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"Man Made of Birds" (and words, and music . . .)

THE "OFFICIAL" CONTACT INFO:

Thomas C. Gannon
Email: tgannon2@unl.edu
Occupation: Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
—and UNL faculty member of Ethnic/Native American Studies
My C.V. [below]

A MORE "HUMAN" ANGLE:

My current professional interests include Native American and British Romantic literatures; critical theory; ecocriticism; and "animal" representation in literature. My hobbyist interests include metal, blues, & jazz guitar; birding; Jungian psychology; Francophilia; and Macintosh computer geekdom. My emotional life includes trying to maintain long-distance relationships with both my wife (in SoDak) and daughter (in Colorado), and keeping my anger at a slow burn as I listen to conservative talk radio.

    TCG's (Selected) LITERATURE Pages:
* TCG's Lit Crit & Theory Page
* TCG's Ecocriticism Page
* Native American Lit--Authors & Works
* Native American Lit--Selected Poetry Texts
* TCG's William Wordsworth Page
* Wordsworth's Birds Page
* Cool Bird Poems: an E-Anthology
* "'Of Avians and Indigenes': Preliminary Notes on the Orientalization of the New World
        Native and Natured Others" (in Literature Compass, an online journal)
* "Teaching Guide" to the article above (in Literature Compass)
* "'A Most Absorbing Game'" (essay on Peterson's Bird Guide, in The Ampersand,
        an online journal)
        * "'A Most Absorbing Game'" (own online version thereof)
* "'Can the Eco-Other Speak?' or Dr. Doolittle in the Postmodern Wilderness"
        (grad-school essay)
* "Ecocriticism as an Imagining of the Post-Human" (grad-school essay)
* "Meeting the Master" (e-poem)
* Literary Periods Time Line (text file)
* Characteristics of Romanticism & Western Civ. Cultural Binaries

TCG's (Selected) MUSIC Pages:

(Many of these pages are so old that they can well be dubbed "COBweb" fare; my current "publish-or-perish" occupational status hasn't allowed me the luxury of maintaining very well my online musical efforts. [Plus, I now have the luxury of indulging in GarageBand instead of MIDI.] . . .)

* TCG's MIDI Pages (including->)
* Original MIDI Tunes
* MIDI Arrangements
* TCG's Guitar Page
* Chord Progressions (jazz standards, etc.)
* TCG's Guitar Lesson Page w/MIDI
* TCG's Javascript Chord Fingering Chart
* Chord Directory
* Poison Stream (own band page) I quit!
* TCG's Blue Oyster Cult Page
* "Theodor Adorno & Heavy Metal" (1st half of grad-school essay)

OTHER TCG Pages of "Worth":
* TCG's Buh-Log: Inane Refrains and Artless Rhythms
* Great "Indian" Moments in Pop Culture
* TCG's CARL JUNG Page
* Gannon Family Pix (2003)–with "hilarious" commentary on my part
* My FLICKR account–photos of birds, family, etc.

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CURRICULUM VITAE (3/07):

