Carl Jenkinson

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (August 2009). Twentieth century American literature; minors in twentieth century British literature and postcolonial literature. Dissertation: The Relocation of Culture: Post-Assimilation Paradigms in the Immigrant Writing of Contemporary America. Director: Professor David Cowart. Committee Members: Professors Thomas J. Rice, Jeanne Garane, and Greg Forter.
• M.F.A. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (May 2003). Specialization: fiction. Thesis: a collection of short stories titled, “Its Own Place.” Supervisor: Professor Janette Turner Hospital. P.G.C.E. (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) London Institute of Education, London, UK (June 1995). Specialization: modern foreign languages (French).
• B.A. with Honors, in Law and French University of Sussex, Brighton, Falmer, UK (July 1989).

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Wolf-Kuiper Award (research grant), Summer 2016, Summer 2019.
• USC Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-2009.
• USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, 2007.
• USC Disability Services “Two Thumbs Up” Teaching Award, 2007.
• William Richey Teaching Fellowship (USC Department of English), 2006-2007.
• USC Freshman Advocate, nominee, 2006.
• South Carolina Arts Commission Fiction Award, 2004.
• USC Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, 2003.
• USC Disability Services “Two Thumbs Up” Teaching Award, 2003.
• James Dickey Award for Fiction, Honorable Mention, 2002.
• Irene Elliot Award for undergraduate teaching, Honorable Mention, 2002.
• Graduate Day Finalist (Oral Presentations in Cultural Enrichment), April 2002, April 2003.
• Cile Moise Teaching Award, nominee, 2002.
• Graduate English Association H. S. Thomson Award, 2001 & 2002.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Review: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python. Ed.
• Tomasz Dobrogoszsz. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. Studies in Popular
• Culture (June 2015).
• Review: Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence. Charles R. Acland.
• Durhan, NC: Duke UP, 2012. Studies in Popular Culture (June 2013).
• Review: Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, eds. Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the
• Page, Stage, and Screen. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010. Studies in Popular
• Culture (June 2011).
• “Thorstein Veblen.” Headnote in Bernard Schweizer, Rebecca West: A Casebook.
• Peterborough, ON: Broadview 2010.
• Review: Denise Shaw, The Rape Narrative in the America South: A Psychoanalytical
• Examination of Sexual Violence and the Melancholic Internalization of Loss in the Modern
• Southern Novel. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2007.
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• “Cite Sources Carefully.” In The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers. Maxine Hairston,
• John Ruskziewicz, and Christy Friend. Prentice Hall, 2004.