Curriculum Vitae
for
Department of
English
bedwyr@asu.edu
Ph.D. English
Literature
Dissertation
Title: Turtle Sang Himself Together:
Themes of Survival in the Oral Traditions of the Florida Panhandle Creek
Indians.
Committee Chair: Dr. Kathleen Sands.
Co-Chair:
Dr. Donald Bahr
Readers:
Dr. Craig Womack (Creek/Cherokee), Dr. Scott Stevens (Mohawk), Dr. Charles
Colbert (Creek).
M.A.
English Literature
Thesis Title: Rabbit and Big
Man-eater: Identity Shifts and Role
Reversals in Creek Indian Trickster Tales.
Committee Chair: Dr. Kathleen Sands.
Readers: Dr. Donald Bahr, Dr. Dawn
Bates
B.A. History
Refereed Journal/Anthology Articles
“Shamanism
and Liminality in Two Nez Perce Trickster Tales.” Joker,
Trickster, Christ: The American Fool in
Literature,
Mythology,
and Popular Culture. Eddie
Tafoya, ed.
“’As
long as Time Lasts’: Ritual,
Journal
of the
“Rabbit
and Big Man-eater: Identity Shifts and Role Reversals in a Creek Indian
Trickster Tale.” Thalia: Studies in Literary
Humor 18 (1998).
“Trickster: Shaman of the
Liminal.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 5.4
(Winter 1993).
Published
Satire/Fiction
“’Recitativo Impermeabile:
Aria for Banjo and Plainchant’ from the Opera Taxonomy Tonight! by Able
Cru(i)se Thorndike.” Maple/Ash Review 2 (2008).
Book Reviews
Western
Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West, Kathleen A.
Boardman and Gioia Woods, eds. Great
Plains Quarterly 26.3 (Summer 2006).
The Literary
West: An Anthology of Western American Literature by Thomas J. Lyon. ANQ: A
Quarterly Journal of Short
Articles, Notes, and Reviews 17. 4 (Fall
2004).
Humanity: A
Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover. War, Literature, and the Arts: An
International Journal of
the
Humanities 13.1 & 2 (2001).
Indians,
Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization by
Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo. Studies in American Indian
Literatures 8.2 (Summer 1996).
The Things
That Were Said of Them told by Asatchaq, trans. Tom
Lowenstein. Studies in American Indian Literatures 6.3 (Fall
1994).
Presentations
“’To Rescue From Oblivion: Salvage Ethnography and
Showmanship in George Catlin’s Indian Gallery.”
American Folklore
Society Annual Meeting.
“Prophets, Redsticks, and the
Dance of the Lakes: Folklore and
Cultural Survival in the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814.”
American
Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
“Preparing
Proposals for the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society.”
of English Association.
“Abandoned
Babies, Indian Princesses, and Black Dutchmen: The Role of the Internet in the
Performance and
Dissemination of Southeastern Creek
Indian Family Legends.”
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 2003).
“The
Significance of the Tie Snake in Creek Indian Folklore.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
"Themes of Dispersal, Survival, and Reemergence
in the Folk Literature of the Florida
Panhandle Creek Indians." American
Folklore Society
Annual Meeting.
“Themes of Cultural Survival in the Folk
Literature of the Northwest Florida Creek Indians.” American
Indian Studies
Colloquium Series.
“’Recitativo Impermeabile: Aria for Banjo and Plainchant’ from the Opera
Taxonomy Tonight! by Able
Cru(i)se Thorndike.”
Graduate Scholars of English Symposium.
"Paper or Plastique?: Post-Occidentalist Posturing and Narrative Virus in
Able Cru(i)se Thorndike’s Travels with Gurdjieff:
Chance Encounters
with Scrofulous Sufis (and a Gnostic or Two)" Graduate Scholars of English Symposium.
"Cooting the Dominant Paradigms:
Able Cru(i)se Thorndike’s Concept of Torpiditas as a Rhetoric of Passive
Resistance; or, a
Resistant
Rhetoric of Passivity; or, a Passive Resistivity of Rhetoric; Your Choice, Really...." Graduate Scholars of English Symposium.
"Medicine,
“Diasporic
Identities in Creek Indian Trickster Tales.”
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
1998).
“Rabbit and
Big Man-eater: Identity Shifts and Role
Reversals in a Creek Indian Trickster Tale.” American Literature
Association: The Trickster.
