Dr. Arthur "Chip"
Rogers
Department of English
Macon State College
100
College Station Drive
Macon,
GA
31206
(478) 742-8957 / (478) 471-5366
chip@chipspage.com
/ chip.rogers@maconstate.edu
www.chipspage.com
EDUCATION
University of
Tennessee,
Knoxville
Ph.D. in English Literature, 2002.
Dissertation: "Dickens and His Intrusive First-Person
'Authors.'" Director, Dr. Don R. Cox.
University of
North Carolina
at
Charlotte
M.A. in English Literature, 1992.
Thesis: "Fielding and His Reader in Tom Jones." Director,
Dr. Frederick N. Smith.
Duke University
B.A. in English Literature, 1985.
Leningrad
State
University
Certificate in Russian Language and Cultural Studies, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Macon State College, Department of English, 2007-present.
- English 1101, English Composition I.
- English 1102, English Composition II.
- English 2111, World Literature I.
- English 2121, British Literature I.
- English 2122, British Literature II.
- English 3106, Professional Communication.
- English 3700, The Novel.
- English 4470, Contemporary Literature.
- English 4500, 20th Century British Poetry and Prose.
Assistant Professor, Rogers State University, Dept. of Communications
and Fine Arts, 2004-2007.
- English 0003, Basic Writing.
- English 1113, Composition I.
- English 1213, Composition II.
- English 1213H, Honors Composition II.
- English 2313R, World Literature
to 1600.
- English 2543R, British Literature to 1700.
- English 2613, Introduction to Literature.
- English 2773, American Literature to 1865.
- English 3123, Advanced Composition.
- English 4223, Shakespeare.
Visiting Assistant Professor, The Citadel, Department of English,
2003-2004.
- English 101 and 102, Composition
and Literature I and II.
- English 201, British Literature
through the 18th Century.
- Supervised
English Department's Adjunct Instructors.
Visiting Instructor,
College
of
Charleston,
Department of English, 1999-2003. Adjunct Instructor 1998-1999.
- Full-time 4/4 teaching load
of English 101 and 102, Composition and Literature I and II.
Graduate Teaching Associate,
University
of
Tennessee,
Department of English, 1993-1998.
- English 101 and 102,
Composition I and II.
- English 202, Survey of British
Literature from 1800 to the Present.
- English 258, Introduction to
Fiction.
- Trained three
graduate assistants for independent teaching.
Tutor and
Mentor,
University of
Tennessee,
Women's Athletic Department, 1994-1998.
- Tutored English and writing
across a variety of disciplines.
- Long-term mentoring of selected
students in all aspects of academic performance.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Publications:
- "Universality in The Death of Ivan Ilych." Tolstoy Studies Journal 21 (2009): 49-55.
- "John Grisham." Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones, eds. New York: Facts on
File, 2009. 137-39.
- "Mitla Pass." Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones, eds. New York: Facts on File, 2009. 247-48.
- "'Guests of the Nation,' by Frank O'Connor." Companion
to the British Short Story. Andrew Maunder, ed. New York: Facts on
File, 2006. 174-75.
- "John Fowles." Multicultural
Writers Since 1945.
Alba Amoia
and Bettina Knapp, eds.
Westport,
Connecticut:
Greenwood
Press, 2004.
216-20.
- "Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn." Multicultural Writers Since 1945.
Alba Amoia
and Bettina Knapp, eds.
Westport,
Connecticut:
Greenwood
Press, 2004. 473-77.
- "Leon Uris." Multicultural
Writers Since 1945.
Alba Amoia
and Bettina Knapp, eds.
Westport,
Connecticut:
Greenwood
Press, 2004.
505-9.
- The Jazz Age:
Charleston
and Beyond.
Ed. by Arthur "Chip"
Rogers.
Charleston,
South Carolina:
The
College
of
Charleston, 2003.
150p.
- "Charles Dickens." Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945.
Alba
Amoia
and Bettina Knapp, eds.
Westport,
Connecticut:
Greenwood
Press, 2002. 87-90.
- "Percy Bysshe Shelley." Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945.
Alba
Amoia
and Bettina Knapp, eds.
Westport,
Connecticut:
Greenwood
Press, 2002. 374-77.
