Thomas Leon Loebel - Curriculum Vitae

University Address
Department of English, 208 Stong College
York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-5166       Fax: 416-736-5412
Office: 208 Stong College

PhD Thesis
“Legal Fictions: Representing Justice in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
Supervisor: Professor Neil Schmitz

Books

“Dialectal Difference: A Sound-Poetics of American Prose”

Within the context of the historical linguistic and political tension between dialects and “the standard” of American English, this book-length study theorizes the effects of regional, racial, and class-based dialects on the constructions of American identity.  Exploring American texts that exemplify the “vernacular” of American identity, this study redevelops categories such as morphology, phonetics, and orthography for their philosophical, psychoanalytic, and aesthetic implications in the work of American self-conception.  This is to say that included as significant in the “how” and the “what” of signification are less considered issues, such as spelling and sound, rhythm and meter; to examine form, phrasing, and discourse is also to analyze writing as a visual art and a sound notation.  Chapters include Noah Webster and the federal tongue, Walt Whitman on vocalization, Mark Twain and America’s Black Daddy-o, Joel Chandler Harris and white rap, Henry James and the ingurgitation of aliens.

Expected completion of the manuscript for publication: 06/2008.

Conference Organisation
18/10/1997          “A Continuum of Teaching:
English Language Arts from the High School to the University”

This conference brought high school English teachers from the GTA and southern Ontario together with York’s English faculty to discuss pedagogy and the issues around the transition from high school to university.  Full report of the colloquium is available

Teaching
Undergraduate Courses

* new course	** revised course
2007-08	*EN 1300: Literature and Theory: An Introduction (150 students)
2006-07	EN 3311 6.0: Captivity and the American 19th Century (30 students) AK/EN 4095 3.0: Coming of Age in American and European Fiction Directed Reading Course for 1 student)
2005-06	*EN 3311 6.0: Captivity and the American 19th Century (35 students)
2004 Summer	**JGU: African-American Literature in the Roaring Twenties (20 students) *JGU: The Captivity of American Womanhood (13 students)
2003-04	EN 4214 6.0: The Harlem Renaissance in the Age of Jazz (25 students)
2003-04	**EN 2330.06: American Writing Since 1865 (lecture:120 students; seminar: 30 students; 2 TAs)
2002 Fall	**EN 4210J.06: The Harlem Renaissance in the Age of Jazz (25 students)
2002-03	**EN 2330.06: American Writing Since 1865 (lecture:150 students; seminar: 30 students; 5 TAs)
2001-02	ENGL 446: American Literature Since 1800 (42 students, University of Calgary)
2001 Fall	*ENGL 231.03: Introduction to Fiction (144 students, University of Calgary)
2000-01	ENGL 462: American Literature from 1900 (43 students, University of Calgary)
2000 Fall	*ENGL 231 07: Introduction to Fiction (47 students, University of Calgary)
1999-00	*EN 3310.06: Literature of the United States 1800-1865  (35 students) **EN 2330.06: American Writing Since 1865 (lecture: 135 students; seminar: 30 students; 4 TAs)
1998-99	**EN 2850.06: An Introduction to Gender Studies (lecture: 120 students; seminar: 30 students; 3 TAs)
1998-99	*EN 2330.06: American Writing Since 1865 (lecture: 135 students; seminar: 30 students; 5 TAs)
1997-98	EN 2850.06: An Introduction to Gender Studies lecture: 120 students; seminar: 30 students; 3 TAs) *EN 4100.06: Genesis of Thought (Bible and Postmodernity) (25 students).
1996-97	*EN 2850.06: An Introduction to Gender Studies lecture: 85 students; seminar: 30 students; 3 TAs) *EN 3100.06: Literary Interpretation and Theory (33 students)
Honours Undergraduate Thesis Supervision
2006-07	Michelle West (INDV 4000 6.0) “Sexuality and the Ageing Body”
2005-06	Jonathan Gaboury (EN 4160 6.0) “Shadows of Allegory and Hindsight in American Fiction of the Depression”
2001-02	James Chimirri-Russell (University of Calgary) “James Fenimore Cooper and the Wild West”
1998-99	Rocchina Pelosi “Children’s Literature and the Construction of Gender” Carrie Limkilde “Anglo-American Modernism and Ethics”
Honours Undergraduate Thesis Second Reader
2005-06	Michael Saul “Margaret Cho and Sarah Silverman – Breaking New  Ground on the North American Comedy Stage” Erin Hawkins “Beyond the Blues: Musical Transcendence in the Life and Works of Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin”
2002	Talli Koren “Jewish American Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries”
Graduate Courses
2004 Winter	*English 6516 3.0: 19th-Century America: The Metaphysics of National Identity (15 students)
2002 Fall	*EN 6999.03: Dialects of Modern Cultural Production (12 students)
2001 Fall	*ENGL 511.11/609.17: The Harlem Renaissance in the Age of Jazz (16 students, University of Calgary)
2000 Winter	*ENGL 511.09/605.01: The Letter and the Spirit of 19th-century American Literature (12 students, University of Calgary
1999-00	*EN 6995.06: Reading Creation(s): Poetics between Philosophy and Theology (12 students)
1998 Summer	*EN 6682.03: Re-Visioning America: the Self and the Other in Contemporary American Literature (8 students)
1997-98	**EN 6615.06: Studies in American Literature from 1630-1900: The Constitutive Narratives and Others (6 students)
1996-97	*EN 6612.06: Studies in American Literature: Canons and Contexts (12 students)
Graduate Directed Readings
2003 Fall	EN 6010 3.0: Deus and the Deviant.  The Other in Western Metaphysics (Majero Bouman, Janet Melo-Thaiss)
2000 Winter	EN 6010.03: Precursors of Modernism: US Writing in the 19th Century (Jason Schaffer, Sarah Whiteway)
1999 Summer	EN 6010.06: A Community of Exiles: Investigating Expatriated, European Literati in Mid-Century America (Liam Rodrigues).
1998 Summer	EN 6010.03: Multiculturalism and Assimilation in 20th-Century American Literature (Christine Kim, Janet Melo-Thaiss, Deborah Rich).
1998 Spring	EN 6010.03: Instituting Race in American Studies (Tess Chakkalakal)
1997 Fall	EN 6010.03: Mimetic Desires: Concepts and Practices of Mimesis and Contemporary American Fiction (Alvin Osmond).
Graduate Supervisions
PhD Dissertation Supervision
2007	Ronald Paul (The Status of the Romantic image in 19th Century American Literature)
2005-present	Janet Melo-Thaiss  (Patrolling the Border: Redrawing Borderlines in Post-WWII Anglo North American literature)
2004-present	Matthew Smith  (American Modernism and Technological Revolution)
2003-present	Rositza Georgieva  (20th-century American Women’s Prophetic Poetry)
2001-2004	Jennifer Harris  (Popular American Literature, 1798-1867)
2000-2002	Jason Morelyle (19th & 20th-century American literature of dissent (U Calgary)
PhD Dissertation Committee Member
2007-present	Sabine Kim (Difficult Women: Voice, Sound and Intermediality in the Works of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Lillian Allen, Anne Carson and Janet Cardiff)
2005-06	Francesco Pontuale  (The Construction of American Literary History)
2004-06	Ross Clarkson (Community, Time, and the Art of Self-Destruction)
1999-2000	Elicia Clements (British modernism and public performance)
1998-2000	Tess Chakkalakal (20th-century African-American literature & Uncle Tom's Cabin) Alvin Osmond (Virginia Woolf, British Modernism and materialism) Jean Noble (Gender Theory, Female Masculinity, and 20th-century literature)
1997-1999	Jennifer Henderson  (19th- and 20th-Century Canadian literature, feminist theory) Craig Gordon (British Modernism, bio-medical discourses)
PhD Comprehensive Exam Supervision
