Paul Fess : Curriculum Vitae
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 19th-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