Iain Bernhoft
Boston University Department of English
236 Bay Sate Road
Boston, MA 02215
Education
PhD in American Literature, expected 2014
Boston University, Boston, MA
Dissertation title: Novel Deceptions: Stage Magic and Historical Illusions in Contemporary American Fiction
MA in English and American Literature, 2007
Boston University, Boston, MA
summa cum laude
BA in English and Philosophy, 2005
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
summa cum laude
Publications
“Some degenerate entrepreneur fleeing from a medicine show’: Judge Holden in the Age of P.T. Barnum.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 10.1 (2012): 27-45. Reprinted in They Rode On: Blood Meridian and the Tragedy of the American West. Ed. Rick Wallach. The Cormac McCarthy Society 2013.
Lydia Cooper, No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2011), reviewed in The Cormac McCarthy Journal 11 (2013).
Conference Presentations
“Stage Magic in Contemporary American Fiction.”
· Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH, June 2013.
“Like some degenerate entrepreneur fleeing from a medicine show”: Blood Meridian’s Judge Holden in the Age of P.T. Barnum.
· American Literature Association 22nd Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 2011.
“I notice the slip of my pen”: Lolita and Narrative Authenticity
· Tufts University English Graduate Conference, Somerville, MA, October 2010.
Blake and Martin Delany’s Transnational Archaeology
· Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Montreal, QUE, April 2010
Practical Sincerity in Conrad’s Political Novels.
· Modernist Studies Association Convention, Montreal, QUE, November 2009
The Films of the Coens and the Faulknerian Unmasking of Genre.
· Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, MA, February 2009.
Honors, Grants, and Fellowships
The Edward Wagenknecht Dissertation Fellowship (2013)
Boston University Center for the Humanities Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award (2012)
Boston University Center for the Humanities Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award (2012)
Boston University Graduate Writing Fellowship (2011-2014)
Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellowship (2007-2011)
Boston University Department of English Graduate Fellowship (2006-2007)
Honors Fellow, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2005)
Teaching Experience
Boston University, courses designed and taught:
Department of English
EN 141: Survey in Fiction, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
EN 125: Readings in Modern Literature, Fall 2010
Writing Program
WR 100: Race and Identity in Contemporary Genre Fiction, Fall 2013
WR 100: Understanding Genres, Fall 2012
WR 150: The Historical Novel and Postmodernism, Spring 2012
WR 100: The Fiction of Tim O’Brien, Fall 2011
WR 150: Novel Visions of America, Spring 2009
WR 100: Forging an American Identity, Fall 2008
Boston University, courses assisted:
EN 175: Literature and the Art of Film; Professor Lee Monk, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
Harvard University, courses assisted:
EN E-201: Porgy and Bess: Performance and Contexts; Professor Marjorie Garber, Spring 2011, Fall 2012
EN E-130: Shakespeare and Modern Culture; Professor Marjorie Garber, Spring 2012
EN S-128A, B: Shakespeare: The Early Plays and Shakespeare: The Later Plays; Professor Marjorie Garber, Summer 2013
Employment
Lecturer (GWF) Writing Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2011-present
Second Language Tutor, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2010-present
Graduate English Instructor, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2007-2011
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA, 2011-2012
Writing Program Tutor, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2008-2010
Arts Elective Leader, Great Books Summer Program, Amherst, MA, 2009-2010
Instructor of English, Club Negubide y Olalde, Miralvent Summer Program, Spain, 2007
Research Assistantships and Professional Service
Research Assistant for Prof. Gene Andrew Jarrett, Boston University, 2012-2013
English Department Graduate Representative, 2010-2011
Languages
French (intermediate proficiency)
References
Available upon request
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