CURRICULUM VITAE:

 

David W. Hill

 

Personal:

Born:   26 March 1943

Address:          Department of English

                        SUNY College at Oswego

                        Oswego, NY 13126

Telephone:      Office:  315-312-2601 or -2150

                        Home:    315-342-3589

Married, one child.

 

Education:

A.B., Yale University, 1964; major in English.

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1971; degree in  English with "outside minor" (24 hrs.) in linguistics.

Dissertation: "Emerson's Search for the Universal Symbol," Wallace E. Williams, director.

 

Teaching Experience:

Indiana University:

            teaching associate (part-time), 1964-1969.

Northwestern University

            instructor, 1969-1970.

            assistant professor, 1971-1976.

University of Rochester

            Mellon fellow, 1977.

            research associate, 1977-1978.

State University of New York, College at Oswego

            assistant professor, 1978-1979.

            associate professor, 1980-1985.

            professor, 1985-    .

 

Administrative Experience:

Northwestern University

director, Introductory Studies (freshman seminars with expository writing) component), 1973-1975.

State University of New York, College at Oswego

chair, Department of English, 1980-1985.

director, General Education, 1985-1988.

project director, NEH project EM 20094, "Coherence and Integration in the SUNY College at Oswego Western Heritage Program," 1 July 1985-31 December 1985.

director, Linguistics Program, 2003- .

 

Honors and Awards:

Indiana University:

            dissertation-year fellowship, 1968-1969.

Northwestern University

            faculty summer research grant, 1972.

            Student Government faculty honor award, 1973.

University of Rochester

            Mellon fellowship, 1977.

Publications:

"The Dead Letter Office: Composition Teaching and the 'Writing Crisis'".  College English 39 (April 1978):          883-893.

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Vol. 15. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982 [co-editor].

"Emerson's Eumenides: Textual Evidence and the Interpretation of 'Experience'". In Joel Myerson, ed. Emerson Centenary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1982.

The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.2 vols. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1986 [co-editor].

"God, Wolf, and Law: Emerson's Indeterminate 'Fate'". ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.  34.4 (1988): 1-28.

“Words Doing: Emily Dickinson’s Language of Autonomous Action.” In Emily Dickinson: Woman of Letters. Ed. Lewis Turco. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993.

Introduction to Literature. A Norton Web Course Template. www.wwnorton.com.  1999.

--------. Revision. 2002

Preface. The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman. Ed. Lewis Turco. Latham, NY: Univ. Press of America, 1999.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. A Norton Web Course Template. 2 vols. With Philip Schwyzer, Hertford College, Univ. of Oxford. www.wwnorton.com. 2000.

 

Appearances

Chicago Area College English Association, 1971.

Midwest Modern Language Association, 1974.

National Humanities Forum, Symposium for Teachers, 1974.

Modern Language Association, American      Literature Section, 1979.

SUNY Council on Writing, 1983.

SUNY Conference on General Education, 1987.

SUNY Computer Directors Conference, 1988.

American University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Distinguished Speakers Series. 2002.