Course Information

WORLD LITERATURE I (ENGL 2332)

Term: 2020-2021 Fall

Faculty

Nathan O'Brian King

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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

Description

A study of world literature from the ancient world through the sixteenth century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions; analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods; demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions; articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities; and write research-based critical papers about th