies (Graduate) Readings in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Graduate) Seminar: American Cultural Myths in Narrative Film and Fiction (Graduate) Topics in Film Studies (Graduate/Undergraduate): topics include: American Film Renaissance (1967-1975); Traditions in American Film Comedy; Prisms: Critical Approaches to Film Studies; Chaplin and Capra; Renior and Hitchcock; Kurosawa, Ford, and Renoir; the Social Problem Film; A Closer Look--Close Analysis of Narrative Film Classics Film and American Culture (Graduate/Undergraduate) Film and Literature (Graduate/Undergraduate) Honors Seminar: Cultural Encounter, Clash, and Cooperation in the Cinema (scheduled Spring 2006) Seminar: Hawthorne (Graduate/Undergraduate—University of Bergen) Seminar: Hemingway (Graduate/Undergraduate—University of Bergen) Seminar: George Orwell and 1984 (Honors) Seminar: American Culture in the 1930s (Honors) Seminar: American Culture in the 1960s (Honors) Seminar: How Movies Work; or, What is Cinema? (Tennessee Scholars, University Honors) Colloquium in Literature (Upper Division) Introduction to American Studies (Upper Division) American Literature (Upper Division--Colonial/Early National; 19th Century; 20th Century) American Short Story (Upper Division) Introduction to Film Studies (Sophomore) American Literature Surveys (Sophomore) Introduction to American Studies (Sophomore) Composition (Various Courses) Dissertations and Theses
I have directed a number of dissertations: they have treated such topics as a historically grounded auteur study of Terence Malick’s films; ideology and culture in the post-1960s western; the career of the dramatist and screenwriter Horton Foote; Robert Altman's adaptations of contemporary drama in the 1980s; ideology and voicing in Vietnam Fictions (novels and films) from 1975-1982; the film adaptations of Edith Wharton's fiction; and town-building in 19th- and 20th-century American novels. I have served on over 20 more dissertation committees in the English Department, most on American fiction, drama, or poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on dissertation committees in the History Department and the College of Communications. One history dissertation whose committee I served was published in 2000 under the title of Celluloid Soldiers: Warner Brothers' Campaign Against Nazism. I have also directed a number of M.A. theses (on novel and film versions of The Razor's Edge, All the King's Men, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Imitation of Life, on contemporary women's melodrama, on representations of Prospero in post-WWII adaptations of The Tempest, and other topics) and have served on over 50 M.A. committees, about half of which involved M.A. theses.
INSTITUTIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE:
Departmental Service
Head, 2007- Elected Member, Administrative Committee, 1982-84, 1986-88, 1989, 1995-97, 2005-2007 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Departmental Planning, 2004-05 Member, Dual-Career Partner Committee, 2003 Chair, African American Lit Search Committee, 2001-2002, 2002-2003 Coordinator, 20th Century American Literature Ph.D. Exam, 1999-2002 Chair, American Literature Search Committee, 1996-97, 1999-2000 Mentor for Assistant Professors, including Mary Papke, John Evelev, Tom Haddox, David Ikard Member, Specialized Exam Committees (Randall Wilhelm, Brannon Costello, Andrew Lee, Matt Evans, Darren Hughes, Michelle Greenwald, Kelly Rivers, Clint Stivers, Meredith McCarroll, Susan Eastman) Chair, Curry Chair Committee, 1999 Member, MA Exam Committee, 1998-2000 Chair, Hodges Scholarship Award Committee, 1998 Acting Associate Director of English Graduate Studies, 1994-95 Chair, Departmental Speaker's Committee, 1991-1993 Member, Hodges Grants and Research Leave Committee, 1991-1993, 2005- Graduate Student Research Fellowship Award Committee, 1991, 1994 Acting Director of English Graduate Studies, Fall 1990 Associate Director of English Graduate Studies, 1984-1990 Secretary, English Headship Search Committee, 1987-88 Member, Graduate Program Curriculum Review Committee, 1986-87, 1998-99 Acting Director of English Graduate Studies, Spring 1987 (when revision of Ph.D. requirements was introduced to faculty and passed) Hodges Teaching Award Committee Chairman, 1983, 1984, 1987 Member, M.A. Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, 1979-present Member, Committee on Bylaws, 1981 Member, Committee on Graduate Teaching Tutorial, 1980-81 Member, Master's Examination Committee, 1980-81, 1999-2001 Several Lectures to English Majors' Club, 1980-86 Arranged Lectures and Visits by such people as Robert Carringer, Dudley Andrew, Neal Gabler, Horton Foote, Ross Spears, and Jim Klein, Glenn Morgan, 1979-present Member of many search committees, most recently as Chair of American Lit Search Committee, 2000-2001; Chair of African-American Lit Search Committee, 2001-2002; Member, Head Search Committee, 2001-2002; Chair of African-American Lit Search Committee, 2002-2003 College and University Service
“Chaplin and the Production History of City Lights,” Centripetals Lecture, September 2007 Panel Chair, Best Practices in Teaching in the Humanities, January 2006, January 2007 Member, University Commission for Women, 2004-2007 Internal Reviewer, Journalism and Electronic Media Program, February, 2004 Discussion Leader, Life of the Mind Freshman Program: The Color of Water, 2003; The #1 Ladies Detective Agency, 2004; The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime, 2005; Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, 2006; In the Wake of the Plague, 2007 Invited Lecturer, “It’s a Wonderful Life: Business, Art, and Culture,” Centripitals, January 2003 Chair, Cinema Studies Program, 1983-2000 “Cinema Studies and Research,” presentation to Information Sciences graduate class for Stephen Harris, 2001, 2002, 2003 Cinema Studies Representative, Library Committee, 1983-2007 Lindsay Young Humanities Research Award Committee, 1997-2003 Member, Post-Tenure Review Committees for Faculty in English (2000, 2001), Political Science (2001) Invited Lecture, "They Just Don’t Make Them Like They Used To—Or Do They? The Old Hollywood and the New Hollywood," Alumni Summer College, June 2000 Chair, University Research Fellowship Evaluation Committee, 1999 Invited Lecture, “The New Hollywood and the Old Hollywood: They Just Don’t Make Them Like They Used To—or Do They?” Lindsay Young Professor Lecture Series, October 1999 (this was the inaugural lecture in the series) Member, Vice Chancellor’s Committee to Implement Trustee’s Tenure Policy, 1998-99 Mentor, Klaus Vanden Berg (Theater Department), 1998-2000 Appointed Chair, Committee to Evaluate the Dean of Communications, 1993 Appointed Member, Chancellor's Committee on the First Year Experience (Chair, Life Outside the Classroom Subcommittee), 1992-93 Appointed Member, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation, 1992 Invited Lecture, "The Great Dictator and the Approach of World War Two," Normandy Scholars, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Peer Evaluator for Colleague in Art Department, 1991 Appointed Member, University Calendar Committee, 1990-1996 Appointed Member, University of Tennessee Athletics Board, 1990-1993 (Chair, Student Life Sub-committee, 1991-92) Internal Reviewer, Mid-Cycle Review of University Library System, 1990 Invited Lecture, "Chaplin and American Culture," College of Liberal Arts Board of Visitors, May 1990 Invited Lecture, "Charlie Chaplin's Travails in America," UT Friends of the Library, April 1990 Television Discussion on Movies and Society for Sociology Department, 1990 Appointed Member, University of Tennessee Press Board, 1989-1992 Appointed Member, University Teaching Council, 1989-1991 Member, Evaluation Team, University-Wide Committee on Peer Teacher Evaluation, 1988 Elected Member, Graduate Council, 1988-1991 Member, Graduate Council Curriculum Committee, 1988-1991; Chair, 1990-91 Member, University Commission for Women, 1987-89 Internal Reviewer, Ten-Year Review of University Library System, 1987 College Scholarship Committee, 1986-1990 Lectures to College Scholars, 1983, 1984, 1987 Volunteer Community Mentor, 1983-84, 1987-88 Departmental Coordinator, LRC Graduate Teaching Seminars, 1984-1990 Founding Member, Cinema Studies Program, 1980 Coordinator, 20th Century Studies Option, 1979-1985 Tutor, College Scholars and Individualized Program Students, 1979-present Member, University Film Committee, 1978-1990
