Degrees

B.A., English Language and Literature, Reed College, Portland, OR, 2003
M.A., English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2005

Research Area

Southern Literature / American Modernism / Trans-Caribbean and Hemispheric Studies / Ecocriticism & Globalization / particle physics / Russian Formalism / periglacial infrastructure degradations and transcultural interreferentiality of wildlife populations in the Yukon River Basin

Current Research

I'm writing a dissertation on, ummm.... dinosaurs. Yeah. Dinosaurs.

Current Courses

ENG 102-W, which is pretty much just a front for me to continue funneling revenues to agrarian insurgents in Saskatchewan.

Current Positions

Secretary, English Graduate Student Association
CEO / General Manager / Sole Owner and Proprietor, Frobozz Electric Incorporated
Center for the Americas Graduate Scholar
Researcher, Center for the Americas

Previous Positions

I was once the uncontested ruler of a small West Indian island before my subjects decided to rise up against me and I was cast out into the woods where I rapidly went insane. Oh wait, that was "The Emperor Jones."

Professional Societies

Modern Language Association, Advisory Board of the Birmingham Wal-Mart Plaza, Church of the Holy Drumstick, Texas Steve's Discount Crematorium Board of Trustees, Citizens for the Abolition of the Pictures of Your Cats that You Keep Posting on the Internet.

Professional Honors

Rose Alley Press Club Achievement Award
Center for the Americas Summer Research Grant
Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

Research Associates

Brian Rejack, The Big Bopper, and the 1977 Philadelphia Flyers.

Publications

"The House That Time Built: Structuring History in Faulkner and Yeats." The European Journal of American Studies, Fall 2007.
"Critical Mass: Post-Trinity Representation." FORUM: The University of Edinburgh Post-Graduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, Fall 2007.

Patents

I was the first person to think of attaching a phone to a waffle iron, but the patent office called it "pointless" and "needlessly hazardous to the phone, iron, and user." Philistines.

Biography

Daniel Spoth was raised in a tiny Alaskan town famous for giant cabbages where the television reception was lousy and the public library wasn't open on weekends. Following his secondary education, which largely amounted to one long mockery of his ill manners and shoddy mode of dress, he resolved to flee to the woods and subsist only on bark and the companionship of the silent but understanding woodland creatures. This decision would, eventually, lead to his seventeen-year imprisonment in a zoo in Bogota after being mistaken for a moose and shot with an estimated 83 tranquilizer darts by a nearsighted tourist. He's pretty much okay these days, but suffers from occasional bouts of uncontrollable screaming and once tried to write on the screen of a laptop using a Sharpie.

He is a compulsive liar.