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Edgar V. McKnight, Jr. (864) 231-2135 emcknight@ac.edu Education:
MA,
English, BA,
magna cum laude, Dissertation:
Academic
Honors: Kenan Fellow, University of North Carolina, 1985 - 1986 Teaching Experience: Assistant
Professor,
Topics in Literary Criticism Nineteenth-Century American Literature The History of the English Language Fantasy and Science Fiction (Topics in
Literature) Theology and Literature (Honors) Business Communication Business Communication (Online) British Literature Survey I British Literature Survey II American Literature Survey I American Literature Survey II World Literature Survey I World Literature Survey II Liberal Arts Laboratory (Freshman
Seminar) Composition I Composition II
Teaching
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
British and American Literature, Literary Theory, Science Fiction and
Fantasy, Composition and Film Publications: “Arthur.” The “History.” The “Philosophy.” The “Satire.” The “Secret
History.” The “Poul Anderson.”
Supernatural Fiction Writers,
Second Edition. Ed. Richard Bleiler. “A
Walk in the Woods.” Masterplots II, Drama Series, Revised Edition. Ed Christian H. Moe. “Locksley
Hall.” Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition. Ed.
Chris Moose. “Reader-Response
Theory and Science Fiction.” The SFRA Review 247 (July-August,
2000). “Cat's Cradle.” The Sixties
in “Paul
Simon.” Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman.
“Simon
and Garfunkel” Popular Musicians. Ed.
Steve Hochman. “The Last Unicorn.” Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction.
Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Beacham
Publishing, 1998. “Kurt
Vonnegut.” Ready Reference: Censorship. Ed. Lawrence Amey. “New Worlds.” Ready
Reference: Censorship. Ed. Lawrence Amey. “Upton
Sinclair.” Ready Reference: Censorship. Ed. Lawrence Amey. “The Way We Weren't,” SFRA Review 232 (November-December, 1997) “The Man in the “Pavane.”
Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and
Fantasy Literature. Ed. T. A. Shippey. “The Once and Future King.” SFRA
Review 225 (September-October, 1996) “Kurt Vonnegut: From A to Z and Past to
Present.” SFRA Review 217
(May-June, 1995) Selected
Reviews: The
Star Wars Poster Book in SFRA Review 276 (April-June, 2006) Fantastic
Literature: A Critical Reader in SFRA Review 272 (April-June, 2005) “In the Zone” (As Timeless
as Infinity Volumes I and II and The Twilight Zone Scripts of Charles
Beaumont) in SFRA Review
271 (January-March, 2005) Classic
and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction in SFRA Review 269 (July-September, 2004) Decoding
Gender in Science Fiction in SFRA Review 266 (October-December, 2003) Hitchhiker:
A Biography of Douglas Adams in SFRA Review 265 (July-September, 2003) At
Millennium’s End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut in SFRA Review 262 (January-February, 2003) What
If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been in SFRA Review 257 (March-April, 2002) The
Poetics of Science Fiction in SFRA
Review 249 (November-December, 2000) Transformations
of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society in SFRA Review 242 (September-October,
1999) Lancelot
and Guinevere: A Casebook in SFRA
Review 230 (July-August, 1997) Fire
and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative in SFRA Review 222 (March-April,
1996) Flame
Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture in SFRA Review 219 (September-October,
1995) Twentieth-Century
Fantasists in Utopian
Studies 5.1 Presentations: “Christopher
Paulini’s Eragon.” “What
the Future Sounded Like.” The
National Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, “Philip
Roth’s The Plot against America.” The International Conference on the
Fantastic in the Arts, March 17, 2005. “Dean
Koontz’s By the Light of the Moon.”
“Stephen
King’s The Stand.”
“J.K.
Rowling’s Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone.” “John
Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” “Robert
Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity.”
“Truth,
Lies, and Satire in Vonnegut, Twain and Morrow.” Philological
Association of the “'Please
Add an Orgy:' Reader Response in 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.'“ College English Association of NC &
VA, September 22, 2001. “The
Future as Metaphor: Extrapolation and Analogy in Alternate History.” “Transformations:
Terry Bisson's Fiction and the South.”
Popular Culture Association in the South, “Counterfactuals
in the Classroom.” “Alternatives
and Counterfactuals: History or SF?” Annual Conference of the Science
Fiction Research Association, June 28- “Remaking
the World: The Narrative Elements of Alternate History.”
Narrative Studies Confence, “Changing
the Past: Writing and Reading Alternate History.” The YOTS Scholarly
Lecturer Series, “Southern
Accents in Science Fiction.” (Panelist) Annual Conference of the
Science Fiction Research Association, “Alternative
History and the Resisting Reader.” Annual Conference of the Science
Fiction Research Association, “The
New Euchronia: Terry Bisson's
Fire on the Mountain.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian
Studies, Editor: SFRA
Review, Non-Fiction Reviews Editor, July, 2001 - present Service: Moderator,
Panel on Media and Fiction, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Annual Conference, Judge
for 1999 NSDAR Essay Writing Competition, Flint Hills Chapter, Judge
for 1997 Creative Writing Competition, Languages: French and German Memberships: Society for Narrative
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