Graves' Presentations

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Roy Neil Graves
4. Academic Presentations and Professional Service:

Papers, presentations, and readings:

“‘How like a winter’: The Seasons in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 12 February 2010.
“Julian Bond as Poet.” The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, 20 February 2009.
Chair of the session “Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction.” The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, 20 February 2009.
“Hearing with Hungry Eyes: Synesthesia in Shakespeare's Sonnets.” The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 13 February 2009.
“Anne Spencer as Protest Poet: A ‘New Negro’ Voice from Virginia.” The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, 22 February 2008.
Chair of the session “Space and Region in American Global Poetics.” The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, 22 February 2008.
“Who's in Charge Here? Acrostic Bawdry and Its Import in Raleigh’s ‘The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard’.” The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 16 February 2008.
Chair, “Baseball in Language, History, and Cinema.” Session, Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture. Murfreesboro (MTSU), 30 March 2007.
“ ‘A Coherent Little World’: Donald Hall and Baseball.” Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture. Murfreesboro (MTSU), 30 March 2007.
Chair, “Poetry and the American South.” Conference session, Tennessee Philological Association, UT Chattanooga, 23 Feb. 2007.
“Donald Hall and Yvor Winters: The Formalist Connection.” Tennessee Philological Association, UT Chattanooga, 23 Feb. 2007.
A program of original poems, Dyersburg State Community College, 21 March 2006.
“Living on Loss: Poverty and Wealth in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 18 February 2006.
“Punning Allusions to Robert Greene in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville (Lipscomb University), 26 Feb. 2005.
“Shakespeare as Radical Punster: Will’s Complaint about ‘Anne’ in Sonnet 66.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 18 Feb. 2005.
“‘Abraham took Ilium’: Emily Dickinson as Punster.” Tennessee Philological Association, Columbia (Columbia State Community College), 27 Feb. 2004.
“Toward Cracking the Acrostic Code in Blake’s ‘London’.” Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville (Trevecca Nazarene Univ.), 22 Feb. 2003.
“‘Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Thomas Thorpe, and the Unpublished Play Sir Thomas More.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, Arizona State University, 14 February 2003.
Presenter (with others), Literary Reading, in conjunction with the annual Soybean Festival, 7 September 2002 (Martin Public Library) and 8 September 2001 (The Book Exchange).
Reader at Poetry Celebration Day at Kennesaw State University and recognition as top award recipient in the annual Southern Poets Over 50 competition, sponsored by the KSU Center for Active Retirement Education, Kennesaw, Georgia, 25 April 2002.
“‘You yourself here live’: A First Reading of Shakespeare’s Rune 2, Another Authorized ‘Lost Sonnet’ in the 1609 Quarto. Tennessee Philological Association, Johnson City, 23 February 2001.
Reader of original poems and panelist (with poet Rick Lott, Arkansas State University), Dyersburg State Community College Book Fest, 2 March 2000.
“‘My outcast state’: A First Reading of Shakespeare’s Rune 30, One of the 154 Lost Coterie Authorizations in the 1609 Sonnets Quarto.” Tennessee Philological Association, Cookeville, 25 February 2000.
Taped interview on “Thirty Minutes,” with host Dave Chaffin, WCMT radio, Martin, TN, 10 Aug. 1997, discussing poetry and the Aug. 1997 essay in Runner’s World.
“Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets.” Plenary lecture, Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, Martin, TN, 3 July 1997.
“The ‘Higher Math’ of Poetry.” Jackson State Community College Colloquium Series, 7 March 1997.
“Shakespeare’s Rune 69: A First Reading of the ‘Will-I-am’ Subtext in the 1609 Sonnets Quarto.” Tennessee Philological Association, Chattanooga, 21 February 1997.
“Shakespeare’s Rune 55: A First Reading of the ‘Call It Winter’ Subtext in the 1609 Sonnets Quarto.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference, 14 February 1997.
Participant in booksigning of Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers,Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, 11 October 1996.
Reader (with three others) of original pieces from Homeworks, UTM, 18 September 1996.
Participant in group reading at Davis-Kidd Bookstore, Memphis, 31 August 1996, with other West Tennessee contributors to Homeworks.
