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W. Oliver BakerUniversity of New MexicoDepartment of English Language and LiteratureMSC03 2170816-286-6589Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001woliverb@unm.eduEDUCATIONPhD English and American Literature, University of New MexicoExpected: 2018Dissertation: “Dissonances of Dispossession: Narrating U.S. Colonialism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression”Committee: Jesse Alemán (Chair), Daniel Worden, Alyosha Goldstein, and Phillip WegnerMA English Language and Literature, University of Missouri-Kansas City2012BA English and Spanish with honors, University of Missouri-Kansas City2009PUBLICATIONS“Dialectics of Abolition in Martin Delany’s Blake: or the Huts of America.” In progress. “Democracy, Class, and White Settler Colonialism.” Public: Art, Culture, Ideas. 55 (2017): 144-153.“Words Are Things”: The Settler Colonial Politics of Post Humanist Materialism in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Mediations 30.1 (2016): 1-24.“Literature and Labor under Neoliberalism.” Rev. essay of Sarah Brouillette’s Literature and the Creative Economy.” Reviews in Cultural Theory 5.2 (Oct 2014): 34-38.FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, University of New Mexico-Mellon Foundation,2017-2019Hector Torres Fellow, Center for Regional Studies, UNM, 2014-2015 Winning Essay, Michael Sprinker Writing Competition, The Institute on Culture and Society2015Doctoral Conference Presentation Award. Office of Graduate Studies, UNM2014, 2016Arms Endowment Grant, English Department, UNM2013, 2014, 2015Research and Travel Grant. English Department, UNM 20142014Student Research Grant. Graduate and Professional Student Association, UNM2013, 2015Nominated for Outstanding Writing Instructor Award in Core Writing, UNM2013, 2014, 2015Winner of the Sosland Graduate Teaching Award, University of Missouri-KC2011TEACHING EXPERIENCEUniversity of New Mexico2012-PresentInstructor of RecordEngl. 265: Introduction to Chicano/a Literature (1 section)Engl. 296: Early American Literature (2 sections)Engl. 292: Introduction to World Literature 292 (1 section)FLC 110 Freshman Learning Community, “Chicano/a Civil Rights and Law” (1 section)Engl. 110: Composition I (3 sections) “Prisons, the Poor, and Drugs”Engl. 120: Composition II: “Writing, Rhetoric, and Democracy” (8 sections)University of Missouri-Kansas City2009-2012Instructor of Record Engl. 110: Introduction to Academic Prose: “Community and Writing” (3 sections)Engl. 225: Intermediate Academic Prose: “The Limits of the Globalization” (4 sections) Teaching Assistant and GraderEngl. 300: American Social Film: Silver Screen and the American Dream (2 sections)Engl. 300: Ancient World Through Film, Hybrid Online Course (2 sections)Engl. 300: Race in American Film (1 section)PROFESSIONAL SEMINARSParticipant in “Demos: Life in Common” Banff Research in Culture Program. Banff Centre. Alberta, Canada. Led by Nina Power, Astra Taylor, and Alex Hartley. Organized by Imre Szeman and Eva-Lynn Jagoe. June 2015Participant, School of Criticism and Theory. Led by Annelise Riles, Sianne Ngai, Simon Critchley, and Mark Hanson. Cornell University, Ithaca. June-July 2014Newberry Fellow, National Consortium of American Indian Studies Seminar “Competing Narratives: Native American and Indigenous Studies Across Disciplines.” Led by Scott Stevens and Erin Debenport. The Newberry Library. Chicago. July 2013Participant, American Literature in the World Seminar. Led by Wai Chi Dimock and Gordon Hutner. Yale University. April 2013CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS“Precapitalist Social Formations and Primitive Accumulation.” Round Table on Marx’s Grundisse.The Institute on Culture and Society, UC-Davis, June 2017.“Settler Colonialism and Marxism.” The Institute on Culture and Society, Concordia University, Montreal. 25-29 June 2016.Seminar participant, “Settler Colonialism and Territorial Expansion.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 17-20 March 2016.“The Contemporary Novel and Totality after Crisis.” The Association for the Study of the Present. Greenville, SC. 24-27 Sept. 2015.“Totality at the Periphery: Capitalism and American Literature at the Turn of the Century.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Seattle. 26-29 March 2015.“The Cynical Turn: Consolidating a Capitalist-Present in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” The Marxist Reading Group’s Annual Conference. Gainesville, FL. 27-29 March 2014.“Dispossession and Labor in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta.” Modern Language Association. Chicago. Jan 2014.“Meth, Whiteness, and the Ozarks: Neoliberalism and the Great Recession in Winter’s Bone.” Association for the Studies of the Arts of the Present. Detroit. Oct 2013.“‘In the old days we were free’: The Post-frontier and Monopoly Capitalism in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema.” American Literature in the World Conference at Yale University. New Haven, CT. April 2013“‘A Diseased Mind’: Insanity, Depravity and the Subversion of Enlightenment Liberalism in Poe’s Stories of Criminal Insanity.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Scottsdale, AZ. Oct 2011.“‘Persecution in the drawl of the Persecuted’: Interethnic Politics in John Okada’s No-No Boy.” Multi-Ethnic Literature U.S. (MELUS). Boca Raton, Fl. April 2011.SERVICE“Write-On Workshop” Volunteer, Core Writing, UNM English Department2012-2016Core Writing Portfolio Assessment Committee, UNM English Department2016Graduate Student Peer Mentor, UNM English Department2013-2018Facilitator, Indigenous Book Festival, Institute for American Indian Research, UNM2014, 2016PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSModern Language AssociationThe Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature (Melus)C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century AmericanistsAmerican Studies AssociationAssociation for the Study of the Arts of the PresentThe Institute on Culture and SocietyLANGUAGESSpanishREFERENCESDr. Jesse AlemánProfessor and Presidential Teaching FellowDepartment of EnglishUniversity of New Mexicojman@unm.eduDr. Daniel WordenAssociate ProfessorSchool of Individualized StudyRochester Institute of Technologydxwind@rit.eduDr. Alyosha GoldsteinAssociate ProfessorAmerican Studies DepartmentUniversity of New Mexicoagoldste@unm.edu ................
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