Curriculum Vitae of
Cynthia A. Burkhead
Education:
Ph.D. in English, Middle Tennessee State University, December 2010
MA in English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1997
BA in English/Professional Writing, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994
Minors in Religion and Journalism
AA in English, Belleville Area College, Belleville, Illinois, 1993
Accomplishments and Awards:
Provost’s Writing Fellowship, Middle Tennessee State University, Summer/Fall 2010
No’Ala Magazine Renaissance Award for Education, March 2010
University Outstanding Service Award, UNA, Spring 2009
Academic Affairs Award for Outstanding Service, UNA, Spring 2008
William R. Wolfe Graduate Writing Award, Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2007
Who’s Who of American Women, Spring 2006
Omnicron Delta Kappa, Fall 2005
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002-2003
Alpha Lambda Delta Honored Professor, Spring 2001
Outstanding English Student, SIUE, Spring 1997
Phi Kappa Phi, Spring 1997
Sigma Tau Delta, 1995
Outstanding English Major, Fontbonne College, 1994
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor of English (full-time, tenure-track), UNA, Fall 2011-present ((First Year Composition I and II, First Year Honors Composition I and II, Sophomore Literature I and II, Sophomore Honors Literature II, Oral Traditions, English Honors Seminar, Global Contemporary Literatures, American Folklore, Approaches to Film, History of Film, Film Genres)
Instructor (full-time, tenure-track) in English, UNA, Fall 2000-present (First Year Composition I and II, First Year Honors Composition I and II, Sophomore Literature I and II, Sophomore Honors Literature II, Oral Traditions, English Honors Seminar, Global Contemporary Literatures)
Adjunct English Instructor, UNA, 1998-2000
Adjunct English Instructor, Calhoun Community College, 1998-2000
Adjunct English Instructor, Virginia College, Huntsville, AL, Spring 1998
English Teaching Assistant, SIUE, 1995-1997 (Composition I and II)
Writing Center Tutor, SIUE, 1995-1997
Specialized Experience:
Co-director, George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, 2007-present
Faculty Advisor, UNA Habitat for Humanity, 2003-present
Poetry Editor, Sou’wester Magazine, SIUE, 1997
Assistant Editor, Sou’wester Magazine, SIUE, 1996
Faculty Editor, Muse literary magazine, Calhoun Community College, Spring 2000
Editor-in-Chief, Fontbonne College Student Newspaper, Spring 1994 – Fall 1994
Production Editor, Fontbonne College Student Newspaper, Fall 1993
Editor-in-Chief, Belleville Area College Student Newspaper, Fall 1992-Spring 1993
Present Memberships:
Whedon Studies Association
Popular Culture Association
Popular Culture of the South
Publications:
Aaron Sorkin: Conversations. Editor. University of Mississippi Press. Forthcoming, 2014.
Dreams in American Television: From Buffy to Dallas. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
"Carnivale: An American Freak Show, an American Grotesque," in Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale, forthcoming from MacFarland.
“Tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery”: Using Dreams in LOST to Keep Viewers Bewildered . . . and Watching,” in LOST Thought: Leading Thinkers Discuss LOST, ed. Pearson Moore, Inukshuk Press. 2012.
"The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos." Essential Sopranos Reader. University of Kentucky Press. June 2011.
Joss Whedon: Conversations. Co-editor with David Lavery. University of Mississippi Press. May, 2011.
Grace Under Pressure: Uncovering Grey’s Anatomy. Co-editor with Hillary Robson. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Student Companion to John Steinbeck. Greenwood Press. 2002
"Byron and the She That is ‘Darkness’." Misogynism in Literature: Any Place, Any Time. ed. Britta Zangen. Peter Lang. 2004
Activities:
Alabama Community College System (ACCS) conference on Distance Learning Technology, August 18, 2011
IFFS (International Film Festival Summit), a working conference for film festival directors, Las Vegas, Nevada, December, 2007, 2008, 2009
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses roving chair. Henderson State University, June 2008.
The Virginia Peck Composition Series Workshop, Dr. Bronwyn T. Williams conductor, Middle Tennessee State University, February, 2007
Reviewer, Pop Goes the Essay: Writing about Popular Culture, Wadsworth/Thompson Higher Education
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) conference in Birmingham, February, 2006
National Collegiate Honors Council, New Orleans, November 2004
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) conference in Athens, AL, February, 1999
Workshop panelist, "Using Literature in the Composition Classroom," SIUE, 1997
Presentations:
Dr. Who: Walking in Eternity Conference, London, U.K., September, 2013. “’I thought maybe he was a cowboy on his way to a gun fight’: The Re-framing of America’s South When the Doctor Comes a Callin’.”
Popular Culture Association annual Conference, Washington D.C., March, 2013. “’Ned Beatty time, man:’ the South as Demon in Supernatural.”
