Dave Murad
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EDUCATION
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PhD, English, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 2013
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MA, English (Joint Degree), Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus) and Universidad de Autónoma, Madrid, Spain, 2007
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BA, English, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, 2001
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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Professor, English Department, Lakeland Community College, 2014-Present
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Professor, 2019-Present (Tenured, 2018)
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Co-Chair, 2018-2021
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Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, 2014-2019
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Senior Lecturer, English, The University of Akron, 2013-2014
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Instructor, English, Kent State University, 2011-2013
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Graduate Teaching Fellow, English, Kent State University, 2007-2011
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Graduate Teaching Asst., English, Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), 2005-2007
PUBLICATIONS
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“‘A Few Funny Things’: Hemingway’s Early Interest in Spanish History and Politics.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall 2024, pp. 46-69.
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“John Dos Passos and the Promise and Failures of the Second Spanish Republic, 1933,” John Dos Passos’s Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the Interwar Years, edited by Aaron Shaheen and Rosa Bautista, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2022, pp. 234-65. (pdf)
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“‘Baptized Spanish:’ Gertrude Stein and the Making of a Spaniard.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 524-544. (pdf)
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“The Conflict of ‘Being Gypsy’ in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 87-104. (pdf)
Book Reviews
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“Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, by eds. Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs.” The Hemingway Review, 33.1 (Fall 2013), pp. 117-119.
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“Escena de la película Gigante (Scene from the Movie Giant), by Tino Villanueva, trans. Rafael Cabañas Alamán.” Hispanic Journal, 28.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 151-153.
Online Projects
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Grammar Workbook (2023 Sabbatical Project)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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Taylor Visiting Fellowship in American Literature, Harrison Institute, University of Virginia, 2013 (Two Months, $3600)
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Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowship, Hemingway Foundation and Society, 2013 ($500)
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Jim and Nancy Hinkle Travel Grant, Hemingway Foundation and Society, 2010 ($250)
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Graduate Student Senate International Travel Grant, Kent State University, 2010 ($1000)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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“‘A Few Funny Things:’ Hemingway and Spanish Politics through 1936,” Hemingway Foundation and Society Conference, Paris, 2018
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“John Dos Passos: Humanism amid Political Change,” John Dos Passos Society Conference, Lisbon, 2018
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“‘In the Wolf Country:’ John Dos Passos and Spain’s Second Republic,” John Dos Passos Society Conference, Madrid, 2016
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“John Dos Passos and Pío Baroja: Agents of Revolution,” John Dos Passos Society Conference, Tennessee, 2014
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“‘Like Going Back into Your Childhood or Early Youth:’ The Spanish Learning Curve, Full Circle in The Dangerous Summer,” Hemingway Foundation and Society Conference, Venice, 2014
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“‘The Soul of Spain:’ Dos Passos’ and Hemingway’s Search for the Modern in 1920s Spain,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, 2013
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“Vigo, ‘Gaw What a Place:’ Hemingway’s Second Glimpse of Spain (December, 1921),” Hemingway Foundation and Society Conference, Michigan, 2012
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“Chicote’s and the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions of Place in Hemingway’s Spanish Civil War Fiction,” Hemingway Foundation and Society Conference, Lausanne, 2010
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“‘Conscientious Objectors:’ Exiling Gypsyness in For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Saint Louis University Graduate Conference, Madrid, 2007
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“Spanish Gypsies and the Spanish Civil War: Literary Reality and Romance,” Saint Louis University Graduate Conference, Madrid, 2006
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“‘Valley of Silence:’ Silence and Creation in John Phillip Santos’s Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation,” Saint Louis University Graduate Conference, Madrid, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Lakeland Community College, 2014-Present
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American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865 (incl. Online)
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American Literature II: 1865-Present (Online)
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College Literacy (Online)
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English Composition 1A and 1B (incl. Online)
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English Composition 2 (incl. Online)
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Literature by Women (Online)
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The University of Akron, 2011-2014
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English Composition I
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English Composition II (incl. Honors)
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Kent State University, 2007-2013
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African-American Literature
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College Writing I (incl. “The American Dream” w/ History and Communications Depts.)
