curriculum vitae
Matthew S. Tettleton
Department of English
226 UCB, Hellems 101
Boulder, CO 80309-0226
Education
PhD. student in Literature, University of Colorado Boulder, 2015-present
M.A. English, Texas Christian University, May 2015
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Dec. 2010
Publications
“Between These Lines: The Field of Play in American Literature and Culture.”
Master’s Thesis. Director: Dr. David Colón.
“Lunch Pails and Thugs: The Richard Sherman Saga, Sport Literature, and the Racial Discourse of American Sports.”
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XXXI.1 (Fall 2013 / Winter 2014); winner of the Sport Literature Association’s Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award.
Editor, “33nd Annual Sport Literature Association Conference Proceedings.” June 2016.
Editor, “32nd Annual Sport Literature Association Conference Proceedings.” June 2015.
Review of Michael Agovino’s The Soccer Diaries.
For the Sport Literature Association: http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/br141104.html, 4 Nov. 2014.
Conference Presentations
“Colin Kaepernick, Sporting Protest, and the Surveiled Black Body.”
Pop Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Conference. San Diego, CA, April 2017.
“Speaking Through Sport: Textual Echoes of Embodied Survivance in Indian Boarding Schools.”
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference. August 2016.
“Basketball in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”
Sport Literature Association Conference, Fredericton, NB, June 2016.
“Imagining Native Ecocriticisms.”
Native American & Indigenous Studies Graduate Conference, Boulder, CO. Dec. 2015.
“Sporting Ethos and the Soccer Fan Memoir.”
Sport Literature Association Conference, Johnson City, TN, June 2015.
“Lunch Pails and Thugs: The Richard Sherman Saga, Sport Literature, and the Racial Discourse of American Sports.”
Sport Literature Association Conference, Cranbrook, BC, 25 June 2014.
Appointments
Graduate Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder
Fall 2016—Spring 2017
English 1600—Masterpieces of American Literature
English 1800—American Ethnic Literatures
University Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
Fall 2016—Spring 2017
Research Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder
Fall 2015—Spring 2016
The Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture (RAP Lab), Dr. Adam Bradley
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas Christian University
Spring 2015
English 30133: American Literature to 1865
English 10133: Introduction to Literature: Utopias and Dystopias
Fall 2014
English 10133: Intro to Literature – The Body in American Literature & Culture
English 30573: African American Literature
Spring 2014
English 20503: Major American Writers (2 sections)
Fall 2013
English 20523: Sports in Modern American Literature
English 30503: The Roaring Twenties
Writing Tutor
University of Texas at Arlington Writing Center
Spring 2010- Fall 2010
Invited Lectures
“Colin Kaepernick, Sporting Protest, and the Surveiled Black Body.”
EGSC Works in Progress Colloquium. University of Colorado Boulder. 17 March 2017.
“Social Dreaming in W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘The Comet.’”
For Dr. Cedrick May’s “Utopias & Dystopias—Speculative Fiction and the World” undergraduate course. 2 Apr. 2015.
“Transcendentalism and Emerson’s Nature, Chapters V-VI.”
For Dr. Cedrick May’s “American Literature to 1865” undergraduate course. 31 Mar. 2015.
“Transcendentalism and Emerson’s Nature, Chapters VII-VIII.”
For Dr. Cedrick May’s “American Literature to 1865” undergraduate course. 2 Apr. 2015.
“Athletic Bodies in Brian Cuban’s Shattered Image.”
For Dr. Stacie McCormick’s “The Body in American Literature and Culture” undergraduate course. 18 Sept. 2014.
“Disability and Precarity in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.”
For Dr. Stacie McCormick’s “The Body in American Literature and Culture” undergraduate course. 30 Oct. 2014.
Honors & Awards
Newberry Library Consortium in American Indian Studies Summer Institute– 2016
University Fellowship- CU Boulder, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
Graduate School Travel Grant, CU Boulder, Summer 2016
English Department Travel Grant, CU Boulder, Fall 2015
Sport Literature Association Travel Grant, 2015, 2016
Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award, Sport Literature Association, 2014
UTA Dean’s List, 2009, 2010
Golden Key Honor Society, UTA
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, UTA
Memberships
MLA
PCA/ACA
Sport Literature Association
Service
CU Boulder
Graduate Writing Workshop Subcommittee Chair—Fall 2016.
Environmental Trajectories Conference volunteer—October 2016.
Ph.D. Application Workshops: Ph.D. Panelist and Reader. Sept. 2015
English Department Visit Day: Prospective Ph.D. student host. March 2016
TCU
“Graduate Student Research and Experience Roundtable.” TCU English Visit Day 2015—March 2015
“M.A. Program Panel” with Dr. Mona Narain, DGS. TCU English Visit Day 2014—April 2014
Sport Literature Association
Editor: Conference Proceedings, 2015, 2016.
Conference panel chair—2015, 2016.
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