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1 C A R M E N T R A M M E L L S K A G GS C H A I R U N I V E R S I T Y A V E N U E A S S O C I A T E P R O F E S S O R C O L U M B U S, GA C O L U M B U S S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y D E P A R T M E N T O F E N G L I S H (OFFICE) S k a g g s _ C a r m e C o l u m b u s S t a t e. e d u EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in English University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, August 2006 Dissertation: Reverberating Voices and Spaces: Overtones of Opera from Whitman to Wharton Directed by Dr. Hubert H. McAlexander Master of Arts in English University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May 2002 Thesis: An Overtone Divined by the Ear : Opera in Willa Cather s Fiction Directed by Dr. Hubert H. McAlexander Master of Theological Studies Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, May 2000 Thesis: A Vision and Revision of the Dancing Daughter: A Historical Interpretation of the Salome Narrative Directed by Dr. Richard B. Hays Bachelor of Arts in English Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, May 1998 Major: English Minors: Music and Christianity Semester abroad in Oxford, England ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS Chair, Department of English, December 2012-Current Co-director of Berlin Study Abroad Program, Memorializing the Holocaust, 2011-Current Assistant Chair of English Department, August 2011-November 2012 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of English in English Department with tenure, August 2011-Current English 2155, Introduction to Literary Studies: Critical Methods English 3147, American Realism and Naturalism English 4555, Senior Capstone: Willa Cather English 5545, Advanced Topics, Representations of the Holocaust Assistant Professor of English in English Department, August 2007 July 2011 English 1101I Freshman Learning Community and International Learning Community: Connecting Argument to Audience: The Art of Rhetoric

2 English 1102, First Year Composition, Memorializing the Holocaust (CSU in Berlin) English 1102H, Honors First Year Composition, Opera in/as Literature Interdisciplinary Studies 1145, Comparative Arts, Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form Interdisciplinary Studies 1145, Comparative Arts, Memorializing the Holocaust (CSU in Berlin) English 2146, Introduction to Fiction English 3111, American Literature to 1865 English 3112, American Literature from 1865-present English 3115, Studies in the Novel, American Realism and Naturalism English 3118/ENGL 5585, Faith, Fiction, and Fantasy: Exploring the Works of C. S. Lewis (CSU in Oxford) English 3132, African American Literature II English 3175, Readings in American Literature, The Quest for Wholeness, International Learning Community University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Robert E. Park Postdoctoral Fellow in English Department, August 2006-May 2007 English 1050H, Honors Composition English 2340, American Literature from 1865-present English 2380H, Honors American Literature from 1865-present English 4720, American Realism and Naturalism PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PUBLICATIONS: Book: Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton, Louisiana State University Press, January 2010 Peer-reviewed Journal Articles: A House of Freaks : Performance and the Grotesque in McCullers s The Ballad of the Sad Café published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 26.2 (Spring 2013) The Transporting Power of Opera: Mignon in Willa Cather s The Professor s House, published in The Explicator 71.2 (Summer 2013) Beyond Modernity: My Ántonia and the Quest for Wholeness, published in Teaching Cather 9.2 (Spring 2013) Looking through the Opera Glasses: Performance and Artifice in The Age of Innocence published in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37.1 (March 2004) Modernity s Revision of the Dancing Daughter: The Salome Narrative of Wilde and Strauss published in College Literature 29.3 (Summer 2002) SELECTED CONFERENCES: Musings between the Marvelous and Strange: Carson McCullers s Correspondence with Mary Tucker, presented at the American Literature Association in Washington, D.C., May 2014 Teaching about the Holocaust Memorials: Differentiating Instruction in a Short-term Study Abroad Program for Honors Students presented with Dr. Mariko Izumi at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2013 Body and Soil/Soul: Cather s Swarth Body and Fortunate Country presented at the Willa Cather Spring Conference and Symposium in Red Cloud, Nebraska, May 2012 Skaggs 2

