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Keith Wilhite
Duke University, Thompson Writing Program
East Campus, Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: 919-220-2025 (home) / 919-660-4371 (office)
E-mail: keith.wilhite@duke.edu
PROFESSIONAL
Duke University, Thompson Writing Program
- Lecturing Fellow, 2007 – present
- Associate Editor, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2009 – present
GRADUATE EDUCATION
2000
DISSERTATION
Framing Suburbia: U.S. Literature and the Postwar Suburban Region, 1945-2002 (2007)
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Contested Terrain: Suburbia, U.S. Literature, and the Ends of Regionalism (in progress)
ESSAYS AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
"Contested Terrain: The Suburb as Region" (Under Review)
"Unsettled Worlds: Aesthetic Emplacement in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia.” Studies in the Novel 42.3 (2010): 269-286.
“Mapping Black and Brown L.A.: Zoot Suit Riots as Spatial Subtext in If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Arizona Quarterly 66.2 (2010):
121-148.
"A Proposal for Making the Job Search More Humane." The Chronicle of Higher Education 31 Aug. 2009.
<http://chronicle.com/article/A-Proposal-for-Making-the Job/48215/>.
“John Cheever’s Shady Hill, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Suburbs.” Studies in American Fiction 34 (2006):
215-239. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism (SSC 120), Gale Cengage, April 2009.
“His Mind Was Full of Absences: Whitman at the Scene of Writing.” ELH 71 (2004): 921-948.
“‘A Yearning for a Kind of Consciousness’: Black Boy and the Aesthetic Solution.” Prose Studies 22 (April 1999): 103-120.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Cheever, John.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction. Eds.
Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland, and David Madden. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2011.
“Franzen, Jonathan.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction. Eds.
Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland, and David Madden. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2011.
“Depictions of the Suburb in Midwestern Literature.” Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Forthcoming)
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Duke University, Thompson Writing Program Research Grant, 2009
Duke University, Thompson Writing Program Research Grant, 2008
Prairie Lights/Sherman Paul Dissertation Award, 2007
Frederick F. Seely Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for Teaching and Research, 2005-06.
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, 2005
The W. R. Irwin Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
English Department Best Essay Prize, 2005
Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Travel Fellowship, 2005
Interdisciplinary Teaching Fellowship, Fall 2004
University of Iowa Student Government (UISG) Scholarly Presentation Grant, 2001
Summer Foreign Language Study Scholarship, University of Iowa, 2001
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & P ANEL DISCUSSIONS
“The Emerging Global City in Oscar Zeta Acosta's Revolt of the Cockroach People." Modern Language Association
Convention, Los Angeles, CA (January 9, 2011)
"Agressive Tendencies: Lolita and the Conscripted Reader." Modern Language Association Convention, Los
Angeles, CA (January 7, 2011)
“Moving Out: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the Future of Suburbia." Northeast Modern Language
Association Convention, Montreal, Canada (April 10, 2010)
"Your Life as a Writer: From Dissertation to Book and Beyond." Panel Particpant. John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University
(February 10, 2010)
"Behind the Scenes with the Search Committee.” Panel Participant. Academic Career Services, Duke University
(September 14, 2009)
“Lolita and the Science of Sex.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston,
MA (February 27, 2009)
“The Trouble with Midwestern Roots: Jonathan Franzen’s Oprah Problem.” Midwest
Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN (November 14, 2008)
“Imagining a Community of Readers in the Era of Suburban Sprawl.” American Studies
Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA (October 14, 2007)
“Short Story: American Short Story and American Neighborhoods.” (Session Coordinator)
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Milwaukee, WI (November 12, 2005)
“Pornography Begins at Home: Erotic Fantasy and Domestic Abuse in Paula Vogel’s Hot ‘N’ Throbbing.”
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Milwaukee, WI (November 11, 2005)
“A Midwestern Postmortem: Jeffrey Eugenides’s Suburban Suicides.”
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, MI (May 13, 2005)
“Reading for Transgression/Transgressive Readings in Contemporary Suburban Literature.”
Craft, Critique, Culture Conference, Iowa City, IA (April 9, 2005)
“Real-Estate Terrorism and ‘Serious Fiction’ in Jonathan Franzen’s The Twenty-Seventh City.”
