Ronald Strickland
English Department
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4240
phone: (309) 438-3667
email:
Academic Background:
Ph. D.: Syracuse University, 1987
Dissertation: The Ideological Functions of Renaissance Funeral Elegy
(Directed by Jean E. Howard)
M.A.: SUNY-Cortland, 1980
B. A.: Southwest Missouri State University, 1973
Teaching Experience:
Visiting Professor of Western Languages, Srinakharinwirot University, Summer 2002
Professor of English, ISU, 1998-present
Associate Professor of English, ISU, 1993-1998
Assistant Professor of English, ISU, 1987-1993
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, 1983-1987
Visiting Instructor, Syracuse University London Centre, 1985
Administrative Experience:
Graduate Director, English, Fall 1999; Fall 2000-present
English Department Undergraduate Advisor, 1988
Books:
Growing Up Postmodern: Neoliberalism and the War on the Young (Editor and Introduction). Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
After Political Correctness: New Directions for the Humanities (co-edited with Christopher Newfield). Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
Articles, Chapters and Reviews:
"Gender, Class and the Humanities in the Corporate University." Genders 34 (Spring 2002)
"Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change" (reprint). In Henry A. Giroux and Kostas Myrciades, eds., Beyond the Corporate University. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
"Postmodern Pedagogy and the Death of Civic Humanism" (co-written with Elizabeth Hatmaker, et al) Social Epistemology 12 (Spring, 1998)
"Pedagogy and Public Accountability." In Amitava Kumar, ed., Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere. New York: New York University Press, 1997, 163-76.
"Every Which Way But Left." Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 17 (Spring, 1995) 35-42.
"Going Public" (with Christopher Newfield). In After Political Correctness: New Directions for the Humanities. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 1-20.
"Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change" (reprint). In After Political Correctness: New Directions for the Humanities. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 1-20.
"The Autonomous Individual and the Anonymous Referee." College Literature 21 (October, 1994), 72-8.
"The Campus Climate and the Politics of Change: An Interview with Thomas P. Wallace." (with Thomas P. Wallace). In After Political Correctness: New Directions for the Humanities. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 286-96.
"Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change." College Literature 21 (February 1994), 1-14. This essay was reprinted in After Political Correctness.
"A Response to Maxine Hairston." College Composition and Communication 44 (May, 1993), 191-4.
"Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain," in James Davis and Ronald Salamone, eds. Teaching Shakespeare Today. Urbana: NCTE, 1993, 168-78.
"Not So Idle Tears: Re-Reading the Renaissance Funeral Elegy." Review 13 (1992), 47-65.
"Are We Being Political Yet?" Mediations 16 (Spring, 1992), 5-11.
"Confrontational Pedagogy and the Introductory Literature Course." In James Cahalan and David Downing, eds., Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses. Urbana: NCTE, 1992.
"Pageantry and Poetry as Ideological Discourse: The Production of Subjectivity in Sir Philip Sidney's Funeral." ELH (English Literary History) 57 (Spring, 1990), 19-36.
"Confrontational Pedagogy and Traditional Literary Studies." College English 52 (March, 1990), 291-300.
"Review of Paul Smith, Discerning the Subject." Textual Practice 4 (Summer, 1990), 324-9.
"Review of Terry Eagleton, Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985." Poetics Today 10 (Fall, 1989), 635-7.
"Formalism and Discourse Theory." (Review of John Frow, Marxism and Literary History). Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Winter, 1989), 111-2.
"Review of Laura C. Stevenson, Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature." Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988), 124-5.
Awards:
Illinois State University Team Service Excellence Award (with the Border Subjects Conference Organizing Committee), 1998
David A. Strand Diversity Achievement Award, 1997
Illinois State University Outstanding Teacher, 1996
College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (Senior Category), 1994
College of Arts and Sciences Research Initiative Award, 1990
Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, 1980-1984
Syracuse University Summer Fellowship, 1984
Grants:
"On-line Course Development"(English 401: Introduction to Graduate Studies), Extended University (ISU), Summer 2001 ($5,000)
"On-line Course Development" (English 495: Marxist Theory), Extended University (ISU), Summer 1999 ($6,000)
“Literature and the Modern Experience in Africa,” 1996, Summer Institute at the University of Ghana-Legon, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($5,700)
“Cultural Diversity and Critical Pedagogy,” Consultant and Seminar Director,
Bradley University Center for Teaching Excellence (Lilly Endowment-funded Workshop), 1993-94 ($6,000)
Illinois State University Summer Research Grant, 1992 ($3,000)
Illinois State University Summer Research Grant, 1991 ($3,000)
Newberry Library Institute in English Archival Sciences, 1990: funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($3,000)
“Recovering the Discursive Contexts of Renaissance Funeral Poems,” 1990; funded by the Newberry Library Center For Renaissance Studies ($1,500)
Illinois State University Teaching Improvement Program Grant, Seminar on Cultural Diversity, 1990 ($6,000)
Illinois State University Summer Research Grant, 1990 ($3,000)
"The Ideological Functions of Renaissance Funeral Practices," 1989: funded by the American Council of Learned Societies ($3,000)
Illinois State University Teaching Improvement Program Grant, Seminar on Cultural Diversity, 1989 ($6,000)
Illinois State University Summer Research Grant, 1989 ($3,000)
Illinois State University Summer Research Grant, 1988 ($3,000)
Dissertations and Theses Supervised:
Rebecca Webb, Ph. D. dissertation (expected to defend April 2003)
Elizabeth Hatmaker, Ph. D. dissertation (expected to defend May 2003)
Joseph Jeyaraj, Ph. D. dissertation (2001)
Mohomodou Houssouba, Ph. D. dissertation (1998)
Rise Funk, M. A. thesis (1998)
Sue Kuykendall, Ph. D. dissertation (Co-directed with Bill Morgan, 1990)
Internal Service:
Academic Senate, 1988-89; 1993-94; 1996-2000
Academic Senate Rules Committee, 1988-89
Academic Senate Student Affairs Committee, 1996-97
Chair, Academic Senate Budget Committee, 1998-2000
Co-Chair, Border Subjects Conference Organizing Committee, 1996-2001
Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Shared Governance,1996-1997
Minority Professional Opportunities Fellowship Award Committee, 1995-98
Faculty Mentor for Atkin Hall 10th-floor Residents, 1999-2000
Inaugural Speaker in the Diversity Circles Luncheon Series, and Consultant to
the Diversity Circles Planning Committee, 1996-1998
President, ISU Faculty Association 1999-present
External Service:
Editor, Mediations 1991-2000
Editorial Board Member, Works and Days, 1995-Present
Editorial Board Member, Works and Days, 1995-Present