University of Alaska Southeast Personnel

Assistant Professor of English

Work:796-6021

Fax: 796-6406

Email: kevin.maier@uas.alaska.edu

Faculty: Arts and Sciences - Humanities /
Campus: Juneau
Office: Soboleff Building 216

Education:

Ph.D. Department of English.  University of Oregon. 2006.

Structured Emphasis in Literature and Environment.
Passed oral examination with distinction.

Specializations: Literature and environment, 19^th and 20^th century American literature, rhetorical theory, rhetoric and composition, writing program administration. 

Dissertation: "The Environmental Rhetoric of American Hunting and Fishing Narratives: A Revisionist History" (Chair: Suzanne Clark).

Exploring the relationship between hunting and fishing narratives and the environmental movement that emerged in the Unites States around the turn of the twentieth century, I argue that sporting narratives--replete with their problematic celebration of machismo, weaponry, and death--should be part of any consideration of literary environmentalism. Beginning with a rhetorical analysis of "hook and bullet" stories published in popular late-nineteenth century magazines, I contend that one must be aware of the environmental tropes and figures prevalent in these popular hunting and fishing narratives to fully comprehend the environmental import of texts like Ernest Hemingway's Under Kilimanjaro, D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded, and William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.

M.A. Department of English.  University of Oregon.  2002.

B.A. Department of English.  Western Washington University.  1997. Cum Laude.  Junior Semester abroad, University of Hull, England.

Publications:

• "Hemingway's Ecotourism:  Under Kilimanjaro and the Ethics of African Travel." (under submission Fall 2008).
• "Hemingway's Hunting:  An Ecological Reconsideration." The Hemingway Review. 25.2 (2006): 119-122.
• Contributing editor. The Shape of Reason: Argumentative Writing in College. John T.Gage.  Fourth edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.

Affiliations:

Regional:

• Board Member, Alaska State Writer's Consortium.  National Writing Project.  Fall 2006-present.

University of Alaska Southeast:

• Editorial Board,Tidal Echoes (UAS literary journal). Fall 2008-present.
• Chair, Communication Search Committee. Fall 2008-present.
• Chair, UAS Sustainability Committee.  2007-present
• Faculty Advisor, UAS Bike Club. 2007-present.
• Chancellor's Task Force on Retention, Learning Communities Sub-Committee. Spring 2007-present.
• Portfolio Review Committee, English 110: Basic College Writing. Fall 2006-present.
• Learning CenterWriting Placement Test Scoring Committee, Spring 2008.
• English Curriculum Committee, 2006-2008.
• Co-Coordinator, UAS Spring Forum: Sustainability and Juneau Energy. 2007-2008.
• Chair, Bachelor of Liberal Arts Final Portfolio Committee. 2006-2007.
• Co-Coordinator, UAS Spring Forum on Sustaining Culture, Community, and Environment. 2006-2007.
• English Search Committee. 2005-2006.
• Bachelor of Liberal Arts Junior Portfolio Reader. 2004-5.
• Steering committee, Pacific Rim Forum: Interdisciplinary Conference on Economics and the Environment. 2004-2005

University of Oregon:

• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Host Institution Steering

Committee for 2005 Biennial Conference. 2004.

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  • Writing 122 College Composition II Curriculum Committee/Pilot Project.2004.
  • Composition Program Grammar Handbook Selection Committee. 2004
  • Assistant Director of Composition.  2003-2004.
  • Coordinator, University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference. September 2003.
  • Composition Committee.  2002-2003.
  • Shop Steward.  Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation Union. 2001-2004.

Courses Taught:

Courses taught (UAS): 

• English 493: Travel Writing (ISP Fall 2006)
• English 419: Major Authors, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Spring 2007.
• English 363: Nature Writing.  Fall 2004.  Fall 2006.  Fall 2008.
• English 225: Survey of American Literature I, Beginnings to 1865. Fall 2004. Fall 2006.
• English 226: Survey of American Literature II, 1865-present. Spring 2005. Spring 2007. Fall 2008.
• English 215: Introduction to Literary Criticism.  Fall 2008 (ISP).  Spring 2009. 
• English 111: Methods of Written Communication. Fall 2004 (two sections). Spring 2005 (two sections). Fall 2007 (two sections). Spring 2008 (two sections). Fall 2008.  
• English 110: Basic College Writing. Spring 2007.
• Humanities 393: Climate Change, Climate Solutions: Seminar on ClimateChange Advocacy and Activism. Summer 2008.   Humanities 193: Environment, Ethics, and the UAS Experience.  Team taught with Geologist Dr. Sonia Nagorski.  Summer 2007.
• Philosophy 271: Perspectives on the Natural World. Fall 2006.

Senior theses advised:

• Ben Crozier, "The Rhetoric of Arctic Travel Narratives." Fall 2008. 

Graduate Teaching Fellow.  University of Oregon. Fall 2000-Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Sring 2006.

Courses taught (UO):

• English 410: Americans in Paris. (Assistant to Dr. George Wickes). Summer 2002.
• English 222: Introduction to the Major III: American and British Literature, 1789-present.
• (Discussion sections for Dr. Paul Peppis). Spring 2004. Spring 2006.
• Writing 121: College Composition I. Fall 2001. Winter 2003. Summer 2004.
• Writing 122: College Composition II. Winter 2002. Spring 2002. Fall 2002. Spring 2003. Fall 2005.

Writing Lab Fellow.  University of Oregon. Academic Learning Services.  2000-2001. 

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS:

• Wilson Fund Travel Grant, Spring 2007. Fall 2007. Fall 2008.
• International Polar Year, National Science Foundation Outreach Grant, funding for Humanities 393 Course.  Summer 2008.
• University of Alaska Special Projects for Retention, funding for Humanities 193 Course. Summer 2007.  
• UAS Faculty Senate, Outstanding Teacher Award, Finalist.  2006-2007.
• Outstanding Composition Teacher Award.  Department of Composition, University of Oregon.  2001-2002.