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David A. Stivers

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Delaware
  • M.A., English, Carnegie Mellon University
  • B.A., English, Oregon State University

Credentials

Teaching experience

  • Professor of liberal arts, 2007–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Lecturer, 2005–07, North Carolina State University
  • Graduate teaching assistant, 2002–05, University of Delaware

Professional experience

  • Library assistant, August 2006–August 2007, Reference Department, North Regional Library, Wake County Public Libraries, Raleigh, NC
  • Editorial assistant, September 2004–July 2004, University of Delaware Press
  • Archival assistant, July 2003–February 2004, Karl Böer Papers, Special Collections, Morris Library, University of Delaware

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Sabbatical Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer 2017
  • Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer 2012
  • Student Ambassador’s Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, March 2010
  • Course Development Grant, First Year Inquiry Program, North Carolina State University, Spring 2007

Organizations

  • Modern Language Association
  • Literature/Film Association

Publications and presentations

Article

  • "Witnessing the Invisible: Narrative Mediation in The Princess Casamassima," The Henry James Review 28.2, May 2007

Papers and presentations

  • "The Game's Afoot: Transforming Space in Board Game Adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles," presented at Literature/Film Association Conference, New Orleans, December 2018.
  • "Read It Again: Dashiell Hammett's Twice Told Tale," presented at American Literature Symposium: Criminal America, Chicago, March 2017.
  • "Read All About It: Crime in the News and Dashiell Hammett's Short Fiction," presented at Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. February 2016.
  • "Out of Print: Reading the News in Dashiell Hammett's Short Fiction," invited speaker at the Department of English Colloquium Series on Literature, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D., November 2014.
  • "'Barred Doors and Mysterious Places': Assimilation and Vice in Willson and Hammett," presented at Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Harrisburg, Pa., April 2014.
  • "Firing from the Archive: Documents, Bullets and Don DeLillo's Libra," presented at Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., February 2013.
  • "'A Tale the World Has Grown Tired of Hearing:' Russians in America and Dashiell Hammett's 'The Gutting of Couffignal,'" presented at Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., February 2012.
  • "'A Real as a Dime': Naturalism, Narratives, and the Newspaper in Dashiell Hammett's 'The Gutting of Couffignal,'" presented at American Literature Association Symposium, Savannah, Ga., September 2011
  • "Rituals of Archival Memory in Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence," presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature after 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky, February 2011.
  • "The Curator, the Archive, and History in Don DeLillo's Libra," presented at Based on a True Story: Factional Representations of JFK in Literature and Film, John F. Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D., September 2008.
  • "Black Death: Race, Disease, and Containment in John A. Williams's The Man Who Cried I Am," presented at Literature and Pathology Conference, UC Davis, Davis, Calif., March 2008.
  • "Reasonable Paranoia in The Man Who Cried I Am and Mumbo Jumbo," presented at American Literature II: Political Plots and Literary Manifestations post-1900, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Charlotte, N.C., November 2006.
  • "Evaluating Student Writing in English 101: Evaluation Criteria in Action," presented at First Year Writing Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., November 2006.
  • "Finding the Truth: Archival Practices in Popular Conspiracy Narratives," presented at Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture Research Area, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, April 2006.
  • "Enlightenment Infiltrations: John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy and the Illuminati Threat," presented at The Da Vinci Code and the Eighteenth Century: Fact and Fiction Regarding the Masons, Secret Societies, and the Illuminati, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Las Vegas, March 2005.
  • "Contested Histories, Missing Texts: Interpreting Ruptures in the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy," presented at Historical Conspiracies and Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Diego, March 2005.
  • "Secret Letters, Hidden Motivations: The Illuminations of Weishaupt, Robison, and Brown," presented at The Occult Enlightenment I, Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Diego, December 2003.
  • "Revealing the Real Witness in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond: or, The Secret Witness," presented at The "I" of the Beholder, Narrative Voice and Imagined Reality, New York College English Association Fall Conference, Rochester, N.Y., October 2003.
  • "Time, Space, and the Other Identities of Global Capital," presented at Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, 20th Century Studies Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, Del., April 2003.