Faculty: Chris Schedler

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., English; University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999
• M.A., English; University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995
• B.A., English and Religion with Honors; Wesleyan University, 1990

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, English, Central Washington University, 2003-present
• Lecturer, English, UC Santa Barbara, 2000-2003
• Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2002
• Director of Instructional Design, Mindflash Technologies, 2000-2003

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Interests & Specialties

• American Literature after 1865
• Modernism
• Comparative U.S. Ethnic Literatures
• American Indian Literature
• Chicano/a Literature
• African American Literature
• Latin American Literature
• Postcolonial and Border Theory

Teaching Awards & Honors

• Excellence in Teaching Award Alumni Association, Central Washington University , 2005

Courses Taught
English Department, Central Washington University

• Transatlantic Modernisms (Graduate)
• Multicultural Feminisms (Graduate)
• Thesis/Project Colloquium (Graduate)
• Postmodern Fiction & Theory (Graduate)
• Border Modernism (Graduate)
• Studies in Major American Writers: Morrison, Silko, Castillo
• Studies in Major American Writers: Pynchon, Vonnegut, Vizenor
• Studies in Major American Writers: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner
• American Novel II: 1940-Present
• American Literature II: 1865-Present
• American Indian Literature
• Global Perspectives in Literature: Latin America (Online)
• Multicultural Literature
• Introduction to the Literary Imagination
• English Composition: Academic Argument

College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara

• Chicano/a Literature
• Studies in American Literary Modernism
• Border Theory
• Native American Literature

English Department, UC Santa Barbara

• African American Literature
• Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, and Internet
• Introduction to Literary Studies
• Multicultural Modernism