P. Aaron Potter
potterama@earthlink.net
http://www.potterama.net/Aaron

• Ph.D. in English. University of California, Riverside, 2000
• M.A. in English. University of Virginia, 1993
• B.A. in English, University of Oregon, 1991

Dissertation

• "Holy Dread: the Theology of Supernatural Literature"
• Director: Professor Robert Essick

Research and Teaching Interests  

• Romantic and Victorian Literature
• Computer Applications in the Humanities / Computer-Assisted Pedagogy
• Electronic Media and Textuality
• Literature and Social Praxis
• History and Philosophy of Scientific Discourse
• Popular Fiction and Genre Formation
• Science Fiction and Supernatural, Fantastic, and Gothic Literatures

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Lecturer, English, UC Riverside -- 2000-present
• Graduate Assistant Director of Composition, UC Riverside -- 1999-2000
• Research Assistant, California Council on Science and Technology -- 1998-present 
• Teaching Assistant, English, UC Riverside -- 1996-2000
• Associate in English, UC Riverside Extension -- Summer Session, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1998 
• Research Assistant, UC Riverside -- 1999
• Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Virginia -- 1993

Awards and Honors

• Humanities Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UC Riverside, 1996-2000
• UC Riverside Graduate Student Association Research and Travel Grant, 1999
• Prize Winner, Graduate Student Essay Contest, UC Riverside 1998
• Nominee, T.A. of the Year Award, UC Riverside, 1998
• Dean's Scholar, University of Oregon

Publications

• Holy Ghosts: the Theology of Fantasy and Horror -- (book manuscript currently in editorial circulation).
  
• "An Exquisite Perdita: Theatrical Motif in the Poetry of Mary Robinson" -- Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research (forthcoming, pending revision).
  
• "The Age(s) of Genre" -- in We, the Other Victorians: Considering the Heritage of 19th-Century Thought. Silvia Caporale Bizzini, ed.  U Alicante Press, 2003.
  
• "Wherefore are these things Hid?: Quoting Shakespeare in the Margins of Film" -- Interdisciplinary Humanities, 19.1 (fall 2002).
  
• "Hecate Does Harvard: Notes on Academic Criticism of Wiccan Practice" -- Religion and Education, 28.2 (Fall 2001): 1-14.
  
• "Signal and Image processing for Crime Control and Crime Prevention" (co-authored with Professor Susan Hackwood) -- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 3 (1999): 513-517.
  
• "Centripetal Textuality" -- Victorian Studies, 41:4 (Summer 1998): 593-607.
  
• "Sappho and Phaon" (co-editor) -- hypertext scholarly edition of Mary Robinson's 1796 sonnet sequence in British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
  

Presentations

• "Harry Potter and the Firebreathers."  "Pottermania" conference, UC Riverside, 2005 (prospective).
  
• "Sex, Lies, and Avatars: Neo-Orientalism from Street Fighter to Crouching Tiger."  39^th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, 2004.
  
• "The Failure of Southey’s Thalaba: a Tragedy of Translation."  21st Western Humanities Conference, 2002.
  
• "Monster Slaying 101: Horror and Ideology."  Invited research presentation, UCR Retirees Association, UC Riverside, 2002 (re-presented for the LIFE program, UCR extension center, 2002).
  
• "Vampires in the Stacks: an Exercise in Non-traditional Research."  Invited presentation, Library Staff Association Spring Program, UC Riverside, 2001.
  
• "The Context and Reception of Digital Archives."  Invited presentation, UC Digital Cultures Research Conference, 2000.
  
• "Coleridge's Mystery Poems."  Invited Lecture, English 23C (Nineteenth Century Literature), UC Riverside, 2000.
  
• "The Devil's Domicile."  Cross-Currents in Humanities, 2000.
  
• "God's Wounds!: How Dracula Bled Christianity Dry."  Southland Conference, 1999.
  
• "Appropriating Vampires: Wish Fulfillment and the New Gothic."  Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Conference, 1999.
  
