Daniel J. Ennis
Curriculum Vitae (Current December 2005)
Department of English PO Box 261954
Coastal Carolina University Conway, SC 29528-6054
dennis@coastal.edu 843-449-2746
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Auburn University, English, 1999
Dissertation: "Eighteenth-Century Representations of Naval Impressment,"
directed by Paula R. Backscheider
M. A., Appalachian State University, English, 1994
Thesis: "Christopher Smart's Ars Poetica," directed by Edelma Huntley
B. A., The College of Charleston, English, 1992
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Coastal Carolina University, Conway SC
2004-: Associate Professor of English (tenured)
1999-2004: Assistant Professor of English
Auburn University, Auburn AL
1994-1999: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English
1999: Graduate Research Assistant, Ralph Brown Draughon Library
1998: Graduate Research Assistant, Instructional Media Group
Appalachian State University, Boone NC
1992-1994: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English
1993: Graduate Research Assistant, Summer Enrichment Program
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2005- : Interim Associate Dean, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University
2001-2005: Co-Director, Coastal Carolina University Honors Program
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Collection
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage
Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2006 [forthcoming, co-edited with Judy Slagle].
Monograph
Enter the Press Gang: Naval Impressment in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
Refereed Articles
“Poetry and American Revolutionary Identity: The Case of Phillis Wheatley and John Paul Jones,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31 (2002)
“Naval Impressment in Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random,” Albion 32 (2000)
“The Making of the Poet Laureate, 1730,” The Age of Johnson 11 (2000)
“Christopher Smart’s Cat Revisited: Jubilate Agno and the Ars Poetica Tradition,” South Atlantic Review (Winter 2000)
"William Gilmore Simms and the Mexican War," The South Carolina Review (Spring 1999)
“Tactical Victory: Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy and the Battle of Lowestoft,” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 14 (Winter 1999)
"Circles [Squared and Missing], Postmodernism, and Spectacle Theatre," Alabama English (Summer 1998)
Other Publications
Entries on the poet Stephen Duck and the playwright Colley Cibber, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume Three: 1700-1800, edited by Sheffield Rogers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 (forthcoming)
Entries on the poets Samuel Henry Dickson and John Blake White and the playwright William Ioor for Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, edited by Joseph Flora et. al. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006 (forthcoming)
Review of “Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law by Hal Gladfelder” in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual Volume 15. New York: AMS Press, 2004
Review of “Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820 by William J. Burling” in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era Volume 8. New York: AMS Press, 2003
“Ten Reasons you need a Dramaturge,” [with Sandi Shackelford] (invited article) Southern Theatre 43 (Fall 2002)
Review of “Jonah’s Promise by Adam Sol” Wind Magazine 84/85 (Summer 2001)
"Eighteenth-Century Drama," (essay-review) The Year's Work in English Studies 1997 (with Paula R. Backscheider and Diane Boyd)
"Eighteenth-Century Drama,"(essay-review) The Year's Work in English Studies 1996 (with Paula R. Backscheider, Amy Muse and Nancy Naugle)
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts Faculty Service Award, 2005
Department of English: Best Scholarly Article Award, 2003
Department of English: Best Conference Presentation Award, 2002
Department of English: Best Scholarly Article Award, 2001
Department of English: Best Scholarly Article Award, 2000
Presidential Graduate Fellowship, Auburn University, 1998
W.C. Bradley Award for Graduate Student Achievement in the Humanities,
Auburn University, 1998
Calvert Award for Outstanding Critical or Theoretical Article, Association
of College English Teachers of Alabama, 1998
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“’That Fickle Harlot Fortune’: Marriage and Morality in David Garrick’s The Gamesters”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas NV, April 2005
“Co-Directing an Honors Program” [With Maria K. Bachman]
Southern Regional Honors Council, Wilmington NC, April 2004
“’His Passing Worth’: Samuel Butler’s Hudibras and the Undergraduate Canon”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston MA, April 2004
“Christopher Smart: Cross-Dresser”
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah GA, February, 2004
“‘The Finished Picture of Dotage and Avarice’: William Parsons at Drury Lane, 1779”
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Charleston SC, April 2003
“Azakia/Ouabi/The American Indian: The Noble Savage Crosses (and Re-Crosses) the Atlantic”
Atlantic Crossings: Charles Brockden Brown and his Contemporaries. Groningen,
The Netherlands, October 2002
“Invasion of the Afterpieces: Defending the Nation on the London Stage, 1779”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs CO, April 2002
“Misadventures in Distance Learning, or, King Lear in the Chatroom”
Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and Fine Arts Boone, NC, April 2002
“The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Directing with a Dramaturge”
Southeastern Theatre Conference, Mobile AL, March 2002 [with Sandi Shackelford]
“Authority through Apparatus: James Bacon’s American Indian (1797)”
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chapel Hill NC, February, 2002
“Online Publishing as Pedagogical Opportunity”
Georgia-Carolinas College English Association, Savannah GA, February 2001
"Phyllis Wheatley, John Paul Jones and the Problem of American Revolutionary Identity"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia PA, April 2000
“The Making of the Poet Laureate, 1730"
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Knoxville TN, March, 1999
"The Medical Writings of Dr. James Lind and Royal Navy Reform"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Bend IN, April 1998
"The Digital Dryden"
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta GA, March 1998
OTHER RECENT CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Local Arrangements Coordinator, Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Myrtle Beach SC, February 2005
Session Chair, “Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies: Performance and Discussion”
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Columbia SC, February 2003
Session Chair, “Performing Lessing’s Nathan the Wise.”
