Nathan King
Curriculum Vitae 2020
Adjunct Professor, ESFL
Educational History
- University of Texas at Dallas, 2019
Richardson, TX –Ph.D., Dissertation Title: A Dialogic Reading of Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World
- University of Houston-Victoria, 2007
Victoria, TX -M.A.I.S. in History-IDS
- University of Houston-Victoria, 2004
Victoria, TX -B.A. in Humanities-History
Professional Experience
- North Central Texas College, Adjunct Professor, January 2020-Present
ENGL 1302 Hybrid 8-week class
- Texas Woman’s University, Adjunct Professor, First-Year Composition Program, August 2015-Present
ENG 1013 Composition I
ENG 1023 Composition II
- Richland College, Adjunct Professor, January 2019-Present
ENGL 1301 Composition I (Co-requisite with a corresponding DIRW course)
ENGL 1302 Composition II (with Dual Credit students embedded in class)
ENGL 2322 British Literature I (Online)
- University of Texas at Dallas, Teaching Assistant, August 2011-May 2015
HUMA 1301 Exploration of the Humanities “Thrills, Chills, and Some Spills”
HUMA 1301 Exploration of the Humanities “Cowboys, Dragons, and Samurai”
HUMA 1301 Exploration of the Humanities “Signs”
HUMA 1301 Exploration of the Humanities “America, 1900”
U.S. History 1301: Pre-Columbian Era to the Civil War
U.S. History 1302: From the Civil War to the Present
- Assistant for the American Book Review, 2007-2009
- University of Houston-Victoria, Arts & Sciences Student Worker 2006-2007
Research Interests
- American Literature (including North and South American authors)
- Modernism
- Music History and Aesthetics
- Critical Theory including the application of Semiotics/Semiology
Achievements in Original Achievement, Investigation, and Research
- Presented “Jorge Luis Borges’ “The South” as an example of an Epic at 2018 South Central Modern Language Conference
- Presented “An Exercise in Thinking Rhetorically” at the TWU First-Year Composition Focus Friday meeting on October 6, 2017
- Awarded the 2016-2017 First-Year Composition Adjunct Teaching Award on August 16, 2017
- Awarded the FYCaesar Teaching Award by the TWU First-Year Composition Program in February 2017
- Presented “Music and Identity in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World” at 2016South Central Modern Language Conference
- Presented “A Dialogic Reading of Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World” at 2015 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
- Presented “Multiple Spaces in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps” at 2014 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
- Published M.J. Brown with E. Jensen, N. King, and J. Prince. "Review: The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, ed. Molly Cochran." Mind, Culture, and Activity. 21.2 (2014):175-178. Print