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Galat - Website CV
Galat - Website CV
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EDUCATION
2012 M.A.T., English Language Arts Education (Grades 6-12) with ESOL
Endorsement; University of Central Florida.
2010 B.A. (summa cum laude), English and Classical Studies; University of Florida.
EMPLOYMENT
PUBLICATIONS
“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.” Journal of Modern
Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 2019, Forthcoming.
“Resisting Science: The Criminality of Physiognomy and Gesture in Kafka’s The Trial.” Journal
of the Kafka Society of America, vol. 40/41, no. 1/2, 2016/17, pp. 60-74.
“‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the Autobiography of Mark
Twain.” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 33-67.
Manuscripts in Submission
“Joseph Conrad and Scientific Naturalism: Revolutionizing Epistemology in The Secret Agent.”
Under review at The Review of English Studies.
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Manuscripts in Preparation
2018 Disability Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards,
“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.”
2017 Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies (First Place), Purdue University
Literary Awards, “The Anamorphosis of the Real.”
2017 LGBTQ Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards, “‘All of
us shall dance in the snow’: Emily Holmes Coleman and a Post-Material
Aesthetics of Existence.”
2015 Partner University Fund Fellowship, Purdue University and Université Paris
Ouest - Nanterre La Défense.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Purdue University
Accelerated Composition Through Service Learning – ENGL 108-S (Instructor of Record): Fall
2017
-An advanced first-year composition course emphasizing service learning, research, and
community involvement
-A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course emphasizing identity and cultural
reflection
Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics – ENGL 106 (Instructor of Record): Fall 2014;
Spring 2015; Fall 2015; Spring 2016
-A first-year composition, rhetoric, and research course emphasizing writing and technology
World Literature – LIT 2110 (Graduate Teaching Assistant): Spring 2013; Fall 2013; Spring
2014
-An online, introductory survey course of world literature that explores a variety of genres and
cultural contexts
English II, English III Honors, and English IV. Edgewater High School: 2010-11.
TEACHING AWARDS
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
National Conferences
2017 “Beauty in the Breakdown: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Aesthetics of
Queer Disruption.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900.
Louisville, KY, February 23-25.
2015 “The Hospitality of the Law and The Trial for the De-Facement of the Other.”
North American Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.
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2015 “Pedagogy Session: Midrashic Reading and Levinas’s ‘Judaism and Revolution.’”
North American Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.
2015 “Lacan and Mathematics.” French and Analytic Approaches to Science in the 20th
Century and Today. Nancy, France, June 15-19.
2014 “Becoming American: John Davis’s Unruly Pocahontas and the Formation of a
Transnational American Literature.” Economies Graduate Student Conference.
Columbia, SC, April 4-5.
2014 “This Dead Man Tells Lots of Tales: The Authorial Revenant and Mark Twain’s
Autobiography.” AUMLAC Southern Studies Conference. Montgomery, AL,
February 7-8.
2014 “Was Billy Budd Castrated?” Southern Humanities Council. Richmond, VA.
January 30-February 2.
2013 “‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the
Autobiography of Mark Twain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Atlanta, GA, November 8-10.
2013 “The Politics of Diaspora: Position, Identity, and Representation in the Global
Hierarchy.” Wish You Were Here EGO Conference. Gainesville, FL, October 24-
26.
2014 Conference Co-Organizer. Third Annual English Symposium. The Other That Is
(Not) Me, University of Central Florida, February 2014.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
REFERENCES
(309) 259-0328
dilger@purdue.edu