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SHANNON MARIOTTI
Associate Professor of Political Science
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626
(512) 863-1407
UNIVERSITIES AND DEGREES
Cornell University, Ph.D. in Government (Political Theory; Gender Politics), August 2006
Cornell University, M.A. in Government, May 2004
The University of Texas at Austin, M.A. in Government, May 2001
American University, B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May 1999, (Communication, Law, Economics and Government)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2012-present: Associate Professor of Political Science at Southwestern University
2008-2012: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southwestern University
2006-2008: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rollins College
2003-2005: First-Year Writing Seminar Instructor at Cornell University
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
19th Century American Transcendentalism, American Political Thought, 20th century Critical Social Theory, Democratic Theory
COURSES
Introduction to Political Theory, American Political Thought, Modern Political Theory, Gender Politics, Contemporary Democratic Theory, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Capstone seminar)
BOOKS
Adorno and Democracy in America: Experience, Critique, Leadership, and Pedagogy. Book manuscript in progress.
A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson. Forthcoming volume, co-edited with Joseph Lane. Under contract with University Press of Kentucky, as part of their Political Companions to Great American Authors series.
Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) as part of the “Studies in American Thought and Culture” series, edited by Paul Boyer.
ARTICLES
"Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy," forthcoming in Political Theory.
“Melville and the Cadaverous Triumphs of Transcendentalism,” in A Political Companion to Melville. Jason Frank, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming).
"The Housekeeper of Homelessness: The Democratic Ethos of Marilynne Robinson’s Novels and Essays," in A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson. Shannon Mariotti and Joseph Lane, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming).
“Emerson’s Transcendental Gaze and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision and the Costs of Idealism,” in A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk, eds. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Press, 2011).
“Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation and the Psychic Economy,” TELOS, Special Issue: Adorno in America (Winter 2009).
“The Death of the First-born Son: Emerson’s Focal Distancing, Du Bois’ Second Sight, and Disruptive Particularity,” Political Theory, 37: 3 (June 2009).
“Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity” in A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Jack Turner, ed. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009).
REFERENCE WORKS
“Henry David Thoreau” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
“Ralph Waldo Emerson,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
BOOK REVIEWS
“Communicating to the Demos,” a review of Gerhard Schweppenhaüser’s Theodor W. Adorno: an introduction, translated by James Rolleston (Duke University Press, 2009), in Review of Politics, 72:3 (September 2010).
“Critique from the Margins: Adorno and the Politics of Withdrawal” in Political Theory, June 2008, Volume 36, No. 3
INVITED TALKS
I accepted an invitation to present my current research on Marilynne Robinson, at Rollins College, on April 16th, 2013. My talk was part of a conceptual lecture series called "The Heist: Community, Identity, and Meaning in the New Millenium," sponsored by the African and African-American Studies program.
I accepted an invitation to present a paper drawing from my current book manuscript at the Fall Seminar of the Political Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. I presented an essay titled "Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy" on October 18th, 2012.
I accepted an invitation to chair a panel on Adorno at a graduate student conference, at the University of Chicago, titled “Exile on Main Street: Fascism, Emigration, and the European Imagination in America.” I also presented a paper titled “Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Immanent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy” at the University of Chicago’s Social Theory Workshop. Both events took place on November 10-12, 2011.
I accepted an invitation to participate in the American Democracy Forum conference at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, on May 25, 2011. I presented a paper titled “Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies and Democratic Pedagogy”
CONFERENCES
Western Political Science Association conference, March 2013 – "The Housekeeper of Homelessness: The Democratic Ethos of Marilynne Robinson's Novels and Essays," for panel Other Democratic Theorists.
Western Political Science Association Conference, March 2012 – “Adorno on Education: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy,” for panel Cultivating Democratic Citizens: Pedagogy, Policing, and Practice.
Western Political Science Association Conference, March 2012 – chair and discussant for panel Promise and Loss: Democratic Moments in American Political Life.
American Political Science Association Conference, September 2011 – “Bartleby and Transcendentalism,” for panel American Tragedy: The Political Thought of Herman Melville
Western Political Science Association, April 2011 – “Adorno on the Radio: The Countertendencies of American Democracy,” for panel on Adorno and Democracy: Complexity and Contradiction, Possibilities and Potential
Western Political Science Association, April 2011 – discussant for panel Beyond Deliberation? Justification, Rhetoric, and Political Communication.
American Political Science Association, September 2010 – “Emerson and the Struggle of Transcendental Idealism,” for panel on Political Reflection Through Extraordinary Experience
American Political Science Association, September 2010 – panel chair for The Problem of ‘The People’ in American Political Thought
American Political Science Association, September 2009 – “Emerson’s Transcendental America and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision, Politics, and Idealism”
Western Political Science Association, March 2008 – “Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality: Adorno, America, and the Sickness of Health”
Western Political Science Association, March 2008 – panel chair and discussant for Affect and the Sentiments of Politics
Western Political Science Association, March 2007 – “Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity.”
New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 - “Huckleberrying Toward Democracy: Henry David Thoreau’s Alternative Political Space and Practices”
New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 - panel chair for Political Theory: Challenges in the New Century
Cornell University Political Theory Workshop, May 2005 - “Henry David Thoreau and the Problem of Alienation”
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript reviewer for The Journal of Politics, July 2013.
Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, May 2013.
Manuscript reviewer for Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, May 2013
Manuscript reviewer for University Press of Kentucky, February 2013.
Manuscript reviewer for Rowman and Littlefield, August 2012.
Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, May 2012.
Manuscript reviewer for Polity, January 2011
Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, September 2008 and May 2012
Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award Committee, March 2007.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
President of American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at Southwestern University, Fall 2013-present
Presidential Search Committee for Southwestern University, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013
Southwestern University Admissions Committee, 2011-present
Southwestern University Feminist Studies Committee, 2011-present.
Southwestern University Honor Code Council, 2009-present
Southwestern University Environmental Studies Search Committee, 2010-2011
Southwestern University Library Committee, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Rollins College Academic Affairs Committee: 2007-2008
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Competitive Faculty Development Grant, from Southwestern University, 2013
Junior Sabbatical, from Southwestern University, Spring 2013
Brown Junior Fellowship, from Southwestern University, 2010-2011
Competitive Faculty Development Grant, from Southwestern University, 2012
Competitive Faculty Development Grant, from Southwestern University, 2011
Competitive Faculty Development Grant, from Southwestern University, 2009
Competitive Faculty Development Grant, from Southwestern University, 2008
Moses Coit Tyler Award 2005, from Cornell University for best essay by a graduate student
Mellon Fellowship, from Cornell University, 2005-2006
Summer Funding Grant for archival study, Cornell University Government Department, 2005
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2000-2001
Outstanding Teaching Award, U.T. Austin Government Department, 1999-2000
Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, inducted May 1999.
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted May 1999
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
American Association of University Professors
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