MURDO WILLIAM McRAE

Department of English                                                                                                        3622 Mustang Lane
Tennessee Technological University                                                                                    Cookeville, TN 38506
Cookeville, TN 38501                                                                                                       (931) 520-8500 (Home)
http://gemini.tntech.edu/~mwmcrae/index.html                                                                     (931) 372-3344 (Office)
email: mwmcrae@tntech.edu                                                                                              (931) 372-3484 (Fax)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English. 1977. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
        Dissertation: The Poetic Landscape: Books II and VI of The Faerie Queene
        Director: Raymond Himelick
M.A., English. 1972. University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
B.A., cum laude, History and Political Science. 1969. University of Montana.

Association for Cultural Exchange Seminar, "Imagery in English Poetry," Merton College, Oxford University; University of Edinburgh; University College London.  June-August 1970.
NCTE Workshop, "Writing Across the Curriculum," Cincinnati.  October 1980.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar, "Derrida and Deconstruction," Vanderbilt University.  June-July 1986.

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN. 1982-.
Graduate Advisor, 2002--
Professor of English, 1994--
Associate Professor of English, 1989-94
Acting Director, Remedial and Developmental Studies, summer 1985
Assistant Professor of English, 1982-1989
Courses: Developmental Composition; Writing I; Writing II; British Literature; Shakespeare: The Tragedies; Shakespeare                 I; Shakespeare II; Creative Writing: Fiction; Creative Writing: Prose; Creative Writing: Poetry; The Literature of Science;         Literary Criticism; Topics in British Literature to 1667; Graduate Seminar in British Literature, 1500-1620 (Shakespeare         Criticism)

Governor's School for the Humanities, University of Tennessee-Martin, Martin, TN. 1997.
Courses: Shakespeare at the Movies, Science and Society

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. 1995-96 .
Fulbright Senior Scholar and Professor of English
Courses: Speech and Pronunciation, Shakespearean Drama, Studies in Stephen Jay Gould

Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 1983-84.
Visiting Professor of English and American Literature
Courses: History of English Literature, Readings in English and American Literature, Thesis Research

Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH. 1978-82.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Program
Courses: Freshman Composition; Expository Writing; Advanced Writing; Classical Rhetoric; English Literature to 1798; The             English Renaissance; Shakespeare, 1590-1600; Shakespeare, 1600-1616

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 1973-78.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 1977-78
Assistant Director of Composition
Director of Mass Media Composition
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1973-77
Courses: Freshman Composition, Mass Media Composition, Introduction to Poetry

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Book
The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing . University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Articles and Reviews
"John Milton, Stephen Hawking, and Gould's NOMA."  Proceedings of the Institute for Liberal Studies 13 (2003): 22-28. "Essay, Popular Scientific."  An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science.  Ed. Pamela Gossin.  Westport, CT:
        Greenwood, 2002, pp 139-41.
 Review, Sally Ito, Seasons of Mercy , Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood Eds, 1999 and George Venn, West of Paradise, La
        Grande, OR: Ice River Press, 1999.  Pacific Northwest Quarterly: A Scholarly Journal of Northwest History 92:2
        (2001): 92.
"Stephen Jay Gould's (Post)Modernism."  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation
        1.2 (2000): 215-227.
Stephen Jay Gould and 'you'." Review essay, Jack Selzer. Understanding Scientific Prose, Univ. Wisconsin Press, 1993.                Public Understanding of Science 4 (1995): 299-303.
"Science in Culture." In McRae, The Literature of Science , pp. 1-13.
"Oliver Sacks' Neurology of Identity." In McRae, The Literature of Science , pp. 97-110.
"Stephen Jay Gould and the Contingent Nature of History." CLIO 22 (1993): 239-50.  Reproduced electronically in
        Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, <http://www.galenet.com>, subscription database.
Review, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, et al. New Worlds, New Technologies, New Issues. Research in Technology Studies ,
        vol.6.; Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh Univ. Press, 1992. Humanities and Technology Association Review (1993):
        41-47.
"The Paradigmatic and the Interpretive in Thomas Kuhn." CLIO 17 (1988): 239-48. Abstracted in The Philosopher's Index
        23 (1989): 165.
"Opposition and Reversal in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table ." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association ,
        (1988): 115-24.
"Shakespeare's Sonnet 29." The Explicator 46 (Fall 1987): 6-8.
"Hamlet's Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Hamlet ." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1987): 1-11. "Everyman's Last Rites and the Digression on Priesthood." College Literature 13 (1986): 305-09.
"Turning Reader-Response Theory into Student-Centered Classroom Practice." Exercise Exchange 31 (Spring 1986):
        21-23.
"Spenser's The Faerie Queene." The Explicator 42 (Spring 1984), 7-8.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Evolutionary and Omniscient Knowledge."  Society for Literature and Science.  Pasadena, CA, October 2002.
"John Milton, Stephen Hawking, and Gould's NOMA."  Institute for Liberal Studies Thirteenth Annual Science and Culture               Meeting.  Frankfort, KY, 2002.
"Time in Macbeth."  Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.  New Orleans. LA.  2000
"Exaptation and Darwin's Passkey."  Society for Literature and Science.  Norman, OK.  1999
"Stephen Jay Gould, Scientific and Cultural Revolutionary."  Institute for Liberal Studies Tenth Annual Science and Culture
        Meeting.  Frankfort, KY.  1999.
"Stasis and Change in Stephen Jay Gould." Society for Literature and Science. Gainesville, FL. 1998.
"Howard Margolis and the Kuhnian Paradigm." Society for Literature and Science. New Orleans, LA.  1994.
"Evolutionary Gradualism in Howard Margolis." History of Science Society/Society for Social Studies of Science. New
        Orleans, LA.  1994.
"The Empirical and the Formal in Oliver Sacks." Southern Humanities Council. Memphis, TN.  1994.
"Extinction, Contingency, and Reflexivity." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA.  1993.
"Contingency in Stephen Jay Gould." Society for Literature and Science. Atlanta, GA.  1992.
"Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Radical Contingency." South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, TN.              1992.
"Deconstruction and the Literature of Science." American Society for Engineering Education. Toronto, Ontario, CA. 1990.
"Synecdoche and Dialogue in Oliver Sacks." Society for Literature and Science. Ann Arbor, MI.  1989.
"Opposition and Reversal in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table ." Mississippi Philological Association. Jackson, MS.  1988.
"Reading Kuhn's Margins." Humanities and Technology Association. Atlanta, GA.  1987.
"Hamlet's Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Hamlet ." Mississippi Philological Association. Gulf Park, MS.  1987.
"Theoretical Criticism and the Classroom Teacher." Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Nashville, TN.  1982.
"Good Writing and Bad." Middle Tennessee Education Association. Nashville, TN.  1982.
"Metaphors We Write By." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA.  1982.
"Mining the Popular Culture: The Mass Media and Freshman Composition." Conference on College Composition and
        Communication. Denver, CO.  1978. In ERIC Reports, 1979.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Tennessee Technological University
Consultant on Curriculum, Goals, and Staffing, English Department, Sultan Qaboos University (1995-96)
Editorial Board, Humanities and Technology Review (1994--)
National Publicity Committee, Society for Literature and Science (1990-92)
Consultant on Writing, Beijing, China, International School (1983-84)
Reader, College Board Advanced Placement Examination in English (1979-83)

