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Adam Haley

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PROFESSIONALPOSITIONS

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Penn State University, 2013-2015

Assistant Coordinator of the Digital English Studio, Penn State University, 2013-2014

Lecturer, Penn State University, 2012-2013

Graduate Fellow/Instructor, Penn State University, 2006-2012

EDUCATION

Penn State University, Ph.D., English. December, 2012.

Penn State University, M.A., English. May, 2008.

University of Virginia, B.A. with Distinction, English. May, 2005.

BOOKPROJECT

The Parallax Present: Speculation, History, and the Contemporary.

Many theories of the contemporary have emphasized both the difficulty and the necessity ofrepresenting anything outside of our seemingly endless "now." Historical fictions increasingly fall prey

to nostalgic blinders, just as imagined futures often naturalize the structures and biases of the present.Rather than viewing these limitations as prohibitive, The Parallax Presentasks what possibilities existfor literary production in a spectral and speculative present that never quite seems to be itself. I arguethat for authors like Edward P. Jones, Octavia Butler, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Sesshu Foster,and Colson Whitehead, the only way out of this overdetermined present is through: the present'svexed relationship with its chronological others is precisely the catalyst for and the medium of critique.Through this examination of the temporal tangle at the heart of contemporary subjectivity, my projectsuggests that the imagining of intertwined pasts and futures is a particularly indispensable form ofthinking the present in postmodernity.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

20th/21st century American and Anglophone fiction/film/television; African-American and Latino/-afiction; historical fiction; speculative/science fiction; apocalyptic culture and rhetoric; comics andgraphic novels; digital humanities and new media; visual rhetoric and image culture; critical andnarrative theory; writing and rhetoric; game studies; science/technology studies; disability studies

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TEACHING -LITERATURE (6 sections)

English 136: The Graphic Novel (course website: noendofneon.net/comix)Survey course examining comics in depth and breadth as a literary, visual, and cultural form.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.85(out of 7)

English 191: Science Fiction (course website: noendofneon.net/scifi )Large (100-student) survey course tracing speculative fiction across a variety of media forms.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.62(out of 7)English 262: The Possibilities of Postmodern Historical Fiction

Thematic course investigating the philosophical potential of historical fiction, film, and television, especially"weird" or non-realist historical fiction, under the influence of postmodernism.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.48(out of 7)

English 262: Culture Under Surveillance (course website: noendofneon.net/surveillance )Thematic course exploring the intersections between fictional narrative and regimes of surveillance.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.76(out of 7)

English 436: American Fiction Since 1945Upper-level survey course covering a selection of contemporary American cultural production, includingnovels, short stories, poetry, essays, graphic novels, films, and television.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.95(out of 7)English 436: Fiction, Game, World (course website: noendofneon.net/worlds)Upper-level thematic course unpacking the relationship between fiction and worlds/worldness as manifestedin contemporary literature, televisual culture, interactive narrative, and games.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.82(out of 7)

TEACHING -WRITING ANDRHETORIC (23 sections)

English 15: Rhetoric and Composition (sample course website: noendofneon.net/beyondtext)Required first-year writing course emphasizing critical thinking and rhetorical awareness.

Instructor evaluation average (across twelve sections): 6.23(out of 7)

English 15: Image and Rhetoric (course website: noendofneon.net/image)Required first-year writing course focusing on the relationship between image and rhetoric, from visualrhetoric and analysis of public figures to manifesto style and image as rhetorical figure.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.86(out of 7)

LEAP/English 15: Photography and Writing (course website: noendofneon.net/photowriting )Required first-year writing course focusing on rhetoric and composition across textual and visual media,paired with a photography course as part of an integrated first-year program.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.56(out of 7)

LEAP/English 15: Composing Across Media (course website: noendofneon.net/composingacrossmedia )Required first-year writing course focusing on rhetoric and composition across a variety of media forms,paired with a mass media and society course as part of an integrated first-year program.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.91(out of 7)English 30: Writing the Future (course website: noendofneon.net/writingthefuture )

Honors first-year writing course examing futurity as a rhetorical object and site of rhetorical struggle.

Instructor evaluation average: 6.61(out of 7)

English 137H and 138H: Rhetoric and Civic Life (course website: sites.psu.edu/rclhaley)Honors first-year writing/speech course focusing on rhetorical and deliberative skills in oral, written, visual,and digital contexts.

Instructor evaluation average (across four sections): 6.32(out of 7)

English 202A: Writing in the Social SciencesRequired senior-level writing course focusing on professional/academic writing in the social sciences.

Instructor evaluation average (across three sections): 6.47(out of 7)

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PEER-REVIEWEDPUBLICATIONS

"Traveling Through Corporate Time: Inevitability and (Anti-)Corporate Narrative Form." NANO: NewAmerican Notes Online8(2015).

