Thomas D. Horan

Assistant Professor of English

English Department, The Citadel
171 Moultrie Street
Charleston, SC 29409

(617) 694-4953, tom.horan@citadel.edu

 

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill, NC

            Ph. D. (English)                                                   (2006)                    

            Major: Twentieth-Century British Literature

            Minor: Contemporary Drama

M.A. (English)                                                     (2001)

 

CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, NY

            J.D.                                                                      (1999)             

            Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar on January 6, 2000

            Admitted to the North Carolina Bar on December 7, 2001

 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA

            A. B. (English)                                                     (1996)             

           

DISSERTATION: “Sexual Revolutions: Desire as Rebellion in the Twentieth-Century Dystopian Novel”

Focusing on the twentieth-century dystopian novel, my dissertation explores the mobilization of sexual desire as a force for moral regeneration within and against the totalitarian state. Though the nightmare worlds I consider span the political spectrum, each insists that personal and societal liberation depend on a belief in transcendence rooted, unexpectedly, in eroticism rather than religious conviction. From the critical perspective provided by this genre, my analysis ultimately questions current attempts to legislate morality and criminalize certain sexual behaviors and identities.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

James Gaskin Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition,

            UNC Department of English (2004-2005)

Laurence Avery Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Literature,

UNC Department of English (2003-2004)

            Bahr Travel Grant, UNC Department of English (2001)

            Justice of the Peace, appointed by Massachusetts Governor William Weld  

(1995-2001)

            Cum Laude Graduate of Harvard University (1996)

            Harvard College Academic Scholarship Recipient, Harvard University

(1993-1994)

 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

            “Revolution from the Waist Down: Desire as Rebellion in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s

We, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Extrapolation (accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue).

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“From the Iron Heel to the Bible Belt: Faith and Fascism in the Fiction of Jack London and Margaret Atwood.” Presented at the Conference of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA), San Diego, California (April 2005).

 

“A King Fit for a Meal: the Body as Food under Mosaic Law.” Presented at the Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) and the American Culture Association (ACA), San Antonio, Texas (April 2004).

 

“The Technology of Repression and the Erotics of Rebellion in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference, Hartford, Connecticut (March 2001).

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

            20th-Century Dystopian Fiction

            Modern and Contemporary British Drama

            Law and Literature

           

TEACHING

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of English, The Citadel (fall 2006-

present)

                        Composition and Literature I: “Basic composition” (fall 2006)

                        Major British Authors II: “William Blake to Philip Larkin” (fall 2006)

 

            TEACHING FELLOW, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill (fall 2000-

spring 2006)

19th-and 20th -Century British Literature: “William Wordsworth to T.S.

Eliot”—full responsibility—(fall 2005)

Legal Writing: “Introduction to the First-Year Law Class”—full

responsibility—(fall 2005, fall 2004, spring 2004, spring 2003, spring 2002)

Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature: “Law and Literature of

Empire”—full responsibility—(spring 2005)

Composition in Professional Communities: “Library Research and

Analytical Articles”—full responsibility—(spring 2005, fall 2002,

fall 2001, spring 2001)  

Modern and Contemporary Drama: “Theatre as Public Forum”—full

responsibility—(spring 2004)

English Composition and Rhetoric: “Developing a Thesis and Justifying

its Importance”—full responsibility—(fall 2003, fall 2000)

Film Criticism—Graduate Instructor: “Flicks for Thought”—section

leader—(fall 2002)

 

            LAW INSTUCTOR, Duke University Talent Identification Summer Program

(2002-2006): three-week, full-day courses for gifted secondary school students.

“Criminal Trial Advocacy: Litigation Strategies and Criminal Procedure”                      

(June and July 2006, June 2005, July 2004, June 2003)

“Clear and Present Danger: Political Speech in Times of Crisis”

(July 2005, June 2004, July 2003, June 2002)

 

TEACHING ASSISTANT, Building Enterprises for Learning and Living (B.E.L.L.) Foundation, Cambridge, MA (July-August 1998)

Taught phonetic reading strategies to African-American children working

below grade level.

 

SUBSTITUTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER, Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA (June 1998)

Led kindergarten, first, third, and fifth grade classes.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

PRE-LAW ADVISOR, UNC-Chapel Hill (2002-2003)

Met with undergraduates, critiqued drafts of personal statements, helped with LSAT preparation and school selection, served as liaison between students and administrators.                       

 

COORDINATING GROUP LEADER, UNC-Chapel Hill (spring 2003)

Selected by Writing Program to lead discussion meetings on teaching issues affecting graduate instructors.

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

            READER, Fiction Staff, Carolina Quarterly, Chapel Hill, NC (1999-2000)

 

            NEWS EDITOR, Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, MA (1994-1996)

 

PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS

            FUTURE FACULTY PROGRAM, an intensive, competitively selected five-day

seminar on teaching techniques and faculty life. Center for Teaching and

Learning, UNC-Chapel Hill, August 13-19, 2003.