3 Revelation or Incrimination: Peering Behind Alcott s Mask presented at the American Literature Association s Fall Symposium in Savannah, Georgia, September 2011 A House of Freaks : Performance and the Grotesque in McCullers s The Ballad of the Sad Café presented at the American Literature Association s Fall Symposium in Savannah, Georgia, October 2010 Striking the Chord: Classical Music and the Color Line in Johnson s The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man, presented at the American Literature Association s Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, May 2010 Beyond Modernity: My Άntonia and the Quest for Wholeness presented at Cather, Chicago, and Modernism, the 12th International Cather Seminar in Chicago, Illinois, June 2009 Consumed by Her Art: The Diva in Cather s Fiction, presented at the American Literature Association s Fall Symposium on American Fiction in Savannah, Georgia, October 2008 An Exquisite Vulgarity: The Opera House in The American, presented at the Fourth International Conference of the Henry James Society in Newport, Rhode Island, July 2008 Re-visioning the Opera Spectator: Perception and Deception in Poe s The Spectacles and James s Glasses presented at the Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2006 An Overtone Divined by the Ear : Opera in Cather s Fiction presented at the International Cather Seminar, Cather as a Cultural Icon, in Ripton, Vermont, at Bread Loaf at Middlebury College, May 2003 Existence as Absurdity: The Anabaptist Chaplain in Catch-22 presented at the Contemporary American Literature Symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sponsored by the American Literature Association, October 2001 EDITORIAL BOARD: Editorial Board of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. (2010-Current) FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS: 2014 Academic Chairperson s Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, February ADE (Association of Departments of English) Summer Seminar South, including the preseminar workshop for New Chairs in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 2013 Assessing Multimodality: Navigating the Digital Turn at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, April Jack and Anita Hess Seminar for Faculty at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Teaching about the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Memorialization in Washington, D.C., January 2013 SPECIAL AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER HONORS Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant, Fall 2014 Faculty Center Fellowship, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Outstanding Teacher of Writing Award, Spring 2011 Faculty Research Award Finalist, Spring 2010 Individual Contribution to Field in Research/Scholarly Activity, Spring 2010 Sigma Tau Delta Literary Sage Award, Spring 2010 QEP Faculty Writing Fellow, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 International Learning Community Study Abroad Proposal Grant, Spring 2010 Faculty Development Grant, December 2008 Recipient of one of two conference travel grants for internationalizing English major, Fall 2008 Loudermilk Grant, English Department, April 2008 Skaggs 3

4 MAJOR COMMITTEES : Arnold Hall Renovation Committee, Fall 2014-Current QEP Selection Leadership Committee, Spring 2014-Current Dean of College of Letters and Sciences Search Committee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Chair, Honors Program Exploratory Committee, Spring 2013-Fall 2103 Chair, Howard Hall Task Force, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Writing Center Advisory Committee, Fall 2013-Current Faculty Senate, Fall 2012-Current Common Reading Selection Committee, Fall 2010-Current English Major Curriculum Committee, Fall 2007-Current o Chair, Fall 2011-Fall 2012 o Drafted the approved proposal to reduce teaching load of tenure-stream faculty o Introduction to Literary Studies: Critical Approaches sub-committee o American Realism and Naturalism course proposal Advisor, CSU Chapter of National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Fall 2008-Spring 2014 Faculty Center Fellowships and Interdisciplinary Grants Selection Committee, Fall 2012 First-Year Composition Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2008; Fall 2011-Fall 2012 o Faculty Coordinator of joint-enrollment program at Hardaway High School, Spring 2012 o Grading Rubric sub-committee College of Letters and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Fall 2011-Fall 2012 College of Letters and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2011-Fall 2012 English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2011; Fall 2012 Dialogue Partner for Servant Leadership Program, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 English Department Annual Fund Representative, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Chair, First-Year Composition Director Search Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Carson McCullers Conference Planning Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2011 Early Mentoring Panel for English Education Majors, Fall 2007; Spring 2010; Spring 2011 Facilitator, International Learning Community Faculty Reading Circle, Fall 2010 Faculty Selection Committee for Oxford Visiting Student Program, Spring 2010 Writing Center Director Search Committee, Spring 2009 College of Arts and Letters Awards Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 English Department Scholarship Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009 Twentieth-century Transatlantic Search Committee, Spring 2008 MEMBERSHIPS Professional Modern Language Association Honorary Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars o Treasurer, Delta Nu Chapter, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 o President, Delta Nu Chapter, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Omicron Delta Kappa Skaggs 4

5 SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Keynote speaker for Purses in the Pew at Central Baptist Church, Newnan, Georgia, May 2014 Facilitiated the First Presbyterian Book Club s discussion of Flannery O Connor s Wise Blood, November 2012 Guest lecturer, three week series, Considering the Christ-haunted Landscape of Flannery O Connor s Fiction, for the Center for Christian Studies, Columbus, Georgia, May 2012 Facilitated the Lavinia Barron Book Club s discussion of Ida Fink s A Scrap of Time, Newnan, Georgia, January 2012 Board Member, Mercer University College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board, Macon, Georgia, August 2008-May 2011 Guest lecturer, five week series, Listening for God: Contemporary Fiction and the Life of Faith, for the Center for Christian Studies, Columbus, Georgia, May 2010 Guest lecturer, five week series, Faith and Fiction: Exploring the Work of C. S. Lewis, for Center for Christian Studies, Columbus, Georgia, February 2009 Guest lecturer, two week series, Reconciling Doubt and Reaffiirming Faith: A Walk with C. S. Lewis through the Shadows of Grief, for First Baptist Church, Columbus, Georgia, February 2009 Facilitated the Lavinia Barron Book Club s discussion of C. S. Lewis s The Problem of Pain and A Grief Observed, Newnan, Georgia, September 2009 Skaggs 5