CURRICULUM VITAE

John Charles Goshert
Department of English and Literature
Utah Valley University
800 West University Parkway
Orem, UT  84058-5999

e-mail: gosherjo@uvu.edu
phone: 801-863-6288 (office); 356-8383 (home)

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

July 2008-present: Associate Professor of English/Writing Program Administrator, Utah Valley University

July 2001-2008: Assistant Professor of English, Utah Valley State College.

July 2005-2008: Writing Program Coordinator, UVSC


EDUCATION

May 2001: Ph.D., English, Purdue University.  
Major Fields: Theory and Cultural Studies, Contemporary American Literature,
American Multi-Ethnic Literatures.

Chairs: Arkady Plotnitsky and Richard Dienst
Committee: Aparajita Sagar and James Saunders

1996: MA, English, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Thesis: "Forged Autobiographies and Faked Suicides: Tristram Shandy and Midnight’s Children." 
Committee: Robert Coleman-Senghor, Roger Bell, David Averbuck.

1994: BA, Sonoma State University; Major: English
                                        

PUBLICATIONS

Entering the Academic Conversation: Strategies for Research Writing.  Under contract with Prentice Hall.  (Anticipated
     copyright 2009).

"Reproductions of (Il)literacy: Gay Cultural Knowledge and First Year Composition Pedagogy."  Composition Studies 36.1 (2008): 11-27.

Strategies and Resources for Teaching Writing with the Prentice Hall Reference Guide.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:
     Prentice Hall,  2005

"The Aporia of AIDS and/as Holocaust."  Shofar 23.3 (2005): 48-70.

"Frank Chin."  Dictionary of Literary Biography: Asian American Writers.   Ed. Deboarah Madsen.  Sumter, South
     Carolina: Gale Research Publications, 2005: 44-58.

"'Is it really bad of me to compare myself to a Jew?': Intervention and Invention in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Narratives." 
     Pacific Coast Philology 39 (2004): 52-68.

"Going Nukeyuler: The Next Devastation of Critical Vision."  What Is Postmodernism?  Ed. David Keller and Brian
      Birch.  Orem: Utah Valley State College, 2003.  (135-43).

Frank Chin.  Boise: Boise State University Western Writers Series, 2002.
 
"A Minor Incision: Transdisciplinarity and the Discourses of Marginality."   Janus Head.  (Winter 2001): 159-77.

"'Punk' After the Pistols: Alternative Music, Economics and Politics in the 1980s and 1990s."  Popular Music and
     Society 24.1 (2001): 87-109.

"Frank Chin Is Not a Part of This Class!: Thinking at the Limits of Asian American Literature."  Jouvert 4.3 (May
     2000): unpaginated article (39 paragraphs).


SCHOLARSHIP IN PROGRESS

Other Possible Identities: Minor Literatures and Marginal Canons.  Book Manuscript, under review.

"The Real, the Fake, and the Acquisition of Historical Literacy in Frank Chin's Donald Duk."  Article manuscript, under review.

"The Persistence of Racist Love: Blackface, Gayface, and the Seduction of Minstrelsy."  Article manuscript, under review.


CONFERENCES

"'Countless seas of suffering': Trauma Theory and the Neo-Slave Narrative."  PAMLA, 2008.

"'They read comicbooks--not D.H. Lawrence!': The lasting Significance of Rechy's City of Night."  CCCC, 2007.

"Dreaming and Historical Literacy: Transforming Asian American Identity in Frank Chin's Donald Duk."  PAMLA, 2006.

"Between Science, the Occult, and the Truth: the Rhetoric of Vision in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary
     Twins."  PAMLA, 2004.

"3 Hands: Ishmael Reed’s Old West Mastermix."  Narrative International, 2003.

"Twenty-Five Years of 'Angry Ethnic Writing': Frank Chin and Ishmael Reed, Realism and the Avant-Garde." 
     MLA, 2002.

"AIDS, Pain, Cultural Memory."  PAMLA, 2002.

"The Trauma of Humor/The Humor of Trauma."  Rocky Mountain MLA, 2002.

