Cameron Balzer, Curriculum Vitae
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Education
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Department of English,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- M.A.
- Department of English,
University of Alberta, Edmonton. Degree granted June, 1993.
- B.A. with Distinction
- Department of English,
University of Alberta, Edmonton. (Philosophy minor). Degree granted
June, 1991.
Academic Awards
| James Lougheed Award
of Distinction, Province of Alberta |
September 1996-May
1997 |
| Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship |
April 1995-May 1997 |
| Northwestern University
Graduate Scholarship |
September, 1995 |
| Northwestern University
Graduate Scholarship |
September, 1994 |
| Northwestern University
Graduate Fellowship |
September, 1993 |
| Izaak Walton Killam
Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia |
Offered September,
1993. Declined |
| Izaak Walton Killam
Memorial Fellowship, Dalhousie University |
Offered September,
1993. Declined |
| Ontario Graduate
Scholarship |
Offered September,
1993. Declined |
| University of Toronto
Open Fellowship |
Offered September,
1993. Declined |
| Province of Alberta
Graduate Fellowship |
May, 1992 |
| Graduate Research
Assistantship, University of Alberta |
September, 1991
to June, 1992 |
| Sarah Nettie Christie
Graduate Entrance Scholarship |
September, 1991 |
| Province of Alberta
Undergraduate Scholarship |
1987, 1988, 1989 |
| Anthony B. Martos
Book Award, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta |
April, 1987 |
Publications
- "'Suitable
to all the Ends of It': Writing and Reading St. Paul's Cathedral
during the Restoration," (Re)Soundings 1.1 (Winter 1996).
<http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/*vol1iss1/topframe.html>.
- "Mme.
--dolph and the Question of (Postcolonial) Art," Commonwealth
18.2 (Spring 1996): 13-20.
Presentations
- "The Extra-textual
Viability of Fictional Worlds; or, Can Fiction Change the World,"
to be presented at ACLA 1997, "New Worlds for Old." Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico, April 10-13, 1997.
- Paper on Nicholas
Mosley to be presented at "A Rival Logic: Religious Centers
of Coherence in Secular Fiction," MLA Convention. Washington,
D.C., December 1996.
- "Dispatches
from the Ontological Frontiers: Annie Dillard's Magic Realist
Essays." Saints, Sacraments, and Sinners. Festival of
Faith and Writing 1995. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. 13 April
1996.
- "'Suitable
to All the Ends of It': Writing and Reading St. Paul's Cathedral
during the Restoration." Reading the Early Modern City
Special Session. MLA Convention. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago.
29 December 1995.
- "Inquiry
and Evasion in Joyce's 'Oxen of the Sun,'" Graduate Student
Colloquium, Northwestern University, 21 October 1994. 15pp.
Professional Activities
- Teaching Assistant
- Introduction to Fiction
(Engl B-13). Instructor: Elizabeth Dipple. Northwestern University
(Spring 1995-96). (also developed and maintained class web site)
- Instructor
- Basic Composition
(Engl A-05-0), Northwestern University (Spring 1994-95, Winter
1995-96).
- Teaching Assistant
- 20th c American Lit
(Engl B-73). Instructor: Alfred Appel. Northwestern University
(Winter 1994-95).
- Teaching Assistant
- Modern Culture: The
20th Century (European Thought B-19). Instructors: Ranier Rumold,
Scott Durham. Northwestern University (Winter 1994-95).
- Assistant
- Center for the Writing
Arts, Northwestern University. Gary Saul Morson, Chair.
(September, 1994 to September, 1995).
- Research Assistant
- David Miall and Donald
Kuiken, University of Alberta. Findings from this SSHRCC-funded
empirical research project on readers' responses to short fiction
will be published in "Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and
Affect: Response to Literary Stories" (Poetics 22
(1994): 389-407). (September, 1992 to September, 1993).
- Editorial Assistant
- Victorian Review.
Glennis Stephenson, Editor (Issues 17.2, 18.1, 18.2) (1991-92).
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