- "The Pianist and the Pitcher." Shadow Magazine Fall 1996: 14-19. (fiction)
Conference and Workshop Presentations:
- "The Dickens in Esther: Autobiographical Implications in Bleak House." 2011 Victorians Institute Conference: Charles Dickens: Past, Present, and Future. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, October 21, 2011.
- "Using Websites in Large Multidisciplinary Projects," in "An Examination of Cross-Disciplinary Projects and the Intricacies of Staging and Planning." 2006 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Clemson,
South Carolina, May 2006.
- "Poetry, Everyday Life, and Composition." Spring Writing Symposium 2006. Oklahoma City Community College. April 2006.
- "The Illusion of Universality in Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych." Colloquium for Humanities Research. Rogers State University. March 2006.
- Discussion leader, "Composition and Theory: Literature in the Composition
Classroom." National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention.
Indianapolis, Indiana, November 19, 2004.
- Panelist, "Theme Day: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning."
Second Annual
Charleston
Connections Conference: Innovations in Higher Education. The Citadel,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
May 31, 2002.
- "Information Exchange/Resource for Course Materials," College
of Charleston English Department workshop, September 1999.
- "Productive Classroom Discussion,"
University
of
Tennessee
English
Graduate Student Teaching Seminar, August 1997.
- "Student Conferences,"
University
of
Tennessee
English
Graduate Student Teaching Seminar, August 1996.
- "Effective Peer Review,"
University
of
Tennessee
English
Graduate Student Teaching Seminar, August 1995.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
- Academic Advising, Macon State College, 2008-present.
- Webmaster, Macon State College Department of English website (http://english.maconstate.edu), 2010-2011.
- Student Discipline Board, Macon State College, 2008-2011.
- Faculty Advisor, Alpha Rho Sigma (ARS), the Macon State College chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, 2010-present.
- Board Member, Crossroads Writers' Conference, Macon, Georgia, 2009-2011.
- Department of English Academic Success Committee, Macon State College, 2009-2011.
- Department of English Advising Committee, Macon State College, 2009-present.
- English Senior Project advisor, Macon State College, 2009-present.
- Communications & Information Technology Senior Project advisor, Macon State College, 2008-2009.
- University Curriculum Committee, Rogers State University, 2006-2007.
- Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee, Department of Communications and Fine Arts, Rogers State University, 2006-2007.
- Chair, Plagiarism Task Force,
Department of Communications and Fine Arts, Rogers State University, 2004-2007.
- Webmaster, Claremore Reads Together, Claremore, Oklahoma (http://www.claremorereads.com), 2006-2008.
- Assessment Committee, Department
of Communications and Fine Arts, Rogers State University, 2004-2006.
AA-Liberal Arts Chair 2004-2005.
- Strategic Planning Committee,
Rogers State University, 2004-2005.
- Secretary, Enrollment Management
Committee, Rogers State University, 2004-2006.
- Academic Advising, Rogers State University, 2005-2007.
- New Faculty Mentor, Rogers State University, 2005-2006.
- Senior Capstone Project Mentor, Rogers State University, 2005-2007.
- Faculty Advisor, Student Theatre Organization, Rogers State University,
2004-2005.
- Supervisor of The Citadel English Department's Adjunct Instructors,
2003-2004.
- Web page design/webmaster,
College
of
Charleston
's Office of Summer Sessions
website (http://summer.cofc.edu),
2002-2005.
- Web page design/webmaster,
College
of
Charleston
's 2003 Jazz Age Retrospective
website (http://www.cofc.edu/jazzage).
- College of Charleston English Department's Technology Committee, 2000-2003.
-
College
of
Charleston
's
Interdisciplinary Theme Day Committee, 1999-2003.
- Academic Advising, College of Charleston, 1998-1999.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Nineteenth-Century British literature (Romantic
and Victorian).
- The novel (history and narrative theory).
- Russian literature and culture.
- American literature before 1900.
- Composition.
LANGUAGES
- Reading knowledge of Russian.
- Reading knowledge of French.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Modern Language Association.
- Victorians Institute.
- National Council of Teachers
of English.
- The Tolstoy Society of North America.
References and dossier available upon request via
email.