“New Answers to the Old English Riddles: Runic Embeddings and Acrostic Codelines in The Exeter Book.” Arizona Center for Medieval/Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference, 17 Feb. 1996.
“Subtextual Wit in Alden Nowlan’s Poem ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’.” Tennessee Philological Association, Nashville, TN, 23 February 1996.
“The Pearl Rune, a Lost Example of Suppressed Design in a Medieval Manuscript.” Arizona Center for Medieval/Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference titled “Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” 18 Feb. 1995.
“Two Newly Formatted Poems by Emily Dickinson: Verses Embedded in Letters 263 and 273.” Tennessee Philological Association, UTM, 25 Feb. 1995.
“George Herbert’s ‘Double Pleasures’: Suppressed Design and Rhyme-Scheme Wit in ‘The Collar’.” South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Shreveport, LA, 4 Feb. 1994.
“Suppressed Design in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Toward Envisioning the Lost ‘First Folio’.” Tennessee Philological Association, Jefferson City, 25 Feb. 1993.
Reader of original poems, Conference on Twentieth Century Literature, Louisville, 22 Feb. 1991.
“Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets.” Annual Muriel Tomlinson lecture, sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi, UTM, 9 Jan. 1991. (See “Medina Native to Lecture on Shakespeare's Sonnets.” The Mirror-Exchange [Milan, TN], 6 Feb. 1991. See also “Author Played Rhyme Games.” Weakley County Press, 14 January 1991.)
Speaker, 5th annual Haywood H.S. Invitational Writing Competition, Brownsville, TN, 31 Jan. 1991.
Reading of original poems (with Jeff Daniel Marion), Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, UTM, 21 June 1990.
Reading of original poems, District I Tennessee Extension Homemakers Conference, UTM, 1 Aug. 1988.
Reading of original poems and discussion with Dresden, TN, Readers’ Group, Weakley Co. Library, 2 March 1988.
Reading of original poems from Somewhere on the Interstate,UTM, 12 May 1987, in conjunction with the publication of the chapbook (Ion Press, Memphis).
Thirty-minute videotaped interview (as interviewer) with fiction writer Bobbie Ann Mason, Martin, TN, 7 April 1987, aired WLJT-TV Martin/Lexington (PBS), 26 April 1987. [Available at UTM Paul Meek Library, Media Services, Video 309.]
Ten-minute phone interview, The John Gilbert Show, CKO News and Information Network (Canada), Jan. 1986, discussing the Shakespeare Runes project.
Poetry reading and workshop, Paris, TN, Creative Writers’ Group, 18 Oct. 1986.
Taped interview on “Thirty Minutes,” with host Vic Durall, WCMT radio, Martin, TN, 17 Aug. 1986, discussing poetry and the poems in Homewords.
Original poems (as guest writer), Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, 4 July 1986.
Speaker on genealogy to Martin Junior High CLUE group, fall 1986.
“Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets: ‘Round One’.” Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, July 1985.
“Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets.” Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon, VA, 5 Aug. 1984.
“Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets: ‘Round One.’” Mississippi Philological Association, 20 Jan. 1984.
“Thirteen [original] Poems on Women.” Arkansas Philological Association, Conway, Nov. 1983.
“College Gothic Architecture in the United States.” Southeastern American Studies Association, Charleston, April 1983.
Speaker, Weakley County Genealogical Society, Jan. 1983.
Original poems. Arkansas Philological Association, Jonesboro, Nov. 1982.
“‘But Who Is This?’: Milton’s Dalila in Perspective.” Tennessee Philological Association, Murfreesboro, Feb. 1982.
“The Six-Armed Figure in Huckleberry Finn and Isaiah’s Six-Winged Angel.” Arkansas Philological Association, Nov. 1981.
“Genealogy and Chronology in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow.” Tennessee Philological Association, Martin, Feb. 1981.
“Explicit Biblical Analogues in Robinson Crusoe.” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Atlanta, April 1980.
Chair, creative writing session, Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature, Louisville, Feb. 1980.
Guest writer, Friends of the Jackson-Madison County Library and the Jackson, TN, Writers' Group, 4 Nov. 1979.
Group discussion leader and panelist, Northwest Tennessee Joint Humanities Project, 11 Nov. 1978.
A program of original poems. Noon Book Club, Oxford, MS, spring 1977.
Participant, group poetry reading, Sigma Tau Delta, The University of Mississippi, spring 1977.
A program of original poems. Poetry Society of Tennessee, Memphis, Jan. 1977.
Speaker. Hall-Moody alumni reunion, UT-Martin, Aug. 1975.

