THOMAS R. SIMONS 1160 Ridge Rd. Waukesha, WI (978)

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1 THOMAS R. SIMONS 1160 Ridge Rd. Waukesha, WI (978) EDUCATION Ph.D. : English Literature, 2009 Dissertation Being and the Imaginary: An Introduction to Aesthetic Phenomenology and English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to Romanticism James Najarian (Chair), Dennis Taylor, Jeffrey A. Hanson Major Field Oral Examination British Romanticism: The Romantic Imaginary: A Literary Anthropology (Fall 2004) (Passed with Distinction) J. Robert Barth, S.J. (Chair), James Najarian, Richard Kearney Minor Field Oral Examinations Victorian Literature: Phenomenology of Victorian / Late-Romantic Aesthetics: Dasein, Authenticity, and the Absolute (Fall 2003) (Passed with Distinction) John L. Mahoney (chair), J. Robert Barth, S.J., James Najarian Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Relation and Identity: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Ethics in the Eighteenth Century (Fall 2002) (Passed with Distinction) John L. Mahoney (Chair), J. Robert Barth, S.J., Richard Kearney M.A. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: English Literature, 1998 B.A. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: English Literature, 1991 PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Idealism, Dis-illusion, and Dissolution: A Dual Reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Dejection: An Ode and Constancy to an Ideal Object, The Coleridge Bulletin (revise & resubmit). Coleridge Beyond Kant and Hegel: Transcendent Aesthetics and the Dialectic Pentad. Studies in Romanticism 45 (2006):

2 Thomas R. Simons 2 Prometheus and the Process of Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Shelley s Prometheus Unbound. JUNG: The e-journal of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies 2.5 (2006). Book Reviews Review of Jeremy Begbie s s Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God, Religion and the Arts (forthcoming). Review of Gary Gutting s Talking God: Philosophers on Belief, Religion and the Arts 21.3 (2017): Review of Simon Haines s Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination, Religion and the Arts 20:3 (2016): Review of Monika Class s Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, , Review 19 (2014). Review of Joel Harter s Coleridge s Philosophy of Faith, Religion and the Arts 16.3 (2012): Poetry Psyche Offering Venus the Waters of the Styx, Padova: Sunday Afternoon, and Response to the Bowmen of Shu. Sextant 20.1 (2012): Santa Teresa di Avila in Ecstasy and In-Vocation. Fait Accomplit: The Literary Miscellany of the Comparative Literature Association of the University of Alberta (Winter 2002): 68; HONORS AND AWARDS MAP Works (Making Achievement Possible): Integral Part of Student Success, Salem State University, 2014 Graduate Fellowship,, University Fellowship, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, CONFERENCES "Rejection, Dis-illusion, and Dissolution in Coleridge's 'Constancy to an Ideal Object, " MMLA Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 11, 2005.

3 Thomas R. Simons 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE (DESIGNED AND TAUGHT ALL COURSES), Visiting Assistant Professor (2017-present) Foundations in Rhetoric (multiple sections) Literature History, and Culture: American Noir Crime in Literature and Film (multiple sections) Rhetoric and Composition 1: Academic Literacies (multiple sections) Rhetoric and Composition 2: Public Literacies (multiple sections) Salem State University, Visiting Lecturer ( ) Classics of World Literature I and II (multiple sections) Composition I and II (multiple sections) Composition for English Majors Literature II (Reading Closely): Wordsworth s The Prelude & Coleridge s Biographia Literaria Romantic Epic & Spiritual Autobiography (and individual directed study) Shakespeare II (and individual directed study) World Literature I and II (multiple sections), Teaching Fellow ( ) The Romantic Imagination Literature and Society (Crime and Literature) Studies in Poetry (multiple sections), Graduate Assistant (2002) Introduction to British Literature and Culture II: 1700 to the Present (discussion section) Invited Lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Imagination Hamilton School District (Sussex, WI) (1999) Substitute Teacher (Grades 6-12) Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Teaching Fellow ( ) English Composition I and II (multiple sections) English Composition II (special admissions section) The Western Literary Tradition PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association

4 Thomas R. Simons 4 LANGUAGES German; Latin RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS 18 th -Century British Literature (poetry and non-fiction prose) Romantic Period British Literature (poetry and non-fiction prose) Anglo-German Transnational Romanticism(s) Philosophy and Literature Aesthetics The Imagination and the Imaginary Film Studies REFERENCES Professor James Najarian (Advisor) Stokes Hall S Commonwealth Avenue najariaj@bc.edu (617) Professor Jenn Fishman Marquette Hall 115C jenn.fishman@marquette.edu Professor Melissa J. Ganz Marquette Hall 226 melissa.ganz@marquette.edu Professor Angela Sorby Marquette Hall 115A/210 angela.sorby@marquette.edu

5 Thomas R. Simons 5 Professor Nancy Schultz English Department Salem State University 352 Lafayette Street Salem, MA nancy.schultz@salemstate.edu Professor Dennis Taylor Stokes Hall, 4 th Floor South 140 Commonwealth Avenue taylor@bc.edu (508) My dossier is available from: Linda Michel Stokes Hall 401S (617) linda.michel@bc.edu