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Nelson Shake

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Texas A&M University
  • M.A., English, Georgia Southern University
  • B.A., English, Harding University

Credentials

  • Professor of English, September 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Graduate assistant, Fall 2014–August 2018, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Designed and taught courses that included rhetorical modes, strategies for effective argumentative writing, methods of research, covered multiple genres of literature and the craft of effective argumentative writing on literary texts, effective methods of professional and technical writing, and textual and graphic novels across modernist and postmodernist literary periods utilizing a transnational American perspective.
  • Instructor, Fall 2013–Spring 2014
    Designed and taught an online course on the Desire2Learn platform that surveyed post-Enlightenment texts and literary genres from across the world, emphasizing the practices of close reading.

    Graduate assistant, Fall 2012–Spring 2013
    Designed and taught a course that surveyed various texts and literary genres from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the Enlightenment, emphasizing the practices of close reading through class discussion and writing.

    Student discussion leader in “Recitation” pilot program, Spring 2012
    Led five weekly 50-minute study labs for 125 students as part of an initiative to help improve student performance.

    Teaching assistant, Fall 2011, Department of Literature, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
    Graded exams, taught several class periods, met with students who sought assistance.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Dissertation Fellow, Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University, 2018–19
  • Graduate Merit Award for University Fees, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Fall 2015 and Fall 2017
  • Research Travel Grants, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Spring 2015, Summer 2017, Spring 2018
  • Summertime Advanced Research (STAR) Fellowship, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Summer 2017
  • Graduate Student Travel Award, Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University, Spring 2017
  • First place, 2013 Research Symposium, College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Southern University, Spring 2013
  • Averitt Scholarship, College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Southern University, Fall 2012
  • Research Travel Grants, College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Southern University, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013
  • Research Travel Grants, Department of Literature, Georgia Southern University, Fall 2012, Spring 2013

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "The Neoliberal Production of Cultural Citizenship in Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 50, no. 1, 2019, pp. 145-74.

Presentations

  • "Walker Percy, the Symbolic Complex, and Neoliberal Performativity," presented at You Are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, March 2018.
  • "Language and the Long View of Neoliberal Fallout in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony," presented at American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017.
  • "'The collapsible space between us': The Interstitial Authorial Voice of What Is the What," presented at American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA, March 2015.
  • "The 'Religious' Pilgrimage Towards Economic Paradise in 'Goodbye, Columbus,'" presented at American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2013.
  • "Reading the New Narratives: An Introduction to Literary Transnationalism," presented at 2013 Research Symposium, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, March 2013.
  • "'You'll wear a hat like this': Dissecting the True Self of Mustafa Sa'eed in Season of Migration to the North," presented at British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA, February 2013.
  • "Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zadie Smith's White Teeth," presented at Borders and Beyond: Considering Communities, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 2012.
  • "'Not content to live like that': The Subculture of Music in Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk," presented at Alpha Chi Convention, Little Rock, AR, March 2010.