• "Manfred, Myth, and Magic: the Gospel according to Lord Byron."  6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, UC Riverside, 1998.
  
• "The Gender in the Machine: The Sexual Personae of Artificial Intelligence."  Information, Technology and the Humanities, Western Humanities Conference, 1997.
  
• "Hypertext / Hyperclassroom : Humanities Instruction in the Wake of Hypertext."  Disciplining the Humanities, UC Riverside ,1996.
  

Classes Designed and Taught 

• ENGR 180: Technical Communications -- upper division writing course in technical communications theory and practice, required of all engineering majors.
  

• ENGL 302: Teaching Practicum -- introductory pedagogy course required of all Teaching Assistants (team-taught with other composition program directors)
  

• ENGL 140(i): Genre Studies (Romance and Fantasy) -- upper division seminar on the origins, forms, conventions, influence, and legacy of the fantasy genre, from medieval romance to the Lord of the Rings film adaptations.
  

• ENGL 102: Introduction to Critical Methods -- upper division core class for majors in theory and criticism, incorporating readings from Plato through post-structuralism
  

• ENGL 23C: Nineteenth-Century Literature -- lower division survey of Romantic and Victorian literature, emphasizing major authors and works within their historical contexts
  

• ENGL 1SC: Writing for the Sciences -- introductory WID program for science majors, emphasizing the distinct nature of scientific discourse, critical thinking, and professional skills.
  

• ENGL 1C: Advanced Composition and Critical Analysis -- introduces interpretive methods utilizing both popular and canonical texts, as a basis for analytical compositions
  

• ENGL 1B: Argument and Rhetoric -- composition and literary analysis course emphasizing construction and interpretation of didactic texts, utilizing literary examples as models
  

• ENGL 1A: Beginning Composition -- introduces students to the demands of writing in the university setting, and approaches to the writing process, from draft to final revision
  

• ENGL 5: Ideas in Conflict -- introductory course in argumentative writing.
  

• ENGL 4: English Writing in the Disciplines -- composition course emphasizing organizational paradigms, composition and revision strategies, as preparation for writing in the disciplines
  

• ENGL 3: Basic Writing -- remedial composition course serving ESL students
  

• American Literature -- upper division survey in 20^th century American literature (co-taught as Teaching Assistant under J.C. Levenson, University of Virginia)

Additional Professional Projects and Activities

• Administration and scoring of the University of California’s English placement exam
• Development of standards and curricula for Applied Intermediate Composition for the Sciences, an interdisciplinary undergraduate composition program, UC Riverside
• New T.A. Mentor Program, UC Riverside
• "Web-based Distance Education" -- survey project evaluating current options in on-line education, undertaken for the Engineering Center for Science and Technology Policy (ECSTP), hosted by the College of Engineering, UC Riverside
• "Recent Issues in Computer Policy" -- survey project developed for ECSTP
• "Science and Technology Policy Resources" -- Web directory created for ECSTP and the California Council on Science and Technology
• Web-master, Fifth Annual UC Riverside Graduate Student Conference, 1997

Additional Work Experience

• Programmer/Analyst, College of Engineering, UC Riverside -- 1996-1998
• Software Engineer, Jay Jacobs Corporation, Seattle, Washington -- 1995-96
• Programmer/Analyst, Dana Garvey Corporation, Seattle, Washington -- 1994
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Eugene, Oregon and Coos Bay, Oregon -- 1992-3
• Camp Counselor, U. of Oregon Talented and Gifted Program, Eugene, Oregon -- 1991

Professional Affiliations

• National Council of Teachers of English
• Modern Language Association
• Popular Culture Association

References

• Professor Robert Essick, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, UC Riverside
• Professor Deborah Willis, Director of English Composition, Department of English, UC Riverside
• Professor Joseph Childers, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, Department of English, UC Riverside
• Professor Susan Hackwood, California Council on Science and Technology / Department of Engineering, UC Riverside

Dossier available upon request from:
University of California, Riverside
Career Services Center-070
Riverside, CA 92521-0211

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