ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY PROFILE
Department of English

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CHRIS HOKANSON

Assistant Professor of English
Department Head

 

 

Phone: (334) 683-5124
Email: chokanson@judson.edu
Office: Second Floor Jewett Hall, Room 225

 

 

At Judson College since 2010

 

 

EDUCATION

Ed.M, Mind, Brain, and Education Program. Harvard University, 2008

Ph.D., English. Indiana University-Bloomington, 2007
-Area of Concentration: 19^th Century British Literature and Culture. Dissertation Topic: Copycat Culture: The Role of Memory and Parody in Nineteenth-Century British Information Society.

M.A., English. Indiana University, 1998

A.B., English with Honors. Stanford University, 1995
-Study abroad: Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford England

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Principles of Writing; Western World Literature I; Creative Writing; Drama Survey; British Literature; Technical Writing; Detective Fiction; Shakespeare; Victorian Studies; etc.

OTHER: Proficient (speaking, reading, writing) in French and Spanish.  Reading knowledge of Latin, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

 

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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor - University of Alabama, English Department, 2009-2010
Visiting Lecturer - University of Illinois at Chicago, English Department, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow - Stanford University, Humanities, 2008
Teaching Fellow - Harvard University,  CORE General Education Program, 2008
Teaching Fellow - Indiana University, English Department, 2005-07

 

SELECTED SERVICE (most recent)

Victorian Studies Service:
Co-Founder/President, Victorian Studies Graduate Student Association
Co-Coordinator and organizer for various speaking events, featuring noteworthy lecturers

English Department Service:
Diversity Awareness Committee, IUPUI English Department
Graduate Student Representative on Undergraduate Studies Committee
English Department MA/Ph.D. Admissions Committee

Community Service:
VITAL Program Tutor (adult literacy and GED tutor) at Monroe County Public Library, IN
Creative Writing Youth Group Workshop Leader, IN
Active Member and Officer in Alpha Phi Omega Zeta Chapter at Stanford University - weekly community service projects

 

AWARDS/HONORS

Fellowships

•·         CIC Big Ten Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009

•·         Stanford Introduction to the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008

•·         Harvard Graduate School of Education Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008

•·         Victorian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University, 2005-2006

•·         English Department Nominee for John Edwards Fellowship, Indiana University. 2004.

•·         Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship to teach in English Department at IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis). 2003-2004.

•·         Dickens Universe Fellowship.  Chosen by Indiana University's Victorian Studies

•·         Program to attend the week-long seminar on Bleak House at UC Santa Cruz. 2001.

•·         President's Summer Research Initiative (directed 5 undergraduates in summer research project on postmodern detective fiction and screenwriting). Grant provided by IU's Office of Research and Graduate Studies.  2000.

•·         English Department First Year-Graduate Student Fellowship. 1996.

•·         Golden Grant from Undergraduate Research Opportunities Office @ Stanford University. 1994-1995.

•·         Chappell-Lougee Undergraduate Research Grant from Stanford University. 1992-1993.

 

Teaching Awards/Recognitions

•·         Indiana University's Leiber Associate Instructor Award for Outstanding Associate

Instructor (top, university-wide teaching prize). 2002.

•·         Banks James Award Nominee for Best Associate Instructor in 4^thYear of Teaching

Contract, English Department.  2001.

•·         Parker Award Nominee for Best Associate Instructor in 2nd/3rd Year of Teaching

Contract, English Department. 1999.

 

Various Travel Grants

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book Review
Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination by Tore Rem. Victorian Studies. 46.3 (Spring 2004).

 

MOST RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

2009 - Conference paper at NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) Cambridge University, Cambridge UK  "Butler, Morris, Wells: Cultural Reproduction and The Transference of Memory in the Victorian Age"

2007 - Conference paper at NAVSA, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. "Seeing Is Deceiving in the Information Age: Nineteenth-Century Optical and Literary Illusions"

2006 - Conference paper at NAVSA, West Lafayette, IN. "Nineteenth-Century Mnemonics and Information Overload"

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association
International Mind, Brain, Education Society
North American Victorian Studies Association
National Council of Teachers of English