MATTHEW S. HARTMAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001-present: Ball State University, Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English – State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999 Dissertation: Making Progress: Pragmatism and the Utopian Imagination in Modern American Literature. Committee: Arthur Efron (director), Carrie Tirado-Bramen, and James Bunn.

M.A., English – Ohio University, 1993 B.A., English, summa cum laude – Western Michigan University, 1990

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Rhetoric and composition, American literature, humanities, film studies

AWARDS C. Warren Vander Hill Award for Distinguished Teaching in Honors Education, 2016-2017 Writing Program Faculty Teaching Award, 2011-2012 Eugenio Battisti Award for outstanding essay in Utopian Studies, 1999

TEACHING EXPERIENCE English ENG 103: Rhetoric and Writing ENG 104: Composing Research ENG 205: World Literature ENG 210: Introduction to English Studies ENG 230: Reading and Writing about Literature ENG 240: American Literature 1 ENG 250: American Literature 2 ENG 346: Studies in 19th –Century American Literature ENG 425: Film Studies Honors College HONR 201: Inquiries in the Ancient World HONR 202: Inquiries in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment HONR 203: Inquiries in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries HONR 390: Colloquium: Utopian Literature HONR 390: Colloquium: The Greatest Films

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PUBLICATIONS

“Utopian Evolution: The Sentimental Critique of Social Darwinism in Bellamy and Peirce.” Utopian Studies 10.1 (1999): 26-41. Recipient of Eugenio Battisti Award for best essay of the year.

"Me, P.C., and Mrs. D.: Education Versus Advocacy." FOCUS: Teaching English Language

Arts 18.2 (1992): 26-28.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE English Department Contract Faculty Steering Committee Writing Committee Contract Faculty Annual Report of Scholarship Committee (2004, 2008, 2012, 2015) English Dept. Website Manager/Designer (2002-2007) Honors College Summer Orientation Advisor Indiana Writing Project Co-Director, Administration and Technology (2007-present)