2005-07	Ronald Paul (pre-1900 American Literature)
2003-04	Janet Melo-Thaiss (20th-century American Literature) Darcy Ballantyne (20th-century American Literature)
2002-03	James Papoutsis (20th-Century American Literature)
1999	Christine Kim  (Literary Theory) Jason Kunin (20th-Century Literature)
1999	Rachelle Deshaies (20th-Century Lit.), Jennifer Harris (19th-Century American Literature)
1998	Lauren Gillingham (Literary Theory)
PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee
2006	Stewart MacDonald (pre-20th-century American Literature)
2004	Stewart MacDonald (20th-century American Literature)
2003	Ruth Knechtel (Literary Theory) Rhonda Bugg (Prose Narrative) Ross Clarkson (Prose Narrative)
2002	Joel Baez (Modernism) Kerry Manders (Modernism)
2001	Jason Morelyle (University of Calgary) (19th & 20th-Century American Literature)
2000	Marie-Claude Legault (University of Calgary) (19th & 20th-Century American Literature)
1999	Mark Cauchi (Program in Social & Political Thought) (Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida) Alexander Link (Prose Narrative) Dunja Baus (Prose Narrative)
1997	Alvin Osmond (Modernism) Steven Cain (Modernism) Jean Noble (Modernism) Christine Carlson (Modernism)
PhD Dissertation Defence Participation
29/09/2006	Francesco Pontuale, Department of English “In Their Own Words: American and Italian Literary Histories”
09/05/2006	Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, Programme in Social and Political Thought “The Ethical Work of Liberation: Levinas, Gandhi and Political Praxis”
09/12/2003	Chris Anderson-Irwin, Programme in Social and Political Thought "Hegel, Judaism, and Biblical Thought"
08/08/2002	Jason Kunin, Department of English "Masculinity in Jewish-American Literature, 1867-1950: A Study of Selected Writing from the End of the Civil War to the Beginning of the Cold War."
04/05/1999	Roseanne Kydd, Department of Music “Organicism in Musicology”
MA Thesis Supervision
2001-02	Chad Babiuk (University of Calgary) “The Critical Turn: Thomas Pynchon” Defended 13/09/2002
MA Thesis Exam Committee
2003	Sybil Pope “From New York to New Mexico: The Long Journey Home for Martha Graham, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Willa Cather”
2002	Renée Amber Miller (University of Calgary) “The Female Body and the Law”
2001	Shaun Ramdin (University of Calgary) “Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Writing of William Faulkner”
MA Oral Examination Committee Member
2000	Marc Cauchi (Programme in Social and Political Thought)
Master's Research Project Committee Member
1999-2000	E. Joseph Rosen (Programme in Social and Political Thought) “The Limits of Language and the Space of Community.
Teaching Awards
2001	Excellence in Teaching Award (nominated) University of Calgary Undergraduate Students Association
2000	Faculty of Arts Teaching Award York University
1996	Excellence in Teaching Commendation State University of New York College at Buffalo
1995	Excellence in Teaching Award State University of New York Graduate School
Service Departmental
2005-present	Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of English Appointments Committee Department of English Curriculum Committee - Full scale revision of curriculum in light of the merger of Arts and Atkinson faculties Department of English Undergraduate Program Review Committee - Developed the Degree Program Expectations for BA and Hon. BA in Englis Liaison to the High Schools
2003-04	Graduate Programme Scholarships and Awards Committee (chair) Appointments Committee (Chair) Research Co-ordinator Liaison to the High Schools
2002-03	Appointments Committee (Chair) Research Co-ordinator Graduate Scholarships Committee (chair) Liaison to the High Schools
2000-02	Computer Co-ordinator, Dept. of English, University of Calgary - implemented Online Writer in Residence project  - implemented Online Book Club, linked with the Calgary Public Library  Budget: $38,600
1999-00	Graduate Curriculum Committee (co-chair) - Organised the redesign of the graduate programme - produce three models of programme design for debate
1998-99	Graduate Curriculum Committee (co-chair) Liaison to the High Schools - prepared two lectures tailored to high school teachers’ curricular and pedagogical needs: one on William Shakespeare’s Othello in relation to the art of film adaptation; one on Hamlet and existentialism. - Delivered York Memorial and York Mills C.I.
1998-99	Appointments Committee
1997-98	Liaison to the High Schools - Organised Colloquium, “A Continuum of Teaching: English Language Arts from the High School to the University” (see section: Contributions to the Profession)
1997-98	Graduate Curriculum Committee Appointments Committee
1996-97	Graduate Curriculum Committee Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Liaison to the High Schools
Faculty
2006	Faculty of Arts Committee on Recruitment/Retention
2002	Presentation on the BA in English to high school applicants as part of the March Break Recruitment exercise, 08 March 2003.
2001	Task Force on Planning and Implementation Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary - Committee organised to design and recommend strategies for implementation of new directions for the Faculty of Humanities. - Full Report Available - Wrote the Executive Summary of the Report and collaborated on the full contents of the Report
1999-00	Compiled a list of courses offered in the various departments of the York University Faculty of Arts containing gender and queer studies content for use in Arts Advising Centre
University
1999-2000	Senate Committee on Admissions, Recruitment and Student Assistance (SCARSA) SCARSA Sub-Committee on Student Appeals
1998-99	Participant in York University’s “Positive Space” pilot project. Senate Committee on Admissions, Recruitment and Student Assistance (SCARSA)