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Years of Service at UT Arlington:

Distinguished Teaching Professor, 1998 - present

Professor, 1982 - 1998

Associate Professor, 1974 - 1982

Assistant Professor, 1971 - 1974

Education:

Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, American Civilization, 1971

M.A., University of Pennsylvania, American Civilization, 1968

B.A., Harvard University, Honors English, 1967

Current Research:

An essay on 19th –century utopias for the Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature; a paper on the Whitehawk intentional community in north Texas; an article on the significance of listening in American Indian literature, specifically in Louise Erdrich’s fiction.

Michibata de Deatta Nippon [A Sidewalker’s Japan].  Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2002.

Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P,   2003.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (co-edited). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.

“Eyewitness to Utopia: How Illustrations Reconstruct Nowhere.” Millennial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias. Ed. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay and Ulrich Mohr. Heidelberg: U of C. Winter Verlag, 2003: 55-98.

“The Kiowa-Matsue Connection: Teaching Japanese Identity with Native American Literature.” Crossing Oceans: Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim. Ed. Noelle Brada-Williams and Karen Chow. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2004: 79-89.

“ ‘A Touching Man’ Brings Aacqu Close.” Studies in American Indian Literatures Ser.2, 16.4 (2004): 68-79.

“Shutting Themselves In.” The New York Times Magazine 29 Jan. 2006: 10.

“Placing Readers at the Forefront of Nowhere: Reception Studies and Utopian Literature.” American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions. Ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein. New York: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2007.

 

 

Department/University Committees:

Department: Tenure and Promotion and Advisory Committees

Several Search Committees

REP / FDL Committee (Chair)

College: Search Committees for Communications

University: Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Committee

Interdisciplinary Searches

Faculty Advisor for the Native American Studies Association (NASA)

Recent Grants & Awards:

2007 Alicia Wilkerson Smotherman Faculty Award (inaugural)

2005 Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award

2004 Distinguished Record of Research Award

2003 Outstanding Student Organization Award

Consulting:

Advisory and Editorial Boards: PMLA, Utopian Studies, American Literary Realism

Manuscript Reviewing: e.g., Cambridge UP, PMLA

Grant Reviews: e.g., Guggenheim

External Reviews and Recommendations for faculty and authors: e,g., UCLA, Berkeley, Nobel Prize in Literature

Professional Memberships:

Society for Utopian Studies (President, 2002-2006)

MLA  (past chair of American Indian Literatures Division; Late-19th – Early 20th Century Division; wrote successful proposal for SF-Utopias Discussion Group; Delegate Assembly)

Assoc. for the Study of American Indian Literatures (past Vice President)

American Studies Assn., Melville Society

 

 

 

Media Appearances:

Professor Roemer have been interviewed about utopian literature for three national radio programs: the MLA’s What’s the Word series (NPR); Wisconsin’s Public Radio’s Conversations with Ben Meren (twice); and the “Open Space” NPR program, with Christopher Lydon

 

 

 

Interviews:

In 2007, Professor Roemer was interviewed for utopia related articles in the L.A. Times and GQ Magazine.

 

 

 

 

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