Christopher Allan Black, PhD student,
Early American Literature

AA Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
BA California State University, Long Beach
MA California State University, Fullerton

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing-State of California Single Subject Teaching    
Credential (English) California State University, Long Beach
(CLAD) Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development Certificate ESL instruction California      
Commission on Teacher Credentialing University of San Diego

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Early American Literature Colonial through the Nineteenth Century
• Antebellum American Literature
• Melville
• American Studies
• Composition Studies

Publications

• Book Review Paul Giles Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary. Atlantikos: A Journal of Transatlantic Scholarship  East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Spring 2008 issue https://www.msu.edu/~atlantik/index.html

Honors and Offices

• Editorial Assistant Arkansas Literary Review (American Literature before 1900) Department of English University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR. Joseph M. Meyer Editor
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences- California State University, Fullerton Member of Humanities and Social Sciences Inter Club Council. Elected Inter Club Council Representative for the Department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics. 2005-2006 academic year.
• Oklahoma State University Writing Center Assisted with evaluations for International Writing Centers Association Conference Houston, Texas April 11-14 2007.
• Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton- English Department Graduate Students Organization Member since Fall 2004.
• As You Like Shakespeare Society of California State University, Fullerton- Member since Fall 2005.
• College English Association (CEA) Member since December 2005.
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences California State University, Fullerton Travel Grant Fall 2005 received funds for deferral of travel expenses for Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students Conference- University of Texas-Austin, Texas October 2005.
• Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton- English Department Inter Club Council Distinguished Service Award 2005-2006.
• Golden Key International Honour Society member since Spring 2007.
• EGSA English Graduate Students Association of Oklahoma State University member since Fall 2006.

Conference Presentations

• NAISA Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference Panel Chair Sympathetic and Sentimental Portrayals of Natives in American Literature (1827-1900). Presentation title: “Creek, Pequot, and Native American Methodist Identity in Sophia Alice Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest and William Apess’s A Son of the Forest. Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota, Twin Cities May 23, 2009.
• ACLA American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference Milton in the New World: The Colonial Presence of Satan in Paradise Lost Cambridge, MA Harvard University March 29, 2009.
• MWASECS Mid Western American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference “The Rejection of Authority: Mutiny and Piracy in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd and Cotton Mather’s The Vial Poured out Upon the Sea. Oklahoma City, OK October 6-9, 2008.
• CEA College English Association Annual Conference “The Search for Home: Homelessness and the Antebellum Street Urchin in Maria Susanna Cummins’ The Lamplighter” St Louis, MO March 27,2008
• IWCA International Writing Center Association Annual Conference Roundtable Panel “Let’s Chat: The New Virtual Center” Facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Damron (Oklahoma State University) and Dr. Chloe Diepenbrock (University of Houston, Clear Lake) Panel Discussion of Online Tutorial Pedagogy in the Oklahoma State University Writing Center Houston, Texas April,12 2007
• GES Graduate English Society of Texas Tech University Annual Graduate Student Conference “The Search for Home: Homelessness and the Antebellum Street Urchin in Maria Susanna Cummins’ The Lamplighter” Lubbock, Texas February 24, 2007

Current Research/Articles in Progress

• My current research focuses on Antebellum American Literature with a particular emphasis on the works of Herman Melville. My scholarship at the master’s level focused on images of Asia the Pacific in Melville’s travel narratives. I am currently working on a larger project that will examine criminality in Melville.

Why OSU?

Oklahoma State University has a strong program in Early American and Antebellum American literature.

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