ACADEMIC HISTORY:
1997-2003	UNIVERSITY OF IOWA	Iowa City, IA
	Ph.D. in English
	Dissertation: The Avian as Native & Natured Other: Re-Imagining the Bird, From British Romanticism to Contemporary Native American Literature	Director: Ed Folsom
May 2003	Dean's Achievement Award
March 1997	Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
1990-92	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	M.A. in English
	Thesis: Immortal Sea, Eternal Mind: Romanticism and the Unconscious	Director: Dr. Gervase Hittle
April 1992	Maurice Johnson Graduate Book Award
1985	BLACK HILLS STATE COLLEGE	Spearfish, SD
	Completed requirements for Secondary Certification in English
1977-79	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	B.A. in English/Psychology (double major), summa cum laude
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
2003-2007	UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN	Lincoln, NE
	Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies
	Courses Taught: Introduction to Literature (ENGL 180;) Native American Literature (ENGL 245B); Native American Women (ENGL 245N); Literary/Critical Theory (ENGL 270); Native American Literature (ENGL 445E/845E); Literary/Critical Theory (ENGL 471/481)
2001-2003	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	Instructor of English, part-time
	Courses Taught: Introduction to Criticism; Introduction to Literature; Composition
1998-2001	UNIVERSITY OF IOWA	Iowa City, IA
	Teaching Assistant
	Courses Taught: Rhetoric; Interpretation of Literature; Native Daughters Speak [w/ Professor Linda Bolton]
1995-1997	WESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE	Sioux City, IA
	Instructor of ESL, English
	Courses Taught: ESL I, II, III, IV; Composition; Business Writing
Summer, 1995	QUIZ BOWL	Sioux City, IA
	Composer of "Literature" questions for Quiz Bowl, Iowa region
1992-1995	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	Instructor of English, full-time
	Courses Taught: Introduction to Literature; Composition; Advanced Composition (using Macintosh computers); Advanced Composition (without computers); Freshman Honors English
Summers, 1992, '94, '95	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	Upward Bound Instructor (for Native incoming high school sophomores and juniors)
	Courses Taught: Writing as Process; Responding to Literature; Critical Reading and Writing
Summer, 1993	FORT RANDALL CASINO	Fort Randall, SD
	Business Writing Instructor for Internship Program
1990-92	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA	Vermillion, SD
	Teaching Assistant
	Courses Taught: Introduction to Literature; Composition
TEACHING AWARDS & RECOGNITION:	College Distinguished Teaching Award (UNL), 2007
	Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, UNL Teaching Council and Parents Association, January 2005
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming:	"Jung, Carl." Encyclopedia entry. Encyclopedia of Counseling. Volume One: Personal and Emotional Counseling (Sage Publishing, January 2008).
	"Complaints from the Spotted Hawk: Flights and Feathers in Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass." Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Conference (U of Nebraska P, 2007).
Peer-Reviewed Print Publications:	"Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's 'The Half- Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier.'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 22.2-3 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005): 87-107.
	"An Essay on Eagles." South Dakota Review 42.3 (Fall 2004): 142-149.
Peer-Reviewed Digital Publications:	"Of Avians & Indigenes: Preliminary Notes on the Orientalization of the New World Native & Natured Others." Viewpoint. Literature Compass, Summer 2004. < http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00054.x >.
Solicited Print Publications:	Review of Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing, ed. MariJo Moore. Great Plains Quarterly 24.4 (Fall 2004): 302-303.
Solicited Online Publications:	Introduction, to the UNL Electronic Text Center digital project, Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923, 2005. < http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/birds_of_nebraska/introduction.html >.
	"A Most Absorbing Game: The New World Bird as Colonized Other." The Ampersand 11, January 2002. < http://www.mprsnd.org/11/tg001.htm >.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & PANELS:	Presentation: "'Great Faces, Great Places'?—or, How to Be from South Dakota and Not Be from Anywhere at All." Stories of Home traveling-art-exhibit series. OASIS/UNL Culture Center, November 2006.
	Panel presenter: "All Differences All the Time: New Paradigms in Teaching English." UNL English Dept. Teaching and Research brownbag series. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 2006.
	Seminar presentation: "Blues Coda-Riffs to Garry Owen." Nineteenth Century Studies Faculty Seminar, May 8th(-10th), 2006.
	Presentation: "Of Ivory Towers & the Flutes of Dionysus: The Present/Presence of Native Lit. at UNL." Paul A. Olson Colloquium: The Future of English Studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 2006.
	Panel presenter: "Preparing Intentional Learners." ITLE project (Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence). University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 2006.
	Presentation: "The 'Eco-Indian' in the 21st Century." U.N.I.T.E. [University of Nebraska Inter- Tribal Exchange] Brown Bag Discussion. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 2005.
	Conference paper: "A Fatal Frontier: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeon into Western Nostalgia." John R. Milton Conference, Vermillion, SD, October 2005.
	Ethnic Studies panel presentation: "The Ward Churchill <em>Aftermath</em> and the Importance of Ethnic Studies." University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 2005.
	Conference paper: "Complaints from the Spotted Hawk: Flights and Feathers in Whitman's 1855 <em>Leaves of Grass</em>." Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 2005.
	Panel presenter: "Shades of Green: Ecocriticism in the College Classroom." UNL Pedagogy Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2004.
	Conference paper: "Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's 'The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier.'" John R. Milton Conference, Vermillion, SD, February 2000.
	Conference paper: "The Writing Lab as Site of Cultural Hybridity." Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, Springfield, MO, October 1999.
PUBLISHED POETRY:	"Meeting the Master." Dear Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003: 68.
	"Meeting the Master." You and Me, Streetlamp, Vermillion, SD: Vermillion Literary Project, 1995.
	"Bay Willow." You and Me, Streetlamp, Vermillion, SD: Vermillion Literary Project, 1995.
	"Owl Mountain." The Longneck, Vermillion, SD, Issue no. 2, 1994.
	"Bird Poem." The South Dakota Review (reprinted), Vermillion: University of South Dakota, 29.3.ii, 1991.
	"Amontillado." Dakota: Plains and Fancy, Vermillion, SD: Vermillion Literary Project, 1989.
	"Twinky the Puppy Speaks." Dakota: Plains and Fancy, Vermillion, SD: Vermillion Literary Project, 1989.
	"Guitar Player at the State Fair." South Dakota Magazine, Yankton, SD, 1988.
	"Full Moon." Wanbli Ho (Sinte Gleska Literary Magazine), Mission, SD, 1988.
	"The Man Who Had Met Elvis." Green Bowl Review, Spearfish, SD, 1983.
	"Someone Asked Me." Green Bowl Review, Spearfish, SD, 1983.
	"Twentieth Century Fox." Green Bowl Review, Spearfish, SD, 1983.
	"Bird Poem." The South Dakota Review, Vermillion: University of South Dakota, 21.3, 1983.
(Own) DIGITAL PEDAGOGY & SCHOLARSHIP:	Besides course web pages, my literary/scholarly web pages include . . .
	Native American Lit resource page
	Great Indian Moments in Pop Culture
	Literary Criticism/Theory page
	Ecocriticism page
	William Wordsworth page
	Wordsworth's Birds page
	Cool Bird Poems: an E-Anthology
PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS:	Member: Advisory Board, Bedford Anthology of American Literature, September 2005- present.
	Fellow: Center for Great Plains Studies, 2004-present.
	Member: Environmental Writing and Criticism Community (UNL), 2003-present.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:	(all UNL unless otherwise specified)
	Introduction of visiting Native author David Treuer, English Department, November 2006.
	Member: Board of Governors, Center for Great Plains Studies, Fall 2006-present.
	Member: Center for Great Plains Studies Library Committee, Fall 2006-present.
	Guest Speaker (title: "There Ain't Nothin' Funny About Indian Humor"): Prof. Jan Wahl's TEAC 300 (Multicultural Education) class, April 2006.
	Presentation of ceremonial Pendleton blanket, on behalf of Native American Studies, to Paul A. Olson: Paul A. Olson Colloquium dinner, April 2006.
	Judge, Graduate Poetry Contest, English Department, March 2006.
	Peer Reviewer, of "Native / American Digital Storytelling": for Literature Compass (electronic journal: Blackwell Publishing), November 2005.
	Web-Design Consultant (for new Native American Studies web pages): Ethnic Studies, November 2005.
	Guest Speaker (on "Cultural Studies"): Prof. Susan Belasco's ENGL 900 class, October 2005.
	Member: Curriculum Committee, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Fall 2005-present.
	Member: UNL Women's and Gender Studies program, April 2005-present.
	Reader, of the Native American and Colonial Literature sections for the new Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Spring 2005.
	Judge, Undergraduate Poetry Contest, English Department, April 2005.
	Judge, Essay Contest, Institute for Ethnic Studies, March 2005.
	Member: Chair's Advisory Committee, English Department, Spring 2005.
	Contributing member/consultant: UNL Electronic Text Center digital project, Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923, 2005.
	Guest Speaker (on "Cultural Studies"): Prof. Ken Price's ENGL 900 class, November 2004.
	Guest Speaker (on Indian boarding school experiences): Robert Gibney's Native American Literature (ENGL/ETHN 245B) class, October 2004.
	Member: Advisory Board of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (UNL), 2004- present.
	Judge, Graduate Poetry Contest, English Department, March 2004.
	Member: English Dept. Hiring Committee, for Debra Magpie Earling, April 2004.
	Member: Engl. Dept. Hiring Committee, for Tom Lynch; March-April 2004.
	Presentation of ceremonial Pendleton blanket, on behalf of Native American Studies, to Walter Echohawk: Unitarian Winter Lecture Series, March 2004.
	Introduction of Native poet Adrian C. Louis, John R. Milton Conference, U of South Dakota, February 2004.

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A Few Assorted Annotated Photos (for that "human angle" again):

My daughter Emma's

bemused reaction to

all this rigmarole:

"What you talk'n' 'bout, Da-Da?"

Tom is thinking: "What song does

that fellow think he's playin'?"

The Gannon "Tribe" (at Dad's funeral)—OR: "What camera are we s'posed to be LOOKin' at?!"

www.flickr.com (random TCG photos--mostly birds)

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Daughter Emma & me (circa 1997)

Web-Project Categories:
* LITERATURE Pages
* MUSIC Pages
* OTHER Pages
* {A few annotated PIX}

    Most Recent Major Web Projects:
* Tommy's Big Day (March 2007 [bird outing])
* TCG's Buh-Log: Inane Refrains
    and Artless Rhythms (March 2007)
* Words Taking Place: Studies in
    Place, Literature, & Culture
    (January 2007 [UNL Place-based English group)
* Great "Indian" Moments in
    Pop Culture (May 2006)

"Powwow for a Bad Western" (TCG, 2001):

(MIDI composition, complete with flutes, cellos, & other–uh–expectations) [Quicktime plug-in needed]

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