Public Service
Invited Speaker, “It’s a Wonderful Life: Business, Art, and Culture,” Arts and Sciences Outreach Presentation, September 2003; Newcomer’s Club, December 2003; Lawson-McGhee Library, December 2004; Oak Ridge Kiwanis Club, December 2005 Invited Speaker, “Chaplin and American Culture,” Lawson McGhee Library, October 2005 Invited Speaker, “The Movies: A Whirlwind Tour,” Arts and Sciences Outreach Presentation, October 2002; Lawson-McGhee Library, October 2004 Invited Lecturer, “A Whirlwind Tour of American Movies,” Unitarian-Universalist Church, February 2001; O’Connor Center, March 2007 Invited Lecturer, "How Movies Work," Cokesbury Singles Group, February 2001 Organizer, World War II Film Series for the "Celebrate Freedom" Project, Pigeon Forge, November 2000 Advisor, Knoxville Museum of Art Film Series, 1999-2000 Invited Commentator on Movies, WBIR-TV, 1997-98, 2002 Invited Lecturer, "One Hundred Years of American Movies," Faculty Women's Club, March 1997, and Jefferson City Civic Club, March 1997, Civitan Club, July 1999; Fountain City Kiwanis Club, July 2000 Invited Lecturer, "How Movies Move Us," Bearden Middle School, February 1997 Invited Presenter and Discussion Leader, "Movies and World War II: Hail the Conquering Hero," Museum of East Tennessee, August 1994 Invited Presenter and Discussion Leader, "John Grisham and American Culture," Davis Kidd Bookstore, July 1993 Invited Lecture, "Chaplin and American Culture," Knox County Alumni Association, March 1993
Interview with John Wilkerson on the film Chaplin, WEZK-FM, December 1992 Introductions to two films directed by Oscar Micheaux for "Cinema Vanguard" Series, Knoxville Museum of Art, February 1992 A number of talks on American movies to local service organizations, 1990-present Two-part Interview with Roger Moore, Retrospective of Frank Capra's Career, WUOT (November 1991) Interviewed by Steve Paulson, Wisconsin Public Radio, on Chaplin, April 1991 Invited Lecture, "Chaplin and Stardom," Delta Kappa Gamma, Knoxville, April 1991 Invited Lecture, "Film and Literature: A Comparison," Celebration of the Humanities, Bearden High School, March 1990 Invited Lecture, "The Public Reputation of Charlie Chaplin," Ossoli Circle, February 1990 Invited Lecture, "Chaplin, Performance, and Popularity," UT Retirees' Group, October 1989 Interview on Chaplin Centenary, Mutual Broadcasting Network, April 1989 Interview on Chaplin, Channel 8, Knoxville, April 1989 Invited Lecture, "Chaplin, Stardom, and American Culture," UT Alumni Summer School, July 1988 Invited Lecture, "Film in the Classroom," East Tennessee Teachers of English, April 1987 Participating Scholar, NEH Library Program, "What America Reads," November 1985 Radio Interview on Chaplin's Life and Films, WUOT, Knoxville, March 1985 Invited Lecture, "Film and the Manipulation of Reality," Humanities Division, ETEA, October 1983 Invited Lecture, "Toying with Reality," Mid-South Association of Private Schools, November 1982 Television Interview on Recent American Film, Channel 20, Knoxville, June 1981 Invited Lecture, "Capra and American Culture," Carson Newman College, November 1980 Interview on Frank Capra for Channel 20, Knoxville, December 1980 Lectured to a variety of other local groups on topics related to Film and American Culture, 1979-present
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association of University Professors American Studies Association Film and History Association International Association of Media Historians Modern Language Association Society for Cinema Studies
CREDENTIALS AND LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION:
Names and addresses of referees are available upon request.
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