Popular Culture Association of the South Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, September, 2012. ““O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love”: Television’s shifting image of the American South”
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Five, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. July, 2012. Presenting a paper on the grotesque in Joss Whedon’s Angel as part of a panel with two UNA students.
Zombies vs. Professors: An Academic Symposium, University of Louisville, April 13, 2012. “’We don’t shoot sick people’: Character Compassion and the New Zombie Narrative”
Mini-conference on Lost, at Popular Culture Association of the South Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2011. "Tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery": Using Dreams in LOST to Keep Viewers Bewildered . . . and Watching"
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. "’Those people are using dreams as entertainment and killing people to get it’: Television’s Critique of Its Use (or Overuse) of the Dream Sequence"
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Four, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, June 2010. titled "Sometimes ‘A dream is a wish your heart makes,’ and sometimes it’s a necessary nightmare: The narrative function of dreams in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
The Sopranos: A Wake (Academic conference on the television show), Fordham University, May 2008. "The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos."
Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2006. "Rene Girard’s Triangles of Desire in Television’s Grey’s Anatomy."
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, May 2006. "Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Introduce Students to Honors Studies." Also served as panelist in a roundtable discussion of the film Serenity.
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2006. "Surviving the Storytellers: The Popular Image of the Penitentes and the Brotherhood’s Armed Response."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2003. "When the Twelfth Man is God: John Updike, Kurt Warner, and the Intersecting of Religion and Sport in America."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2002. "Friday Night’s Special – Catfish and Christ: Spreading the Gospel through Advertising in the South."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA., April 2000. "Considering Lilies or Stockpiling Semiautomatics: Christian Responses to Y2K."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX., March 1997. "Updike and the Celluloid God: Film at Eleven."
University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Student Conference, March 1997. "If I Had a Hammer, Could I Hammer Out God: John Updike and Human Construction."
Great Lakes Colleges Association Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Building Coalitions, April 1996. Panel Presentation on Sylvia Plath.
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV., March 1996. "Creating Moments Monuments in a World of Pie and Shin Beef: Mind and Body in the Work of Sylvia Plath."
Sigma Tau Delta International Conference, St. Louis, MO., Spring, 1994. "Rappaccini’s Daughter: Parable Undermining Parable."
Community Involvement:
President, Shoals Habitat for Humanity 2012-2014
Board Member, Shoals Habitat for Humanity 2003-2009, 2010
Cynthia A. Burkhead
Education:
Ph.D. in English, Middle Tennessee State University, December 2010
MA in English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, 1997
BA in English/Professional Writing, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994
Minors in Religion and Journalism
AA in English, Belleville Area College, Belleville, Illinois, 1993
Accomplishments and Awards:
Provost’s Writing Fellowship, Middle Tennessee State University, Summer/Fall 2010
No’Ala Magazine Renaissance Award for Education, March 2010
University Outstanding Service Award, UNA, Spring 2009
Academic Affairs Award for Outstanding Service, UNA, Spring 2008
William R. Wolfe Graduate Writing Award, Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2007
Who’s Who of American Women, Spring 2006
Omnicron Delta Kappa, Fall 2005
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002-2003
Alpha Lambda Delta Honored Professor, Spring 2001
Outstanding English Student, SIUE, Spring 1997
Phi Kappa Phi, Spring 1997
Sigma Tau Delta, 1995
Outstanding English Major, Fontbonne College, 1994
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor of English (full-time, tenure-track), UNA, Fall 2011-present ((First Year Composition I and II, First Year Honors Composition I and II, Sophomore Literature I and II, Sophomore Honors Literature II, Oral Traditions, English Honors Seminar, Global Contemporary Literatures, American Folklore, Approaches to Film, History of Film, Film Genres)
Instructor (full-time, tenure-track) in English, UNA, Fall 2000-present (First Year Composition I and II, First Year Honors Composition I and II, Sophomore Literature I and II, Sophomore Honors Literature II, Oral Traditions, English Honors Seminar, Global Contemporary Literatures)
Adjunct English Instructor, UNA, 1998-2000
Adjunct English Instructor, Calhoun Community College, 1998-2000
Adjunct English Instructor, Virginia College, Huntsville, AL, Spring 1998
English Teaching Assistant, SIUE, 1995-1997 (Composition I and II)
Writing Center Tutor, SIUE, 1995-1997
Specialized Experience:
Co-director, George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, 2007-present
Faculty Advisor, UNA Habitat for Humanity, 2003-present
Poetry Editor, Sou’wester Magazine, SIUE, 1997
Assistant Editor, Sou’wester Magazine, SIUE, 1996
Faculty Editor, Muse literary magazine, Calhoun Community College, Spring 2000
Editor-in-Chief, Fontbonne College Student Newspaper, Spring 1994 – Fall 1994
Production Editor, Fontbonne College Student Newspaper, Fall 1993
Editor-in-Chief, Belleville Area College Student Newspaper, Fall 1992-Spring 1993
Present Memberships:
Whedon Studies Association
Popular Culture Association
Popular Culture of the South
Publications:
Aaron Sorkin: Conversations. Editor. University of Mississippi Press. Forthcoming, 2014.