"Yellow Back Radio Broke Down as Old West Mastermix."  American Literature Association, 2002.

"The Rhetoric of Vision in Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins."  Theorems of Power.  New York
     University, 2002.

"AIDS and/as Holocaust."  The Holocaust and Critical Theory.  Purdue University, 2001.

"The Post-Disciplinary Impact on Marginal Discourses."  Rethinking the Human Sciences.  George Washington
     University, 2000.

"Frank Chin Is Not a Part of This Class!"  MELUS, 1999.

"Invincible is Over."  Narrative International, 1998.

"Sarah Schulman’s Rat Bohemia."  Twentieth Century Literature Conference, 1998.

"The Wound of History and the Call to Closure."  Don DeLillo: At the Edges of Perception.  Rutgers University,
     1998.

"The History of Autobiography: Midnight’s Children and Tristram Shandy."   Twentieth Century Literature Conference,
     1997.

"Empathy and the Therapy of Freud’s Legacy."  Unruly Women’s Conference.  Purdue University, 1997.


OTHER

Interviewed by Jack Curran, Raum Palacios, and Scott Pelkey for film, 924 Gilman Street: Let's Talk About Tact and Timing, Dir. Jack
     Curran.  San Francisco: Alternative Tentacles Records, 2008.

Interviewed by Bonnie Kyburz (September 2004) for film, Telling the Story of the 1984+20 Project, Dir. Bonnie Kyburz, 2005.

Interviewed by Curtis Choy (May 2002) for film, What's Wrong With Frank Chin?, Dir. Curtis Choy, 2005.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

     Utah Valley State College/Utah Valley University

Contemporary American Literature.  6 sections.

LGBT/Queer Literature and Theory (1970-present).  2 sections.

Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature.  4 sections.

Intermediate College Writing.  7 sections.

Contemporary Critical Approaches to Literature.  6 sections.

Critical Introduction to Literature, Fall 2004.

American Literature After 1865.  2 sections.

Introduction to Literature, fall 2001.

Myths and Legends in Literature, fall 2001.

College Composition.  13 sections.

     Purdue University

Great Narrative Works.  2 sections.

Great American Books, fall 2000.

Introduction to Fiction, fall 1999.

Accelerated Composition, fall 1999.

Introduction to Research Writing, spring 1997.

College Composition.  14 sections.

     Sonoma State University (California)

California Literature, summer 1999.


TEACHING/RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contemporary American Literature, African American and Asian American Literatures, Contemporary Critical Theory,
Feminisms, LGBT/Queer Literature and Theory, History and Theory of the Novel, Avant-Gardism, Eighteenth-Century European Literature,
First-Year Composition.

ACADEMIC HONORS

Utah Valley State College, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Faculty Excellence Award, 2006.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2008.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2006-2007.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2005.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2004.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2003.

UVSC School of HASS: Course Release Award for Research, 2002.

Purdue Research Foundation: Dissertation Grant, 2001(declined).

Purdue University Calumet: Lilly Foundation Grant, 2000.

Purdue Research Foundation: Dissertation Grant, 1999.


LANGUAGES

French: good reading and speaking ability

German: reading knowledge


SERVICE

     Department:

Writing Program Adminstrator (2008-present)

Writing Program Coordinator (2005-2008)

Faculty Hiring Committee: Tenure Track Position in Rhetoric/Composition (2006-2007)

Chair’s Advisory Committee (2003-present)

Peer Evaluation Committee (2006-2007)

Chair: Faculty Hiring Committee: Tenure Track Positions in Rhetoric/Composition (2004-2005)

Integrated Studies Committee (2002-2005)
          Chair: 2004-2005

Department Assessment Committee (2004-2005)
          Chair: First-Year Composition Assessment Subcommittee

Workload Committee (2003-2005)

Faculty Hiring Committee: Tenure Track Position in Rhetoric/Composition (2003-2004)

Faculty Hiring Committee: Tenure Track Positions in Linguistics and Contemporary British Literature (2002-03)

Textbook Selection Committee (2001-present)

American Literature Curriculum Development Group (2001)

