Research and Interest Areas
Dr. Samuel Lyndon Gladden obtained his B.A. degree from the
University
of Texas and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Texas
A&M University, where he won several teaching and research
awards and where he spent the 1997-1998 academic year completing
a Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 1998-2000, he worked as an Assistant
Professor of English at Virginia
State University, where he developed and taught a variety
of courses in literature and writing, directed a lecture series,
and organized a film series focusing on issues of race and identity.
Since joining the UNI faculty in the fall of 2000, Dr. Gladden
has taught a variety of courses in nineteenth-century British
literature, literary theory, and gender studies. In addition
to teaching, he has published a book, a number of articles,
and a handful of encyclopedia entries and book reviews; he has
participated in conferences at the local, national, and international
levels; he has chaired the committee for the 2005-2006 Meryl
Norton Hearst Lecture Series; he has served on the advisory
boards and faculty for both the Honors
Program and the Women's
and Gender Studies Programs and as the liaison to the Dean
for the College
of Humanities and Fine Arts Dean's Scholars; he has served
as sponsor for the English Club; he has hosted the KUNI / KHKE
radio show Critics' Roundtable; and he has served as
Chair of the Department's Professional Assessment Committee
(for general information about UNI's faculty evaluation procedures,
see the Master
Agreement). Currently, Dr. Gladden serves as Coordinator
of Graduate Studies in English and as Chair
of the Honors
Program Advisory Board.
Dr. Gladden's most recent book, an edition of Oscar Wilde's
play The Importance of Being Earnest, is forthcoming from
Broadview Press.
His other publications include a book,
Shelley's
Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political
Works (Routledge, 2002), as well as articles on Percy
Shelley (in the Romantic
Circles Praxis Series), Wilkie Collins (in
Victorian
Literature and Culture), Mary Shelley (in
Studies in Romanticism), Andy Warhol and Mary Shelley
(in Interdisciplinary Humanities), Bram Stoker (in
Notes and Queries),
and Oscar Wilde (in Victorians
Institute Journal and forthcoming in Approaches
to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde, a volume in the
Modern Language Association's Approaches
to Teaching World Literature series). Dr. Gladden
is also a contributor to Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays
in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz (Jagiellonian UP, 2004).
At present, Dr. Gladden is at work on two book projects:
a textbook on argument and visual culture, which he is
co-writing with Dr. Joanna Gibson of Texas
A&M University for McGraw-Hill,
and a monograph tentatively entitled Lacunae and Textual
Consummation: Absences, Gaps, and Other Sexy Spaces in the British
Nineteenth Century, the concluding chapter of which appeared in
the "Ghosts of the Victorian" special issue of
Victorians Institute Journal
in 2004. In the spring of 2004, Dr. Gladden was named a lifetime
member of The Oxford Round Table,
and he presented a lecture titled
"Unacknowledged Legislation: American Civil Rights and the
Vanishing Points of Tyranny" to that group. In the spring of 2004, Dr. Gladden
was invited to participate in
"Voicings,"
a conference at St. Cloud State University, where he spoke on
"Weird Soundings: The Canny Uncanny in Wilde, Warhol, and Wainwright."
In the spring of 2005, he co-presented a paper at UNI's conference on
Camouflage:
Art, Science, and Popular Culture with
Dr. Harry Brod of UNI's Department
of Philosophy and Religion. At present, Dr. Gladden has four essays under consideration for
publication, including research and theoretical speculations about Lord Byron, Mary Shelley,
the detection of criminality and the identification of "the criminal type" in nineteenth-century
England, and the experience of the uncanny in the twenty-first-century world.
Dr. Gladden enjoys interacting with UNI students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels
in a variety of in-class and extracurricular endeavors. He always looks forward to meeting smart,
goal-directed students and to working with them on projects engaging his own research and teaching
interests, which include nineteenth-century British literature and culture, literary theory,
visual culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, space studies, and a wide variety of
epistemological approaches.
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