Dreams in American Television: From Buffy to Dallas. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
"Carnivale: An American Freak Show, an American Grotesque," in Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale, forthcoming from MacFarland.
“Tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery”: Using Dreams in LOST to Keep Viewers Bewildered . . . and Watching,” in LOST Thought: Leading Thinkers Discuss LOST, ed. Pearson Moore, Inukshuk Press. 2012.
"The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos." Essential Sopranos Reader. University of Kentucky Press. June 2011.
Joss Whedon: Conversations. Co-editor with David Lavery. University of Mississippi Press. May, 2011.
Grace Under Pressure: Uncovering Grey’s Anatomy. Co-editor with Hillary Robson. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Student Companion to John Steinbeck. Greenwood Press. 2002
"Byron and the She That is ‘Darkness’." Misogynism in Literature: Any Place, Any Time. ed. Britta Zangen. Peter Lang. 2004
Activities:
Alabama Community College System (ACCS) conference on Distance Learning Technology, August 18, 2011
IFFS (International Film Festival Summit), a working conference for film festival directors, Las Vegas, Nevada, December, 2007, 2008, 2009
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses roving chair. Henderson State University, June 2008.
The Virginia Peck Composition Series Workshop, Dr. Bronwyn T. Williams conductor, Middle Tennessee State University, February, 2007
Reviewer, Pop Goes the Essay: Writing about Popular Culture, Wadsworth/Thompson Higher Education
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) conference in Birmingham, February, 2006
National Collegiate Honors Council, New Orleans, November 2004
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) conference in Athens, AL, February, 1999
Workshop panelist, "Using Literature in the Composition Classroom," SIUE, 1997
Presentations:
Dr. Who: Walking in Eternity Conference, London, U.K., September, 2013. “’I thought maybe he was a cowboy on his way to a gun fight’: The Re-framing of America’s South When the Doctor Comes a Callin’.”
Popular Culture Association annual Conference, Washington D.C., March, 2013. “’Ned Beatty time, man:’ the South as Demon in Supernatural.”
Popular Culture Association of the South Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, September, 2012. ““O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love”: Television’s shifting image of the American South”
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Five, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. July, 2012. Presenting a paper on the grotesque in Joss Whedon’s Angel as part of a panel with two UNA students.
Zombies vs. Professors: An Academic Symposium, University of Louisville, April 13, 2012. “’We don’t shoot sick people’: Character Compassion and the New Zombie Narrative”
Mini-conference on Lost, at Popular Culture Association of the South Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2011. "Tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery": Using Dreams in LOST to Keep Viewers Bewildered . . . and Watching"
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. "’Those people are using dreams as entertainment and killing people to get it’: Television’s Critique of Its Use (or Overuse) of the Dream Sequence"
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Four, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, June 2010. titled "Sometimes ‘A dream is a wish your heart makes,’ and sometimes it’s a necessary nightmare: The narrative function of dreams in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
The Sopranos: A Wake (Academic conference on the television show), Fordham University, May 2008. "The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos."
Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2006. "Rene Girard’s Triangles of Desire in Television’s Grey’s Anatomy."
Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, May 2006. "Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Introduce Students to Honors Studies." Also served as panelist in a roundtable discussion of the film Serenity.
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2006. "Surviving the Storytellers: The Popular Image of the Penitentes and the Brotherhood’s Armed Response."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2003. "When the Twelfth Man is God: John Updike, Kurt Warner, and the Intersecting of Religion and Sport in America."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2002. "Friday Night’s Special – Catfish and Christ: Spreading the Gospel through Advertising in the South."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA., April 2000. "Considering Lilies or Stockpiling Semiautomatics: Christian Responses to Y2K."
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX., March 1997. "Updike and the Celluloid God: Film at Eleven."
University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Student Conference, March 1997. "If I Had a Hammer, Could I Hammer Out God: John Updike and Human Construction."
Great Lakes Colleges Association Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Building Coalitions, April 1996. Panel Presentation on Sylvia Plath.
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV., March 1996. "Creating Moments Monuments in a World of Pie and Shin Beef: Mind and Body in the Work of Sylvia Plath."
Sigma Tau Delta International Conference, St. Louis, MO., Spring, 1994. "Rappaccini’s Daughter: Parable Undermining Parable."
Community Involvement:
President, Shoals Habitat for Humanity 2012-2014
Board Member, Shoals Habitat for Humanity 2003-2009, 2010