Service as consultant:

Textbook reviewer for Bedford/St. Martin's (The Bedford Reader, 10th ed., 2009).
Credited in Preface (“Acknowledgments,” xxx) of the Concise Anthology of American Literature, ed. George McMichael et al., 7th ed. (Longman, 2011).
Consultant, cited in Jo Marchant’s cover feature in the 29 March 2007 issue of Nature: The International Weekly Journal of Science (London) as “an expert in hidden meanings in literary texts.”
Textbook reviewer for McGraw-Hill (New ed. of Stanford's Responding to Literature, 2007).
Outside reader for three senior theses by Samford Univ. undergraduates (2006).
Consultant as language expert, Trotter Law Firm, Huntingdon, Tennessee (2005-2006).
Textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin (Miller and Nash’s Only Human, 2005).
Member, two outside promotion committees, one search, two outside Cumulative Performance Reviews (1998-2005).
Reader for the College Board Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ), AP Language and Comp Exam (Daytona Beach, FL, June 10-16, 2003, and June 12-18, 2005).
Peer reader for Milton Studies (2004).
Judge for Voices of West Tennessee essay contest, sponsored by DSCC/Humanities Tennessee (2003-04).
On-site member of six-person committee engaged by Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ) to revise and update the ETS major field test in Literature in English (2002).
Textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin (Goldstein’s English Grammar: How It Works and How to Use It) at two stages of development of the text (2001).
Textbook reviewer for Pearson (Mercury Reader, 2001).
Textbook reviewer for McGraw-Hill (A Reader for Developing Writers, 4th ed., 2000).
Textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin (The Dolphin Handbook and Richard Pirozzi's developmental reader, 1999).
Textbook reviewer for St. Martin’s Press (Paul Escholz and Alfred Rosa's Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, 4th ed., 1997).
Off-site consultant for Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ) on the English Committee, a content review board updating the major field test in Literature in English (1995-96).
One-juror panel, judge of annual competition among college literary and news/general interest magazines at schools that belong to the Indiana Collegiate Press Association (1993-96).
Judge, Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League contests (1970-75).

Service at UTM (1969-present)…

Member, UTM Faculty (and Academic) Senate (1973-76, 1984-87, 1990-93, 1999-2006, 2009-10) with various committee roles and active promotion of academic integrity and of diversity and inclusiveness.
Member, UTM Publications Committee (1969-84, 2006-10).
Member, various University and Senate committees including personnel policies (2008-10), instruction (through 2005), assessment and learning (2004), faculty relations (2004), graduate council (1999-2001), degrees (1975-76), faculty development (1980-82), financial aid (1984-85), museum/archives (1982-90), Who’s Who selection (1983-88), student retention and development (1986), and the 60th Anniversary Committee (1987).
Chair, department search committee for rhetoric/composition position (2005).
Member, UTM Equity and Diversity Advisory Council (2003-04).
Co-advisor (with Beth Rushing) of ALLIES, the gay/straight alliance (1996-97, its first year).
Teacher, Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities (summers 1985-96, from the program's first year onward), instructor in writing, Shakespeare. Member, GSH advisory council (1990ff.) and screening committees (1989ff.); sponsor, Pro Musica (1985-87); coordinator for Creative Writing (1987), routine plenary presenter. Advisory editor, student literary anthologies (1986-96).
Coordinator and supervising author of original test instruments, regional Excellence-in-English examination for high school students, sponsored jointly by UTM English Department and Bradford High School (1993-96, 1985-89).
Instructor in off-campus evening school classes, Paris (1991-92; 1987-89); Camden/Huntingdon (1985-86); Huntingdon (1986-87, 1984-85); Camden (1983-84); Milan (1981-83); and Brownsville (1979-81).
Part-time teacher of English as a second language (fall 1987). Teacher, Nihon University program (summers 1981-84). Lead teacher for a faculty of five, first ESL summer program at UTM (1975).
Host participant, annual English Teachers' Workshop, in various roles, often as presenter (1992-93, late 1970s and 1980s).
Member, chair, various departmental committees; academic advisor (1969-present).
Advisor, The Spirit,the yearbook (1969-84; on leave 1976-77); sponsor, West TN yearbook forum (1975). Author, 75th anniversary year tip-in booklet treating UTM’s early history (1975).
Freshman Studies counselor (1970-74, 1984-85).

…and at colleges in Lynchburg, VA (1965-69):

Coordinator, division of humanities and social sciences (1968-69); acting chair and chair of English, Central Virginia Community College (1967-69, its founding years). Divisional representative, dean’s advisory council (1968-69); faculty advisor, CVCC yearbook (1968-69); member, library committee (1967-69); chair, transcript evaluation committee (1968-69). CVCC representative, statewide committee on academic freedom and tenure (1968-69).
Press release coordinator, The Lynchburg Center of The University of Virginia (1965-67).

Professional Memberships:

Tennessee Philological Association, 2007, 2003-05, 1999-2001, 1995-96, 1993, 1981-86.
Phi Kappa Phi (academic honorary), 1974- (inactive).
Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1994.
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 1988.
Mississippi Philological Association 1983-84.
Arkansas Philological Association, 1981-84.
Southeastern American Studies Association, 1982-83.

Appalachian Writers Association, 1981-82.
Southern Appalachian Writers’ Cooperative, 1977-82.
Tennessee Literary Arts Association, early 1980’s.
Early English Text Society, 1978-82.
Poetry Society of Tennessee, 1974-82.
Pi Sigma Phi (UTM academic honorary), elected 1969 (inactive).
Alpha Psi Omega (dramatics honorary), elected 1959 (inactive).

A session in February 2009 at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, with fellow presenters (l. to r.) Amish Trevidi (whose wife took this photo), Cynthia Arrieu-King, and Afaa Michael Weaver, session chair.

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