BRUCE NEAL SIMON
English Department, 265 Fenton Hall, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
716/673-3856 (o); 673-4661 (fax)
simon@fredonia.edu; brucesimon18@yahoo.com;
www.fredonia.edu/department/english/simon/

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Professor of English, SUNY Fredonia (2005-present; Associate Chair 2006, 2007; sabbatical leave 2006-2007).
• Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in American Studies, Kyushu University and Seinan Gakuin University (2006-2007), Fukuoka University (2007)
• Assistant Professor of English, SUNY Fredonia (1998-2005).
• Instructor, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (1994, 1997).
• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Princeton University (1993, 1996).

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in English, Princeton University (1998). Doctoral Dissertation: The Race for Hawthorne (directed by Professors Arnold Rampersad, Wahneema Lubiano, and Eduardo Cadava).
• Certificate, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College (Summer 1995).
• M.A. in English, Princeton University (1993).
• A.B. in English and Mathematics, summa cum laude, Hamilton College (1991).

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

• Fulbright Lecturing Grant in American Studies (2006-2007)
• Sabbatical Leave, SUNY Fredonia (2006-2007)
• Carnahan-Jackson Humanities Fund Award (2001-2006) [with Najia Aarim-Heriot (History), and formerly with Elizabeth Dwyer (English) and Michael Brescia (History), for organizing film screening of Verso Negro: Black Verse Poetry of the Spanish Caribbean, performance by verso negro poet, and panel discussion on "Global Perspectives on the Construction of Blackness"]
• Title III Technology Award, SUNY Fredonia (2000-2001) [for development of "American Migration Narratives" course for general education]
• Scholarly Incentive Award, SUNY Fredonia (1998-1999) [in support of edited collection on race and trauma]
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1996-1997)
• Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship, Princeton University (1994-1995)
• Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (1991-1994)
• Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship (1990-1992)
• Co-Valedictorian and Phi Beta Kappa, Hamilton College (1991)

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Publications

Edited Book:

• Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Arnold Rampersad, asst. eds. Bruce Simon and Jeffrey Tucker (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995).

Edited Journal:

• "The Prison Issue," ed. Bruce Simon, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 3.2 (December 2000).
• "Striking Back: Academic Labor in Action," ed. Bruce Simon, Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor 2.1 (April 1999).

Articles:

• "'Illegal Knowledge': Strategies for New Media Activism" (with Chris Carter, Ricardo Dominguez, and Geert Lovink), The Politics of Information, eds. Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills (Electronic Book Review 2 August 2003). Collected in the Alt-X ebook, The Politics of Information (2004).
• "Introduction: The Prison Issue," Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 3.2 (December 2000).
• "Hybridity in the Americas: Reading Conde, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne," Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature, eds. Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000) 412-443.
• "Introduction: Striking Back," Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 2.1 (April 1999).
• "White-Blindness," The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, eds. Joan Ferrante and Prince Brown, Jr. (NY: Longman, 1998) 496-502. Reprinted in 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001) 473-478.
• "Traumatic Repetition: Gayl Jones's Corregidora," Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century, eds. Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey Tucker (NY: New York University Press, 1997) 93-112.
• "Caught in Space? The Configuration of a Twentysomething Generation" (with David Lewis, Lisa Lynch, and Jeffrey Schulz), Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 7.2 (1993) 91-145.

Current Projects

• American Studies and the Race for Hawthorne: book manuscript in process.
• Echoes of Nuremberg: The Effort, Evolution, and Effects of the 1945-1946 International Military Tribunal, eds. Michael Newton, Bruce Simon, and Richard Jankowski: edited collection of critical essays in process.
• Trauma, Melancholia, and the Politics of Race, eds. Ranjana Khanna, Bruce Simon, and Rinaldo Walcott: edited collection of critical essays in process.
• "Traumatic Displacements and Militant Mourning: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Mahasweta Devi's 'Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha'": article in process.
• "The Problem of the Narrator in 'Benito Cereno'": article in process.
• "'The Partitioning of the Past': Medieval Trade, Modern War, and Postcolonial Politics in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land": article in process.

Conference Papers

• "Traumatic Displacements and Militant Mourning: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Mahasweta Devi's 'Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha.'" Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, Honolulu (January 2007).
• "'The Partitioning of the Past': Medieval Trade, Modern War, and Postcolonial Politics in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land." Walls in Asia, Buffalo (October 2003).
• "Global English?" Globalization: The Stakes of Global Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Fredonia (September 2001).
• "The Place of Workplace: An Open Editorial Session" (with Marc Bousquet and Christian Gregory). Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Washington, DC (June 2000).
• "Remaking 'Service': Curricular and Workplace Activism in a Globalizing Academy." Rethinking the Human Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies, Global Education, and the Languages of Criticism, Washington, DC (April 2000).
• "Bordering Black Studies: Silko and the Americas." American Studies Association, Montreal (October 1999).
• "Teaching the Literature of Globalization: Means and Ends." New York College English Association Conference, Iona College (April 1999). [not delivered due to illness]
• "The Alchemy of Race and Narrative: Reading Patricia Williams." Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto (December 1997).
• "Racialism, Race Consciousness, Identity Politics: UnAmerican Activity?" American Studies Association Convention, Washington, DC (November 1997).
• "Diaspora and Trauma: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People." American Studies Association Convention, Kansas City (November 1996).
• "Hawthorne after Conde and Mukherjee: Bringing the Hybridity Debates to American Studies." Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Montreal (April 1996).
• "'Why Race? Why Now? Why? Why?': Hawthorne, the National Sin, and Liberal Guilt." Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston (April 1995).
• "Traumatic Repetition: Gayl Jones's Corregidora." 'The Negro Problem': 1895-1995, Graduate Student Conference, Princeton (March 1995).

Invited Lectures

• "Representing Japan in American Culture III: What('s) Next? The Past 25 Years and the Next," The Japan-America Society of Fukuoka, Fukuoka (July 2007).
• "Representing Japan in American Culture II: The End of the American Century in Japan? 1941-1995," The Japan-America Society of Fukuoka, Fukuoka (July 2007).
• "The Life You Change Might Be Your Own: On Teaching and Learning in Japan," Kyushu Fulbright Association, Fukuoka (July 2007).
• "Representing Japan in American Culture I: From Manifest Destiny to War in the Pacific, 1846-1945," The Japan-America Society of Fukuoka, Fukuoka (June 2007).
• "The End of the American Century in Contemporary U.S. Literatures." Tohoku Association for American Studies, Tohoku University (March 2007).
• "Return of the Democrats; or, The End of the American Century in Asia?" The Japan-America Society of Fukuoka, Fukuoka (February 2007).
• "American Studies and the Race for Hawthorne." Kyushu American Literature Society, Fukuoka University (December 2006).
• "The Problem of the Narrator in 'Benito Cereno.'" Guest lecture for Introduction to American Literature, University of Rochester (October 2001, October 2002).
• "From Graduate Student to Assistant Professor: Reports from the Field." English Department Graduate Action Committee series, Princeton University (March 2001).
• "Multiethnic American Literature and Radical Multiculturalism." SUNY Fredonia (January 1998).
• "Specter Evidence." University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (January 1998).
• "Hybridizing Hawthorne? Reading I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and The Holder of the World." University of Missouri-Kansas City (February 1997).
• "Rearticulating Race in The Souls of Black Folk." Lecture for American Literature from the Civil War through World War I, Princeton University (Fall 1993).

Other Scholarly Activities

• Editorial Collective, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (1998-present). General Editor, 1999-2002. Acquisitions Committee, 1998-1999.
• Interviewer, Fulbright Candidates in the Humanities, Japan-U.S. Education Commission, Tokyo (2006).
• Manuscript Reviewer, Studies in the Novel (2003-2004, 2005), Norton (2004), Bedford/St. Martin's (2004), PMLA (2002), Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (2001), Longman (2001).
• Respondent, "Engineered Identities: Race, Nation, and the Literature of Technology," Modern Language Association Convention Special Session, Chicago (1999).
• Session Organizer and Leader, "Articulating Race and Trauma: Possibilities, Limits, Stakes," Modern Language Association Convention Special Session, Toronto (1997).

Research and Teaching Interests

• U.S. Literatures
• American Studies
• Black Studies
• Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies
• Postcolonial Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SUNY Fredonia

Associate Professor

Graduate Seminar

• Introduction to Graduate Studies in English (Fall 2008).

Undergraduate Courses

• The English Major: An Introduction (Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2006).
• Novels and Tales: How to Do Things with Ghosts (Fall 2008, Fall 2007).
• Introduction to African American Literature and Culture (Fall 2008).
• Science Fiction (Spring 2008).
• Non-Western Literature (Spring 2008).
• Major Writers: Postcolonial Hawthorne (Fall 2007).
• Introduction to Ethnicity/Race (Fall 2007).
• American Identities (Spring 2006).
• American Romanticism (Spring 2006).
• Critical Reading (Fall 2005).
• Introduction to American Studies: Mission and Migration in American Culture (Fall 2005).
• English Composition (Fall 2005).

Independent Studies

• American Literature and Critical Race Theory (graduate, Summer 2006).
• Hawthorne and Morrison (Summer 2006).
• Introduction to American Studies (Fall 2005).

Kyushu University

Fulbright Visiting Lecturer

Graduate Seminar

• American Literary Studies: Haunting America (Spring 2007).

Undergraduate Courses

• American Cultural Studies: Representing Japan in American Culture (Spring 2007; Fall 2006).
• American Literary Studies: Postcolonial Hawthorne (Fall 2006).
• Introduction to American Studies: The Making of America and Americans (Fall 2006).

Seinan Gakuin University

Fulbright Visiting Lecturer

Undergraduate Courses

• American Literary Studies: Postcolonial Hawthorne (Spring 2007).
• Introduction to American Studies: The Making of America and Americans (Fall 2006).

Fukuoka University

Fulbright Visiting Lecturer

Graduate Seminar

• American Literary Studies: Haunting America (Spring 2007).

SUNY Fredonia

Assistant Professor

Graduate Seminars

• Historical Perspectives in Literature: Historical Re-Visions in American Literature--The American Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance (Spring 2003)
• Comparative Approaches to Literature: American Migration Narratives (Fall 2001); New World Slavery and the Transatlantic Imagination (Spring 2000).
• Major Writers: Hawthorne and Morrison (Spring 1999).

Undergraduate Courses

• Major Writers: Philip K. Dick and Kim Stanley Robinson (Summer 2005); Faulkner and Company (Summer 2004, Spring 2004); Melville and Silko (Fall 2000).
• Science Fiction (Spring 2005).
• Introduction to African American Literature and Culture (Spring 2005, Fall 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 1999).
• Introduction to Ethnicity/Race (Spring 2005).
• Realism and Naturalism in American Literature (Fall 2004).
• Introduction to American Studies: Mission and Migration in American Culture (Fall 2004); Migration and Mobility in American Culture (Fall 2003).
• Novels and Tales: Powers of Narrative (Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002); Migration Narratives (Fall 2001, Fall 2000); How to Do Things with Ghosts (Spring 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1999, Fall 1998).
• Critical Reading (Spring 2004, Spring 2002, Fall 2001).
• American Romanticism (Spring 2003, Spring 2001).
• Harlem Renaissance (Spring 2003)
• American Literary Roots: Literatures of Early America (Fall 2002); Routes to American Literature (Spring 2000).
• Survey of American Literature (Fall 2002).
• Senior Seminar (Spring 2002).
• Honors Seminar: American Migration Narratives (Spring 2002).
• American Landmarks (Fall 2000).
• Modern American Literature: American Modernisms (Fall 1998).

Independent Studies

• Science Fiction (Spring 2005).
• Tom Robbins and Conventional Wisdom (Spring 2005).
• New World Slavery and the Transatlantic Imagination (graduate, Fall 2004).
• Introduction to American Studies (Fall 2004, Fall 2003).
• New Media, Old Gods (Summer 2004).
• Toni Morrison and Critical Race Theory (graduate, Fall 2003).
• Toni Morrison (graduate, Summer 2003, Summer 1999).
• Contemporary Koestler (Summer 2003).
• Harlem Renaissance and After (Spring-Summer 2003).
• American Romanticism and After (Spring 2003).
• American Literature and the Great Depression (graduate, Spring 2002).
• The Discipline of the Syllabus (graduate, Spring 2002).
• Celtic Mythology and Culture (Fall 2001).
• Horror Literature and Theory (graduate, Fall 2001).
• From Plantation to Prison (Spring 2001).
• Melville and Silko (Fall 2000).
• The Prison Industrial Complex and the Black Arts Movement (Summer 2000).
• The Beats' Vision of America (Fall 1999).

Princeton University

Instructor

• The Craft of Writing: Globalization and Its Discontents (Fall 1997); Reading Race Writing (Spring 1994).

Teaching Assistant

• Studies in American Africanism (Toni Morrison, Spring 1996).
• American Literature from the Civil War through World War I (Lee Mitchell, Fall 1993).

Graduate Assistant

• New Tools for Teaching and Research (Summer 1998).
• Teaching with New Media (Will Howarth, Summer 1998).
• Images of America (Tom Keenan, Summer 1997).

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Campus Talks

• "On Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'" Theory Live II, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (April 2008).
• "Racialization Matters: On the Global History of Race," Dialogues on Race, SUNY Fredonia (November 2007).
• "Fahrenheit 451: Then and Now," The Big Read, SUNY Fredonia (November 2007).
• "The Life You Change Might Be Your Own: On Teaching and Learning in Japan," International Brown Bag Luncheon, SUNY Fredonia (November 2007).
• "Sweatshops and Beyond: Capitalism, Human Labor, and Natural Resources." Global Ownership panel, Amnesty International, SUNY Fredonia (November 2005).
• "Corporatization, National Security, and Academic Freedom." Censorship in Academia panel for Amnesty International's Censorship Week, SUNY Fredonia (November 2004).
• "Darfur Today: Reflecting on Peace, Humanitarian Intervention, and American Mission through Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." World Peace Day Peace Pole Rededication Ceremony, SUNY Fredonia (September 2004).
• "Raising the Stakes: From Multi-Ethnic Studies to Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies." Multi-Ethnic Studies Program Review Keynote, SUNY Fredonia (April 2004).
• "Gone with the Wind and Narratives of the Postbellum South." American Studies Film Series, SUNY Fredonia (February 2004).
• "The House We Live In: From Black History to Critical Race Studies." Black History Month, SUNY Fredonia (February 2004).
• "My American Studies." American Studies Round Table Discussion, SUNY Fredonia (April 2003).
• "Using a Course Listserv and Web Site Effectively." Panel presentation on "Reports on the Use of Technology in the Classroom and Beyond," SUNY Fredonia (May 2002).
• "Blue Eyed and Racial Formation." "Dialogues on Diversity" film and lecture series, SUNY Fredonia (February 2001).
• "Teaching the Landmarks." English Department "Just Teaching" series, SUNY Fredonia (November 2000).
• "Whiteness Studies as Black Studies." English Department "Just Talking" series, SUNY Fredonia (April 2000).
• "'Balkanization' and U.S. Multiculturalism." Teach-in: Crisis in Kosovo, SUNY Fredonia (April 1999).
• "Four Versions of Black History." Black History Month Closing Ceremonies Keynote, SUNY Fredonia (February 1999).
• "World Lit Hawthorne." English Department "Just Talking" series, SUNY Fredonia (November 1998).

University Service

English Department

• Co-chair, Development and Awards Committee, SUNY Fredonia (2008-present). Member, 2007-present.
• Graduate Program Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2002, 2003-2005, 2008-present). Chair, 2004-2005.
• Associate Chair, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2006, 2007).
• Chair's Cabinet, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2005-2006).
• Co-Chair, Undergraduate Policy Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2005).
• Chair, DSI Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2005). Member, 1998.
• Student Activities Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2005).
• Curriculum Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (1998-2005). Chair, 1999-2001, 2003-2004.
• Recruitment Working Group, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2003).
• Personnel Committee, English Department, SUNY Fredonia (1999-2000).
• Chair, Graduate Advisory Council, Department of English, Princeton University (1994).

