Courses Taught at Illinois State University:
American Modernism
African-American Literature
Cultural Theory
Studies in Poetry
Studies in Drama
Survey of English Literature
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Milton
Shakespeare
Marxist Theory
Doctoral Seminar in Literary Theory and Pedagogy
Bible as Literature
Gender in the Humanities


	Ronald Strickland Professor of English Illinois State University Ph. D.: English Literature, Syracuse University, 1987
	Areas of Expertise:	Literary and Cultural Studies, Pedagogy and Critical Theory
	Administrative Experience:	Graduate Director, English Department, 1999-2004
	Publications: Books: Growing Up Postmodern: Neoliberalism and the War on the Young (editor and introduction) Washington: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. After Political Correctness: New Directions for the Humanities (co-editor and introduction with Christopher Newfield). Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Articles and Chapters: "The Humanities and their Boundaries." JAC (Journal of Avanced Composition), Fall, 2006. "The Decline of Privilege and the Rise of Privatization in Public Higher Education." In Toward Deprivatized Pedagogy, edited by Diana C. Bell and Margaret Nugent. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006. "Nothing that is Human is Alien to Me: Neoliberalism and the End of Bildung." Révue des Littératures de l'Union Européenne, September 2005, 1-12. "Preface." Agboka, Godwin, English Literature Made Easy. Accra: Royal Nark, 2005, i-ii. "English Studies at Illinois State University: Growing Old, Growing New" (co-written with Jan Neuleib and Ron Fortune). In Teaching, Research and Service in the Twenty-First Century English Department. Mellen Studies in Education 94 (2004). "Gender, Class and Vocationalism in the Corporate University." Genders 35 (Spring 2002). "Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change." In Beyond the Corporate University, eds. Henry Giroux and Kostas Myrsiades. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, 73-87 (reprint). "An Interview with Barbara Foley." Mediations 22 (1998), 57-63. "Postmodern Pedagogy and the Death of Civic Humanism." Social Epistemology 12 (Spring, 1998), 339-48. "Pedagogy and Public Accountability." In Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere, ed. Amitava Kumar. New York: New York University Press, 1997, 163-76. "Every Which Way but Left." Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 17 (Spring, 1995) 35-42. "Going Public" (with Christopher Newfield). In After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 1-20. "The Autonomous Individual and the Anonymous Referee." College Literature 21 (October, 1994), 72-8. "The Campus Climate and the Politics of Change: An Interview with Thomas P. Wallace." (with Thomas P. Wallace). In After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 286-96. "Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change." College Literature 21 (February 1994), 1-14. This essay was reprinted in After Political Correctness (1995), and again in Beyond the Corporate University (2002)115-30. "Teaching Shakespeare Against the Grain," in James Davis and Ronald Salamone, eds. Teaching Shakespeare Today. Urbana: NCTE, 1993, 168-78. "Not So Idle Tears: Re-Reading the Renaissance Funeral Elegy." Review 13 (1992), 47-65. "Confrontational Pedagogy and the Introductory Literature Course." In James Cahalan and David Downing, eds., Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses. Urbana: NCTE, 1992. "A Response to Maxine Hairston." College Composition and Communication 43 (1992), 250-52. "Are We Being Political Yet?" Mediations 16 (Summer, 1992), 5-10. "Pageantry and Poetry as Ideological Discourse: The Production of Subjectivity in Sir Philip Sidney's Funeral." ELH (English Literary History) 57 (Spring, 1990), 19-36. "Confrontational Pedagogy and Traditional Literary Studies." College English 52 (March, 1990), 291-300. "Review of Paul Smith, Discerning the Subject." Textual Practice 4 (Summer, 1990), 324-29. "Review of Terry Eagleton, Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985. Poetics Today 110 (Fall, 1989), 635-37. "Formalism and Discourse Theory," (Review of John Frow, Marxism and Literary History). Novel: A Forum on Fiction 22 (Fall, 1988), 111-12. Review of Laura C. Stevenson, Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature. Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (Summer, 1988), 125-26.
	Courses Taught at Illinois State University: American Modernism African-American Literature Cultural Theory Studies in Poetry Studies in Drama Survey of English Literature Introduction to Graduate Studies Milton Shakespeare Marxist Theory Doctoral Seminar in Literary Theory and Pedagogy Bible as Literature Gender in the Humanities
	Other Teaching Experience: Visiting Professor, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, 2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, 1983-1987 Instructor, Syracuse University London Centre, 1985 Instructor, DeRuyter High School, DeRuyter, New York, 1980

	Awards, Grants and Consulting: National Endowment for the Humanities, "Text Variants and Teaching Shakespeare: An Institute for Secondary English Teachers." (Co-Director, with Ron Fortune) Summer, 2005 ($157,000) Extended University Grant for On-line Course Development, 2001 ($6,000: to develop an on-line version of English 401: Introduction to Graduate Studies) Extended University Grant for On-Line Course Development, 1999 ($6,000: to develop an on-line graduate course in Marxist Theory) Illinois State University Team Leadership Initiative Award 1998 (with the Border Subjects Conference Committee) David A. Strand Diversity Award, Illinois State University, 1997 Outstanding University Teacher Award, Illinois State University, 1996 "Literature and the Modern Experience in Africa," 1996, summer institute at the University of Ghana-Legon, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($5,700) "Cultural Diversity and Critical Pedagogy," consultant and seminar director, Bradley University Center for Teaching Excellence (Lilly Endowment Funded Workshop), 1993-4 ($6,000) College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award, Illinois State University 1993 Newberry Library Institute in English Archival Sciences, 1990: funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($3,000) "Recovering the Discursive Contexts of Renaissance Funeral Poems," 1990; funded by the Newberry Library Center For Renaissance Studies ($1,500) "The Ideological Functions of Renaissance Funeral Practices," 1990: funded by the American Council of Learned Societies ($3,000) "Cultural Diversity and Critical Pedagogy II" Illinois State University Teaching Improvement Program Grant 1991 ($6,000) "Cultural Diversity and Critical Pedagogy I" Illinois State University Teaching Improvement Program Grant 1990 ($6,000) College of Arts and Sciences Research Initiative Award, 1989 ($250)
	Journal Editing and Editorial Board Service: Editor: Mediations, the Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, 1991-2000 Member of Editorial Boards: Early Modern Culture Works and Days Cultural Logic Journal of Public Ethics E-Server Referee/Peer Reviewer for: Early Modern Culture Works and Days Cultural Logic Journal of Public Ethics E-Server PMLA College Literature National Council of Teachers of English ARIEL Westview Press SUNY Press Blackwell Routledge
	Selected University Service: President, Illinois State University Faculty Association, 1999-2002 Organizing Committee, Shakespeare in America Conference, 2001-2002 Academic Senate, 1989-91; 1993-95; 1997-2000 Extended University Oversight Committee, 2003-present David A. Strand Diversity Award Selection Committee, 2000-prsent Chair, Budget and Finance Committee, Academic Senate1998-2000 Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee to Review Shared Governance, 1997-98 University Teaching Committee, 1995-98 Chair, Organizing Committee, Border Subjects Conference, 1996-1999 Foundations of Inquiry Course Development Committee, 1995-1996 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Status Committee, 1994-1995 University Minority Retention Committee, 1989-1992