Tennessee Board of Regents Remedial and Developmental Studies Committee (1984-85)
Tennessee Board of Regents Committee to Improve Student Writing (1982-83)

University Calendar Committee (2003--)
At-Large Elected Member, Administrative Council (2003--)
Member, TTU Chapter, AAAUP Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee (2003--)
Differential Teaching Assignments Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2002--)
University Admissions and Credits Committee (2002--)
Secretary, TTU Chapter, American Association of University Professors (2001--)
University Admissions and Credits Committee (2002--)
Coordinator, 2001 Stonecipher Lecture on Science and Society (Lecturer: Evelyn Fox Keller)
Member, Executive Committee, TTU Chapter, American Association of University Professors (2001--)
Secretary, TTU Chapter, American Association of University Professors (2001--)
Vice President's Prestigious Student Scholarships Advisory Committee (1997-98)
Faculty Advisor, Student Fulbright Program (1997--)
Chair, University Academic Council (1994-95)
Chair, Library Collection Subcommittee, University SACS Self-Study Committee 7 (1993-94)
Secretary, University SACS Self-Study Committee 7: Educational Support Services (1993-94)
At-Large Elected Member, Faculty Senate (1992-95, 2003--)
At-Large Elected Member, University Assembly (1992-95, 2003--)
At-Large Elected Representative, University Academic Council (1992-95)
Judge, WCTE-TV (Cookeville PBS) Academic Bowl (1991--)
Editor, Tennessee Tech--Tennessee Community College Articulation Agreements (1990)
Student Orientation Leader Advisor (1987)
Chair, University Remedial and Developmental Studies Committee (1984-86)
University Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (1982-85)
Dean's Search Committee for Departmental Chairperson (1990-91)
Dean's Interdisciplinary Committee on Social Issues in Science and Technology (1985--)

Secretary, English Department Policies and Procedures Committee
Chair, English Department Assistant Professor Search Committee (1992-94)
Chair, English Department Long-Range Needs Committee (1991-93)
Chair, English Department Associate Professor Promotion Committee (1991)
Regional Judge, Tennessee Young Writers Contest (1991)
Judge, Mitchell-Woodall Graduate Student Award in English (1991)
Judge, Clara Cox Epperson Creative Writing Awards (1990-91)
English Department Standardization, Teaching, Part-Time, Curriculum, Library, Sophomore Literature, Student Awards,
        Composition, Graduate, Curriculum, Graduate Review, and Policies and Procedures Committees(1989--)
English Department Writing Laboratory (1982-83)

Heidelberg College
Chair, English Composition Placement Committee
Coordinator, Faculty Forums
Educational Policies, Artist and Lecture, and Media Committees
Faculty Representative, Student Council
Faculty Facilitator, Total Student Development Program
Advisor, Student Newspaper

Purdue University
English Department Composition and Teaching Assistant Promotions Committees
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Mentor, Graduate Teaching Assistants
Consultant on Composition Testing, Indiana Department of Public Instruction

GRANTS AND HONORS

Fulbright Senior Scholar, Sultanate of Oman (1995-96)
Tennessee Technological University Research Committee Grants (1988-90, 1992-93, 1994-95, 1997-98)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant (1986)
David Ross Dissertation Fellow, Purdue University (1975, 1976)
Association for Cultural Exchange Academic Scholarship (1970)
Phi Kappa Phi National Scholastic Honorary (1968--)
Phi Alpha Theta National History Honorary (1967--)
Honors List, University of Montana (1965-72)
University of Montana Academic Scholarship (1965-69)
Fortin Foundation of Montana Student Grant in Aid (1965-70)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of University Professors
Association for Science and Culture
Humanities and Technology Association
Modern Language Association
Society for Literature and Science
Society for Social Studies of Science