"The Radical Possibility of Collapse: Procedural Revelations in Apocalypses Structural Imaginary.In progress.

"Representing the Speculative Body: Porous Chronologies and Spectral Realisms in Octavia Butler'sKindred." In progress.

CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS

"Imaginative Autonomy in the Automated Economy: Twitter Bots, Creative Distance, and theAlgorithmic Contours of Media Form." What Is Media? Conference. Portland, OR. 2016.

"Apocalyptic Imaginaries and the Aesthetics of Imminent End." Popular Culture Association/AmericanCulture Association Conference. Seattle, WA. 2016.

"Life in (Un)Death: In the Flesh, the Medicated Undead, and the Limits of the Biopolitical." TheSociety or Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Houston, TX. 2015.

"The Fantastical Unmanned: Techne, Genre, and the (Super)Naturalized Drone." InternationalConference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. 2015.

"The Digital Lives and Afterlives of Collaborative Classroom Knowledge." Bucknell Digital ScholarshipConference. Lewisburg, PA. 2014.

"The Futures of Work and Self: Fluid Humanity and Laboring Identities in Contemporary ScienceFiction." The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Dallas, TX. 2014.

"Discursive Worlds Inside and Outside the Classroom." Pennsylvania College English Association

Conference. State College, PA. 2014.I Sing the Body Comic: Breaking the Skinned Surfaces of Empaneled Corporeality. Comics and

Medicine Conference. Baltimore, MD. 2014.

"Distant Bodies and the Proximities of Drone Subjectivity." Northeast Modern Language Association.Harrisburg, PA. 2014.

"Viral Modernity: Accumulation, Transmission, and the Shape of the World." The Society forLiterature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Notre Dame, IN. 2013.

"Ethics, Awareness, and the Desire That Is (Or Was) Global Hyperlink Cinema." The LouisvilleConference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 2013.

"Form, Fiction, Footnote: Historiography, Reading Practices, and the Presented Past in Edward P.Jones's The Known World." 2012 International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. 2012.

"The Real Invisible Hand: Historical Haunting, Porous Chronologies, and the Grasp of What CameBefore." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 2012.

"Pattern Cognition: Mapping the Unmappable and the Aesthetics of Structure and Agency."Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. Pittsburgh, PA. 2011.

"It's the End of the World, But Not As We Know It: Means, Ends, and Beginnings in the Ideology ofApocalypse." The Apocalypse and Its Discontents. London, UK. 2010.

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OTHERPUBLICATIONS

"Editor's Introduction." With Jeff Gonzalez. NANO: New American Notes Online8(2015).

SERVICE TO THEPROFESSION

Co-editor (with Jeff Gonzalez), NANO: New American Notes Online Issue 8 ("Corporations andCulture"), 2014-2015

Panel chair, "Forms, Spaces, and Experiences of Student-Faculty Scholarship," Pennsylvania CollegeEnglish Association Conference, 2014

Panel chair, "'Global' Narrative Vision and Its Discontents," Louisville Conference on Literature andCulture Since 1900, 2013

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY

Affiliate member, Commission for Women, Penn State University, 2013-2015Faculty advisor, Absurdity (spontaneous performance club), Penn State University, 2013-2015

Judge, Undergraduate Student Exhibition Poster Session, Penn State University, 2013

Speaker Angel (advisor to speakers), TEDxPSU, Penn State University, 2013

Advisory board member, College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Communication Certificate, Penn StateUniversity, 2012-2015

Chair and selection jury member, Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, Pennsylvania Center for the Book,2012-2013

Faculty advisor, Penn State Book Club, Penn State University, 2012-2015

Judge, Graduate Student Exhibition, Penn State University, 2012

SERVICE TO THEDEPARTMENT

Departmental portrait photographer (paid), Penn State University English Department, 2011-2014

Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, Penn State University EnglishDepartment, 2011-2012

English Graduate Organization officer, Penn State University English Department, 2011-2012

Mentor to incoming MA students, Penn State University English Department, 2008-2013

HONORS ANDAWARDS

English Department Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2013

George and Barbara Kelly Fellowship Award, Penn State University, 2012

University Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2007-2009

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PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association

Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US

International Society for the Study of Narrative

Association for the Study of the Arts of the PresentSociety for Literature, Science, and the Arts

American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association

Popular Culture Association

American Association of University Professors

REFERENCES

Michael Brub, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and

HumanitiesPenn State Universityemail: mfb12@psu.edu

Jeffrey Nealon, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and PhilosophyPenn State Universityemail: jxn8@psu.edu

Eric Hayot, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian StudiesPenn State Universityemail: ehayot@psu.edu

Garrett Sullivan, Liberal Arts Research Professor of EnglishPenn State Universityemail: gas11@psu.edu

Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of EnglishPenn State Universityemail: iqn@psu.edu

Elizabeth Jenkins, Senior LecturerPenn State Universityemail: emj2@psu.edu