DR. DAVID BRUCE JENKINS
Teaching and Related Work Experience
2005-Present
Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Plovdiv University Kurdzheli Campus, Kurdzheli, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor of American Literature and American Studies, British Literature, and Film Studies, Department of English, Veliko Turnovo University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.
2004-2006
Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor, City University of Seattle Pravetz Campus, Pravetz, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor of American Literature and American Studies, British Literature, and Film Studies, Department of English, Veliko Turnovo University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.
2002-2004
Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, The American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria; Adjunct Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Veliko Turnovo University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.
2000-2002
Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Professor of American and British Literature, Department of English, Plovdiv University Smolyan Campus, Smolyan, Bulgaria.
1999-2000
Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Professor of World Literature, Vilnius University Kaunas Humanities Faculty; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Vytautas Magnus University; Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania.
1997-1999
Professor of World Literature, Vilnius University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Vytautas Magnus University; Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania.
1994-1997
Fulbright Lecturer and Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Department of English, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Shumen, Bulgaria.
1993-1994
Editor, China Features, Xinhua State News Agency, Beijing, China; Lecturer in Rhetoric and Composition, Peking University, Beijing, China.
1992-1993
Course Writer, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Writing Instructor, Division of Parallel Studies, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas; Literary Translator, Austin, Texas.
1990-1991
Instructor of American Literature, Creative Writing, and Expository Writing, Department of English, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1989-1990
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Department of Humanities, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1987-1988
Fulbright Lecturer and Associate Professor of American Literature, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.
1986-1987
Assistant Instructor, American and British Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, The University of Texas, Austin Texas.
1984-1986
Foreign Expert in Linguistics and Literature, Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China.
1980-1984
Assistant Instructor, American and British Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
1974
Reader in World Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
1972-1973
Editorial Assistant during the preparation of The Anatomy of Communist Takeovers, Yale University Press, 1974.
1970-1972
Teaching Assistant, Department of Russian, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Education and Degrees
1987Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
1979M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Columbia University, New York, New York.
1974Graduate study in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
1974M. A. in Comparative Literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1970-72Graduate study in Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1970Honors B.A. in Russian, French minor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1969Certificate in Russian Studies, Oklahoma University Munich Center, Munich, Germany.
Publications and Conference Presentations
2007“Westering: A Literary Travelogue” (paper presented at an international American Studies conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, to be published in the conference proceedings).
2007The Maker’s Rage for Order: Theories of Literature and Culture (ISBN 954-775-656-7 and 978-954-775-656-4). Faber Press: Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria (Bulgarian translation scheduled for publication in February, 2008).
2007“Down at the Liffey With James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Stanislav Stratiev” (paper presented at an international Irish Studies conference held in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, to be published in the conference proceedings).
2007The Last Revolution(English translation of a Bulgarian novel by Sylva Doncheva commissioned the author).
2006Eyrena Colony(English translation of a Bulgarian novel by Nina Nenova commissioned by Aredan Press, Sofia,
Bulgaria).
2006“A Fable for Critics” (paper presented at international BASA and BSBS conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to be published in the conference proceedings).
2005 “The Real Work: Counting the Costs” (paper presented at an international conference in Vienna, Austria, published
in the conference proceedings)
2005 “Lust, Love, and the Stories We Tell” (paper presented at an international conference held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria,
in honor of Hans Christian Anderson, published in the conference proceedings)
2005“The Enduring Power of the Classical Heritage” (paper presented at an international conference in Thessaloniki,
Greece and Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2004“Past This Point Be Dragons: An Iconography of Winged Beasts” (paper presented at a conference in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings.)
2003“Woodstock in Texas: The Kerrville Folk Festival” (paper presented at the Fulbright Conference “America in the Twenty-First Century,” Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria).
2003“Vanity” (keynote address presented at Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, incorporating an English adaptation of a satirical essay by Radoi Ralin, published in the conference proceedings).
2003“Ecstatic Humanities” (paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Association of Universities for Democracy Conference held in Vilnius, Lithuania).
2002“The Value of a Liberal Education” (paper presented at the Fifth Biannual Fulbright Conference on Education, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2002“The British Pound” (paper presented at a World Literature conference held at Šiauliai University, Šiauliai, Lithuania, published in the conference proceedings).