Ad Hoc Committee on Working Conditions (2001-2002)

Scholarship Group of Ad Hoc Committee on Rewriting Tenure Guidelines (2001-2002)

     School:

Chair: Faculty Excellence Award, 2007

Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies (2003-present)
          Biodiesel Workgroup
          Gender Studies Program Workgroup

HASS Interdisciplinary Studies Taskforce (2002-2004)

HASS Grants Committee (2001-2002)

     University:

Faculty Senate (term: 2003-2006)

Student Evaluation Instrument Review and Workgroup (2005-2007)

Faculty Advisor: UVSC Gay-Straight Alliance (2005-present)

Peace and Justice Studies Program Workgroup/Ad Hoc Teach-In Development Group
         Organized March 2004 Teach-In, "US Media and Iraq"

Ad Hoc Faculty Oversight Group on President Selection (2002-2003)

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Officer (seminar: fall 2002)

Diversity Requirement Development Group (2002-2003)

     Regional:

Chair: PAMLA Asian and Asian American Literature Group (2007)

Chair: PAMLA Women and Literature Group (2004)

Chair: RMMLA American Humor group (2004)

Chair: PAMLA Women and Literature group (2003)

     Peer Review:

Article Manuscript: "National or Local Politics: An Inductive Look at Dischord Records and the DC Punk Community."  Submitted to Popular Music
     and Society, fall 2006.

Grant Application: "Doing a record label: cultural capital and punk scenes."   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005)

Article Manuscript: "Sacramentality: Catholic Identity in the Postmodern Classroom."  Published in Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition
     Classroom.  ed.  Bonnie Kyburz and Elizabeth Vander Lei.  New York: Heinemann, 2005.

     Service Presentations:

"A 'World Making Venture': On the Roles of Public Sex in Gay Culture."  Presentation and Discussion, Gender Studies Forum, UVSC, fall 2007.

"Crash and the Mystification of Racism."  Lecture, MLK Memorial Activities, UVSC, spring 2007.

"Who Do We Speak for, and Why?"  Presentation and Discussion, Gay Straight Alliance, UVSC, fall 2006.

"Getting Into--and Getting Through--Graduate Studies."  Discussion, English 2790 (Introduction to the Major), UVSC, fall 2006.

"Teaching Research Methods in Introductory Composition."  Lecture, Part Time Faculty Orientation, UVSC, fall 2006.

"Some Reflections on Judith Butler's 'Critically Queer' Theory."  Presentation and Discussion, Phi Sigma Tau Reading Group, UVSC, spring 2006.

"Selling Youth Culture."  Presentaiton and Discussion, Faculty Panel on Alternative Music, UVSC, spring 2006.

"The Persistence of Racist Love."  Lecture, MLK Memorial Activities, UVSC, spring 2006.

"Queer Theories, Optimism, and the Popular."  Guest Lecture, Introduction to Gender Studies, UVSC, fall 2005.

"Teaching Research Methods in Introductory Composition."  Lecture, Part Time Faculty Orientation, UVSC, fall 2005.

"On Chin and Chan's 'Racist Love'."  Guest Lecture, Integrated Studies 3500 (Border Theories), UVSC, fall 2004. 

"Liberation, Appropriation, and Gender Trouble."  Guest Lecture, English 2890 (Critical Introduction to Literature),
     UVSC, fall 2003.

"Postmodernism: American Literature and Performance in the 1980s."  Guest Lecture, English 4890 (Advanced
     College Writing for Majors), UVSC, spring 2003.

"War Talk and the Homefront."  Teach-In.  Utah Valley State College, 2003.

"Going Nukeyuler: The Next Devastation of Critical Vision."  Faculty Conference on Postmodernism.  Utah Valley
     State College, 2002.

     Community:

"Zine Culture: Punk Rock Journalism in the 1980s."  Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, April 2006.

ACLU Trained Legal Observer (service at Olympic events in Salt Lake City, 2002)


MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Rocky Mountain MLA

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

MELUS

American Federation of Teachers


CREDENTIALS

Dossier available from Interfolio (www.interfolio.com)

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