“Trickster: Shaman of the Liminal.” Graduate Scholars of
English Symposium.
1994).
“Place Where
the Waters Crossed: The Significance of
the Number Five in the Navajo Creation
Story.” Directions in Critical
Theory Graduate Student Conference.
Books
Turtle Sang Himself Together: Survivals of Creek Indian
Folk Narrative in the Family Lore of the
Articles
“Communitas and
Redemption in the Floodlore of
“Abandoned
Babies, Indian Princesses, and Black Dutchmen: The Role of the Internet in the
Performance and
Dissemination of Southeastern Creek
Indian Family Legends.”
“Rabbit and Orphan Travel Along: Mediations of Placement and Displacement
in Creek Indian Trickster Literature.”
“Legend-Making, Bricolage, and Family Narrative in
Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose.”
“Constance and
Griselda, Rhiannon and Branwen: Expressions of Sacred Female Agency in Medieval
Welsh Parallels to
Chaucer’s
Accused Queens.”
“Image
and Mythic Transition in W. B. Yeats’ Cuchulain Cycle.”
“This Old
House: Home Improvement as Bildung in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer.”
Teaching Assistant/Associate,
Department of English (1995-2002)
Faculty
Associate, Department of English (2002-2004)
Instructor, Department of English
(2004-2005)
Lecturer, Department of English
(2005-Present)
Courses Taught:
English 101: First Year Composition (Standard Classroom)
English 101: First Year Composition (Computer Classroom)
English 102: First Year Composition (Standard Classroom)
English 102: First Year Composition (Computer Classroom)
English 194: Folklore and World Literature
English 200: Critical
English 215: Writing Across the Disciplines
English 241: Literatures of the
English 241: Literatures of the
English 242: Literatures of the
English 301: Writing for the Professions (Standard
Classroom)
English 301: Writing for the Professions (Computer
Classroom)
English 331: American Drama
English 337: The Major American Novel
English 333: American Ethnic
Literature
English 352: The Short Story
English 357: Introduction to Folklore
English 359: American Indian Literatures
English 360: Western American Literature
English 476: Outlaws, Choking Dobermans, and Cherokee
Princesses: The Legend in American
Folklore
DeVry
Institute;
Adjunct Instructor, Department of
Liberal Arts
Courses Taught:
English 120: Advanced Composition
English 225: Professional Writing
Adjunct Instructor, Department of
English
Courses Taught:
English 071:
Sentence/Paragraph Writing
Courses taught:
English 101: First Year
Composition
Research Associate, Departments of
English and History.
Project: Southwestern Regional
Humanities Center National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant Proposal
(This position involved arranging meetings and moderating EMAIL listserves for
task forces that researched the feasibility of implementing an NEH-endowed
regional humanities center at
Panel Chair and
Student
Researcher and
Case Study Writer,
Reading Circles
Program (2002).
Submissions
Reader and Panel Chair,
Graduate Literature Symposium (2000, 2001, 2002).
Submissions Reader, Arizona State University English Department Printer’s
Devil Competition (1999, 2004, 2005).
Native
American Oral Traditions
Tricksterism
Native
American Print Literature Western American Literature
American Folk
Narrative Ethnic
Literatures of the
Legend
Studies
Certificate of
Appreciation/Barrett Honors College,
Arizona State University
2003-2004 “Last Lecture Series” Award (English Department Nominee, March
2004)
Matching Funds
Travel Grant/ASU Department of English (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
DeMund Scholarship (Arizona State University English Department Nominee, March 2001. Awarded Honorable Mention,
May 2001)
2000-2001 Arizona State University Millennium Fellowship (Awarded April
2000. I declined due to unanticipated conflicts
with teaching and
research priorities)
Associated Students of
Phelps-Dodge
Scholarship (Arizona State University English Department nominee, March 2000)
Arizona State
University Student Affairs Faculty Recognition Award (1997, 1998)
Professional
References
Professor
Kathleen Sands (Retired)
Department of English
Home Phone: (480) 921-2011
EMAIL: Kathleen.Sands@asu.edu
Professor
Maureen Daly-Goggin,
Associate Chair, Department of English
(480) 965-3168
EMAIL:
Maureen.Goggin@asu.edu
Professor Donald Bahr
(Retired)
c/o
Department of Anthropology
(480) 965-6213
EMAIL: Don.Bahr@asu.edu