Michial Farmer’s C.V.

Michial Farmer


EDUCATION

Aug. 2007—Present, University of Georgia

  • Candidate for Ph.D in English.
  • Comprehensive Exam areas: Existentialism, 19th- and 20th-century American literature.
  • Prospective dissertation title: “ ‘New Skin for the Old Ceremony’: (Non)Religious Ritual in Postwar American Existentialism.”
  • Advisor: Reginald McKnight.
  • Courses taken: Edgar Allan Poe; Emerson and Melville; Jewish-American Fiction; John Milton; Southern Writing; Modernist Poetry; Shakespeare and Religion; William Faulkner.
  • Graded Georgia Regents writing exam online.

Jan. 2005—May 2007, University of Nebraska at Omaha

  • M.A. in English, summa cum laude.
  • Comprehensive Exam area: American literature. Received score of “high pass.”
  • Thesis title: “Sex, Desire, and Grace in Walker Percy and Frederick Buechner.”
  • Advisor: Joan Latchaw.
  • Courses taken: Native American Literature; Race, Gender, and the Politics of American Literature; Russian Literature; Critical Theory; Edmund Spenser; Oscar Wilde; African-American Literature.

Aug. 2000—Dec. 2004, Toccoa Falls College

  • B.A. in English. Minor in Bible.
  • Included in “Who’s Who Among American College and University Students,” 2004.
  • Relevant courses taken: English Literature I and II; American Literature I and II; World Literature; Dante; American Literature 1840-1930; History and Structure of the English Language; Seventeenth-Century British Literature; Victorian Literature; Literary Criticism and Theory.


RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

Oct. 2009—Dec. 2009, tutor, AM Professional Tutoring

  • Courses tutored: SAT grammar and writing.

Aug. 2007—May 2009, Graduate Instructor of English, University of Georgia.

  • Courses taught: Freshman Composition I and II.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The John Updike Society, charter member

PUBLICATIONS

“William Faulkner’s Failed Augustine.” The Explicator 68(1): January-March 2010. 58-61.

“Throwing Inkwells with Martin Luther, Oscar Wilde, and ‘The Sphinx.’ ” The Wildean 31: 2007. 81-89.


CONFERENCES

“The Tertium Quid; or, What the Southern Catholic Writer Walker Percy Has to Say to Evangelicals All Over the Country.” American Evangelicalism: Then and Now. Toccoa, GA: February 2009.

“Reconstruction of the Fables: R.E.M., Poststructuralism, and the New New South.” Southern Writers, Southern Writing. Oxford, MS: July 2007.

“ ‘We Are the Race’: Classism as Racism in ‘Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.’ ” Postcolonial Representation(s) and the U.S. Santa Barbara, CA: May 2007.

“Throwing Inkwells with Martin Luther, Oscar Wilde, and ‘The Sphinx.’ ” American Conference for Irish Studies. Rock Hill, SC: March 2007.

“Pornography and the Reflexive Snare of the Male Gaze in ‘The Faerie Queene.’ ” European Studies Conference. Omaha, NE: October 2006.


ACADEMIC PODCASTS

Oct. 2009—present, The Christian Humanist Podcast. Co-host and engineer. Available through iTunes.