Joshua R.

Galat
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English. Purdue University, 2019.

Dissertation: “Engaging the Unknowable: Modernism, Science, and Epistemology”
Committee: Arkady Plotnitsky (Director), Maren Linett, John Duvall, Geraldine
Friedman

M.A., English. University of Central Florida, 2014.

M.A.T., English Language Arts Education (Grades 6-12) with ESOL Endorsement. University
of Central Florida, 2012.

B.A. (summa cum laude), English and Classical Studies. University of Florida, 2010.

APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Assistant Professor of English. Central Methodist University, 2019 – Present.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

*Instructor of record for all courses unless otherwise noted

Central Methodist University (2019 – Present)

English 341: Survey of British Literature II (Spring 2020)
English 306: Technical Writing (Spring 2020)
English 305: Expository Writing (Fall 2019 [x2], Spring 2020 [x2])
English 222: Introduction to Literature (Fall 2019)
English 120: College Composition (Fall 2019)

Purdue University (2014 – 2018)

English 238: Introduction to Fiction (Spring 2018)
English 108-S: Accelerated Composition Through Service Learning (Fall 2017)
English 106: Introduction to Composition: Documenting Realities (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall
2017, Spring 2018)
English 106: Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015,
Spring 2016)
Athletic Department Football Team Mentor (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

University of Central Florida (2012 – 2014)

Literature 2110: Survey of World Literature (Graduate Teaching Assistant; Online Course; Fall
2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
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East River High School (Orange County Public Schools; 2011 - 2012)
English I (x3) and English I Honors (x3)

Edgewater High School (Orange County Public Schools; 2010 – 2011)

English II (x2), English III Honors (x2), and English IV (x2)

TEACHING AWARDS

Nominee for Most Outstanding Faculty Member. Purdue University, 2018.

Honorable Mention for Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award. Purdue

University, 2017-2018.

Most Innovative Syllabus Approach Application. Purdue Writing Showcase, “ENGL 108-S:
Engaging the Community: Composing Through Service Learning,” Purdue University,
2018.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Spring 2018.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Fall 2017.

Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award. Purdue University, 2016-2017.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Spring 2017.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Fall 2016.

Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award. Purdue University, 2016.

Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award. Purdue University, 2015-2016.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Spring 2016.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Fall 2015.

Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award. Purdue University, 2014-2015.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Spring 2015.

*Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition. Purdue University, Fall 2014.

*Quintilian Awards are presented to instructors who rank in the top 10% of all course evaluation scores and receive
a minimum average score of 4.6 (out of 5.0, with 5.0 being the highest) with at least a 75% student response rate.
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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Joseph Conrad and Scientific Naturalism: Revolutionizing Epistemology in The Secret Agent.”
Forthcoming in English Studies.

“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.” Journal of Modern
Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 2019, pp. 113-31.

“Resisting Science: The Criminality of Physiognomy and Gesture in Kafka’s The Trial.” Journal
of the Kafka Society of America, vol. 40/41, no. 1/2, 2016/17, pp. 60-74.

“‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the Autobiography of Mark
Twain.” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 33-67.

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Virginia Woolf and a Climate of Uncertainty.” For submission to Modern Fiction Studies.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Purdue Research Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Purdue Research Foundation, 2018-

2019.

Disability Studies Award (First Place). Purdue University Literary Awards, “Modernism,
Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability,” 2018.

PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant. Purdue University, 2018.

LGBTQ Studies Award (First Place). Purdue University Literary Awards, “‘All of us shall
dance in the snow’: Emily Holmes Coleman and a Post-Material Aesthetics of
Existence,” 2017.

Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies (First Place). Purdue University Literary
Awards, “The Anamorphosis of the Real,” 2017.

PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant. Purdue University, 2017.

Graduate Student Travel Grant. Purdue University, 2017.

Robert Liddell Lowe Graduate Scholarship in British Literature. Purdue University, 2017.

PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant. Purdue University, 2016.

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Graduate Student Travel Grant. Purdue University, 2016.

Partner University Fund Fellowship. Purdue University and Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre
La Défense, 2015.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Virginia Woolf and a Climate of Uncertainty.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA,
January 9-12, 2020.

“Defining Science, Inciting Modernism: The Victorian Periodical Editor.” Modern Language
Association. Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019.

“Joyce’s Hauntology of Desire.” Modernist Studies Association. Columbus, OH, November 8-

11, 2018.

“British Modernism and the Popularization of Science.” Louisville Conference on Literature and
Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2018.

“Scientific Epistemology and (Un)Predictable Temporalities in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret

Agent.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tempe, AZ, November 9-12, 2017.

“The Epistemological Place of Disability in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away.”
American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2017.

“Postpartum Depression and Class-Inflected Disability in Emily Holmes Coleman’s The Shutter
of Snow.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, MD, March 23-26, 2017.

“Beauty in the Breakdown: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Aesthetics of Queer Disruption.”
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY, February
23-25, 2017.

“The Hospitality of the Law and The Trial for the De-Facement of the Other.” North American
Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30, 2015.

“Lacan and Mathematics.” French and Analytic Approaches to Science in the 20th Century and
Today. Nancy, France, June 15-19, 2015.

“Becoming American: John Davis’s Unruly Pocahontas and the Formation of a Transnational
American Literature.” Economies Graduate Student Conference. Columbia, SC, April 4-
5, 2014.

“‘Thou parcel of myself’: Narcissism, Aggression, and Homosocial Desire in Shakespeare’s The
Two Noble Kinsmen.” Third Annual University of Central Florida English Symposium.
Orlando, FL, February 21, 2014.

“This Dead Man Tells Lots of Tales: The Authorial Revenant and Mark Twain’s
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Autobiography.” AUMLAC Southern Studies Conference. Montgomery, AL, February 7-

8, 2014.

“Was Billy Budd Castrated?” Southern Humanities Council. Richmond, VA. January 30-
February 2, 2014.

“‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the Autobiography of Mark
Twain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA, November 8-10,
2013.

“The Politics of Diaspora: Position, Identity, and Representation in the Global Hierarchy.” Wish
You Were Here EGO Conference. Gainesville, FL, October 24-26, 2013.

SELECT DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Workshop for Young Writers Day. Central Methodist University, November 6, 2019.
Showcase Presentation for Composition Through Service Learning. Purdue University, Spring
2018.
Information Literacy Workshop for New Instructors. Purdue University, Fall 2017.
Theory and Cultural Studies Graduate Student English Association Representative. Purdue
University, 2016-2017.
“Documenting Realities” Syllabus Approach Leader. Purdue University, 2016-2017.
Conference Co-Organizer and Co-Host. North American Levinas Society. Emmanuel Levinas
Across the Generations and Continents, West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30, 2015.
Conference Co-Organizer. Third Annual English Symposium. University of Central Florida,
February 21, 2014.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association (MLA)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)

REFERENCES

Travis Johnson, Associate Professor and Director of the Humanities

Central Methodist University
Department of English
411 Central Methodist Square
Fayette, MO 65248
(660) 248-6306
tjohnson@[Link]

Bradley Dilger, Associate Professor and Writing Program Administrator

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Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(309) 259-0328
dilger@[Link]

Ryan Woldruff, Assistant Professor and Director of Composition

Current Composition Supervisor
Central Methodist University
Department of English
411 Central Methodist Square
Fayette, MO 65248
(816) 305-9213
rwoldruff@[Link]

Arkady Plotnitsky, Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3740
plotnits@[Link]

Maren Linett, Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3780
mlinett@[Link]

John Duvall, Margaret Church Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3760
jduvall@[Link]