Name: Rod  Romesburg
 
Department: English
Title: Instructor, English
Office Location:
Cato, 161
Cato Campus
Phone Number: (704)330-4871
Fax Number: (704)330-xxxx
Email Address: Rod.Romesburg@cpcc.edu
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Responsibilities:
ENG 111, 114, 231

Office Hours:

MW 12:30-1:45 (Merancas)
T 11:00-12:15, 2:00-4:00 (Cato 161)
Th 11:00-4:00 (Cato 161)
 
Educational Background:
Ph.D., English, UC Davis, 1999
B.A., M.A., English, Brigham Young University, 1992/1994
 
Educational Experience:
Instructor, Central-Piedmont Community College, Spring 2012
First-Year Writing Coordinator, Rollins College, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Lecturer, Rollins College, Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Adjunct Instructor, Stetson University, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Program Director, Freshman Seminar/Professional Pathways Seminar/Arts and Sciences Clusters Program, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Fall 2005-Summer 2007
Assist. Prof. of Literature and Composition, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Fall 2002-Spring 2005
Faculty Fellowship, University of California Office of the President, UC Davis, Fall 2000-Spring 2002
Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Davis English Dept, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
 
Publications:
“Stripping the Artifice: The Beneficial Apocalypse of Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon.” Proceedings of the Florida College English Association. Ed. Paul Reich. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
“The Fractal Nature of Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End.” College Literature 37.3 (2010): 3-25.
“Buffy Goes to College: Identity and the Buffy-based University Course.” Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2010.
“Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New Frontier.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. (vol. 5.3, issue 19) 19 February 2006.
Legendary Florida: The Historical Paintings of Jackson Walker. Script for video produced by the DeLand Museum of Art. DeLand, FL: 2005.
“Deterministic Chaos in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire.” Western American Literature 39.2 (2004): 200-219.
“Shifting Orders: Chaos and Order in For Whom the Bell Tolls,” in Hemingway and the Natural World. Ed. Robert Fleming. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1999.
 

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