Lucas Pierce Tromly                                         

Department of English, University of Manitoba

615 Fletcher Argue Building

Winnipeg, MB

Canada

R3T 5V5

Office Phone: (204) 474-7362

Email: tromly@cc.umanitoba.ca

Home Page: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~tromly/

Employment History

2004                Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of

(Ongoing)         Manitoba         

Fields of Concentration: American Literature and Modernism

            2003-2004       Lecturer, Department of English, University of Toronto             

Degrees Awarded

1998-2003       Ph.D, University of Toronto

Dissertation: William Faulkner and the Testing of Aestheticism, supervised by Professor Greig Henderson.      

1996-1997       M.A., Queen’s University

Thesis:  “Sabotaging Utopia: Politics and Self-Parody in A.M. Klein’s Short Fiction,” supervised by Professor Tracy Ware.

1992-1996 B.A. (Honours), McGill University

Honours Essay: “Cracking Nature’s Mould: Epilepsy on the Shakespearean Stage,” supervised by Professor Michael Bristol.

Grants and Awards

2004-2005       University Research Grants Program (URGP) Grant     

                        Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Preparation Grant

2002-2003       Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Toronto

2002-2003       Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial Scholarship in English, University of Toronto

2002-2003       Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

2001-2002       Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Grant

1998-2001      University of Toronto Open Fellowship

1996-1997       Queen’s University Graduate Award

1994-1995       Dean’s List, McGill University

1992                Seba Abbott Scholarship, McGill University

Refereed Publications                      

“Impurifying Poe: Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons.” Mississippi Quarterly 53 (2000): 225-36.                  

“Sabotaging Utopia: A.M. Klein’s ‘The Bells of Sobor Spasitula’” Canadian Literature 164 (2000): 36-54.

Work In Submission

“Transcolonial Uncanny: The South, the Philippines, and Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Submitted August 2006.

Work in Preparation

“‘The Small Talk of the Harem’: Discursive Communities and Colonial Silences in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco.”

Conference Papers

“Regional Nostalgia and Fin de Siècle Modernism: Oscar Wilde and the Postbellum South.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, 2006 (Toronto, Ont.).

“Foreign Wars and Domestic Spaces: William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and the Filipino-American War.” International American Studies Association, 2005 (Ottawa, Ont.).

“‘The Small Talk of the Harem’: Discursive Communities and Colonial Silences in Edith Wharton’s Travel Narratives.” Mobilis in Mobile: An International Travel Writing Conference, 2005 (Hong Kong).

“Lafcadio Hearn, William Faulkner, and the Flâneur of New Orleans.” University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, 2004.

“‘How Fascinating All Failures Are’: Oscar Wilde and the American South.” Northeastern Modern Language Association, 2003 (Boston, Mass.).

“Warren, Poe, and Narrative Impurity.” The International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, 1999 (Richmond, Va .).

“Sabotaging Utopia: Art and Repression in A.M. Klein’s Late Fiction.” The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/ Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures session “25 Years Later: The Legacy of A.M. Klein,” 1997 (St. John’s, Newfoundland .).

Upcoming Conference Papers

“‘China is an Old Bitch that Eats Her Own Puppies’: Modernism and Contemporary Chinese Fiction.” To be delivered to the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2006 (Chicago).

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba

2006                Asian American Literature (ENG 2190)

Areas of focus: immigration narratives, gender and identity, globalization and cultural commodification.

Literature Since 1900: Writing Intensive Section (ENG 1300)

A survey of fiction, poetry and prose from North America, England, and elsewhere for first-year students. This class focuses on writing skills through the submission of multiple drafts of essays.

            2005-2006       American Literature to 1900 (ENG 217)

Areas of focus: Puritanism, Transcendentalism, slave narratives, and representations of space.

Literature Since 1900 (ENG 130)

2004-2005 American Literature to 1900 (ENG 217)

Literature Since 1900 (ENG 130)

Courses Scheduled for Winter 2007

American Poetry (ENG 2980)

Areas of focus: Dialect poetry and the vernacular tradition, the poem cycle, and meter and poetic technique.

Modernism and the Manifesto (ENG 7160), a split honours / graduate seminar.

Areas of focus: the manifesto as literary form, the manifesto and dialogism; the gendered manifesto.

Lecturer, University of Toronto

2003-2004       American Literature, 1880-1960 (ENG 359)

Areas of focus: The pastoral and gothic, class and national identity, American modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance.

Critical Writing About Narrative (B02H3)        

An exploration of narrative strategies, voice, and point of view, with an emphasis on the preparation of academic essays.

Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto

2001-2003       Literature for Our Time (ENG 140) with Professor Greig Henderson.

A survey of modernist and postmodernist fiction, poetry, and prose.

2000-2001       Introduction to Shakespeare (ENG 220) with Professor Jill Levenson.

A survey of the major plays. Guest lecture: “The Tempest and Postcolonialism.”

1999-2000       Literature for Our Time (ENG 140) with Professor John Walker.

                        Guest lecture: “Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath.”

1998-1999 Technical Writing for Engineers

A writing intensive, workshop-based class intended to familiarize students with the format of business and technical documents.

Teaching Assistant, Queen’s University

1996-1997       Twentieth-Century Prose and Poetry with Professor Elizabeth Greene.

                        Areas of focus: Canadian literature and the feminist novel.

                        Guest lecture: “Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners.”

Supervision

2005-2006       Supervisor to Research Assistant Marc Ducusin (M.A. Candidate). Research project: “Lafcadio Hearn in Hong Kong and China.”

                        Special Field Examiner for Jo Valens, Ph.D Candidate, University of Manitoba.

                        External thesis reader for Emily Gregor, M.A. Candidate, Emory University. (Thesis supervised by Professor Barbara Ladd.)

2004-2005       Supervisor to Research Assistant Nicole Coffey (Ph.D Candidate). Research Project: “Oscar Wilde in the Postbellum South.”

Academic Service

2006-2007 Member, Warhaft Lecture Committee.

Responsibilities include making arrangements for and advertising talks by visiting lecturers.

Member, Search Committee for Faculty Position in Contemporary American Literature. Responsibilities included writing a successful proposal to the Faculty of Arts for funding for the position.

Member, Upper Year Course Policy Committee. This committee is responsible for reviewing syllabi for mid- and upper-level undergraduate courses.

2004-2007       Member, First Year Policy Committee. This committee is responsible for reviewing syllabi for first-year courses and developing first year curriculum.                     

2003                Graduate Appeals Board, University of Toronto.

Research Assistantships

2000                Research Assistant to Michael Millgate, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. Responsibilities included editing an edition of Thomas Hardy’s public correspondence.

1993-1995       Research Assistant, A.M. Klein Publication Committee

Supervisors: Professor Zailig Pollock and Professor Elizabeth Popham, Trent University   

Non-Academic Work Experience    

            1997-1998       English as a Second Language Instructor, Gymnasium Omska

Prague, Czech Republic