MATTHEW A. HENRY

EDUCATION:

PhD, In Progress, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002 - present.

MA, English, State University of New York College at Brockport, Brockport, NY, 1992. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Thesis: “Postmodern Historical Fiction: Aspects in Three Writers—Doctorow, Reed, and Boyle”

BS, English, State University of New York College at Brockport, Brockport, NY, 1990. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:

Instructor of English, English Department, Richland College, Dallas, TX, Fall 1997 - present.

Teaching Associate, English Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Fall 1996 - Spring 1997.

Teaching Assistant, Writing Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Fall 1994 - Spring 1996.

Adjunct Instructor, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY, Fall 1996.

Hourly Teacher, Rochester City School District, Rochester, NY, September 1993 - June, 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Don’t Ask Me, I’m Just a Girl”: Feminism, Female Identity, and The Simpsons.” Accepted for publication in The Journal of Popular Culture. Due in 2004. 23 pp. ms.

“He Is a ‘Bad Mother*$%@!#’: Shaft and Contemporary Black Masculinity.” African American Review 38.1 (Spring 2004):1-9.

 “Looking for Amanda Hugginkiss: Gay Life on The Simpsons.” Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibilities of Oppositional Culture. Ed. John Alberti. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. 321-43.

“He Is a ‘Bad Mother*$%@!#’: Shaft and Contemporary Black Masculinity.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 30.2 (Summer 2002). 114-19.

“The Whole World’s Gone Gay!”: Smithers’ Sexuality, Homer’s Phobia, and Gay Life on The Simpsons” Popular Culture Review 13.1 (2002): 19-33.

“Advertising and Interpretive Analysis: Developing Reading, Thinking, and Writing Skills in the Composition Course.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 29.4 (2002): 355-66.

“Popular Culture in the Composition Course: Using Advertising to Teach Interpretive Analysis.” Innovation Abstracts 25 (Fall 2001). NISOD: U of Texas at Austin.

Preparing for the TASP: A Guide to Accompany Writing: A College Handbook. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.

“Problematized Narratives: History as Fiction in E.L. Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate.” Critique 39.1 (Fall 1997): 32-40.

“The Triumph of Popular Culture: Situation Comedy, Postmodernism, and The Simpsons.” Studies in Popular Culture 17.1 (Fall 1994): 85-99.

“Playing with Fire!!: Manifesto of the Harlem Niggerati.” The Griot (Fall 1992): 40-52.

PRESENTATIONS:

“Queering the American Heartland: (Trans)Gender Trouble in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Cultural Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2004; Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2004.

“Sensationalism and Satire: Rupert Murdoch, Fox Television, and The Simpsons.” The Pacific Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2004.

“The Simpsons and American Culture.” Student Programs Special Presentation. Richland College, Dallas, TX, March 2004.

 “Using Advertising Analysis to Develop Critical Thinking and Writing Skills.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 2004.

“The Simpsons and American Culture.” Guest Lecturer, Diversity Program Series. Aurora University, Aurora, IL, September, 2003.

 “Don’t Ask Me, I’m Just a Girl”: Feminism, Female Identity, and The Simpsons.” Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February, 2003.

“Growing Learning Communities at Richland College: Planting the Seeds of Success.” Co-presented with Ed Luter and Neelum Amin. “Reaching the 21st Century Student: The Role of Learning Communities in Educational Reform. A Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning Communities.” Sponsored by the North Texas Community College Consortium. Collin County Community College, Dallas, TX, October, 2001.

“He Is a ‘Bad Mother*$%@!#’: Shaft and the New Black Masculinity.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May, 2001.

“Using Advertising Analysis to Develop Critical Thinking and Writing Skills.” NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, Austin, TX, May 2001.

“The Harlem Renaissance and Leftism: Radical Writing in the 1920s and 1930s.” Conference on “The Future of the Harlem Renaissance,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 1997.

“The Prison House of Language: Brothers and Keepers and the Ideology of ‘Blackness’.” The National Association of African American Studies Conference, Houston, TX, February 1997.

“Seeking Identity in America’s Cultural Wasteland: Self and Society in Stephen Wright’s Going Native.” The Southwest Literature Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 1997.

“Amanda Hugginkiss: Gay Life on The Simpsons.” The Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct/Nov 1996.

“Narrating Historical Fiction: The Novels of T.C. Boyle.” The 21st Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, October 1996.

“Seduction and Sexual Agency: Feminism, Femmes Fatales, and The Last Seduction.” The Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences conference, Cinema Studies session, Alma College, Alma, Michigan, March 1996.

“Fact or Fiction: Historical Indeterminacy in T. C. Boyle’s Water Music.” The Symposium on Contemporary American Fiction, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, September 1995.

“The Last Femme Fatale?: ‘Woman,’ Neo-Noir and John Dahl's The Last Seduction.” The Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, Richmond, VA, October 1995.

“Satire and Cartoon Violence on The Itchy and Scratchy Show.” “Crossing the Boundaries III: Violence and Representation Across the Disciplines,” Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, March 1995.

“The Triumph of Popular Culture: Situation Comedy, Postmodernism, and The Simpsons.” The Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association conference, Wheeling, WV, October 1994; The Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, Charlotte, NC, October 1994.

FELLOWSHIPS:

Visiting Research Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Black Film Studies: Integrating African American Film Into the Arts and Humanities Curriculum,” sponsored by the African American Studies Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, July 1999.

INSTITUTES/ WORKSHOPS:

“African American Autobiography: Reading/Writing Sites and I Construction,” Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature, National Council of Teachers of English, San Diego, CA, June 2001.

“Inventing Social Selves: Language, Power and Play in the American Classroom,” The Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, May 2001.

AWARDS:

Excellence in Scholarship Award, UT Dallas Graduate Student Association, May 2004.

Teacher of the Year, Honors Program, Richland College, April 2000.

Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, The Graduate School of Syracuse University, April 1997.

The George Whatley Award, in recognition of the best article published in Studies in Popular Culture during 1994, October 1995.

The Daniel E. Walden Student Paper Award, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, October 1994.

The Blaine DeLancey Memorial Award for best critical essay in English, SUNY Brockport, March 1991.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Chair, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) Cultural Studies Curriculum Committee, 2002 – present.

Chair, Richland College Cultural Studies Curriculum Committee, 2001 – present.

Member, Richland College Learning Communities Committee, 2001 – present.

Member, Planning Committee, Consortium for Africana Film Studies (CAFÉ), Zora Neale Hurston Institute, African American Studies Department, University of Central Florida, October, 1999.

Representative for American Literature, English Discipline Curriculum Committee, DCCCD, 1999.

Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, 1998 – present.

Member, Honors Program Committee, Richland College, 1998 – present.

Representative and Judge, The League for Innovation Student Literary Competition, 1998 and 1999.

MEMBERSHIPS:

National Council of Teachers of English, 1998 – present.

North Texas Community and Junior College Consortium, 1998 – present.

Society for Cinema Studies, 1998 – present.

Popular Culture Association (National, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern), 1994 – present.

Modern Language Association, 1994 – present.

REFERENCES:

Steve Mittelstet, President, Richland College, (972) 238-6364.

Jean Conway, Dean, World Languages and Cultures, Richland College, (972) 238-6943.

Gerardo de los Santos, Director of Programs, The League for Innovation, (949) 367-2884.

John Barrett, Professor of English, Richland College, (972) 238-6942.

Jane Peterson, Professor of English, Richland College, (972) 238-6220.

Author: Matthew Henry
Last Modified on: 07/01/04
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