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Columbia SC, February 2003
Respondent: “Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs CO, April 2002
Session Chair, “Centlivre’s Bickerstaff’s Burying: Performance and Discussion”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans LA, April 2001
Session Chair, “Reconsidering David Garrick’s Harlequin’s Invasion”
Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah GA, March, 2000
GRANTS
Professional Enhancement Grant for a production of The Mogul Tale,
Coastal Carolina University, 2003
Interactivity in the Classroom Grant for digitizing eighteenth-century texts,
Coastal Carolina University, 2003
Everett Helm Fellowship for research on British drama at the Lilly Library
Indiana University, 2001
Academic Enhancement Grant for “The Festival of the Avant-Garde”
Coastal Carolina University, 2000 (with Sandi Shackleford)
Academic Enhancement Grant for Website Development
Coastal Carolina University, 1999
Pepperell Fund Award for research in Great Britain, Auburn University, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
§ American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
§ Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
§ Southern Regional Honors Council
RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Composition
American Literature Surveys
British Literature Surveys
World Literature Surveys
Restoration/Eighteenth-Century British Literature
The British Novel
World Dramatic Literature
Prosody and Poetic Form
SELECTED SERVICE AT CURRENT POSITION
Ongoing
University Computing Discussion Group, 2004-
College of Humanities Instructional Technology Task Force, 2003-
Faculty Technology Mentor, 2003-
Executive Board, Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003-
“Big Read” Freshman Reading Committee 2003-
2004-2005
Chair, Search Committee—Assistant Professor of English (Poetry)
Member, Search Committee—Assistant Professor of English (Generalist/Fiction)
Advisor, Phi Eta Sigma, 2002-2005
Chair, University Academic Affairs Committee, 2004-2005
2003-2004
Coordinator, College of Humanities Interdisciplinary Working Group, 2003-2004
Faculty Search Committee (World Literature), 2003-2004
College of Humanities 50th Anniversary Task Force 2003-2004
Secretary, Academic Affairs Committee, 2002-2004
2002-2003
International Program Committee, 2002-2003
Faculty Search Committee (Cultural Studies), 2002-2003
Dramaturge, Department of Performing Arts production of The Tragedy of Tragedies, 2003 University Task Force on Faculty Work, 2002
2001-2002
Dramaturge, Department of Performing Arts production of Cloud 9, 2002
NCAA Recertification Team (governance subcommittee), 2001-2002
College of Humanities and Fine Arts Faculty Work Task Force, 2001
College of Humanities and Fine Arts ad hoc Technology Committee, 2001-2002
Department of Theater Play Selection Committee, 2001-2002
2000-2001
Chair, Campus Services Committee, Coastal Carolina University, 2000-2002
Student Media Committee, Coastal Carolina University, 2000-2002
Faculty Consultant, Advanced Placement English Examination, 2000
1999-2000
Senator, Coastal Carolina University Faculty Senate, 1999-2002
Editorial Board, Archarios (undergraduate literary magazine), 1999-2001
Moderator, Beach Ball Classic High School Academic Olympics Tournament, 1999-2002
Dramaturge, The Misanthrope, Coastal Carolina University Department of Theater, 1999
SELECTED GRADUATE SERVICE
Webmaster, Auburn University Department of English, 1998-1999
Auburn University Great Books Committee, 1997-1998
Tutor, Auburn University English Center, 1995-1998
President Pro Tempore, Auburn Graduate Student Organization, 1997
Senator, Auburn Graduate Student Organization, Auburn University, 1996
Editor, Cold Mountain Review, Appalachian State University, 1994
LANGUAGES
Reading proficiency in Latin and Spanish
CURRENT SCHOLARLY PROJECTS
Anthology: The Azakia Collection. [With Joe Johnson and Elizabeth Russell]. Collection includes eight late eighteenth-century texts that retell—in three languages and four genres—the apocryphal story of the Huron princess Azakia and her European lover Celario. Texts secured, proposal in preparation.
Monograph: 1778-1779: A Season in the Life of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Archival research completed, three conference papers delivered on topic.
Article: “Becoming the Canon: John Dryden and Restoration Poetry in Twentieth-Century
Anthologies.” In progress.