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Title: Lecturer
Department: English
Office: 310 Benson Hall
Email: benjamin.t.graydon@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D, Vanderbilt University (Dec. 2008)
- M.A., Vanderbilt University (2004)
- B.A., B.S., Miami University (2003)
Research Area
- American literature and culture, 1865-present; early American cinema; business history; authorship and celebrity; cultural studies; forms and institutions of prose fiction
Current Research
- Book project: "Marketing Fictions: Product Branding in American Literature and Culture, 1890-1915"
Current Courses
- ENGL 102W (Literature and Analytical Thinking): "Imagining America"
- ENGL 118W (Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis): "American Idol: Authorship and Celebrity from Walt Whitman to Perez Hilton"
Current Positions
- Lecturer, Department of English
- Regional Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly
Previous Positions
- Teaching Affiliate, Center for Teaching
- Graduate Instructor, Department of English
- Graduate Writing Consultant, Writing Studio
- Editorial Review Board, Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal
- Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association
- English Department Representative, Graduate Student Council
Professional Societies
- Modern Language Association
- Modernist Studies Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Professional Honors
- Dissertation-Year Fellowship (Dept. of English, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2008)
- Dissertation Writing Group Fellowship (Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2007)
- Thomas Daniel Young Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching (Dept. of English, Vanderbilt University, 2007)
- Summer Research Grant (College of A & S, Vanderbilt University, 2006)
- Summer Research Grant (College of A & S, Vanderbilt University, 2005)
- University Graduate Fellowship (Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, 2003-2007)
- Robert F. Almy Award for Literary Criticism (Dept. of English, Miami University, 2003)
- Wilbur J. Brown Memorial Credit Union Award (Dept. of Finance, Miami University, 2003)
- Phi Beta Kappa
Publications
- “Product Branding in Howells’ A Modern Instance,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 20.2 (2007): 35-39.
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