CURRICULUM VITAE

Kenneth McNeil

Education

• Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University, 1998

Dissertation: "Inside and Outside the Nation: Scottish Highland Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain"

Directors: Marlene Longenecker and Clare A. Simmons
Committee: Cathy Shuman, David Riede

• M.A., English, Boston College, 1991
• B.A., English, University of California, Davis, 1987

• Associate Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University, Fall 2004-present
• Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University, Fall 1998-2004
• Graduate Teaching Associate, English Department, The Ohio State University, Department of English 1994-1998
• Visiting Lecturer, Boston College, September 1991-May 1992
• Visiting Lecturer,  Salem State College, September 1991-May 1992
• Teaching Fellow, Boston College, September 1990-May 1992

Book

Scotland, Britain, Empire:  Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860, (Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, April 2007)

Essays/Articles

• “The Limits of Diversity: Using Scott’s ‘The Two Drovers’ to Teach Multiculturalism in a Survey/Non-Majors Course,” (accepted for publication by the Modern Languages Association in a collection of essays on “Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels”)

• “‘Not Absolutely a Native nor Entirely a Stranger’: Anne Grant and the Highland Travelogue,” in David Duff and Catherine Jones, eds., Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic, (forthcoming, Bucknell University Press)

• "'Petticoated Devils':  Scottish Highland Soldiers in British Accounts of the Indian Rebellion."  Prose Studies 23.3 (December 2000): 77-94

• "Inside and Outside the Nation: Highland Violence and Walter Scott's History, Tales of a Grandfather."  Literature & History 8.2 (Autumn 1999): 1-17

• Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of a Grandfather: The History of France. (Second Series). William Baker and J. H. Alexander, eds. Prose Studies 20.3 (December 1997) : 108-110

Teaching Experience

• ENG 461, 462: The Senior Seminar "The Culture of War"
• ENG 461, 462: The Senior Seminar Scottish Literature of the Modern Period
• ENG 322: The Romantic Period "Romantics and Revolution"
• ENG 320: Victorian Literature "Colonial Themes and Victorian Literature"
• ENG 320: Victorian Literature "Love and Sex in the Victorian Age"
• ENG 365: Special Topics "The Lord of the Rings"
• ENG 259: Chicano/Chicana Literature
• ENG 234: Contemporary Fiction "The Literature of Late Colonialism"
• ENG 234: Contemporary Fiction "New British Fiction"
• ENG 211: Literature of Western Civilization from 1400 "Love, Desire, Marriage"
• ENG 210: Literature of Western Civilization to 1400 "Gender Roles in Early Western Civilization"
•  ENG 203: British Literature, 1800-present
• ENG 202: Introduction to English Studies
• ENG 100 (Plus): First-Year College Writing
• ENG 267: Intermediate Composition and the American Experience in Literature  "American Identity Abroad in Twentieth-Century American literature"
• ENG 50:  Introduction to Literature

Recent Conference Papers

• “Borderlands, Border Theory: Walter Scott, Américo Paredes, and the Border Ballad,” The Eighth Meeting of the International Scott Conference, Oxford-Brookes University, Oxford England, July 28-August 3, 2007

• “The Location of Empire: Anne Grant’s Memoirs of an American Lady,” Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures Conference, University of California, Berkeley, September 7-10, 2006

• “Now What? From Evaluation to Implementation: the Assessment Experience of the English Department,” New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN) Conference, Conference, Connecticut College, October 28th, 2005

• “The Nation Undone: The Statistical Account of Scotland and the Scottish Highlands,” British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, July 28-31, 2005

• “Romance as Resistance: David Stewart’s Sketches of the Highlanders as Autoethnography,” Scottish Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-29, 2004

• "Negotiating Nation and Empire:  Sir John Sinclair, the Highland Society of London, and the Scottish Enlightenment," the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the University of British Columbia, October 22-25th, 2003

Academic Service

• Chair, 17th-Century British Literature Position Search Committee, 2004-present
• Chair, 18th-Century British Literature Position Search Committee, 2003-2004
• Chair, Public Relations and Recruitment Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2000-present
• Chair, Library Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2000-present
• Chair, Ad Hoc "Gateway" Course Development Committee,  English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2001-2002
• Library Builder, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2000-present
• Member, Portfolio Assessment Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2001
• Member, Hiring Committee, 17th-Century English Literature Position, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1999-2000
• Chair, Ad Hoc Department Web Page Design and Public Relations Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1998-2000
• Member, Budget Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1998-2000
• Member, Portfolio Assessment Committee, English Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1998-2000
• Member, Women's Center Faculty Advisory Board, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1999-present
• Member, NEASC Self-Study Writing Committee, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1999
• New Graduate Student Mentor,  Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1995-1997

• CSU AAUP Research Grant, 2002
• ECSU AAUP Faculty Development Grant, 2002
• CSU AAUP Research Grant, 2000
• ECSU AAUP Faculty Development Grant, 2001 (co-award)
• CSU AAUP Research Grant, 2000
• ECSU AAUP Faculty Development Grant, 2000
• Presidential Fellow for distinguished doctoral work among all fields, The Ohio State University, 1997-1998
• Estrich Fellowship for exceptional dissertation in progress, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1996
• Summer Doctoral Fellow, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1995
• Estrich Prize nominee for outstanding graduate essay, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1994
• Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University, 1994-1998
• Dean’s Fellow for first-year doctoral students, The Ohio State University, 1993-1994

•  The Modern Language Association
• The Northeast Modern Language Association