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College Writing II
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Great Books II
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Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus) 2005-2007
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Advanced Strategies for Rhetoric and Research
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The Process of Composition
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Intermediate Written Expression (ESL program)
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Advanced Intermediate Written Expression (ESL program)
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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President, John Dos Passos Society, 2016-2018 (Advisory Board, 2014-2016, 2018-Present)
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Panel Organizer and Moderator, “John Dos Passos Today” Roundtable, American Literature Association Conference, Boston, 2017
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Assistant Conference Organizer, “Masculinities between the National and Transnational, 1980 to the Present,” Kent State University, 2011
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND COMMITTEES
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Vice President’s Academic Advisory Council, Lakeland Community College (LCC), 2015-Present
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Member (elected by academic division) 2015-Present
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Faculty Co-Chair (elected by committee) 2016-17, 2018-2019
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Planning Advisory Council, LCC, Member, 2017-2019
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Part-time Faculty Committees (Advisory and Professional Development), LCC, Faculty Liaison, 2016-2023
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Search Committee for Nursing Program Director, LCC, Member, 2019
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College Credit Plus (Ohio dual-enrollment), LCC, Liaison, 2016-2018, 2020-2021
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Textbook Selection Committee, English Department, LCC, Member, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2021-2022
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International Education Committee, LCC, Member, 2015-2017
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New Full-Time Faculty Orientation, LCC, Panelist, 2015-2017
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Search Committee for Assistant Provost for Educational Programming, LCC, Member, 2017
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Search Committee for Executive Vice President and Provost, LCC, Member, 2015-16
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Search Committee for Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, LCC, Member, 2015
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Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, Kent State University, Member, 2008
CURRICULUM WORK (Lakeland Community College)
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OT36 (Ohio Transfer 36) Arts & Humanities Submission Preparation, ENGL 2250 (Intro to American Literature I) and ENGL 2260 (Intro to American Literature II), Lead Author, 2022-2024
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ESLP 0170 Academic ESL for College-Level Literacy, Lead developer / writer during course and curriculum approval, 2018 Approved
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Graduate Student Orientation, Kent State University, Teaching Fellow and Leader, 2009-2013
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Saint Louis University Spanish-English Summer Camps, Spain, Assistant Director, 2006-2009
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Department of Student Life, Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), Coordinator, 2005-2007
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Effective Teaching Practices, Two-semester online course administered by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) Success Center and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), 2022-2023 (certificate earned)
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Information Literacy and “Fake News” Workshop, LCC, 2018
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Humanities & Social Sciences Workshops, Co-Organizer, LCC, 2016
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Quality Matters Training, LCC, 2015
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Transnational Studies Reading Group, Kent State University, 2012-2013
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Graduate Professional Development Workshops, Invited Speaker for “Conferences and Publications,” Kent State University, 2012
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Writing Workshops, Writing Program, The University of Akron, 2011-2012
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Writing Workshops, Writing Program, Kent State University, 2007-2010
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“The Scholarship of Composition: 1965-2000,” Workshop presented by Dr. David Bartholomae, Universidad de Autónoma, Madrid, Spain, 2006
REVIEW AND EDITORIAL WORK
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Peer-reviewed two articles (covering John Dos Passos) for AmLit, 2021
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Peer-reviewed an article (covering John Dos Passos) for Geographical Review, 2021
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Peer-reviewed a chapter in New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory: Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by editors Alicia Castillo Villanueva and Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez, 2017
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Peer-reviewed a short essay for The Hemingway Review, 2014
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Copy-editor, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 2009-2012
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Peer-reviewed a chapter in The Postnational Fantasy (McFarland, 2011) by editors Masood Raja, Jason Ellis, and Swaralipi Nandi, 2010
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Peer-reviewed and Copy-edited a chapter in Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films (Zubaan, 2012) by editors Swaralipi Nandi and Esha Chatterjee, 2010
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Proofread and Copy-edited two chapters in Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857-1947 (Oxford, 2009) by Masood Raja, 2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP
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Modern Language Association, various years 2009-Present
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Ernest Hemingway Foundation, various years 2009-Present
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John Dos Passos Society, various years 2012-Present
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
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“American Images of Spain, 1905-1936: Stein, Dos Passos, Hemingway,” Kent State University, 2013 (see Ohio Link)
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Committee: Dr. Robert Trogdon (chair), Dr. Babacar M’Baye, Dr. Kevin Floyd, Dr. Ann Heiss
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MASTER’S THESIS
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“For Whom Does the Bell Toll? Hemingway’s Gypsy Representations and the Missing Romani Voice of the Spanish Civil War,” Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), 2007
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Committee: Dr. Anne Dewey (chair), Dr. Fred Arroyo, and Dr. Niall Binns
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Languages: English (native); Spanish (conversational, advanced)
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Musician (see my website)
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Volunteer, U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, Cleveland, OH, 2017-2018