+ ROBERT HAROLD O'CONNOR
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio - December, 1979
M.A.SUNY/Binghamton, Binghamton, New York - English, May, 1973
B.A.Cornell University, Ithaca, New York - English, June, 1970
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Robert Odney Excellence in Teaching Award, North Dakota State University, 1997-98.
English Department Nominee for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award, 1995 and 1996.
Vogel Award for Outstanding Teaching in English at North Dakota State University, 1989.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1997 - presentProfessor, North Dakota State University
1988 - 1997Associate Professor, North Dakota State University
1985 - 1988Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University
1980 - 1985Assistant Professor, Southwest Texas State University
1978 - 1979Lecturer, Southwest Texas State University
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:
British Romantic Literature
The British Novel
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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MOST RECENT ACADEMIC SERVICE:
University Senate Member (Fall 1998-Spring 2000, and Fall 2006-Present)
University Program Review Committee Chair (Fall 2006-Present) and Member (Fall 2003-
Spring 2005 and Fall 2006-Present)
English Department Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee Chair (Fall
1998-Spring 2005 and Spring 2006-Present)
Univeresity Teacher Partnership Program (with Mark Aune) (Fall 2004-Spring 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee Member (Fall 1995-Spring 1996 and Fall 2002–Spring 2005)
SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE ACTIVITY (2000-PRESENT ONLY):
“Strategy in Philip K. Dick’s The Game-players of Titan: Winning the Rigged Game” [book chapter]. The Games Science Fiction Writers Play. Ed. Pawel Frelik. Krakow: U of Krakow P (forthcoming September 2006).
“The Hired Gun and the Bounty Hunter: Moral Ambiguity in the Post-McCarthy Era TV Western and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [paper]. The Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association. White Plains, 23 June 2006.
“Baz Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge: Orpheus Again Descending” [journal article]. The LamarJournal of the Humanities Fall 2005: 38-46.
“Strategy in Philip K. Dick’s The Game-players of Titan: Winning the Rigged Game” paper]. The Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association. Las Vegas, 20 July 2005.
“Beauty or Truth: The Faustian Dilemma in H. Ryder Haggard’s She” [paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 17 March 2004.
“Baz Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge: Orpheus Again Descending” [paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 20 March 2003.
“At Millennium’s End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Ed. by Kevin Alexander Boon” [book review]. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 13 (2002): 241-42.
“Myth as Genre in British Romantic Poetry, by Paul Wiebe” [book review]. Journal of theFantastic in the Arts 12 (2001): 351-53.
“Rituals of Hospitable Civility in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings” [paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 22 March 2001.
“John Williams’ Mary Shelley: A Literary Life” [book review]. SFRA Review 250 (Jan./Feb. 2001): 17-18.
“David Punter and Glynnis Byron’s Spectral Readings” [book review]. SFRA Review 244 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 20.
“The Decline and Fall of Billy Tinkerson” [short story]. Carbon World VI (2000): 162-72.
“The Think Tank” [short story]. Carbon World VI (2000): 173-96.
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