Paul Fess

The Graduate Center, CUNY                                                                               Tel: (917) 328-0755

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016                                                                      paulfess@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   The City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY

English & American Studies, 2016 (Expected)

Concentration in 19^th-Century American Literature and Culture, African American Literature, Print & Media Culture, and Sound Studies

M.A.    Hunter College, New York, NY

            English, 2010

Concentration in Southern American Literature

B.A.     The University of Texas, Austin, TX

            English, 2005

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

“Resonant Texts: The Politics and Practices of 19th-century African American Musical Cultures of Print from Abolitionism to the Player Piano”

Dissertation Committee: David S. Reynolds (co-chair), Eric Lott (co-chair), and Robert Reid-Pharr

DIGITAL HUMANITIES EXPERIENCE

Participant, Digital Antiquarian Workshop, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester; 2015

Web Designer and Administrator, NEH Summer Institute “City of Print,” New York; 2015

Online Course Developer, School of Professional Studies, New York; Summer 2012

Preparation for Teaching Online, School of Professional Studies, New York; 2012

Participant, Multi-Media Practicum and Writing Workshop, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; 2011

Web Designer, Graduate Center, New York; 2011 (http://www.davidsreynolds.com)

Research Assistant for Professor David Reynolds, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York; 2010-2011

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

Isaiah Thomas Stipend, the Digital Antiquarian Workshop, American Antiquarian Society; 2015

Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship, Hunter College; 2014-2015

ARC Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies; 2014, 2015

ARC Advanced Research Collaborative-Research Praxis Fellowship; 2013

Doctoral Student Research Grant; 2012, 2015

Presidential Travel Scholarship; 2012

Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship; 2010-2015

Miriam Weinberg Richter Writing Award; 2009

PRESENTATIONS

“’The real misery’: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band responds to Hurricane Katrina”

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto; October 2015

“’The most excruciating noise’: Power Structures of Music in Solomon Northup’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles; November 2014

“Lead Belly, in the Archive”

Sound + Conference, University of Maryland; March 2014

Respondent: “Black Atlantic Temporalities 2: Exposure, Alternate Worlds, Other Collectives”

Currents of the Black Atlantic Conference, CUNY, Graduate Center; March 2014

“The Paratexts of Race: Phillis Wheatley and The Print Culture of Abolitionism”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago; January 2014

“The Paratexts of Race: Phillis Wheatley and The Print Culture of Abolitionism”

Pennsylvania State University: Celebrating African American Literature Conference, State College; October 2013

Moderator: “Early Poets Panel,”

Pennsylvania State University: Celebrating African American Literature Conference, State College; October 2013

“‘Knot in hand and knot in head’: ‘Benito Cereno,’ ‘Putnam’s Monthly Magazine,’ and the Nature of the Slavery Debate”

College English Association Annual Conference: Nature, Savannah; April 2013

“The Player Piano and the Limits of the Music Archive”

University of Virginia, Sound and Unsound: Noise, Nonsense, and the Unspoken, Charlottesville; 2012

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Fellow/ Adjunct, Hunter College, Manhattan, New York; 2007-present

American Literature Survey: Origins to the Civil War

American Literature Survey: Reconstruction to 1914

American Women Poets

American Poetry Before 1914

The Southern Literary Renaissance

Introduction to Literature

Introduction to Expository Writing

Adjunct, School of Professional Studies, Manhattan, New York; 2013-2014

            Online American History and Culture

Adjunct, New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan, New York; 2012-2014

            Hybrid Freshman Composition

            Methods and Research

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Co-Chair, English Student Association, CUNY, Graduate Center 2013-present

Member of the CUNY, Graduate Center American Studies Advisory Committee 2013-present

President of the CUNY, Graduate Center American Studies Association 2011-present

At-Large Representative for the Graduate Center Doctoral Student Council 2011-2012

College Assistant at Hunter College 2007-2010

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Studies Association

Modern Language Association

C:19, the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists