KENNETH M. ROEMER (Brief Vita)
Department of English, UT Arlington		phone: 817/272-2729
Arlington, TX 76019-0035		FAX:   817/272-2718
www.uta.edu/english/roemer		roemer@uta.edu

Education:	B.A., Harvard, Honors English, cum laude, 1967 M.A., PhD., U of Pennsylvania, American Civilization, 1968, 1971
Specialties:	Research:   American Indian literatures; Utopian literature (esp. American) Teaching:   American literature / culture; inventive modeling composition
Employment:	University of Texas at Arlington, English: Distinguised Teaching Professor (1998-); Pofessor (1982-); Associate (1974-82); Assistant (1971-74); International Christian University (Japan): Visiting Prof. (1998); Shimane University (Japan): Visiting Prof. (1982-83); University of Pennsylvania: Teaching and Research Assist. (1968-70). Also at UT Arlington: Graduate Advisor (1985-92, 96); Project Dir., SW Indian Lit. Prog. (1985); and Asst. Dean, Graduate School (1975-77)
Guest Lect:	Including Harvard University, Connecticut College, Williams College
Honors:	2005 Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award 2004 Distinguished Record of Research Award, UTA 2004 Nominated for the MLA Lowell and the ASA Franklin Prizes 2003 Outstanding Organization Advisor, (Native Am. Student Assn.) UTA 1998 Writer of the Year (Reference Category), Wordcraft Circle Award 1998 Academy of Distinguished Teachers Award, UTA 1988 Chancellor's Outstanding Teaching Award, UTA 1988 University Nominee for the Minnie S. Piper Teaching [state] Award 1976 Nominee for Pulitzer in American History Scholarships/Fellowships: Harvard, Penn, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Sr. Scientist Fellow; lectured at 12 Japanese universities) Grants: NEH (Summer Sem. Dir., four, $250,000), ACLS (internatl.travel, $500), TCH & Crystelle Waggoner Trust (SW Indian Lit. Prog., $10,000), Exxon ($2000), UTA research grants ranging from $200-$3000 and a Faculty Development Leave Summer Seminar and Institute support: NEH, MLA, FIPSE, Yale USIA Prog., etc.: lectured in Italy, Austria, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Ireland Bibliotheque Nationale & NY Public Library: Utopias Exhibit Adv. Board
Member:	Society for Utopian Studies (President, 2002-, Prog. Chair, 1994, founding member); MLA (wrote proposal: SF/Utopias Disc. Group); Chair Exec. Coms.: Am. Indian Lit. Disc. Group and Div., Late 19th - Early 20th Am. Lit., SF/Utopias Disc. Group; Delegate Assembly (two-terms); Com. Member: Teaching, Publications, Lit. of People of Color. Assoc. for the Study of Am. Indian Lit. (founding member; VP, 1998); ASA; Melville Soc.
Books:	The Obsolete Necessity (1976); America as Utopia, ed. (1981); Build Your Own Utopia (textbook; 1981); Approaches to Teaching Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain, ed. (MLA, 1988); Native American Writers of the United States, ed., DLB, Vol. 175 (1997); Michibata de Deatta Nippon [A Sidewalker's Japan] (2002); Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere (2003); Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, co-ed. (2005)
Articles:	In journals, e.g., American Literature, MFS, College English, Chronicle of Higher Ed., Technology and Culture, Rising Generation (Tokyo), Utopian Studies, SAIL; in books e.g., by MLA & Berkeley; syndicated personal narrative in <featurewell.com>.
Reviews:	In journals, e.g., American Historical Review, American Literature; Essay Reviews: e.g., American Quarterly, American Literary History
Web sites:	E.g., Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formations of American Literary Canons: <www.uta.edu/english/roemer/ctt>; on Momaday: <www.english.uiuc.edu/maps>, <college.hmco.com/english>.
Editing:	American Quarterly (Asst. Ed., 1969-70), ALR (Mang. Ed./Rev. Ed., 1971-85), Utopus Discovered (Ed., 1975-88), Utopian Studies I (Coed. Proceed., 1987), Heath Anthology of American Lit. (Contrib. Ed., 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2004), American Literature (Board of Editors, 1993-96)
Biographical:	In reference sources, e.g., Who's Who in America