Interdisciplinary Studies

• American Studies Advisory Committee, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2006, 2007-present).
• Organizing Committee, Verso Negro project, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2006).
• Faculty Advisor, Black Student Union, SUNY Fredonia (2003-2005).
• Co-Chair, Black History Month Coalition, SUNY Fredonia (2003-2004). Member, 2002-2004.
• Organizing Committee and Reader, Women's Studies Research Conference on Gender, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2002).
• Native American Studies Search Committee, SUNY Fredonia (2000-2001).
• Organizing Committee, Globalization: The Stakes of Global Studies in the Twenty-First Century, SUNY Fredonia (2000-2001).
• Presidential Taskforce on Race/Race Relations, SUNY Fredonia (1999-2000).
• Native American Studies Task Force, SUNY Fredonia (1999).
• Task Force on Minority Recruitment and Retention, SUNY Fredonia (1998-1999).
• Secretary, "'Written on the Void': Scenarios of Resistance," film series on globalization, Princeton University (1995-1997). [Films shown include Narmada: A Valley Rises, The Women Outside, Calling the Ghosts, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Blue Collar & Buddha, Sa-I-Gu, The Bombing of Osage Avenue, The Invisible Wall, and Taxivala.]
• Peer Educator for Race and Ethnicity, Princeton University (1995-1996).
• Volunteer Assistant, Race Matters: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain, Princeton University (1994).

Governance

• Appointed Senator, University Senate, SUNY Fredonia (2008-present). Elected Senator, 2002-2006 (stepped down due to sabbatical leave).
• Chair, Planning and Budget Advisory Committee, University Senate, SUNY Fredonia (2005-2006). Appointed member, 2001. Elected member, 2002-2006. Secretary, 2002-2005. Stepped down due to sabbatical leave, 2006.
• Arts and Humanities Assessment Subcommittee, College Core Curriculum Committee, College Senate, SUNY Fredonia (2001-2002).
• Elected member, Affirmative Action Committee, College Senate, SUNY Fredonia (2000-2002). Dialogues on Diversity Subcommittee, 2001-2002.
• Elected member, General College Program Committee, College Senate, SUNY Fredonia (2000-2001).

Other University Service

• Faculty Advisor, Amnesty International, SUNY Fredonia (2003-2006, 2007-present).
• Moderator, "The Humanities in the Context of Community: A Roundtable," Being Human: Taking the Humanities Beyond the Classroom, First Annual Mary Louise White Symposium, SUNY Fredonia (2006).
• Appointed member, Fredonia Plan Committee, SUNY Fredonia (2004-2006). Student Learning Subcommittee, 2004-2006.
• Moderator, "War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Resolution," Sixty Years After the Nuremberg Trials: Crimes Against Humanity and Peace, A Conference Commemorating the Living Legacy of Robert H. Jackson, Chautauqua Institution (2005).
• Reader, Summer Undergraduate Fellowship, SUNY Fredonia (2003).
• Moderator, "Looking at Disabilities," "Dialogues on Diversity" film and lecture series, SUNY Fredonia (2002).
• Moderator, "Politics is Money: The Tax Cut-2001, Sept. 11th, and the Patterns of Government Spending--Who Won, Who Lost?," A Presidency Transformed by Crises: The George W. Bush Administration--An Early Appraisal, SUNY Fredonia (2002).
• Faculty Advisory Group: Vice President for Academic Affairs, SUNY Fredonia (1999-2002).
• Organizing Committee and Moderator, Teach-in on Terrorism, SUNY Fredonia (2001).
• Organizing Committee, Teach-in: Responses and Responsibility in the Wake of 9/11/01, SUNY Fredonia (2001).
• India Relief Fund Committee, SUNY Fredonia (2001).
• Graduate Fellow, Mathey Residential College, Princeton University (1996-1998).
• Writing Tutor, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (1992-1994, 1995-1997).
• Interdisciplinary Group on the Status of Unenrolled Graduate Students, Princeton University (1994).

Union Service

• Globalization and Corporatization Committee, United University Professions (2004-present).
• Elected Delegate, United University Professions Delegate Assembly (1999-2006).
• Vice President for Academics, Fredonia Chapter, United University Professions (2003-2006). Stepped down due to sabbatical leave, 2006.
• Delegate, Dunkirk Area Labor Council, New York State AFL-CIO (2001-2006). Stepped down due to sabbatical leave, 2006.
• Chair, Working Group on Post-National University Education, UUP Globalization and Corporatization Committee (2002-2004).
• Legislation Committee, United University Professions (2001-2005).
• Membership Development Officer, Fredonia Chapter, United University Professions (2001-2003).
• Secretary, Steering Committee, Reform Caucus, United University Professions (2001-2002).
• English Department Representative, United University Professions, SUNY Fredonia (1998-2000).