2002“On the Road with Henry James, Saul Bellow, and Aleko Konstantinov” (paper presented at Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2002Future Tales (English translation of a Bulgarian novel by Nina Nenova commissioned by Aredan Press, Sofia, Bulgaria).
2001Meetings With a Drowned Man (English translation of a Bulgarian novel by Nina Nenova commissioned by Aredan Press, Sofia, Bulgaria).
2001“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard: On Teaching Literature” (paper presented at Plovdiv University, Plovdiv Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2001“Film Gris, or What Is the Sound of One Man Talking” (presented at an American Studies conference at The American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2001“Pastures New: The Enduring Value of the Pastoral Vision” (paper presented at Shumen University, Shumen Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
2001Mortal Remains (English translation of a Bulgarian novella by Nina Nenova commissioned by Aredan Press, Sofia, Bulgaria).
2001Editorial consultant for Rock Sanctuaries of Ancient Thrace (ISBN 954-9541-90-8). Faber Press: Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.
2000“Film Making Meaning: The Rhetoric of Cinema” (paper presented at Plovdiv University, Plovdiv Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
1999Confluences: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Literature (ISBN 9986-896-45-2), Vilnius University Press: Vilnius, Lithuania.
1999“Chick Lit: Postfeminist American Fiction” (paper presented at a Fulbright conference in American Literature and American Studies held in Palanga, Lithuania).
1999“William Wordsworth” (chapter of an anthology on British Romanticism published in Lithuanian by Vilnius University Press).
1999“Reading Wordsworth: Twentieth-Century Responses” (paper presented at a conference hosted by Vilnius University Kaunas Humanities Faculty, Kaunas, Lithuania, published in the conference Proceedings).
1998“Margins” (paper presented at an international conference held at Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia, published in the conference proceedings).
1998“American Pragmatism” (keynote address presented at a Fulbright conference held in Vilnius, Lithuania, published in the Lithuanian Association of North American Studies conference proceedings).
1997“American Pragmatism and Bakhtinian Dialogism” (paper presented at Vilnius University Kaunas Humanities Faculty, Kaunas, Lithuania, published in the conference proceedings).
1997Looking an Ox in the Eye: American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (ISBN 954-9541-02-9). Faber Press: Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, with the kind support of USIA and the America Center, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1997Landscape with Dog and The Bulgarian Way (ISBN 954-9541-03-7). Faber Press: Veliko Turnovo Bulgaria. English translation of satirical prose by the Bulgarian playwright and satirist Stanislav Stratiev, with the kind support of the Open Society Foundation).
1997Editorial Consultant, English-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-English Dictionary, published by Elpis Press, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
1996“Three Questions and a Substantial Footnote” (paper presented at a conference hosted by Plovdiv University,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, published in the conference proceedings).
1995“Sharing Secrets, Telling Lies” (paper presented at an international conference held at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece).
1995“Postmodernism and Its Discontents” (paper presented at Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria).
1994 “Teaching in Bulgaria: A Case History and a Few Suggestions” (paper presented at the Third Biannual Fulbright Conference on Education held in Sofia, Bulgaria).
1993Introduction to Criticism (study guide commissioned and published by The University of Texas at Austin).
1993Introduction to Modern Poetry (study guide commissioned and published by The University of Texas at Austin).
1990 “Johnson's Motorcar and the Wheels of Revolution: Irish Folksongs and Social Protest” (paper presented at a
conference on Irish Studies held at Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida).
1988“The Poet and the State: Bely, Blok, Mandelstam” (paper presented at a conference held at Veliko Turnovo University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria).
1986Study guides in literary theory, American poetry, and American folksongs (commissioned and printed by the Dalian Foreign Languages Institute, Dalian, China).
1980Poems and translations published in The University of Texas literary annual Analecta.
1977Columbia University Poetry Translation Award, for a translation of Anna Akhmatova’s “At the Very Edge of the Sea.”
1974Poems published in the University of Utah literary annual Alibi.
1970 “The Power Struggle After the Tenth Party Congress” (published in Studies on the Soviet Union, Summer, 1970).
Academic Dossier on file with The Office of Education Placement,
Education Building 294, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712.