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, MO (November 6, 2004)
“Suburban Estrangement.” (Session Coordinator)
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, St. Louis, MO (November 6, 2004)
“Racial Trespassing: Representations of Suburbia in Ann Petry’s The Street.” James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum,
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (March 27, 2004)
“A Promissory Space: Jean Toomer’s Cane and the ‘Soft Circle’ of Aesthetics.”
Mid-America American Studies Association / Great Lakes American Studies Association Conference,
Iowa City, IA (April 11, 2003)
“The Woman With(out) a Past: Desiring Subjects and Objects of Desire in The House of Mirth.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Hartford, CT (March 30, 2001)
“‘I had two dreams’: O’Neill and the Duality of Inwardness.”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (February 23, 2001)
“Dividing Body and Soul in the Shakespearean Spectacle.”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Buffalo, NY (April 7, 2000)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
DUKE UNIVERSITY (Fall 2007 – present)
WR 20: Remakes & Adaptations: Rewriting Across the Genres (2 Sections: Fall 2010)
WR 20: The Body in/on the Market (2 Sections: Spring 2010)
WR 20: Writing About Real Things (2 Sections: Fall 2009)
ENG/LIT: Sexuality, Censorship, & Contemporary U.S. Culture (Fall 2008)
WR 20: Indeterminate Subjects: Writing Sex & Gender (4 Sections: Fall 2008 & Spring 2009)
WR 20: Re-Writing the 1950s (3 Sections: Spring 2008)
WR 20: American Dreams, Gothic Landscapes (2 Sections: Fall 2007)
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA(Fall 2001 – Spring 2007)
Literature Seminars for Advanced Undergraduates:
Topics in Sexuality Studies: Representations of Sexuality in Postwar American Literature (Spring 2007)
Topics in American Literature: Suburbia: Transgression and the Postwar Suburban Region (Spring 2006)
Survey Courses, 19th-20th Century American Literature:
American Lives: Voices from America’s Urban Centers (Spring 2007)
Introduction to the Short Story: Community and the Short Story Sequence in American Literature (Summer 2006)
American Lives: American Lives, American Spaces (Spring 2005)
General Education Courses:
Interpretation of Literature (5 Sections: Fall 2003 – Fall 2004, and Fall 2006)
Accelerated Rhetoric (3 sections: Fall 2002 – Spring 2003)
Rhetoric II: The Rhetoric of Consumer Culture (Spring 2002)
Rhetoric I (2 Sections: Fall 2001)
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY (Fall 1998 – Spring 2000)
Introduction to Drama: Spectacle and Modern Drama (Spring 2000)
Advanced Strategies in Research and Rhetoric (3 sections: Spring 1999 and Fall 1999)
Process of Composition (Fall 1998)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty Reviewer, Chester P. Middlesworth Award for Writing, Duke University (Summer 2010)
Editorial Board, Deliberations: A Journal of First-Year Writing at Duke University (Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
Faculty Reviewer, Sallie Bingham Center’s Mary Lily Travel Grant Program, Duke University (Spring 2009)
Lecturing Fellows Search Committee, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University (2008-09)
Course Curriculum Committee, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University (2007-08)
Graduate Writing Fellow, Business Communications Center, University of Iowa (Spring 2006, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007)
Writing Mentor, Scattergood Friends High School, West Branch, IA (Spring 2005 and Spring 2006)
Co-Leader, Professional Development Program, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa (Fall 2002)
Graduate Admissions Review Committee, English Department, University of Iowa (Spring 2002)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Northeast Modern Language Association
REFERENCES
Barbara Eckstein, Professor of English
The University of Iowa
Department of English, 308 EPB, Iowa City, IA 52242
barbara-eckstein@uiowa.edu / (319) 335-2789
Ed Folsom, Roy J. Carver Professor of English
The University of Iowa
Department of English, 308 EPB, Iowa City, IA 52242
ed-folsom@uiowa.edu / (319) 335-0450
Joseph Harris, Associate Professor of English
Duke University
Department of English, Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
joseph.harris@duke.edu / (919) 660-4368
Tom Lutz, Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Media and Cultural Studies
University of California at Riverside
900 University Avenue, 4146 INTS Building, Riverside, CA 92521
tom.lutz@ucr.edu / (323) 660-7376
Harry Stecopoulos, Associate Professor of English
The University of Iowa
Department of English, 308 EPB, Iowa City, IA 52242
harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu / (319) 335-1260